I'm so fucking hyped.

Articles about the AAA games industry in 2025: "Another high-profile failure sacks 200 million dollars and leads to 800 layoffs." Articles about the AA industry in 2025: "Is it possible to play all these good games in one lifetime? Will the industry collapse under the weight of all this quality?"

Oh, so there is forced transitioning of children...

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

You know, I'm very happy with the Draw Steel books, and the Delian Tomb adventure. But there's something missing. We have so many recurring characters who have made a return in from the MCDM cinematic universe...except for one MCDM answer me this: where is Pinna

Behold, the writing team of Twelve Realms! I'm so lucky! I tried to count the accolades/awards they collectively have and I lost track. I'll try another time. Help us to get to 1K followers so we can make this game and these folks can get to writing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gno... #ttrpg

Heheheheheheheeeeeeh so happy to see this, thanks so much @hellomcdm.bsky.social

Thinking about a trans-inclusive fantasy world that is also misogynistic Sailor: "Captain, I've been thinking, and I really want you to call me Ivy, rather than Ivan, if you could." Captain: "Aye, of course, Ivy." *draws pistol* "But as ye know, women on ships are ill luck. Get ye to the plank."

regular reminder that the people who created your favorite characters were largely marginalized individuals with antifascist views

I was next to (one of) the AI slop booths at DragonCon and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. So, as you may or may not know, there was a booth selling AI slop images printed on acrylic panels at DragonCon. They were in booth a-10. I was in a-11. Here’s what happened from my perspective.

I also hope you’re making something cool in September. Might I humbly suggest some leveled treasure for Draw Steel? itch.io/jam/jott01-t...

ai bros can never understand that heating sand is the most promising technologicaly development this century so far

Media outlets seem to have soured on the AI hype machine.

right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled

The Delian Tomb has everything you need to start playing Draw Steel tonight.

I've been thinking a lot about how I really hate the implication that AI skeptics are luddites because most of the AI skeptics I know are relatively tech savvy while the biggest AI champions I know can barely use email

the return of LPs has nothing to do with the ~warmth of analogue recordings~, it's just that it feels nice to perform a physical action to do something rather than just press a picture on a piece of glass

If you enjoyed playing The Dying Spire (Daggerheart) or Road to Broadhurst (Draw Steel) at Gen Con and you're spooling up projects for either (or any other game for that matter, I'm not picky) you should consider hiring me to write for you! Love designing foes and player facing materials.

A close friend and TTRPG partner-in-crime is really going through it in the states right now. Help her stay afloat here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...

Hot take: most games are priced way too low Second hot take: most consumers aren’t being paid fair enough wages to adequately support games Third hot take: the highest-cost tier of game development? Could be less asset-intensive!

Draw Steel

Congratulations to @hellomcdm.bsky.social and @daggerheartrpg.bsky.social on consuming all my upcoming weekends for maybe ever Daggerheart and Draw Steel are masterpieces. Our hobby is so beautiful.

Sometimes I wonder if we set gender liberation back by focusing on pronouns. In trying to normalize using the correct pronouns for people, I feel like we put so much on pronouns that we've circled back to "your gender is how you're perceived" instead of "your gender is how you express".

Apparently I have to add to this post: if Pacman Ghosts were invented today, they would be sold to you as "AI Ghosts"

If procedural level design was invented today, it would be sold to you as "AI level design" If predictive typing was invented today, it would be sold to you as "AI typing" If adaptive GPS routing was invented today, it would be sold to you as "AI GPS" So much hype bullshit in this AI bubble.

here's a fact-checked version of CGE's statement on Codenames in case you needed it

Pro tip: Whenever a tech company says something is "inevitable in the next five to ten years," you can confidently replace that text with "hopefully financially viable because we've suck a lot of resources into this."

In the surreal position of falling in love with Daggerheart and planning an entire campaign for it while also waiting patiently for Draw Steel, a game I worked on and have been anticipating for over a year how am I going to run all these games, team. How am I going to run all these games.

It's surreal to me, living in an era where there are multiple high-quality fantasy heartbreakers floating around, and I get to not only play them all, but work on some. I love this era in TTRPG.

“I asked ChatGPT” yeah, well I asked the ten-year-old version of you who wanted to be a writer, and they are SO disappointed in you. Okay. Okay. Rant over. I promise.

AHAHA my first TV interview and the thumbnail looks like I'ma pop off about how the government is hiding the existence of extra-terrestrials rather than plugging the innovative new D&D party game Dungeon Tryouts that we are releasing over at story engine deck dot com www.chch.com/morning-live...

This is exactly why I cannot use AI for any part of my job: what I do has to work. People who gleefully embrace AI are just signaling that what they do is superfluous enough that a fancy autocorrect could do it. This is why so many middle managers and executives love it.

Every time a client asks me to write a short dungeon, there is about a 50% chance they are going to receive a dungeon that ends in a Metroid-style timed escape sequence, and that's just something everyone needs to make peace with.

Hi everyone! I just finished my second art-pack! It contains four elf characters (3 fullbody, 1 portrait), inspired by the Wode Elves of #drawsteel. Artpack is a paid product. It contains tokens of each character. I am open to any suggestions, hope you like it! goat-nokama.itch.io/wode-elves-a...

Dark Souls challenged us to be patient and go slow. Bloodborne challenged us to keep the pressure on and never stop moving Elden Ring challenged us to explore and use our environment to our advantage Now Nightreign gives gamers their hardest challenge yet: make two friends.

It's so rare I spring for a commission for a character but I am never disappointed. This is Pigeon, local charlatan bastard who has stepped in something much too big for them. I have been having tremendous fun playing them. Silvie did an incredible job, go check her work out and commission her!

this is pretty much where i'm at too at this point

We need educators like this

The thing about the cost of living crisis is that most people I know actually aren't mad that cost of living is going up, we're mad that cost of living is going up while wealthy people continue to feel no consequences from it.

I'm an artist and animator and I've lost way too much work to AI. The only thing I can rely on is the Furries. They shun and excommunicate anyone using it. Those lovely loyal little perverts are keeping a roof over my head.

Post a witch! #witch #ocsky

I used to wonder how the Joker kept finding more henchmen when he killed and maimed so many of them but now I see major law firms joining up to support the current US administration and I get it.

So Roll20 has a Campaign Forum feature that most people don't know about or use, where you can make posts related to the ongoing game I use it to quietly shitpost about the games I'm in.

happy weed jesus everyone

I see this and am left wondering like...who's this for? Does Marathon have the mainstream cultural capital to be worth using for this purpose? It's not going to please the fanbase of Marathon, or excite people who've never heard of it. Why not just start fresh w/a new IP? youtu.be/uZRGDZCl9pg

Pretty cool how generative AI can be bad for the environment, put people out of work, utilize plagiarism, and be totally worthless creatively and uninteresting all at the same time.

I accidentally slept for over 12 hours, so I hand you a slightly late schedule for the week. #vtuber #envtuber #twitch #schedule