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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer)

@ravenquill.bsky.social

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Josh (he/him). I write gun rules and PC species for D&D. Polyamorous, LGBTQ+ ally, anti-fascist 🇺🇦🇵🇸 🚫 AI/NFT/crypto Firearms: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/441768 Species: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/488980 Find more: https://linktr.ee/ravenquill

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reason #0 - Because you want to 😉

Check out my comprehensive rules in Smoke & Thunder: Firearms For Fifth Edition and it's sequels!

www.dmsguild.com/product/4417...

Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · Aug 26

🧵 Why you should include firearms and other technology in your #dnd game...

1. Because they're historical - Gunpowder is older than many of the common weapons in D&D. Rapier, longbow, and even halberd are more recent inventions than gunpowder.

a man with long hair is talking about black powder .

Alt: a man with long hair is talking about black powder .

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 4h

I'd be grateful if someone shared this link in the rpg, sole_roleplaying, or rpgpromo Reddits, as permissible. My posts are stuck in a filter, and I've been waiting for Reddit to clear my account for months (no joke).

I’d love for people to be able to claim the game while it’s still free!

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 9d

SPINE is in beta, and it will be free for a limited time on @itch.io

The beta will be released on itch on October 14th and will include digital versions as well as a printable booklet. A physical beta will go on sale at the end of October.

backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

A dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book. Free for a limited time. Art: Cover preview of SPINE, featuring a spine in the shape of a vortext.

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Freethinkers United @freethinkersunited.bsky.social · 5h

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

"history buffs" implies the existence of history debuffs

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 18h

It was a real pleasure to chat with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social about his upcoming new set of books.

"Appelcline: I was delighted to write about the original edition of Palace of the Silver Princess. This is one of the most legendary products ever published by TSR because the first edition of it was destroyed. They printed it, they gave out copies to the people at TSR, they got some out to distributors, and then — this is all hearsay, but that's part of what made it exciting, trying to figure out what happened — management, apparently, got a look at it and said, oh, this is terrible, we can't send it out. They went around, they collected the copies from everyone at TSR, they tried to get whatever copies that they'd sent out back. And then they had one person in charge of bringing them out to the landfill and watch as they were bulldozed under, so that no one else got copies of them."

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 34m

Boomer

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Six!

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · Jun 19

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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🎂 Sydney Screams 🎉 BIRTHDAY MONTH @sydneyscreams4u.bsky.social · 1d

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 6h

Clayton Cubitt & @claytoncubitt
Please please please if you've come within 30 feet of this man (Stephen
Miller) please get tested and quarantine

<normal picture of Stephen Miller>

8:31 PM • 10/6/20 • Twitter for iPhone

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Pank 🦑 @pankraru.bsky.social · 6h

How to Spot SORA AI Videos with Removed Watermarks.

That popular Video of a Possum being scared while eating Halloween candy, AI. That one has an extra tell, the time stamp numbers in the upper corner, are fucky wucky.

That is how I started to notice the edited out Watermark that is included.

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 2h

Whoa, slow down there. What is my delusion? What is freaky approved? I actually have no idea how I've offended you.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 2h

Did you read the whole piece? I was skeptical about the featured couple (and don't like their weird political neutrality), but in the context of others who are marrying friends or have polyam marriages with an ace spouse, it seems reasonable for people to define their partnerships how they want to.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 8h

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 10h

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Marie 💙 @merrirrro.bsky.social · 11h

More of our tax dollars wasted because Trump is butt hurt over his 34 felony indictments for crimes he ACTUALLY committed as opposed to these charges Pam Bondi made up against James. This is gonna get embarrassing when they have no evidence.

🎁 article

wapo.st/4mZgm9F

Justice Department indicts N.Y. attorney general

Justice Department wins indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing her of committing mortgage fraud in 2023.

wapo.st

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 8h

This is a wild headline.
This is our reality right now.
This is the deranged man leading the free world.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 10h

Books are still being banned, but most remain on shelves thanks to heroes who refuse to bow to censorship.

Librarians, teachers, students, and readers everywhere are keeping the flame of free expression alive.
Stand with them.
Speak out.
#BannedBooksWeek
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

As a polyamorous person for 20+ years, this social frontier makes a surprising amount of sense.

Shane O'Neill @shaneisland.bsky.social · 19h

Head a great time reporting this story!!

Gift link: wapo.st/4o44pjK

Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

As a polyamorous person for 20+ years, this trend makes a surprising amount of sense.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 9h

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1635: Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for resisting the government’s control over religious and political beliefs. He spoke out against the colony’s authority to punish dissent and confiscate Native American land. /1

Drawing of Roger Williams in the wilderness after being banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

Third instance in the head scarf is fake, but the others are apparently legit.

onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

i’ll never get over this

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Victor 🌊 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vicjager.bsky.social · 8h

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

Or whatever feeds into whatever keeps them up at night.