Dandyman
@throneofsalt.bsky.social
Blog-writer. Book-reader. Dice-roller. He/him.
Moloch must be dethroned.
UNICORN MEAT available via Exalted Funeral, Itch, and DTRPG!
Moloch must be dethroned.
UNICORN MEAT available via Exalted Funeral, Itch, and DTRPG!
God damn it Mozilla, now I need to find a new browser.
December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
God damn it Mozilla, now I need to find a new browser.
After over a year, I finally have the sound changes for my indo-european conlang where I want them.
I have also managed to bumble my way into a system where every declension, and potentially most individual words, are extremely irregular. It's a nightmare.
I have also managed to bumble my way into a system where every declension, and potentially most individual words, are extremely irregular. It's a nightmare.
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
After over a year, I finally have the sound changes for my indo-european conlang where I want them.
I have also managed to bumble my way into a system where every declension, and potentially most individual words, are extremely irregular. It's a nightmare.
I have also managed to bumble my way into a system where every declension, and potentially most individual words, are extremely irregular. It's a nightmare.
One of my favorite bits of modern slang is "cooking / cooked". it's very fun grammatically, because the connotation is according to aspect rather than tense.
"Is cooking / was cooking" = good
"is cooked / was cooked" = bad
Folks took "toast" and added some more layers to it, and that's neat
"Is cooking / was cooking" = good
"is cooked / was cooked" = bad
Folks took "toast" and added some more layers to it, and that's neat
December 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
One of my favorite bits of modern slang is "cooking / cooked". it's very fun grammatically, because the connotation is according to aspect rather than tense.
"Is cooking / was cooking" = good
"is cooked / was cooked" = bad
Folks took "toast" and added some more layers to it, and that's neat
"Is cooking / was cooking" = good
"is cooked / was cooked" = bad
Folks took "toast" and added some more layers to it, and that's neat
Well on the plus side, 2152 days is a really solid streak for not getting covid
December 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Well on the plus side, 2152 days is a really solid streak for not getting covid
I am currently down with the sickness (ow-wah-ah-ah-ah [hacking cough]), so here's a slushpile roundup of yet more wikipedia links from my notes
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Wikipedia Links Slushpile 2
Slushpile index Second verse, same as the first ; these are all links I saved for myself in my general notes doc. 1. Irish Bell Shrines Re...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am currently down with the sickness (ow-wah-ah-ah-ah [hacking cough]), so here's a slushpile roundup of yet more wikipedia links from my notes
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I do not like this time of year one bit, but I do like binge-listening Esoterica. Lose some, win some (occult knowledge)
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I do not like this time of year one bit, but I do like binge-listening Esoterica. Lose some, win some (occult knowledge)
Do you want to get reasonably mad about copyright law with me?
P. Scott Hollander wrote a detail almanac / gazetteer to Hell in 1974. The kind where there's a section on the history of its flag. It's pandering directly to me.
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P. Scott Hollander wrote a detail almanac / gazetteer to Hell in 1974. The kind where there's a section on the history of its flag. It's pandering directly to me.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Do you want to get reasonably mad about copyright law with me?
P. Scott Hollander wrote a detail almanac / gazetteer to Hell in 1974. The kind where there's a section on the history of its flag. It's pandering directly to me.
1/
P. Scott Hollander wrote a detail almanac / gazetteer to Hell in 1974. The kind where there's a section on the history of its flag. It's pandering directly to me.
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Extremely cool thing I just learned and need to tell everyone about:
Quilombo dos Palmares was an independent country founded by escaped slaves in the Brazilian backcountry, and it resisted the Portuguese for a century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmare...
Quilombo dos Palmares was an independent country founded by escaped slaves in the Brazilian backcountry, and it resisted the Portuguese for a century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmare...
Palmares (quilombo) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Extremely cool thing I just learned and need to tell everyone about:
Quilombo dos Palmares was an independent country founded by escaped slaves in the Brazilian backcountry, and it resisted the Portuguese for a century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmare...
Quilombo dos Palmares was an independent country founded by escaped slaves in the Brazilian backcountry, and it resisted the Portuguese for a century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmare...
New post, more mythos shit. I swear this year of Lovecraft was unintentional. The muse is weird.
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What do people know about the Mythos?
I don't buy into the premise of a masquerade between the mundane and supernatural. False dichotomy, Enlightenment hubris, strains disbelief,...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
New post, more mythos shit. I swear this year of Lovecraft was unintentional. The muse is weird.
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throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/12/what...
Haven't had much to report re: Leslie Stone project, as progress has petered off of late. With most of the shorter works taken care of in the first pass, the longer ones remain, and I would be lying if I said that it wasn't a tedious process.
Still: i have found it a good balm for anxiety.
Still: i have found it a good balm for anxiety.
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Haven't had much to report re: Leslie Stone project, as progress has petered off of late. With most of the shorter works taken care of in the first pass, the longer ones remain, and I would be lying if I said that it wasn't a tedious process.
Still: i have found it a good balm for anxiety.
Still: i have found it a good balm for anxiety.
Some days, the brain is busted.
Then some days it says "Hey, remember how the Tartakovsky Clone Wars kicked unreasaonable amounts of ass?" and I answer "yes, brain, correct, thank you for reminding me"
Then some days it says "Hey, remember how the Tartakovsky Clone Wars kicked unreasaonable amounts of ass?" and I answer "yes, brain, correct, thank you for reminding me"
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some days, the brain is busted.
