A blessed day for all of my fellow autistics

This reminds me of the review of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, which runs on a percentile die roll system, noting that a surgeon with an 80% skill rating in Surgery was cutting off the wrong leg one time in five. A 95% success rate means that your AI-run system is operating on Roll a Natural 1 logic

Only things that have kept my head up after a lot of burnout and disappointment and heartbreak and shame and resentment. Making Things In Public has forced me to grow a lot lot lot.

that's looking so good already damn

I have some more slots for £10 commissions now. Please send me a message if you would like one, thank you very much!

Our next incredible #BHM table, Quarantine, is a one-shot of @navaarsnp.bsky.social's own game The Corrupted! Our amazing cast will be struggling to survive a deadly zombie apocalypse. Catch us live this Friday the 20th at 11p EST. All proceeds support #SadGirlsClub. twitch.tv/tbhalflings

Close to halfway to the goal of $50! Please consider picking up the latest Street Wolves adventure every dollar counts! - 🔥 $50 <- We need to be here - 40 - 30 - 20 $20.09 <- We're here - 10 - 0 🥶 itch. tablecatgames.itch.io/street-wolve... dtrpg www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

nobody in the world is as good at making me want to buy a game as Quinns www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLrr...

You know what fuck it I’m gonna sub post this person… I left your lore server because I found out you were using the F slur in VC which was especially hurtful since you portray yourself as being accepting to the lbgtqa. I guess I gave too much credit to a cis straight man.

Is there a website app or something that lets you get a blank hex map and draw or add things to the hexes and have it be shared with other people? I’m going to experiment with hexcrawls for my upcoming D&D 5e 2K24 campaign with the PCs starting in the middle hex and exploring outward.

I decided that actually this knight goblin (in the photo of the painted miniature) is a previous iteration of Gremily the goblin who then became the green stuff sculpt you can see here. But I've also made lots of changes to this sculpt so that Gremily can be just so goblinny.

Do you love Magical Girls? We are looking for a map artist for Last Hope, our dark magical girls TTRPG. You will be tasked to create a large urban city with various districts and POIs! If that is something that appeals to you, fill the form! The form closes March 5th at 17h EST.

You can get all the battle maps in high quality, without signature and grid by subscribing to my Patreon, to fully enjoy your campaign! Also available as FoundryVTT scenes and through Moulinette Cloud! #TTRPG #battlemaps #encountermap #VTT #DnDart #VTTassets #tabletop #RPG

GET IN FRIENDOS. WE'RE PUTTING ON *ALL* THE BLACK LIPSTICK. bsky.app/profile/did:...

The Misty Vale has its secrets--and it's time to discover them! Join @trendane.bsky.social, @taritoons.bsky.social, Undeveloped Bruce, and Croxxx at 12 p.m. EST for the premiere of Dragonbane: The Secret of the Dragon Emperor! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron

Morning folks! 21 days to go and we're at 237 prelaunch followers. I'd feel a lot less nervous if we hit 300 before launch. Can you do me a favour and give this a signal boost, ideally tagging a geeky parent/teacher you know who might be interested? Thanks!

Feels like a good day to remind everyone that there's tons of human-made public domain art available for free. Perfect for TTRPGs and board games! Where can you find it? Right here! Part 1: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom... Part 2: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/more-publi... #ttrpg

The Bloggies Nominees are here! We are 1 week away from voting, so I need everyone's help spreading the word. Congrats to all the nominees and blogs submitted—this last year was incredible. Forming the lists was equal parts rewarding and painful. www.explorersdesign.com/this-years-b...

Bookings for Oxonmoot 2026 are now open! Taking place online and at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK, on 3-6 September 2026, Oxonmoot is our annual event which brings together #Tolkien fans, scholars, students and Society members from across the world. #LOTR www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonm...

Every other Super Bowl ad is for AI because it's going really well and everyone wants to use AI. This is just like how two years ago all the ads were for NFTs and last year all the ads were for Crypto and you don't see as many ads for NFTs and Crypto anymore because everyone loves them now.

Here's a follow up to my post on how helpful @digitaltolkien.com is.

Good morning! I’m drawing a Neolithic pig cauldron

Let's talk 'cosy' for a sec! In Toe Beans, cosy means creating a space where characters can share honest conversations, be vulnerable, and explore the kind of quiet, necessary moments that often get skipped in bigger quests. (cont in thread) www.kickstarter.com/projects/fis...

