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xaosseed @xaosseed.bsky.social · 23h

Inspired by @prokopetz.bsky.social post that on hospitality obligations of the wealthy and "you’re missing an opportunity if you never talk about the Guests" - d30 guests to enliven your noble courts, great houses and wizards manses

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#dnd #diyrpg #ttrpg

d30 Entertainingly Weird Guests

Inspired by @prokopetz making the point that "hospitality was a major part of a wealthy household’s basic social obligations" and "at any gi...

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 1d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 13h

My first system review, after a year's experience at the table!

Come gawk at my Big Complex Feelings™.

www.valerialoves.com/why-dont-i-h...

Why Don't I Hate Fabula Ultima?

Theoryslop shadowboxing an omnigender Italian

www.valerialoves.com

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 12h

Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up: www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...

Explore The Origins Of Metroidvania In This New Retro Gaming Book

This new book will explore the history of the enduring metroidvania genre in video games.

www.gamespot.com

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ktrey @ktrey.bsky.social · 1d

Heh, Gnarly Undead and Wergild both show up in my little "Consequences for Hireling Death" table:

d12 Table featuring ideas for Consequences of Hireling Death, including a hit to Reputation, Price Increases, the family requesting a Deodand, the Body, Wergild...or even some more exotic situations like haunting by Poltergeists/Revenants.

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 1d

"Life Between the Tides," which is mostly about the ecology of tidepools, does have a chapter on the area of Ireland where the author lives, including stories of changelings, and his suspicions that they were a way of understanding post-partum depression.

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Christian Hendriks @cerhendriks.bsky.social · 2d

I have a new post up on my ttrpg blog, about a tension central to my post-apocalyptic/cosmic horror setting, between realism and fantasy: advantageonarcana.bearblog.dev/both-grounde...

It explores how every game involves such a tension, and how I hope to manage it in the Lakelands in particular.

Both Grounded and Fantastic: A Central Tension

In a previous Lakelands post, I discuss a central tension that animates the setting, one which rejects both hope and cynicism. To a significant extent that tension is just a question of realism...

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Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 2d

How much information is stored in a deck of cards?

Storing information with components: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/storing-in...

#boardgames #cardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign 🎲✂️

Storing information with components

Exploring how much information is stored in a deck of cards.

www.skeletoncodemachine.com

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Wocco @wocco.bsky.social · 2d

Haunted Bathtime

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 2d

For #BannedBooksWeek I wrote abt the Lavender Scare, the invention of queer pulp fiction, & what it means to be a writer under a repressive gov't. I did most of the research 5 yrs ago while writing my debut novel ENDPAPERS & it seems like time to share 💜
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Banned Books Week and "Survival Literature"

What the Lavender Scare and queer pulp fiction teach us about being a writer in 2025

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Nio Lynes @nio-lynes.bsky.social · 1d

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚢𝚛𝚎'𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚎
(Inktober 2025 ~ 8)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a good table!

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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 1d

Broke: Werewolves
Bespoke: Weregild
#ttrpg #osr (new blogpost)

Moonlight Glitters upon Weregild — Prismatic Wasteland

Lycanthropy is played out. Instead of using another werewolf in your game, try some weregilt.

www.prismaticwasteland.com

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 3d

"The little bugs of Pharloom seem to have some understanding that things aren’t right for them."

@jhensliterature.bsky.social looks at class and religion in Hollow Knight: Silksong:

Hollow Knight, Silksong, and Notions of a Working-Class Underworld - Unwinnable

I too have been navigating the gauntlet of Pharloom.

unwinnable.com

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Spring Villager @springvillager.bsky.social · 3d

Announcing Snail Herders, a #ttrpg for solo & group play.

Lead a caravan of humans and giant snails along ancient trails over weeks of travel. Trade tales and tend the snails. A game about care, journeying, and stories that travel faster than you.

Art by @garin.bsky.social
Coming Nov 2025 🐌

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 3d

TTRPG creators, there are innumerable reasons, and a nigh indescribable bliss to be found, if you dare learn to draw. And at least, if you do not, it's cool for you to learn some of the basics, since you will sooner and later need to work with artists:

www.patreon.com/posts/compre...

A Comprehensive Guide to TTRPG Art Commissioning & Licensing | Araukana

Get more from Araukana on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Frogboi 🫒 @frogboi.bsky.social · 2d

I made these for two works for the Straight Arrows RPG campaign based off @mothership.bsky.social.

I'm looking to make more. Front covers. Alternate covers. My secret wish is to buddy up with a writer to collage an entire campaign. Characters, story art etc

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 2d

One small swoop for man, one giant yeet for mankind.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 2d

Alright, the first in-depth article of my awards debrief is live. "How do the Ennies work?" A top-down look at my judging experience from A to Z.

Please share, leave comments, and ask questions. And don't forget to read part 1 if you haven't already.

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-2/

How do the Ennies work?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part two. What is the award process like behind closed doors, and how do the judges select nominees?

www.explorersdesign.com

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Queen of the Giraffes 👑🦒 @diyanddragons.bsky.social · 3d

I worry we're being too blase about Republicans in Congress refusing to swear in an elected Democratic representative.

Like, are they trying to delay an Epstein vote? Maybe!

But they're also disenfranchining those voters and depriving Democrats of a seat. And they might do so indefinitely!

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d

90% of moderation on social media rn is literally driven by fear of content on your platform being quoteposted by libsoftiktok @‘ing the fbi and it shows

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 5d

Many tried “dice pools as clocks”. IMO many failed.

I’m a senior software engineer by trade so I wrote code to run thousands of simulations to find the best way.

A way were the math is sound and makes sense.

This uses this mechanics and I’ve been testing it for 1+ year at an actual table

RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 13d

Looking for playtesters for an upcoming sci-fi horror game kind of like shadowdark meets ten candles meets mothership.

If you want to test it with your group, send me a DM on Bluesky and I’ll send you a free copy.

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 3d

This is Poppy :)

#art #illustration

A digital drawing featuring a little flower character standing among lots of flowers and sparkles. They are wearing a flower dress, and have a kind of flower bulb as a head, with a flower growing out of it.

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