If you folks out there haven't heard of Ex Tenebris, could I convince you to take a moment and look at this gloomy monstrosity? There are so many cool people in its orbit now!

@openhearthrpg.bsky.social hey, saw your post about Rotted Capes, we are currently working on the 2nd edition, the cover is a nod to days of future past wity the special addition being a nod to Jim Lee's famous X-Men cover... hit me up if you want to talk about it

the genius of Alan Moore on full display

Who's ready for a new Quinns Quest tomorrow? 💿🌈

In one week, I go to SF for my gender-affirming (bottom) surgery. Would you like to read the story of my experience thus far? It's been tough and I could use all the support I can get. Most of all I want folks to have an understanding of what it's like. #trans www.gofundme.com/f/support-gw...

Shared Hearth 2025 An hour from now, so 1200 UTC-4 Sept 16 2025, registration opens for sessions of Shared Hearth, a free online ttrpg event. This runs Oct 2nd-Oct 5th, with games across many time zones. Facilitators run everything with a layered set of safety tools. Details at the link. #ttrpg

A Different Kind of Hex Ep. 4 - Bleed @madelancholy.bsky.social joins Ian & José to talk about the relationship between player & character, the Magic Circle dividing them, and how experience can Bleed through. Content Advisory in show notes #ttrpg

Pass.

I know a lot of people are being doxxed by the far right because they were too honest in public about how they felt about the Kirk assassination. I wrote a quick guide about the first things you should do if this is happening to you. (Not paywalled) www.patreon.com/posts/85220523

"Ugh, mara, if you cut every game company out of your life and off your shelves when they celebrate someone who wanted you dead, you'd..." My shelves are bursting because I fill them with work by people I love. I cut publishers when they praise people who want me harmed or dead. Simple as.

Well I never did get around to running my 2000ad anthology campaign with Savage Worlds. Now I guess I‘ll find something else to run it with.

Folks! Eric Farmer & Eli Kurtz have completed their symphony of swordplay! If you had the misfortune to miss out on the funding campaign, then here is your chance! (Also some art of mine is in there, but nothing half as sick as that incredible cover) mythicgazetteer.itch.io/sword-opera

They aren't backing down, they're getting MORE aggressive So we need to get more aggressive too. Keep calling the payment pros. Start sending them letters. Contact your reps too & let them know you think censoring the internet and especially giving payment processors this kind of power is BAD

HP Audible associated actors (Sept. 10, 2025) Kit Harington Keira Knightley Iwan Rheon Ruth Wilson Ambika Mod Leo Woodall Simon Pegg James McAvoy Gemma Whelan Matt Berry Hugh Laurie Matthew Macfadyen Riz Ahmed Michelle Gomez Cush Jumbo Mark Addy Alex Hassell Daniel Mays Sara and Avni Deshmukh

Oh, hey. Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy". Let that sink in. Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

Age verification: after graduating from art school I had dinner with some college professors. I was amazed they all had email addresses and could send messages through Cyberspace like a William Gibson hacker!

Roll for Origin: Supers TTRPG History: Ep. 4 Champions (1st-3rd Ed) Hosts @madjay.bsky.social and Lowell Francis cover one of the earliest & most important supers ttrpgs, a game near & dear to their hearts. They cover what the pitch, gaming history, media influences & then general thoughts. #ttrpg

DEAD COUNTRY is a Kindle Monthly Deal for September! Which means it should be $2.99 wherever fine ebooks are sold. For example, here: bookshop.org/p/books/dead... Plenty of time to read and join us for our discussion on r/CraftSequence later this month!

Here is a hard thing to convince people of. If you had an awesome RPG session last night? YOU DID THAT. Not the game. Not the designers. Not the publishers. You. You were awesome. For many of us, that is SUPREMELY uncomfortable to even consider, and it’s easier to put the games pedestal.

don't care what people do with my games once they pay me for them, but I DO think that if someone comes online like "well I did this and it sucked" I should be allowed to clown on them repercussion-free like no shit that's why I didn't write it that way, like I shouldn't have to be nice lmao

A part of me dies every time I see a Kickstarter boardgame project openly admit to using AI… Then still get funded. Their answer to “do you have consent of the owners of these works” is laughable. There is no way to use LLMs without theft. It’s never valid to ship a game with this stolen work.

