I see a floofy cloud with eyes. Lovely.

Amen. You can hear the sound effects in your mind, and they are clicky, clunky, and viscerally satisfying.

You haven't lived until your randomizer has gone from Ray Charles (Georgia on My Mind) to Rob Zombie (Living Dead Girl) to Gorillaz (19-2000).

The genre whiplash is epic, but that's the point.

Palladium's games in general are a glorious train wreck. So many good ideas mashed together so badly. I know people who swear up and down that it's playable, but as a founding member of the old Palladium Mailing List...it isn't. Not without tons and tons of house rules and fudging.

Still fun.

I have several similar decks from another company and...they're...fine. I have yet to really find them useful, but still feel the potential in them.

One of my mother's favorite Heinlein novels, and one of mine.

I always used to know which new books to grab first at the bookstore...they had the Whelan covers. I knew I was going to enjoy those. 😁

Mmm...because all of the marketing options to make yourself successful as a self-published author are:

1. Too expensive
or
2. Basically a full time job

If you're working full-time to support yourself while writing, have no support structure, and can't afford one, you're basically SOL.

Don't forget the other side of that: Take up low-impact exercise NOW. Walk, do some Yoga, go slow, work on endurance and flexibility, not strength.

The longer you wait to start, the harder it's going to be. If you don't start, you WILL hurt yourself eventually, and it will be harder to recover.

Because you've slowed the game to a crawl doing that.

In my experience, the last thing players want do is hyper-focus on skill checks when a single roll and a quick description will suffice. Pacing matters.

By all means, try it...but don't be upset if your players ask you to stop or dial it back.

But you're describing multiple actions requiring multiple checks. If your GM is letting an entire group sneak through a fort on a single skill check, I agree, that's dumb, and not a single action.

A "single" action would be more like saying that a Rogue picking a lock should take multiple checks.

Over-preparing for a session.

Your players will NEVER do exactly what you want or expect them to do. Don't try to make them.

Good in theory, not so good in practice. It slows play to a crawl. At best, you've turned a thirty-second skill check into several minutes focused on one player while the others aren't doing anything.

Better to ask a player to describe the process and make it one roll, unless there's good reason.

Happy birthday!

Your art is gorgeous. Always happy to see some in my timeline.

Dope.

If you figure it out, let us know.

❤️

Overdrive! Sent away for him back in the day, and he was so cool.

Part of me wishes I'd been a bit kinder to my Transformers when I was a kid. The rest of me knows I had a ball playing with them, and has no regrets. 😁

And what do you do when all of the usual tricks aren't working? Writing prompts, changing projects, changing genres, music, no music, different environment, new keyboard, pen & paper...

The ideas are there, but no words come.