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Randy Oest

@amazingrando.com
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 26/08/2026
"Is he even in this thing?"
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 24/08/2026
The Blades in the Dark SRD snapshot, comparing this year and last year. It also has started to see a drop in visitors starting in Feb of this year. The number of people is larger than Fate's but as a percentage it is much smaller.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 24/08/2026
The Fate SRD snapshot, comparing this year and last year. Starting in Feb of this year the site has seen a significant drop in visitors. Considering the site is 12 years old, I'm not surprised.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 01/06/2026
For instance, I rolled random loot and turned up Manacles. I wrote some stuff to reinforce the city's love of order. Player (reading card): This must be a campaign item. We'll have to talk to the guards. Me (scribbling furiously): Of course it's a campaign item...
Korvosian Irons (Manacles)

This pair of locking cuffs comes with a key.

Standard-issue restraints of the Korvosan Guard, stamped with the city seal and logged by serial number at Citadel Volshyenek upon manufacture. Heavy iron construction, resistant to tampering, and — as the Guard is fond of noting — entirely legal. Every pair has paperwork. Korvosa always has paperwork.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 29/05/2026
When it comes to running an TTRPG campaign, one of the best things you can do as a GM is to instill a feeling of the world being lived-in. Sure, my Daggerheart game could just have simple potions but then I would miss out on a great world-building opportunity. Bonus: Get the players to contribute.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 23/02/2026
I recently came across this image from our DOPES game. The player (Agent Joykill) rolled a +4 and I rolled a -4. After stacking on all of the bonuses there was a 20 shift difference. I miss our DOPES games. ❤️
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 06/01/2026
I'm always surprised at reactions people have when I show them the dark side of American history.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 04/01/2026
The Brindlewood Bay Murder Mavens have prevented the Midwives from birthing an eldritch horror! Our Void Mystery started out as a regular mystery. The Mavens were witnesses at the trial of a previous suspect when that suspect is murdered in the court room!
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 02/01/2026
Our Brindlewood Bay campaign is coming to close soon. In fact, tomorrow I run the Void Mystery but that isn't going to be the last session. We've decided that after the Void Mystery, which is the real end of the campaign, we are going to have an Epilogue.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 28/11/2025
Spending time today working on my Discord Clone for D&D. I'm aiming for a mix of Discord, Fari, and MediaWiki. I'm hoping to alpha test it in December.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 12/09/2025
As I explore how easy/hard that will be, I worked up a spreadsheet to calculate the percentage chance of succeeding on a roll in both PF1 and Daggerheart. I'm going through the AP and seeing how the conversion might go. I'll say this, DH's numbers don't get big like PF1.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 12/09/2025
I'm mostly certain that my next long campaign is going to be Daggerheart. It seems like the right blend of storytelling and dynamic action. I'm also going to do something I've never done—run an adventure path! I'm going to convert Curse of the Crimson Throne from Pathfinder.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 31/07/2025
I may not be a GenCon, but all the new RPGs I ordered just delivered! * Brinkwood * Bump in the Dark * Heart * Perils and Princesses
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 13/06/2025
In Fred's thread he mentions that his group using Miro, a whiteboarding app. That is my VTT of choice too. Drop in a PDF sheet and go. Dice roller apps are a dime a dozen. Get to playing faster and easier.
Eat the Reich whiteboard.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 20/05/2025
The Onion just launched a creative agency—and I’m all in. They’re turning spare satirical talent into magic: • Smart resource upcycling • More value from their core mission • Fresh, bold creative for brands Brilliant move. More “sawdust industries,” please. 👏 www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2025...
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 04/04/2025
The Trump administration has filled that role with an impeccably qualified person.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 27/03/2025
Yep—the little origami fortune-teller from middle school. But instead of jokes, I made a Design Roulette version that gives you quick-hit design feedback. It was fun, memorable, and totally unexpected. I folded them up before the event, handed them out, and people loved it.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 27/03/2025
Last night, I had an event to attend… and realized at lunch that I was completely out of business cards. No card stock. Just a black-and-white home printer. 😬 So I asked myself: What can I make quickly that people will actually remember? While picking up lunch, it hit me: a cootie catcher.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 27/03/2025
I'm slowing down on projects as I hunt for a new job, however! I made a cool thing yday and I'm going to count it as my sixth project of the year. (Figma file at the end)
