A lot of what I do with various team mates on these various projects, in this case Mustafa Bekir on a background for Goblin Mode is back & forths & discussing how certain things should be when they are still in the loose form & haven’t been locked down! The progress on these boxes is going smoothly! I’m stoked...
2024-08-23 12:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
A look at the initial go around concept for the factions mechanic for the Battle for Brüttelburg! A new snappier title is coming with the Battle for Brüttelburg being a sideline.
2024-08-23 11:40:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost six years ago I had a stroke. Being hospitalized for three months was life changing. Having the stroke brought me down to zero, I died, was resuscitated, had most of my bodily systems fail & be supported by machines & then things slowly got better. LIving in a hospital gave me a lot of time to think. I didn’t...
2024-08-22 17:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Role-Playing Games have been an integral part of my life ever since before I could actually read. I played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in my older friend's living room. Not even the big Godzilla Shogun Warrior toy with flicking tongue & shooting fist he had could distract me from the mystery of this imagination game. ...
2024-08-21 18:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The latest batch of GOBLINKO stickers! We're getting a bunch of new designs made so that we just have more stickers!
2024-08-20 22:27:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We watched the 1995 film La Haine (Hate) last night. La Haine follows a group of disaffected Parisian youths of various racial outsider statuses around on a day when they’re just screwing around & figuring out how to survive in the margins. They’re not doing well, they are totally agitated. It has a feeling similar to...
2024-08-20 17:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post
A little sneak peek at the current model of the Moon map for Moon Madness!
2024-08-20 11:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a visceral attraction to sausages. There are many reasons why I love them. They all look similar but can taste wildly different, they sweat when they cook, they snap when you bite into them, every culture on Earth has sausages & everyone loves them. Something about the iconic representation of the sausage got to me...
2024-08-19 17:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone asked me about influences a few days ago & I got to thinking about all of the things that go into making my flavor. When I was young & hadn’t put in my time these influences were more to the fore & less subtle. There were just also dramatically less things influencing my output. I always think of my styl...
2024-08-18 17:27:42 +0000 UTC View Post
These guys are by Mustafa Bekir! It’s fun to expand on the Schläger.
2024-08-17 23:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I saw this meme this morning that really ticked me off. It showed an innocent Hello Kitty labeled “my dreams” picking flowers, being menaced by a bigger guy who looks suspiciously like Robin Hood labeled “capitalism” with a knife. This juxtaposition of images was wrong in general given that Hello Kitty is a crea...
2024-08-17 00:51:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As a sort of last gasp of my childhood I got really into collecting Norfin Trolls. I was nine & still buying GI Joe figures but Garbage Pail Kids, MAD magazine, Monty Python & the Dr. Demento show had cracked open my world & pointed out that everything was worthy of ridicule. Somehow I mustered up the innocence to...
2024-08-17 00:45:25 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s currently 48 DUNGEON DEGENERATES characters! THE EXPANSIONING (ending today at 5 pm pacific) adds 12 more! We’re not slowing down! Pic by Buddy Love.
2024-08-16 12:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one of my favorite records, I feel like Focus invented the style that Camel ran with, but Focus only released two albums in this style. Plus a few songs on their debut record, but this & Moving Waves are the standouts. I wish the thing that created these bands was still in the water.
2024-08-15 23:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the fiftieth Goblin Newsletter! It has been good to write this much, I haven’t written like this for a long time, decades. I used to write like this, more personally, more off the cuff, more frequently, all the time, when I was young. I’d write to process & express my existence, & now I do this again. It f...
2024-08-15 23:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The Moon Madness box is going to introduce a new mechanic! You’re seeing it here first!
2024-08-15 01:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been thinking alot about character & eccentricity & just being an interesting person versus the bland syrup of moral conformity that people want to pour over everything. There is a switch that needs to be made, people should view themselves & others as individuals who they don;t get to interfere with. Moral...
2024-08-13 00:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Some DUNGEON DEGENERATES miniatures painted up by super-fan Larve! It’s so cool to see these characters in people’s lives in so many forms, makes me proud. We’re currently running THE EXPANSIONING Kickstarter & will run an all miniatures kickstarter in the fall - stay tuned!
2024-08-12 12:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Showing the expanded Wurstreich made me want to flesh out the map more, to correspond with ideas I already had. Lots of DUNGEON DEGENERATES stuff cooking, an RPG, a Skirmish Game, a Battling Cards game & a Collectible Card Series.
2024-08-11 18:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization.
- L. Frank Baum
One of my biggest influences is L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz book series. They are a fantastic delving into an American fantasy conjured straight out of the Belle Époque, complete with that sort of roman...
2024-08-11 17:06:44 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my favorite song this weekend, I loved it when it came out but only figured out the title & who it’s by on Friday.
2024-08-11 12:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m getting some graphics together for the next Rulesmonger Writes update for The EXPANSIONING Kickstarter. I’m going to pull together a Goblin adventurer as well, he’s not done yet.
2024-08-11 02:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
- James Garfield
One of the great things about being at Ground Zero is that I can bring attention to primal things that need to be focused on. For those of us that didn’t grow up at Ground Zero it seems overly basic & bor...
2024-08-09 18:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post
So much appears to be seen in 360 degrees of 3 dimensions with the advent of social media & the insane level of surveillance but being able to think, really think about things from a different angle seems far less prevalent to me. Even when it was a rarity before. True alternative thought that isn’t just aping someone e...
2024-08-09 17:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my favorite artists is the Czech film-maker Jan Svanjkmajer. He captures a visceral disgust & love for material reality that really brings out a specific, contradictory way of viewing the world. He transfers the ordinary disgust we feel towards things like snails, to common everyday things like eating, sex, animals...
2024-08-09 00:14:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m working with Mustafa Bekir & Alex Hagen to art direct the new pieces for the new DUNGEON DEGENERATES expansion boxes (kickstarter live now) & it’s going great. Here are Mustafa’s takes on pieces I did back in 1996!
2024-08-08 19:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I just had a big shift in my view of managerial culture. Managerial culture is a company's leadership practice that defines & maintains its work culture. It's made up of the values, norms, practices & behaviors that leaders embrace & it shapes many aspects of the company, including decision-making, employee manage...
2024-08-07 16:11:18 +0000 UTC View Post
