by Rachel Carpenter

Yep, I'm still wading through updates, but I'll get there. I can't look at screens all day and trying to up my social media game across Twitter/BlueSky/Instagram/Threads is also proving time and screen time intensive.

That said, this image from Lost Cities

convinced me to reconsider some advice from a friendly squirrel in my endeavor to get Abydos onto The Game Crafter some time this year... And after some graphic re-design, printing, and cutting; I've got a better idea of what borders might look like with Abydos:

Okay, the borders aren't that bad... note that this is with extending the artwork to just past the "safe" line on Game Crafter's template. Thoughts on the new look? Should I risk it and extend the art further? Maybe to about halfway between the "safe" line and the "cut" line? Again, any/all thoughts greatly appreciated :geek_grin:.

Happy Sunday and happy playing!
-Rachel

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An item RPG Item: The Return of the Prodigal Son has been added to the geeklist 2026 Annual Geek Review Challenge

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Cuts for the week of April 19 - 25

April 19

1721

- Statesman Roger Sherman, a signer of the U.S. Constitution [microbadge=15968]

1903

- 'Untouchables' leader Eliot Ness [microbadge=6940]

1927

- Mae West sentenced to 10 days for "corrupting the morals of youth"; West opted for jail over fine [microbadge=8420]

1935

- English actor Dudley Moore [microbadge=20880]

1968

- American actress Ashley Judd [microbadge=1346]

1995

- Oklahoma City Bombing by domestic terrorist, 168 killed & 500 injured [microbadge=1179]

April 20

1808

- French Emperor Napoleon III [microbadge=19784]

1889

- I like to call him the little scumbag: Adolf Hitler [microbadge=10206]

1893

- Spanish surrealist painter Joan Miró [microbadge=4857]

1979

- President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat [microbadge=10669]

1999

- Columbine [microbadge=33030]

2010

- Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico [microbadge=36105]

April 21

1782

- German educator Friedrich Froebel [microbadge=36716]

1830

- English inventor James Starley [microbadge=17202]

1836

- Battle of San Jacinto [microbadge=34877]

1838

- Scottish naturalist John Muir [microbadge=35744]

1926

- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II [microbadge=15712]

1947

- Detroit Rocker Iggy Pop [microbadge=6370]

1959

- The Cure founder/frontman Robert Smith [microbadge=3039]

April 22

1922

- Jazz bass player Charles Mingus [microbadge=1982]

1923

- American 'Queen of the Pinups' Bettie Page [microbadge=7718]

April 23

1791

- James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States [microbadge=3112]

1858

- German physicist Max Planck 'Father of Quantum Physics' [microbadge=35633]

1891

- Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev [microbadge=5883]

1936

- American rock musician Roy Orbison [microbadge=34369]

1989

- Wine merchant William Sokolin breaks a bottle of 1787 Château Margaux, possibly belonging to Thomas Jefferson, worth $500,000 at the Four Seasons in New York [microbadge=32302]

April 24

1905

- U.S. poet laureate/author Robert Penn Warren [microbadge=9592]

1916

- Easter Rising against British occupation begins in Dublin [microbadge=45157]

1934

- American actress Shirley MacLaine [microbadge=32559]

1942

- American singer/actress/director Barbra Streisand [microbadge=22990][microbadge=5982]

April 25

1599

- Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England [microbadge=9535]

1874

- Guglielmo Marconi (Inventor of the radio telegraph ) [microbadge=9942]

1918

- American jazz/blues singer Ella Fitzgerald [microbadge=45509]

1950

- Chuck Cooper is the first African-American drafted into the NBA [microbadge=40358]

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April 19

1775

- 'Shot Heard Round the World' American Revolution begins In Lexington, MA [microbadge=15177]

1836

- American music patron Augustus Juilliard [microbadge=101]

1946

- English actor Tim Curry [microbadge=23515][microbadge=19043]

2007

- Wizards of the Coast announces the end of Dragon & Dungeon as print Magazines [microbadge=10256][microbadge=10260]

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- PghArch

April 20

1893

- Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd [microbadge=18929]

1937

- American actor George Takei [microbadge=35034]

1939

- American author Peter S. Beagle [microbadge=23369]

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- TheEbonyTurtle

April 21

 753 b.C.

- Romulus & Remus found Rome (trad) [microbadge=17236]

1816

- English author Charlotte Brontë [microbadge=34736]

1918

- WWI Ace (80 victories) Baron Von Richthofen "The Red Baron" is shot down & killed over France [microbadge=9733]

1958

- American actress Andie MacDowell [microbadge=41277][microbadge=41276]

1975

- Erik Mona [microbadge=13978]

1986

- Before a live TV audience of 30 million, Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault to discover....nothing! [microbadge=13962]

1989

- 100,000 students march into Tiananmen Square joining others already there in protest [microbadge=3014]

April 22

1451

- Spanish Queen Isabella I, who funded the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World [microbadge=20240]

1724

- German philosopher Immanuel Kant [microbadge=1928]

1870

- Russian Marxist Vladimir Lenin [microbadge=11530]

1904

- American scientist Robert Oppenheimer [microbadge=27017]

1937

- American actor Jack Nicholson [microbadge=11814]

April 23

1516

- Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses "The German Beer Purity Law" (3 ingredients only: water, malt & hops) [microbadge=16758]

1564

- English playwright William Shakespeare (trad) [microbadge=1335]

1940

- American actor Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fall Guy) [microbadge=40416]

2009

- Gamma ray burst (GRB) 090423 is observed for 10 seconds, the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe [microbadge=10508]

April 24

1184 b.C.

- Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (trad) [microbadge=9007]

1974

- American actress Alyson Hannigan [microbadge=7794]

April 25

1940

- American actor Al Pacino [microbadge=43793]

1960

- US Submarine Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth in 60 days, 21 hours [microbadge=8868]

1964

- American actor/comedian Hank Azaria [microbadge=5086]

1969

- American actress Renee Zellweger [microbadge=9407]

1990

- Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery [microbadge=7765]

I'm sure this list can be improved. Feel free to offer suggestions for this and upcoming weeks. If you want your birthday included just add it to this geeklist: RPG Geek Birthday List

by stenole

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Tabletop RPGs are great. I used to play D&D 3 (and 3.5), ending up as the perpetual DM after a while. Besides the greyhawk pantheon, we mostly homebrewed everything. My worlds consisted mostly of a tiered hierarchy of evil characters who the players would fight or momentarily serve. And if the players wanted to endlessly create their own side quests, they could do that too. I also ran some Call of Cthulhu and a fully homebrew diceless crime RPG, which were both very different. I've tried to get back into TTRPGs in some capacity, but we're always a person short to get things kicked off.

by jkrozel

Great List! Thoughtful flavor in each justification...I've seen so many lazy lists lately that are simply lists of games with no commentary. Worth a read, and thanks for the effort.

by zolmikthiat

An item GeekList: Quick spring cleaning auction, ends April 25th -- some hard-to-find games! Low SBs, no BINs has been added to the geeklist 1 Player Guild Trading Post

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Added Leaving Earth

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Happy Birthday, Brian!