I haven't needed to do any serious image searches in a while, but I just reenabled uBlacklist for DDG and updated it with an expanded blocklist and dear god it's a wasteland out there I thought it was bad a year or so ago but wow things have gotten even worse. Image search is essentially unusable

god, biomechs are extremely hard to design well we're so close to having something brilliant here, but I think I have to let them cook a little longer and move back to Far Field stuff for now. maybe inspiration will strike later

If you think it's socially acceptable to casually call an older woman in your community "mom" out of nowhere when interacting with her in public, you should consider being less of a gross parasocial misogynist

New HAWXX track just dropped and it's a banger hawxxmusic.bandcamp.com/track/resist...

{ this is the supremacy of thought: make your enemies believe that victory is hopeless, that you share common cause against another, or that your will is their will, and they will never fight you. only by shaping the very thoughts of your enemies may you achieve true victory }

Spending some time working on some Vaaki stuff as a break from writing, and enjoying all the ways I can translate biohorror into game mechanics. Today's focus: drones. All the drones.

So far we've raised over $16,000 for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund! There's only 10 hours in the bundle, so if you want to pick up Legionnaire (and over 240 other games) for just $10, and also have that money go towards an important cause, this is your last chance to get involved.

One of the undersung benefits of heavily moderated online spaces is the ability to have good faith discussions in a general channel, even in a gaming discord server with 57k members Truly remarkable how much more pleasant the space becomes for everyone when you proactively kick out the chuds

The wizards of Isha have deeply angered King Typhon by raising the sea floor above the waves and unifying the islands of Ishana and Scuttleport. In his rage, the king of beasts has loosed one of his great monsters, a terrifying abomination that hunts in the shadows and consumes its victims whole...

Alberto Dianin and Andrea Ruggeri are cheap, tasteless, talentless grifters and I would not piss on them if they were on fire

Reaching dangerous levels of Wizard Bullshit as, having tangentially glimpsed his own insecurities and realised that he might actually be the biggest obstacle to his own plans, the Sorcerer considers magically altering his own personality so he never has to feel shame, guilt, powerlessness, or grief

I want to highlight that this is I think one of the most genuinely interesting TTRPGs I've read in years, in ways that are hard to articulate in a bsky post. @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social has made something very special here, and if you love TTRPG design you owe it to yourself to read this game.

Doing more geology research for Far Field and stumbling into petroleum geology, and discovering that it is so so much bigger as a field than I could ever have guessed. Of course now I'm just sitting here going "well, of course it's a huge field, what did I expect", and frowning a lot as I read

Hey @ukge.bsky.social, what the hell are you playing at? In what universe does it make sense to side with the AI slop merchants instead of your core attendee and creative base? Other cons can do it, you can too. Nobody is forcing you to side with these losers against your own artists and customers.

So you know you're winning Seven-Part Pact as the Sage when you ask for a new title during the changing of the seasons and the rest of the pact unanimously agree that you should gain "the Meddlesome"

Tonight's Seven Part Pact Game: 6 out of 7 wizards trying to get their claws into the princess, for various reasons. 1 out of 7 wizards spending his time magically combining a roc, a blue whale, and a rat.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

You can tell that Dispatch is an American superhero story because of the way the heroes seamlessly transition their wisecracks from corporate advertising to homophobic prison rape jokes

This is the land of the dead, still walking. Some are hollow-eyed corpses, scaffold to the rot. Some are past-bound husks, caught endlessly in their trammels. Others rage into oblivion, careening faster and ever faster, lost in furious anticipation of the end.

The TTRPG Bundle for PCRF has just gone live! Legionnaire is in there alongside one or two other Lancer third party releases, part of a total of over 100 games for a $10 donation to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. itch.io/b/3299/pales...

