You GOTTA have Adepts! I made a Leverage/Shadowrun hack for my usual game group last year, though I ended up going a different way and having Mage cover all three types with different "keystone" Talents to distinguish them, and per-job resources (Essence, Ware, and Magic/Resonance/Transhumanity)

This is entirely accurate. But if necessary systemic solutions happen to require it, I’d be willing to take the win.

I hadn’t really thought about the role of “drone strikes on AWS data centers” in warfare, but current events have me thinking that it’s going to be super common from here on out.

It feels great to be back to making comics again. I was in survival mode for so long I lost the thread. Making comics and telling stories are a huge part of who I am. I hope you’ll give IGS a read. I have big plans.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

The rules and rulesets you create don't have to answer to people who don't choose to use them. They have to answer to the people who do choose to use them.

A new edition of Good Society is set to grace the ton! With revised rules and additional sumptuous art, this new edition will be useful, usable and scandalously good looking. Check it out and help support this unique game of regency romance, scandal and drama! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

adventure games from the 80s were intentionally designed to be tricky, mean and occasionally counterintuitive so that you could get stuck for long periods of time. this was called “value for your dollar”

I have no idea what this is, but this is one of those areas where the person posting it is all the endorsement I need to go find out.

There we go: I knew I was forgetting SOMETHING.

In the Craft books, Gladstone has a habit of dropping small notes which my brain snags on and proceeds to spin out on. Elayne’s expense account (as a source of magical power) was one of these. Today’s was the idea of a god having a covert asset.

A belly-to-back suplex is absolutely the right choice for this as it allows you to see the ridiculous pointy hood get absolutely crushed moments before they slam into the ground. I guess a piledriver would also work in that regard, but suplexes are cooler imo 👀

I completely sympathize with your hate of Jira, but could you possibly use some of that hate to delete some of the ten thousand tickets you've created and left in backlog over the past 5 years because you might want to do them someday?

Gonna post a Second Gig update soon going into more depth on the new locations. I got good shit brewing there

In this era of institutional failure, it is fantastical escapism to explore a world of competent administrators who take injustice seriously. That's what a murder mystery is - a fable of social and governmental decency and efficiency. Take it or leave it.

The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting. … and it’s failed.

Thanks for hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday! If you like mixing turn-based with cards, check out my game CROWNBREAKERS. A deck-building brawler that has you free a magical city from tyrant billionaires! s.team/a/2938540 Demo incoming soon!

The best thing about this is that @davidbaldeoncomic.bsky.social made Disney Princess Domino (plus movie!) art!

Whether you're looking for a pick-up game to fill in the gaps or a whole new campaign to explore, the GM's Day Sale @drivethrurpg.com offers a terrific opportunity to find a TTRPG you and your players will love. Get inspired - and save some 💰- right now: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

I once told my line producer “I became a writer to tell stories and now I argue about how it costs $50,000 to move some trucks.”

& by running most emotional expression *and* self-understanding through an anger filter. I don't know that it's even conscious for most guys. Sad? anger! Confused? Anger! Hurt? Anger! Vulnerable? Anger! It's teal and orange but for feelings

Historically, fools who think that all a movie or novel takes is an idea have been protected from finding out that their ideas are terrible by the fact that this is not true. AI will change all that. In the future, they will be protected from finding out by their lack of taste.

Do you like super-heroes? RPGs? Do you like supporting queer Witch authors? @stevekenson.com Check out my husbands latest project!

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more! thoughtpunks.com/ope...#TTRPG #OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

THE PAPER PLATE GODS HAVE COME AND THEY ARE ANGRY.

The play for its biggest champions is for AI to be both the machine and the mask. As a machine, AI creates slop, yes... but it churns so much of it that is real-enough seeming that it batters the senses. It seeks to control signal by selectively burying it in noise.

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.

it sometimes kills me inside that the single most prescient bit of science fiction writing to me is a throwaway bit in Adams' "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" which talks about the two pieces of software the guy wrote.

It’s important to remember that billionaires are parasites with a vested interest in persuading you they are predators.

I wrote this up, plus my implementation of siege mechanics, in a longer post: popone.innocence.com/archives/202... #TTRPG

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

The Invisible Library is available for just $1.99 until the 10th of March - do take advantage! www.bookbub.com/books/the-in...

Currently in the middle of field prep/planting, by the time I got a video done it would be out of date 🥹 This quote is wild though. They ALMOST made it to "This could be solved by the US cutting back on the bulk crops that it doesn't have a market for anymore anyway." But then they didn't. 🤷‍♀️

This is what @fetterman.senate.gov is endorsing. This is what McCormick and Thompson are endorsing. This is what those chucklefucks flipping us off as we stood with “No War” signs demand and cheer. May those girls visit you in your dreams and none of you know a night’s rest ever again.

I know my geeks will love this. This is an arithmometer. It's your Texas Instruments digital calculator's great grandpappy. They started making these in the 1850s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmo...

"Do you want to play someone whose entire value as a person is wrapped up in their bond with a dragon? Or do you want to play someone whose chivalry and honor while it hinges on meting out brutal violence?" New HOTBLOOD post is up on the blog! www.patreon.com/posts/152234...

Anyone who hasn't read this fanfic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the man who administers The Lottery from the Shirley Jackson short story, you should definitely read it! archiveofourown.org/works/733964...

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)

Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!! bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...

The Vampire's Tale Tarot pre-order page is finally up! This deck will arrive in time for Halloween this year. Reserve your copy here: tinyurl.com/ycxwrdwe

We’re kickstarting a brand-new edition of Public Access (maybe you’ve heard of it) on March 17th! I ran a full campaign of the new edition on @thebadspot.bsky.social YT channel. It’s a great watch—and a great way to learn the game! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I never really trust anyone who only likes good things.

Something we learned early in the launch of Designed in the DMV is how retailers see events as a competitive advantage vs Amazon. The forward-leaning ones saw that doing events with us doubled that advantage by showing the community how we are all interconnected. 🌐

It could not be any more blatant in its christian rock-ness, but for all that, Mister Mister’s Kyrie Eleison is permanently inscribed into my bones as a song I will turn up.

There is no fun like needing to bulk update a thousand Jira tickets, but ONE of them has a hidden data problem that will bollix any attempt to do so, so you get your spend the next 40m trying to Xeno’s Paradox through the pile.

Not looking forward to the History Channel specials on World War Epstein

I have just read a fantastic article in the new @baytalazif.bsky.social issue, a magazine for Cthulhu Mythos Roleplaying Games. It's a deep look at Chris Spivey, @darkerhue.bsky.social , whom I already knew to be an excellent rpg designer, but I did not know the full extent of his range

Chris's bibliography is astonishing, he has worked on literally dozens of games, scenarios, etc. He is the creator, among other things, of Harlem Unbound, and Haunted West, both works are fantastic and bring diversity to the Lovecraftian universe and to westerns. Lovecraft was a dreadful racist...