Alan of All Trades
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Professional Game Master | Writer of Sundry Stuff | He/They/It | Neurodivergent as Hell (ADHD, Anxiety, Depression) | Citizen of a Second World Country | Polyam
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Howdy, I'm Alan and I tend to allow shenanigans at my table! The first time I ever played a role-playing game, we used the manual for Icewind Dale 2, since actual rulebooks were not available in our q...
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Howdy, I'm Alan! I'm a neurodivergent Game Master and writer of stuff from Poland. I nerd out about Star Trek, Doctor Who, Transformers, and – sometimes – obscure media stuff a lot. All opinions mine, all takes correct.
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My Dad is Dracula (and a Ghostbuster) 👻
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My Dad is Dracula (and a Ghostbuster) 👻
So anyway, I switched to Waterfox
December 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
So anyway, I switched to Waterfox
Show me how your 2025 went.
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Show me how your 2025 went.
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we would understand eachother better as a species if we accepted that mecha is just dress up for guys
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
we would understand eachother better as a species if we accepted that mecha is just dress up for guys
Keegan is an amazing player, and Rohan is a great example of that. On top of the demon (who's one of my favorite NPCs to portray), I also gave him an empyrean criminal mastermind boyfriend. And don't get me started on Rohan's father! Kee is taking all of this in strides and roleplaying like a champ.
I said I'd start sharing some dnd/pathfinder art to get me back into drawing, so here's the first one. Rohan is my Pathfinder investigator. He's got a demon in his head, but it's cool cuz the demon is trying to redeem himself. It's more like having a awkward but cool uncle in his head.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Keegan is an amazing player, and Rohan is a great example of that. On top of the demon (who's one of my favorite NPCs to portray), I also gave him an empyrean criminal mastermind boyfriend. And don't get me started on Rohan's father! Kee is taking all of this in strides and roleplaying like a champ.
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From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the long-awaited sequel to Combat as my Balls!
The term "Player skill" has always rankled me, so I decided to delve a little deeper into that and discuss different kinds of player skill games can encourage.
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/skil...
The term "Player skill" has always rankled me, so I decided to delve a little deeper into that and discuss different kinds of player skill games can encourage.
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/skil...
Skill as My Balls
I have a distaste for a lot of terms bandied about in the OSR sphere. Gameable Content is one. Another, apparently is "Player Skill." During...
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December 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes the long-awaited sequel to Combat as my Balls!
The term "Player skill" has always rankled me, so I decided to delve a little deeper into that and discuss different kinds of player skill games can encourage.
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/skil...
The term "Player skill" has always rankled me, so I decided to delve a little deeper into that and discuss different kinds of player skill games can encourage.
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/skil...
James Gunn, bring Zauriel to the big screen and my... Well, not life. Kidney? My kidney is yours.
December 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
James Gunn, bring Zauriel to the big screen and my... Well, not life. Kidney? My kidney is yours.
I'm exhausted and depressed, all while my parents are acting like asshats. Typical December.
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I'm exhausted and depressed, all while my parents are acting like asshats. Typical December.
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online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
They cast Seth Rogen as a Stalin analogue. What are we even doing on this bitch of an earth.
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
They cast Seth Rogen as a Stalin analogue. What are we even doing on this bitch of an earth.
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no more movies until we can figure out where we went wrong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
Animal Farm | Andy Serkis | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 1 | Angel
YouTube video by Angel
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December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
no more movies until we can figure out where we went wrong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
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Laying money down right now that it's so incompetently handled that Twitter users will be able to ask Grok to expose military secrets and it will comply.
December 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Laying money down right now that it's so incompetently handled that Twitter users will be able to ask Grok to expose military secrets and it will comply.
It's a real shame Big Finish isn't doing any more Adam Adamant boxsets, because I have a banger idea for one (it's Adam Adamant vs Zenith the Albino. No, I don't think the right would be worth it. But it would be an amazing set of stories)
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It's a real shame Big Finish isn't doing any more Adam Adamant boxsets, because I have a banger idea for one (it's Adam Adamant vs Zenith the Albino. No, I don't think the right would be worth it. But it would be an amazing set of stories)
no more movies until we can figure out where we went wrong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
Animal Farm | Andy Serkis | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 1 | Angel
YouTube video by Angel
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
no more movies until we can figure out where we went wrong
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
Takiego wała
Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Takiego wała
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year
If you grab free Hogwarts Legacy from Epic this week, I will think less of you
December 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If you grab free Hogwarts Legacy from Epic this week, I will think less of you
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"if you want to play the harry potter game you should pirate it instead" or, and hear me out, you could have some goddamn self respect and play any one of the near-infinite number of other games that exist instead. but what do I know? I'm just an attractive genius who's better than you.
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"if you want to play the harry potter game you should pirate it instead" or, and hear me out, you could have some goddamn self respect and play any one of the near-infinite number of other games that exist instead. but what do I know? I'm just an attractive genius who's better than you.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Rolling Death Saves
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Rolling Death Saves
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You don't learn game mastering at a university, you learn it on the streets
December 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You don't learn game mastering at a university, you learn it on the streets
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For reasons I've suddenly become more interested in Curseborne, if only I had spare 30 bucks for the core rulebook...
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
For reasons I've suddenly become more interested in Curseborne, if only I had spare 30 bucks for the core rulebook...
Studio Gainax closes down AND Disney invests in OpenAI.
We need to make art, y'all. Weird art, kinky art, queer art.
Something they can't take away from us.
We need to make art, y'all. Weird art, kinky art, queer art.
Something they can't take away from us.
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Studio Gainax closes down AND Disney invests in OpenAI.
We need to make art, y'all. Weird art, kinky art, queer art.
Something they can't take away from us.
We need to make art, y'all. Weird art, kinky art, queer art.
Something they can't take away from us.
I won't miss Disney when it dies
Disney has agreed to license 200 of its most beloved characters for use in Sora's generative AI videos, alongside a $1 billion investment in OpenAI. https://bit.ly/3KOysxX
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I won't miss Disney when it dies
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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When even Disney adults boycotted Disneyland in protest of the fucking Jimmy Kimmel thing, you're left with no other conclusion than 'Harry Potter' fans being a special kind of cozy fascist, okay with any degree of harm to undesirables so long as it's out of their sight, for the sake of nostalgia.
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
When even Disney adults boycotted Disneyland in protest of the fucking Jimmy Kimmel thing, you're left with no other conclusion than 'Harry Potter' fans being a special kind of cozy fascist, okay with any degree of harm to undesirables so long as it's out of their sight, for the sake of nostalgia.