I have a VISION of a 2-player journaling TTRPG where the artifact at the end is a complete architecture for a CYOA-style text game

If you like spooky folklore then this is the kickstarter for you. The 2nd book by Flemish folklorist @signemaene.com This is a collection of stories of witches from Flanders. It is also being illustrated by the incredible @prairiebones.bsky.social Four days left www.kickstarter.com/projects/sig...

weathers changing. more time for gaming

Sometimes I just get this overwhelming feeling of goodwill towards my acquaintances and all the friends who exist far away and I wish I could your project it right into your brains like a Care Bear

What's this? Another collage for a #ttrpg panel??? Here's a sneak peak at next week's panel topic. Any guesses? 👀

Did anyone misplace a bunch of lil freaks? bc I got your bunch of lil freaks right here (currently collaging, trying to add as many lil freaks as possible to an overlay) From: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

Actually, there is a correct number of APs that should exist, and I know what it is but I'm not going to tell you until we hit it, at which point I will blow up the internet.

There is a none-negligible chance that this classic scifi franchise does not exist, and instead I'm just remembering super soaker fights that FELT like laser pistol battles on alien planets, but I'm holding out hope!

i stg bluesky used to have OCR for alt text as a little button built-in. Now it's gone, and all I can find are AI bots that will try to describe the whole image. I don't *want* that, I just want the text 😠

The grad school sirens are singing again. Quick! Someone tie me to the mast!

FINALLY I can't believe it took us 4 episodes to get around to making a game about lil guys doing crimes! LIZARD LARCENY! DREAMY WIZARDS who know how to BE HOT, DO DRUGS and PONDER ORBS. 🦎🧙‍♂️ The VOD is up at www.twitch.tv/videos/26101... and will be on youtube *soon*

how much genmaicha is too much genmaicha?

Hygrocybe singeri, the Western Witch's Hat, is so pretty! I love finding these gorgeous mushrooms 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/13, ISO 400 Stack of 17 images 11/29/23 Olympia area, Washington #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

FINALLY I can't believe it took us 4 episodes to get around to making a game about lil guys doing crimes! LIZARD LARCENY! DREAMY WIZARDS who know how to BE HOT, DO DRUGS and PONDER ORBS. 🦎🧙‍♂️ The VOD is up at www.twitch.tv/videos/26101... and will be on youtube *soon*

WE ARE LIVE GET IN HERE www.twitch.tv/gnome_anne

ONE HOUR UNTIL WE EMBARK

that's toDAY!

that IS fun

TOMORROW! We're back on our game design chaos & we've somehow convinced @brennanrtaylor.bsky.social, cofounder of @ipr.bsky.social, to join us on this chaotic ride!!! Tues, Nov 4 @ 6pm PT, tune in twitch.tv/gnome_anne as we design and playtest a #ttrg in just 90 mins!!

Question for men: How often do you get referred to as "male", "man" or "boy"? In what contexts? I'm gonna say "hey man what's up!" doesn't count if you live in a place where that's a pretty gender neutral expression.

live at twitch.tv/gnome_anne learning STARFINDER so I can go to SPAAAAACCCEEEEE 🚀

Open letter in response to that awful ai strategy 'consultation' from the govt. https://bccla.org/policy-submission/open-letter-to-the-minister-of-artificial-intelligence-and-digital-innovation-from-civil-society-organizations-and-individuals-opposing-national-sprint-consultation-on-ai-strategy/

If you use Notion, you can email them at [email protected] and ask them to deactivate AI services on your account. They’ll need the email associated with your account and the name of your workspace, but then they will deactivate it (even on a free account).

🥲 my 19yo undiagnosed ass and my first credit card would have benefited a lot from this convo

TOMORROW! We're back on our game design chaos & we've somehow convinced @brennanrtaylor.bsky.social, cofounder of @ipr.bsky.social, to join us on this chaotic ride!!! Tues, Nov 4 @ 6pm PT, tune in twitch.tv/gnome_anne as we design and playtest a #ttrg in just 90 mins!!

