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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 35m

So, who writes #TTRPG "adventures"? Not for a product, but for your own games. I haven't written out an "adventure", with a beginning, middle, and end for a game I was running in...decades.

As a corollary, how important is it for a game to "support traditional adventures"?

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 4h

So unwanted.

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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 6h

My husband has concluded that Christmas comes earlier every year because of climate change.

As temperature rises and ice melts faster, Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé thaw in their storage units quicker each year and thus Christmas arrives sooner and sooner.🎄

a woman in a red dress is standing in a glass container

Alt: Mariah Carey in a red Santa bodysuit is shattering an icey enclosure

media.tenor.com

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It's Me, Mike Olson @devlin1.bsky.social · 6h

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 6h

It was the only one my parents had, for a very long time!

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 6h

The best part of this is you can actually hear the needle drop

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ3k...

Meco - Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk: Star Wars (HD Vinyl Recording)

YouTube video by MauldtheMan

www.youtube.com

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Golden Lasso Games @goldenlassogames.bsky.social · 6h

Let destiny guide your next #ttrpg campaign!

Decuma is a system-neutral tarot-inspired card deck that helps PCs and GMs collaboratively build character connections, location details, and world dynamics before a die is ever rolled.

Grab yours below!

goldenlassogames.com...

A picture of the Decuma deck from Golden Lasso Games surrounded by the tarot-inspired cards that make up the deck.

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 9h

a man in a suit and tie with the words just give it time below him

ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the words just give it time below him

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 10h

Tbh I thought the EtR module wasn't completed, but it's just apparently what it is. I don't think any more work will be done on it.

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🌱Elaine Lithgow 🌱 @elainelithgow.bsky.social · 11h

Last week I challenged myself to film daily vlogs about making TTRPGs for a living.

They're now live on youtube. Featuring chill vibes, broken ankles, and a creaking bucketload of my infamous vocal fry.

Is This Something? Daily TTRPG Dev Vlogs - YouTube

A series of daily vlogs where I talk about what it's like to make TTRPGs for a living.

youtube.com

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 11h

Cold City Second Edition is out now in PDF. Trust and betrayal in post war Berlin.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #coldcity #ttrpg

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I have a couple of comments about Paul Ingrassia's lawyer, who sounds like a lawyer who would be hired by Paul Ingrassia.

First, vagueness in legal threats is the hallmark of legal thuggery. Notice the letter does not identify a single allegedly false statement of fact in the Politico story.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia is now threatening to sue Politico:

“This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.”

October 10, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Re: Statement on behalf of my client Paul Ingrassia regarding last night's story, Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment, POLITICO (Oct. 9, 2025), https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/09/ingrassia-trump-harassment-dhs-
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POLITICO's hit piece about Mr. Ingrassia is calculated to cause maximum harm to his promising career — and torpedo his nomination for Special Counsel. This vexatious political attack masquerading as "journalism" is defamatory and will be addressed in forthcoming litigation.
To be 100% crystal clear, so that there is zero room for doubt: Mr. Ingrassia did not engage in any wrongdoing in connection with the matters reported. As POLITICO itself reported: "The woman, whom POLITICO is not naming, said in a statement that she 'never felt uncomfortable' about Ingrassia's behavior and said she had never made a complaint." This is one of the only accurate parts of POLITICO's otherwise fantastical and fictional partisan fairy tale.
Accordingly, one last time, I call upon POLITICO to publicly apologize and issue a full retraction of this disgraceful and partisan sludge.
/s/ Edward Andrew Paltzik
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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 10h

I wasn't impressed with the EtR module.

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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him) @chrishanrahan.bsky.social · 12h

After 55 years, today is the last show. Every Sunday night as a young teen, I'd lay in bed and put my headphones on and make it to the Funny Five every week. Mondays sure would suck harder because of it, but hot damn was it worth it.

I salute the good doctor on his retirement.

Dr. Demento - Streaming

drdemento.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 15h

Stupid universal advice that upseted me this morning. As if this can apply to everyone or is within reach of everybody, people have no idea how social isolation works.

Unfollowed to avoid further universal advices, anyway nothing lost from leaving a non mutual 40+k followers account. (Bad mood)

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 11h

Nothing beats the experience of going to a club alone, not knowing anybody, hanging out by yourself all night, and then leaving early feeling worse than you when you got there! It's character building and shit.

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 11h

Yup, that's what caused me to move that way. I was willing to overlook them when work seemed to be getting done, but the rough spots have become too much of a PITA. I totally empathize with the situation — one person doing everything is hard. Last game I ran, Google Sheets plus OBR did fine.

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 20h

I finished the Google Sheets character keeper for The Last Caravan #TTRPG.

I've really become enamored with using Google Sheets for character sheets in online games. It's so much better than most VTT sheets for any game I play.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Last Caravan Character Keeper

docs.google.com

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, so ttRPG companies are always trying to design tabletop that appeal to a younger crowd.
"Opps & Ohio"
"Your Main is defined by their six Vibes. These are, in order; Yeet, Skibidi, Dank, Clapback, Brat, and Rizz. Bet."

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 2d

Historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social spent nearly a decade researching the history behind each and every release TSR put out for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D.
How many products does Designers & Dragons: Origins cover?
Answer: this many.
Follow the project here:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

A tiled mosaic of over 320 products released by TSR for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D. From the first copy of Chainmail to the digital release of Orc's Head.

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 21h

I wouldn't mind living on Poseidon from Blue Planet. Sure, almost all of the wildlife could kill me, but it's such a gorgeous setting.

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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 1d

Fascist shit is being done by the Trump *regime,* and he's signing the documents, but I don't think he's really in charge anymore.

I very strongly suspect *several different people* believe they are in charge, and though none of them really are, they have enough access and position to do shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 21h

I wrote a short Cortex Prime game once about playing cybertank intelligences after all of humanity was killed in a war. It was about them coming to terms with their part in it and trying to find survivors. Maybe someday I'll revisit it.

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