They regularly confuse owning a brand with owning a hobby. They are chasing the dream of enshittification thinking they have a captured market over when people can just go do elsewhere. Instead, they have to produce something foreign to modern corporations: continuing to make something people like

I wish I had seen this before I submitted my complaint. This is so clearly states how I feel about the matter

@betterlegends.bsky.social is making a zine. It is pretty cool based on stuff he has shared. These demons have been drawn live down in Heck. Sam deserves to have the demons’ funding goal ransom meant so he can return to his native plane

The solo sessions that make up Delvers happened around the time I was starting my solo campaigns. As I was figuring out things in those early sessions, @betterlegends.bsky.social pointed me to some great resources on solo play. I know Sam is a busy guy but I keep holding out for more Delvers

This trailer makes me want a Tower Dungeon anime soooo bad

I don’t think I have ever agreed with anything on the internet more

Another successful round of Hero Quest

There are some good points in this blog post about game design. The bullet point style that has become popular can be too minimal and well written text can create touch stones for the reader. At the same time, I find paragraph-based game books unusable at the table not matter how I mark them up

I used some of Stanley’s Judy Junior strips in lessons back when I taught comics workshops for kids. Thirteen Going Eighteen is an underrated series

For military-focused kids media and products to be obsessed with when I was young, I always am grateful it was Hama’s GI Joe

It’s pronounced like KUUNTS. It ain’t like the c-word and it ain’t like Dean

There can be real fun for players in Mos Eisley-style settings like this. I have played in games where players could bring anything and (most) people had a blast. It is also part of the charm of something like City State of the Invincible Overlord- a place where all the “monsters” of the D&D live

This blog post is so spot on. I am playing in a campaign right now that is going through a modern module. We are in a very old-school style dungeon right now. My number one complaint about the writing has been this very thing. The rooms aren’t in dialog with each other nor the players

Maybe the best use in years of anything to come out of this hometown station that’s decisions in the 1990s played a key role in helping destroy modern American society:

Shh, it's a night time #ttrpg adventure release. Dungeon of Sparks is a disjointed collaboration adventure. I drew all the pictures, now you write the words and publish it- further explanation here- better-legends.itch.io/dungeon-of-s...

The mail must go through.

Uncanny X-Men #231: Magik accidentally summons the characters from Mikhail Bulghakov's The Master & Margarita.

I'll be at SPX this weekend at the Revival House Press table (C6B) selling copies of my new comic book, Brownfield Action Family. Plus free postcards. At least grab a postcard.

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Just got a box of copies from the printer. Looks amazing! We'll be posting more updates soon.

I thought this was a great post about mapping. Maybe that is because I share the sentiment that mapping isn’t for every table but is amazing when it is a good fit for a table’s culture

In desperate need of some work as summer park program ends and I'll be out of park work for 5 weeks unpaid, all of my commission slots are open ✌️ All of em are thru #vgen ! #commissions vgen.co/rays666hell

I am so excited for this series!!!

I have been thinking about this thread and the idea in it a lot today. I commented in thread that I could only speak as a player who had to map in an megadungeon game but I think I do have more to add. I don’t think mapping is right for all styles of play or all tables but it gets a bad wrap…

My nephew really wants @lauraknetzger.bsky.social to make more Bug Boys, too

Research

Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you were a weird little dude, spawned from a vat, tasked with doing the bidding of the Wizard Kings who made you out of bad magic and rare earth materials? What if you killed the Wizard King who made you?

Look at that kobold in the bottom left. Amazing

I SAW IT IN MY DREAMS

I just got this amazing book from @soengery.bsky.social in the mail! It’s a game! It’s a comic! It’s the generator for your next TTRPG character! I am a biased as I wrote the forward and am Marie’s sometimes DM but it is thrilling to see such a work that combines cartooning and TTRPG book like this

Some old comics I have been spending time with this week: Chronicles of Corum #1 by Baron and Mignola Legends of the DC Universe #22 by R & J-M Lofficer and Ladronn Omac #2 by Kirby The Original Black Cat #2 by Lee Elias (the writer is still not positively known)

It’s true. I have always found urban-based sessions overwhelming and unsatisfying so I decided to make my own. Inspired by my use of a classic city supplement in solo D&D, I put my megadungeon campaign to an end and started writing something that (hopefully) works for me

Once it’s in there it’s tough to get ‘em out.

Some excellent mail from @benlaurence.bsky.social . The best way to relax the eve of Record Store Day

What a time to be alive!

Roadside Picnic art from earlier in the month, still my current mood.

I am home to some nice mail: three play report zines Sam Mameli made covering some sessions played in my now dormant #megadungeon game

Another completed quest

Hey, underground comix legend George Metzger, eco-optimist, needs care. About 60% to the modest 10K goal. Let’s get it there. gofund.me/92b76dc4

I got my copy of @artbrister.bsky.social ‘s PakPak ShopShop in the mail. It looks amazing

I picked back up my reread of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World last week. I feel like this panel from “The Pact” is a good one to keep in mind these days

I have been running a solo #OSE game since November 2023. I have let it take me wherever the game needs to go. Today, that was running my first skirmish in Chainmail

I just wanna fuck shit up

Omg it’s officially real now

Sending out my new Pak Pak catalogs to backers also means I’ve got a bunch of item or character illustrations I’ve just been sitting on. Feels a little odd to share them out of context but also I like them. Once I get these preorders finished I’ll be making this catalog available.

After all this we just got the call that we were denied financial aid for northwestern / @artbrister.bsky.social’s cancer treatment so guess who is extremely open to work and has a webstore. soengery.com/collections/...

Remember!

asking once again How many books do you need to sell before you make back your advance? What is the advertising/marketing budget/plan for YOUR book? When are editorial check ins/support? HOW IS YOUR ADVANCE PAID OUT? how many books have you sold through ur pub vs on ur own?