Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I’m so tempted, but going out is hard, and I’ve also gotta be up for work… Enjoy the glitches though! 110
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026are you going to the glitch art thing at Logan hardware this weekend by any chance? 110
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I got home from donating platelets and booted up this demo, promptly sliced off 3 fingers with a filet knife, felt woozy and decided it was time to get some fresh air. Everyone should give a pint of blood to charity before playing for for the optimal experience. 011
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My copy of Advanced Rules for Mothership by Violet Ballard is spiral bound and it’s great. It’s SO easy to open and page through. It completely looses that nice coffee table book quality, but it’s fantastically usable as a reference at the table. 020
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Writing a #Mothership ttrpg module set in an abandoned asteroid mine and I'm learning way more than I necessarily want to about Illinois mining fatalities. Detailed reports of deadly conditions and worker exploitation at your fingertips from the US Dept of Labor: www.msha.gov/data-and-rep... 030
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In the YA book “The Monument” by Gary Paulsen, a guy eats peanuts and CocaCola, but because my Mom only bought Pepsi I now eat peanuts and Pepsi as my “weekend snack” 30 years later. 050
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Favorite chase scenes? (on foot, vehicular, or both) 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"least thoughts in my head of my entire fucking life" expresses a lot in the context of being on the constant edge of certain death or disablement. 011
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Marrow by @plaest2k.bsky.social plaest2k.itch.io/marrowplaest2k.itch.ioMarrow (aka Rodney's Law) by plæst[이]k 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Also “How to Write a Fascist in 14 Easy Steps.” I thought I was getting a guide to write compelling TTRPG villains for some reason… I guess it was that also? But more. 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I work in social services for a religious nonprofit, and as a devout atheist since infancy (yet raised presbyterian) “Old Enough to Know Better” touches on some of the mental gymnastics I practice every day just to get through the workday. rufflejax.itch.io/old-enough-t...rufflejax.itch.ioOLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER by Jacqueline BrykA pro-choice zine from an anti-abortion childhood. 011
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Maybe I’m old, but that space ship still looks cutting edge 110
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I’m tickled that all the configurations look like what they are called! I love that they function as little pictograms, and that each symbol has an inverted version. 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This is so clever! I'm looking at your BG I'd love to learn about how you do smoke as well. There's something about those pillowy circular puffs that remind me of the smoke FX in Zone of the Enders 2. I'm super curious about your visual inspirations for these different elements:-) 100
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Do you have any sense of what feats of dwarf guidance (or blind luck of rng) have contributed to this fortress thriving for so long? 110
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I don’t understand why this doesn’t have a bazillion likes or hearts or upvotes or whatever 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Maybe some capable dwarf migrants will stumble across the aquifer and revitalize the stoneless fortress. Let it crumble poetically. 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The last 2 times I badly sprained my ankle it was EXACTLY this same way: just walking down the sidewalk like a normal person. Sprains hurt so bad. Continuing to walk on it helps. Double socks or ace wrap to help with swelling. Don’t neglect pain meds at night to help get to sleep. Good luck! 011
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The Basement of Curiosity convinced me I probably wouldn’t enjoy Dwarf Fortress (I tried the adventure mode once in one of the pre-steam ASCII art editions- it was a lot for me to handle), but seeing someone else unpack the semi-procedural stories was really so much fun. 120
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Most of my experience with Dwarf Fortress comes from @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social ‘s “Basement of Curiosity” series by Nate Crowley the better part of a decade ago. It’s a delightful saga full of brilliant utterly unhinged insights much like your own. www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortre...rockpapershotgun.comDwarf Fortress diary: building an underground zooLorbam is a small, skinny dwarf with a head full of dreams. She’s travelled halfway across the world to start something she calls the “Basement of Curiosity”. 032
