That Blog Over There - Psionic Cyclops

 

It's Tuesday once again. So that means it's time for me to point you over towards another blog or site that is worth checking out. The time it's Psionic Cyclops.

Once again this is a very old school style focus of games. But this is also a new blog. With some in depth world building articles, various musing on new zines, play reports. It looks like a blog that is really off to a good start. Hoping the person behind it can keep things going as we need more good blogs like this around. 

See who else I've made a Tuesday Promo post about trying to give them a bit of notice.

Know of another blog or site that you think could use a little promotion? Drop a message and a link in the comment section. Sometimes we can only find out about new places if someone points them out.

Be A Better Player hits DrivethruRPG Copper

 

After nearly eight years one of my products over on DrivethruRPG finally made a medal. Over the weekend somebody bought a copy of "Be A Better Player" that finally put it over the mark. It now has that copper best seller icon hanging on the page. I know this may not seem like a big deal to some folks but to me it is. A level of achievement showing that some of my work has paid off a little bit. 

So hopefully I see another product reach that level at some point in the future. 

Cyberpunk Sunday 12/28/25

 

Why Waymo went down in San Francisco. 

https://www.fastcompany.com/91465377/waymo-san-francisco-outage-robotaxi

Woman suffers AI psychosis after obsessively generating AI images of herself. 

https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-psychosis-startup-images

Grimes says she has AI psychosis, recommends you should get it too.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grimes-ai-psychosis

Home Depot deploys Havana-style sonic weapon against day laborers. 

https://futurism.com/future-society/home-depot-sonic-weapon

Clandestine Societies is on DrivethruRPG

 

Okay so I tried something a bit different with this release. I put it up on my Kofi page first, then I put it on my itch io page a week later. This has resulted in, checks notes, zero sales. So now it's time to put it up on DrivethruRPG and see what happens. 

So head on over there and check out Clandestine Societies Issue Two. It's a small collection of supernatural, horror and occult articles. Mostly system agnostic, but when mechanics are supplied it's done using the WaRP OGL from Atlas Games.  Hey it's only a buck so check it out if you don't mind.

Hopefully I'll have issue three ready to go here in a two to three months. I know I've got plenty of material to dig through to fill it up with. 

Aesop's Treasury

Aesop's Treasury Books and Games. Located in Farmington, Missouri. 

This is my place of employment. While I'm not in the video my boss is. The location they are filming at will no longer be our stores home after January 14th. We'll be moving to a location with better optics for getting seen, larger retail and game areas and just an overall better building to be in.

Boasting the largest selection of new TTRPGs in the state of Missouri. A healthy Warhammer 40k community that is leaning more and more into hosting regional events. Very casual Magic the Gathering crowd. Large selection of new boardgames. And much more.

Vince is the owner and a long time friend. He even officiated my wedding when Katie and I tied the knot. After I mostly recovered from Covid and my stint on a ventilator I found myself unable to return to factory work which I had done for 18 years. Vince needed a new employee to replace one who was leaving on good terms. So he gave me a chance. After three years I'm still there, at the register and helping schedule and run the Magic the Gathering events. We really do try to put the friendly in friendly local game shop.

You can find the store on Facebook.

You can find information on the website as well.

If you're ever in the area just passing through, please stop by and say hello. 

Horror Gaming - Creepy Kids

 

How about a horror six pack just for Christmas? Yes I think that would be absolutely perfect. 

Here are six things that children are doing that is creepy as hell. Perfect for some unnerving events in your games. 

1 – Small child who can barely speaks who points to random people and says “I know when you are going to die.” and then states a specific date.

2 – Draws very different and unique monsters in a rapid scribble fashion. Then tells people these are the things he sees looking around the corners at him.

3 – Singing and dancing in a circle to ‘Ring Around The Rosey’ louder and more angrier every time until the child in the center falls to their knees screaming and bawling their eyes out.

4 – Points to a display of missing children posters and calmly says “I’ll be there one day when people notice I’m gone”.

5 – Runs up and licks random people then smiles and tells them their blood type. Is correct every single time.

6 – Looks at the somebody and frowns deeply. Then says in a deeper then normal voice “You won’t be so pretty when your eyes and mouth are sewn shut”.

Please check out Clandestine Societies Issue One and some of my other products over on my storefront on DrivethruRPG.

Roll A D10 - Cyberpunk Jewelry

 

Fashion accessories will never go away, but they will change. What could we see in the cyberpunk future in this area. Well here's a list of ten possibilities. 

Jewelry you would see.

1 – Custom made titanium dog tags with glowing letters and numbers.

2 – Bracelets made from gold plated motherboards and copper wiring. Sort of a circuitry filigree.

3 – Earrings that are also micro drives for quick data storage that people won’t notice.

4 – Lockets that only open with the proper person places their thumb on the lid.

5 – Clear tube wearables that glow and have multicolored liquid flowing through them.

6 – Metal rings that are able to expand or shrink slightly to fit different sized fingers.

7 – Pendants and earrings that display holographic corporate logos.

8 – Veils made of microthin webbing that distorts a persons features on security cameras.

9 – Mood Choker, normally a centimeter wide and black but changes color based off the wearers mood.

10 – Lips rings that cast a light into the wearers mouth making it light up when they speak.

Find my material for sale over on DrivethruRPG under the Truly Rural Productions name!