But for the same reason, it's incompatible with TTRPGs. Since the entire imagined space is within reach of the game, flavor text must create its gap by shrinking the game. Flavor text *reduces* a roleplaying game in order to create a disparity between the imagined and the playable.

This is what I mean when I say the concept of "flavor text" is detrimental to TTRPGs. If something is obviously and demonstrably false to any in-universe observer, then asking us to pretend otherwise is the opposite of good roleplay.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

This book is an absolute treasure trove of insights from all different perspectives in 100+ short chapters dealing with a huge range of topics about the craft. Can’t recommend it enough! Delighted to have my chapter, “Cite your sources!”, in amongst all the the excellent contributions.

A whole GAME using the Draw Steel rules! Sick! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Incredibly deployable image for Bluesky posts

Come visit us at GAMA Expo! Booth number 741.

Maybe next time we crawl out of the primordial ooze we could require everyone who wants to be in charge of everyone to clearly say yes or no when asked if they actively want everyone alive to die

5 hours to go now! Every little bit helps put us in a better position to continue crafting creative games that challenge the norm and bring something new to the TTRPG table!

I dust my house. My AI robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Each "aragonite platelet" in the image is 0.5 microns thick, made of 5% protein and 95% calcium carbonate. Here's a transverse/cross-section view, showing each tile is "stacked" on millions of others. Imagine the biological processes involved in laying these down to form "Gastropod Armor +5".

What looks like a topological map for a TTRPG is in fact an SEM image of an abalone shell. While shells are primarily made of calcium carbonate, there's a protein matrix that makes shell '3,000 times more resistant to fracturing than a crystal of calcium carbonate alone.' (📷: Hitachi Hi Tech)

Dread is my favorite play-in-person TTRPG of all time. EVER. Words cannot express how much I love it. It’s a TTRPG where instead of rolling dice to do things, you pull blocks from a Jenga tower. The harder the task, the more pulls. And it’s a permadeath horror game. I’ve never had such shaky hands

Moooooooon.

If you think it's an exaggeration, I need y'all to watch the docuseries Shiny Happy People. The first season focuses on the Duggar family and the fundamentalist church The second season is about the massive evangelical youth org Teen Mania that's been training an "army of god" since the 80s

I would love to be posting more gaming stuff and less "holy shit the world is ending" stuff but holy shit y'all.

It's really hard to explain this to anyone who didn't grow up in the evangelistic Christian cult that is mainstream American religion, but when I tell you these people won't listen to logic & don't care about saving lives, in part because they want World war 3, I mean that quite literally.

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying bsky.app/profile/slcl...

Look at that thing! Gorgeous! I need to sit down and make some MoSh Shipbreaker stats for it.

We’re about to go live, get in here folks! #ttrpg #ActualPlay

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Pitch us your cowards. I dare you to make amazing games with us.

Coyote & Crow is SUCH a great game. Give their latest a look!!!

One week until SXSW EDU 2026! Make sure to check out: 🧙Mentor sessions with me (Steph) 🎲[3] EDU x gaming meet ups, co-hosted w/@chrishopper.bsky.social 📘My book in the bookstore Check out my schedule in today's TTRPGkids post: https://tinyurl.com/mr2w5chh

New post about backgrounds for Crows on Patreon! #crowsrpg www.patreon.com/posts/151745...

Nimuë, The Lady of the Lake warlock patron makes her deals with the truly desperate... but she promises the power of the deep, dark waters, and - to the truly worthy - Excalibur itself.

So that means.. Wait.. We're further from First Contact than First Contact was from TMP. Hell, we're the same distance from First Contact that First Contact was from TOS Season 1.

GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG is in its final 48 hours on Kickstarter! The support of all you unwashed outlaws has been amazing so far, and we're very grateful! Please share this around, and back Gallows Corner today if you haven't already! www.kickstarter.com/projects/thr...

Hey folks, if you're at #GAMA Expo and interested in pitching @plusoneexp.bsky.social's Zine Club Adventures line, set up a meeting with me! I'm looking for adventures/mysteries for existing systems, new adventure-focused systems, and skirmishers/war games. doodle.com/bp/richardru...

It's out! You can find my Redwall-inspired ancestries for Draw Steel at tootallferne.itch.io/ancestries-o.... It's completely free, and features 12 different ancestry options with abilities drawn both from the core rules and my own unique takes, as well as a setting I created just for this!

Fantastic breakdown of the last hundred years of international meddling in Iran

Preparing an encounter for your next Draw Steel session? Check out this short primer on creating objects in the Draw Steel Codex. youtu.be/BQoD4ZsXzns?...

This resonates a lot. Trading favors can make loops that can be manacles. Networks of exchange can make nets that snare. Matias offers an alternate image: not exchange but giving forward to common good. “for every person forging manacles or tying nets, there are a hundred people planting trees.”

Jesus, Carrot. Did you have to go so dark?

So very tired of corrupt politicians in their late 70s dragging us to the brink of nuclear war and/or financial ruin

The elder millennial existence consists entirely of alternating geopolitical and financial crises

1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads! www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data" This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

If you have not read Persepolis you should, it is an extremely powerful graphic novel thats available for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/pers... Though I would also highly reccomend supporting Marjane directly and purchasing it as well.

Were you as freaked out by the creepy AI cover as I was? 😭 Not to worry-the *real* covers for TEMERAIRE: THE ROLEPLAYING GAME are 😍 absolutely gorgeous pieces made by real living, breathing artists. A hardcover edition for both come at Captain tier pledges & up: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

AI is gonna say you're a terrorist and that's good enough for them. If you didn't think this was the real reason they've been all in on data scraping and AI you have your answer now. They want AI with their thumb on the scale to be the arbiter of truth

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people. ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

Happy St Davids Day Welsh friends! This is an old painting/print of mine- ARAWN, Welsh King of the Otherworld and his hounds. They escort souls through the underworld. Hir yw'r dydd a hir yw'r nos, a hir yw aros Arawn "Long is the day and long is the night, and long is the waiting of Arawn"

Congrats to Emmet and his collaborators for how well this campaign is going! It looks really beautifully done.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Late for the #BlueSkyArtShow today. My submission for the #Round prompt is my #isopod painting from a few years ago. They can curl into little balls! #art

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

I am posting this here now to remind myself to post it again during a more traffic heavy posting time. Chicago is getting a quarterly zine to celebrate our robust RPG scene! You can support it now on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/chi...