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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 17h

Useful creativity tips, regardless of what you’re working on:

Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 18h

10 tips for making daily creations

I asked for your best creativity tips and hacks and you delivered. Here are the top ones received so you can make the most of the #MÖRKTOBER season: omnes.exeunt.press/p/daily-crea...

10 tips for making daily creations

I asked for your best creativity tips and hacks and you delivered. Here are the top ones received so you can make the most of the MÖRKTOBER season. Make it dark. Make it weird.

omnes.exeunt.press

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TabletopGamingDeals @tabletopgamedeals.bsky.social · 2d

Check out the newly announced Ghost in the Shell TTRPG for FREE

To help promote the game before the Kickstarter launch Mana Project Studio has released a free Quickstart including streamlined rules and a complete intro mission

#ad www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

#GitS #GhostInTheShell #TTRPG

Ghost In The Shell TTRPG - Quickstart - Mana Project Studio | Ghost In The Shell TTRPG | DriveThruRPG

English_________________________________________________________ Ghost in the Shell TTRPG Quickstart drops you into Newport City in 2027, where cybernetic operatives face espionage, corruption, and th...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Studio 2 Publishing @studio2publishing.bsky.social · 2d

Follow the Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/man...

Coming soon: Ghost In The Shell - The Official Tabletop Roleplaying Game

The official tabletop roleplaying game of Ghost in the Shell, the anime that redefined the cyberpunk genre, set in the ARISE era.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 2d

Pete Petrusha and I did the system design (Pete did the heavy lifting) and I wrote the mission!

Studio 2 Publishing @studio2publishing.bsky.social · 2d

The Ghost in the Shell TTRPG is coming to Kickstarter next month from our friends at Mana Project Studio. To celebrate this amazing news, the Quickstart is available now, for FREE, on DriveThruRPG.
Check it out and spread the word!

www.drivethrurpg.com/it/product/5...

Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 2d

…you can be notified when it launches.
But, you can also download the Quickstart where you can play the mission I wrote!

It'd be awesome if you backed it, but at the very least, if you could share the link to get it to a wider audience, that’d be rad, thanks!
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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting news!

You may have heard I’ve done some writing for the #GhostInTheShell #TTRPG

Well, #ManaProjectStudio is officially Kickstarting it Nov. 4!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/man...

If you click the link… (1/2)

Coming soon: Ghost In The Shell - The Official Tabletop Roleplaying Game

The official tabletop roleplaying game of Ghost in the Shell, the anime that redefined the cyberpunk genre, set in the ARISE era.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 4d

Rock on!

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 5d

Fun thread on #TTRPG student presentations:

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

That time of the semester where my students in the #TTRPG course @ucmerced.bsky.social do their presentations on a game, individual, or company involved in the creation/advocacy/support of #RPG
(this @voiceofobrien.bsky.social gif is the vibe I need)

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 5d

I finished sculpting and painting the ‘key’ prop for the #OutgunnedAdventure one-shot I’ll be running at #GameHoleCon.

It’s a 1/6 scale (okay maybe 1/4 scale) model of a gyaling, a traditional woodwind instrument used mainly in Tibetan monasteries during chanting and prayer.

A 1/6 scale (okay maybe 1/4 scale) model of a gyaling, standing vertically on a cutting mat.

A 1/6 scale (okay maybe 1/4 scale) model of a gyaling, lying diagonally on a cutting mat.

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Monte Cook Games @montecookgames.com · 6d

There have been eigth previous worlds...

This is the Ninth World. The people of the prior worlds are gone—scattered, disappeared, or transcended. But their works remain...

Follow for advance news about the Numenera TTRPG, exclusive sneak peeks, and a special gift free!
mymcg.info/numenera

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PVincent (Table Cat Games) @tablecatgames.com · 7d

Heart of Glass, an adventure supplement for Street Wolves is coming soon to Backerkit. The heroes are out of their element in a town shrouded in secrets and in the grips of a satanic panic.

Please follow along, it's going to be a really cool release!

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 7d

So it appears I’m not alone in feeling Leto soured the franchise.
(His “evil for evil’s sake” Wallace in Bladerunner 2049 was gross.)

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Helena Real 🏳️‍⚧️ @helenareal.bsky.social · 10d

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Screenshot from what-even-is-thiss tumblr

"Cats don't actually love you"

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don't you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it's helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 10d

Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 11d

Dude. Ben Franklin was the shit! We used to ride bikes there!

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PVincent (Table Cat Games) @tablecatgames.com · 12d

Heart of Glass, the next Street Wolves mini campaign, features the Street Wolves out of their element and mired in a town full of secrets.

Heart of glass features sound bites by @meghancaves.bsky.social

Please sign up to be notified when it launches.

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Get Ready for Heart of Glass: A Street Wolves Mystery

From Table Cat Games - Get Ready for Heart of Glass: A Street Wolves Mystery

www.backerkit.com

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Jonah Walker @ MCM London N-19 @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 13d

To all freelance peers who are struggling to make ends meet this year: it's not you. It's been getting tougher and tougher to get any gigs and many private clients struggle to pay their own bills.
Whatever it takes for us to get through this, please don't doubt your skills and value as a creative ❤️

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe we all need a past self whispering in our ear:

Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 14d

For some reason, I never posted this thing I wrote a few years ago. I forgot about it until yesterday, so here it is.

in the mirror hypnotized I’m haunted

Yesterday, I mentioned on Bluesky that I’d heard this guy suggest a way to break the doomscrolling Ouroboros we all seem to be stuck in right now: when the urge to resume doomscrolling hits (our brains asking for... Read More

wilwheaton.net

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Darla @basicandbizarre.bsky.social · 16d

Are you like me and have tons of oversized MtG d20 life counters?

Guess what?

They work GREAT for tracking the stat pools for your Cypher system group! They count down and up easily, no fussing with beads or tokens.

3 per player and you're golden!

@montecookgames.com

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 16d

FWIW, a buddy and I have completely different aesthetic preferences:
“That’s badass!”
“I think it kinda looks dumb.
But THAT, that’s awesome!”
“Not a fan…”
But we have a great time where we overlap.

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Rob Wieland 🔜 GameHole Con!!! @robowieland.bsky.social · 16d

Over on @forbes.com I look at recent RPG starter sets from @modiphius.bsky.social @cubicle7games.bsky.social @montecookgames.com and more

www.forbes.com/sites/robwie...

Crack Open A Role Playing Game Starter Set For That New Game Smell

In celebration of the new D&D starter set, I look at some of favorite starter sets from recent memory to help role playing game groups expand their horizons

www.forbes.com

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Kuy Von Braun II @kuyvonbraun.bsky.social · 18d

Made me chuckle 🤣👩🏻‍🚀👽🦑

*thought you’d appreciate this @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social

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Monte Cook Games @montecookgames.com · 18d

4000 Pages of RPG Awesomeness FREE!

Eight standalone adventures. Nine campaign settings that will fire your imagination. Nine genre books that thoroughly explore fantasy, horror, supers, post-apocalyptic, and more.

FREE with ANY Pledge!
mymcg.info/cypher

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 18d

You’re an amazing person!

Also, your game and graphic designs are clever!

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Jon Smejkal @cyberook.bsky.social · 20d

🤘🏻💥🤘🏻

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