And the Designers & Dragons: Origins is over. Thanks so much for the support! We brought in just a hair short of a quarter-of-a-million dollars (wow!), which I believe puts us in the top-5 Evil Hat Kickstarters (OK, #5), so I'm super happy for the interest in history!

So all women - trans or not - are going to get subjectively judged on whether or not they fit someone's idea of what a woman looks like, and interrogated on that basis? Yes, that certainly appears to be a totally normal thing to be doing. I cannot foresee any issues with this at all. FFS.

3d6 DTL #Dolmenwood Ep 06, exclusively on Patreon! The merry Band of Breggles saunters into the Hlerribuck festival on the Shadholme grounds, and immediately decide to make a statement. Powerful figures take note, and the crypts are soon infiltrated. #OSR #TTRPG Patreon link below!

Thanks to everyone who came by my signing today! If you didn't get a chance to pick up MAKING ENEMIES there, it's still available at the Simon & Schuster booth (#2852). While you're there, pick up something by my fellow Chicagoan @oneshotrpg.bsky.social!

See ya at Pax U, folks!

Who is The Castle Automatic for? Have you been meaning to get HIS MAJESTY THE WORM to the table? Get started right away with 100+ room dungeon for your Underworld, without building your own.

If we adjusted our games' prices for inflation—prices in this industry have a tendency to calcify at whatever their initial one was when originally released, so we generally don't—many titles would go up notably. Here's a spreadsheet where I run the (coarse) numbers: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

Zork 1-3 go open source! #zork #opensource #software #code opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

I am at the Exalted Funeral booth! I have these flyers as part of the announcement for the Early Worm campaign for Castle Automatic, my Metroidvania dungeon for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM. Come get one!

Todd interview of Matt Mercer about Hope and Fear from PAX I assume #daggerheart #ttrpg #criticalrole #mathewmercer youtu.be/TDlUIb-MnUY

Evil Hat now has the poll up for the $200k Designers & Dragons Origins stretch goal. What TSR UK product would you like to see added to the backers-only preview? I think there are two obvious answers for intriguing or well-loved products, but we'll see what folks think!

for anyone thinking of threatening a member of Congress with DEATH. 18 U.S.C. § 351: This law makes it a federal offense to kill, kidnap, or assault a Member of Congress, including attempts and conspiracies.

WAPO EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. These distortions .. are beneath the office of the president.” @washingtonpost.com #Kashoggi www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

OSE Month is coming. I've been working on the DEMONIC GRIMOIRE, coming to Backerkit along with more fine infernal tomes by other old-school luminaries in May. www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

What the actual fuck, Apple

So I am led to understand that the Department of Justice is working on the level of competence that has become the hallmark of this administration

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

I figured out how they're going to avoid releasing the full Epstein files. HR4405 the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires release all UNCLASSIFUED documents in DOJ possession related to Jeffrey Epstein. I have a feeling that the most significant parts of the file are going to be "classified".

Watching the Epstein survivor admit that she voted for Trump really fucked with my head. The brainwashing against the left that apparently people endure from birth, must be way deeper than I ever imagined. A victim voting for a rapist, who has also been accused by 26 other women? Over a woman? WTAF?

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

Because it's abuse. Performed openly, against someone with less power and less status, in order to reinforce her lesser power and lower status, while everyone present stands by and enables it.

Senate suddenly passes the Epstein bill just hours after it cleared the House The Senate passed the bill using unanimous consent even before the legislation had formally been sent to the chamber. www.ms.now/news/senate-...

"As much as it may often seem otherwise, we are still the authors of our own fates. …When the body politic begins to drift toward corruption, the only recourse—if the people hope to preserve a republic—is to build new institutions and with them new ways of political life." Yep.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

I'm gonna do an eligibility post because I don't expect any other publications this year. Writing in 2025: 1. The Flaming Embusen (short story) available in text and audio: 1/4

Oh, no, no, no, no. Hell, no. Aside from hackability, here's why this is a VERY bad idea: A cop (or cop impersonator) pulls you over, asks to see ID. You unlock your phone to access it and show it to them. They grab your unlocked phone and can now browse through it at will.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

Full Members (9 books): Company Histories: Designers & Dragons 70s through 00s System Histories: This is Free Trader Beowulf Product Histories: Designers & Dragons Origins V1-4 Quasi-Members (2 books): The Science-Fiction in Traveller (book reviews w/historic context) Platinum Appendix

Oh yeah do it

This is one of the grossest things he's ever done, and that's a goddamn competitive category.

s/warned/promised/ Definitely ruin the industry that thought it could profit on stolen creativity.

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems. "Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well, fucking good.

Ify Nwadiwe and Jeremy Crawford interviewed by Todd Kenreck, live premeir now, youtu.be/ZhbnLMGiSUE?...

@catherinelucey.bsky.social just gained a life long reader after the heinous interaction she was forced to endure with the President. Anyone in an office setting would be fired for saying what he said. Bring back basic human respect to our country and our politics. ijr.com/trumps-respo...

What secrets does a visual timeline of the entire Basic Dungeons & Dragons line reveal? That's the topic of my newest Designers & Dragons blog.

You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?

Huh, in 2019 4e D&D Insider made WotC nearly $300 thousand in revenue. Maybe more from drivethru. #dnd #d&d #4e #dnd4e

Heartland Duels livestream #buhurt m.twitch.tv/knightski/home

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

It’s kinda back again. This talk that OD&D ain’t a game, or at least it’s not done. Sometimes folks point out it does not have a rule for initiative as an example. Dungeon World doesn’t have initiative, is it an incomplete game?

If your in Omaha this weekend and want to see people fight in armor www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

The fourth stretch goal poll for Designers & Dragons: Origins is now up. These polls are adding content to the backers-only preview book. So what accessory would you like to see the history of?

In fact, B&N has been expanding rather a bit recently; their sales are up and they've refreshed their stores. And independent books stores have been growing in numbers too! It's been quite a turnaround for brick and mortar bookstores in the last couple of years. I hope it lasts.

Northern lights are out tonight over Beloit! Hard to see with the naked eye, but the camera picks them up nicely.

I just backed Shadow Crawler Carnage: An Alien Abduction Adventure Module on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/cra...