Basically this is my version of a D&D fantasy setting, generic enough so I can slot in other peoples’ dungeons without much modification but weird| www.ratcatcher.org
Short post for you all today. Notes on Lancelot (T.H. White) Fifteen Questions and Ten Principles (Dieter Rams) 128 Things about the City (Edwin| www.ratcatcher.org
The 1976 Fender Guitar catalogue was fairytale-themed. Lot of links today, not much commentary, just to get rid of a few open browser/mental tabs.| www.ratcatcher.org
I can’t think of a computer I’d rather have break on me, mind you. Frame.work laptops are designed to be repaired, hacked, and upgraded — it even| www.ratcatcher.org
Some good lists: Unsolicited Thoughts for the Young Men of New York, 1d50 Things I Learned in 2021, Better Living, Unsolicited Advice (2020, 2021,| www.ratcatcher.org
Busy lately, doing all the things I promised myself I’d do when summer started. Fell down the note-taking rabbit hole. This had been on the horizon| www.ratcatcher.org
Seasoned spacers use adrenalin injections to avoid ‘cryosickness’. Previously: Gradient Descent new campaign handout. Computer terminals start to| www.ratcatcher.org
Hi, Lesley. Since we talked a bit about newsletters last time we called I’ve made a note of a half-dozen you might find interesting. I’ve included a| www.ratcatcher.org
When I was in high school the main thing I spent my free time on was playing D&D. We would have these huge six-hour sessions every Saturday or two,| www.ratcatcher.org
Listen while reading // MATSUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES TO CREW OF MHI FALSTAFF. TRANSMISSION BEGINS. CEP = Common Economic Protocol. Enables| www.ratcatcher.org
I made a mailing list under duress. I prefer RSS, but a few of my friends asked for e-mail notifications. This isn’t a ‘newsletter’ really, just a| www.ratcatcher.org
Some advantages to doing this on my website rather than by message: other visitors can read / contribute; easier to find a post than to scrub back| www.ratcatcher.org
First thing: Maya at maya.land uploaded a response to one of my RPG posts! Go read it, it’s very good. I don’t have webmentions or anything set up| www.ratcatcher.org
Site’s back. Between leaving school and the Global Pandemic I stopped running and playing tabletop RPGs almost entirely. (I like the idea of online| www.ratcatcher.org
Had some ideas over quarantine for a letter-writing RPG in a Jonathan Strange + Mr Norrell-type setting. You play as Regency-era occultists. None of| www.ratcatcher.org
First session of my new Mothership campaign Something to Burn. The players — a ragtag team of ‘cowboys’ — are the crew of IMV The Machine, an old| www.ratcatcher.org
The first session of my new Mothership campaign featured a game of poker between three humans and an android. One of my players came up with this| www.ratcatcher.org
As soon as I read the Mothership rulebook, I wanted to run a game. Then I watched Cowboy Bebop and Alien in the same day and it all clicked. I want| www.ratcatcher.org
Somehow I expected to be blogging a lot more during quarantine. Anyway. There are as many ways to play RPGs as there are people playing them, so| www.ratcatcher.org
Drink. The classic. Easy to make, but they usually expire in a month or so. Tablet. Crunchy. Tastes bad and not as effective as a liquid potion, but| www.ratcatcher.org
You’re dragging yourself away from Security, leaving a trail of blood dark on spotless linoleum tiles. Tinny music plays through hidden speakers as| www.ratcatcher.org
The longer I use this website, the more uses I find for it. Currently typing up a few after-action reports for the first three sessions of my new| www.ratcatcher.org