In a world where you can be for anything, be for: - Trans rights. - Access to gender-affirming care for anyone who wants it. - Recognition of and celebration of trans people past and present.

Add turnspit dogs to your D&D kitchens. Or what about turnspit faeries? www.youtube.com/shorts/9X8rJ...

Psst. Want to know the secret to using combat timers in D&D? thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53...

Enjoying AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS on Netflix, but it's the Platonic ideal of everything wrong with "prestige" TV. 3-episode series of hour-long episodes. Could have been a much better 1 hour 45 min movie if they just cut all the dead air. So many shots (and repeated shots) just filling time.

I miss platform stability. For multiple decades you could buy a VHS tape and know it would work in any VHS player hooked up to any TV. I just spent multiple days figuring out that a movie wouldn't play on one of my TVs specifically because it was using Dolby Vision Profile 10.

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Per current discourse on #wizards and #wizard fiction: Seems a good time to menttion that if you're looking for other-series options, you can pick up the first nine #YoungWizards novels as #ebooks in a bundle. (Unless you're in the UK: we can't sell to you due to Brexit...sorry.) bit.ly/YWNMESET

Superhero Kitties! Go check this out! I am the cartographer and you need to see the isometric city map of Meowtropolis I made. It is HUGE. #ttrpg

I wish all these fancy, limited edition popcorn buckets they keep making were designed so that you could actually clean them and, therefore, use them.

Ars Magica Open License NEW RELEASES! #ArsMagica #OpenLicense

I really like the look of those inks over Starlin. It's a very nice combination.

Investigating the mind-shattering cosmic nullities of the Lovecraftian mythos has never been more affordable than with the Trail of Cthulhu PDF Mega Bundle.

Belated thought: If the Oscars are so concerned about "running long," why is the show still designed so that we're watching the presenters silently walk 70 feet across the stage towards the microphone?

This is my favorite RPG book. Don't miss out.

You know how you can hire goats to trim your grass? Is there an equivalent animal that will come and eat the snow on my sidewalk?

This looks very cool. Wishlisted!

Did H. P. Lovecraft write fantasy horror? Or did he write horrific SCIENCE FICTION? In the new Bayt al Azif issue 6, astrophysicist Dr. Erik Rosolowsky looks at the hard astronomical science of the 1920s and 30s that fascinated and inspired Lovecraft, and how that has changed in the century since.

It bugs me that in PEACE TALKS, Jim Butcher implies that H.P. Lovecraft created the Hounds of Tindalos, which were actually created by Frank Belknap Long. I do like the name "cornerhounds," though. Is that something Butcher created? It's my first time encountering it.

Magical Kitties NEW FREEBIE! #MagicalKitties #Kickstarter

IT IS TIME The man looked up from his beach chair. "Really?" He said. "I've only just retired." Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't. CURIOUS Vetinari shrugged. "I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17

Now on sale in the d20Monkey Shop: The IGS Hope Never Withers design! #webcomics #cthulhu d20monkey.dashery.com

Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.

Stunningly beautiful cover.

I don't know anyone who went to therapy because they saw a gay character in a movie. I know A LOT of people in therapy because they were falsely told being LGBT was wrong/sinful/something to be ashamed of. Docter's statement that Pixar/Disney are led by bigots is, sadly, not surprising.

If someone's under 30, they have likely never seen the original versions of the Star Wars trilogy. And it has a huge impact on the legacy of these films.

This comic is short (>100 pgs) so the paperback only costs $12!! The good news is that’s a STEAL for an OGN!! The downside is that it’ll take more backers for every creator involved in this project to be paid what they’re worth 🙏 If you haven’t already, please consider supporting this project!

Do your players refuse to make plans and instead default to the most boring options? It might be your fault. thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53...

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

It's incredible how much of the Republican Party's platform is just Fuck Dem Kids.

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

Patrons of the Alexandrian can download an exclusive PDF collection of THE ART OF RULINGS, including the upcoming brand new installments. www.patreon.com/posts/art-of...

Just posting this here for accountability: I am giving myself a March 31 deadline to finish compiling this first-ever collection of the web strips. The series will contain 400 comics in each volume. There are currently close to 2,500 strips in the archives - plus assorted comics for GameSpy, etc.

On second thought, not going to get into an argument with someone who thinks 1975 CE happened before 1970 CE. Maybe they're Merlin.

We live in an era where an INCREDIBLE amount of high-quality media is being produced. Paradoxically, we are individually consuming ever smaller slices of it. Mega-Franchises & Shibboleths.

Bayt al Azif issue 5 just reached the Gold Best Seller level! A side benefit of a new issue coming out is sales on the previous issues go up too. Issues 1 & 2 are Platinum, 3, 4 & 5 are Gold! You can get all six issues of Bayt al Azif here if you missed any: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

What does it look like to "let it ride" at the table? Let's take a look back at a session from George Lucas' classic actual play.

This is so fabulous. Thanks, @eoinglackin.bsky.social ! ❤️

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

Trump, the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist currently embroiled by allegations that his administration is covering up the sex trafficking crimes of a pedophile ring, went on a racist tirade during the State of the Union. Reminder that this is what all unbiased news reporting should look like.

My bank sent me an e-mail with the subject line "6-7!" We're cooked as a society.

Firefox has been barraging me with pop-ups about all their "cool" new features. You know what new feature I want? Get rid of the frickin' pop-ups.

Creating memorable NPCs for your D&D, Draw Steel, Call of Cthulhu, or any other RPG campaign. thealexandrian.net/wordpress/43...

Perfect timing! Japonism 2024, 3 Call of Cthulhu scenarios set in modern day Japan by Japanese creators Aka あか, Lom ろむ, and Byoushin 秒針, interviewed by @mjrrpg.bsky.social in Bayt al Azif issue 6. Get both @drivethrurpg.com www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Imagine that I created a room in D&D and I said, “This room has a door and two windows.” And then Bob said, “THAT’S A PLOT! You are predetermining that the PCs will enter the room through the door or the windows!” I’m very hopeful that you can understand that Bob’s not making any sense here.

"No one is more skeptical than I," says man about to argue that the Earth is a parallelogram.

I'm tired of interacting with people who have turned themselves into mouthpieces for AI slop. Not AI advocates. People who are just literally copy-pasting from an LLM in chats, e-mails, etc. You think you're talking to a person, but have instead been unwittingly signed up for a babble session.

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything." And. Yup.

Watching Countdown (1968) has me wondering what the last story was (in any medium) to use "the first man on the moon" as a science fiction premise (as opposed to an alt history premise).

Have you seen the Yellow Sign?