the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

With all the traveling I've been doing this month, I've been lax in my marketing responsibilities and, as a result, we're down 13 over this time last month. So here I am, taking a very jet-lagged moment to remind you that each subscription makes a difference: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Link: "...sometimes humanity seems to be a problem." Doctor Quixotic: "You know the world would be simpler without it, but... *sweats profusely* But that's not our decision to make..." @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social plays a one-shot of Apocalypse Keys www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/14/4... 1/3

Freelance work hasn't come through and this month has been expensive so I'm offering creative consulting on your ttrpg for 25 bucks flat. I'll read it, provide detailed notes and we can do a 30 min discord call to go over them. DM me.

Still thinking about this morning's #SundayAMSwords all these hours later while watching an adventure movie that suffers so much by comparison. Games are good, folks.

🎤 You think you're gonna impress me with those XPs and GPs? I'll shred that 20-page backstory! I'll drink all that vampire blood in your fridge!! I'll bodyslam that dragon!! I'll put those funny dice IN THE TRASH CAN!!! THIS IS WRESTLING and you won't Lay Hands on me, you goblin!!!!

46. Zenzizenzizenzic Jim (CG black dragonborn rogue) is descended from an infamous dragonborn pirate and sincerely believes the pirate act he puts on around other people will attract girls. He has a prosthetic tail and a pet chicken (have you priced parrots lately)

kara cancel blockstring hitstun chicken blocking tier list counterpick character select teching number pad notation evo moment 37 combo break okizeme what more do I have to say we didn't start the fighter everyone's been mashing since the world's been clashing

I'm bored so here's a worldbuilding thread. Give me a D&D species/class combo (or a profession that would exist in a D&D game) and I'll write a good and normal character idea. Will stop at 100 or when I get bored of it, whichever comes first

FINALLY we get GURPS: Some Place to Be

"Oh this fighting game only has 400 people online its dead" brother do you even have 400 games played, total? You gonna fight everyone right now? Fighting games only need one other person, a lobby of 12 is a cracking evening. This shit isn't 6v6 matchmaking live service bollocks, it isn't needed.

Was discussing languages in RPG play, when it hit me: picking a language at character creation is a player choosing a Flag, to use indie scene terminology. The way you solve the "my choice of language is a crapshoot" problem is by just treating language choice as a marker of interest.

i did some vent art, and then felt well enough to do this after

This is a really cool supplement. If you like The King Is Dead, obviously, but if you're interested in Firebrands games at all, check it out!

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

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Something has changed within mе Something is not the same I’m through with playing by The rules of someone else's game Too late for second-guessing Too late to go back to sleep It's time to trust my instincts Close my eyes and leap It's time FOR A GAME CHANGER 🎶 😈 🎶

The television above the sky was the color of channel tuned to a dead port.

A lot of unaging characters get called "immortal" but they're very killable Honestly we should just be calling them non-perishables

Someday this may be the epigraph to a book I write about this kind of situational fame.

Yeah, there's already enough to see this will be a deep rabbit hole of brainrot, irony, and nihilism. We'll undoubtedly learn he spent time on 4chan and so forth, but this person is not going to have what the rest of us would consider a coherent political ideology.

Breaking your game console controller in half (thanks, Andrew!) bsky.app/profile/acea...

Ideas people are having trouble with: 1. Shooters often have incoherent ideologies 2. People on the same "side" can have deadly disagreements 3. There are whole subcultures based on relentless, nihilistic irony, so you can't take what they say at face value 4. Those subcultures spread disinfo

Had the sudden realization that things like Batman's "I'm right behind you" trick and the general fluidity of movie combat are enabled by editing magic, allowing the brain to accept what it sees even though it hasn't seen everything that happened in between. Not so in traditional TTRPG combat.

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i don't trust people my age who start calling it a pfp. that's not your term. we call it an avatar, god damn it

It's a great manifesto. I haven't formed my thoughts but it does get me started thinking.

*spins a chair around* you know who else PLAYS a pretty CRITICAL ROLE? I'll give you a hint: When you reject Him, it's like a DAGGER in his HEART.

Patting myself on the back for hiding the discussion thread about whether TTRPGs can enable horror through mechanics

the demand for yassification of authors, a class traditionally allowed to look like freakazoids, is an assault on me personally

If you haven't gotten on Akanebanashi, DO IT This manga is peak

Valheim will start tonight half an hour earlier than our usual time! I am ready with realistic period appropriate gear!!!

The last time I was at a studio with a layoff, a meeting was derailed because the director asked, with increasing irritation, which engineer was supposed to design a feature that underpinned the whole game. That engineer had been laid off 2 days prior, and no one else knew how to do it.

This is the real magic trick of Swords Without Master. The way that everything pulls together feels cohesive, woven from collaboration and from game.

Read this and at the bottom, you will find a link. Clicking it will get you in for the ride. Wanna come along? #ttrpg #PBTA #AWBurned #ApocalypseWorld www.belloflostsouls.net/2025/09/apoc...

Should you care? When things are this far off parity, it feels like a sign that something is weird. You're probably not getting the best games you could be getting if design were being undertaken and published by a broader spectrum of people. (🧵5/6)

And, of course, I'm going to rest by talking about Swords Without Master. It is the Season of Swords, after all. Specifically, I'm going to talk about the Moral mechanics in Swords.

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showed this to my spouse and their response was an increasingly loud series of "bro." "Bro!" "BRO!?"

sorry to be a downer but coming off of my worst sales summer in years, now would be a great time to pick up something from my catalogue! spooky season's coming up, so I'd recommend: 😈 Imp of the Perverse - monster-hunting American horror! 🥀 Annalise - GMless Vampire horror! www.ndpdesign.com/store

Hey by the way... I make, like, really fucking good character sheets for various #ttrpgs. You should check them out. drive.google.com/drive/folder...