If you're a game dev who's never been to an opera - consider it! You'll be blown away by what they do with sets and set transitions and conveying big stories with very little on stage. And it's probably way cheaper than you think to go. And you absolutely don't have to speak the language of the work

Freelance Additional Writer to Senior Game Designer 2017~2026

The character sheet I’m holding here is Thavma, my tiefling wizard. Although she is not my first D&D character, or even my first 5e character, she was the one I was playing when I started my game design journey in earnest. Now we’re both wizards. Only a matter of time until I can cast fireball

Check it out it’s a Wizard holding a Wizard in the Wizards office

Update on my job-related circumstances. TLDR Open to new opportunities in the game industry.

Here we go

Reframing my GM mindset from “challenge comes from threatening the PCs’ lives” to “challenge comes from threatening their goals” has made my experience at the table more fun. The tension can come from the chance of them completing their goals rather than the possibility of death. #ttrpg

PORTFOLIO TIPS FOR ILLUSTRATORS I am an art director who has probably seen close to 1000 portfolios, many great, but many...not 😔 This is a doc I wrote featuring tips and tricks for how to make a better art portfolio site. Feel free to share with anyone who may find this useful <3 #art

PAULIE: Why da you pilot da EVA, T? TONY: I can't have dis convasation again SILVIO: Ah, c'mon, Tone TONY: Ahh, alright, I guess... I pilot da EVA ta let da world know I exist PAULIE: You said it, T SILVIO: When he's right, he's right

The monkey calls business what the horse considers play Don't ever forget this

18 hours left to Draw Steel and Crack the Sun! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Headed to Seattle anybody want anything

Doom of the Dragon Grafter is a level 9-10 adventure for Draw Steel about confronting Lord Pulposa— a voiceless talker who keeps creating dragons, harvesting their DNA, and grafting it onto himself to become the ultimate draconic life form. barilleon.itch.io/dragon-grafter

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

No Delta I will not download your app just to see what seat you gave me.

Awake.

[REPOST] One of my favorite tarot card commissions. For @sinnamonking.bsky.social 🧡✨ || #art #digitalart #illustration #tarot #dungeonsanddragons #dragonborn #originalcharacter #commission ||

40 people (at least) died. It's the official policy of these newsrooms that Latin American lives aren't worth anything. Again, if you still pay for an NYT subscription I think you're trash.

wicked

Doom of the Dragon Grafter is a level 9-10 adventure for Draw Steel about confronting Lord Pulposa— a voiceless talker who keeps creating dragons, harvesting their DNA, and grafting it onto himself to become the ultimate draconic life form. barilleon.itch.io/dragon-grafter

I know I’m safe from the death note because no one can spell my name right even with reference lmao

I'm seeing a lot of posts to call your reps but little on actually how. 5calls.org is a great site where you can put in your zip code and get numbers for your house representative and two senators. You also can get a script if you're like me and stumble over your thoughts.

Meow Wolf seeks Game Designer (Project-Based), based out of Santa Fe, Denver, Vegas, Houston, Dallas, NYC, or LA. Working on-site in Santa Fe, or remotely. Some travel expected. meowwolf.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MeowWo...

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Good morning and what the fuck

Wolf Moon 🌕

Bought myself a scrapbook instead of a planner for 2026

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED An Animated Spellbook™️about something I worked on!

F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.

I had to give it a try… Steve and Cesare in my style. #bigtopburger #fanart #sketch #wip

Fun Fact: One of the reasons Square was pushed to improve its localization practices in the 2000s is because Alexander O. Smith showed them reviews proving that people *cared* about translation quality. (Link to the full interview: web.archive.org/web/20091113...)

64 hours left to Crack the Sun! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

New to the #SoloRPG List: O Captain from @scooterbeast.bsky.social and @barilleon.com A solo game of stories, stars, and the sea. Nautical #TTRPG CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

The most Los Angeles thing I’ve seen happen in an episode of Columbo is when the lieutenant not-so-subtly hints he suspects this dentist of being an accomplice to murder, takes a beat, and then asks the guy, “Oh yeah, can you validate my parking?”

Instagram algorithm is cooked because I saved ONE mille-feuille nabe recipe video and now it is only showing me… every single mille-feuille nabe video

[emerges from home office covered in blood] draft's done

text completed for Doom of the Dragon Grafter. It's 15k words. Maps and formatting remain!

chrono trigger frog's theme

Draw Steel Retainers should get smaller retainers. Like Neopets Petpets.

The Bloggies 2026 submissions are now open! Submit your favorite posts, series, and debut blogs via the official Bloggies page between now and Jan 31st! Please share this around. I'll be making regular Bloggies-themed announcements throughout the month. www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/

new year new game!! My friend @aimeehyndman.bsky.social and I just released our debut game through @beakandclawpress.bsky.social! Introducing Adventuring Party Builder, a collaborative tarot-based card game for building characters together in session zero of any high fantasy TTRPG campaign ⚔️

trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal

Happy eight year anniversary to the first time Chance pooped outside as they were sending up Fireworks over the Hudson and I demanded everyone I saw hanging around in the apartment building tell her she was a good girl

Got to play The Big Book of Madness today. It’s a cooperative board game that had my brain buzzing I really liked it

Happy New Year east coast I love and miss you