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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

TODAY'S THE DAY! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, with cover illustration by @kroovv.bsky.social and interior illos by @jencmars.bsky.social, is now on shelves!

Get it at your friendly local game store or through one of these links: spyandowl.com/making...

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 1d

*ENEMIES. Making ENEMIES. I'm so sorry, @themonstersknow.com. This is what happens when your wyrmling keeps you up all night and you have a deadline to make 🤦‍♂️

Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 2d

New post! A review: Making Monsters from @themonstersknow.com, on sale from tomorrow. A CR 30 epic boss of a book with a treasure hoard of inspiration.

scrollforinitiative.com/2025/10/06/m... #dnd #pathfinder #callofcthulhu #cyphersystem #shadowdark #5e

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 2d

I've never watched Scrubs or played Zelda, amd the whole emo/indie sleaze thing totally passed me by. I'm only ashamed of one of these things.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that there is no dire bear in #5e.

How have I never noticed this before?

(Reason: it's called a cave bear instead, which I guess was a real-life predator.) #dnd

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Monte Cook Games @montecookgames.com · 11d

THANK YOU, backers!

Only a few RPG crowdfunding campaigns not based on popular licenses or 5E have ever broken $1,000,000 in a crowdfunding campaign. We are beyond excited and humbled to see Cypher enter those ranks.

Thank you for making this an unforgettable campaign!

mymcg.info/cypher

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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 11d

The second part of Echohawk's amazing article series looks at how much stuff was made by each #DnD setting over the years. Forgotten Realms way in the lead (no surprise there).

www.enworld.org/threads/how-...

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 11d

On the subject of Nightfang Spire: anyone know why 3rd edition adventures had different covers in pre-release material? Seems odd to commission art you have no intention of using. #dnd

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 11d

Whatever happened to the MOONCALF from Heart of Nightfang Spire? Apparently they survived into 4th edition but haven't been seen 2011 or so. I think they're great. @brucecordell.bsky.social #dnd

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 16d

I wonder whether this is the time to mention that there's a revised edition on the way …

Alessandro Rosa, PhD @alessandrorosaphd.bsky.social · 16d

@themonstersknow.com This New York Magazine article recommends The Monsters Know What They're Doing as a great resource for new DMs.
nymag.com/strategist/a...

The Essentials You Need to Start Playing Dungeons & Dragons

According to the Dungeon Masters, game-store owners, and many other obsessives I interviewed.

nymag.com

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 16d

So autism is caused by paracetamol now? Absolutely unhinged.

Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 17d

Out of the Abyss is ten years old this week? Mad. Still never run or played it straight through. Should I? I do love demon lords and the Underdark… #5e #dnd

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 18d

Also, been a bit quiet on here and the blog because of start of term and, yeah, OK, I watched all of #Succession. That's about 40 hours of free time I could have spent on other things. But I don't regret it.

Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 18d

Tomorrow's session takes place in Tyr Elethan: once the centre of a magocracy, now a cursed island ruin. Think Drakkenheim, The Last of Us, Old Valyria, and STALKER, with a dash of FF7's Midgar and Isla Nublar thrown in.

Well, I think it's cool 🤷‍♂️

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22d

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · 22d

I contacted the agent of a well-known #dnd YouTuber (no names, they're cool) to see if they might be interested in my book, and… I'm shocked.

I knew paid sponsorships were a thing, but: $3k for 60 seconds? That's wild.

Maybe I need to do YouTube.

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Belzée 🏳️‍⚧️ Studio HeroQueer @sheroqueer.com · 23d

One of my proudest miniature 💜
Made to give a smile on a trans kid 💜
I'm so glad my work means something to people in need 💜🏳️‍⚧️

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is top tier stuff.

Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Jan 21

Fellreach Marsh, Fellmyr map detail and in-world isometric compass rose.

#hexcrawl #ttrpg #cartography #art

map fragment depicting some marshlands with lakes and oxbow ponds near a river and a ruined city being swallowed by the marsh.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Trying to write stuff during September is a nightmare. Give your teacher friends a hug, folks.

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Scott Fitzgerald Gray @scottfgray.bsky.social · Sep 4

FRPG Player Tip: When showing respect for the other players by avoiding scenarios or themes they’ve asked to steer clear of, don’t forget the GM is a player too. If something at the table feels like it’s making the GM uncomfortable, take a break to talk about it and change direction if necessary.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ofsted have rated my child's nursery inadequate for the most trivial reasons. But as a parent, there us no mechanism to have my voice heard.

Snap judgements cause real harm to staff and families, but there is zero accountability, even after #RuthPerry. #Ofsted #EarlyYears @ofstednews.bsky.social

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · Aug 28

It really is crap to have to pour some much of your life into a job you don't fundamentally enjoy very much.

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Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · Aug 27

If I see one more 'it's not just X – it's why' post, I swear I'm gonna

Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · Aug 26

My mind was blown when I learned that people pronounce 'lichen' like 'litchen'. For me it's a homophone with 'liken'. Am I the weird one?

Scroll for Initiative 📜 @scrollforinit.bsky.social · Aug 26

Just came across this. How can anyone put up with slop like this?

🎃Gore By Night🎃 @lorebynightvtm.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's been brought to my attention by a friend that the folks at Renegade/World of Darkness are using AI art now, though I reckon this has been going on for a bit longer (gestures to my review of the V5 Players Guide).

The Art director is incompetent & WoD STILL does not care about quality control.

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