...is "Jubilant" above all the others, and so it is that the valley lands continue to be locked into this omnicidal system of misery - destructive to others, and to themselves. Get Zephyr with free shipping in the US at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... and elsewhere at araukana.com/store

...it is rooted in their belief on the Jubilee - a moment in which one of their leaders will take control of all contracts, all life-binding, salt-carven debt records, and break them, freeing them all. Problem is, everyone believes (and is coerced into believing) that their own lord... 2/3

In the Zephyr #TTRPG, the Salt States are the main foils of your protagonists. Unlike the reciprocal, horizontal, Obligation-bound societies of the Windfolk, the Salt States exist under a system of debt slavery. However, the evil of the Salt States isn't some ingrained facet of their being... 1/3

In the Zephyr #TTRPG, the Salt States are the main foils of your protagonists. Unlike the reciprocal, horizontal, Obligation-bound societies of the Windfolk, the Salt States exist under a system of debt slavery. However, the evil of the Salt States isn't some ingrained facet of their being... 1/3

It's my birthday month and I'd like to not be homeless.

Solidarity Forever! Congratulations to @kickstarterunited.org, and thanks for the strong communication from the union that gave us clear guidance on how to help!

IglooTree is the shit. Get Zephyr there!

It's #PhantomPulse time!!! I'm working with THE @laurenshippen.com to make a podcast about a 90s band who can banish ghosts with the power of music. Starring Nicholas Podany, Erin Caesar, Erika Ishii, Briggon Snow and Juliana Gutiérrez Arango, I promise you this thing is going to go SO. HARD. 🎸👻

more of this please

New #TTRPG review day! This time a look at such a joyful game: Ryuutama by Atsuhiro Okada (translated by Matt Sanchez & Andy Kitkowski) I absolutely love it. It's a lighthearted game about travelling and has some super interesting collaborative rules. youtu.be/pSTGDBOK3SU

Whoa hey, a review of Ryuutama? In 2025? Hell yeah. One of these days we'll get the second book and other content released in English...hopefully... If you do like Ryuutama, you should also check out this community release I contributed to this year! campfirecollection.itch.io/campfire-col...

New rat video www.tiktok.com/@araukanamed...

LETS PUT A SMILE ON THAT FACE

We've just added Zephyr, an anarchist #ttrpg of fleeting identities, to our webstore. It's an absolutely gorgeous boxset. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page...

If anything, I think it's an enormous feat of mediocrity that I have never read a single positive comment about the ATLA game while it is the highest ever KS grossing TTRPG. Wild.

The Picts were always more than their blue-painted, bloodthirsty depictions. Carved in Stone, a new setting guide from @stoutstoat.co.uk and archaeologist Heather Christie, invites players to explore their incomplete but beautiful history.

I think it's less a "merit of marginality" and more of a thing where 1) Being moneyed cloisters you against the vast majority of the worldwide, shared human experience 2) The system actively rewards you for existing in that way (doing what moneyed people do) Which is not to say the creative...

Carved in Stone is officially out! In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.

I might just be speaking from personal experience but "coming up with ideas for projects" is the easiest fucking part of the creative process and, also, the most enjoyable for me. Why on God's Green Golf Course would I subcontract out to a machine to steal my joy?

The reason why ATLA TTRPG does this is because it's written by adults whose "who would win against Goku" discussions have turned into A Very Serious Matter, and who are unable to see the multitude of narratives in the source material beyond mere power fantasies when their D&S brain turns on.

you open an Havana chocolate-bathed lemon cookie pack and these two show up. What do you do?

Reshare: Zephyr is a labor of love, bursting with full-spread illustrations by Federico Sohns. As per their estimate, Sohns would've spent potentially a thousand hours just on the art for the book. www.rascal.news/zephyrs-swee...

So uh this is one of the best series, in general, of the year? In a year where we got A for and Severance? Like, we agree this was fucking incredible from start to finish?

It's frustrating that this has to come out on The Atlantic for people to take it seriously, and simultaneously, it doesn't point at the fact that "expanding profitability via audience targeting" isn't a recipe to actually solve the racism that's in D&D's DNA.

Underrated Zephyr aspect: The fact that the book is 11" by 6.5" instead of the US letter 11" by 8.5" standard, and works perfectly fine art-wise and for layout, while feeling easier to carry. IMHO there's no reason to strictly stick to US letter or Digest size.

man. learning languages is such a wild trip. especially when you have some degree of consciousness of the way the process requires your brain and shit

The 光が死んだの夏 OST is fabulous, and it reminds me of Bobby Krlic's Midsommar OST in how the theme of Summer is musicalized in the context of horror. It makes me yearn for so much more of this type of horror www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y17Y...

I find it very shitty when j-ytubers talk about how hard it is for foreigners to find an apartment in Japan and make a show of all the issues instead of just... going ahead and plugging companies that *do* rent to foreigners. f-apartments, エイブル, fucken Leopalace21 like, actually help out, fam

If you're in the US, you can get the game with free shipping from our friends @tabletopbookshelf.com here tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... and elsewhere, at araukana.com/store #ttrpg #dnd #RPGLATAM

In the #ZephyrRPG, you travel the back of a sentient, walking landmass as the Windfolk - sentimental constructs that seek to fulfill sacred obligations by travelling through the wondrous landscapes of Ophoi, mediated through a system based on color tokens, survival, and mutual aid. Links below!

I always get at least a hint of paranoia whenever I talk openly about how hard it is for me to make a living in this industry, I gather people who would work with me may see it and pass me out because I don't sell or whatever. But I keep doing it in the hope someone at least will fucking, idk...

I'm sure we'll all be told this is imperialist propaganda to make China look bad and ACTUALLY they very much like uwu smol bean tankies and don't openly oppress queer people.

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fucking hilarious

greengrocer cat

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Emergency commissions! I got laid off last weeek. If y'all wanna help out a (human) Latino artist from the Global South, commission me some art! #Art #OC #CharacterPortrait #TTRPG #DnD #Commission #NotAI

It's great you did all that research but how come you had no idea about all this *before* going 😭

This week, @meghan0n.bsky.social takes a lonely journey into the mysterious expanses of cyan starlight a scifi roleplaying by Alan Bahr from @adepticarus.com Discover how cyan starlight creates a challenging but rewarding journey through the stars 📘🚀 tabletopbookshelf.com/blogs/tablet...

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The Summer Hikaru Died:

There's no such thing as an ubiquitous community. Ubiquity is anathema to that. I have community with the people I play and talk TTRPGs here in Buenos Aires, and with a couple of people in Discord. If by community you mean the "space", it is toxic, though not diametrically worse than other spaces.

My Vietnamese friend just told me about Caodaism, and it has to be the most fascinating religion I’ve ever seen. I’m in awe. We have Buddha, Laozi, Li Bai, Confucius, Guanyin, Guan Yu, Jesus, and Jiang Ziya. All of them. *Together.* I am nerding out SO badly right now

The Summer Hikaru Died AKA Gay-Ghosted

Today I was studying at a cafe in the mall and my two best friends showed up. Random encounter in Buenos Aires is wild given how big it is. I was so happy; it reminded me of how often that would happen back in MARKIS in Fukuoka, and how nice it was (Fukuoka is way smaller).

The first time I ever saw a dishwasher was when I was 16 at my girlfriend's house (she was bougie) and I immediately thought it was fucked ridiculous when you can wear gloves. Also, it was always a nice gesture to hand wash the dishes of someone who invited you to have a meal.