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aefact.bsky.social
Happy #DíadelosMuertos / #DayoftheDead eve!

A Valeria Luiselli quote maybe worth remembering for keepers, wardens, and other #horror / liminal space #TTRPG designers...

#MementoMori
@lizziedavis.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
#TerrorManagement #TMT #WeCroak
#Mothership #CallofCthulhu
A screenshot presented by the WeCroak app reads "Celebrating Day of the Dead" and "New quotes all day". The screenshot's subject quote reads: "Numbers and maps tell horror stories, but the stories of deepest horror are perhaps those for which there are no numbers, no maps, no possible accountability, no words ever written or spoken." This is a quote from 'Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions' by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Lizzie Davis) In the bottom left and right corners of the screenshot are the words "About" and "Leap" respectively.
November 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
aefact.bsky.social
Swipe left / right, in succession.

Same old same same : "This one wants yours." / "That one wants more." Bah. Flip that.

Next up. What's new? Help others get their due. And they can help you get yours too.
Same image as in the preceding post, but with the words blanked out ~ "This one wants yours." A further modified version of the preceding image, but with the center figure horizontally flipped ~ "That one wants more."
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
aefact.bsky.social
This growing stack of A5-ish ttrpg books brings me joy:

- Whitehack
- Role-Playing Mastery
- So You Want To Be A Game Master
- Cairn 2e Player's Guide
- Cairn 2e Warden's Guide
- Breach Of Contract
- Mothership Warden's Operation Manual...

(cont'd...)
A stack of A5-ish ttrpg books includes: - Whitehack - Role-Playing Mastery - So You Want To Be A Game Master - Cairn 2e Player & Warden Guides (no spine text shown) - Breach Of Contract (no spine text shown) - Mothership Warden's Operation Manual (no spine text shown) - Magitecnica - Codex 1: The Use and Misuse of Powers Great and Small (no spine text shown) - Unseen City / Down The Snail's Spire (no spine text shown) - Into The Odd - Knave 2e - Knock #5 - Acid Death Fantasy - Troika - The Black Hack - Between The Skies - The Book of Changing Years - Kids On Brooms The stack sits on a cardboard box against a grey wall, with a dice bag resting atop it.
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
aefact.bsky.social
Just received a physical copy of this *absolutely beautiful* book: #MonsterOverhaul by Skerples. Awesome book and #ComposeDreamGames in Canada was super helpful. Kudos.

@skerples.bsky.social
@coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com.web.brid.gy
@joshuakitz.bsky.social

composedreamgames.com/marketplace/...
A book entitled The Monster Overhaul - A Practical Bestiary by Skerples is shown. Its cover is largely red and features a red dragon above a grey temple amid blue-purple vegetation. The book sits atop another Skerples book, Magical Industrial Revolution - A Pre-Apocalyptic Setting Guide. The two books cast a shadow towards the top of the image, and sit upon an autumn-colored table cloth.
October 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
aefact.bsky.social
Here's my self-diagnosed OCD at work 🤣

The bags pictured are supplemental ones I'm using.

I saved the other 4 bags, which came with the set, as intended for the PCs cards and tokens (not pictured).
Heroes of the Borderlands box set, showing its included storage tray, with HP tokens in a first bag, and gold and gem tokens in a second. Dice and power tokens are in a first section of the tray, large monster tokens and character standees are in a second section. And, trap and medium size monster tokens are (alphabetically) arranged in a third. A large spider web token is stored above the combat tracking pad.
October 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
aefact.bsky.social
res ipsa loquitur
'many opposing views just differ in what order to fix things' is written in a white lowercase font over 4 center-aligned lines on a green background.
October 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
aefact.bsky.social
i gotta admit, the #Daggerheart core book and card set are high quality and quite beautiful.
[Check the ALT.]
Also, love the maths of two dodecahedrons with binomial distributions.
And, it might be nice to hold a character as a hand.
Will I play this game? Unlikely.
Would I? You bet.
A photograph of a Daggerheart core book and set of cards, along with a Crown Royal dice bag. All, on a coffee table. // The book lies open to pages 146-147 bearing a Pitfalls To Avoid heading within the Core Guidance section of its Chapter 3. // The pages bear two illustrations. One shows two humal (sic) people. A first, with an outstretched hand. The other, surrounded by flames. // The other illustration shows two fungal people. A first, on sedge in bright green, against a starlit mountainous dark purple background. The other, rooted in dark purple, against a bright pink deeply wooded background. Each, carries a staff in one hand. Both, their other arms, respectively, spectrally joining one another across the divide. // The card set is arranged, in six stacks, in a case. The card on the top of each stack bears a smaller illustration. They are Rune Ward, Brace, Words of Discord, Forest Sprites, Unbreakable, and Warden of the Elements mastery. // The bag is purple with gold stitching. // The table is worn wood veneer. // The bag is in the top left quadrant of the photo. The card set in its top right. And, the book in its bottom half.
September 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
aefact.bsky.social
Reading 'Overloading the Encounter Die' by Brendan of
@necropraxis.bsky.social in Knock #5 from the @themerrymushmen.bsky.social… Wherein, a roll of 3 on the encounter die has a suggested "Locality (context-dependent timer)" result. Love this passage 💙 (Check the image ALT.) Kudos.
In a photo of page 39 from the Knock #5, a paragraph reads: «"Locality" is meant to be used for area-specific events that should be kept separate from standard random encounters. Examples: water rising, the stalker drawing nearer, a prisoner losing an appendage to the torturer, doors locking behind PCs, and so forth. The possibilities are limitless and make every location potentially mechanically different in a way that is player-salient.»
September 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
aefact.bsky.social
Okay, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor
Nancy Reagan sits, in front of an Xmas tree, on the lap of Mr. T who's wearing a Santa outfit. The then first lady of the US holds a Mr. T doll still in its packaging.
September 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
aefact.bsky.social
"We believe that, with the centuries, knowledge can be steadily increased and learning advanced, but we do not suppose that the same progress can be achieved in #wisdom. The individual may grow in wisdom. The race does not seem to."

