Brian Schoner
@bschoner.bsky.social
Software geek by day, freelance writer by night, bass guitarist on the weekends, voice actor whenever time permits, and gamer ALL THE DAMN TIME. Cohost of the https://bsky.app/profile/ascentofboardgames.bsky.social podcast. He/him.
One of the all-time greats - guitarist, songwriter, producer, icon. Rest easy, Steve. variety.com/2025/music/n...
Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84
Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One of the all-time greats - guitarist, songwriter, producer, icon. Rest easy, Steve. variety.com/2025/music/n...
Introduce Yourself in Five #TTRPG Classes:
Bonisagus (Ars Magica)
The Explorer (The Between)
Rigger (Shadowrun)
Starless Knight (Hedge)
Vermissian Knight (Heart)
Bonisagus (Ars Magica)
The Explorer (The Between)
Rigger (Shadowrun)
Starless Knight (Hedge)
Vermissian Knight (Heart)
Introduce Yourself in Five #TTRPG Classes 🎲🎲
- The Caretaker (Wanderhome)
- The Vessel (The Between)
- Malkavian (Vampire the Masquerade)
- Ragabash Glass Walker (Werewolf the Apocalypse)
- The Fae (Urban Shadows)
- The Caretaker (Wanderhome)
- The Vessel (The Between)
- Malkavian (Vampire the Masquerade)
- Ragabash Glass Walker (Werewolf the Apocalypse)
- The Fae (Urban Shadows)
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Introduce Yourself in Five #TTRPG Classes:
Bonisagus (Ars Magica)
The Explorer (The Between)
Rigger (Shadowrun)
Starless Knight (Hedge)
Vermissian Knight (Heart)
Bonisagus (Ars Magica)
The Explorer (The Between)
Rigger (Shadowrun)
Starless Knight (Hedge)
Vermissian Knight (Heart)
Neralis does great work, folks, and is easy to work with. If this style intrigues you, reach out!
~ Commission Call ~
I'm open for stained-glass Illustrations for your projects! 💙
Send me an inquiry for a quote!:
[email protected]
For personal usage, prices are listed below ~
I'm open for stained-glass Illustrations for your projects! 💙
Send me an inquiry for a quote!:
[email protected]
For personal usage, prices are listed below ~
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Neralis does great work, folks, and is easy to work with. If this style intrigues you, reach out!
Reposted by Brian Schoner
It's time to look back at our favorite board games and game-related stuff from The Year That Was. What were your favorites from 2025?
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-76...
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-76...
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It's time to look back at our favorite board games and game-related stuff from The Year That Was. What were your favorites from 2025?
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-76...
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-76...
Really looking forward to this…who wants to try it out with me?
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Really looking forward to this…who wants to try it out with me?
What TTRPG's are you craving?
Here are my top 8 (in no order):
Blades ‘68
Band of Blades
D&D4E
Hollows
Sentinels Comics
Mothership
Amber Diceless
Blue Planet
Here are my top 8 (in no order):
Blades ‘68
Band of Blades
D&D4E
Hollows
Sentinels Comics
Mothership
Amber Diceless
Blue Planet
What TTRPG's are you craving?
Here are my top 8 (in no order)
Battletech: A Time of War
Warhammer 40k: Only War
Vampire: the Masquerade (20th Anniversary)
Demon: the Fallen
The Witcher
Pathfinder 1st Ed
Traveller
Age of Sigmar: Soulbound - Champions of Death
Here are my top 8 (in no order)
Battletech: A Time of War
Warhammer 40k: Only War
Vampire: the Masquerade (20th Anniversary)
Demon: the Fallen
The Witcher
Pathfinder 1st Ed
Traveller
Age of Sigmar: Soulbound - Champions of Death
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
What TTRPG's are you craving?
Here are my top 8 (in no order):
Blades ‘68
Band of Blades
D&D4E
Hollows
Sentinels Comics
Mothership
Amber Diceless
Blue Planet
Here are my top 8 (in no order):
Blades ‘68
Band of Blades
D&D4E
Hollows
Sentinels Comics
Mothership
Amber Diceless
Blue Planet
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
BEAT
Jethro Tull
King's X
The Police
Rush
BEAT
Jethro Tull
King's X
The Police
Rush
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
The Pixies
P J Harvey
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Philip Glass Ensemble
Plump DJs
The Pixies
P J Harvey
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Philip Glass Ensemble
Plump DJs
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Tori Amos
Radiohead
Ash
They Might Be Giants
Public Service Broadcasting
Tori Amos
Radiohead
Ash
They Might Be Giants
Public Service Broadcasting
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
BEAT
Jethro Tull
King's X
The Police
Rush
BEAT
Jethro Tull
King's X
The Police
Rush
Paging @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social and @amiewebster.bsky.social in case there's interest.
If you are an Actual Play producer (or otherwise the copyright holder) and you are interested in uploading your show to the Internet Archive, please let me know and I can help you through the whole process!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
I updated my guide to digital preservation of Actual Play to make it easier to navigate & added a little diagram to explain the relationship between backups, digital preservation & digital archives
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Paging @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social and @amiewebster.bsky.social in case there's interest.
Watching @itsquinns.bsky.social 's Historical RPG panel, and now I want to buy/read/play "Skyrealms of Joe Rooney".
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Watching @itsquinns.bsky.social 's Historical RPG panel, and now I want to buy/read/play "Skyrealms of Joe Rooney".
