The Northlands have arrived on @dndbeyond.com! Northlands Worldbook + Northlands Sagas give you everything you need to run a full Norse-inspired 5.5e campaign. Two books. One campaign. Epic adventure. bit.ly/NorthlandsDDB

Taiwan happened to build a floating solar farm on the ocean next to a land-based solar farm--and the ocean-based one is clearly winning www.newscientist.com/article/2527...

🐉 Dial up the danger with @koboldpress.com! Select titles on sale now on Fantasy Grounds VTT. More fangs. More fire. More fun. 🔥 www.fantasygrounds.com/store/?minDi...

Nebraska wheat farmers could lose much of their crop this year due to one of the most severe droughts on record. "We are staring at what I believe may be the biggest winter wheat crop disaster the country has seen in decades." nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Kobold Press Gen Con 2026 tables are on sale now! New room. New games. New Community Manager. Play: ⚔️ Tales of the Valiant 🐉 5.5e D&D 🌊 RiverBank 💀 Necromancer Seats won’t last—grab yours and roll with us at Gen Con! bit.ly/GenConKP2026

Mona Lisa Grogudrive

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (and Grogu)

Thelma & Louise (& Grogu)

Word of the Day: socarrat

faith in humanity restored

Bearfolk, dwarf, elf, goblin, kobold, and orc.

Can vouch for Tyches Games. If you are near Athens GA, it is worth a visit today.

The veil is thin... 🌙 The Kobold Press Elves & Fey Humble Bundle is live now, packed with 27 PDFs full of shadow courts, strange magic, dangerous fey, monsters, adventures, and player options for 5E. Claim your bundle before it vanishes into the Feywild. bit.ly/elveshumbleb...

this is a fantastic explainer by the FT of the transformer, the technology that underpins generative AI, and it's not behind the paywall. I've shared it loads of times to all sorts of people who've found it really helpful ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

What’s a pirate’s favorite letter? Most people think it’s X, some think their first love is the C. But their real favorite letter is P; without it, a pirate would just be irate.

Today’s joy is explaining English wordplay to a translator in Taiwan. They’re really good and they include these long footnotes (actually side notes because Mandarin) in their texts explaining stuff because they’re deeply aware that things get lost in translation. 1/

About one hour left! And after that I promise to not even MENTION Pirates until this project ships in the fall.

2 HOURS LEFT! Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder is closing fast. Last call to back and grab the loot. 👉 bit.ly/CBPPKickstarter

Final hours! 🏴‍☠️ Pirates & Plunder is about to close on Kickstarter—last chance to grab the book, maps, and free stretch goal adventures. Don’t miss the boat. Back now -- bit.ly/CBPPKickstarter

Welcome back, Murderbot! To celebrate the release of Platform Decay, @mbyrd.bsky.social asked @marthawells.com about emotional growth, The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, and what's next for our favorite SecUnit #Murderbot

Word of the Day: jawn

The flexible rules engine that powers Over the Edge derived from work I had done earlier trying to develop a generic system for one-shots, so it's easy to adapt to other settings. I was adapting it to other settings years before Over the Edge released. #ttrpg

I've been joking about having everything I need to write a department chair simulator game but turns out one exists, it's from 1974, and it is FASCINATING as both a snapshot of higher ed and gaming history: dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

“No matter what happens to Cuba,” Cashman said, “this is a clear signal to other countries that renewables are something that they need to focus on.” 100% correct. Renewable energy = energy security

The Cortex Prime Game Handbook is live on DriveThruRPG for the first time! 256 pages of the most flexible RPG toolkit I could make—build any genre, any tone, any kind of story you want to tell. I'm so proud of this book. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

I wrote a little bit bout why homebrewed TTRPG material often is more satisfying than published material. The hobby is about imagination and storytelling—rolling your own is often a way to maximize that koboldpress.com/state-of-pla...

Vikings Traded Falcons with Medieval Baghdad, Study Finds www.medievalists.net/2026/05/viki... great research by @medivalist.bsky.social and @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social #medieval #Vikings #Abbasids

Only 48 hours left for Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder on Kickstarter. Kendo is joined by designers Brian Suskind, Sarah Madsen, and Rajan Khanna to dive into the player options that bring high-seas characters to life. WATCH NOW -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCG...

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

Fascinated by this photo of a late Daqing bycicle shop in Peking (1900-1912) 🤩

Thunder in Vancouver! I love a thunderstorm with an unreasonable love—the smell and the noise and the BOOM.

Ad Astra Games learned about in-house Print-on-Demand publishing from Timeline Ltd's new owners when they reprinted The Morrow Project. I knew of a new kind of laser printer with lower costs-per-click. We shared what we knew with Amarillo Design Bureau, who adopted the process post-haste.

Pullback Drive xkcd.com/3244/

Juega con tu Karasu en #TalesoftheValiant gracias a #BlackFlag Lee la noticia y verás qué fácil es 😎 https://www.nosolorol.com/noticias/linaje-y-legados-karasu-para-black-flag-tales-of-the-valiant-y-el-resurgir-del-dragon

Hoist the black flag and come slit some throats! This project is heading out to sea for dangerous voyage—casting off Friday.

Running a one-shot is perfect when you don't want a long campaign commitment! 🎲 Here's how to write an engaging one-shot adventure that delivers a complete story in one session. #DnD #TTRPG

The campaign here is truly Norse and goes to level 12, by designer @briansuskind.bsky.social and a group of genteel berserkers.

The official Wallace & Gromit YouTube channel is 24/7 livestreaming the four shorts featuring the duo: A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and A Matter of Loaf or Death. [kottke.org]

back to lotr: am aware according to some anecdote Tolkien based his elvish grammar on finnish because finish grammar is cursed & strange. but these words really do sound much better if you imagine them said in a finland-swedish or faux finnish intonation. & its spiritually finnish in tone & content

Somewhere in the heart of the steaming jungle lies the answer to the whispered tales – rumors of a magnificent city and foul, horrid rituals! Here a brave party might find riches and wonders – or death! angusabranson.com/2026/05/10/r...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Word of the Day: inukshuk

During the Second World War, a plan was put in place to relocate British money and gold to Canada. It involved the movement of 907,000 kg of gold, along with securities to Montreal and Ottawa. Not a single gold bar was lost. This is the story of Operation Fish. 📸 IWM 🧵 1/8

My colleague @stephseifertphd.bsky.social just published new groundbreaking work on hantaviruses in the United States as part of our shut down @viralemergence.org project. Want to prevent hantavirus outbreaks here? Fund her work. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Two Chess Players, c.1590 by Lodovico Carracci

Cruise through island chains, port cities, shipwrecks, and coastal forts with the Pirates & Plunder Map Folio! 10 erasable, gridded poster-size maps will whisk your crew to unknown shores and provide real tactical options for your seafaring campaigns. Time to join the crew! bit.ly/PiratesPlund...

So my buddy @bobworldbuilder.bsky.social is doing a poll about favorite TTRPGs. But he needs a signal boost beyond his own fanbase. So, for science (or simply for Bob, because he's a nice guy), can you take a minute to do this simple, 2-question survey? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks to everyone who helped Hastening Doom fund! Your support brought this mega-dungeon to life. Backer surveys launch at the end of the week. Complete by May 19 to ensure your rewards are delivered. Missed it? PDFs arrive in the Kobold store in June. UPDATES: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

The idea that EV batteries age poorly is a misconception – and a new report has found they often outlive the cars themselves