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 21/03/2025
As a GM, I make my players contribute session recaps to our gaming wiki. When my campaigns wrap, I turn the notes into books!
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 05/03/2025
But what about Rose Gold?
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 27/02/2025
Tonight my gaming group will be playing Eat the Reich, where the year is 1943. You are a team of crack vampire commandos with one mission: drink all of Hitler’s blood.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 26/02/2025
If you could go anywhere in time and space, where would you go? Me? I'd visit the Mesozoic Era to explore the dinosaurs. I'd take photos and videos of the plants and animals of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 17/02/2025
1/ Moving on, looking ahead, and a favor. After an incredible journey at Four Kitchens, it’s time for a new chapter. The entire creative team—including myself—is parting ways, and while it’s bittersweet, I’m excited for what’s next.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 15/02/2025
400+ views in only 4 days! The Fate SRD YouTube channel is back in action with the Journal of Chester Crumbletorch.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 15/02/2025
The Good Place
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 13/02/2025
Tonight, our gaming group plays the Apollo 47 Technical Handbook RPG. "One astronaut is supported by a team of voices on the radio. Work, banter, and cause gentle problems for each other." www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 12/02/2025
Is it wrong that I have "Start a Cult" on my bucket list?
At dinner the other night someone asked what the evil version of you would do for a living and everyone else said "lawyer" or "consultant" but in my heart I knew my truth was "megachurch pastor"
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 29/01/2025
Started Ticket to Ride legacy last night. My favorite part is that there is no Florida. ;)
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 26/01/2025
Freshening up my video editing skills as I edit a new Fate actual play. I used Streamyard to record everything, which is amazing BUT when we went on break and folks turned off their camera, it broke our feeds into different files. That is making things a bit more complicated for me today.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 23/01/2025
This morning's Wingspan game ended in a tie. ❤️ My spouse and I have been playing it nearly every morning since 2020.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 21/01/2025
"Thou shalt not deny gender is a spectrum while claiming to be manlier. If you can rank it, it's not a binary." universeodon.com/@godpod/1135...
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 21/01/2025
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 21/01/2025
2025.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 21/01/2025
2025.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 19/01/2025
If you see this, post an archer
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 17/01/2025
Our gaming group wrapped up our Stealing Stories for the Devil campaign last night. Our GM knocked it outta the park. I had the rare joy of being a player, and as always it was a glorious disaster.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 11/01/2025
Tomorrow is our monthly all day Pathfinder 1e Kingmaker game. I’m so ready to roll some dice. My illusionist Dwarf is worthless but amusing.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 07/01/2025
That doesn't sound right to me.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 07/01/2025
Second project of the year is done—a random dice roller on your iOS lockscreen. Create an album in Photos using these images, set your wallpaper to shuffle on tap, and viola, you have a dice roller without unlocking your phone. Fate version coming soon. drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 05/01/2025
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
The cast of Only Murders in the Building
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 02/01/2025
Going through notifications from last year...
Boimer purging the computer onboard the Ceritos.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 29/12/2024
This year’s reading count took a nosedive because I actively DNF’d a lot of books. What I’m learning is that I have to be more selective in the books I start reading.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 25/12/2024
Relaxin’, watching Return of the King and writing reviews to help creators.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 21/12/2024
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 20/12/2024
Who has two thumbs and just submitted his first Figma plugin? THIS GUY!
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 19/12/2024
Who wants to start a Starbase 80 RPG show with me? I want more Lower Decks action.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 18/12/2024
git-wrapped.com is pretty cool.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 12/12/2024
Interestingly enough, the lesser known Discord clone, Guilded, solves this with subgroups. Here is a screenshot of my gaming server, with each campaign split into its own group.
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Randy Oest @amazingrando.com · 10/12/2024
I'm a big fan of @storyenginedeck.bsky.social's decks—Story, World, and Lore. For my next campaign, I'm going to gather my players and we're going to use the cards to start us off. I may weave in a little Microscope to help things along.
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