STATEMENT FROM SUZANNE STAFFORD AND CHAOSIUM REGARDING A RECENT AI-GENERATED ARTICLE ABOUT CHAOSIUM FOUNDER GREG STAFFORD 🧵 Chaosium and the Stafford Estate are disappointed in 4 Pillar Games’ recent decision to post an AI-generated “historical archive article”... 1/7

The descriptors *are* fun! Orion Conroy made the first pass on some of the mini-adventure critters and I followed up. It's a creative step that benefits from more than one voice.

There's a 2nd level freeform mini-adventure now up on the @pelgranepress.bsky.social #13thAge resource pages. It's similar to a freeform demo we made for the first edition, but has more advice and better battle-building math. tinyurl.com/4rfwp52p

We're adding something fun and useful to our #13thAge monster stat blocks. tinyurl.com/mrc59y4m

Here's the line-up of Arduinian icons we created for the 13th Arduin campaign I've been running for #13Age tinyurl.com/mshs79ry

Sometimes I keep punched out cardboard counter sheets around for a few days, wondering if there is something cool to do with the silhouettes. This week our friend Marcia Bird spotted the SANIBEL sheets on a chair while she was painting watercolors with Lisa.

Eep, less than four hours to go! Even a buck helps (and gets you a Thank You in the flm!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...

This week's find was an unopened envelope from Labcorp lying in the street outside our house. It was addressed to a woman a couple suburbs to the north and had been used as scrap paper for expenses, along with other notes. Normally I'd find a way to mail the envelope. But not this one. You see...

Dear @the-kraken.bsky.social : Before @jonathantweet.bsky.social handed me the gift you'd asked him to pass along, he said he should probably film it, and I said no, no, that's OK. And then he handed me your Found Counters of Dragon Pass and I was Ohhhhpen-mouthed wonderstruck. Could not believe it.

Here's the spot in my campaign notebook that tracked my character's damage. It's a good thing we weren't using J's variant rule from HH: 306 that four Skulls kills you! My usually not-that-messy handwriting disintegrated as Esh took all this damage and finished the fight one hit from death.

#13thAge artist Lee Moyer has a 364-page graphic novel on pre-order sale at Barnes&Noble. Lee is the *writer* and painter of Trident of Aurelia, and today the code PREORDER25 gets you a 25% discount when the book releases later this year. tinyurl.com/52bhwuzs

In @robheinsoo.bsky.social's Arduin campaign, we revisited themes from a previous Arduin campaign: a bridge and an unopened box. We fought to bear the box across the bridge against phraints & knoblins. Rob used standees from the Vault of Mini Things (Tinkerhouse). When we finally opened the box, 1/2

The campaign has a couple names. 13th-Arduin pegs the system and the world. Arduin Blessed Arduin puts new spin on Hargrave's bloodier-sounding original, and the original meaning of blessed brings back the blood.

Just ran my first session of @pelgranepress.bsky.social @robheinsoo.bsky.social @jonathantweet.bsky.social 13th Age SECOND EDITION. Absolutely fantastic system, and the upgrades to 2e really add to the excitement in combats - but don't take my word for it, you'll be able to watch it soon!

Final session. After the party's failure to liberate the angels last session, the forces of the rogue prince were in retreat. The party was tasked to guard a shine: a round building (yellow w green top), raised outer walkway (green), stairway & blocked door (black), and barrels for cover (d12s). 1/n

We are launching a Kickstarter for the 4th Edition of Mutants & Masterminds next Tuesday, Feb 3. See this article for more info and follow the link there to sign up to be notified at launch. Please reskeet and tell your friends that M&M 4E is coming! greenronin.com/blog/2025/11...

I was a guest on The Tome Show with @dandillon.bsky.social as we took monster lore and blew it up into an adventure. Who am I kidding? It was an ultroloth and I'd say it blew up a campaign: tinyurl.com/yy2a4tr9

A blog on my dad's favorite Estonian sayings and their relevance to European and US politics. tinyurl.com/ykzkdcwf

Work on the next issue of Escalation is underway: In My Dragon Empire. We dedicate this issue to the ways your Dragon Empire, the default setting for 13th Age, is unique! For more info on what we're looking for check out this post: escalationfanzine.blogspot.com/2025/11/arti... #13thAge

Starting a reaction thread on 13th Age 2E. First, this is gorgeous edition, and it seems like a great upgrade and refinement of what already a really fun, smooth running game. /1

Like it says on the tin, this is about 13th Age 2E shipping, and also about the '13th Arduin' game I'm running for fun, and about the updated resource pages on the @pelgranepress.bsky.social website . . . tinyurl.com/ycy93kw5

Here's an interesting blog post about RPGs other the D&D, what they do, and how different systems support and demand different sorts of play. Thirty years ago, this is what I wanted to see one day: lots of story-oriented RPGs on the shelves. sagaofthejasonite.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...

