When I was a kid, I almost drowned. Didn’t splash, didn’t cry for help, didn’t make a sound. I couldn’t; it was like my body just shut down. If my mom’s friend hadn’t recognized the signs of drowning (as described in this article) I’d have died that day. Read this article! It could save a life!

“The Dance of Death” is an urban pointcrawl in a plagued city ready to be dropped into any TTRPG system featuring rules for medieval physicians and shaping public opinion. #SelfPromoSaturday www.patreon.com/posts/dance-...

"To persist, to try, to take risks, most people need hope. They need the confidence that people can in fact change their conditions, and that collectively, they can do more together than they can apart." As always, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social invites us to engage with each other and practice hope.

If you’re looking for what to run this weekend, “Dance of Death” is ready to drop into just about any TTRPG ruleset at any level. Epic tier D&D, level 1 Pathfinder, bespoke PbtA game, ShadowDark, you name it.

A plagued urban point crawl compatible with any generic medieval fantasy setting and most tabletop roleplaying game systems. 25 pages, 8 districts, over 50 NPCs, with guides for playing a medieval physician versed in the latest advances in humoral & miasma theory. www.patreon.com/posts/dance-...

Finally, belatedly working on drafting my part of an article with @drberger.bsky.social on "Who is COVID 'Over' For?" and I apparently have gotten to a part (on public pleasure and who gets constructed as inherently anti-pleasure) that has fully unlocked rant mode.

tbh I’m pretty chuffed that we made RPG mechanics for shifting the Overton window

American style democracy is a joke. at the national level your vote is increasingly literally meaningless because of the Electoral College and gerrymandering. at the local level you’re supposed to vote for random party functionary offices you’ve got to be 9 levels deep to know what they even do

We bought a few assets for Stonebeck, but Dance is all public domain art, GIMP, Inkscape, @watabou.bsky.social ‘s medieval city generator, and some good layout (if I say so myself).

In "The Dance of Death," you’ll risk your life to enter a city under quarantine as a deadly disease rages to face environmental injustice and ignorant mobs and ultimately decide if you will restore the land or leave the city to its fate.

I’m really proud of this one. We’re soft launching Ruins & Revolutions with these adventures, and making some really solid adventures while we’re at it.

“I can point out that it's dehumanizing or illogical, and it doesn’t matter because it was never referencing anything real in the first place. It’s just a thing you can say to feel superior because it’s the thing that people say to feel superior.” www.patreon.com/posts/158542...

Two centuries ago, Stonebeck’s prosperity was founded on murder, theft, and lies. Now something has awoken and the scions of those founding families are dying. A haunted mystery ready to drop into almost any fantasy TTTRPG campaign at any level. #selfpromosaturday www.patreon.com/posts/157272...

Ever wondered why so many indie bookstores have masking policies to prevent #covid? We asked them! Read our new article “Indie Bookstores Promoting Masking and Covid Consciousness in 2026” 📚💙https://www.whoevenreads.com/indie-bookstores-promoting-masking-and-covid-consciousness-in-2026/

all month, @akpress.org is donating $2 from every item sold to help Marius Mason re-enter society after almost 20 years in prison for his work trying to defend the earth. This includes both both books they publish and also books they distribute. I'll link some of my own and others that I like:

If you’ve got a game coming up this weekend and you’re not sure what to run, here’s an idea.

New update, new Stretch Goal! We’re still in denial of how well the campaign is going and we still can’t believe wtf is happening 😂 but thank you all so much for the support, reskeets, etc. Amazing, crazy, this community is why we can do these crazy projects!

Let slip the dogs of war, et cetera The public playtest of This Means War is ready for you to download and play #GMless arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/51...

I've made this argument repeatedly, but I felt the need to try and make it definitively this time. Yes, universal basic income should be universal by even including billionaires like Elon. Here are all the reasons why universality is superior to means testing.

GET IT NOW #TTRPG itch.io/b/3670/typho...

THREAD. There's been a lot of attention paid to the new 2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy released by the Trump administration released this week, and understandably so. I've linked it here so you can review it for yourself.

“This place was always stinky, of sea and salt and fish, but then also of too many humans crowded too closely together, and their dirt and cookfire smoke, and then of alchemical factories and their smoke and their wrong smells, and now it stinks of death as well.” www.patreon.com/posts/158008...

“In my dream, I am running through fields of sweet grass between copses of oak, ash, and hawthorn. To the west, reedy marshes turn into salty sea. Then I smell apples, but apple trees did not grow here. That is when I wake up.“ www.patreon.com/posts/bad-sm...

Don't shop at REI during this year's annual sale and help @reiunion.bsky.social send a message to management: union busting is disgusting. Learn more about how you can support workers at ourrei.com

“Few of us can imagine to be the horror that is you, with all of creation reflected in your forebrain. It must be like the highest of hells, a kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass, an eternal damnation.” www.patreon.com/posts/157919...

