Kevin Kulp

Tristan Zimmerman - Molten Sulfur Press 🔜 Metatopia

22 Nov 2024

Fun Kevin facts! *designs games *has seen 167+ crappy shark movies in the last 4 years *in the late ‘80s, worked in NA’s largest shoulderpad factory *Boston-based *travels around the US solving shift schedule/human fatigue problems *smokes BBQ *fell off a pony while wearing a Humpty Dumpty costume

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A record of a 5th-century B.C. Carthaginian maritime expedition to West Africa describes a landscape aflame and a fiery mountain whose identity remains mysterious. It’s very gameable! #ttrpg #history moltensulfur.com/post/hannos-...

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

We have a glorious and rare late-season Storrowing this morning — except it’s on Mem Drive, so I think that makes the truck “Memorialized”! Photo from reddit - www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/S...

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Whelp. After 15 years of me saying “every shark swimming through a flooded city street after a storm photo on social media is fake,” we may finally have a real one. I’m awaiting confirmation from folks with better eyes than mine. abcnews.com/video/136803...

abcnews.comShark spotted in New Jersey floodwaters during nor'easterA dogfish shark was spotted swimming through floodwaters in Surf City, New Jersey, heading up a resident's driveway and then toward Barnegat Bay on Saturday.

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Pelgrane Press

@pelgranepress.bsky.social

Ludonarrative Dissidents put Swords of the Serpentine through its paces in an Actual Play with co-designer Kevin Kulp as GM. Expect fast action, sharp choices, and plenty of Eversink trouble. bit.ly/4xDs5zQ #TTRPG #SotS

9 Sept

My border collie Yoink: four years of difference!

8 Sept

Years ago I ran across this at a supermarket bread case. My first thought was “CAN DO!” I stuck with tissues instead. Illiteracy is apparently unsanitary.

4 Sept

Yoink has a good stick.

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Crowsmack

@crowsmack.bsky.social

4 Sept

Can confirm this book is so good! I'm playing through Keep on the Borderlands with my family at the moment, and I'm thinking about introducing Bait as an NPC.

Kevin Kulp@kevinkulp.bsky.social

I dont usually make book recommendations, but I loved THE DUNGEON BOOK by @mytholder.bsky.social enough that I actually said “I sure as f**k did!” to an empty car when the audiobook finished with “Audible hopes you enjoyed this program.”

3 Sept

CRAPPY SHARK MOVIE PITCH #763: A girl meets her fairy godmother. Instead of a prince & true love, though, the girl demands her enemies be devoured by sharks—and the horrified fairy godmother is compelled to fulfill her wish until she finds a way to outwit the girl. Title? MAKO WISH FOUNDATION.

3 Sept

Honestly, you guys, I don’t know why they say screenwriting is hard! Shark Week guys, CALL ME

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I’m reading it now and thoroughly enjoying it. I got put off fantasy a long time ago, but this is bright and fresh and funny as hell and I’m going to hate for it to end.

This is how I felt about The Dungeon Book as well! Me: “Of course I’ll go walk the dogs! It.. it may be a long walk.”

Freesia@freesiajasmine.bsky.social

I am about a third of the way through. I thought it'd be some light reading and instead I find myself making excuses to go back to the bedroom in the middle of the day and read more. I have no idea where it's going, and in the best possible way.

An infant princess is kidnapped into a vast dungeon, and she grows up there making it her own. The prose is beautiful, the plotting just what I wanted. Recommended.

28 Aug

Backlit.

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James Wallis

@jameswallis.bsky.social

25 Aug

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Meanwhile our Kickstarter backers have access to the penultimate episode of the season, an Actual Play of SWORDS OF THE SERPENTINE, run by the game's co-designer @kevinkulp.bsky.social and with guest-player Vee from Queen's Court Games. Check the website for link: www.ludonarrativedissidents.com

instagram.comSinead Hanna on Instagram: "Noah's Shark, the film we all needed but we didn't want somehow #shark #sharkmovie #badmovie"865 likes, 82 comments - sineadhannacraic on August 22, 2026: "Noah's Shark, the film we all needed but we didn't want somehow #shark #sharkmovie #badmovie".

25 Aug

Noah’s Shark comes in at #157/191 crappy shark movies we’ve seen! Our notes read “Wood fondling, zipper exorcisms, extended flashbacks, and a Mount Ararat that looks just like upstate NY. The least awful of Mark Polonia’s shark films, but that's probably not the compliment it sounds like.”

WizardBOOOOOO@wizardru.bsky.social

I think I know the answer, but I have to ask: @kevinkulp.bsky.social have you seen this movie? www.instagram.com/reel/DcWzl7a...

19 Aug

20 hours left to back MERRYSHIRE DETECTIVE CLUB, my favorite rpg from the past few years. It’s a cozy fantasy mystery game where you play halflings from the Shire solving murder mysteries between second breakfast and afternoon tea. Funny to read, a delight to play. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

Technical Difficulties Gaming Podcast

19 Aug

Full disclosure: I’m actually writing two mysteries in the follow-up book to this, but I’m doing so because I loved running the actual game so much that I asked if I could. That hopefully bodes well.

