Dylan Baird (BardicGeek)

@bairdlytrying.games

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If I do nothing else, I'd like to raise other voices higher than my own. No AI.

Picture of me, my glasses, my ear protection when mowing my acre with a tractor that has a trim mower attachment on the back, and in the back is my Father In Law's truck and said tractor.
The cover of the tabletop book Karthun Lands of Conflict, A 5e compatible wildly cool sourcebook with a ton of elemental inspiration.
A picture of the cover of the tabletop book "Unnatural Horrors, An expanded tome of terrors and madness to unleash on your table." The cover features a cloaked figure wielding a torch or glowing weapon against a smokey giant creature with many teeth rising from the dark.
A screen from my Crunchyroll wrapped saying I make up 8% of fans who love all things Fantasy and Osekai. That has a picture of a cute raccoon like critter on it.
A light brown fall scone with white icing and spices dusted over it on a black ceramic plate, cut with a cheese knife next to a blue mug of light roast coffee with cream.
A long sword (38" total) and short sword (27" total) made for LARP (Live action role play) and cosplay. They are made using two half inch resin cores taped together, blue camping foam, dark gray fabric covers sewed by hand, lighter gray hockey tape around the knucle guard and pommel, and black tennis grips.
A picture of the Critereon collection double pack of the films Yojimbo and Sanjuro by Akira Kurosawa.
A flier that reads: I will be at FOMOcon 2025: a virtual ttrpg convention running August 1-3 Fomocon2025.carrd.co It has the discord logo on the right, and a bunch of red shiny 6-sided dice on the bottom.
A screen shot of a caramel cold brew m&ms bag, 9.05 oz. It suggests it is the sharing size. I have eaten entire bags solo, proving that one need not share it.
Checkers on a board that appears to have discarded swords, crossbows, skulls, and axes on it, with cube checker pieces that also have skulls, swords, wizard hats, etc in green and red. There is a Crown face for if you "king" the checkers piece.
This is a temporary logo for my tabletop game "That Time I Got Reincarnated" A Tabletop game inspired by an anime genre and japanese roleplaying games. It has a truck, which appears to be smiling, about to hit a walking person, a common theme in Isekai anime, and a caution explosion triangle symbol above the person. The letters "tTIGR" are on the top and "TTJRPG" on the bottom.
A chat chain between someone asking me to advertise for an AI powered virtual table top and my snarky but at least a little polite decline.
Hard cover of the TTRPG book Karthun: Lands of Conflict, which is a setting that can be used in D&D and other settings with a ton of customization and world building.
Jurassic fued is a board game using two neoprene mats with grass, dirt, and rocks on them, a small castle-like structure made of rectangular blocks for each player, which has 5 miniature figures on them and a red t-red with a catapault on its back to fire rubber balls with. You shoot the little rubber balls at each other's castle trying to knock down the mini people standing on it.
Four cards, three dinosaur fantasy characters and 1 item equipped to one. Meatball the Fighter, Gabu the Rogue, with sir Stitches, their teddy bear, and Juicebox the healer. All with dice on them to mark damage. Cute and cartoony art styles for the dinos.
Slightly fuzzy selfie of me at Pax East Convention. Green boston scally cap, glasses, face mask, red and gray megaman jacket featuring Proto Man.
A screenshot of Samsung Health that has 2.21 miles of roller skating logged, and 16,894 steps taken (~7 miles). With 179 minutes of activity for the day, and 1,302 calories burned total. For context, I have not regularly exercised in years, so this was over the top.
This is a tiktok video of me, Dylan, a bald bearded white guy with glasses, talking about my new tabletop game I am writing in front of a bookshelf that has TTRPGs on it.
Video facing me as I explain my tabletop game status. Bald, white guy, glasses, beard, black shirt.
This is a character for an Exalted tabletop game in a black battle jacket with white details, smiling and looking back at the camera over his left shoulder. Half of his face appears to be that of a cuttlefish, with a brown beard with some gray, fair skin, and gray eyes that have the cuttlefish pupil shape of a W.
My wife, (at the time fiancée) taking pictures of our wedding and engagement rings. Pictured in the photo is a white bordered window in Chicago, with light coming in that is highlighting my wife'd brown hair, that she styled wavy and curly, with some eye liner highlighting her dark brown eyes, staring into her phone camera as the rings in the photo are out of frame on a wooden table she is leaning on.
This is a picture of me holding a green Boston Scally cap with a yellow liner. On the cap are four visible pins. The one I am talking about in the post is one that is blue, with a mix of white, gold, and yellow lettering saying "1000 Days, Dollar A Day Foundation, Dollar-A-Dayer." I make a quarterly donation to the group. Background in case you want to know more: A Dollar A Day is a Canadian mental health and housing struggle support charity that helps folks in need, founded by a Canadian folk singer Alan Doyle who would walk into town every day, always carrying a dollar for a displaced guy who he wanted to do what he could for. When Alan had the weight of a successful music career behind him, he asked folks how to turn that simple idea of giving a buck a day into a charity foundation. It's been going on for several years and made a big difference for a lot of good folks who just needed a little help.
An article titled "gov sarah huckabee sanders orders flags to full staff for president-elect donald trump's inauguration" Picturing two arkansas flags and one american flag. It is part of national tradition, and I believe flag code, to maintain half-mast for 1 month after a President dies. Which, Jimmy Carter did pass away within 30 days of the inauguration, so what she is ordering is a direspect to the office of the presidency and to President Carter's legacy of philanthropy and charity.
A picture of a sound dampening blanket that is black with white stitching in a zig-zag patrern.
Merriam-Webster's Blusky account had a cycling GIF of a series of dozens of words with the prompt "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever word you land on is YOUR word for 2025. Goodspeed." And my word was "Whimsical."
A close-up picture of a dutch apple pie, in the oven, before it begins to bake. The coloring is a light brown as it is covered in a crumble top mixture of one part brown sugar, one part butter, two parts all-purpose flour. The apples are coated in a mix of brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon, and a dash of nutmeg. They were lightly coated with lemon juice before being put into the pie crust and pan to prevent them from oxidizing.
A selfie in front of my snacks and gaming tools shelf and some PVC pipes in the corner, but instead of my usual glasses I wear to see, I am wearing plastic glasses with LED lights that shine from the lenses which is a popular anime trope for monologueing intelligent villains and protagonists.
Pictures of M&Ms, circling a light brown M&M discontinued in 1995.
A screen shot of a follower list where Evil Genius Games had just followed me today. Because they are leveraging Web3, NFTs, and blockchain tech, I blocked them.
Black coffee in a white mug on a wooden table that has a matte varnish so it doesn't shine but shows the natural wood grain well.
The mini boss card for "Sir Goodest of Guard" a wolf that is howling in front of a grave stone with a sword buried into the ground in front of it. This is intended to be a clip art parody of the boss fight against Sif in Dark Souls, who is guarding the grave of the Knight Artorias.
A table with equipment and skill cards, character mats, many tokens, and a dungeon layout and town shop map.
A Nintendo Switch playing Stardew Valley's introduction.
Pictured are 2 sets of tokens, one of which is turkey legs, that are held inside a turkey leg shaped dish, which are "Rations" tokens used to refresh cards in your deck. Then, there are several heart shaped tokens for the health, that are in a plastic bag.
This is a screen shot of my (bardicgeek)'s post from a little over 3 weeks ago identifying my Listing Top 5 Faves. ("Tip five faves" what the post says, must have been a typo.) But for those curious, my top fives are Food: Dive bar burgers, season: autumn, drink: cold brew coffee, iced, with a bit of coconut milk, color: Cerulean, from the crayola 64 box, and Anime: Dungeon Meshi. Because it did inspire me to make a board game like it.
This is a screenshot of a kid's science project for making a clock powered by the chemical reactions inside of potatos. The Potato clock is a fun science experiment where you plug electrodes into a potato, and the chemical reactions make them act like a battery.
This is a very up close picture of my black and white domestic short haired cat's face. He has green eyes, and is named Tuxedo. He has black toe beans and a nose. But the toe beans are not in the picture. Just his baby face and giant ears. He sleeps between my wife and I and adjusts himself until he is simultaneously touching both of us before he is comfy. He is a very needy baby boy.
A poor quality photo of the cat that followed us during an after work walk. It was an orange tabby and tortise shell hybrid, so probably a girl kitty. And she was extremely friendly with big green eyes.
Screen grab from the Instagram/Meta/Threads Help page which includes a portion of the Threads Terms of Service that roughly states anything posted grants threads a non-exclusive license to use your content.
A picture of a tabletop roleplaying character sheet made in Google Sheets that has a very basic layout for Tales of the Valiant (Think D&D 5e upgraded, minus Hasbro's faults).