Time Without Tide Quickstart so far:

• Modern-ish STAT+SKILL system! YES! Never too late, Chaosium! 😅👍
• Art is really great and fun.
• Setting is meh 🤷… not bad, just nothing that particularly excites me.
• Overall looks like a Free League game. THIS IS A COMPLIMENT!

Okay I think the cover to “The King’s Daughters” (my Call of Cthulhu scenario set in New France) is almost finished. Ugggh, it’s such an uphill battle for me to paint anything.

“Time Without Tide” looks nice but it somehow doesn’t feel to me like a Chaosium game, and I think the reason isn’t the system, but the fact that Chaosium always made “literary games”: based on mythology and history, fantasy novels, horror stories, etc. TWT isn’t any of that?

As always, I draw a pencil sketch that I’m pretty happy with, then I start adding colour, and within a couple minutes the whole thing looks like shit and I hate it. Painting is sooo harrrrdd

Just got my notification from the Government of Canada: export restrictions are now at 50% on TTRPG meta-currencies to the US. American players in your games only get half XP, bennies, hero-points, level bumps, and so on. Good on Carney to do the right thing!

People have no CLUE that Tim Curry was such a LEGEND.

Okay I’ll see myself out. Or not. Vale Tim, you’ll be missed.

It might be time for me to stop reading Daring Fireball. Gruber is turning out to be a gross tech-libertarian who sometimes says the most crazy things. Besides, it’s probably good to cut down on US voices in my media diet right now, especially those who make a career of defending big corps.

Filling in on drums for another band’s private gig… had to learn like 30 songs in a week 😅 No pressure!

Haha so some people are leaving Bluesky and returning to Twitter because they can’t take the AI-shaming? Wait until they hear about the nazi-shaming!

This is what’s going on in the Mitchester Arms TTRPG pub tonight… don’t ask.