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19 Aug

New One-Shot Episode! We're jumping out of airplanes, mining palm trees, fighting Nazis, saving Amelia Earhardt's parents' marriage -- you know, typical #Timewatch stuff. Thanks to @kevinkulp.bsky.social for writing this thing!

technicaldifficultiespod.comTimewatch - Recruiting Call — Technical Difficulties Gaming PodcastThe agents of Timewatch again pop into the situation in media res, engaging in a dog fight with a mysterious combatant. When they return to base, they are told they have to go right back out, as an ag...

womensartbluesky.bsky.social

10 Aug

#lifegoals

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6 Aug

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by #folklore and nature #WomensArt

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AskHistorians

@askhistorians.bsky.social

6 Aug

If there's one thing we've learned over the years of running the forum, it's that there's a lot of wannabe time travellers who start having second thoughts about the availability of fast food.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

literally every history question has been asked in there and thoroughly, *comprehensively* answered already

6 Aug

I’m 2/3rds of the way through pulling 24 lbs of slow-smoked pork butt, after already making 15 lbs of really tasty pork belly burnt ends. Briefly considering vegetarianism.

A THREAD. This week lots of my friends will be driving cross-country to Indianapolis for Gen Con, a big gaming industry convention. They'll also be driving home - and they're way more likely to be exhausted! This seems like a good time to pull out my semi-annual standard advice to keep you alive.

If you try to sleep when caffeinated, your sleep quality will stink; for that reason, try to time your caffeine intake so that you stop drinking caffeine 3-4 hours before your anticipated bedtime.

There a ton more information that may help, but this is a decent fast primer. Be aware of your drowsiness when driving, and watch out for that mental sluggishness - recognizing it in time may be the best thing you do this coming weekend. Holler with questions.

10. The amount of alertness you gain after 5 hours of sleep is significantly higher than the amount you gain after 4 hours. If you have a choice, you'll be a lot happier with that extra hour.

11. More than 3 cups of coffee (or doses of caffeine) doesn't make you more alert; it just makes you more anxious, irritable and prone to stress. Keep your coffee intake spaced out, don't overdo it, and remember that caffeine stays really active in your body for roughly four hours after drinking it.

9. Short naps (10-15 minutes, 20 minutes max) are great for short-term alertness boosts. Long naps (2-3 hours) are even better; they give you restorative sleep and can keep you going another 6-10 hours.

Stay away from 1-hour naps. Due to the way your sleep patterns run, a 1-hour nap will often leave you feeling groggy and tired, when a shorter or longer nap will not. Neat, huh?

8. Studies have shown that after 22 hours without sleep (assuming a morning wake-up time), your performance is equivalent to someone with a .08 blood alcohol level. After 24 hours with no sleep, performance and mental acuity is equivalent to .10 - legally drunk.

See, there's a reason you make stupid decisions when tired! And you don't want to know about how you do when you're tired AND drunk. If you're sleep-deprived, keep this in mind when thinking about what you're doing, especially if you have to drive.

7. Remember, sleepiness comes in waves; you may be fine, then 20 minutes later you're ready to keel over. Sleep-related accidents are much more likely to occur with folks who have been up all night, then who drive farther than 20 minutes.

The presence of daylight helps a great deal with your alertness, which is why the vast majority of fatigue-related accidents happen between 1am to 6 am, especially right around dawn.

6. Cold air, a blasting radio - these provide only momentary (and minuscule) boosts to your alertness. A short "power nap" is the only thing that will raise your alertness in the short term. Ten or fifteen minutes of shuteye will help you stay awake for the next 1-2 hours.

Caffeine can help too, but isn't a perfect solution. For the greatest effect, take a "coffee nap": drink a cup of coffee and close your eyes for ten minutes. You'll wake up incredibly alert. (If you're falling asleep during a game, a 5 minute break with your eyes closed can help, as well.)

4. At these times, your reaction time is awful. If you're on a flat straight empty road, you'll hopefully be okay. If the guy in front of you hits his brakes, though, you'll never be able to react in time. It's incredibly dangerous.

5. When you feel this starting to happen, pull the car over off the road, get into the passenger seat, and take a ten minute nap. Walmart parking lots are really good places for this, as they never mind.

3. Microsleeps can happen at any time, but they are MUCH more likely when you're sleep deprived. In a documentary they kept someone up for 24 hours & had them drive around a test track for an hour. He remembers drowsing off twice; in actuality, he fell asleep 22 times, and only remembered 2 of them.

This is happening to you, too. If you're sitting at a table, no one cares. If you're behind the wheel of a car, you're screwed.

2. Microsleeps are periods when a wave of sleep washes over you, for anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. Often times, you may not even realize that you've been technically asleep; these can happen while your eyes are open.

Don't remember the last five minutes of your drive, or your attention is wandering to things that aren't the road? You're suffering from microsleeps.

For people driving (or gaming) on short sleep: 1. Most people need 7-9 hours of sleep to be well-rested. When you're getting less than that (as most people do), you're far more likely to suffer from something called "microsleeps." The less sleep you get, the more likely you'll experience these.

29 July

I’m flying back from Sheboygan with fifteen pounds of fresh cheese curds and made-today string cheese. On the other hand, my flight-that-replaced-a-canceled-flight (that itself replaced a different canceled flight) now gets me home at 3 am. At least we know I won’t starve?

Hexed Electron is flinging raccoons into a haunted house

25 July

We do one of these every year, and it’s pretty much the best. There’s good advice here.

Sean Nittner@seannittner.bsky.social

Since stepping down as steward of Big Bad, I’ve focused on small events, what I call housecons. No flights, no hotel, communal meals, and scheduling that is either very loose (let’s play some games) or fully scheduled in advance (welcome to SeanCon, here’s your itinerary). My thoughts.

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21 July

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"The Splendid Annunciation of the End of the World" by @kevinkulp.bsky.social introduces a mighty Atlantean entity. The more who know of it, the more powerful it becomes, threatening to shatter even heaven's vault. Will you aid its ambition to further your own or find a way to bury it beyond memory?