The Magic School Bus is Dark Academia. Mrs. Frizzle's last field trip is exploring the skeletons in her closet, and how she came to harness the power of a cryptid.

A film you've seen more than 6 times... No Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.

I've loved everything for Trophy by Ember and Ash so far; can't wait to dig into this.

These are some of my favorite writers in TTRPG space.

If you're a fan of Trophy Dark/Trophy Gold, just a quick heads up that a bunch of Trophy writers are compiling new incursions for a Kickstarter for next year. I'll no doubt talk about it more as the date approaches, but if you wanna set a reminder for yourself: ruinanthology.com

The Gauntlet Pitch Day is December 6th! I’m taking pitches for scenarios and other game elements for The Lands Remaining. Details at the link below! www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html

Playing Subnautica the first time: Thalassophobic horror. Playing Subnautica every time after: Cozy survival builder, with fish.

Lowkey, the speed at which some people hear of a new fantasy setting and immediately go "Where guns?" fascinates me. I am not terribly opposed to guns in fantasy, but like, maybe pump the brakes, Rambo. Aragorn did just fine without an AR-15.

Sharing for visibility.

The second preview episode of our new The Lands Remaining podcast is now up on Patreon! This one's all about the Embers, the characters you play in the game. www.patreon.com/posts/lands-...

If you order a latte at Starbucks, customize it a bunch of ways, and let people taste it, you still didn't make the latte. You ordered it. People who use GenAI will never be artists any more than people ordering lattes will never be baristas.

Just got back from PAXU and feeling energized, inspired, and ready to create something? I have some opportunities that might interest you! I'm hitting the ground running on a new project, The Lands Remaining, and there are ways to get involved. Details in the thread! (Art by PK Ashur)

PAXU: I miss seeing dim sum game. Where art thou, dim sum game?

This is a great opportunity!

I am enjoying PAX, but not the rate at which ideas are flowing and I wish I could be at my computer putting them on page.

We never left the Forest

PAXU: a friend was talking about a "dice trading" event, but I heard "dice training". So now I am just imagining a bunch of people rolling dice to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger" hoping to improve their probability.

Cloudflare is down, but you can still download and read Sprigs & Kindling! We have 5 free anthology volumes of Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy TTRPG supplements, including essays, art, and mysteries! sprigsandkindling.com

On my way to PAXU!

Me, starting The Secret History: How could those kids kill their friend? What monsters! Me, a little under halfway through The Secret History, which is told in flashback: Jesus, how haven't they killed him yet.

Tbh, it hasn't quite set in yet that I'm going to PAXU, probably because I still have a few shifts left at work between now and then. But I hope to see some of you there!

Satisfactory is one of those games that I want to enjoy, but I get to (roughly) the same spot each time and when things don't divide neatly, "burn out" doesn't even begin to encapsulate the rate at which my brain collapses on itself and I nope out.

With 40 major airports having flights delayed or cancelled, double check that your flight to/from Philly wasn’t one of them! Make sure to check periodically and stay safe everyone! I can’t wait to be surrounded by the ttrpg community at #PAXUnplugged once again. ✨

To be very clear, The Gauntlet is an unabashedly queer-centric publisher, our games put themes of queerness and gender front and center, and our founder and operator (me) is a gay POC. Our values are in every single page of our games.

Does anyone know what system this Apocalypse World game runs on? I’m seeing it everywhere.

Thinking of that one dungeon from the JRPG Legend of Dragoon where you have to go through literal bureaucracy to complete the dungeon, using the process of submitting and implementing bills into law to open doors/shortcuts. Wild.

My dumb ttrpg hot take is that a culture of houserules/homebrews has been created based on games where the rules kinda stink, so when games come out with actually decent rules and structure, the first thing people want to do is change or ignore them, to their own detriment.

I sort of love how this erotic role playing game appears to be built on a solidly math heavy 1980s rules framework.

Seen a lot of people observing that Halloween candy singles are smaller (remember when Reese's were one regular cup?). They used to call them "fun size". But since these are even smaller, I feel like we can only call them... Unfun Size.

I don't know what Over/Under is, and at this point, I'm scared to ask.

Why I value community: my music taste, left to my own devices, was pretty awful. My first CD was Astrolounge, by Smashmouth. Friends and colleagues introduced me to new music, expanded my tastes, in ways I could not have done on my own. Even with "research".

Political systems in strategy video games are gonna be insane in the years to come, aren't they?

Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty introduces a villain so one-dimensional that, had I read this book in 2018 or so, I would've put the series away right then and there. But seeing her speech and intentions mirrored so exactly in my government kept me riveted, in that horror-novel dread way.

"I’ve never used AI and probably never will [...] I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself. Nobuo's got it. I think people who use AI for creative work are sidestepping the most important step of the process.

Dandelion Dynasty: Oga Kidosu gotta be grinning from the other side of the River On Which Nothing Floats knowing that two of his kids, who grew up not knowing each other, each successfully courted a member of the Dandelion Dynasty. Pretty good for a poor fisherman who had some wildly strange luck.

Thinking of that bit from Kingdom of Heaven when Guy looks at Raynald of Châtillon and says "Give me a war."

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. I hated all the characters and the world so much by the end that I was skipping dialogue. I just knew I was near the last dungeon so I bee-lined it down and said "to hell with your archipelago. It can burn for all I care."

🔪Welcome to the Genziana Hotel🏔️ Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.

This game means a lot to me. The first time I ever got paid for TTRPG writing was for this. It's weird and wonderful and you should check it out.

That feeling of finishing an epic multi-novel series and thinking, "What am I supposed to do with my free time now?"

If my understanding of plot elements is correct, Trump will 100% die in office but Republicans will continue to lead the nation by way of AI-generated videos Weekend at Bernie-ing him.

I feel like Reddit primed people for AI. How many people have watched with horror a comment in their field of expertise from some rando get hundreds of upvotes, and a correction beneath it gets 6 reactions because it was posted 20 hours later after the wildfire of attention moved to something else.

Bad Bunny being the Super Bowl Halftime performer is a great opportunity to teach your MAGA relatives that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.

If I still played an instrument, I'd probably be learning how to play "Bella Ciao". Just seems to be a popular song right now. Those Italians make good music.

I don't usually watch TTRPG APs, but I'm gonna give this one a shot.

Disney fired and unfired Jimmy Kimmel the right way. by Ezra Klein

I genuinely don't think a TTRPG out there has ever made me *more* confused the more I read about it and try to run it as Forged in the Dark.