I think I want to write a "modern" wizard book that parallels the cultural change of Vatican II in the 60s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_...

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

That money could’ve ended homelessness in the US, or established UBI for every American, student loan erasure, or supercharged every creative industry in existence to pay artists better, instead of, yknow, blowing it on dead malls full of Elegy of Emptiness statues for rich people I hate it here

My go to GM toolkit/games for the curious. Microscope Fate Blades in the Dark Storytelling deck 3 sets of large dice A small penguin used as a mini Dad jokes

Kicked the tires on Daggerheart this weekend. The short version: I’m going to run a TTRPG campaign with it. Fate is my ride or die, but I’ve been wanting something with more crunch.

JD Vance supports murdering American citizens. He's made that perfectly clear today. If he's willing to defend the murder of Renee Good, he would defend your murder, too.

I expected more from Discord events. Last month our TTRPG group's server of choice, Guilded, closed its doors. While I'm working on a Discord Clone for D&D, it isn't ready yet so that group decided to move to Discord.

I'm going to be running a Daggerheart one-shot this weekend to test out the system. Fate is my ride or die, but I cut my teeth on D&D, especially 3.5. Lately I've been wanting something that scratched the itch of the crunch of 3.5 while working with the zero free time that I have.

One of the things I've started to love in RPGs as an adult is when they are complete games, adventure and all. To be clear, I'm not talking about prewritten adventures. Those have rails. And rails are not a bad thing! I've enjoyed playing and running many a railroad.

The Brindlewood Bay Murder Mavens have prevented the Midwives from birthing an eldritch horror! Our Void Mystery started out as a regular mystery. The Mavens were witnesses at the trial of a previous suspect when that suspect is murdered in the court room!

⚔️ 2025 TTRPG wrapped - Played slightly more than every other week - Ran slightly more games than I played (19 vs 14)

Our Brindlewood Bay campaign is coming to close soon. In fact, tomorrow I run the Void Mystery but that isn't going to be the last session. We've decided that after the Void Mystery, which is the real end of the campaign, we are going to have an Epilogue.

Excited to have sold 969 copies of The Ascellan Conspiracy, my first timeline for Fate of Cthulhu #ttrpg by @evilhat.bsky.social. Help me get to 1,000 copies sold on @drivethrurpg.com by the end of 2025! bit.ly/AscellanCons... (Don't have the core rules? They're ALSO on sale!) #ttrpgcommunity

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Spending time today working on my Discord Clone for D&D. I'm aiming for a mix of Discord, Fari, and MediaWiki. I'm hoping to alpha test it in December.

Not only are there a metric buttload of great games in here (Monster of the Week! Blades in the Dark! Thirsty Sword Lesbians!) but if you dig down into the Gate section, in the Worlds in Shadow book you’ll find Crimeworld, which is me puking out Heist and Con 101, for #ttrpg use or whatever you want

I'm making a Discord clone for Dungeons and Dragons. Well, every tabletop RPG, actually. This is the second update on that journey. This is all still super alpha, but I'm having fun! youtu.be/QPdfxbKxOvA

Looks like Affinity apps are now free? www.affinity.studio

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

True for so. many. books.

Making a Discord clone for Dungeons and Dragons My TTRPG group's chat service of choice is going away in December, so I'm rolling my own replacement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsfN...

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

The fascism will continue until we all stand up.

this is beautiful. we outnumber them by thousands to one.

When will emojis be permitted on birth certificates? I bet it'll be 20ish years after the first pop star whose name has an emoji. (Prince doesn't count. As always, he was a genius before his time.)

Some great advice on running Fate here 👍💪👇

I'm glad a big meeting was called to fix the fat troops problem. 🙄 “Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation and see fat troops,” he said. “...unacceptable to see fat generals & admirals ... leading commands around the country and the world.”

Today we are proud to announce our next crowdfunding campaign. Award-winning historian @shannonappelcline.bsky.social examines the roots, artwork, and lore behind each and every product released by TSR for OD&D, AD&D 1e, and Basic D&D with his latest effort, Designers & Dragons: Origins. 1/3

In like twenty years there will be an entire genre of stories that are “immigrant takes revenge on the ICE agents who broke up their family”. They’re going to be the stock villains your protagonist can do anything to, much like Nazis. Because they are Nazis.

I'm mostly certain that my next long campaign is going to be Daggerheart. It seems like the right blend of storytelling and dynamic action. I'm also going to do something I've never done—run an adventure path! I'm going to convert Curse of the Crimson Throne from Pathfinder.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Slightly diminish a band: Water Guns and Roses

D&D 5.5e ZWEIHANDER 2e (Reforged) Mutants and Masterminds 4e Cypher 2e Masks 2e Blades in the Dark 2e (i.e. Deep Cuts) Pathfinder 2e Tis the season for reboots.

I may not be a GenCon, but all the new RPGs I ordered just delivered! * Brinkwood * Bump in the Dark * Heart * Perils and Princesses

i called it “automated mansplaining” 2 years ago and it’s still true

APPLE TV+ HAVE RENEWED SLOW HORSES FOR A SEVENTH SEASON. There are four seasons available to watch. A fifth is out in September. The sixth was announced last year.

Happy July 4, 5, and every other day for the rest of our lives, inclusive.

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If you're looking for an extensive framework to play a heroic fantasy campaign using Fate, definitely check out this bundle from Paul.

I have a joke about all the layoffs in the tech industry but it doesn't work.

I love this thread about publishing RPGs to VTTs. A lot of good information. I have some thoughts to add from the perspective of someone who works on complex web apps. When you ask for VTT support, you are asking the publisher to make a video game.

AI is to Design as Microwaves are to Cooking. (Paraphrasing Milton Glaser)

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The Onion just launched a creative agency—and I’m all in. They’re turning spare satirical talent into magic: • Smart resource upcycling • More value from their core mission • Fresh, bold creative for brands Brilliant move. More “sawdust industries,” please. 👏 www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2025...

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