Jason Bowers
@phdnd.bsky.social
Academic philosopher, author, game designer, YouTube creator, he/him
Gotta love this monster gallery by Mel Williams, i.e. battydog, for "5 Acts: The King in Yellow," our game via @nilhemothgames.bsky.social.
December 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Gotta love this monster gallery by Mel Williams, i.e. battydog, for "5 Acts: The King in Yellow," our game via @nilhemothgames.bsky.social.
@samfontainestudios.bsky.social really knocked it out of the park with these cutaway maps for our game, "5 Acts: The King in Yellow" by @nilhemothgames.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
@samfontainestudios.bsky.social really knocked it out of the park with these cutaway maps for our game, "5 Acts: The King in Yellow" by @nilhemothgames.bsky.social
When you're trying to type "were" but your phone wants you to type "we're"
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
When you're trying to type "were" but your phone wants you to type "we're"
Reposted by Jason Bowers
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Including many eerie works of art from the book!
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Including many eerie works of art from the book!
Santiago Caruso, "Zoetrope"
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Santiago Caruso, "Zoetrope"
Abolish ICE.
it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Abolish ICE.
Please feel free to join me on the PhD&D Discord server this Saturday, December 6th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Distressing Notification" by Robin D. Laws. As usual, I'll read for about twenty minutes and then hang around for some discussion.
INVITATION: discord.gg/7vqzDNT8
INVITATION: discord.gg/7vqzDNT8
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Please feel free to join me on the PhD&D Discord server this Saturday, December 6th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Distressing Notification" by Robin D. Laws. As usual, I'll read for about twenty minutes and then hang around for some discussion.
INVITATION: discord.gg/7vqzDNT8
INVITATION: discord.gg/7vqzDNT8
Please feel free to join me on the PhD&D Discord server tomorrow, November 29th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "The Voice in the Bones" by Thomas Ligotti. As usual, I'll read for about twenty minutes and then hang around for some discussion.
INVITATION: discord.gg/7vqzDNT8
INVITATION: discord.gg/7vqzDNT8
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Please feel free to join me on the PhD&D Discord server tomorrow, November 29th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "The Voice in the Bones" by Thomas Ligotti. As usual, I'll read for about twenty minutes and then hang around for some discussion.
INVITATION: discord.gg/7vqzDNT8
INVITATION: discord.gg/7vqzDNT8
I included a chunk of my fiction in our game's book, in the section called "Other Yellow Ironies." I was very much inspired by Ligotti's "Gothic Tales" as well as the Carcosa mythos. Here are a couple!
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I included a chunk of my fiction in our game's book, in the section called "Other Yellow Ironies." I was very much inspired by Ligotti's "Gothic Tales" as well as the Carcosa mythos. Here are a couple!
Reposted by Jason Bowers
I received my copy of @nilhemothgames.bsky.social and @phdnd.bsky.social's #ttrpg "5 Acts: The King in Yellow," and I can't wait to really dive in! Just had a quick skim and I'm already loving the art and all the little GM bits of world building and story hooks.
Have YOU found The Yellow Sign?
Have YOU found The Yellow Sign?
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I received my copy of @nilhemothgames.bsky.social and @phdnd.bsky.social's #ttrpg "5 Acts: The King in Yellow," and I can't wait to really dive in! Just had a quick skim and I'm already loving the art and all the little GM bits of world building and story hooks.
Have YOU found The Yellow Sign?
Have YOU found The Yellow Sign?
When you show up to the talk with objections already prepared
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
When you show up to the talk with objections already prepared
Reposted by Jason Bowers
Digital Fulfillment is nearly complete; check your inboxes, fellow Seekers of the Yellow Sign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/623...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/623...
Update 48: Digital Fulfillment! · 5 Acts: The King in Yellow RPG
Greetings, Fellow Seekers of the Yellow Sign,We're nearly finished with the digital fulfillment of our book! Please be sure to check the email associated with your Kickstarter pledge; you should find ...
www.kickstarter.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Digital Fulfillment is nearly complete; check your inboxes, fellow Seekers of the Yellow Sign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/623...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/623...
