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Peter the Cranky Old Wizard
@crankyoldwizard.bsky.social
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This is Peter (he/him), sometimes "MathSanta". RPG player for 40+ years, D&D, Ars Magica, et al. DM, Storyguide, Criamon, Half-elf Cleric/Ranger, & fave die is d12.
https://rpgwandering.wordpress.com
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D&D Game tonight!!!
Level 11!
Let's see if our evocation wizard decides to fully embrace their necromantic side!
Motivational poster style illustration showing four skeletons playing drums. The caption reads (in large print) "NECROMANCY", and (in smaller print) "Don't just kill your enemies. Make their lifeless corpses perform for you like trained monkeys."
August 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I knew that Cartograph used dice to create the map (I have lots of those); it also uses playing cards to randomly generate location descriptions. Since I don't have any standard playing cards, I use my Literary Tarot cards. They make for good writing inspiration! www.brinkstore.org/products/lit...
Photograph showing several tarot cards. The backs of the cards are black with a gold foil book design. The fronts show images from literary works. The two cards shown have an illustration for John Carter of Mars (in shades of orange and gray) and for 20,000 Leagues under the sea (in shades of blue and purple).
July 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The notebook and paper is from wanderings.com. The paper is so nice to write on.
Photograph of an open six-ring notebook with hand-made, deckled-edge paper (A5), with hand-written journal entries.
July 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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My wife bought me a beautiful notebook with handmade paper, and I didn't know what to do with it until I bought the solo #ttrpg Cartograph. I hadn't played in a few weeks, and it felt so good to exercise my writing brain.
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Photograph showing the hardcover edition of the game Cartograph on the right, partially covering a hand-drawn map on the left.
July 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Just finished a #TheBetween campaign. It went longer than we expected, and it was a blast! I was the Keeper & the players were amazing. It ended with our Factotum sacrificing herself to save her employer, our Legacy who then killed Titania, and our Vessel became the new queen of the Faeries.
Art for The Between showing a woman wearing a blue Victorian gown, a man with a top hat dressed in black, and a figure in the background wearing a white flowy dressing gown.
July 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Getting ready to play the second session of a new #TheBetween campaign with players new to the game! They will meet Vice Admiral Flagg this evening, and start hunting Sally No Face. (The Doctor will likely be happy to have some corpses to look at.)
#ttrpg
Get your copy @gauntletrpg.bsky.social
A mostly blue book cover, with a square-cut sapphire surrounded by dark gold filigree in the middle. There is an eye in the sapphire. The title "The Between" appears in yellow-gold letters at the top.
July 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The sky off my back porch. #clouds
June 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Started a new campaign of #TheBetween from @gauntletrpg.bsky.social Some really good and really bad rolls mean the Factotum already has two Conditions and owes a Mask, the Undeniable has to scar their reflection, and the Mother has found the first Mastermind Clue!
#ttrpg
Black and white drawing showing the back of a woman with long black hair and a filmy costume throwing knives at a woman in the background with her arms above her head.
June 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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First rpg I owned was this one. Shortly after I got the AD&D first ed books. (Back in 1980?)
March 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Had a "MegaSession" at the school where I teach, hosting 40 kids from six different schools, and I got to run a game for the sponsors. @ragekagegames.com gave a keynote talk about being welcoming and inclusive. A great time was had by all!
#TTRPG
#SundayShowandTell
Photograph of a large room with tables covered in dungeon wall styled tablecloths and surrounded by students, all playing D&D.
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Headline of an online Washington Post article that reads "Dysentery is on the rise in Oregon. Here's what to know." Below is a screenhot of the green covered wagon from the game Oregon Trail, with the caption "Irony".
March 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Played my first session of #TheBetween by @jasoncordova.bsky.social and it was fantastic. I'm playing the Keeper and happily haunting St. James's Street.
Illustrated cover for The Between role playing game showing three people in Victorian costume: A woman in a fancy blue dress looks back at the viewer. A woman wearing a white dressing gown is framed by a window through which shines a yellow moon. And a man dressed in black with a top hat looks toward the woman in white.
January 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Love the fuzzy babies!
A photograph of a mostly brindle English bulldog with a patch of white on the left side of her face, and a spiked pink collar, asleep on the arm of a couch, with her tongue sticking partway out.
January 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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December 29, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Thinking about how I spent the holidays three years ago.
A photograph of a large Christmas tree with white lights, in the marble-clad great hall of the Library of Congress.
December 24, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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December 22, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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Found some cool marbles while cleaning out a drawer.
photo of three marbles, one large translucent blue and two smaller ones, a clear one with bubbles inside and a mottled blue one.
December 22, 2024 at 2:54 AM