johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am really enjoying running Old school essentials. I’m 10 sessions into a campaign and finally feeling like I understand what makes the system tick. It’s really nice to have concrete procedures for gameplay as well. That framework takes a lot of pressure off the GM and lets you flex creatively. 141
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Last night my players ambushed and attacked the evil adventuring party from deep carbon observatory. I had a lot of fun reading bits of the crows flavor text before their actions. 010
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ve had a few instances now I’m deep carbon observatory where I’ve rolled up random magic items from OSE for the players as loot and my wizard got a horn of blasting tonight. Unfortunately, due to a poisoned arrow grounding ALL OFFENSIVE MAGIC into him, that became a horn of self destruct… 020
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Look, I’m seeing a lot of people talking shit about macklemores music who have clearly never been blasted on grain alcohol outside a house party in a rural Washington college town at 2 in the morning in 2013 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Highlight of the night: the party finds a bunch of chained iron jars connected to an ornate lock that matches the key they’ve been trying to use on stuff for weeks. The jars are roughly person sized, and there’s a scratching sound coming from inside. And there’s 20 jars tied to one lock. 001
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Man the first dungeon in deep carbon observatory really is a fuck you to the players lmao. They figured out that basically all the treasure was in the river below the damn and bailed on the dungeon without doing anything too dangerous 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Session like 6 or 7 of Deep Carbon Observatory tonight. My Players just arrived in a village and discovered its entire adult population ensnared by a witch's magic. Once they deal with the Witch they're most likely headed to the Dam for the first proper dungeon of the campaign 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is the kind of opinions you get when your company’s chief TECHNICAL officer is “not a nerd”. The push for AI is being cheerled on all fronts by people who were never a part of the old internet. They cannot understand why the net was good they see only profit and power and should not be trusted 011
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It’s here! So excited to get some games of JundJund in soon 033
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Picked out some thematically correct basic lands for my JundJund deck. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I ordered the remainder of the cards I need to put together my JundJund deck today. It’s such a great format. Does exactly the sort of thing I want in a casual two player magic format. I want to toy with some eldrazi like writhing chrysalis and eldrazi repurposer in the list once it’s all together. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Well I’ll be damned. No Mans Sky is pretty good now. I’m accumulating a merchant fleet out of vanquished and commandeered pirate vessels 010
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Fuck google. humoring the mad king of America in his quest to name bodies of water after America whenever he’s having a temper tantrum 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It’s fascinating to see the world accelerating towards a home grown Butlerian jihad in my lifetime 010
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The whole “ai agents were hacking other businesses” story from a couple weeks back will end up being bullshit devised to keep their stock prices going up. I can feel it in my bones. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There are worse ways to spend a day than blaring King Giz and baking a shitload of bread 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Every time I’m starting to have quibbles about the foundation tv show Lee Pace shows up on screen and steals the fucking show. God damn 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The fucked up thing about adhd medication is that the side effects are fucking miserable but I can already tell it’s making a huge difference in my ability to get shit done every day 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It’s funny that conservatives all scrambled to protect trump’s “mistress” only for it to come out that their relationship is way creepier and grosser than an affair ever could have been 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The foundation TV show has this weird tension where the most interesting shit in any given episode is where they’ve given themselves leeway to go off-book, and any time it’s focused on the foundation the characters feel off and stilted due to their attempts to reference the books. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Just got diagnosed with adhd at 35 and honestly it explains a few things. 010
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My local game store is the fucking coolest. We showed up for cube draft this afternoon and the person who was bringing the cube had car trouble and had to cancel. Turns out, our local game store has a cube they were willing to loan us totally free. Hadn’t been used since probably 2015. 040