I need to return to some social media platforms bc I gotta do publicity (love you, Bluesky, but the reach is rough). Questions for y’all: which platforms do you find most effective for driving traffic to twitch/youtube? AND which are the least evil these days?

NEW DAY. NEW CHANCE TO PROVE LOVE. LETS TROT

My favourite part of GMing is just doing constant fan service for the players. Why yes, we can have a car chase to a masquerade with a makeover montage and a mech dance off. In fact, the safety of humanity depends on it!

Here is the first draft to my brief guide to the digital preservation of Actual Play, from a digital archives perspective, targetted at AP producers. allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/posts/2025-1... I say "brief guide" but, you know, I'm me.

I bet if you paid Will Smith even a fraction of what A.I. cost to develop, he would eat spaghetti for real.

Can anyone recommend an app that lets me record videos on my phone the way TikTok does, without actually having to have social media on my phone? Specifically making multi-part videos easily?

Let’s have a party where we all meet up and read all the stuff we have in abandoned tabs we opened on our various devices bc we had full intentions of reading that article, after just a few more mins of scrolling

Attempting to walk the walk, I've uploaded Wayward Autumnal to the Internet Archive, including a cute lil descriptive ReadMe (oooo ia802805.us.archive.org/29/items/way... ) plus publicity images, a trailer, and the festival screener archive.org/details/wayw... May the show outlive us all 🫡

Happy Halloween!

Just finished the prologue and WHAT A DELIGHT! @straynerdboy.bsky.social’s voice work as the GM is fantastic. The world is dark and moody, and i love how all the characters hype each other up in terms of reputation. A fearsome lot! a bit of humour, but not so much as to kill the vibe 🤌

What is your life and your neighbourhood like? Tell these stories to yourself, your friends. Tell me you are being poisoned, and you go on living nonetheless---fighting back, laughing, dancing. The zone of sacrifice, unbowed and alive. Tell these stories, please, so I know I'm not alone. 11/11

I feel like I might finally have a topic for an *AP manifesto*: the tenacity of ephemeral stories, and how this is tension is mirrored in the technology we use to share them.

This is really beautiful. This is why I love learning about mushrooms. They have a way of pushing me into this mindset of ecologies as societies.

From comments, it sounds like ppl would like more context on the purpose of archives & long term preservation, on copyright, and on preservation threats related to access (like pw protected stuff, or stuff only 1 person can access). I’ll start drafting! Lmk if anything else comes to mind.

FERAL for this

Here is the first draft to my brief guide to the digital preservation of Actual Play, from a digital archives perspective, targetted at AP producers. allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/posts/2025-1... I say "brief guide" but, you know, I'm me.

YALL this game is actually so good. it’s a game about generating boys who are also islands and dating them. COME ON!

@annethegnome.bsky.social asking the real questions #SoapboxGameMechanics

Are you a BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ TTRPG game designer? Do you have a new game/kickstarter launching soon? Would you like to be featured on "BUT WHY?" our TTRPG talk show where we 1. interview a game designer 2. play a one-shot with their game/setting 3. have chill fun vibes? If this is you, DM us!

I'm writing a quick guide to digital preservation of Actual Play (targetted at AP producers) -- I have the basics covered from an archival perspective, but do you y'all have any questions or concerns you'd like me to address?

I’m currently on holiday with my partner, curled up in a cozy cabin, watching Beyond Belief with Jonathan Frakes — or as we like to call it: LIE TO ME, RIKER

Does anyone know of a #ttrpg designed for telling multiple horror vignettes in a single session? 👀 (God I love a horror anthology)

If you like the Anarchs, and even if you don’t, @scarydogfriend.bsky.social brings it, as Joe always does, with a fierce outfit, amazing aesthetic and a powerful presence as Electra in this one shot that takes place in Vienna youtu.be/k3GoJkXOugs?...

Hello dear audience! We wanted to share some exciting news! Othersider Studios has just been accepted into the Twitch Creator Club program, specifically for the TTRPG club! We are so excited to do more and showcase more stuff! LETS GO!