Shared Hearth Free Online TTRPG Con This is a 4-day con of ttrpgs, with a ton of different games. We have games in times friendly to the Americas, APAC & Europe. Sign ups open Tuesday 9/16 at Noon US Eastern. The con runs from 10/2 to 10/5. openhearthgaming.com/shared-hearth 1/2 #ttrpg

This line of thinking is making the rounds among AI boosters and the correct response is “well bless your heart”

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

If you're really craving being the person to get a kickstarter over the 500 follower point and on its way towards 600, I've got you covered!! THE LAST CARAVAN is returning to kickstarter soon!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

A few months back, my mom randomly decided that I wanted Stephen King books for my b-day (and gave me Night Shift & two copies of Skeleton Crew). I literally hadn't read King since 1987 so I'm not sure what made her think this was in my wheelhouse. I suspect these were bargain buys at Goodwill. 1/

Open Hearth Video Roundup - September 3, 2025 Collected videos from recent Open Hearth Gaming Community games. This roundup includes sessions of great games like Rapscallion, The Ultraviolet Grasslands, Dungeon World 2, and more. Check the full post for details on how to join in the fun! #ttrpg

Welp, it's less than a week until ANGEL MAKER launches! You can pre-order your copy here, or from your local bookstore! books2read.com/angelmaker (Or from MY local bookstore! www.odysseybks.com/elizabeth-be... )

🧭 A sale is cast upon my stock art. 🗺️ 15%OFF on each item on Itch. Much more in the bundle. Because resting in August cost me highly. itch.io/s/159690/sep... #stockart #ttrpg #indierpg #bsnm

this is nightmarish and should alarm you no matter what your opinions on pornography are

Mythomorphosis is now available in PDF! Explore how mythology changes over generations in this GMless collaborative storytelling game. You can find it on Itch here: gmurphy.itch.io/mythomorphosis

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.

Truly insane that "wizard school lady" became one of the most virulently hateful people on the planet but because people won't stop buying Harry Potter merch you're not allowed to point it out or she'll sue you

Long read: For around one year, indie publisher Plus One Exp operated as a business unit within a shipping and warehousing company called Brandfox. They worked with Possum Creek Games, Stockholm Kartell, among others. It was disastrous for almost everyone involved. www.rascal.news/plus-one-exp...

Open Hearth Podcast Ep 12: Rangers of a Broken World, Aberrant, Masks Host Rae Nedjadi talks with Sebastian Yūe & Matthew Arcilla about games, superheroes, villainy, gender & more: Evil Hat's forthcoming ttrpg, a WW classic & modern take on heroism. CW for 2nd segment: SA in a short story. #ttrpg

Farewell, Quinn. There was nobody like you.

This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.

Apparently someone uploaded the whole damn thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA6m...

Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Since people have asked, i have grabbed some sources. These were all available almost instantly. There is many more articles on it and it is clear EA have made a decision. 1. simscommunity.info/2024/09/18/t... 2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNo7YXykbDA 3. www.ign.com/articles/ea-...

Heads up #TTRPG team.

HEY WHAT THE FUCK WHAT DO YOU MEAN PAYPAL'S SHUTTING DOWN ACCOUNTS CONNECTED TO 18+ PATREONS????

Tribes in the Dark Kickstarter: Roll for Mutation Bonus Ep In this "bonusode", we talk with Wil Hutton aka @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com, lead dev for Tribes in the Dark. Currently on KS, TitD re-imagines Tribe 8, Dream Pod 9's fantastical post-apocalyptic rpg from the late 1990s. #ttrpg

Playtesting tip incoming... When I'd finished my first round of playtesting Bite Marks, I ran a short campaign of Monsterhearts. I knew I was using some of the same GMing techniques in both - I wanted to practice those techniques without worrying if the system worked. #ttrpg #designertips 1/3

I'm going to be on a livestream doing an interview with an author, Andrew Hiller, starting in a few minutes (at 11 AM eastern) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVOg...

@lackingceremony.bsky.social's Monsterhearts is getting its own video game courtesy of Canadian design studio, Ludic Lemur. How are they going to adapt the angsty, social dynamics of the RPG into a digital format? Cards!

I thought this part was particularly cool!

Dan Froomkin of Press Watch: “The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state.” [presswatchers.org]

Roll for Mutation: Post-Apocalyptic TTRPG History: Ep. 1 Gamma World First new podcast looking at the history of Post-Apocalyptic TTRPGs. In this one hosts Lowell Francis and Marc Majcher talk about what Gamma World is, its gaming history, its media context & general thoughts about it. #ttrpg

Shipping books internationally in the US: a Cautionary Tale This past Friday, my wife went down to our local post office (NE #Ohio) to ship a couple of our book orders (I write lots of books, mainly on paranormal topics like ghosts) One was headed to the UK (1/??)