J Ryan
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Archaeologist. Runner, reader, TTRPG GM/player, sports fan, and cook. Opinions are my own.
I’ve always liked this one. It doubles as a “hey is that…?”
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Rascal News
3 months ago
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.
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Draw Steel sets new standards for alt text in their books
A deep dive into what an Art Description is, how it works, and who it’s for, including an interview with alt text writer, Jen Kretchmer.
https://www.rascal.news/draw-steel-sets-new-standards-for-alt-text-in-their-books-jen-kretchmer-interview/
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Matt Colville?
3 months ago
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
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Jennifer Kretchmer
3 months ago
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/
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Check out Jason and the Gauntlet folks if you’re interested in TTRPGs
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@mattcolville.bsky.social
a recording exists for “qualified researchers”
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@slyflourish.com
Thought you might be interested to see this
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Share the last 4 games you played and expose your gaming habit (TTRPG only version) DnD5e Masks The Quiet Year ALIEN RPG
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Keithulhu Fhtammann 🔜 PAXU
7 months ago
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.
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Clearing the Air
Last week, organizers announced on social media that Big Bad Con (an annual game convention held in the fall Burlingame, Calif.) and Big Bad Online (a TTRPG-related panel discussion series streamed on...
https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/clearing-the-air/
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Check out the great deals at the warehouse moving sale for Hit Point Press
hitpointpress.com/collections/...
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Warehouse Moving Sale!
We're moving warehouses, meaning you save BIG on select tabletop goodies! U.S. customers receive FREE shipping on orders over $100 of physical products!PLUS: Orders over $100 will receive 25 bonus Hit...
https://hitpointpress.com/collections/warehouse-sale
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In the book Artax can talk and knows what’s happening…
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“…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.
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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.
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9 months ago
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Montgomery Wards
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Hank Green
9 months ago
I do feel like we forget that a mere 100 years ago 20% of children in America just fucking died.
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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.
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Happy Candlenights!
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John Scalzi
10 months ago
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.
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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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Jennifer Kretchmer
10 months ago
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POCGamer aka PanzerLion!
11 months ago
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
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Jennifer Kretchmer
11 months ago
Oh hey! The Kickstarter for Humblewood: Beyond the Canopy (from
@hitpointpress.bsky.social
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Coming soon: Humblewood: Beyond the Canopy
The highly anticipated standalone sequel to the Humblewood Campaign Setting!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hitpointpress/humblewood-2/
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SlyFlourish.com
11 months ago
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
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Jason Cordova
11 months ago
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/)
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derek guy
11 months ago
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...
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John Green
11 months ago
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
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Killackey Illustration
11 months ago
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.
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Hank Green
11 months ago
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.
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I just finished this spooky collection myself. What a great cover too.
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Subscriptions like Spotify, YouTube TV, etc also cost more through the app, so subscribe through the browser.
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SlyFlourish.com
11 months ago
RPG tip: Roll on behalf of characters when their character wouldn't know if they succeeded or not.
#dnd
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If you’re in market for a new ttrpg, Free League is offering Vaesen - Nordic Horror for free on DriveThruRpg through 10/31
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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.
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