signed this. easy to do. support independent press. support artists. give trans people money. fuck nazis. fuck ICE. free Palestine.

Malefica Monday 43: Kori is a mushroom that only grows under the most specific circumstances. When properly refined, the resulting powder can amplify arcanisms far beyond their natural potency. As such, it is highly regulated and sought after.

It's Monday, which means it's #AskACreator day! Tag a #TTRPG creator in the comments and ask them a question about their work! @dicefunctional.bsky.social What's been your favorite part about the #WeekOfWorldbuilding?

#ttrpg folks! In a fantasy setting, what’s something you always want to be able to do with magic in the day-to-day? Not during violent moments, but all the others. Small or big, doesn’t matter.

#ttrpg folks! In a fantasy setting, what’s something you always want to be able to do with magic in the day-to-day? Not during violent moments, but all the others. Small or big, doesn’t matter.

Malefica Monday 42: Mutemeld is a synthetic material that dampens magic and obfuscates its properties, eliminating all traces of arcanism entirely if of high enough quality. It’s deviously tricky to make, and improper preparation has disastrous consequences.

My biggest advice to any creator has been and will always be: You have to want it bad enough. If you find yourself constantly out of ideas, with little to no motivation to work on your art, it's worth doing legitimate self reflection on what you actually want out of your life and time spent.

Malefica Monday 41: Feast.

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

New review day! This time, a look at Zephyr by @fsohns.bsky.social A beautiful, thematic, and very unique #ttrpg that shows, in many senses, that other ways are possible. youtu.be/UjiTlM_u0rQ

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...

Malefica Monday 40: All upon a cosmic rail, machinations of Fate do yearn.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

@tabletopbookshelf.com got new Zephyr stock and now at a reduced price! If you wanna support our retailers, and get to play a really cool, detailed survival TTRPG of anarchist communities and travel on the back of a sentient, walking landmass, head over to... tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep...

Made a solo board game, tested it, and WOW it’s not good. Back to the drawing board 😂

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO TTRPG ART COMMISSIONING AND LICENSING It's done! Here is my guide to art commissioning, licensing, and art direction in TTRPGs. It's free to see, has contract and brief templates, and plenty of resources to aid in art literacy in the space. www.patreon.com/posts/compre...

Malefica Monday 39: Twice upon a fabled tale, heroines do burn.

Malefica Monday 38: Once upon a dynasty, Lara had a mister.

Malefica Monday 37: Once upon a tragedy, Umbra had a sister.

Malefica Monday 36: Emotion has far more impact on arcanisms than most would care to admit, or are aware of. Unadulterated feeling can stand against even the most complex and perfect magic.

Malefica Monday 35: “Why do they hate us so much?”

The two main characters of my comic are that last photo, Umbra and Nero (left to right). Aya did such a great job. The plushies are great quality and I love having them looking at me while I work on their story! 💜

Malefica Monday 34: Sha Miloh defeated the Father of the First Witch long ago, giving rise to the now official religion of Candar: Sha’aoh, meaning “of Sha.”

Itch tip for game designers: Add links to your other games as the "Download & install instructions" in your Itch games. Use the embed codes to put them right there, easy to get. Help people find your other work!

Malefica Monday 33: What drives a man to madness? Is it a horror, implacable and infinite? No. Perhaps a taste of something forbidden, granted then stolen back? It can be. But surely, the madness like no other is seeing, clear as crystal, that which no one else can.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

I'm sorry but look how cool this storefront is. Peak slickness on all these works <3

Malefica Monday 32: Thereout, Death

🆓🎨🖼️👀😁

Malefica Monday 31: In The Eye of Nothing…

saw this in relation to music, but it goes for all creative pursuits! remember to make time to experiment without an end goal or product in sight. fuck around and find out

Malefica Monday 30: Whereupon, Abuse

One of the things I find so dismaying about the AI-ification of engagement with writing is that it’s not just anti-creativity, it’s anti-aesthetic. It’s violence against the power of language and words, against their capacity for every kind of beauty

I am cookin’ with this new solo game. Anyone interested in an almost reverse engine building game? The system tries to build an engine of complications while you try to fix it before it can.

Malefica Monday 29: Whereupon, Tragedy

It's independent bookstore week, so here are some ways you can support this indie bookstore: 1. Check out our books, you might find your new favourite #ttrpg 📖 2. Share/recommend us to your friends 💕 3. Play our games! We have free quickstarts for all our in-house titles 🎲 soulmuppet-store.co.uk

The line between “I struggle to focus because of a mental neurodivergence” and “I struggle to focus because mass media insists on perpetuating shorter attention spans and giving everything insta-dopamine lights and sound effects to stay relevant” is becoming blurrier and blurrier by the day.

Happy Pride my dear friends! If you're in the US and attending a protest today be safe and know your rights! Be safe, be happy, be you my darlings, and remember that none of us is alone.

Hey fam! If you liked the Zephyr Backpack Add-On, remember leaving a cool star rating on DTRPG always helps <3

I am looking for freelance work! I specialize in editorials, book covers, and branding projects I've worked with the NYT, Scientific American, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, and more and would love to work with your organization too 🪴[email protected] 🪴samanthamash.com

Malefica Monday 28: Within, Secrets

This is an absolutely wonderful post from Ramona. Eloquent, insightful and incredibly accurate.

UNBOUND AUTHORS: We’ve prepared a letter you can send to administrators to demand things like expedited rights reversion, no AI use, return of electronic files (cover art, typesetting, etc) and the option to get any remaining copies of your books. DM me and I will send the template over

Malefica Monday 27: Within, Change

Want an easy way to pick CMYK-safe colors? Based on Mixam's "Color Charts and Values Guide" and similar to PrintNinja's "CMYK Suggested Values and Color Guide," these color swatches are considered safe for CMYK printing: exeuntpress.itch.io/cmyk-color #AffinityPublisher #design #ttrpg #cmyk

Malefica Monday 26: Thereout, Deception

Has anyone seen the #Discord news going around about them putting bots in servers to scrape them for genAI? Does anyone know the validity of that?