The online TTRPG mapmaker Inkarnate formally announced a ban on AI-generated products in its marketplace. This decision arrives less than a week after its CEO faced scrutiny over considering AI in select contexts.

The reason why we still contend with shitty ass ideas like "rules are coercive" and "DMs/Designers are tyrants" is because the main drivers of influence in this artform are rich yankees that have absolutely no concept of cultures of play. The fact is that their introduction to TTRPGs... 1/7

the sacred text 😔

I know we on the project volunteered to keep our identities off the individual stories but it's been a year and also things have only gotten worse so let me tell you Writing this comic last year and having every single god damn thing come to pass at this point is just Fuck, man. I'm so tired.

Zephyr is an anarchist fantasy #TTRPG where you play as Windfolk - sentimental constructs embarking on a rite of passage that sees them travel across the sentient continent of Ophoi to fulfill the sacred Obligations that will bind their community - using a complex, color-token system of survival...

PCRF aid Bundle coming soon! itch.io/blog/1060997...

A friend of a friend needs help. He gave my friend money when my friend needed it, and has helped many other people as well. I haven't meet him personally, but if anyone can help and share, I'd much appreciate it. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ja...

The Duo Duet game jam is starting in only 4 days! What teams do we have so far? itch.io/jam/duo-duet...

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

It would be *really funny* if someone complains to payment processors about video games that have a guy's face impaled by a metal claw. I mean, that's gotta get an AO from the ESRB, right? /j i don't want to experience gamer rage

as far as autism is concerned, well, the people who want to eradicate it are a bunch of raw milk chugging dipshits who want to bring back polio. why would you listen to them about how it's worth reviving measles just to get rid of people like me? why would you listen to them about anything?

being trans is a natural outcome of giving people autonomy. you have the power to be whatever gender is yours, and you have the right to change your body to suit that if you want. because that is what it means to care about freedom.

Autism doesn’t stop at 18. There are plenty of autistic adults that often get left behind during media coverage because the focus is often on moms of autistic children. It’s another way to erase autistic people’s personhood.

Bisexuals! Get visible! It’s bisexual visibility day!

I need people to find the same energy they had for Jimmy Kimmel being suspended for the vulnerable & marginalized folks being targeted by the current “administration” in the US.

Gonna just say, if it's this easy to protest against the monolith that is Disney. Then there is no excuse for people to be clinging to Harry Potter. Like, if the needle can be moved against Disney, people can make it move against JK Rowling. Stop the flow of money into her accounts,

I AM AUTISTIC. IT IS GENETIC. I got my autism from extremely autistic computer programmer father and my extremely autistic Trekkie mother. I gave it to my kid. The neurodivergent nerd runs strong in our family. We have strengths & we have support needs but we are all valid, autonomous humans.

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Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

one of my most popular designs

What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.

The Wildsea (Felix Isaacs, 2023)

If you've got a chronic or fluctuating illness and have to bail on things more than most people, it's really difficult to communicate that it's not a lack of effort, nor in any way reflective of how much you care. Sometimes your body or brain simply go up the fuck at inconvenient times.

On a COMPLETELY UNRELATED note, did you know that *game mechanics* are not copyrightable?

i hate how this is a thing that happens so frequently - even in my own stream! people think they're immune to rules and boundaries just for tipping you. just remember - tips and donos are non refundable and do NOT give you any special privilege to cross the streamers boundaries. #vsky #twitch

I dare Dem politicians to "continue the legacy" and "condemn the cowardly murderer" of Anwar al-Awlaki, a similar right-wing demagogue, and see how far that gets them in the primary.

the american public owes me at least $12; probably several orders of magnitude more for all the trauma, but cmon, you can at least start somewhere

People who write pithy articles about Frankenstein read the actual book first challenge

Surviving abuse -especially physical- can make you hypervigilant to the emotions of others as a survival tactic, even long after the fact. You learn to make yourself small to keep ppl happy. Even the slightest shift in their mood or tone of voice can trigger an anxious spiral. It's hard to unlearn.

I’m lucky enough to get a predictable 99% like/dislike ratio on my #ttrpg videos. 2 are lower, but I don't think it's anything to do with the quality of the games or my delivery: * Zephyr: An Anarchist Fantasy Game of Fleeting Identities * Thirsty Sword Lesbians It’s the scary words in the titles

I actually scheduled a stream. Like, just an hour ahead of time, but I did schedule it! www.youtube.com/live/pUQgmiC...

introducing the Sunflower Solo Club!!! each month play a different solo ttrpg on our own together, sharing our process on discord as we go through individual playthroughs and posting the finished games or reviews on the jam page if we'd like. our first game is @mkirin.itch.io's Iron Valley!!

As a disabled person: this is a terrible take. Eugenics and fascism have always gone hand in hand. Along with Jews, disabled people were one of the first groups the Nazis focused on in the Holocaust. We have always been at the forefront of fascist minds. Hence why they use ableist slurs so easily.

one of my players designed and printed this dial for ironsworn (we’re playing sundered isles) and it’s so convenient and satisfying to use we had a great time this session with lots of exciting rolls

This one is a great pointer to the colonizing underlines that remain in D&D even today. However, I'd like to digress on top of this article on how old D&D is so deeply boomer-coded, whereas modern D&D is very much millennial. For you see, the colonozing remains, but *ownership* changed. 🧵+

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. 🖊️🦑

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

Love watching pilot program after pilot program determine over and over and over that UBI is an unambiguous positive that does not ruin economies or neighborhoods or lives and everyone nods and goes "wow, cool, interesting" and then does fucking nothing until the next pilot program 15 years later

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Oh this actually sounds like a great resource for a co-op campaign I'm doing. Not public facing, unfortunately, but I will certainly tell people what I think!

my brain after writing ~1000 words of emotionally complex family drama for a solo RPG this morning: why aren't you working on your large intimidating project about restorative justice for war criminals, you freaking loser!? work for once in your life.

I have been seeing Pepe more and more in chats. Please do not use them at all. There are plenty of alternatives out there. 🙂 www.thepinknews.com/2021/03/28/p...

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...

Every time I'm reminded of the nuclear semiotics project I just want to find the guy who came up with it and ask him if all those curse warnings kept out tomb robbers like the pharaohs expected.

Thank you for informing me. Seriously, they don't teach this in US school (unsurprisingly, unfortunately).

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.