Ben Terry
@benjaminterry.com
I'm a GenX guy living in mid-Michigan. I work in IT for a health system. For kicks I enjoy tabletop role-playing games, fiddling with tech and playing music (mostly on guitar). You can find links to all of my things at: https://benjaminterry.com/
My Top 10 Fav Guitar Players (I guess? At the moment.)
Vernon Reid
Kaki King
Ichiro Agata
Marnie Stern
Jimi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Dimebag Darrell
Omar Rodríguez-López
Jerry Reed
Thurston Moore
Vernon Reid
Kaki King
Ichiro Agata
Marnie Stern
Jimi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Dimebag Darrell
Omar Rodríguez-López
Jerry Reed
Thurston Moore
Top 10 guitar players
Dave Murray
Gary Moore
B.B. King
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Jimi Hendrix
James McBain
Billy Gibbons
John Petrucci
Craig Goldy
Nita Strauss
Dave Murray
Gary Moore
B.B. King
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Jimi Hendrix
James McBain
Billy Gibbons
John Petrucci
Craig Goldy
Nita Strauss
Name your top 10 guitar players. Mine:
Jimmy Page
Steve Howe
David Gilmour
Jerry Garcia
John McLaughlin
Jimi Hendrix
Terry Kath
Tony Iommi
Dave Mustaine
(Open slot for someone I’m forgetting)
Jimmy Page
Steve Howe
David Gilmour
Jerry Garcia
John McLaughlin
Jimi Hendrix
Terry Kath
Tony Iommi
Dave Mustaine
(Open slot for someone I’m forgetting)
January 6, 2026 at 2:22 PM
My Top 10 Fav Guitar Players (I guess? At the moment.)
Vernon Reid
Kaki King
Ichiro Agata
Marnie Stern
Jimi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Dimebag Darrell
Omar Rodríguez-López
Jerry Reed
Thurston Moore
Vernon Reid
Kaki King
Ichiro Agata
Marnie Stern
Jimi Hendrix
Eddie Van Halen
Dimebag Darrell
Omar Rodríguez-López
Jerry Reed
Thurston Moore
"Guy goes to tiny cabin in winter, splits some wood, starts a fire, cooks a thing using the fire & sleeps through the wintery night" I must admit, is among the YouTube video genres I sometimes watch.
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
"Guy goes to tiny cabin in winter, splits some wood, starts a fire, cooks a thing using the fire & sleeps through the wintery night" I must admit, is among the YouTube video genres I sometimes watch.
This weekend I've read both E.C. Tubb's "The Winds of Gath" & H. Beam Piper's "Space Viking", 2 books said to be inspirations/influences on the Traveller RPG. I'm glad I read them, but didn't fall in love. Gath was more of a fun adventure. Space Viking was more of a detached reciting of events.
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 AM
This weekend I've read both E.C. Tubb's "The Winds of Gath" & H. Beam Piper's "Space Viking", 2 books said to be inspirations/influences on the Traveller RPG. I'm glad I read them, but didn't fall in love. Gath was more of a fun adventure. Space Viking was more of a detached reciting of events.
I'm not anti-AI, but this AI-assisted Google search, you're trying to find something & it's like "Here is a kinda plausible story I cobbled together from a couple of places & it's totally wrong, but I don't know anything & will tell you it's the truth with total confidence. Was this helpful?"
January 2, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I'm not anti-AI, but this AI-assisted Google search, you're trying to find something & it's like "Here is a kinda plausible story I cobbled together from a couple of places & it's totally wrong, but I don't know anything & will tell you it's the truth with total confidence. Was this helpful?"
My 2025 RPGing in review:
Played 51 sessions (5 of which I GM'd, 3 DC Heroes, 2 Street Fighter)
12 - Skeleton System (Friend's homebrew)
10 - Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
10 - Night's Black Agents
7 - Mongoose Traveller 2022 Update
5 - DC Heroes (3e)
4 - Delta Green
3 - Call of Cthulhu (7e)
Played 51 sessions (5 of which I GM'd, 3 DC Heroes, 2 Street Fighter)
12 - Skeleton System (Friend's homebrew)
10 - Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
10 - Night's Black Agents
7 - Mongoose Traveller 2022 Update
5 - DC Heroes (3e)
4 - Delta Green
3 - Call of Cthulhu (7e)
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
My 2025 RPGing in review:
Played 51 sessions (5 of which I GM'd, 3 DC Heroes, 2 Street Fighter)
12 - Skeleton System (Friend's homebrew)
10 - Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
10 - Night's Black Agents
7 - Mongoose Traveller 2022 Update
5 - DC Heroes (3e)
4 - Delta Green
3 - Call of Cthulhu (7e)
Played 51 sessions (5 of which I GM'd, 3 DC Heroes, 2 Street Fighter)
12 - Skeleton System (Friend's homebrew)
10 - Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
10 - Night's Black Agents
7 - Mongoose Traveller 2022 Update
5 - DC Heroes (3e)
4 - Delta Green
3 - Call of Cthulhu (7e)
It's a long way to the Amulet of Yendor...
