fucking this i think if you want to design a tabletop system for gunfights, you owe it to yourself to go airsofting at least a couple of times

Samwise Gamgee is the friend we all need, but is more-so the friend we should all strive to be.

An angle D&D has never really dug into: • In many D&D settings, “spellcasting services” are assumed. • So, anyone wealthy/connected enough to a faith could become functionally immortal. Bam, setting that mirrors the historical link between royalty and religion with a fantasy transhuman twist. 1/2

"I try to ask myself, before making any major decision, "Is this something Steve Rogers or Fred Rogers would do?" And if the answer is "Yes, to both," I try to do it twice."

My onion is that your politics should drip like slime from every page and mechanic in a game and games where they don't are less interesting as pieces of art , to me. Explaining the message is *fine* but it's a level of abstraction away from Good Writing.

I know some people who follow me might fit this role. jobs.ashbyhq.com/arenanet/b70...

Flipping heck, there's some good stuff in here. Especially surprised to see OUTGUNNED: SUPERHEROES, as it's not been published yet. www.humblebundle.com/books/roll-b...

I have a chip on my shoulder about this kind of thing, but what bothers me most about this toothless example is that Pride was in part a calculated effort to get people to come out in order to build solidarity and break straight culture's ability to blackmail and coerce us by threatening to out us.

Wake up, babe. New blogpost from my Indonesian friend, Habeeb (who wrote "the default dungeon is colonial"). This one is about about touching heavy topics/themes in your TTRPG world. beeboobubie.substack.com/p/is-it-okay...

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By razer chair and mouse, by the daki pillow! By monster, dew and supps, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our thirst is near us!

Replacing tires sucks but Hanna’s art rules.

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

I consider this art done after dozens of hours picking at it. This is my interpretation of Eowyn versus the Witch King of Angmar. Some of the details drove me a little mad but it was a great challenge to finish. Drawn in Clip Studio and Photoshop. If I ever have an excuse I'll print it.

Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.

It's fascinating (and infuriating) to live in an age where almost everyone I know is languishing in Dickensian poverty but social media is slap full of professional computer-touchers who've never known hunger insisting that the economy is fine because their metrics say rich people are rich.

Time to delete your Linktree!

The new game probably tackles this but what does a modern Bond even do? The Craig movies at least touched on “who needs spies in a global panopticon?” as a theme. Plus half his villains are billionaires, and today it’s wishful thinking that any Govt would ever hold them accountable for anything.

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Yeah, I’m ok with this.

Hear me out: From an enforcement/CYA angle, “we suspect undisclosed AI use” feels like a lower standard to argue than proving AI use. AI slop uploaders have to lie twice (AI use + not disclosing), and IMO that gives the platform a stronger case for banning the losers that post AI slop anyways.

Watching random first season Xena episodes and man, we used to make 26 episodes of TV with a budget of 60 dollars and a dream and its BULLSHIT that we dont anymore

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

I fucking hate coding, it’s my least favorite stage of game development, but I’d rather learn the gnarliest coding language ever developed than ask an LLM to do my work for me. For me, art has always been about the process and the ritual of creation. The finished work is kinda just a nice bonus.

Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:

2026: Pope makes statement in opposition to AI 2028: Use of AI outlawed by Catholic Church 2032: Pope declares Crusade against data centers, Catholics all over the world commit acts of sabotage in a week of zealous destruction.

Sometimes when I make grits for breakfast it makes me feel like I’m a medieval serf getting my daily allotment of gruel from my generous feudal lord.

Not enough small, shrimp-like crustaceans in your marine ecosystem? Krill issue.

I ran a few game design workshops at conventions and one university, then realized I enjoyed teaching.

thanks for the advice kamen rider

As a totally unrelated anecdote, a middle schooler playing “Silent Ball” today claimed she wasn’t out because “she had 20 extra lives.” So, the rest of the players just quit passing her the ball, no matter how much or how loudly she complained.

decatur, grant park, old fourth ward, west end, morningside, east point

What are the Six Genders? Wrong answers only. My standard answer to anything...the cast of the excellent rom-com horror, The Mummy (1999)

IMO “Monkey Man” felt like Dev Patel’s 2-hour John Wick audition. However, I would compromise on him being the next Bond instead.

Today marks the 78th anniversary of The Nakba, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, which began in 1948 when over 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes, with hundreds of villages destroyed, and tens of thousands of people were murdered. The Nakba never ended.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

This is Mook erasure!

This is what I point to when folks try to justify genAI. "It's not so bad as long as they don't sell it." Meanwhile, these data centers are swallowing up resources, ruining local water infrastructure, & not really caring. All for plagiarized slop. It's gross. Every use counts. Every single one.

At this point it would not surprise me if the Supreme Court ruled that babies delivered via C-section aren’t “natural-born citizens” under the 14th Amendment. Justice Roberts, in his opinion, would reference MacBeth as part of a “deeply-held understanding in Western tradition.”

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

I see no lies here

Saw some AI slop of Commander Shepard shaking hands with Trump. A bunch of "no way Commander Shepard is Antifa blah blah" in the comments. I'm sorry. Mass Effect is fundamentally a fascist game. Shepard would have loved Trump. Shepard's conflict with authority was they espoused due process.

Loving reminder from the Muppets that your compassion for others and desire for a better world is never a bad thing even if it feels most people disagree

The GM told me, “The door does not seem trapped.” What a fool I was. #haikudungeonjam

This week in my One Ring game: After a harrowing excursion to Carn Dûm, the company scored an impressive and unexpected win against the Enemy: stealing the cursed Crown of the Witch-King, and recovering 1 of Arnor’s 3 lost Palantiri. Now, a Council meets in Rivendell to decide their next move.