The third episode of our Blue Prince series is out now! youtube.com/watch?v=mEdb...

Blue Prince Episode 3 is live! Enjoy our second teaser here and be sure to catch the whole series over on YT youtube.com/watch?v=mEdb...

The latest episode of Blue Prince is up! youtube.com/watch?v=mEdb...

If you sell anything to anyone in the EU, don’t forget that the GPSR goes into effect on Friday! We have set up a super low-cost “responsible person” service so that small makers and artists who are outside the EU can satisfy this requirement! Check us out at corvocattivo.it

With shipping times as unpredictable as they are, we can’t guarantee your books will be delivered before Christmas anymore, but a fresh notebook is a great way to ring in the new year! therookandtheraven.com

First chess.com game in a while and it’s comforting to know that some things never change

As a beginner *theoretically* facing comparably-skilled opponents, it is so discouraging to lose nearly every game I play. I would expect the margin of error to be razor thin at the higher levels, but as someone low ranked who only started playing a couple months ago, this is exhausting

Today’s chess.com vent post includes 1 win, 1 draw, and 2 losses… can you guess which one was the draw?

As I look back through all of these posts, one thing that stands out to me is that I’m actually consistently playing a lot better than it feels like I am I may not win most of my games, but I’m obviously making my opponent work for their win

Coming back to our YouTube channel after a short break, I was surprised to see that we are only ~40 subscribers away from hitting 1k! Anyone not already subscribed willing to help push us over the top? youtube.com/@therookther...

Just can’t catch a break 😤

Good news to my EU followers! I have reopened shipping to the EU courtesy of Corvo Cattivo’s services.

Since this is apparently what it takes to maintain rank in the 500’s bracket… this is quickly changing from a fun way to pass the time into a full-time job as a chess student 😰

Every game as a now-500s ELO on chess.com — maybe someday I will be able to play every game at a 1500 level so I can advance back up to the 600s bracket

I won one!! Oh happy day 😅

First game of a new day! 😭 Is anyone else seeing this or do I have some kind of Wheatonesque curse?!

Even when I have an exceptional game as a 500s ELO, my opponent has an even more exceptional one 😣

I’m just documenting it at this point. I did have a single game today against an at-level opponent that was a lot of fun, but now we’re back to busted

What makes it so frustrating is that based on the game review, more often than not, I’m playing well above my rating, but in order to raise (or even just maintain) my ELO I literally have to play 2.5x-3x my actual skill level in practically every game I play 😖

Is it like this on other platforms? This was against a 400s opponent

I’ve literally forgotten what it’s like to face a sub-1100 player — as a beginner this is extremely demoralizing Am I the only human on the platform? Or are the ELO rankings there actually that busted?

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Do you love D&D and hate Amazon? In the summer of 2023, Amazon lost an entire shipment of our books Two years later, they found the missing shipment, but we don’t want Amazon to profit from it So we’re on a mission to re-divest the books by giving Amazon’s cut to you at therookandtheraven.com

Do you love D&D and hate Amazon? In the summer of 2023, Amazon lost an entire shipment of our books Two years later, they found the missing shipment, but we don’t want Amazon to profit from it So we’re on a mission to re-divest the books by giving Amazon’s cut to you at therookandtheraven.com

Is everyone on chess.com using bots or AI?! The 500-700 bracket is absolutely brutal I’ve lost or drawn around 40 out of my last 50 games — I’m down in the low 500s again yet every single opponent I face is scoring between 1200-1500 in the game analysis I literally only win when I play 1400+ 😡

Been thinking a lot on this MLK Jr. quote lately: “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice…”

LONG LOST BOX SALE! A shipment of A5 Paperback books that went missing in the U.S. nearly two years ago was just found! To celebrate, we’re knocking 40% (€10) off the price of all 5 titles that were inside while supplies last only at therookandtheraven.com

We are on strike! We have joined the nation-wide general strike in solidarity with Palestine We are also continuing to raise funds to open a nerdy community center in our village to serve the surrounding underprivileged communities. Please share or donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-re...

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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Today, for the first time in their entire lives, we got to drop our kids off at school knowing they would never have to practice (or even fear) being hunted ever again . . . I haven’t been able to stop crying

@skylight.social any news on when the app will be available for all of us in Europe?

TikTok’s censorship is on full blast and not just in the U.S. I posted the video below to our U.S. TikTok account and it was taken down for “Violent Extremism” I posted a similar video to my Italian TikTok account and it was taken down for “Hate Speech and Hateful Behaviors” What do you think?

This is potentially huge.

With all the tariff changes making it so much harder to sell to customers in the U.S., have you considered Europe?

Learn more at the link on our website (therookandtheraven.com) or jump directly to the newsletter at shop.therookandtheraven.com?mailpoet_rou... #ttrpg #dnd #community

After 9 months of homelessness living out of a disused vacation rental, we not only finally found an apartment, but we’ve found a storefront we can use as well! We just have one last hurdle to overcome — getting everything down from the storage unit 700 miles away www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-re...

Shout out to the guy who purchased a piece of @therookandtheraven.com merch that I designed. It’s literally such a simple thing (and it’s logo merch so it’s a very straightforward design) but STILL! Take THAT, Insecurity!

We’ve set a challenge to become fully monetized by July 31st, and we’re only a couple hundred subs away! When we hit that mark, we’ve got a new show ready and waiting: youtu.be/JOQPHZ9BdFA?...

Goblin’d In A Rocketship Wizard’s Tower (episode 2 of Scarlet Sorcerer) premieres in about 2 hours Now’s your chance to catch up, beginning with the intro episode youtu.be/W-29fEmsIWk?...

I am loading a ton of new products and merch into our @therookandtheraven.com site and I love doing it but holy cow is it a LOT of stuff. 🫠

Episode 1 of Scarlet Sorcerer premieres on YouTube in exactly 40 minutes! youtu.be/Fgw0y8ddv0E

The rangefinder on every encounter page is just one of the handy tools included in our Daggerheart GM’s planners

Did you know that our Daggerheart books have a rangefinder built in? You can use the guides along the right and top of the encounter pages to quickly estimate melee, very close, close, far, and very far ranges!

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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers.

Bsky only allows 3 minute videos, so to see the full introduction for Scarlet Sorcerer (or to check out any of our other long-format videos) you’ll need to follow us on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=W-29... #retrogaming #solorpg #80sgaming

@therookandtheraven.com is temporarily sheltering 3 stray cats from the heat. It’s one mama and two littles and though they are small, their needs are mighty. So we put together a small wish list for them. No pressure at all but even a share is helpful. www.amazon.it/hz/wishlist/...