Please join me tomorrow evening, Saturday, November 22nd, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Seven Floors" by Dino Buzzati. As always, I'll read for about twenty minutes, then hang around for a short discussion. This one's really excellent!
INVITATION: discord.gg/NkcAyeEy
INVITATION: discord.gg/NkcAyeEy
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Please join me tomorrow evening, Saturday, November 22nd, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Seven Floors" by Dino Buzzati. As always, I'll read for about twenty minutes, then hang around for a short discussion. This one's really excellent!
INVITATION: discord.gg/NkcAyeEy
INVITATION: discord.gg/NkcAyeEy
I am very excited to have penned a little thing about Salomé's hideous botany, as part of a series of vignettes.
By the way, who else is going to this thing?
Oh, I'm also writing a story about having a thousand limbs but only wanting the ones crushed, which impede my job as a chandelier.
By the way, who else is going to this thing?
Oh, I'm also writing a story about having a thousand limbs but only wanting the ones crushed, which impede my job as a chandelier.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I am very excited to have penned a little thing about Salomé's hideous botany, as part of a series of vignettes.
By the way, who else is going to this thing?
Oh, I'm also writing a story about having a thousand limbs but only wanting the ones crushed, which impede my job as a chandelier.
By the way, who else is going to this thing?
Oh, I'm also writing a story about having a thousand limbs but only wanting the ones crushed, which impede my job as a chandelier.
Please join me this Saturday, November 15th, at 7pm Eastern US on the PhD&D official Discord server's General Voice channel, for my live reading of Michael Cisco's weird fiction classic, "Modern Cities Exist Only To Be Destroyed."
INVITATION: discord.gg/XxK62qt4
INVITATION: discord.gg/XxK62qt4
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Please join me this Saturday, November 15th, at 7pm Eastern US on the PhD&D official Discord server's General Voice channel, for my live reading of Michael Cisco's weird fiction classic, "Modern Cities Exist Only To Be Destroyed."
INVITATION: discord.gg/XxK62qt4
INVITATION: discord.gg/XxK62qt4
When you're late for work
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
When you're late for work
3K SUBS! Hooray, and thanks for supporting my channel! Look out for a special video this coming week!
Meanwhile, please join me on the PhD&D Discord Saturday, November 8th, and 7pm Eastern US, to hear a live reading of "A Bodyless Thing" by Sam Rebelein!
INVITATION: discord.gg/aKkRrEEn
Meanwhile, please join me on the PhD&D Discord Saturday, November 8th, and 7pm Eastern US, to hear a live reading of "A Bodyless Thing" by Sam Rebelein!
INVITATION: discord.gg/aKkRrEEn
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
3K SUBS! Hooray, and thanks for supporting my channel! Look out for a special video this coming week!
Meanwhile, please join me on the PhD&D Discord Saturday, November 8th, and 7pm Eastern US, to hear a live reading of "A Bodyless Thing" by Sam Rebelein!
INVITATION: discord.gg/aKkRrEEn
Meanwhile, please join me on the PhD&D Discord Saturday, November 8th, and 7pm Eastern US, to hear a live reading of "A Bodyless Thing" by Sam Rebelein!
INVITATION: discord.gg/aKkRrEEn
Has this ever happened to you?
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Has this ever happened to you?
Anyone else handing out the Yellow Sign to trick-or-treaters?
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Anyone else handing out the Yellow Sign to trick-or-treaters?
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
Here's a fun adventure based on the short story "Going, Going" by Meghan Arcuri, from Hippocampus Press' tribute to William Hope Hodgson, "Where the Silent Ones Watch."
Happy Halloween!
youtu.be/n7ybqgu-F-g
Happy Halloween!
youtu.be/n7ybqgu-F-g
Let's make SCAENA in 5e!
YouTube video by PhD&D
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October 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Here's a fun adventure based on the short story "Going, Going" by Meghan Arcuri, from Hippocampus Press' tribute to William Hope Hodgson, "Where the Silent Ones Watch."
Happy Halloween!
youtu.be/n7ybqgu-F-g
Happy Halloween!
youtu.be/n7ybqgu-F-g