Brian Schoner

@bschoner.bsky.social

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Software geek by day, freelance writer by night, bass guitarist on the weekends, voice actor whenever time permits, and gamer ALL THE DAMN TIME. Cohost of the https://bsky.app/profile/ascentofboardgames.bsky.social podcast. He/him.

A custom map of a fantasy TTRPG continent drawn for me by @koscheisigma.bsky.social
Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp in The Residence.
A Backerkit blurb for the TTRPG "Time Without Tide". A button underneath it says "Reserve your spot. Secure your place before launch for $3."
Mike standing in the corner at the end of The Blair Witch Project (1999).
Victoria Tennant in All Of Me, 1984.
A game of Titan (Jason B. McAllister and David A. Trampier, Avalon Hill, 1982) in progress.
A two-axis diagram, with the X axis ranging from "Risky & Uncomfortable" to "Easy and Comfortable" and the Y axis ranging from "Obscure & Reject" to "Embrace & Explore".
The opening screen of Infocom's text adventure "Spellbreaker".
A xenomorph from the Alien films emerging from the blood-soaked chest of an Operation board game.
A cat perched atop both a bass guitar and the man attempting to play it.
The beautiful cover of the excellent The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game.
A middle-aged me sticking his tongue out and looking generally exhausted.
A sign in an Asian language translated as "Do not dumb here. Not dumb area here."
Promotional email from the White Wolf store advertising "official apparel...shaped by identity, loyalty, and power."
A piece of baklava with the top layer and almonds tragically stuck to the lid of the delivery container.
The mounted skeleton of an ocean sunfish (mola mola).
The cover of the album "Eleven" by the band Eleven.
A medieval illustration of three ducks.
GM Edward Spence as a completely friendly and normal wasteland NPC.
Historical military memo with the highlighted phrase, "You are therefore requested to reconsider the desirability of pressing your point at this time."
The cover of "Gretchen Goes to Nebraska" by King's X.
The cover of "Un-Led-Ed" by Dread Zeppelin.
Meditating Buddha statue.
Robert DeNiro as Jack Walsh and Charles Grodin as Jonathan Mardukas from "Midnight Run".
Logo for Unleaded Toast's "An Elegy in Crimson" podcast.
A sign reading, "Do not dumb here. Not dumb area here."
Piggy Stardust
Meme of Mongo from Blazing Saddles with the text, "Why everyone want to poke Mongo?"
Logo for the podcast "An Elegy in Crimson".
Man (actually me) in a cowboy hat, looking old and sad and tired.
Two human beings (Brian and Megan) and one small-clawed Asian otter (Brooke) waving at the camera from a swimming pool.
The cover of "Adventures in High Fantasy" by Jeffrey C. Dillow.
The words "Role-Playing Games" in ten different typefaces.
A speaker at a podium. Subtitles read "Unfortunately there are people in our society,"
"Wuffa wuffa wuffa" page from Cerebus #44.
Portrait of a somewhat ragged-looking gnoll in spectacles and a leather jacket.
Title card for An Elegy in Crimson, coming August 8.
A pink stuffed animal abandoned in a corner of a grimy stairwell.
Stained-glass style portrait of a gray-skinned, androgynous human in humble clothing, holding a sword in a resting position.
Illustration of the CEO and Intern pages in the Triangle Agency rulebook. The CEO is depicted at their desk, which is supported by a pile of papers and filing cabinets. On the nex page, we see the bottom half of the illustration, where the Intern is carrying all of those cabinets and papers on their overburdened shoulders.
Picture of Brian in a cowboy hat, looking wrinkly and hot and tired and old.
Cover of Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
Cover of The Windup Girl, by Paulo Bacigalupi
Cover of Jhereg by Steven Brust
Cover of Cerebus: High Society by Dave Sim
Cover of Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson
The cover of Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco.
Helldivers 2 emergency alert message. "Disregard all prior orders."
The cover of Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
The cover of Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and (sigh) Neil Gaiman
The cover of Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock
A sticker showing a six-fingered hand with the two middle fingers extended, with the caption "Fuck AI."
The cover of Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The cover of Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny.
The cover of The Glass Hammer by K.W. Jeter.
Cover of Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future by Mike Resnick
Cover of the Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Leguin