Notes on translating a superhero game's terminology into something that works better for GRR Martin's swords and subterfuge stories. tinyurl.com/r3thmw4z

A new card game I designed is coming out from Upper Deck in the next couple weeks! tinyurl.com/2vp4yevb

I love Martha Wells' book CITY OF BONES, and by the end of this blog I'm searching for a word I'm not sure exists to describe its evocation of place. tinyurl.com/y9c4dey5

13th Age's Unique Mechanics, Escalation Die Explained #gaming #tabletop #roleplaying #rpg

I'm ordinarily impervious to impulse shopping when paying up on BackerKit. But I couldn't resist the cuneiform dice sold as part of Chris Sellers' DEFY THE GODS. The game uses two and I bought three. tinyurl.com/5n885fs3

There are so many stages of an rpg release these days, and we've just enjoyed the Digital-Launch! Notes on that, and credits, and an upcoming AMA on August 29th at 3 PM EST on the 13th Age Discord channel. tinyurl.com/4krrx837

I caught up with my original intentions and backed the Defy the Gods RPG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hec...

I feel honored that I get to interview Lee Gold this month for an audio doc on the evolution of ttrpgs. If anyone would like to email/DM me a note to bring to Lee in person, feel free to send along! I'd love to bring her a collection of thank-you notes to show how much she means to this community

Kristin is going to be interviewing Lee Gold this month and is looking to collect together notes, thank yous, and remembrances of A&E or Lee to bring her (maybe as a zine!). If you were a member of A&E or affected by it, please drop her a line here or at [email protected]

I've got an AMA coming up on Friday the 13th at noon PST on the @13thAge Discord. And here's the opening spread of chapter 2 of 13th Age Second Edition! tinyurl.com/yc6df8m5

An image of the opening chapter spread of #13thAge 2E and notes on the project's timing. So. Nearly. Finished! tinyurl.com/5ae5p36s

Coincidentally the 632nd backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Dahlia’s Diversions for Peculiar Parties! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Today's blog combines traditional game mechanics with the current power-grab. tinyurl.com/9fwa3wfa

Notes on a 2-page spread from the Monsters chapter of the upcoming #13thAge 2nd Edition: tinyurl.com/384smzne

Pelgrane's Trail of Cthulhu backerkit campaign is in its final train minutes: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

A blog post with 13th Age 2E art (Calling the Ancestors) and recommendations for political podcasters who have given me sanity points this year, and #Gamers4Harris. tinyurl.com/2vak72ty

Here's a blog that has a couple short notes on #13thAge 2E art and a link to a longer interview with Monica Valentinelli and Flames Rising about 13th Age design philosophy: tinyurl.com/3e2bscrf

Here's a well-written letter summarizing the high-stakes presidential election and endorsing Harris and Walz: gamers4harris.org It's signed by over 400 game creators. Reading the list feels like a canvassing event organized out of a twenty-shelf gaming library. #Gamers4Harris

This was a seriously fun interview with excellent questions! Jared, I've attached Lee Moyer's brand-new second edition rendering of your character's beloved, the Elf Queen who was for some (unique) reason consorting with your human hunk! #13thAge #TabletopGaming

I ran a 2-hour demo of #13thAge at GenCon and thanks to writer John McGuire's recap of Things He Did at GenCon, tinyurl.com/ycxdy766, there's a writeup of some of the resulting fun. John didn't go into the comedic manipulation of his wood elf ranger's faulty memory by his sketchy comrades!

Simone Bannach's wonderful new drider for #13thAge Second Edition is here to invite you to my Ask-Me-Many-Things conversation on the unofficial #13thAge Discord on Monday the 19th of August at 11 a.m. PST. We'll record this AMMT for those who can't make it. #TabletopGaming

While thinking about how to use @slyflourish.com's new City of Arches (on Kickstarter at tinyurl.com/yufy4dcp ), I realized that the only non-13th Age book I keep and use as a 13th Age book is Fantastic Locations, Sly Flourish's earlier high-fantasy sourcebook of bizarre and wonderful places! #TTRPG

After Lee Moyer finished painting the new version of the Crusader icon for 13th Age 2nd Edition, he said there wasn't really a need to revise the icons we'd decided to keep as-is. An hour later he admitted that he was busy repainting the Emperor. And five or six hours later, he sent this: