Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 22mI don't have all the answers, clearly, but I do know that a load bearing axis of ttrpg theory is Theatre Kid <--> Dice Goblin 010
Reposted by Omnia OstiaNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a... 132120459
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 3hUpdate on the geographic boundaries of Uptown: It is now located on W 7th in St. Paul. 120
Reposted by Omnia OstiaMutaSheep but 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 @mutariesco.bsky.social · 10hnot only is this 100% true, this fun fact helps even outside of the pasture. 72351676
Reposted by Omnia OstiaZac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 23hSkirting the razor thin line between pleasure and pain by making another Hellraiser shitpost. 1506178
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 5hBest possible feedback from the groupchat when I asked if the rules I wrote made sense: "Actually yes. I understood everything more plainly than most games we have played." (and from the guy who didn't play rpgs before he started playing with us to boot!) 000
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 5hI consider Pusheen to be the first and final word on this matter. 010
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 5hLeave it to me to turn a "one page ttrpg" into five pages. Or maybe it's that field testing has shown these things are usually being read in a dimly lit room by people with failing eyesight that wasn't so great in the first place, ergo BIG FONTS! 000
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 7hA notion: subjective design We all know that no group plays the same game the same way as any other group from a rules standpoint, yet we spend all this effort trying to make our rules and terms unequivocally clear. Why not instead treat this as a feature? 100
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 17hWell, played some 5e and it sure was some D&D. Didn't manage to roll higher than a 9 all night, which was actually pretty great from a roleplaying perspective. Just would have been nice if the game itself reacted to my presence in any tangible way. All these complicated rules for binary results. 110
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 23hThere. That's the fun bit done. Now for the drudgery of rules writing. 000
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Might want to check your accessibility settings- My "require alt text before posting" switch got turned off. 021
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Adding a new player to the group -> other players must bring them up to speed, in character -> the characters have conspired to lie about, or at the very least omit, one important event. Is this just a mean trick to play, or cool storytelling? 120
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not fear, but distrust as though they were attempting to steal my precious beans. But yes- 000
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I dunno, my projects are -pretty- smutty I guess, but they could use a touch more spice. Gonna seek inspo in a super dirty movie (The Big Sleep). 100
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Love that all the design soft on first glance is either too expensive, has ai crammed into it, or looks like it'll give me a virus. Anyone got a suggestion on what's good? 000
Reposted by Omnia Ostia#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My friend is trying to move from the middle of nowhere back in the metro after a terrible relationship ended. She doesn't have the funds but she's selling jewelry she's made and vintage jewelry. Perhaps you see something you like and you will spend money on it! Thanks! www.vugjewels.comvugjewels.comVug JewelsVug Jewels creates one of a kind jewelry in bead and bone, using vintage and new materials, found objects, and more. Plus Vug Vintage--vintage goods like vases, mugs, candle holders, tins, trays, and ... 23831
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I dunno, maybe Honey Heist variants are the way to go. ffs it's hard enough to work on projects with my ever wandering attention, I don't need a freakin' pendulum swinging back and forth between minimalist/maximalist sensibilities as well. 100
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026PROJECT UPDATE: Here's a bunch of fluff and nonsense to waste your time while you look to see if there's anything in here about confirming your payment or shipping address we will send one of these at least once a week because otherwise it looks like we're ignoring our customers that are also babies 010
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm so sick of masking, maybe I can relax on it a bit in some places... *everyone I know more cautious than myself is sick* lol jk nm 152
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Game design is a harsh mistress. *aide whispers something to me* Ok, well maybe YOURS isn't. 130
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This thing sucks and I hate it- let me share it as widely as possible! 010
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It occurs to me that despite D&D not being the proper rules set to do this (or anything, really) that the carnival part of Wild Beyond the Witchlight DOES get it right and is even its own little micro-rpg, so now I need to sheepishly ask for it back from my friend that I donated all my 5e to. 100
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Capes game: Toying with the idea of "if your power would let you do it, you get a critical success no roll needed" because that feeds into the whole superhero, y'know, power fantasy. Problem: Super speed. Narratively, the speedster could mop up a room full of goons before anyone else could blink. 110
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026*tinfoil* The internet is the greatest repository of free information and artwork the world has ever seen. But you can't sell that. Everyone will yell at you. You can't pull the plug, same reason. But if you pour enough slop into it that people can't find the good anymore- 100
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I wonder if there's a ttrpg cluster? *finds it, zooms in* This... seems to be a lot of crpg. *looks around* Why is there a cluster called "Drag 'n Wash Female Dragon Backlash"? Why is it as big as the ttrpg space? No. No you know what that's none of my business. 020
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Has anyone -ever- posted Nedroid's "I made this" comic with attribution? Admittedly it is a pretty good joke to post it without, but it usually undercuts the point being made. 010
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026See I have to blather whatever nonsense spills through my head here, as every once in a while the disorganized mess congeals into something even more mad. What if play a game where pretend to be faeries who are playing a game but the game also is pretend? 110
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Evergreen statement I realize, but Who the fuck do these fucks think the working class is? 010
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026static.klipy.comComiendo Papas Fritas en Hora de AventuraAlt: Hunson Abadeer eating Marcelline's fries. They aren't even very good; they are really cold. Finn and Jake look on through a window. 020
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The upswing of Thirsty Sword Lesbians hooking its safety tools to an xp mechanic and then I look over at my copy of Ten Candles is it has me thinking of what other game-external material I can drag down to the table. Silly hats? Lick the dice before casting a spe- Wait this is just Changeling bunks 110
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One could posit that writing a ragebait article about how no one is listening to a song is a good way to juice those numbers. One could further observe the absolute ease with which such a feat was accomplished and conjure a thousand ways such strings may be pulled to a nefarious purpose. 110
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in fucking mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks. 000
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Is Slugblaster unique as a game where the goal of the -characters- is "have fun"? I mean sure there's conflict and bad stuff and drama, but that's just barriers to be smashed so you can do sick tricks and party hard. 100
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Was just musing on the late lamented Rev 105 and how it was such a cultural touchstone and now everyone is siloed away within their own narrowing preferences even before we factor in ai generating content solely for "you" and man I really need to be in community but oops I don't actually like people 010
Omnia Ostia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If D&D going HP is what it takes for people to PLAY A DIFFERENT GAME maybe there's a silver lining there. 120
Reposted by Omnia OstiaCorey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026like uh i think what people who say 'gooner slop' are getting at is when artists stylize human flesh in ways that defy or strain against the limits of real world physics and anatomy and it makes them uncomfortable. not me tho i love cartoony butts boobs penises etc, "good for them " i say 212810
![Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?
Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.
You’re right, that does sound grim.
Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.
I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qnyq7wies2uc56bzqmfz4q25/bafkreief4hu7c6hd6ymgqnsaejlaipfuj7fq4ka2tkix72pionkb3dkkdy)