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I refuse to believe the dragons name isn’t pronounced “smog”. It’s too perfect and on theme for the children’s storybook about a greedy monster burning the world for profit. I also love how the goblin aren’t evil because they’re goblins, they’re evil because they invented bombs. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I finally set up an appointment to get checked out for adhd tomorrow morning. Unfortunately now I’m so stressed out about it that I can’t sleep. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Went to my first magic prerelease today and had a fucking blast. Ended up making a dwarves/anthems deck that was pretty spicy won 2/3 games and got a buddy out of his comfort zone to go play at his LGS 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 07/08/2026One of my players picked up a sword last night that “makes them immune to fear from any source” I’m giving him pretty broad leeway in how he wants to have that affect his character going forward. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Session 3 of deep carbon observatory. The part camped out in a ruined church, met a woman named echo who led them into an ambush with zombies. Fought a mummy, and helped a man bury his wife, who then gave them a premonition about a vile pale giant and an ominous pit from beyond the grave… 180
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Started watching sugar on Apple TV after seeing some hints that you could basically view it as a Culture/special curcumstances story and it’s pretty fun from that angle. I have no idea if I would have enjoyed it if I wasn’t already a fan of the culture though. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I just saw the dnd universes beyond shit and honestly all I can picture is a room full of execs standing in a circle chanting “slop! Slop! Slop!” While they prepare to butcher dnd for any profitability left in the IP by making it Fortnite. 020
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Fuck I just realized I need to re-read roadside picnic before my players make it to the damn in deep carbon observatory 020
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 28/07/2026All that’s left is to dig out cards and sleeve them up and play 001
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I have acquired 1000 sleeves for magic cards at a deep discount in a shady parking lot exchange. The perfect start to putting my innistrad centric spooky cube together. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Ran session 3 of deep carbon observatory. The party ran into Rem Koolhouse and Ruskin Behavior having an impotent wizards duel on a bridge and then used their corpses to go grapnel hook fishing with for a giant pike that they took back to town to help the starving townsfolk 030
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 23/07/2026We picked up a knockoff peloton this week for like $100 and honestly it’s been great. I’ll jump on it and pedal for 10-15 minutes at a time throughout the day. I don’t have a schedule that’s super conducive to going to the gym but I will run on my exercise wheel like a hamster while doomscrolling. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Finally getting around to watching project Hail Mary. God damn what a movie. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Started reading the hobbit to my kid yesterday. He’s 5, and within one chapter he is completely hooked and wants to know what Gandalf is up to 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is one of those ideas that’s so good I’m genuinely upset I didn’t think of it. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Powers out tonight so I sat on the porch and drew a postcard dungeon for a friend until it got too dark to see. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 12/07/2026They make bob ross playmats for mtg!? Why did no one tell me this!? 010
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I think there’s a pretty big gulf between “my asshole boss at Jamba Juice” and “man who was instrumental in many of the greatest crimes of our nation state” 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 12/07/2026live your life in such a way that you never have to worry about millions of people celebrating your death 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Working on a 4 player bloomburrow cube. 180 cards is less than it sounds like it would be. 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Man I love shared deck magic games. Played JundJund with a buddy this afternoon on tabletop simulator and it’s such a perfect way to scratch the itch for a grindy mid-range combat focused game of magic, but without so much complexity that we weren’t able to shoot the shit the whole time. 020
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 03/07/2026A halfling, a magic user and a thief walk into a flooded city reeling from disaster… and immediately start plotting how they’re gonna get rich 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Session 1 of deep carbon observatory went well. Rolled up characters in OSE and did a few of the onslaught of carrowmore encounters the party will work through them as they cross town looking for the other adventurers that they heard rumours about. 040
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Going to be starting Deep carbon observatory tonight. Heard good things about it for years so fingers crossed. We’ll probably be using world of dungeons carrying characters forward from black wyrm of brandonsford and prison of the hated pretender. Apparently this is the indie darling campaign now 000
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Say what you will about this murderous regime… but they do know how to make a good visual metaphor. 010
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Merry schism day to those who celebrate! 100
johnthedm3.bsky.social @johnthedm3.bsky.social · 27/06/2026My mono red spellslinger deck performed better than I expected tonight at commander night meaning we were able to get in 3 games in 3 hours. 000