Strange New Worlds, S4E03
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J. Alan Henning
@jalanhenning@dice.camp
mastodon 4.7.3GM, blogger, game designer. Designer of *Planet of the Week*. Author of the book *Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs*. Editor of *Uncommon World*. They/them. Fan of: #boardgames #conlang #PbtA #TTRPG #StarTrek.
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My 31st post for Blaugust. We now resume our regular programming (one post a week). https://troypress.com/blaugust-2026-recap/ #Blaugust
Given the ZX81 anniversary, I'll re-up my least popular blog post from last year, Sinclair 4K BASIC for the ZX80: https://troypress.com/sinclair-4k-basic-for-the-zx80/ #ZX81 #ZX80 #retrocomputing #BASIC
New post, in which I spend far too much time on prepping some gibberish for an adventure, just because I enjoy it! Faux Conlangs for Roleplaying, https://troypress.com/faux-conlangs-for-roleplaying/ #conlang #TTRPG
Writer: It's Stranger Things, but instead of teenagers the heroes are retirees.
Agent: Look, I've asked you to stop calling me... wait...
Rulebook page count, by @ludovic: https://ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2026/05/24/page-inflation-in-ttrpg-rulebooks/ #TTRPG
I was downtown and decided I wanted to go to a florist.
The storefront for the first one that Apple Maps sent me to was long gone; apparently now they only do deliveries.
The second one was actually just someone's house. Again, apparently they only do deliveries.
The third one was a storage bay in an industrial park. Guess they only do deliveries.
"Big money campaigns do tend to have high end tiers that are substantially more expensive than the entry level pledge tiers – and those high priced tiers are often very important for the funding success of these campaigns." https://patchworkpaladin.com/2026/05/18/kickstarter-whales-guest-post/ #TTRPG #Kickstarter
In Stars & Wishes, my players had asked for an action-adventure session. Come the actual session: they ran away from threat #1, then choose the safest option from a range of options, then avoided threat #2. At each stage, they choose the most boring option!
Fortunately, thanks to the dice, things then went spectacularly wrong, and we had accidents, attacks, injuries, and failures galore. #TTRPG
New post— Ticket to Ride: City Editions, https://troypress.com/ticket-to-ride-city-editions/ #TicketToRide #Boardgames
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@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud But he pays $9,000 a month for the goat, so it must be a hell of a goat….
The Real Reason for Paramount Dismantling Star Trek's 9-Year Streaming Run Isn't What You Think, https://www.cbr.com/paramount-dismantling-star-trek-9-year-streaming-run-real-reason/ #StarTrek #StarTrekAcademy
My recap and review of participating in a Shadowdark one-shot set in Dolmenwood: https://troypress.com/pipes-on-droomen-knoll-shadowdark-one-shot/ #TTRPG #Shadowdark #Dolmenwood