– A #Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952; 2e, 1990)
The image shows a paper-colored background, with black text, "THE special character of wisdom among the attainments of the mind shows itself in the things which everyone will agree can be said about wisdom—things which cannot be said about art and science, or knowledge and learning generally. We believe that, with the centuries, knowledge can be steadily increased and learning advanced, but we do not suppose that the same progress can be achieved in wisdom. The individual may grow in wisdom. The race does not seem to." The image includes a last partial line of text, with its bottom half truncated, that begins a new paragraph. It appears to begin, "In the tradition of the great books, the mod-" The image was a photograph taken from A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952; second edition, 1990).
August 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
aefact.bsky.social
🤣 You might enjoy this one too!
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/depen...
An XKCD comic that shows "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003" upon which rests "All modern digital infrastructure".
August 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
aefact.bsky.social
Slightly diminish a band:

9-to-5 Spyz
The album cover for Gumbo Millennium (1990) by the 24-7 Spyz is reproduced with "9-to-5" covering over "24-7"
August 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
aefact.bsky.social
Similar color palettes of UVG 2e back cover (bottom right) & World of Greyhawk hex map (top).

Not a staged photo.

Thx @ratti.bsky.social
Similar color palettes of UVG 2e back cover (bottom right) & World of Greyhawk hex map (top). w/ Ratti Incantati bookmark (bottom left), remote control (top left), and coaster (mid top left). All on a wood table.
July 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
aefact.bsky.social
"if one can't tell the difference between a dead end and a good lead in music then one doesn't have what it takes to ba composer of any worth" -- some guy I disagree with on facebook.

#sapf
from youtu.be/FY2WYXOdXoM
A colorful Instagram filter has been applied to a photo of part of a TV screen, with a speaker in the bottom right corner. Onscreen is text, in the SAPF programming language, from a YouTube video, including a piece of code bearing the following title: "if one can't tell the difference between a dead end and a good lead in music then one doesn't have what it takes to be a composer of any worth" -- some guy I disagree with on facebook.
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
aefact.bsky.social
That Wizards chose a CC-BY license for its SRD, with no stake in downstream works, was laudable. It may deserve more credit for that.

That its competitors don't is their right. Copyright properly protects creators and their works. We should not begrudge them for it.

2/2
“Shall I make a competitor of myself? My progeny to vie with each other? If I let you, for an indefinite term, use my hands and mind in your endeavours, though you rely on them, can't I yet leave your employ? And still, am I no stakeholder in those works?” (2023) -- The underlying image, showing a natural basalt rock formation, appeared alongside an August 2015 article in The Independent entitled ‘Natural wonders in the UK: From Giant's Causeway to Durdle Door’
June 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
aefact.bsky.social
Q: how many new toys
does it take to pacify the military?

