We are thrilled to bring you returning guest and all around brilliant guy Keith Ammann to discuss his newest book, "Making Enemies"! @themonstersknow.com @simonschuster.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

I have not gotten any new followers so I can only assume I’m followed by everyone cool who left twitter when it was Time

My #TTRPG Year in Review: Games I ran: D&D, Cypher System, Shadowdark, Pathfinder Games I played: 🦗 🦗 🦗

How I'm walking out of 2025

Decided to get started on I Who Remains while inspiration is running high. Been sitting on this idea for a while because I was stuck on how to approach it. It’s a solo/2 player game about being a long lived species we often see after the great adventure has ended and the world has moved on

My child has asked for handwriting samples from the adults to compare to a hypothetical note from Santa. Upon leaving a bag of cookies with a signature line, I heard her say to herself, “I’m coming for you, Santa!”

they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

10 TTRPGs I want to play/run in 2026: Deathmatch Island Triangle Agency Orbital Blues Blades in '68 Dragonbane Haunted West Flabbergasted! Brindlewood Bay The Last Caravan Dialect Number of these I'll probably get to play/run: 1 (maybe 0) 😭

Beside a sprawling city rise the ridges of an ancient volcano. Within this 3,500-foot-wide, 760-foot-tall encircling wall of stone is the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. This is Diamond Head, known as Lēʻahi in Oʻahu. #ttrpg #writing #dnd #art #writingcommunity 📷️: Elliott Chau & Eric Tessmer

😻 Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

Oh, look, it's Shadowrun.

Awww. Seven years old, and the Oobit just had her first data breach incident! I'm so proud. 🙃

How many of us just.. refusing to update next Daylight Savings Time would it take to actually stop it? Even though my state legislature almost universally wanted to get rid of DST a couple years ago, they devolved into petty fighting about whether to stay one hour forward or back.

this map for Disco Elysium Final cut is i believe the most time consuming jobs i've done was super fun

0% risk of being sent to Whamhalla when you do your Christmas shopping at Goblin Market

Calling all inkies

Had a terrific talk recently with the hosts of That RPG Podcast. Hear me talk about avoiding COVID at cons, what makes monsters monsters, humanizing orcs, the origin of the Calavazo, ingenious player solutions to difficult problems, taking PC death in stride, cranberry chutney and "doing voices."

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Waking up at 5am with the "Mary had a little lamb" playing on loop in your brain BUT to the tune of in the hall of the mountain King is no way to go through life I tell you

The Oobit got a bunch of glow sticks in a birthday party goodie bag, and this is what she did with them

Beatriz Bernal, a 16th-century Spanish novelist, wrote a fantasy novel about a female knight - with dragons, sorcerers, and a giant - decades before Don Quixote appeared. A children's adaptation, devised by children's author Diego Arboleda, is forthcoming! #fantasy #renaissance #earlymodern 💙📚

Y algunas cositas que salen hoy. Muchas gracias por el esfuerzo que se que haceis comprando a negocios peques. No podemos competir con el todo rápido y barato que ofrecen los negocios grandes, pero el trato va a ser siempre directo y honesto, y la comunicación, humana. Folktalesmarket.com

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good

J: "I have never smashed 'Add to Wish List' so fast." Can't blame her. This is AMAZING animation. S-tier.

Need a gift for your DM? Check out Keith Ammann's MAKING ENEMIES, the latest in The Monsters Know What They’re Doing series! 🎲✨ @themonstersknow.com awfulagent.com/ebooks/makin...

After the demolition of Twitter, the OGL kerfuffle, the plague of generative AI, the release of D&D 5E24 along with several upstart competitors, and a mass migration to video, I ponder the future direction of the blog I've been writing for—cripes, NINE YEARS. #DnD

How many more millennia of literature do we need to remind us that magic shortcuts lead to failure, if not outright tragedy? The step after "Sell your soul" may be "PROFIT!" but there's always a step 3.

