I think I just finished the first draft of These Bloody Sails?!

“I only want human made art” “Oh yeah? What if you like something you didn’t know was AI” “Same as whenever I get tricked. I get a little pissed off and then label that piece as something not to trust. Being mistaken or incorrect is a normal thing.”

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and kickass Thursday everyone

Every year my wife Sarah likes to get us matching pajamas as a family This year she got really excited when she found the Grinch pajamas. Since they didn’t have adult sizes she tried to guess my size as a child. She went with XL Whelp.

My mom got me a shirt for Christmas

5 pages left of my book before it heads into editing. Five. You guys: this Zine is going to be done before that Kickstarter launches and for that I am ECSTATIC. Check it out here:

Alrighty. Spent the last few days celebrating holidays with family and writing writing writing. So much writing There are books coming out w my name in them and I can’t wait for you to see them, ya’ll.

Inside CECOT.

I backed a kickstarter by Eventyr Games and @bobworldbuilder.bsky.social and would you know it it’s a book!

Finished first draft of the SECOND mini adventure today. I am on a roll! Note: Our goal is to have the entire thing written before launch, edited early launch, and laid out right at end. We have zero plans of making people wait for us to get off our butts.

Hell yes, we got an Editor.

Just finished the first draft of a mini adventure, The Apparition A derelict ship crawl in a haunted brigantine. Woohoo!

We are sitting at 238 followers on this project after receiving a call out from some amazing people. Thank you so much Limithron, Matthew Sargent, and Broken Brain Games, as well as everyone who has shared this! I cannot express fully how much I appreciate you all.

The deaths of Rob Reiner and Gene Hackman and their spouses this year are two examples of horrible ways to go and not in a million years the fates I would have guessed for them

At grocery store and nearby dad says to his kid “watch this” and mimes being in a box I yell “there’s a man trapped in a box! Kid, you have to help him!” In parking lot I hear “sir!” Same guy, “lassoing” me I jerk myself forward and yell “sir I need to go home” Kid rolling.

Looking to back a new Kickstarter but you just can’t find a Pirate Borg compatible ship journey filled with New Creatures Ship Chase and Careening Rules Expanded Travel Rules The Island of 10,000 Flamingos, 3 More Bonus Mini-Adventures Amazing Original Art That’s HUMAN MADE? WELL GUESS WHAT?!

Oh hell yes

Holy crud, Limithron mentioned us in their Down Among the Dead update. THANKS @limithron.bsky.social !!

Had a sit down w my art and layout dude (Josh is a talented son of a bitch) and he was showing me the two page spread idea I had and it has to be four now Because there is no way I am denying the world some of the great art he did to make it work (and I can’t cut enough words) EXCITED.

Working on a careening table of all things today Want to purchase the fruit of my labor? Get notified on launch here!

The core of the adventure is a procedurally generated Depth Crawl (made famous by Emma Allen’s Gardens of Ynn and Stygian Library) adapted for sailing the high seas! Made for @limithron.bsky.social ‘s Pirate Borg, These Bloody Sails turns the journey into the play. Hit that notify me on launch!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... My dearest adopted daughter Margeaux aka @thiseffingm.bsky.social is doing a kickstarter! Help out if you can!

Oh look! That Effin’ GM went and made an Effin’ Pirate Borg adventure!

I played a Pirate Borg game run by @thiseffingm.bsky.social at Gamehole Con this year and it was super fun! Will *gets* the mood and tone of the setting and did a great job drawing the table into the adventure. I cannot wait to see how he expands the core rules. Grab yer cursed gold and back this!

I’ve worked at conventions w Limithron before, both in the booth and as a Harbour Master. 3 things: 1. They make a great game. 2. Their license is great, their support unmatched. 3. They are great people. Making a game w their system was a no brainer. www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...

These Bloody Sails is a Pirate Borg compatible, 30+ page zine containing a single journey adventure broken into three legs. What will you find in this zine? ▶ A Nautical Adventure ▶ 6 New Creatures ▶ Ship Chase Rules ▶ Expanded Travel Rules ▶ More! ▶ 100% Human Made #Pirateborg #ttrpg

Speaking of art and artists, maybe MAYBE I have a Kickstarter project about to go up. Maybe.

“Hey why would you hire an artist? You can draw right?” “Uh….no.”

Ah, Cyber Monday Eve. The family has gathered round to sing our synth tunes around the digital fireplace already.

This is exactly what I am talking about. “Look how amazingly useful this can be” they say, “so allow this to justify every other shitty position I have primarily on GenA” Thorne is trying to sell you something here and it’s the idea that you are wrong if you have any misgivings. Don’t buy it.

LORD ORBIUS VALANTHRU IS DEAD Two campaigns spanning 5 years this beholder turned overmind has harried my players, but last night the Hard Earners said no more. With spell and blade in hand, they took on the beholder and vanquished it in its underground lair of Oblivion. Painting by Micah McFall

In which Dave does a review of the Caverns of Thracia (Goodman Games) and The Devoured Labyrinth!

One thing I think Pathfinder 2 did really well was the idea of the magic spheres Life, material, Spirit, and mind. Making each major magic class a combo. Bards: spirit and mind Druid: material and life Cleric: life and spirit Wizard: mind and material If nothing else, it gave Druids fireball.

I just discovered a product I bought was a pdf and not a physical copy and I thought it was a physical copy. I get it. Things are changing. But man I don’t like PDFs. Give me a book I can destroy with my grubby little hands

If this is a program for you, go to your settings on your account and there's an option to hide all products that use "AI". It's not perfect as a lot of creators break ToS by refusing to disclose use of algorithmic generation, but it cuts it WAY back.

Gary Gygax did not invent Chainmail, despite some discussions in the ttrpg community. He also did not invent brigandine, plate, cuirasses, ring, or lamellar. He might have invented laser armor (a series of laser swords tied together to create an armor you don’t want to move in)

In retrospect I should have just said Drivethru. DMsGuild is the “spoke” of that hub I am on most often, but the problem extends to Drivethru and pathfinder infinite as well. I’m not sure about the others as I never go to them.

I feel like DMsGuild is being abandoned. It’s drowning in AI submissions And they stopped updating older out of print books for print on demand. I know there’s cool new stuff coming out too but hot damn, I’m getting tired of having to sift through slop.

Guess who just learned @hellomcdm.bsky.social has a draw steel starter box for sale on Chessex Me

Sometimes I feel all I do anymore is talk about cool kickstarters I’ve been invited to Or rage against ai art And I’m fine with both of those

Abandoned as an orphan with a pack of grognards, I was raised in the wilds on the teet of polyhedral dice. It wasn’t until I found love in the form of a British woman that I was able to bring what I had learned back to civilization.

Generative Stolen Valor #noaiart #aiartsucks

Applied for a promotion today. Brought out the big guns to get it. Fingers crossed.

Oh yeah do it

Michael (also known as @mkemichael.bsky.social), a pal and a big fan of great roleplaying games like Shadowdark and DCC, is almost to his goal for his gauntlet scenario. Let’s help him cross that finish line!

Pro ai people telling you it’s “an inevitability” are selling an idea to you. They need you to accept it as a non choice, because that’s how they normalize removing more of the human aspect from the equation. You can say no. I say no, verbally and w my wallet.

Ok LAST POST We beat my personal goal! Hell yeah! Now we have one hour left to blow away the publisher’s expectations. Thanks to all who backed it and for those of you who are on the fence, now’s the time. Dark Devilry | for the Shadowdark RPG www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Frankenstein ruled.

Only 8 hours left my friends

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