A: all of them
June 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
aefact.bsky.social
Leaving this here: Is the "YouTube algorithm" AI... ?
June 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
aefact.bsky.social
Today's public service, how it started, how it ended.
A pink book is shown on a wood table, with graph paper in the upper left. The book is 'Canadian Corporate Power' by Henry Veltmeyer (Network Basics Series). A green book is on a pink book on a wood table, with graph paper in the top left. The book is 'Conflict of Laws – Cases, Notes & Materials (Sixth Edition) by J.-G. Castel (Canadian Legal Casebook Series, Butterworths).
June 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
aefact.bsky.social
… Dark Sun? 🤞

6/6 #darksun #psion
Official Wizards of the Coast logo, i.e., the DARK SUN CAMPAIGN SETTING & DESIGN mark. Fair dealing / fair use.
May 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
aefact.bsky.social
@explorersdesign.bsky.social for example, picking up some of the evocative bits, perhaps something like this:
I. Roleplay with voice and tone. 1. Prim and Proper. 2. Drawling. 3. Overly Fastidious. 4. Deep Drawling. 5. Gravely voice. 6. Reedy voice. 7. Brutish voice. 8. Chipper voice. 9. Husky voice. 10. Raspy voice. 11. Gasping voice. 12. Hissy voice. II. Roleplaying with personality. 1. Always smiling. 2. Always angry. 3. Always nervous. 4. Always bored. 5. Wants to manipulate. 6. Wants the spotlight. 7. Wants to have a good time. 8. Wants to eat. 9. Object obsession. 10. Activity obsession. 11. Person obsession. 12. Fear obsession. III. Roleplaying with physicality. 1. Leaning back in your chair. 2. Looming above. Shoulders raised. 3. Straight back. Chin up. 4. Limp and rolling. 5. Handwaving and cig-flicking. 6. Fidgeting with hair. 7. Clenched fists. 8. Hands in claws. Elbows tucked. 9. Moving too fast too often. 10. Slow delayed movement. 11. Avoids eye contact. 12. Constantly looking around. 13. Making a stank face. 14. Eyes-wide, lips pursed. 15. Mouth hanging open. 16. Blank face. IV. Roleplaying with worldbuilding. 1. Language dipping. 2. Formal phrases. 3. Intense eye contact. 4. Salutes to everyone. 5. Saying "blub!" between words. 6. Skipping every 5th word. 7. Dropping non-sequiturs. 8. Whispers everything. 9. Say there's an accent. 10. Only talk to one player. 11. Talks in Not-Voice. 12. Trigger the rules.
May 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
aefact.bsky.social
A derivative work by Karina Nurdinova which restyles text originally attributed to Banksy in the distinctive shape of a Coca-Cola bottle.

The Advertisers vs. public space
The image shows a derivative work by Karina Nurdinova which restyles the following text, originally attributed to Banksy, into the distinctive shape of a Coca-Cola bottle, in white on a red background: "People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. "Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. "You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs."
May 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
aefact.bsky.social
First time watching this video by @thaumavore.blue... Kudos. Inspired me to check in on the condition of ye olde B/X (from xmas 1981) and AD&D 1e (bought 23 May 1982) books from my shelf here.

A few touchstones for #OSE #oldschoolessentials #advancedfantasy :)
May 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
aefact.bsky.social
Just found these 2 old posters of the map from The World of Greyhawk folio edition. This is the 1980 (pre-box set) version.

I laminated them back then. Colors are holding up and they're in great condition, but missing the top left corner.

#Greyhawk
2 poster Map of the Eastern Portion of the Oerik continent from The World of Greyhawk folio edition (1980, TSR Games) 9025. The map is missing its top left corner. Colored glasses (6 of them) hold down the 2 posters of the map.
May 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
aefact.bsky.social
The fastest ship in #Spelljammer 5e flew at only 8 mph. Here, one pursues a man on foot, running, below.

Gag aside, it'd take a loooong time to even clear the atmosphere.

Flying speed must follow a gradient... Down, from spelljamming speeds, to 8 mph at ground level... Or, something.

#damselfy
Text the colour of blueberry yogurt, in a sans serif font, against a space blue background. // The title reads "you win" in italics. // Then as follows: "Outrun. On roads in various stages of paving. And some in no stage at all. Cap n crew found elusive quarry. Almost within grasp. Alas. If only. Ye ole runner weren't faster. Wouldn't ever've evaded em. Maybe. They'll catch our runner. Next time. (A trap? Nah.) Ho hum. Tomorrow's another day. Let's give chase again." // Right aligned, the characters "~~~ ~~~" end the text.
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
aefact.bsky.social
Consider it. The giant cluster. Maybe t can help you too...

- leaves plenty of space
- can add more stuff as you go
- can tie locations together
- and let them drift apart later if you like

(2/2)
Front end papers for the "HOBONICHI TECHNO 2023 weeks spring" calendar include a twig and leaf doodle, a cluster shaped planet sketch, alongside a handwritten note "earth type (500K mi) cluster civilization world empire". Another drawing shows a bit further proof of concept for what a cluster shaped world might look like.
May 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM