Lookee what came up at our GM support meeting as a good example of avoiding throwing the usual monsters at players. The random monster generator is so cool. @gurglespasm.bsky.social @systemmastery.bsky.social

@gplowe92.bsky.social @paigelowe.bsky.social Aw, I was enjoying DigiLost. But good for you guys for making wise choices and communicating them.

HELLO Im looking to commission artists to make multiple entries in a FAKE video game series called GHOST-TRAP!! To apply-reply with 4 examples of your work and a 1 sentence pitch of the type of the GHOST-TRAP!! game you'd make if selected Experience in pixel art/ low poly/ fake games a BIG plus

It's been a hectic week for Bluesky Trust & Safety. With the Brazilian wave, reports have skyrocketed, bad actors targeted the site, systems needed adaptation, and new harms emerged. 1/7

Guys, come on. …pizzas. It's obviously pizzas.

Imagine your ideal candidate wins this election. They enact great reforms. Then, in four years, someone who stands against everything you believe in gets elected. Not only that, but they're vicious and brutal. That person will be immune from criminal prosecution for anything they do as president.

Sometimes what looks like laziness or carelessness is actually hopelessness or low self-esteem. If I believe deep down that my efforts inevitably fail, my goal subconsciously becomes not to complete the actual task, but to do just enough that I won't be shamed for not trying. #mentalhealth

I really badly need a cover of "Death Was Arrested" in the style of Bad Religion's "Sorrow." Preferably with an Irish accent.

I'm running Sentinel Comics RPG at this month's All-Inclusive RPG Night. It's a great event, especially for newcomers to roleplaying games. It starts at 6:00 this Friday at Game Kastle on Garfield Ave.

The first sentence of the training video: "Sexual harassment is illegal in California and not tolerated in any workplace." IF IT WEREN'T TOLERATED IN ANY WORKPLACE WE WOULDN'T HAVE AN HOUR-LONG TRAINING EVERY TWO YEARS MANDATED BY FREAKING LAW

Look at these adorable freaking pins from @lorebird.bsky.social. I just… they're so cute.

Non-sexual friendships can be incredibly intimate and committed. Friends can truly be family. I think our culture needs this idea pretty badly. www.npr.org/2024/02/11/1...

I fell in love with roleplaying games in 1997. It was still a niche hobby then, and widely misunderstood. Today, YouTube's featured playlist is an invitation for the world to explore TTRPGs. I never expected D&D to go mainstream, but it has. And I'm overjoyed. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

At the end of the latest episode of It's Been a Minute on NPR, Anna Deavere Smith talks about how to be a good guest in someone else's culture. This is something I think about a lot as I find myself surrounded with people I love and disagree with. www.npr.org/2024/01/16/1...

I would love to find a girlfriend who's into TTRPGs, but I'm kind of afraid that we would get into stupid fights about in-character stuff. “I can't believe you took the kobolds' side. They tried to kill my familiar!” “Well, maybe if you didn't send him into their lair—” “Oh, now it's MY FAULT?”

Remember that show where a single mom takes over a struggling small business and forms a found family with the former owner and his adopted son? And they work hard to overcome brutal competition, theft, and their own hangups? It was called TaleSpin.

I'm an intense guy, but in as much as I've understood that, I haven't seen it as a good thing. I'm learning to embrace my own intensity and make it work for me. #postsaftertherapy

As Your Unemployed Friend On A Tuesday Afternoon, I've decided I'm going to import one of my favorite Twitter threads over here. Presenting: Who the cast of Gilmore Girls would main in Super Smash Bros.

My daughter had the coolest story idea the other day: The victims of the Salem Witch Trials come back as Marvel-style Ghost Riders. I'd read that book.

Tonight, I got to help someone make their first roleplaying game character and play a short scene for the first time. I love doing that, and I want to do it more. #ttrpg

To do useful things, AIs often need large, well organized datasets. You know who could be extremely useful in discovering amazing uses for AI? Librarians.

Journalists, fact checkers, and disinformation researchers of Bluesky, please speak up! I know @noupside.bsky.social and @katestarbird.bsky.social are here. Anyone else please comment so I can follow you too.

As usual, I totally agree with Ginny Di — in this case, about Grant Howitt's games being delightful.