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I had an MRI last week and there was a specific warning in the release form about the risks of shrapnel in the body during the scans. I can't help but think this might be relevant to characters traversing that walkway adjacent to the mag-lev line. 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026My wife and I have been using Girl I Guess for years. The research on each candidate all the way down to the local judges is surprisingly detailed and helpful. 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The little garbage bags clogging up the stairwells!!! <3 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 25/02/2026!!!!! I recognize this hell-hole! Sure would be a shame if someone hijacked one of those Exoloaders and went on a rampage through the corpo office space with it or tore open a bunch of storage units to loot. 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026How much for a guided tour of this spaceship? Can I play with its ancient munitions? 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026!!! www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...texasmonthly.com“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came. 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I just blew through “The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans” while doing laundry last night. It’s an amateur sleuthing account of searching for a family’s remains long lost in the wilderness. What’s a favorite tale of wilderness survival? otherhand.org/home-page/se...otherhand.orgThe Hunt for the Death Valley GermansThis is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure. It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents. It represen... 020
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I’ve had this tab open for years for some reason. It’s too sad to close? www.narratively.com/p/minik-and-...narratively.comMinik and the MeteorBehind the American Museum of Natural History’s most venerable artifact is the shameful tale of a relentless explorer and a young boy’s torturous journey from Greenland to New York. 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025We use a skewer to hang veggies in the cage- they are such tiny, we use our scraps from the cutting board- the tops of sweet peppers, apple peel, a bit of broccoli- food that would have gone into compost. 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025We adopted a lost parakeet we found a few years ago and it has been a really chill, easy to manage pet with a lot of joyful personality. The initial cage and feeding dishes took some money but the food is cheap. Vets always $$$ tho. 120
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 13/11/2025if two eggs and 1/3 cup of rice is a luxury breakfast what is a normal breakfast? I do oatmeal with an apple 1/2 date, almond butter, and raisins. 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025If making the font smaller doesn’t help the real trick is to reduce the letter spacing. See now it’s 112 and 1/2 pages. 110
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 11/11/2025There are just a few hours of fundraising left for The Conduit a MOTHERSHIP RPG adventure with illustrations by @jettilalewis.bsky.social i’m really excited about this setting full of clone rebellions, cyberpunk bars, and black site labs. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... 053
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I’m in Humbolt Park, is Lone Archivist a Chicagoan too? I don’t think a i’ve been to the Field Museum in like… 20 years? Maybe more… 100
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Plus one to Max Miller’s Tasting History. I enjoy a lot of his videos- garum was a lot of fun, as was “school lunch cheese pizza” if you grew up in US public school. Almost all of them have a entertaining little history story in them. 120
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025A huge part of what makes doing a TTRPG project fun for me is just working with other people. I enjoyed coming up with rought written character outlines, but @jettilalewis.bsky.social brought them to life in ways I would never have imagined with her art. 041
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Ah yeah! It's been so fun doing this project with you over the past year. I can't wait to share more with folks:-) 020
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I never actually finished the mainline CP2077, but Phantom Liberty was head and shoulders above anything else in the main game. I get where you are coming from though, it’s rough having to step back narratively and throw in a bunch of new chapters to the story. 020
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025It's been really satisfying brainstorming these sci-fi horror #MOTHERSHIP modules with @streetsurgery.bsky.social. In one, a high stakes time-crunch to catastrophe on a claustrophobic subway, in the other a flight from both new and familiar foes in an abandoned high rise. 030
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I got the original Vast in the Dark Years back, and skipped the expansion… I might need to try this second print run though. It’s a setting I really like. 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025it took them 30 minutes to understand lorem ipsum, or you had 30 minutes of thoughts on lorem ipsum? 100
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 22/10/2025if it wasn’t so frightening and irrational and shortsighted it might be really funny: the guy selling flowers at the interstate exit is a threat to national security? Grow up. 000
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I’m heading to work at the grocery and there is a Border Patrol helicopter the size of a truck circling my neighborhood. The lady is selling tacos in the park on my walk to work has never made me feel like I live in a warzone. ICE and border patrol have. They are disappearing my neighbors. 100
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 17/10/2025how do you do this in 10 minutes. Have you considered becoming less powerful. 010
Columbary TTRPG @benkinghi.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I just watched Ballad of Buster Scruggs and really enjoyed “Meal Ticket” and “The Gal Who Got Rattled.” Would love to try RDR2 someday, but I’m soooo hesitant to pick up another sprawling open epic. 110