Dylan Baird (BardicGeek)

Probably gonna spend an hour before game tonight playing a silly game on twitch (Truck-Kun is Supporting Me from Another World). A game where you are sending things the Isekai way by hitting them with your truck. I am serious. Never tried it, let's give it a go.

A digital attack is being conducted against Fool & Scholar Productions during #DontMindPod 's 3rd Season Riku Cave being released. It's a small team that intentionally hires diverse casts and uses a ton of actors from all over the globe in absolutely brillaint horror stories. Give a listen!

I have not slacked in my cooking skill tree.

Going live on #FieldsofMistria at my #Twitch in about 5 minutes! Stop in if you like as I am doing a one hour play, so three in-game days, no wiki, no looking stuff up, just being a silly little bug catcher and farmer!

I want to say how cool it is to see people who I backed on previous ttrpg projects have new ones they're working on. Genuinely, we live in a horrible timeline. You continuing to make games and art in spite of it all? It's inspiring and I appreciate the hell out of it.

Going to try again on the streaming in probably about 90 minutes or so. We shall see if I remember to hit the go-live button on Bluesky. Playing more #FieldsofMistria on #Twitch at @bardicgeek as the username. My channel is not monetized, so it is commercial free.

Might sneak in another hour of #streaming starting at about 7:30 pm Central or so to try and unwind a bit after a *very* Monday. #FieldsofMistria again if anyone is interested. Only an hour in so far! @Bardicgeek on Twitch if you're inclined! Same username if you're not inclined.

A dear friend of mine might have to replace her entire set of dice masters due to some issues reaching the current holder of them and Whitney needs new molds to make dice. She is using her workshop gofundme to get the funds to replace them. If you can spare, www.gofundme.com/f/whitney-ne...

Looks like Thanksgiving this year is going to occur in Ohio. Not many know but I was originally spawned from the corn fields like many Ohioans. So, going to plot a road trip and see how many folks we can say hi to!

Dan is a delightful presence in the TTRPG space. Highly recommend checking out their games but also their pre-launch page!

Did I make a character named Mercator in a Fabula Ultima game led by @radiofreewill.bsky.social that is an absolutely trash cartographer who wants to try and make a name for himself like a fool? Yes. Does he have a Brooklyn accent for no reason? Also yes. I have no idea why. It just happened.

Sadie just hopped on Baldur's Gate!

Sadie is live now!

Took the week off of work. So far I have had 2 walks, visited 1 small park with historic buildings to take pictures of, visited an indie book/vinyl shop, and had a lunch date with my spouse. I won't be recovered from workplace burnout by next week. But it'll be better.

Nothing like a 4 AM road trip drive to give you inspiration to write a podcast. So, maybe *that* is what I use a chunk of this vacation on?

oh hey - I wrote one of those. I guess my first game goes to funding and print soon-ish? Want a solo-journaling game that made me cry during lunch? Want a way to say goodbye to a character who almost made it? Well I made a bunch of rolling tables to help with that!

Gods help me everything about this week is making me reconsider my time off next week.

Ball pythons sometimes need you to literally play with their food for them to go after it. No, I am not joking. My danger noodle Gemelli won't spring at a thawed and warmed rat while in his killbox if I don't dangle it around. And even then he might lose interest halfway through the process.

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are a major part of why I love the fantasy genre. I may not play D&D anymore, but I am glad that the world they created still will have their hand on the wheel in other formats. This is a nice surprise.

Theoretically, I am off work from 10/5-10/12. ... What should I do? Stream a game? Work on my TTRPG? Clean the house?

It is telling that 5 of my top 10 Steam games by most played in hours can directly tie back to Story Of Seasons/Harvest Moon Inspired games. To be fair... They are very good games. And yes, 1 of them is Stardew Valley. Which easily breaks into my top 5 if you count hours played on my Switch.

Lofi teaser for what I'm working on

Scout is a friend and a delight to share a tabletop game with. Just sharing to see if anyone can help along or share for visibility.

I’m raising money to get new glasses: ko-fi.com/neonsaline/g...

There is a weird balance between being extremely excited to playtest a tabletop game you are working with friends on vs. knowing you have hours more work to do just to make sure it doesn't immediately break down when you start the table next. Still fun though.

So, my ttrpg has archetype cards you draw on a quest to boost stats, to randomize growth, a little right? Hard to do online. Well now the Google Sheet does it all for you. You just tell the sheet which card you drew. Also there's a rolling table. I am so happy with this result.

Played with the tools to edit a video of my spouse talking about a quasi-local game shop to us. Using a gimbal, recording in a live space, and then editing in DaVinci (free one) is neat. Pretty intuitive after Premier.

I made a tiktok mock-connecting one of the only suriving quotes of Anaximander of Miletus to Saturo Gojo. I am very proud of how dumb I can be sometimes. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83kmqXe/

Well, I have something to narrate for funsies. Sadie and I picked up a bunch of thrift books and one is a very short essay by Camus called "Create Dangerously." That could be a fun essay to record.

After midnight after a... probably 12 or 13 hour work day and an hour of doing tabletop stuff after that? Just laid down. Thought of a big solve for my design to simplify one hurdle that has been bugging me. Hell yeah.

Okay. The math might be mathing better on the tabletop game. I changed a lot of the comparison maths against Target Ranks to make attacking things well below you less of a cake walk and well above you remains punishing. Gotta see how I want to handle Rank based HP, MP, and TP. Might lower those.

So, I figured out how to handle the "Withstand" defensive action. tTIGR has a call/response to attack and defense, but the tanks just soak the hits with a separate action than Dodge and Parry. Before I had it negate damage if successful like dodging and parrying. That was far too useful.

Rewriting the math of a complex TTRPG and realizing how fun this is? That is why I keep coming back. Weird math is just fun. Now, would it work better if it was programmed into something? Yes. But the game is meant to be played at a table, with tablets or a toolkit. So, it will work.

If I had a giant chalkboard, I would write out so many TTRPG maths it would make math professors question my profession. Or sanity. ... Computah, where do I get 2 giant chalkboards. ... now make them kiss.

My favorite for spooky seasons is Fortune Favors the Deep. Playing a game that's all about lurking dread and monsters from the void is always good to set a terrifying atmosphere.