I love the idea of using a gear shifter to switch keyboard layers However, I'm skeptical that a one-handed keyboard would be ergonomic.

#TTRPG nerd 💩 ahead I didn't play D&D till college, and that was a homebrewed Frankenstein system. But I can see responses to Gygax's arguments in Palladium, and other 90s RPGs.

A reminder that conservatives keep showing us exactly who they are.

now is the time for steady craftin

Wake up new separate gender spheres just dropped

Authors and Gamemasters, today's world building question! What are some significant laws that impact your story, and how are they implemented? #ttrpg #authors #gamemasters #worldbuilding #storydevelopment #writingcommunity #writersky #writingprompts

This should be played at the end of each news broadcast.

#TTRPG thoughts I can see the end of my Apocalypse World 3e game is near I'm thinking about what to fill that spot in my life with. Maybe I should run a short Polaris game?

#TTRPG #WorldBuilding inspiration Sunflowers track the sun, no one knows what the Darkflowers track

The concept of generations has really done a number on our ability to see the interconnectedness of the past and the present. Framing history in lifespans is so much better.

I wish to god more people understood this.

Woke up hungry, guess I could have a snack. Damnit a mouse startles me fully awake. 😧 Tomorrow I'll have to find some traps.

The cover of be with me is by Egon Schiele. A woman came up to me at a zine fest last month, having spotted it from a distance, and told me it's her favorite painting.

Hey #ttrpgCommunity! If you had to pitch your current campaign as a one-sentence elevator pitch, what would it be? #ttrpg #dnd #rpg

My Dudes, turn the #Music up, it's Saturday #MsDynamite

Extending an older urban fantasy concept a new way: The world edits away the supernatural, and evidence of the supernatural. People forget things, things vanish, and those that get too involved WITH the supernatural, they disappear too. They go into the fade. (...)

History will record this as the most corrupt presidency of all time and it really isn’t even close. And yet there will also be a lot of “but Obama used drones” and “Clinton was bad” and my brothers and sisters and niblings in Dagon, let me tell you, none of that is even on the same level

#TTRPGTHOUGHTS 1 Have you ever considered your own well being when designing an adventure? You’re only human. You have needs and limitations. When you’ve designed an adventure to run, have you ever considered those? Written an adventure so it’s easy to run? Easy to remember? 1

Oh shit, it's actual Tripods. John Christopher still haunts me with the precious of his horror.

I don't think #TTRPGs need tactical grids, or satellite maps Like the map below is as detailed as you need to be. Yes, occasionally you need an image to set the scene.

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

#humor It's been confirmed 🪳 in person suits walk among us 🫪

Important questions for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilding folks out there, and y'all should try to develop an answer for this, even if you don't reply; What is the general perception towards queerness* in your setting, and is there a cultural expectation for what a family unit should be? #TTRPG

Captain, we are receiving a sigil, signal.

Wait are you telling me the PbtA ISN'T just "narrative gurps"? Oh wow.

It must take _so much energy_ to be a terf or a transphobe. Know what's easy? And I mean, dead simple super easy for lazy bastards like me? When someone says "Hey, my gender is [this]" or "My pronouns are [that]" you just say "Okay, cool" And that's it.

I appreciate the realistic stance presented here but I don't believe there's a benefit to making any space for works with GenAI. A solid "No GenAI Never" policy shows what you believe clearly to the people you're trying to get to use both sides of your platform, anything less is too much.

If you go into every interaction with the default setting "this person that I'm talking with is a sovereign human being with intrinsic value and a complicated history and inner struggles," you'll be a much, much better person than if you presume that the world exists to serve your wee selfish whims.

There's this rule in Swords Without Master that is kind of a big deal, because it breaks traditional GMing advice.† It's why I'm skeptical about #ttrpg aphorisms and give the side-eye to most anything purporting to be a universally good GMing tip.

Okay NERDS, actual real tabletop question (not click bait): has anyone figured out how to blorb... a mystery?

Homemade Nutella #Recipe For each cup of peanut butter, 1 tbsp of cocoa powder, and sugar. And stirring in a bit of almond milk or coconut milk till you get something spreadable

#TTRPG drama On Instagram I've ruffled a bunch of feathers by questioning the wisdom of Brennan Lee Mulligan 😅 I'm going to clarify my thoughts here, before I respond there First off, the shape of rivers isn't dependent upon an author shaping it. This is just a terrible metaphor.

Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilding folks out there; How are the lives of common folk affected by the existence of magic? And more specifically, are they affected positively, negatively, or both? Are there magic tools for them? Spells that make farming easier? #TTRPG

I never want to again hear the ridiculous lie that women are too emotional to govern. Every MAGAt male I've ever heard of is a quivering twine-ball of knoted bishfeels perpetually on the cusp of either a spontaneous profane scream or a spontaneous sob about his shattered inner child.

Live in five, friends! Join us in the chat...

Shadows of Yesterday and Donjon are *seminal* works for the #indie #ttrpg scene, bringing concepts that are still used by games today.

So an example of some of the context of RPG space in mid 00s. Take a game that works like this - "Roll 1d6, on 1-3 the GM describes what happens, 4-6 the player describes what happens".

Six years later, we still haven't reckoned with Covid's collective psychological damage, and a lot of that surely stems from watching the government respond to an historic crisis by saying, "We can make people's lives slightly less miserable, just as long as they understand it's strictly temporary."

These are excellent novels, you should read them

#Math geeking I love PBS. Just thinking about infinities gets my brain tingling.

In honor of everyone who gave their lives on the Discourse Fronts, on the beaches of The Forge and Story-games, I present this for #TTRPG Memorial Day: aggregatecognizance.com/p/fiction-fi...

Apropos of Helen Of Troy casting discourse, I just stumbled across these photos from Orson Wells’ 1950 stage production of ‘Time Runs’, with Welles as Faustus and Eartha Kitt as Helen Of Troy.

Campaign ideas like this keep me up at night. #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity

I so hate D&D culture humour that always is a variant of "and then we befriended the dragon and totally derailed the story, lol!", completely ignorant and disrespecting how 'The Gang Befriends A Dragon' IS THE STORY you as a group of cooperating creative minds made up you witless buffoon!

Another image to inspire my eventual sword and sorcery #TTRPG campaign

Don’t erase our history! Give statues of racist historical figures to artists of color as raw materials, then display the resulting works.

what a callback

This is the 🫧💿🐎 that I'm nostalgic for Unfortunately I don't have time today to indulge or I'd find a Ms Dynamite track to respond with.

😞 My favorite feature of Bluesky is blocklists YouTube and Instagram would be far more pleasant places if I could crowdsource blocking AI slop and rage bait accounts

The thing about people who watch Star Trek is that they usually end up watching all of the Star Trek. Enterprise is more Star Trek.