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Welcome to Crackerjackalope Games, the official Tumblr for games by CJ Tucker (@crackerjackalope).

Crackerjackalope Games is home to short and sweet games, TTRPGs and game supplements with themes of death, legacy, queerness, and Welshness. Some personal favourites:

Goodbye, World </3 is a two-player game of last words between a dying mech and its pilot. The pilot speaks while the mech can only type, and their messages are running out. This game made multiple of my playtesters cry, so I must have done something right.

DRAGONFALL is a lyric supplement about dead dragons, whalefalls and nuclear radiation warnings. This zine contains six haikus and lists of regional effects for six types of dragon.

Trivia Heroes is a 200 word, setting-neutral RPG where players answer trivia questions to make ability checks. It was made for the 200 word RPG Jam hosted by @prokopetz!

Cheer up this former traffic warden.

A lot of D&D5e defenders on here like to claim that asking someone to learn a new system is "gatekeeping" somehow, but I'd argue that acting like one game is emblematic of the entire medium to the exclusion of people who don't click with that one game is way more meaningfully a form of gatekeeping, even if it's fully unintentional.

Hasbro is fucking lying.

Their game does one very specific thing in an extremely specific way, and are exploiting unpaid game designers to sell the illusion otherwise.

2-YEAR CHEDDAR

from GRAFTON VILLAGE

I usually try to review cheeses virginally - that is, ones that I’ve never had before. In this case, this is a cheddar I’ve had many times before. But I couldn’t leave it off the blog, what with its obvious appeal to leather and rubber fetishists.

As far as cheddars go, Grafton’s 2-year aged isn’t going to shock you. It’s mild, light on the salt, with a slightly sweet and grassy flavour. It’s got a nice texture. It’s dense, more moist than I expected, and smooth.

So what is the deal with the gummi suit on this cheese anyway? Well, cheese has obviously been around a lot longer than fridges. Fresh cheeses like mozzarella are too moist to last very long outside of a cold place (bacteria and fungi do so love damp places), though I don’t think anyone was too mad about eating that stuff quickly. But cheeses that have been aged (and dried) more have some more preservation options, which is where cheese wax comes in. The wax is a physical barrier, stopping fungal spores from landing, and also blocks moisture and air, making the cheese a pretty unfriendly place to grow. Even drier cheeses can be bandaged in cheesecloth and then slathered in lard to preserve them while allowing some ventilation.