I’ve always liked this one. It doubles as a “hey is that…?”

Draw Steel's art description guide isn't just a new approach to alt-text. It synthesizes museum-tested accessibility with an eye towards poetry and metaphor. Lin spoke with @dreamwisp.bsky.social about MCDM's mission-in-progress and creating "more visceral and tactile" descriptions.

It's going REALLY WELL. :D The response has been amazing, tons of activity. Getting The Delian Tomb out at the same time? And dropping the first episode of the Liveplay all on the same day? That seems to be huge. Tons of people already running the adventure! And they seem to like it! :D

So, yeah, longer thread coming tomorrow after I have slept, because this whole team has been working SO hard to get this out, but Draw Steel introduces Art Description, a new form of image description combining alt text and new standards based on art museum best practices for image description. 1/

Check out Jason and the Gauntlet folks if you’re interested in TTRPGs

@mattcolville.bsky.social a recording exists for “qualified researchers”

@slyflourish.com Thought you might be interested to see this

Share the last 4 games you played and expose your gaming habit (TTRPG only version) DnD5e Masks The Quiet Year ALIEN RPG

In the wake of @bigbadcon.bsky.social's 2025 hiatus announcement, I discuss something I think we need to start expecting from #TTRPG conventions: significantly better ventilation.

Check out the great deals at the warehouse moving sale for Hit Point Press hitpointpress.com/collections/...

In the book Artax can talk and knows what’s happening…

“…he once threw nearly 500 pitches in an eight-day span, including a 12-inning, 194-pitch complete game…” I know this sort of overuse of talented pitching is common but it’s quite stark to see it put this way.

I worked at a small video store in the mid 90s. The snap, of the plastic cases, the mechanical sound of the VCR. Even the process of counting cash to close out the register.

Montgomery Wards

I do feel like we forget that a mere 100 years ago 20% of children in America just fucking died.

I played Celia, who performed up-close street magic tricks. Not actual spells but proper sleight of hand/misdirection. I like how these sorts of tricks in real life can be inspiring or unsettling.

Happy Candlenights!

I bring this up in the piece, actually. There's no point in saving a Scrooge who is too old and frail not to be able to earn his redemption over time, so it's very likely the Scrooge of the original novella is in his 50s and in at least okayish health. He needs to live long enough to become beloved.

Watching the progression of the treatment for HIV has been astonishing. As a kid I remember hearing about this scary disease from an episode of Phil Donahue that my mom was watching. I grew up in northern Indiana - just a few years younger than Ryan White. Then Magic, Freddie, and Princess Diana.

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I just had a realization during the whole media inspiration for #TTRPG thing that's been happening here. Appendix N was the way it was because to Gygax, visual media like movies and TV shows were functionally ephemera. There was no way to access them after they aired except maybe reruns, and...1/4

Oh hey! The Kickstarter for Humblewood: Beyond the Canopy (from @hitpointpress.bsky.social), which I wrote on, was officially announced today! It’s a really fun setting and adventure, and well worth keeping an eye on and backing once it’s live, if you are so inclined!

Join the awesome Lazy DM community, get fantastic RPG resources, and support the work I do at the Sly Flourish Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/slyflourish #dnd #ttrpg

Thanksgiving thoughts... It's never too late to find your calling. I came to my career in TTRPGs pretty late (I was 42 when I wrote Brindlewood Bay), but now I'm the creator and publisher of several popular games, and I have a terrific community that supports my work. (1/)

In honor of Jimi Hendrix, who would have turned 82 today, I wrote something for PBS about his incredible sense of style. He helped define not only the sound but also the look of a countercultural movement. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

There's something quite sobering about the fact that 95% of all stars that will ever be born ... have already been born. (I learned this from @astrokatie.com)

This is one of my favorite, low-tech, ways of visualizing the past! Doesn't oversell the reconstruction, shows possible past and present in same view, works, rain or shine and without power.

About 13 years ago, we started a company called Complexly so we could make SciShow and Crash Course. That team has grown into a company of 80+ people, who have worked incredibly hard to create 9,000+ videos that are each researched, fact-checked, and available for free.

I just finished this spooky collection myself. What a great cover too.

Subscriptions like Spotify, YouTube TV, etc also cost more through the app, so subscribe through the browser.

RPG tip: Roll on behalf of characters when their character wouldn't know if they succeeded or not. #dnd #ttrpg

!foryou

If you’re in market for a new ttrpg, Free League is offering Vaesen - Nordic Horror for free on DriveThruRpg through 10/31

Majored in history. First job was field archaeologist for private consulting firm (project by project). Then MA program. After grad school worked as full time archaeologist at engineering firm. Next I started a cultural resources dept for an environmental firm. Then started my own company.