TIL that you can't set Affinity Publisher to export the text of your choice to the Title metadata; you can only use your filename as Title. 🫠🫠🫠

Official cover reveal! Lorne Colt did an outstanding job with all four volumes of Designers & Dragons: Origins. We launch this mammoth collection of roleplaying history two weeks from today! Sign up here to get notified on launch: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Awww yeah stacking coupon + free shipping, I'm gonna have so many comic mailers!

Maybe I shouldn't have given these skus human-readable names. pro: human readable con: these-skus-are-so-long-print, these-skus-are-so-long-pdf

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

For you foot-on-main pervs, cross your fingers for some good bruises tomorrow/tuesday. (I'm fine!)

Garbage was brilliant.

It's that time of year again! Something to Dismember Me By is a one-session playable adventure with harvest, Halloweeny mini-games for your table! Grab a copy from @drivethrurpg.com: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

There were multiple sessions of church today. I picked this one, a bucket list concert: GARBAGE. Wish I could be at the VFW hall to see the f1rst wrestling crew as well. I think they’ll understand.

Any Minnesota folks switched their phone/data over to Visible+ from a regular Verizon account? Any hiccups? I'm bringing a phone, don't want to upgrade it, want to keep my number.

Comic that crosses the line.

Snagged a ticket to see Garbage tomorrow. Tough that it's on the same night as a f1rst wrestling show but those are the breaks. :(

In an absolutely WILD year for indie games I am honored for Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector to be among the nominees for ✨BEST INDIE✨ at the Golden Joysticks! If you enjoyed the game, please consider giving it your vote 🙏 👉Vote here: goldenjoysticks.com

I'm A Pro Wrestling Referee. I Almost Witnessed A Deathmatch Wrestler Bleed Out In The Ring. "In a match like this, referees are almost like lifeguards, standing around and looking official until something inevitably goes wrong." by Clark Feldman READ: www.moonsault.press/im-a-referee

I knew it was happening but did not realize that the Phantasy Star TTRPG was about to drop?! — legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5386...

Did you know: Adding "Spreads" to the filename does not change a file from single-facing pages to spreads ... even if you try multiple times.

Community Managers deserve a raise and paid vacations.

Is there a TTRPG/creators/industry discord that is socialization/support focused with a leaning *against* talking about whatever the current discourse is? (This is no diss to any current discourse.)

Today, for the first time ever, the "hide pages" feature in InDesign is coming in handy. The difficult thing about new features is remembering they exist when they would be useful.

This is a bad ending to a good CYOA.

Another report: www.reddit.com/r/technology... Probably a bug due to a sloppy migration for whatever-this-is but... who knows?

Havent tested myself but it looks like the IAP for a full license is $0 from the mobile apps so... get it while it's hot? www.reddit.com/r/technology...

Someone told me that you can't buy Affinity Publisher/suite right now, and this is their web page. Affinity Publisher importing IDML but not EXPORTING IDML was always a warning sign to me that they were not committed to the sparkle motion of openness.

"For every manual confiscated, two popped up in its place. Why? Because for us, the game is an escape from our nightmarish reality. A fantasy land at our fingertips. But for our parents, it was a death-dealing nightmare." I have painstakingly recreated Gryphons & Gargoyles. Play at your own risk.

Hey folks, let’s talk about our upcoming weird fantasy RPG, the Snarl! First up: an overview of what the game is — and isn’t! Every fantasy setting is based on underlying assumptions that shape the world. These are some of the defining characteristics of The Snarl.

Any Shopify folks noticing an uptick in orders tagged potentially fraudulent — with "Characteristics of this order are similar to fraudulent orders observed in the past" as the ONLY metric leaning towards fraud? Welp, if you're fraudulently buying $1.99 PDFs...

Jesse Scoble (@jscoble.bsky.social) is on The Corner of Story and Game (@storyandgame.bsky.social) talking his history making games + other things, and his current project Dead Money: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kt9...

*cries in budding*

I wake up this morning to the delightful surprise that the Cypher campaign is STILL in Overtime Mode--16 hours and counting! The deals for this campaign are amazing, and I guess word continues to trickle out. Can you give this a share? mymcg.info/cypher #ttrpg #cypher #roleplaying

Sending out a "smoke test" on a BackerKit campaign ... said test is 19 backers. Wish it could be skipped on smaller campaigns.

The right time to start working on the graphic design + art of your RPG stuff is *well before* the initial manuscript is finished. Text should inform Design and Design should inform Text back-and-forth.

I've been working on more Freon Skies cyberpunk stuff over the last few weeks, pushing a few long-in-progress things much closer to actual release. drivethrurpg.com/product/3004...

At the last moment I realized that the wasp that was no longer on my table was on the rim of my coffee cup.

And the news: www.orbit-books.co.uk/orbit-books-...

Are you a freelance artist who likes drawing giant trees, forests, and weird creatures? Or do you know of such an artist? Post portfolio links please!

Needed a heavy book to hold something down while working on a project. First book I laid eyes on was Red Markets. Yes, because it's giant, but also because it has a very clear spine.

I was having a crummy frustrating day, so I sat the fuck down and did a repetitive and boring task that I'd been needing to do for ages, and I am still not be feeling all that great, but I'm closer to finishing something than I was earlier.

Never fails when someone is watching you work: "How did you do that?" "Well, uh... one second. Let me back up and do it again, slowly."

What Photoshop command that *doesn't* have a default keyboard shortcut is the most surprising to you? And what do you map it to?

Please rich out if you have a gig or lead here!

Today we are proud to announce our next crowdfunding campaign. Award-winning historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social examines the roots, artwork, and lore behind each and every product released by TSR for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D with his latest effort, Designers & Dragons: Origins. 1/3

AEW Fight Forever is 10 bucks on Steam right now, so I finally bought it. The "bumping into other wrestlers and taking selfies together" part of the story mode is hilarious and earnest.

LEGO nerds ... is there a way to filter Bricklink so I don't see stuff from sets/series I don't care about?

I just got my first look at the full layout of Designers & Dragons Origins V1. This is my first book of D&D product histories, started (in this form) just after we got hit by the COVID lockdown in early 2020.

I love several people, some in my household and immediate family, that are on the autism spectrum. They are amazing as they are. It’s this rigid world that doesn’t understand or accommodate their differences. Also…Tylenol doesn’t fuckin cause it. This is so tiresome.

I am looking for a project where I take an old tabletop book (think: created in PageMaker or Quark 4 or earlier) and update it to modern downloadable + POD. I am happy to do this at a nicely discounted rate as long as I have full rights to record/write tutorial content using said book.

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

Remember that Uline is garbage but getting their catalog helps fund the USPS. ❤

Wizards says that Commander is the most popular format now. When the most popular format is also the most complicated format, there is absolutely going to be a growing issue of how to introduce players to the game.

Spent some good time yesterday sorting things from the moving chaos, getting a big pile of stuff ready to leave the apartment, and tidying up the living room / office. Still need to figure out exactly how I'm going to turn said living room / office into Shipping & Filming Paradise as well.