Disco Elysium combines capitalist realism and climate change dread to set the bar for what fantasy can be: an opportunity to look at the real problems of the real world slantwise. www.patreon.com/posts/why-di...

Our roleplaying game: - squirms with aquatic awfulness - invites revenge upon King George III - has diagrams explaining how wind works - is now funded - still won't pay my bills (but YOU could change that, maybe) Please ameliorate my financial terror by backing: www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

My new game, the Roots of Soledad, launched two days ago and is almost fully funded! So I'm super excited 😄 Soledad is a magical realism RPG, with lots of drama, supernatural weird things, and deeply human relationships. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

A haunted mystery about murder, revenge, and the injustices that a town’s prosperity were built upon. Ready to be dropped into any medievalist fantasy campaign tonight, using any ruleset at any level, for just $5. www.patreon.com/posts/157272... #selfpromosaturday

A haunted mystery about murder, revenge, and the injustices that a town’s prosperity were built upon. Ready to be dropped into any medievalist fantasy campaign tonight, using any ruleset at any level, for just $5. www.patreon.com/posts/157272...

People ask why I’m optimistic with how bad things are and it’s the miraculousness of human nature Common people have been toppling authoritarians for centuries. People who have no idea what’s going on are instinctively preparing for crisis and growing softer and kinder as revolutionary energy grows

Because I love making charts, here's one tracing general influences on the development of patriarchal institutions, and why large livestock particularly incentivize patriarchy

If you’re not sure what to run this weekend, here’s something you can drop into just about any fantasy TTRPG campaign. D&D, Pathfinder, Draw Steel, Daggeheart, 13th Age, you name it — any level, any ruleset.

A mystery about murder, revenge, and the long-buried injustices that the rich and powerful have built their fortunes upon. www.patreon.com/posts/shores...

design a religion, play by doing collage, learn some fun facts about salps tori-truslow.itch.io/tending

This week’s patron-exclusive process post covers how we made “The Shores of Stonebeck.” www.patreon.com/posts/157396...

Hey, remember how, back in the ‘90s, procedural shows would start with a “cold open” in which some rando gets whacked? Well, I wrote one of those for our first-ever adventure! Read the story for free and, if you want to know what’s killing people in Stonebeck, buy the adventure and find out!

Hey, remember how, back in the ‘90s, procedural shows would start with a “cold open” in which some rando gets whacked? Well, I wrote one of those for our first-ever adventure! Read the story for free and, if you want to know what’s killing people in Stonebeck, buy the adventure and find out!

I could be persuaded to make a Foundry VTT module for this, if there’s interest.

I’m really proud of this one. I feel like we pulled off a unique blend of WotC’s production values, OSR simplicity, and story game vibes all in one adventure that’s ready to drop into just about any game.

Stonebeck is a fairly prosperous town situated at the fall line of the Silver River, where ore and timber from the Ashwood Mountains can be loaded onto ships and sent downriver to the coast. Over the past month, though, there have been three mysterious deaths...

We just released our first adventure: The Shores of Stonebeck! A haunted mystery compatible with any generic medieval fantasy setting and most tabletop roleplaying game systems. www.patreon.com/posts/shores...

Rian Johnson's vision for the Star Wars universe was beautiful and flawless, and the only thing Disney should have done for Episode IX was send Rian on a week long ayahuasca retreat so he could truly maximize his vision

andor is good in spite of its star wars trappings and all the worst parts of the show are when it tries to touch canon. it's such a good show it tricks the audience into thinking star wars has a rational political economy that follows historical materialism. best fix-it fanfic in modern history

“To design a mystery game, we need to design the maze, not just one path. We need to think through what happened in detail. We design the world, and the story is what happens within it. The story is what emerges, but we play to find out.” www.patreon.com/posts/157259...

“Ruins & Revolutions encourages game masters to push as much of the game state into the fiction as possible. […] If we try to apply this same idea to mysteries, the key insight is that there are clues everywhere.” www.patreon.com/posts/157259...

I cannot stress enough how Food Not Bombs is one of the most persistent, efficient, and effective direct action / mutual aid efforts we have. Everything you do to help any FNB chapter will go a LONG way to feeding people, reclaiming food waste, and broadcasting good in this world.

There is no political philosophy more maligned and misunderstood than anarchism. Every system based on vertical power structures teaches young people completely distorted and perverted ideas of what anarchism is. Because they’re afraid of losing their cherished power imbalances.

seems like good time to drop any available resources to support our comrades in various states having their bodily autonomy fucked with www.plancpills.org

With alt-text for accessibility, because this teenage Bronze Age sheep-ankle-bone gaming champion girl deserves to be known. #JoyScrolling