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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 1h

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 · 7h

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 · 1d

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 · 2h

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 · 6h

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 · 9h

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 · 2h

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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Hasmanian @hasmanian.bsky.social · 8h

When a goth girl calls you pasty you must be downright translucent.

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 5h

Even though there's some overlap between these three decks, I kind of want to figure out how to use them all at the same time. I think starting from Backstory Cards and then going to either Short Order Heroes or Ultimate RPG Campfire Deck might kind of work. #TTRPG

Three card decks on a desk, ordered into piles of the subjects of the cards.

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Shannon Appelcline 🌮 @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 9h

If you are a designer and even moreso if you're an RPG publisher.

Yes, please tell those secret origins stories!

(Work begins on Designers & Dragons 3e next year!)

Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 10h

Contemplating how the most influential award show for Evil Hat was the Indie RPG Awards held in the early 00s, before Evil Hat existed as a company. @rdonoghue.bsky.social and I won one for an earlier incarnation of Fate, “best free game”. It was a narrower population that knew about it, but enough…

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 8h

I think I figured out how to highlight the core points of the game

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🍁 Wendigo Workshop 🍁 @wendigoworkshop.bsky.social · 22h

As promised! Very early (new) page visuals for Last Hope, our Magical Girls TTRPG. We kinda kept a similar style but updated it a bit. We made a bunch of new assets to make the titles more varied.

We're still experimenting with the border!

A page spread for Last Hope with an abstract texture border and two title plates of a pink and black color. They have little stars on the sides.

The text is a list of (unfinished) credits and a prototype table of content.

A page spread for Last Hope with an abstract texture border and a title plate written: Before we start. The text is about consent and the safety tools. There is also a text about color codes as a safety tool. On the right page, three packs of three stars: one green, the other yellow, and the last one red.

Various visual assets and text sizes. On the left page you can see chains, a heart, some sort of flower shape, various stars. On the right, there are various-shaped boxes of a black, pink and blue color.

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 5h

There was an Italian restaurant that my friend's dad insisted was a Mafia joint, and we laughed him off because, no way. Then I met someone who claimed she was related to the local Mafia family, and that it was true. Of course all of it was sus because this was Rancho Cucamonga.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Department of Justice lawyers, from Main Justice to AUSAs in the districts, have ALWAYS enjoyed a sort of aura of truth and justice and trust. That was arguably always unjustifiable but Trump DoJ has absolutely pissed it away with compulsive lying.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 10h

There goes another Trump admin talking point.

Claim: Abrego told an immigration judge that he fears persecution in Costa Rica.

Judge Xinis reads the immigration judge's ruling, which doesn't say that.

"That's very troubling to me," Xinis tells Ensign.

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 7h

Honestly thanks IPR for all they for me and other creators. They are the best.

Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 1d

One of our four favorite days of the year, as we send payments to 247 member-publishers.

Our thanks to all our publishers, customers, and retailers for a strong quarter, and to our hard-working staff.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Is Kid Rock ok? He's looking like an ad for a place called Thrifty Dialysis

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ian Elliott (he/they)🤘🌈🎲 @thatianeliott.bsky.social · 11h

You cannot justify this. It isn't possible, and it should be easy ti fire, arrest, and charge everyone responsible. Should be, but people have chosen to make it otherwise. Hold them accountable.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 10h

…because come 2005 Jim Butcher was talking with his agent about all these inquiries about the rights to the Dresden Files for an RPG, and didn’t want his IP to land in the hands of folks he didn’t know and could trust. His agent said “don’t you know some award winning designers?”

Then he called me.

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 10h

Contemplating how the most influential award show for Evil Hat was the Indie RPG Awards held in the early 00s, before Evil Hat existed as a company. @rdonoghue.bsky.social and I won one for an earlier incarnation of Fate, “best free game”. It was a narrower population that knew about it, but enough…

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 13h

Rage Against The Machine - Testify (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by RATMVEVO

www.youtube.com

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 13h

Does the Glen Powell Running Man feature the eponymous Tear Garden track? Because if it doesn't I do not give a SHIT

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

The Running Man

YouTube video by The Tear Garden - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 12h

Coincidentally, I happen to be wearing my JPL t-shirt from one of the open houses today.

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Hit Point Press @ SHIFT Kickstarter! @hitpointpress.bsky.social · 13h

Go follow our sister account @shiftrpg.bsky.social to check out the Daily SHIFT traits we're posting!

Starting off with an electrifying one...

SHIFT RPG @ Kickstarter! @shiftrpg.bsky.social · 13h

The Daily SHIFT returns! We're starting off with weapons and abilities from Hades II, here's the first one!

Witch's Staff D4
Keywords: blast, reach
Drawbacks: unwieldy

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 16h

In Tribes in the Dark, it means being one of a Fatima's Sisterhood. They're blessed by the Fatima, often interact with Her directly, and are at least the spiritual leaders of their tribe and regardless are highly respected. It helps that the Fatimas are physically present and can be interacted with.

Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 19h

Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there;

What exactly does it mean to be "Chosen by a God" in your setting?

Is it a good thing? Bad? Either or?

Does it even actually have any ties to a God, or is it just a title given by religious groups?

#TTRPG

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Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 1d

Even if it was a choice, it wouldn't matter. Religion is a choice, and for example employers can't discriminate based on that.

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