When you save the red wine sauce from the beef tenderloin Christmas dinner you don’t waste it. You add some cornstarch to it and use it as the sauce for your smothered pork chops with mashed potatoes and cauliflower.

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Before the #Dungeon23 here’s a surface map of the destroyed city of Galmagia; the canal on its Eastern border, the 5 sites of interest (4 of which are possible entrances to the dungeon) and the enticing but picked over central ruins.

Each numbered area here has a corresponding 4-10 room cluster under it, with longer tunnels connecting each cluster as indicated. Those clusters are themed to the parts of the city above them W28 is under the customs house, and has the easiest entrance.

#TTRPG

The kiddo got this for Christmas from Santa and of course my first thought is “oooh! A new randomizer! Time for new game mechanics!”

#ttrpg

Christmas dinner for the parents: pepper crusted beef tenderloin, garlic thyme red potatoes, broccoli sautéed in rosemary olive oil, and a red wine orange sauce.

The kiddo said it felt very Victorian. Consensus was 10/10, no notes.

For my fellow #Dungeon23 folks who can’t get one of the graph paper weekly planners, this was at Staples for $21. Full week on left, blank linked page on left. 50 lined pages for notes at year end.

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OK, lets try the #GTKM #TTRPG

1: First store I bought a TTRPG: probably Amatos toy and hobby in Middletown, CT, somewhere in the early 80’s. Its still in business? https://www.amatosmiddletown.com/

Tonight’s cooking experiment: Cooks Illustrated’s Chicken Saltimbocca, with spiced fingerling potatoes and sautéed broccoli.

This worked really well. CI comes through again.