Before the Fallout AP at #PAXU, I knew I was a big fan of @edwardspence.bsky.social @jwcartwright.bsky.social @sweeetanj.bsky.social and Mark Meer. After seeing the show, I now know that I am ALSO a fan of @taylorstaverntales.bsky.social @luastardust.com and @mayannaberrin.bsky.social - y'all rock!
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Before the Fallout AP at #PAXU, I knew I was a big fan of @edwardspence.bsky.social @jwcartwright.bsky.social @sweeetanj.bsky.social and Mark Meer. After seeing the show, I now know that I am ALSO a fan of @taylorstaverntales.bsky.social @luastardust.com and @mayannaberrin.bsky.social - y'all rock!
"how did you get into ttrpgs”
I found a cursed box on the top shelf of a cursed hobby store...
I found a cursed box on the top shelf of a cursed hobby store...
"how did you get into ttrpgs”
I have always loved the monsters
I have always loved the monsters
"how did you get into ttrpgs"
Oh, I was bitten by a radioactive ttrpg when I was younger.
Oh, I was bitten by a radioactive ttrpg when I was younger.
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"how did you get into ttrpgs”
I found a cursed box on the top shelf of a cursed hobby store...
I found a cursed box on the top shelf of a cursed hobby store...
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
This was a great experience. I don't know if "fun" is the right word for it, but you get out of the game what you put in, and there's room to put a lot in. Highly recommended.
REALLY great experience. Go buy the game. Right up with Alice is Missing. High praise from me.
Tonight, I and @bschoner.bsky.social play brothers in the zombie apocalypse. We are on opposite sides of a closed door. One of us is infected. I've been wanting to get this game by @moreblueberries.bsky.social to the channel. Their digital play PDFs make it easy. Watch live or later. #ttrpg
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This was a great experience. I don't know if "fun" is the right word for it, but you get out of the game what you put in, and there's room to put a lot in. Highly recommended.
I for one am ready to go back to Doskvol!
Come visit Doskvol, the jewel of Akoros, in '68. Home of the original bluetime (first and best). Crime rates are better than before*
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I for one am ready to go back to Doskvol!
Anyone who still doesn't think this is about eugenics?
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Anyone who still doesn't think this is about eugenics?
Just came across this in a @robwords.bsky.social video on the history of the NATO phonetic alphabet (shut up, I'm a nerd), and it may be my favorite new milspeak for "STFU": "You are therefore requested to reconsider the desirability of pressing your point at this time."
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just came across this in a @robwords.bsky.social video on the history of the NATO phonetic alphabet (shut up, I'm a nerd), and it may be my favorite new milspeak for "STFU": "You are therefore requested to reconsider the desirability of pressing your point at this time."
This is a great interview! I have no idea what I expected from the creator(s, as it turned out) of Oglaf, but they seem just about exactly right. (For those who aren't familiar with it, the Oglaf webcomic is very very NSFW, but the interview is pretty clean.)
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is a great interview! I have no idea what I expected from the creator(s, as it turned out) of Oglaf, but they seem just about exactly right. (For those who aren't familiar with it, the Oglaf webcomic is very very NSFW, but the interview is pretty clean.)
How is it even conceivable that @ossoff.bsky.social and other Democratic senators are considering surrendering on a Republican-caused government shutdown after the most successful Democratic elections in decades? This would be a staggering betrayal of what the Democratic Party should stand for.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
How is it even conceivable that @ossoff.bsky.social and other Democratic senators are considering surrendering on a Republican-caused government shutdown after the most successful Democratic elections in decades? This would be a staggering betrayal of what the Democratic Party should stand for.
This would make a great Parsely game…
There were quite a lot of text adventures in the 80s. Some were fantasy. Some were mystery. Some were horror. Some were science fiction. But others, well... (Source.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This would make a great Parsely game…
Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
Is this where I say that I want to watch all of these shows? (Except maybe Sprout Quest, but that's a me problem.)
In lieu of yet another objectively correct opinion on the "Rule of Cool," I present you a thread of the kind of tv show each of my games would be if I was given the budget to make tv shows instead of ttrpgs.
I run games like a writers' room, I write them to help you run them like tv shows. 1/14
I run games like a writers' room, I write them to help you run them like tv shows. 1/14
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Is this where I say that I want to watch all of these shows? (Except maybe Sprout Quest, but that's a me problem.)
Reposted by Brian Schoner
We conclude - for now - our discussion on video games that have been turned into board games. Plus, we uncover the solution to a mystery that has been haunting us for far too long! (A month. It's been a month.)
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
We conclude - for now - our discussion on video games that have been turned into board games. Plus, we uncover the solution to a mystery that has been haunting us for far too long! (A month. It's been a month.)
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...
Looking at the site, there doesn't seem to be any information on exactly how/where to apply - or I have failed yet another Spot check. Maybe @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social or @amiewebster.bsky.social will have better luck...
Just getting home from work, huh? Or waking up from that really great post-lunch nap? What a perfect time to make sure you or your favorite show have submitted for the actual play grants!
The deadline is roughly seven hours away -- make some time after dinner to make sure you get it in!
The deadline is roughly seven hours away -- make some time after dinner to make sure you get it in!
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Looking at the site, there doesn't seem to be any information on exactly how/where to apply - or I have failed yet another Spot check. Maybe @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social or @amiewebster.bsky.social will have better luck...
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Knickers
Knickers
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
100 Gland
100 Gland
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Twig
Twig
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Knickers
Knickers
Post a perfect album from 1989, a pretty damn fine music year.
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a pretty damn fine music year.