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nukehavoc

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IT wrangler, #GeekParent, #gamer, #OutdoorGeek, lapsed #programmer, and freelance #writer. Publisher of Nuketown. Co-host of the Lair of Secrets podcast. Columnist for Knights of the Dinner Table.

I'm interested in #RPGs #BoardGames #Podcasting #BulletJournals #SavageWorlds #DnD #CyberpunkRED #FATE #Mothership #FalloutRPG and a shelf full of other games that I'll definitely play one of these days.

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nukehavoc, to DnD
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Being able to use the iPad Pro as a second screen comes in super handy when I'm DMing on the road with #Roll20. #DnD #TTRPG #VTT

nukehavoc, to random
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Paging my way through my various #TomeOfBeasts #MonsterBooks by Kobold Press.

There are many weird, wonderful, and deadly monsters in these books.

ipr, to random
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New!

Making a Tabletop RPG for YOUR Particular Kid is a guide for families, friends, and facilitators to make RPGs with and for your kids or class.

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Making-a-Tabletop-RPG-for-YOUR-Particular-Kid-Print-PDF.html

nukehavoc,
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@ipr Oh - this looks cool! I've had a blast playing RPGs with my kids when they were younger (I still play with my 17 year old and his friends every summer).

nukehavoc, to DnD
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Spending a not-so-lazy afternoon working on my #ElementalApocalypse campaign for #DnD. The Heroes of Hope are battling their way through corrupt Hool Wastes, fighting demons, undead, and worse.

Naturally, I need to find a few more enemies for them to fight. Good thing I brought a few books... #Greyhawk #DnD5e #TTRPG

nukehavoc, to random
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Working on my summer reading list for Nuketown and @lairofsecrets.

nukehavoc, to random
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First four-mile road run of the summer, and wow, did it kick my butt. But that's what you get when you start the run with a 2-mile down hill stretch, and end it with a 2-mile uphill stretch.

GryphonSK, to DoctorWho
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nukehavoc,
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@GryphonSK Those do tend to be my favorite episodes of #DrWho.

nukehavoc, to random
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Experimenting with using to create a custom black dragon for my .

Morsinth - the Creeping Death - is is an adult black dragon ... and with the shadow dragon template and the spell-casting variant.

I may beef up the spellcasting; I find those rules to be underwhelming in 5e.

nukehavoc,
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I just won DriveThruRPG bingo as I went to purchase Dragons! Vol 1: Chromatic Dragons ...and found I already own it!

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/175298/Dragons-Volume-1--Chromatic-Dragons

nukehavoc,
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The great thing about Dragons! is that it has incremental ages for your draconic villains, so re-introducing Very Young, Juvenile, Young Adult, Old, Wyrm, and Great Wyrm.

I like having the gradations of dragons, because jumping straight from "Young" to "Adult" is a great way to get a Total Party Kill.

And really, I'd like them to sweat things a bit before meeting their doom.

nukehavoc,
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I hadn't realized that when you customize monsters in , you can edit the underlying markup for special abilities.

This allows your custom monster's attributes to still be rollable, which in turn means we can send them to Roll20 via the Beyond20 extension for Firefox and Chrome:

https://beyond20.here-for-more.info/

nukehavoc,
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I now know there is a "Proficiency bonus by Challenge Rating" chart in https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Monsters#content

nukehavoc, to random
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Closing out my BBEdit open files. Got to "untitled text 283".

This is not a good thing.

lairofsecrets, to Horror
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Finally ...

Our unboxing of the sci-fi horror RPG's deluxe edition is up on YouTube, and yes, it was worth the wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EL5-S2HMCM

nukehavoc,
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@lairofsecrets Unboxing this game was like unboxing a new Mac. A lot of thought went into the design of the box itself (this is not something you simply throw away after you open it).

And the game books themselves are excellent. After a year of working with the PDFs, it's awesome to finally have these books in hand. And after restraining myself from reading the mission PDFs, I'm excited to tear into the paper versions.

nukehavoc, to random
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I declare this , in which I attempt to complete tasks/projects that are 95% complete, but need that final push to get done.

nukehavoc,
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It's the Friday before a long weekend, and all of my remaining meetings are canceled.

Reducing the mental static of lingering tasks feels like an excellent use of found time, especially given how my brain works.

nukehavoc,
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First up: Complete the documentation for our web usability testing proposal to the college's Institutional Review Board.

nukehavoc,
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IRB proposal submitted!

Runbooks for critical communications project ... completed!

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Ok, what else around here is mostly done?

nukehavoc,
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Ok ... tech specs written for an RFP.

Moving on...

lairofsecrets, to books
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Summer is almost here, and so are our

Got suggestions for what we should read? Let us know!

nukehavoc,
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@lairofsecrets Let's get this book beach party started!

First up: Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813595835

Hat tip to @mackensen

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@lairofsecrets

In Our Stars (The Doomed Earth, Book 1) is Jack Campbell's new series, separate from his Lost Fleet novels (which are a staple of my summer reading list). #SciFi

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736723/in-our-stars-by-jack-campbell/

lairofsecrets, to fallout
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Ever since watching on Amazon Prime, we've had "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" by Sheldon Allman stuck in our collective heads.

And if you didn't before ... it's stuck there now.

You're welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XPzICHxXoQ

nukehavoc,
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@lairofsecrets Ok. It's not we, it's me.

And this song may have been the reason why I started playing again.

nukehavoc, to random
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You know it was a good hike when you're still feeling it two days later.

lairofsecrets, to fallout
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Gore and Lore in Fallout – Campaigns & Coffee

#Fallout - the post-apocalyptic game set in an alternate, atomic-powered reality - kicks off our new Campaigns & Coffee short-format podcast. With the sound of laughter echoing through the vast caverns of the Lair, hosts Ken, David, and Josh talk about the new #Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime, the video games that inspired it, and the session zero for our upcoming #Fallout2d20 actual play.

https://lairofsecrets.com/podcast/gore-and-lore-in-fallout-campaigns-coffee/

nukehavoc,
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@lairofsecrets It is such a relief to get Season 4 out there.

Life's been challenging for the crew over the last few months. I'm supremely grateful that we're still able to get together to chat, laugh, sling some dice, and geekout about things like

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