Then some days it says "Hey, remember how the Tartakovsky Clone Wars kicked unreasaonable amounts of ass?" and I answer "yes, brain, correct, thank you for reminding me"
Then some days it says "Hey, remember how the Tartakovsky Clone Wars kicked unreasaonable amounts of ass?" and I answer "yes, brain, correct, thank you for reminding me"
Got installment 9 of my video game micro-review series.
Somehow, there are even more bangers
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/dan-...
Somehow, there are even more bangers
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Dan Plays Games 9
In the last installment, Arnold suggested writing some bits of gameable material at the end, and I think that's a pretty good idea. Only got...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Got installment 9 of my video game micro-review series.
Somehow, there are even more bangers
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/dan-...
Somehow, there are even more bangers
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/dan-...
Further Asbury Pines notes:
I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!
I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Further Asbury Pines notes:
I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!
I love the story and the writing and the way it's all doled out, but man, idle games were invented to torture ADHD people. Too much happening on screen! No pause button! I just got like 6 updates let me read them!
Grabbed Asbury Pines on a whim, because the idea of a Twin-Peaks style narrative idle game intrigues me
The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.
The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Grabbed Asbury Pines on a whim, because the idea of a Twin-Peaks style narrative idle game intrigues me
The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.
The second thing you unlock on the Civ style tech tree for religion is "Giant Sloth Deity", and I am sold. All hail the sloth.
Love how I can just tell someone "ADHD hamstrings my memory and chronic stress has made it infinitely worse" and their response is "But what about //more// stress, have you considered that?"
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Love how I can just tell someone "ADHD hamstrings my memory and chronic stress has made it infinitely worse" and their response is "But what about //more// stress, have you considered that?"
Wanted to write something quick and easy, so I cooked up another one of my "line-by-line dissections of monster write-ups in big-name RPGs" posts. This time it's the Gnoph-keh, because Call of Cthulhu is the gift that keeps on giving in this department.
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Monster Dissection: Gnoph-keh
I recently re-read my old dissection of the Yugg and thought “you know, it’s been a while since I’ve roasted a bad bestiary entry”. So let’...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Wanted to write something quick and easy, so I cooked up another one of my "line-by-line dissections of monster write-ups in big-name RPGs" posts. This time it's the Gnoph-keh, because Call of Cthulhu is the gift that keeps on giving in this department.
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/mons...
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/11/mons...
Hell is Us has one of the best dungeons I have ever seen in a video game. Huge amount of design stuff you can and should swipe for tabletop.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hell is Us has one of the best dungeons I have ever seen in a video game. Huge amount of design stuff you can and should swipe for tabletop.
Welp, i just discovered Kaimere, that's going to be a nice hyperfixation for a while. Extremely inspirational
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welp, i just discovered Kaimere, that's going to be a nice hyperfixation for a while. Extremely inspirational
Me, earlier today: "Oh this linguistic paper looks neat"
Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented
Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Me, earlier today: "Oh this linguistic paper looks neat"
Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented
Me, just now: Either I am going insane, the author messed up the terminology in their own MA thesis, or retrocausal linguistics just got invented
Honestly amazed that no one has made a SCP-ish management sim TTRPG yet. Like we've already got Delta Green at home, let us play as the bureaucrats who have to wrangle the yearly budget allotment for containing the nuclear fusion mangos or whatever
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Honestly amazed that no one has made a SCP-ish management sim TTRPG yet. Like we've already got Delta Green at home, let us play as the bureaucrats who have to wrangle the yearly budget allotment for containing the nuclear fusion mangos or whatever
My run of stumbling across banger video games continues: Hell is Us is "what if Death Stranding was an exploration/puzzle-first Soulslike based on the Bosnian War"
3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.
3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My run of stumbling across banger video games continues: Hell is Us is "what if Death Stranding was an exploration/puzzle-first Soulslike based on the Bosnian War"
3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.
3 hours in I've just hit the title sequence and opening credits and I am all-in. This shit is like catnip for me.
Yo y'all need to check this out. Easily some of Rowan's best work. This book is laid out the way Chainsaw Man feels to watch.
The jig is up! CAIN: Glory Unto Them, the homebrew expansion for CAIN that I've been working on the last few months is finally out! Expect some posts looking back on its progress soon!
extremely standout and cool CAIN homebrew release bottomless-sarcophagus.itch.io/glory-unto-t...
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Yo y'all need to check this out. Easily some of Rowan's best work. This book is laid out the way Chainsaw Man feels to watch.
Secret of Weepstone straight up just flips open a fake TSR dungeon module when you want to look at the map.
@talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one
@talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one
November 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Secret of Weepstone straight up just flips open a fake TSR dungeon module when you want to look at the map.
@talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one
@talesworth.bsky.social is absolutely cooking with this one
In the spirit of the season, I spruced up one of the Mythos monsters that always felt a lacking to me.
Have some polyps: they fly!
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Have some polyps: they fly!
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The Polyps
Khannea Sun Szu Agent Gilliland bursts from the treeline in a shower of broken twigs, a slick silver canister tucked under her arm like ...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In the spirit of the season, I spruced up one of the Mythos monsters that always felt a lacking to me.
Have some polyps: they fly!
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Have some polyps: they fly!
throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Decktamer has the best monster designs I've seen in a hot minute but needs one hell of rebalance patch
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Decktamer has the best monster designs I've seen in a hot minute but needs one hell of rebalance patch