December 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's a long way to the Amulet of Yendor...
While it is the game that spawned a genre, it feels like the original Rogue is underrated. The original terminal graphics, the gameplay that takes a little bit to get but isn't ultra-complicated. Turn based. Good for casual play, running around some dungeons figuring stuff out. Dig it.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
While it is the game that spawned a genre, it feels like the original Rogue is underrated. The original terminal graphics, the gameplay that takes a little bit to get but isn't ultra-complicated. Turn based. Good for casual play, running around some dungeons figuring stuff out. Dig it.
A list no one cares about: My top 5 Intellivision Games!
- Tron: Deadly Discs
- B-17 Bomber
- Tower of Doom
- Sea Battle
- Space Spartans (still like Star Raiders on the 5200 better though)
- Tron: Deadly Discs
- B-17 Bomber
- Tower of Doom
- Sea Battle
- Space Spartans (still like Star Raiders on the 5200 better though)
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A list no one cares about: My top 5 Intellivision Games!
- Tron: Deadly Discs
- B-17 Bomber
- Tower of Doom
- Sea Battle
- Space Spartans (still like Star Raiders on the 5200 better though)
- Tron: Deadly Discs
- B-17 Bomber
- Tower of Doom
- Sea Battle
- Space Spartans (still like Star Raiders on the 5200 better though)
Watched Tron: Ares on Sunday. It was some fun, groovy sci-fi. Reading stories on the internet, listening to the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. Loved the original back in the day. Sometimes it feels like the sci-fi of my youth is really coming in...
October 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Watched Tron: Ares on Sunday. It was some fun, groovy sci-fi. Reading stories on the internet, listening to the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. Loved the original back in the day. Sometimes it feels like the sci-fi of my youth is really coming in...
I'm not sure if my friends just discovered them, or GMail just started sending them, or my Proton mail started sending them along, but now whenever I check my mail and a thread has a bunch of replies, chances are they're all emojis attached as, like, a half megabyte sized image.png.
September 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I'm not sure if my friends just discovered them, or GMail just started sending them, or my Proton mail started sending them along, but now whenever I check my mail and a thread has a bunch of replies, chances are they're all emojis attached as, like, a half megabyte sized image.png.
Break out your GD-ROMs everybody! 09/09/99 was a little while ago.
a logo for the company dreamcast with an orange spiral
Alt: a logo for the company dreamcast with an orange spiral
media.tenor.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Break out your GD-ROMs everybody! 09/09/99 was a little while ago.
1:10a, Carson gas station, kids yell out to me "Fix that greasy assed hair (n-word)!" over and over while laughing at each other. Wake up to grab a package from the post-office during the one hour it's open that I'm not working (Sat 9:30-10:30a). Fortunately it was not fragile goods.
August 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
1:10a, Carson gas station, kids yell out to me "Fix that greasy assed hair (n-word)!" over and over while laughing at each other. Wake up to grab a package from the post-office during the one hour it's open that I'm not working (Sat 9:30-10:30a). Fortunately it was not fragile goods.
I'm very locked in to my routine. Today I'm gonna stop in to a general store in Eureka, a barely-a-village I've never been to close to my way home from work. It's supposed to be old-timey and novel. I should treat my local environment more like a tourist coming here to find fun things.
August 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I'm very locked in to my routine. Today I'm gonna stop in to a general store in Eureka, a barely-a-village I've never been to close to my way home from work. It's supposed to be old-timey and novel. I should treat my local environment more like a tourist coming here to find fun things.
I'm not asleep now, but this feels like a week I might just sleep through and see how life is on the other side.
August 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I'm not asleep now, but this feels like a week I might just sleep through and see how life is on the other side.
What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets?
- TSR Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set
- MegaTraveller
- Top Secret/S.I.
- TSR Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set
- MegaTraveller
- Top Secret/S.I.
What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets? Hmmm...
Star Frontiers (that was easy, first RPG I bought)
Star Frontiers: Knight Hawks
possibly TSR Indiana Jones
Star Frontiers (that was easy, first RPG I bought)
Star Frontiers: Knight Hawks
possibly TSR Indiana Jones
What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets, you say?
