i'm at it again: here's a new game you can play with magic: the gathering cards that's not, like, the main one you might have heard of docs.google.com/document/d/1...

divinity original sin 2 lost me basically immediately with its bizarre tonal dissonance. am i wearing a slave collar and being shipped to wizard superjail or am i a looney tune larian

Instead of a What is an RPG section in your book, include a What Isn't an RPG section with an exhaustive list of everything that an RPG is not, so that potential players can understand the shape of a game through its absence

Study: Mosquitos More Attracted To People Branded With Mosquito God’s Rune Of Punishment https://theonion.com/study-mosquitos-more-attracted-to-people-branded-with-mosquito-gods-rune-of-punishment/

The amount of effort people spend hunting down AI at conventions is impressive but it does sadden me that creators have very rarely had the same energy when it comes to checking if the cheap plastic keychains and bootlegs being sold on convention floors are made by slaves

i will simply avert my eyes politely to bad and shallow literary theory posting bc it is dolls doing it today

"[The commission of inquiry] concluded that the government of then-Prime Minister Forbes Burnham had organized the murder, which was perpetrated by an active-duty sergeant in the Guyana Defense Force, Gregory Smith." nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

This is a pro rape policy. They want to facilitate the rape and abuse of trans women. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

love how every app has to periodically inform me that push notifications are disabled. damn bro who do you think did that!!! history's mysteries

would anyone like to see my collection of extremely tortured metaphors I've heard on youtube

reading an academic paper

if you tell a Linux Guy that you think UI matters to most people they'll try to kill you

like the oppressed economic classes that will abolish themselves along with the class of their oppressors under communism, our end goal includes the abolition of our own oppressed gendered classes along with the classes of our oppressors. we are seeking to destroy cisness.

wrote a bit about magic: the gathering, stax, and the things 60-card players don't consider about commander medium.com/@rosequarter...

The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery.

that gum you like!

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

A take I hear so often about so many people, online and otherwise, is "ugh, I hate how that person always acts like their opinion is the right one". Like I would fucking hope so!!!!

i'm at it again: here's a new game you can play with magic: the gathering cards that's not, like, the main one you might have heard of docs.google.com/document/d/1...

best pbtaism: play to find out worst pbtaism: to do it you do it

there are many people who like to walk into a ttrpg having invented a blorbo in their mind and have the ttrpg to give them the tools to realize that blorbo and all the best to them i am so thoroughly not one of those people

this is my game, I Don’t Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again. to play, you log it every time you kill an insect. this is also available as a web app @transwron.gs made with me. people tell me it changed their behavior- they think twice about hurting insects when they remember the rules.

reminder for anyone who's been frustrated that Screamer-Killer 6e's official character sheet has been in legal limbo since 2007¹, we at the HORIZON MACHINE acquired the rights last year at a bankruptcy auction for systems bitch magazine, here it is:

non-zero amount of what goes into my games is like, being a writer with very strong ideological convictions that i, like, can't not express in my art because that's how ideology works, but also v. strongly not wanting to be "revolutionary change can start around a table and end at the ballot box".

one of the big things i am attempting in PRAXI: Protocol Against Xenoimperialism is to make it what i kind of call 'Sid Meier Educational'. like it's a tabletop roleplaying game about fighting aliens, it's not going to genuinely teach anyone about anticolonialism (1/2)

a great example of how important developing your taste in art is, my experience with the rules of magic: the gathering helped me finally grasp exactly how to explain pbta elements in underside

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

ant mentioning that people are signing him up to sites and spamming his email is funny. like, oh, that thing that just happens to me randomly at any time is happening to you today because you can't stop doing libel

does anyone want to come outside and play flying disk with me

starmer's labour is the closest any country has ever come to implementation of the policy of late 1980s "rad fem" cultural feminist policy and the result has been the systematic annihilation of women's spaces and the institution of draconian systems of misogynistic biopolitical control

going to a rationalist and being like listen buddy i heard about this scary new idea. its called $70’s basilisk. what if there was an entity that, when it came into being, eternally tortured everyone who didn’t give me $70? it’s a simple exercise of pascals wager white boy

one thing ive learned about writing ttrpgs is that your first draft, the one you write as you're just scrambling to get the Play down into a usable set of procedures other people can understand, will be filled with some of the most pointless sentences ever put to paper

what even is a single celled chihuahua. that's not even anything

the amazing it's back!

@shadowtodd.bsky.social eligibility as a song perhaps dubious but "breaking bad remix seasons 3-5" has a 'stop' stop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzhW...

TTRPG discourse has me imagining someone reviewing chess and saying “of course, it not for everyone - some people like their games to involve running around and perhaps kicking a football”

in a better world getting caught doing something like this would be an automatic firing & permanent blacklist offense

i always say about blades (and about a lot of good pbta) that the GM/player principles are straight up Rules Text, they are non optional elements of the game's mechanical framework

banger that gets a lot of the core of what some people are missing when they bounce off FiTD games

HEAR YE, HEAR YE: God Herself(!!) has come down and given us a decree: YOU MUST THINK OF A BIGGER NUMBER. big fucking number (April 2026, digital collage) is a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER WHATEVERTOP ROLE PLAYING GAME in which you must think of a bigger number. Think big and maybe something will happen.

Headlines beamed straight from hell

@growleaf.bsky.social pointed out that the 20-item Promethean drawback table was the only part of Underside to use a non-d6 die AND was just two drawbacks off matching the tarot theme... So here's two cool new ways your supertech can be Worse (1/2)

THE GAME OF THE BALL. a short parable about locating the game's relation to the game-object and an alien who loves fútbol medium.com/@rosequarter...

His Liberal Highness would have known this had he possessed at least an elementary knowledge of the “fundamental principles of Marxism”, of which he speaks with such boundless aplomb and with equally boundless ignorance.

i'm sorry but. if you are wide-eyed and posting about artemis ii and imagining if they spent money on this and not bombs. i have to ask you who the fuck do you think makes the bombs.

generally i feel when people make this complaint the real problem they are getting at is that it is overly hamhamded or telegraphed, where the blatant sense of being told what to feel interferes with actually experiencing that emotional response

wow this script is so tight and well constructed i bet whoever supervised it was a Mind Genious :)