Every stride ive made in TTRPG creation lately has been met with a lot of "i dont want to play a board game in my ttrpg!" but what does that mean? no dice, no grid? Everyone wants depth and complexity while also being simple, with little book-keeping, cinematic, but bare bones..? makes no sense..

Es la Espada de Damocles colgando sobre toda Latinoamerica que no permite que ni se pueda pensar en cambios profundos, porque entonces tenes que prepararte para la guerra contra el poder militar más grande la historia.

If you think this is the only form of interventionism being carried out or the one taking more lives in here boy do I got news for you

Any #artists in my follows want to check in with Ana about this, there's a link in this quoted thread to the book and author (Barakah Smith) for those wanting a little more context.

If you are one of my readers, you know that I know most of us in TTRPGS don't care or value awards, having grown disillusioned with them. However, if this puts more eyes on my article on AI and the artform, the definitive and much needed talk on the issue, I think it would do some good.

#TTRPG Year in Review Worked on: ENTOMBED (personal project) & Looters (design consultant, art direction & playtest). Played: Looters (playtest). Ran: Scum & Villainy, Torchbearer 2E, DCC, WoDu - Noctis Labyrinth, ENTOMBED (playtest). Not many, but very long, high-quality runs.

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The way some people treat any attempt at game design like it's an attempt to foist an abusive relationship onto your friend group is easily more dysfunctional than any game's incentive structures have ever been

This may blow some of your minds, but HP is an incentive structure. It's an incentive to not make boneheaded decisions in violent situations.

*people who primarily play a game that once rewarded XP for every gold piece you looted* "I think incentive structures are bad and possibly demonic actually"

One last thing. I will always challenge ideas of "value" in networking. This is in fact why I am not often interested in networking. It was just two weeks ago at an immersive summit where someone discounted me based on gender and race until they realized I was friends with who they wanted to meet.

Any conversation about networking should include the fact that networking isn't a purely benign skill that works exactly one way. Different cultures and ethnicities have wildly different experiences. I must literally engage my double consciousness to interact with business worlds. Business me.

Palatable as in someone else's idea of Blackness, not necessarily yours. Black creators and theorists were sometimes mined for their experiences, put on stage and then promptly forgotten about. The solidarity and friendship was actually just... networking off the back of your pain.

Hu-man art! Hu-man art!

888 to 685. 203 votes over them. In the words of the noted philosopher, “To the extreme, I rock a mic like a vandal, light up the stage and wax a chump like a candle.” Thank you all. Next step? The #iHunt feature film that’s currently in development!!! www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...

This might be and Argentinian thing only, but there's a backlash towards polyamory (even by former polyams) and a romantization of monogamous relationships, that is a straight up conservative pipeline, and no one seems to notice...

We were in first place in this film award voting. A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours. Now it's personal. Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS. Reshare? VOTE! www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...

I'm shit at making maps, but I'm really excited about this new ENTOMBED campaign. #PbtA #TTRPG #Map

I'm shit at making maps, but I'm really excited about this new ENTOMBED campaign. #PbtA #TTRPG #Map

Write everyday because it is psychopolitical grindset bullshit, not about writing

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Okay let's do this again. Emergency graphic design commissions. Simple stuff only (i.e. title treatments), starting at 30 US dollars without revisions. Buy me almond milk and keep my heart unexploded 👍

It’s really baffling how much of seething hatred these AAA people have for all things concept art, it’s almost like the higher ups are DESPERATELY trying to cover up the fact that the only people actually easily replaceable by AI with no loss in quality are CEOs, not concept artists

Buy HyperMall - 5e compatible, winner of the Dorpo Award for Best RPG, designed for found family mercenary stories, Ghibli-inspired anime setting, you play as cute gay animal people just trying to get by, if you don't like that it also has an undercurrent of Christian puritanism, wait come back

Cases like Obojima remind me that you *gotta* start saving these amazing artists from shit ass 5E compatible KS campaigns. With your money 💸💸

✨ Dark Fantasy Aesthetic trend ✨ except there’s no generative AI because it’s the retro-fantasy game I’m making ⚔️

because the artform has been monopolized by an omnicidal fantasy game made by a guy who quoted Confederate officers?

Viacom alone has parasitized their work to make ten times more money than the Bakers ever did for all their labor together. Materially and artistically, the debt of the artform to the Bakers in incalculable. This is our opportunity to show our gratitude and do our part to correct injustices.

all these Friends from Friends stink. I’ve seen the whole thang twice and it always rings true. Seinfeld had it right when they made all their characters irredeemable but you still liked them irregardless. nothing new to note, just been watching irreruns at family’s house

To make games you need a seed of entitlement to think you can do something better, but you must never let it make you so stupid as to think you've done something that's never been done before.

EVERYONE I NEED YOUR HELP! Remember how #iHunt won the October Short of the Month award? I do. That was because of your vote. Now it's up for Audience Choice Awards at the same. AND Jan 1st it'll be up for SHORT OF THE YEAR. We could REALLY use these wins. www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.

The Adventurer King portrait took me like 90hs, mostly adding magic items to his hoard. Adding the pencils layer for visibility:

QRP your art with stars ***

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I'm sure I've heard of this before, but can't find the origin of this #gameDesign question. I call it: The Bear Problem In a typical western fantasy game, where monsters exist & the PCs are expected to fight them: whats the difference between, say, a Hippogriff and a Bear?🧵 1/13

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Emergency commissions! I got laid off last weeek. If y'all wanna help out a (human) Latino artist from the Global South, commission me some art! #Art #OC #CharacterPortrait #TTRPG #DnD #Commission #NotAI

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QRP your art with stars ***

The Adventurer King portrait took me like 90hs, mostly adding magic items to his hoard. Adding the pencils layer for visibility:

If you think you cannot afford art, maybe check out my art commissioning and licensing guide? It's extremely comprehensive, and not only gives you basic competency on understanding some of the concepts you need to work better with an artist, ... www.patreon.com/posts/compre...

so I'm in Germany and my finances are dire because my money is worth almost 7 times less than Europeans'. because imperialism etc. so if you have any writing gigs, hit me up!!! I'd love to work while turning into a popsicle!!! (if not, maybe buy my games or help me pay for groceries? 🥰)

heck yeah, thanks Seth! finishing ghostbox was absolutely one of the highlights of my year. check out all the good work that @goblinmixtape.bsky.social, @residentbard.bsky.social, @duamn.bsky.social, and @vickaruscica.bsky.social did on those dead letters! marx-of-high-water.itch.io/ghostbox

Framing #TTRPGs as art movements is probably more useful than as play cultures The only thing I could add is many WoD fans rejected the critical study of RPGs. Their hatred for story games and the forge was one of the reasons those forms shut down. The parallels to Gamer-Gate is uncanny.

If we had more Art History majors in #ttrpgs, we would be saving a lot of this WoD revisionist bullshit🤣 "Trad" was born as a definition during early 00s when a wave of indie designers (spurred by this new thing called PDF) had to define the previous rpgs they were *not*. Trad includes WoD.+

ttrpg design evolution has been weird, it's like 40 years of calculating armour values with logarithmic equations, and then in 2010 vincent baker gave everyone permission to fuck

We are entering campaign finale territory, & last session I presented my players with a choice re: their Ur-bot... child? They had to choose between the path of the Concordiat Knights or the Maelstrom—which gave it a new chasis & a playbook [Mystic or Scoundrel] #ScumAndVillainy #FitD

Yes, and. A trick that I've developed over the years, while writing settings for games I'm designing or games I'm running, is to either: Set it RIGHT before everything goes to shit. or Set it as shit is going down. Hopefully both: