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無政府主義者 Artista latina. The sentient roots of @araukana.bluesky.social Eng/Spa/日本語 compatible. Posts on games, art, social sciences, anarcho-eco-feminism, etc. They/Them/She/Her

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · Aug 26

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO TTRPG ART COMMISSIONING AND LICENSING

It's done! Here is my guide to art commissioning, licensing, and art direction in TTRPGs. It's free to see, has contract and brief templates, and plenty of resources to aid in art literacy in the space.

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

A Comprehensive Guide to TTRPG Art Commissioning & Licensing | Araukana

Get more from Araukana on Patreon

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 8m

Did a video on means-based task res and how it works on Nibiru: Revisited, hopefully people pick up on this idea and do something interesting with it

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Means-based Task Devlog 9 Devlog 9 - Means-Based Task Resolution is a #TTRPGdesign approach to rolling that assigns a philosophy, demeanor, or way of proceeding to the values held in each die, and pos...

TikTok video by Araukana Media

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 24m

they added more lesbians to the game. Granblue in its best moment <3

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Robin J | Cozy RPG Reviews @cozyrpgreviews.bsky.social · 1h

New review day!

This time delving into the survival horror journaling game Cinderedge by @quasigrant.bsky.social where no matter what you do, you'll eventually die in a fire. It's atmospheric, poignant and very unsettling.

youtu.be/ne30rLtvGSM

Cinderedge | An RPG Preview

YouTube video by Cozy RPG Reviews

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Robin J | Cozy RPG Reviews @cozyrpgreviews.bsky.social · 19h

Do you ever get the feeling you’re probably missing posts from people you'd normally be interested in and want to interact with, but maybe you're just active at different times or something?

Anyway, completely unrelated, but here's a month-old article I really enjoyed just now.

Lhuzie Mummified Phoenix @strigarosa.bsky.social · Sep 4

I sat with awards, what possible niches they may fulfill for TTRPG industry, community and artform. Here are some thoughts about how they end up being such a frustrating experience, as well as their mixed legacy and image.

open.substack.com/pub/splitpar...

What awards do for us?

What are awards in TTRPGs even failing to achieve?

open.substack.com

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 2h

"vintage, handmade" y'all use AI motherfucker

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 2h

21, all non fiction

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 3h

How many books have you read in 2025 so far? 📚

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 2h

They probably got a skeleton crew for server maintenance now

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 19h

watching all the protest frog photos snd posters (great work @ryancordell.org and co!) i think probably folks would find this 2007 easy by David Graeber worth reading. to my old self there's not a lot of distance between an inflatable frog and a giant puppet

On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture

What follows is an essay of interpretation. It is about direct action in North America, about the mass mobilizations organized by the so called “anti-globalization movement”, and especially, about the...

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 5h

Lmao

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 5h

All the autumn fits for the 4 "main" characters!
I'm happy that each character's fashion sense is shown through, kek

An artwork by Spindle of the character Asimov in 4 autumn outfits. From left to right:
- A somewhat see-through red top v-neck tucked under a belt with golden accents on her waist, and black leggings with cuts on the sides and the midriff.
- A 3 tone dress; white-ish base, beige sleeves, orange sides and accents, with black rolled-up pants, and leather boots with silver accents.
- Home fit, baggy yellow cardigan, white silk top, white underpants, and flip flops
- Yellow bow-tie on her head, white shawl with bluish/orange leaves pattern, and yellow accents, with a black turtleneck underneath. She's also wearing a blue-ish skirt with beige grunge. Her footwear consists of open sandals, and golden anklets

an artwork by Spindle of the pink-haired bunny girl character, Felt, in 4 different outfits, from left to right:
1) - Formal outfit, her hair tied in a long ponytail with red ribbons. Red top with baggy sleeves, brass-coloured edges, with white floral patterns on the sleeves. Dark red skirt, black tight capri-pants with golden floral print, leggings and black flats with a golden trim. She also has red eyeliner and makeup.

2) - Her usual hair style with two braids on each side, deep red dress with a black "tiered dress" on top (idk what it's called, tiered dress according to google), and flowy criss-cross patterned layer under the red dress. She laos has beige boots with a silver floral pendant on.

3) - Outdoors outfit, hair tied up in a ponytail with yellow glasses, a white capelet with a red leaves pattern, red shirt underneath that extends to the fingers, green pants, orange boots with a white cap on the front.

4) - Home fit, short black blouse with an orange pattern, baggy orange pajama with green and reddish stripes, and pumpkin-themed slippers.

an artwork by Spindle showcasing 4 different autumn outfits of Ottilie, from left to right:
1) Hair tied up in a bun, a black hairband with a golden trim, square golden earrings. She's wearing a half-sleeve green top with a white trim, a black belt with a golden accent (and a white curtian thing idk what to call it in the middle), and a knee-length beige and green skirt and shoes.

2) - Her usual short hair, with a yellow hairband and black pompoms. She's wearing a blue top with sleeve and side-boob slits, and baggy beige pants with white straps. Black and orange leather shoes.

3) - Short hair with a black hairband, orange oval glasses. She's wearing a black dress under an orange long cardigan. White thighhighs and green-ish boots with bunny ears and tail.

4) - Home fit, hair tied up in a messy bun, baggy green cardigan with a white trim a black bra, and a long translucent orange skirt with white socks underneath.

An artwork by Spindle of the character Therese, a trans elf woman who has cyan hair. The artwork showcases 4 different autumn outfits (from left to right):
1 - Therese's hair tid up to a circular "bun", while the rest of her hair is down to her butt. She's wearing a white turtleneck, a golden diamond-shaped necklace, and a long beige skirt with a dark leaf pattern. She's also wearing brown boots with a silver accent.

2 - Therese's hair tied up in a big bun. Wearing a white croptop under a long see-through beige cardigan. Red pants with brass-coloured accents, and red leggings that end just above the ankles, as well as red flats with swirly openings.

3 - Same hairstyle as 1 (except without the floating accessory in the hair loop), she's wearing a black scarf, a white and beige checkered shawl with a diamond shape on the front, and a black top underneath. (only the sleeves are visible). She's wearing a yellow skirt with white accents and buttons, and black open heels.

4 - Home fit, hair messy and free. Wearing a multi-coloured capelet/cardigan thing (idk what it is lmao), a black "night gown" with an opening in the front, and red pants with slits on the sides on the bottom. She's also wearing pie-shaped slippers (That Felt made for her!)

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 1d

The Nibiru #TTRPG is a journaling game of amnesiacs lost in a colossal, Mesopotamian space station, seeking for the memories of their past while trying to adapt to a skyless world that holds no future promises.

Get in on the KS countdown at:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/xan...

#RPGLATAM #dnd #trpg

Interior spread showing Antumbra and Penumbra, it settlements, and the lines that demarcate the dip in artificial gravity intensity. Art by Triplet Concept

Interior spread showing the city-state of Ashur, wit hthe primarch's palace at the center, and several references to sections and neighbourhoods of the colossal vault. Art by Leo Tukker

Character and Journal Sheets for Nibiru Revisited

Interior spread showing a scavenger AI and a group of scavengers burning Krajj - a substance that is consumed to help the body adapt to changes in artificial gravity. Art by Fede Sohns

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

In Zephyr, you play as the Windfolk; sentimental constructs travelling the back of a sentient, walking landmass to fulfill sacred Obligations for their community.

Get it with free shipping in the US at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... or elsewhere at araukana.com/store

#ttrpg #dnd #RPGLATAM

Zephyr interior spread where a Windfolk is seen prostrated before a majestic Fleeting

Zephyr interior spread where a Windfolk is seen offering a scarf to a fungal altar, surrounded by Wheatfiends

Zephyr interior spread where a group of Windfolk are seen paddling across an underground river

Zephyr interior spread showing a Windfolk desperately running away from a colossal monstrosity of the deep woods

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 14h

multiverse shit is 99.9% of the times a forced-by-brand-consolidation story ploy that obviously sucks because it makes shit bigger by trying to mash together absolutely dissonant parts, the more parts, the worse it gets

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 14h

I like big and deep/complicated settings in fiction but all the multiverse/AU stuff that's gotten popular in the last few years feels like such a cheap and boring way to do it. It's like when the kid on the playground says they're bigger times infinity. Okay well I guess you win. Idiot

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

...identity & appropriation such as that of Radiant Citadel - it is very hard to fight against it. For most of us outside of empire, the solution is to build locally and slowly take jabs at the cultural empire without making concessions nor playing by its rules of etiquette.

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

...play culture is, rather than about TTRPGs as an artform.

This won't change as long as the cultural monopoly of the scene continues to be demarcated to such asphyxiating degree by these people. We've seen countless instances of harassment, shutting down of critique, and weaponization of...

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

...D&D meme culture, which is constantly riffing on the how funny it is that the DM is fucking over the rest of the players, or how dumb the players are for falling into the DM's plans, etc. - all of which say waaay more about how anti-social and isolationist the US suburbanite...

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

...-which is exactly how you end up with the shitty Expressionist Manifesto and its incapability to understand that rules for social institutions *are* rules about interiority, or with yankee OSR culture soundbites such as "rulings not rules", or with the iconographical panoply of...

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

...of play, but also, of basic concepts like the difference between social rules, etiquette, clique rules, and the consented space of game rules makes them unable to grapple with the fact that their shitty play experiences do not translate into categorical aspects of the artform...

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

...was basically "I drove/got driven by mommy for 40 minutes across suburbia to meet up with my only group of dipshit high school friends who had only ever heard of D&D" A.K.A some Stranger Things Ass Shit. Their chronic denial of not just the existence of vastly different cultures...

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

The reason why we still contend with shitty ass ideas like "rules are coercive" and "DMs/Designers are tyrants" is because the main drivers of influence in this artform are rich yankees that have absolutely no concept of cultures of play. The fact is that their introduction to TTRPGs...

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 20h

*uh oh* fuck shit aaah *trips over and drops a link from a box that reads Split/Party*

splitparty.substack.com/p/what-award...

What awards do for us?

What are awards in TTRPGs even failing to achieve?

splitparty.substack.com

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 20h

This is coming from someone who had every single (okay, it's two) game nominated at the ENnies.

These things suck. Avoid them unless you *have* to partake in them (I might write something about this at some point — why you may have to partake).

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 20h

The point is that Awards fucking suck and none of y'all can be trusted with them lmao

Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 22h

The last article in my Awards Debrief is up. What even is the point of an award show? Should anyone care?

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-4/

Where do rpg awards go next?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part four. What's the point of an award show? And what do we want to see in the future?

www.explorersdesign.com

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