- Moldvay Basic
- Top Secret
- Villains & Vigilantes
What it says about me?
I'm old and it's okay to give these things to 7-8 yr olds.
- Moldvay Basic
- Top Secret
- Villains & Vigilantes
What it says about me?
I'm old and it's okay to give these things to 7-8 yr olds.
August 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
What were your first 3 #ttrpg box sets?
- TSR Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set
- MegaTraveller
- Top Secret/S.I.
- TSR Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set
- MegaTraveller
- Top Secret/S.I.
I played 6 playtest hall games at GenCon. I bought and read a dozen comics from an Indianapolis comic shop. I ate out at some decent restaurants. This is all OK. Between the crowds and general hassle, my feelings are a little mixed though not bad.
August 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I played 6 playtest hall games at GenCon. I bought and read a dozen comics from an Indianapolis comic shop. I ate out at some decent restaurants. This is all OK. Between the crowds and general hassle, my feelings are a little mixed though not bad.
It's cool to watch the ISS cross the sky. Just went by from the NNW across under Cassiopeia out to the NE here in central Michigan.
July 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
It's cool to watch the ISS cross the sky. Just went by from the NNW across under Cassiopeia out to the NE here in central Michigan.
In a work meeting today, someone mentioned "Moving into the 21st Century", and I realized that it's getting pretty late in the century to finally be moving into it.
June 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In a work meeting today, someone mentioned "Moving into the 21st Century", and I realized that it's getting pretty late in the century to finally be moving into it.
RPGs have made me curious about exoplanets recently. The field is so entertaining and active. It had me looking at RPG planetary system generators and having feelings about them. Not their fault for being published before the last few years though... skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
Exoplanets Archives
Keep up with the latest on exoplanets - from hot Jupiters to super-Earths and Earth-like planets, the hunt for the next pale blue dot continues.
skyandtelescope.org
May 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
RPGs have made me curious about exoplanets recently. The field is so entertaining and active. It had me looking at RPG planetary system generators and having feelings about them. Not their fault for being published before the last few years though... skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
If you have a business, and you think to yourself "I have an active business!" and you have a web site... Maybe consider using the web site to inform potential customers of your products and/or services? Hopefully don't leave up broken forum software and a dead link to Google+
May 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If you have a business, and you think to yourself "I have an active business!" and you have a web site... Maybe consider using the web site to inform potential customers of your products and/or services? Hopefully don't leave up broken forum software and a dead link to Google+
My Mom is apparently doing some spring cleaning around their house. She uncovered some of my old VHS tapes and asked if I wanted them or she could trash them. I have 2/3rds of these on DVD, so it's all good. Sorry Kung Fu Ninja 4-Pack. I loved your name...
April 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My Mom is apparently doing some spring cleaning around their house. She uncovered some of my old VHS tapes and asked if I wanted them or she could trash them. I have 2/3rds of these on DVD, so it's all good. Sorry Kung Fu Ninja 4-Pack. I loved your name...
@geekrampage.bsky.social The people remember. web.archive.org/web/20080413...
March 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
@geekrampage.bsky.social The people remember. web.archive.org/web/20080413...
I can't help but dig a story like this. Last time I personally used a deck was to dub my Mom's childhood home taped cassettes to digital though. apnews.com/article/kash...
Kashmir's Sufi music lovers are sticking with the audio cassette
Shaksaaz, a tailor in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar, inherited his passion for local Sufi music from his grandfather along with a meticulously preserved collection of cassette tapes from the 1970s, wh...
apnews.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I can't help but dig a story like this. Last time I personally used a deck was to dub my Mom's childhood home taped cassettes to digital though. apnews.com/article/kash...
1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
2. Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set (for my Dad)
3. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
4. DC Heroes
5. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game?
6. Mongoose Traveller 2 (2022 Update)
7. DC Heroes
2. Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set (for my Dad)
3. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
4. DC Heroes
5. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game?
6. Mongoose Traveller 2 (2022 Update)
7. DC Heroes
1. First #ttrpg you ever played?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
March 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
2. Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set (for my Dad)
3. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
4. DC Heroes
5. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game?
6. Mongoose Traveller 2 (2022 Update)
7. DC Heroes
2. Marvel Super Heroes Basic Set (for my Dad)
3. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game
4. DC Heroes
5. Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game?
6. Mongoose Traveller 2 (2022 Update)
7. DC Heroes
Yes. OK. Can do.
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March 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Yes. OK. Can do.