I desperately need people to understand that when it comes to video games and TTRPGs, the per unit production costs of a physical product are effectively negligible when compared to the cost needed to produce the digital product. PDFs and digital games are disproportionately under valued.

For my money, @recklessattack.bsky.social and @bigcampaignpodcast.bsky.social remain just absolute beacons in the murky mists of AP podcasts. 🖤

I like how the Lord of the Rings ends with everyone just fucking off and sailing away to a place where this bullshit doesn’t happen

well there’s an instant switch

23 days until the #LittleButFierce Kickstarter launches. Help us hit 300 prelaunch followers by reposting and tagging a geeky parent or teacher you know. Thank you :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/dcb...

Seeing Sam, Wren, Michelle, and Emily bring Gallows Corner to life in a part of the country I know very well has been an absolute pleasure. Two episodes are currently live and there's THREE MORE to come. Check them out. Backed Gallows Corner yet? We think you should! shorturl.at/km3rm

Some things I'd love AP folks to consider and build on: - Naming things. What you name your show can have a big impact on whether people will want to work or watch you. At least 1 show I won't touch because of the connotations of the name. - Captions. You can caption your content, & you should!

We are nearing 10k and well on our way to 400 backers. That’s pretty freaking cool.

discovered some life-changing ttrpg tech during friday’s session: after taking a mid session break, before getting back into the scene, do a sports style locker room interview with each player (in character). it’s 1) funny 2) focusing 3) immediately and personally characterizing

I watched a nice pbs video on youtube about how they are reintroducing Beavers in Scotland and Englad and how much it's improving the land and the biodiversity and the droughts and preventing flooding and it was so nice. Can recommend finding something nice to watch before bed

Petitoning for 'What is a Neopet' to become the new gold standard of 'What counts as an OSR' please, I humbly submit this to the chronically online council

Cheers to my long time supporter KHN for bringing this to my attention! Palladium Books is being featured by the Detroit Historical Society. As much as we poke at PB, it's one of the last surviving publishers of the earliest days of the #TTRPG hobby...1/3 www.detroithistorical.org/exhibitions/...

If you are listing your Actual Play casting calls on Backstage (or know someone who is) I would love to hear from you (here or ecfriedman at auburn dot edu)

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

Extra shoutout to for the dunk on that asshole Magellan. You may know him from getting killed stirring up trouble in the Philippines, but he also got most of his crew killed on the journey there and burnt down a village in the first island he landed on here in the Marianas.

speaking of people using stuff in classes, i saw my @jarps.net paper on crip time and calibration got over 100 downloads in January - is someone using this in their class?? I'm an ECR, I MUST KNOW!!!!!

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

The idea that "staying relevant" should be a goal of an artist is wild to me. Motherfucker, if everyone uploaded their brain to the cloud to live in full-dive mind bending bliss, you'd still find me cutting about the wastes writing silly books full of weird elves and fun ways to roll dice together.

It's time. (I confess when we were planning filming I thought there'd be more time before air. OOP)

The new season of Adventuring Academy, set to premiere on @dropout.tv February 20, will feature guests like @friede.bsky.social , @aabria.bsky.social , @vicmmic.bsky.social , @itsquinns.bsky.social , and more. Check out the new trailer now! www.thefandomentals.com/brennan-lee-...

I'm good at some things I've spent a long time practicing. I'm not good at some things I haven't spent time on. I'm not good at some other things because I don't have the necessary body or brain for them. That's life!

This is all I’ll say about today’s AI discourse: I’m bad at a lot of things other people are good at, because they spent time learning and practicing those things, and I did not. No matter how broke I am, no one owes me skill-mastery on command - esp not when it come at the expense of others.

Here is just a little hobgoblet.

Sam is responsible for all the most horrid player choices in my home TTRPG nights so you know this game gonna be fucked up. Wishlist it!

1. What I'm about to post is going to sound egotistical - because it is - but it has a point, so please go with it for moment: I've learned over time that, at least in my own communities, I can no longer rely on how people approach and treat me as an indicator of their own personality.

This whole thread is an excellent read, particularly for anyone who has a platform or a public-facing role or career.