Y'all: we love to get so many questions about our upcoming bird book! We also love to answer some of them pre-emptively 💖 #ZoologistsPrimer www.doubleproficiency.com/post/zoologi...

Carved in Stone is officially out! In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.

If you see this, post your bird art! 🐦 #ZoologistsPrimer

If you see this, post your bird art! 🐦

You hear the mournful howl of a lone wolf, crying towards the full moon’s uncaring face. Soon, you stumble onto a starved-looking timber wolf, its hind leg trapped betwixt the iron jaws of a bear trap. The animal faces your approach with bared fangs, snarling. #WritingPrompt #ttrpg #WayfarersDeck

Larpocracy, the EU project I'm involved with, is throwing a larp festival in Krakow next year. Here is the first flyer. (Also, it will be bilingual, Polish and English.) The tagline translates to: play someone - be yourself!

#ColorsOfFinland day 21. Coming soon to Monster Manuals near you, the angry snowflake demon!

A farmhouse is half-buried under snow. The fireplace is dark, yet you can still feel the warmth. The table is set for dinner; a pot of fresh broth cools amid plates. And yet, nobody is home. Eventually, you find prints of bare feet leading to the dark forest. #WritingPrompt #ttrpg #WayfarersDeck

Out now, in print and ebook: Folklore of the Lake District by Stephen G. Rae come on a magical journey in folklore through the Lake District and its surrounding counties bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #folklorethursday #booksky

I have a fever, and the only prescription is coming up with smoothest tttpg mechanics in the land. And I think I might have just had an idea on how to use dice like never before!

This fall has been an extra slow one for small businesses out here, and the tea house is $3.7k shy of where we need to be to make rent before late fees hit this month. All this to say, if you have some tea shopping to do or friends to point our way today, we'd sure appreciate it!

FINALLY I can't believe it took us 4 episodes to get around to making a game about lil guys doing crimes! LIZARD LARCENY! DREAMY WIZARDS who know how to BE HOT, DO DRUGS and PONDER ORBS. 🦎🧙‍♂️ The VOD is up at www.twitch.tv/videos/26101... and will be on youtube *soon*

📣MuppetMeet 2025 Announcement! Join us and a host of fantastic guest speakers on the evening before Dragonmeet (Friday 28th Nov) for an evening of #TTRPG industry networking and knowledge sharing. Be sure to grab your FREE tickets here: dragonmeet.co.uk/tickets 👇Read more about what's on 👇

Interested in learning more about ebird, both creating useful records, and being able to use ebird data to answer questions of your own? Join us, as Lauren Harter shares how we can make the most of ebird in our birding! Wednesday, November 19, 6pm.

Molting Velociraptor 👎

One of these days, I'll need to reach out to terrifyingly successful people and organizations to start setting up some publicity for The Bird Book. I love folklore. I love birds. I love writing and drawing. But talking to people...? 😱 If you know non-scary sci-com bird people, let me know 😅

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

Shadowrun / Cyberpunk GMs, take note. It's okay to not create obstacles too hard for your group's resident netrunner/decker 🏅

This is a fun book. I picked it up when collecting early research for our book on magical mushrooms, but it turned out we're talking about slightly different things ✨🪄

As a Polish, born and living in Warsaw, I can confirm.

If you need more birds in your life and can't wait until we're done with The Bird Book, Lindsay Nikole has you covered with the most heinous birds of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJrS...

So I hear nanotyrannus is officially a species now? Way to go short king!

We've made some cool changes to our Patreon and I think you may like them 💖🐦‍⬛ www.patreon.com/posts/happy-...

News! Updates! Spooky stuff! Birds with feathers! Marketing! We also revamped our Patreon, so it's cooler now: www.patreon.com/c/doubleprof... www.doubleproficiency.com/post/october...

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

The biggest lie THEY ever told was convincing people that tinfoil hats protect from mind control waves. Sure, wear a freaking antenna made from radiowave amplifying materials on your head to "protect" from 5g, right. Y'all should be wearing copper cages on your heads, wake up sheeple!

The new Affinity landed as freemium, and I have never been so conflicted. On one hand: cool, people now have free access to layout tools! On the other, the suite of AI crap with Canva pro tells me that this will go downhill from here. If you use it, opt out from them scraping your data for GenAI!

Sometimes a possum steals all the game designs. No designs, just posum. An anti-muse or musen't, if you will.

New game is cooking. Simmering...

I recently rediscovered the show Defiance, from which I watched maybe an episode in the past. I'm glad I watched it all now, and have to say that Datak and Stahma Tarr are some of the best written cheeky buggers in the history of cheeky buggers. Show worth watching for these two alone.

I woke up to Blue Jays trending, so this must be fate. I literally drew them yesterday! All best birds are corvids.

The American Folklore: An Encyclopedia talks about bird-watchers like they're a separate species "Birders operate within a hierarchy of expertise and preference that distinguishes “dickie birders” and backyard birders from hawk watchers and birders with life lists of (...) 600 or 700 species."

Bought roller skates, I'm gonna fall on my face so many times! Can't wait.

It's still raining. Sounds like I have a perfect excuse to draw birds all day for the new book.

It's time to bring back one of my favorite things we ever made. Suitable for any system and party, with guidelines to run it anywhere on the spectrum from child-friendly to gothic horror. If you need an adventure for your Halloween ttrpg night, give it a try. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

As someone who will, eventually, end up writing a book on biology & folklore of invertebrates (despite having a little bit of a phobia), I find articles like this extremely helpful and valuable. Also, looks at this fluffy baby!

I woke up to Blue Jays trending, so this must be fate. I literally drew them yesterday! All best birds are corvids.

It always makes me smile when non-Polish people discover The Weirdness of our graphic design school. It's always a bit reductive ("it's communism!"), but it's likely as good as 12min video can be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPB...

#ColorsOfFinland day 6. It's rainy and gloomy today, but the calendulas in the garden are still doing their best despite the weather. So, I guess I might as well 🌻

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It's time to bring back one of my favorite things we ever made. Suitable for any system and party, with guidelines to run it anywhere on the spectrum from child-friendly to gothic horror. If you need an adventure for your Halloween ttrpg night, give it a try. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

The Polish School of Posters was not limited to movie posters, and it was lead by some of the most prominent artists of the time. Look at this amazing bird: it's a 1978 ad poster for Polish Airlines (LOT) with a business end of a sparrow. Painted by Janusz Stanny, source of my childhood nightmare.

It always makes me smile when non-Polish people discover The Weirdness of our graphic design school. It's always a bit reductive ("it's communism!"), but it's likely as good as 12min video can be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPB...

By the end of the month, we'll be dropping all-new and freshly fledged pages from the upcoming Bird Book! If you wanna get into #birds with us, join our Patreon! 🐦‍⬛✨ www.patreon.com/c/doubleprof...

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

#ColorsOfFinland, day 5. Behold, the last blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) of the season in our garden. We always leave the last batch for the birds.

#ColorsOfFinland Day 4: Every time we go to "The Big Lake", we travel through an underground pass with the most adorable street art. Meet Hoot the Hoot.

Excited about things and stuff, Aphelion is coming together quite nicely. Last couple of iterations I made strides making the rules super easy to get into without sacrificing any depth, and I think it's looking neat. Should be ready to show oeople soon!

Just found out drinking matcha makes me a performative male. Damn, now I gotta start performing. I don't play any instruments though, is it allowed if I perform in a circus?