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It was great chatting with Tony from @plusoneexp.bsky.social today about RPG Trader and all things TTRPG! 🎲 We had a fantastic conversation, and we've dropped the link below if you'd like to give it a watch/listen. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ28...

📣 A reminder that if you donated to the Graham Platner campaign via ActBlue within the past 90 days, here's the instructions on how to request a refund: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

I’m at a design panel and they just said “AI will solve taste” and I’m done

I did it! I ate too many corn nuts!

Writing truly trues in at this very moment in time is a bit weird. I'm sitting over here trying to cleverly reword the rule "Don't fucking use AI slop for your eidolons" so that it'll sit nicely with the rest of the text of Swords Without Master.

i’m still short on my rent for july and have penalty fees on top of that for being late. thanks for any help you can provide. ko-fi.com/jnbutlerart

Writing truly trues in at this very moment in time is a bit weird. I'm sitting over here trying to cleverly reword the rule "Don't fucking use AI slop for your eidolons" so that it'll sit nicely with the rest of the text of Swords Without Master.

In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.

Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

I wrote about the irony of Platner and his campaign trying to convince journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it:

Never Another You is an album of lofi beats (not lofi bears, as I nearly typed just now) perfect for chilling out or doing creative work to Bandcamp: https://chrisbissette.bandcamp.com/album/never-another-you Itch: https://loottheroom.itch.io/never-another-you

Yeah, but econ classes are supposed to just be about regurgitating the professors' slop right back at them, sooooo…

Aerial shot following a lonesome car on a road winding its way through an autumnal forest as the sun sets or rises. I'll probably watch that.

So frustrated that my phone doesn't have the 🪏 emoji.

My third soft pastel surface test really is the clear winner - canson sand texture paper with golden pastel ground on top. Very big visible texture but holy cow it holds pigment.

Suppose I had lunch.

I too had a catchy ‘Swords Without Master’ melody in my head so i had to record it for the podcast on.soundcloud.com/0bxaAOZ53sjp...

I got to run a good session of Swords Without Master last night and now it's stuck in my head like the catchy melody of a good song. I have to run it again - it's a game that really offers you a way to build narrative skills, and I'm deeply excited about it.

With infinite time/energy, I'd love to have a podcast that highlighted work from black TTRPG designers (established and emerging). Does that exist? (Pretty please, pay attention to the specificity here and don't namedrop podcasts that have black designers on there on occassion or w/ black hosts)

Feeling the urge to rewatch Godzilla Minus One. Again.

A Wednesday reminder that @sawinchell.bsky.social and I made a Columbo game that rips. Play to find out what the viewing audience thinks of the Murderer when the Detective finally calls them to account. Includes 5 ready-to-play casefiles + full writer's room mode. www.ndpdesign.com/one-more-thing

Finally had a chance to listen to this episode! It was awesome hearing everyone else's conversations. And hearing my talk again reminded of just how special the entire thing is that we do there. Origins is special because Games on Demand is there. GoD is special because we all show up. It's awesome

I love showing up to playtest tuesday to test other people's stuff, because I always end up learning too and I get to see all kinds of cool new ideas in action! Last night was especially delightful! AND violent (as Romeo, I beat up several of Juliet's cousins 😂)

Every other tuesday we host Playtest Tuesday in the @unwrittenearths.bsky.social Discord, and folks? People are playtesting games! discord.com/invite/cgJa5...

Had a good, insightful playtest of Violent Delights with @jenkatwrites.bsky.social and @ndpdesign.com last night in the Unwritten Earths discord. It was heartening, and I left with really helpful notes. Feeling grateful for spaces like these where I can learn from some great, truly true designers.

Thinking about Lincoln Green🏹, but I'm focusing on Swords⚔️ right now. Cannot wait to get this game out for so many reasons.

mods are asleep post illegal scooby gang member "Mike" who was cut out before the show began

O to glow like a Scooby-Doo monster.

The simple fun of making your own Realis stuff was basically the first thing that I was really confident about with the game, and was in a real way why "Realization" became the core progression mechanic, so that even if you weren't homebrewing, you got a taste of writing your own Sentences.

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

Meet the Pacific stargazer, an ambush hunter spends most of its life buried beneath the sand. Its upturned face allows it to see even when most of its body is concealed. And? It's capable of stunning prey with electrical shocks of ~50 volts! Photo: alboertoalcala, CC BY 4.0 iNaturalist

This whole discourse re: defending shitty "Left wing" candidates really chaps my ass because they act as though these men are our only hope & we're being defeatist. Did it ever occur to you clowns that we don't have a deep bench to pull from because men like that poisoned the well?

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Do not sleep on Tanith Lee!!

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I'm a Mom... And did you know that gives me just two hours to play a game? This just isn't feasible with the the leading brand RPGs. And when found that out, I just fucking lost it, I mean, I had to design my own games...

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

one of my favorite chinese restaurants has an online menu with commentary from the owner and its very funny to me that shes like "eh its just ok dont get your hopes up" on multiple dishes

Tempted to post Heathcliff in his ham mobile just to foreshorten this week.

let me do the reboot, nbc, this idea is gold

Between the time Swords Without Master was in Worlds Without Master issue 3 & the rise of the fix-up, I made the switch from Dark Magicks to Regretful Magicks and, folks, all other concerns aside, it's better: more explicit, more evocative, less trite. Any excuse to examine your language is a gift.

So, it's a kinda standard thing to do the good = light, bad = dark symbolism in TTRPGs. If it isn't clearly obvious how that becomes problematic, don't ask me to explain it to you. Do your homework, come back to the thread (ask me to explain it = ignore/mute/block, dependent on approach)...