The second season of Gamestorm is starting with a bang! Our first episode is out now with guest @outridercreative.bsky.social. Come checkout the first episode and the game we made! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3atsr... storygameschicago.itch.io/when-we-were...

new trend, every time you theorypost about ttrpgs you have to go outside and you can't come back until you've made a new friend.

the Black Panthers were right

Switching from reading fic to writing my book is like. Oh no. Wait. I actually have to do work to read this story?

What I need people to understand is when legislators argue that professors should teach more and research less, it's not because they think our research is actually worthless. It's because they don't want anyone to be able to develop or disseminate expertise that goes against their party line.

If you’ve enjoyed Gamestorm, then go check out the Jam starting tonight and running for a month! Pick a prompt from any episode of the first season and make a little game based on it! You can find all the details in the jam below! itch.io/jam/gamestor...

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

would love to hear what you think about it when you get a chance to read it! ✨

The first spell that was ever cast in my very first playtest session of Diabolic Dialect was ‘BONES ON THE OUTSIDE!’ Pretty horrific, I know. But man what a tone-setter! Check out the pre-launch and the full campaign coming next week! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

City of Blood and Plaster and the Print & Play for my upcoming Kickstarter - Diabolic Dialect - are both in this! Go support a good cause and get so… many… incredible games!

Back it or don't, but PLEASE watch the video trailer five times, I worked very hard on it 🙏✌️

Hot take: In fantasy games, big pantheons where there's a deity for every type of character morality and it's assumed you'll go for yours? That sucks the juice out of defining characters as sinners, apostate, of walking away from faith and returning to it; if faith is easy pablum, it has no spice.

Zines are hard as fuck Zines are anti-fasciast Zines are necessary Zines built your world Zines always come to save the day Zines are human

the fisherman’s wife

to those about to crowdfund, we salute you

The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷‍♂️”

Also: I’m convinced whenever you see people come out of nowhere and have massive success in this industry, it’s because they had a trust fund, or they’re parachuting in from some other industry, or their dad is a marketing exec or something. Like, that’s almost *always* the case.

I’m most of the way through recording the next season of Gamestorm, and it’s got me very excited! We’ll be kicking the season off with @outridercreative.bsky.social here in a few weeks! Check out the first season here! Rate us on Apple Podcasts if you like the show and share it with your friends!

Starting a rewatch of Schitts Creek

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Great thread that emphasizes why it's so important to be extra loud when supporting BIPOC creators.

I have a sneaking suspicion that “subscriber” has never watched one of Matt’s videos.

Great advice

Thank you for having us! ❤️

Bumper berry crop beckons earthbound birds to bump bodies

Deception is what you find in the innermost ring of the forest #ttrpg #artwork #illustration #osr #ghost

We’re being led by the anti-vaxxers of the legal sphere: People who’ve never lived without the protections of international law and domestic regulation, so they only notice the inconvenience, not the horrors prevented. When institutions work, their benefits become invisible, until they’re gone.

You lose one light, you find another 🐇🌿

I've added 30 new Community Copies to Diabolic Dialect both to celebrate the holidays and the release of our first adventure for it! Pick up a community copy or grab both in a bundle here! itch.io/s/177129/gin...

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

This has some of the most indulgent and fun writing from @ryanzenith.bsky.social that I’ve gotten to see. Which feels like it’s saying something…

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

Things are heating up in this train wagon. And there's still two more parts after this one.

that the Whos celebrate Christmas suggests some knowledge of Christ, but whether this is our anthropic Christ or a distinctive Who-Christ remains obscure; some have argued Christianity was introduced to them during their refuge with Horton, which of course turns us to the matter of Elephant Religion

my upcoming diabolic dialect adventure “The Gingerbread Factory” probably has my most indulgent writing

I have been thinking a lot this year about how to bring folks to games — especially TTRPGs. There’s lots of paths, & most of them require a lot of patience — the long game, as it were. I know many folks who are connoisseurs, restless maximizers. But love people first, & meet them where they are.

My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!

"What she wants most of all is to crunch, gulp, and digest a gingerbread that does not protest." - @ryanzenith.bsky.social One of the best lines I've read in recent memory from an upcoming Diabolic Dialect Holiday module.

#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Guinefort, the Cajun Christmas Werewolf! When Santa Claus visits the bayous of Louisiana, the dense canopy of trees that blanket the rivers along which its people live preclude him from employing his reindeer-pulled sleigh. 1/

despite the miserable fall weather, the Abbot always made sure to take the novice monks out to his favorite mushroom foraging grounds. if they were lucky he'd also have the opportunity to teach them some weather forecasting tricks

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.

EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bjork is op -- disjointed hitbox

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Ni quiero, ni necesito tanto. Buenas noches, gente de bien.

love when i write a bit of something that's so obviously from My Human Brain. like well, maybe this particular thing sticks out in a way that won't survive editing, maybe it won't hit for anybody else, but it took me to write this part for sure. so for now it is my favorite part

While I think the most obvious transferable skill from Improv to playing TTRPGs is learning how to react to situations quickly and authentically, we should also take note that Improv (especially long form) can teach narrative pattern recognition to help call back to previous themes and characters.

@thirdfloorwars.bsky.social gmed a game for @jessebmiller.bsky.social, @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I today and goddamn if Craig isn’t up there as one of the best GMs I’ve played with. Excited for the next session!