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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 5h

Also, whenever @artificerind.bsky.social likes my miniature posts, it is super validating.

John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 5h

And yes, we have my 300+ hour long dungeon synth playlist going during all the games!

John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 5h

Much blood, including green, was spilled on Mordheim today. Three way battle between the Orcs, Marienburgers, & Wood Elves left vast devastation. Rumors also tell of Lizardmen invading the water ways...
#miniatures #mordheim #warhammer

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 5h

Much blood, including green, was spilled on Mordheim today. Three way battle between the Orcs, Marienburgers, & Wood Elves left vast devastation. Rumors also tell of Lizardmen invading the water ways...
#miniatures #mordheim #warhammer

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 16h

Was just discussing/doing this with a student during a game last night. Following!

jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 16h

has anyone written about the process of conversational repair in analog games? specifically thinking about stuff like:
- "i move my meeple 5 spaces" "i think it's 6 spaces"
- "oh, last turn i should've given you an extra 3 tokens. do you want them now?"
- "it's too late now, but for next time..."

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 16h

has anyone written about the process of conversational repair in analog games? specifically thinking about stuff like:
- "i move my meeple 5 spaces" "i think it's 6 spaces"
- "oh, last turn i should've given you an extra 3 tokens. do you want them now?"
- "it's too late now, but for next time..."

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1d

With The Expanse RPG, love pushing/pulling The Churn. Having players find something. Having something break of theirs.

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Beware, A Mad Wizard @jhwilliams3.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus #Halloween post: More from my Dracula: A Storybook Portfolio hardcover, available and can be ordered from your shop of choice. Have a good Bluesky-weekend.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1d

Upon the watch tower, the Wood Elves wait as the Middenheimer North Wolves attempt to break through to safer streets.
#mordheim #miniatures #warhammer

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1d

Totally willing to have this conversation.

I do not use games to teach.

I teach about games as I have for the last 6 years.

Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 1d

But seriously, this is 1 facet of the much larger conversation that we need to have around teaching & TTRPGs, which too often focuses on USING games.

What I want to talk about is what we can DO for TTRPGs.

It seemed fitting to start w/ 2 of the most powerful voices evangelizing to new audiences.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1d

I mean...

John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1d

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Steam Community :: Golden Axed: A Cancelled Prototype

Golden Axed: A Cancelled Prototype

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1d

Did you try Golden AXED? Can't believe that got cancelled.

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 1d

Time for me to die.

🌸☀️idspispopd🌙🥀 @bhaalspawn.bsky.social · 1d

Team Fortress 2 (2007) is now as old as Golden Axe (1989) was when Team Fortress 2 was released.

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 3d

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 2d

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 3d

Back with a Swap that has me listening to Mastodon for the first time & Billie taking on the industrial stylings of Velvet Acid Christ's "Fun With Knives"
⚔️New episode of More Than Metal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1eT...
morethanmetal.podbean.com/e/ep14-the-s...
#MetalSky #HeavyMetal #Industrial

EP14: The Swap - Fun With Sand

YouTube video by OnlyPlayWizards

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 2d

I should be given a dollar every time I decide not to steal a candy bar.

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🎃 Xero Reynolds 🎃 @artificerind.bsky.social · 2d

The Lab is open, and I'm LIBE on twitch for my affiliateversary and birthday stream! Come hang out and help me get this party going! twitch.tv/artificerind

ArtificerInd - Twitch

5 YEAR AFFILIATEVERSARY + HAP BORF! | !support

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 2d

Infrastructure is expensive up front, but worth it in the long run.

The further disrepair it is is in, the more expensive it is to fix.

If it breaks, it is exponentially more expensive on all fronts.

But folks tend not to think of infrastructure till it breaks....

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 2d

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 2d

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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Christopher Hutton --> PAX Unplugged @newsnerd.bsky.social · 2d

DnD Shorts posted a vid today basically recognizing the massive amount of AI slop that continues to fill DrivethruRPG I'm glad he's posting about this, considering his audience size. However, he gets a decent bit about AI wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6W7...

We need to talk about the rise of AI slop D&D

YouTube video by DnD Shorts

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 2d

My syllabus has links to numerous studies showing AI usage leads to decline in skills. It also says "If you think C- work is okay, then cool."

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 2d

Put a hood on it.

John Bultena🧙‍♂️🔮 Professor of TTRPGs @onlyplaywizards.com · 2d

Seeing Carrie around town is still a trip.

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Saša Đurđević @azuremeraki.bsky.social · 2d

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The Teeth Of The Winds Of The Sea

YouTube video by Current 93 - Topic

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