Have that (Print run of this one now available in my shop at www.stephencollinsillustration.com)

“no berry” omg can we keep that?

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Can you help a brother out? UK TTRPG fandom: I‘m looking to get in touch with the makers of „Tortured Souls“ magazine for a gaming history project. Any help or signal boost much appreciated. 🙏 @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social @wyrdscience.bsky.social @dailydwarf.eurosky.social

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. If you've looked upon my works and despaired please consider leaving a review on one of the major online retail sites.

For about the last 10 years my strategy with notebooks has been to draw a dick on the first page. So I’ve already ruined the notebook, and I can keep writing in it without worrying about it being good.

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

Player: “Can we look for signs?” @jamesgraham.theliberati.net having just described what is very obviously a monster’s nest, “Well there’s quite a big sign here, but sure…”

this is the good content

"this but also for Facebook, ffs" i whisper in the ears of every restaurant in my home town

A colleague just gently and kindly put their hand on my arm and asked if I was okay so I might not be hiding the fatigue as well as I thought.

here is the core problem with “A Poirot That Fucks” as a concept (also looking at you, Kenneth Branagh): it fundamentally misunderstands that a crucial piece of why women and girls in often terrifying circumstances feel safe bringing their problems to him is that they don’t deem sexualized by him

"Pronoun police"? Please. The proper term is the gendermes.

This is the best game dev advice I have seen on this platform.

Extreme hype! #DropoutImprov

New poem, “Advice”, in the latest issue of Island magazine. With thanks to poetry editor Timothy Loveday for giving it a home.

Cute commiss from @beepsbees.bsky.social of my favourite moment from our last D&D game: polymorphing a beloved-but-problematic NPC into a flying squirrel and leaving him on the roof.

Game design is hard because you really need to solve problems without creating more problems And nobody has ever done that

Africa Check, as always, rules.

Drinking tolak angin in a mug of buchu tea and I assume that I will never be sick again.

Has anyone worked out a really good setup for hybrid TTRPG games? (Most players in the room, one or two calling in?)

I'm sorry I don't care what happens next but I refuse to have a prime minister who looks like the lego version of himself

GOING BACK IN MY CAGE CAUSE IM DOING QUITE BAD

One of the pillars seems to be burning good will before you've earned any

the funniest version of chatbot sycophancy I've ever seen

I thought the banana astonishment was familiar, @robindlaws.bsky.social, it makes an appearance in Jeanette Winterson’s wonderful and hallucinatory Sexing the Cherry.

The enshittification of Fandom websites (which I have to reference very frequently for both work and hobbies), is absolutely fucking painful. I would pay real money to Fandom for a not-dire experience. (Instead I'm trying out Breezewiki.)

Can’t stress this enough. Fix the roof while it’s sunny. Don’t wait till it’s raining.

I feel like we just didn’t get the memo about a change in the main parties?

did the voting thing

Is there any better way to show you stand for nothing than making a last ditch appeal to voters with diametrically opposed politics? It's a mystery why people don't trust mainstream politicians...

the line might go up either way, but if you want busy high streets and nightlife, younger poorer people need more after-rent money, if you want more yacht building and private jet travel, keep shoveling it all to rich people. I don't know why this is hard for our greatest minds to comprehend

the best use of this format

If AI chatbots were conscious, wouldn’t that mean AI companies are breeding slave labour? IDK but that seems bad.

the only way for that resurrection to fail was if we rolled a one. i think you know what we rolled

Hunting at the moment for some bilingual creative wordy people (English/German, English/Spanish, English/Russian), ideally with some experience in level design/puzzle design. Might have a short-term contract coming up. Hit me up if you know/are such a person.

If you, like me, were desperately trying to find Tacklebox after @itsquinns.bsky.social's review, it's finally available at Leisure Games: leisuregames.com/products/tac...

32 years ago today

Scientists identifying mysterious oceanic orb complain that it is only useful to the party’s bard

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

look it’s really hard to find the most moronic horse on this colossal carousel of stupidity, but this decision might be it?

We could have come out of the pandemic with a culture of masking while sick but no, we had a bunch of whiny little bitches that mean I’ve been coughed on by 3 separate people today.

Frankly, Betteridge's law.

I would very much like someone more cultured than me to do this list with South African plays, please and thank you.

LRT: One of the things we decided first is Venba is not just about the joy of cooking because she's put in a role where she HAS to cook. That's why the first time she cooks, she's not excited about it. And the only time she's shown eating, is in the last level, when someone else cooks for her.

If you are a TTRPG GM running a combat-focused system, tell me: how often do you tend to run combat? What’s your preference? What are your players’ preferences?

This is going to be a very long thread for my industry chums sharing a method for assessing the relative merits of exhibiting at any given convention. It’s really long. Let’s start somewhere away from the maths. There are a lot of intangible reasons to attend a convention as an exhibitor:

31s is a lie, I had to close the browser, walk around for a bit and come back. Nice one though. Parseword #65 ⚡️ 31s 💎 Perfect 🌍 Secret Found 🗿 Challenge Mode