You will lose me as a user FOREVER if you turn Firefox into an "AI browser," @mozilla.org. I have Vivaldi already installed as a backup browser on my PC, and this stupid shit, if it happens, is all the impetus I'll need to delete Firefox and make the switch. Thunderbird, too. It'll ALL go.

A very nice woman in her 80s emailed last night just to say that she had read ONE NATION UNDER GOD for a second time and enjoyed it even more than the first time. I can't tell you how much a note like that can do for an author, especially with all of this going on. Drop your favorites a line, folks

The problem is not having ideas. The problem is that billionaires, are sitting like dragons on gold, on the stolen wealth of ordinary people's efforts - leaving them no time or energy to sit, work through, refine, and implement their ideas into books, music, film, and visual art. 1/

The way to restart the world's idea machine is UBI, so that people have time and energy to think about things other than survival; easily available bank loans, so that people can fund their projects; and monopoly busting, so that a few behemoths don't control the entire market.

The era of the mass market paperback is coming to an end, and that’s not good thing for anyone. I jotted down some thoughts about the history of the format and why its end isn’t a great sign for the publishing industry: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/mass-market-...

I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him

Had a terrific talk recently with the hosts of That RPG Podcast. Hear me talk about avoiding COVID at cons, what makes monsters monsters, humanizing orcs, the origin of the Calavazo, ingenious player solutions to difficult problems, taking PC death in stride, cranberry chutney and "doing voices."

As the movement to crush fascism in our country grows in strength and power, I expect to see a growing number of HAVE FUN STORMING THE CASTLE signs at protest actions.

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

Christmas and Chanukah are coming up on us as fast as a bin'azg! Sprinkle some holiday cheer into the life of your favorite GM: Give them a copy of Making Enemies or How to Defend Your Lair. (Or both!) Buy Making Enemies: bookshop.org/a/511/978166... Buy HTDYL: bookshop.org/a/511/978198...

Just called to make my feelings known. Now it's a good time to call and actually get through, BTW, which you know if you've ever tried to get through to @durbin.senate.gov on a hot issue is no small thing; often his office simply stops answering the phones.

I went to a special screening of Jurassic Park like 10 years ago and the sound kept cutting out in key scenes so the audience started filling in (ROAR! for T Rex, slapping legs for stampede, etc) and afterwards someone said, "That was the best Scream-Along Jurassic Park ever!" and it was

Unabashed fascists are running the executive branch, my neighbors are being kidnapped and disappeared, and yet for some reason, every six months or so I have to once again try to stop my DEMOCRATIC SENATOR from ramming through an Internet-destroying censorship bill. It's so stupid and tiresome.

…I'm so goddam tired. Ppl are increasingly in their city halls about "AI" data centers making their water & power bills & air quality worse, & literally all Dems would have to do sew up up that bloc is *Vibe With That Energy.* It's affordability & billionaire overreach all in one package you dorks!

Christmas and Chanukah are coming up on us as fast as a bin'azg! Sprinkle some holiday cheer into the life of your favorite GM: Give them a copy of Making Enemies or How to Defend Your Lair. (Or both!) Buy Making Enemies: bookshop.org/a/511/978166... Buy HTDYL: bookshop.org/a/511/978198...

This story is my best attempt to convey the reality of what's happening in Manhattan's immigration courts right now. It is, as one regular court accompanier told me, "not a space to be in." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

December 10, 2025

A copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Yesterday I was proud to join @icirr.bsky.social for the historic bill signing of HB1312, now law that counters ICE in Illinois. I will continue to forcefully resist ICE, call for its abolition, and push for further protections in the spring legislative session!

I wrote about why authoritarians always attack journalism, and the larger assault on our public institutions currently underway. right now.

Fun fact: This can be the result of fumigation! TTRPG books almost never ship in large enough quantities to fill a whole shipping container, so they have to share space with all sorts of goods. If those goods need to be fumigated in port for any reason (bugs etc) the paper absorbs the weird smells.