I'm not normally big on selfies but this one's quite nice. Maybe I should get a proper author photo done at some point

Watching Wyrmwood trying to launder their reputation in the speedrunning community and using AI slop to do so kinda makes me sick

I came to the realisation about fifteen years ago that if you leave roleplayers alone for long enough they can and will figure out how to have fun with nothing more than an empty cardboard box, but also they might have more fun if the box had an actual toy inside it

The Beasts and Blessings of the Hallow’d Hall digital compendium is out now and available on my itch! badbucket.itch.io/the-beasts-and-blessings-of-the-hallowd-hall A bestiary of sixty five strange things and their grim fables written by me and @notquitereal.bsky.social

Casting spells and worshipping the devil in TTRPGs is so old school Come to Lancer, where you get to be a woke gay antifa mech pilot fighting for communism

Congrats to @ashandgold.bsky.social, it looks like Iphigenia At Midnight hit its Kickstarter goal! Go check it out if you haven't already! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

Sometimes it's difficult to put down a character in a long term campaign, but I've finally come to terms with the fact that the Egregorian I'm playing is not as good a fit for the party as I'd hoped, especially now the campaign has moved away from Hercynia into deep lore Karrakin stuff.

It's the dawn of the final week! At 11% to go, we only need 20-30 more backers - if you've been following IaM and haven't backed yet, it's never been a better time. Backers not only will get first access to the finished book, but exclusive in-progress updates. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash...

Finally pushed through and posted the new Far Field playtest draft! As always the latest draft is pinned in the far-field-general channel in Pilot NET. Go check it out, and let me know what you think! #lancerrpg #farfield (PS: mandatory listening for CARTHUS-7: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJBZ...)

Seven-Part Pact continues to escalate; my Wizard's current project is to resurrect the moon

Inculcate a sense of wonder. Throw in extraneous details. Add a monolith. Never explain it. Highlight the unknowable. Place the absence of a clue, never to be recovered. Resist the urge to tie it all up neatly. Encourage exploration and elaboration, but for each horizon crossed add multiple more.

Not a lot of people know this but it's actually a job requirement for social media CEOs to be tone-deaf incompetent losers

Can’t shout out the one-shot game jam enough! There’s some really cool stuff in there and a lot of lovely people too!!! Here’s a few neat ones; Isa has a really nuts ambitious one called Souls Weighed down with like, ten different branching combats???? And maps for all of them???!? Absolutely mad

The third party Lancer scene is for sure one of the coolest in the TTRPG industry. Two big projects releasing/out on kickstarter just in the last month: Iphigenia at Midnight by Ash and Gold www.kickstarter.com/projects/ash... Ironbound Shadows by Cael caelarkh.itch.io/ironbound-sh...

I deserve a fucking medal for how much I am managing to be professional and not the cattiest bitch in the entire world

if anyone's looking for an artist for a short-medium term project give me a nudge, I'm likely weeks away from accepting one offer or another so it would be extremely good timing 🫡

I was wondering why my mental health has declined so much lately (chronic pain and disability stuff notwithstanding) until I realised that I have started reflexively opening news sites as part of my morning routine, and my youtube algo is 90% politics vids. Goddamn it, I hate how insidious this is.

Designers are waiting weeks, and in some cases months, for payouts from itch as sympathy for the indie game platform's mounting problems wears thin.

I was doing everything I possibly could to stay in Act 1 and complete everything before moving on, and still ended up in Act 2 by accident. Well played Silksong.

Been thinking about the mission I'm writing atm and decided that I should probably make my Squad tweaks into a fully-fledged template. (The core of the template revolves around switching the Anti-Armor Weapon for one of a bunch of alternative options, letting the Squad fill more roles) #LancerRPG

Ugh. Fashy xenophobic stickers starting to appear on poles in my town. Scratching that shit off wherever I see them, but might need to invest in some "refugees welcome" stickers for counterstickering.

Now it is so important, I feel, for writers and artist who contribute to the fictional spaces of play seen in ttrpgs n the like to write compelling stories that challenge (slay) the systems we live in. There is no escape (cowarding) from combating the type of systems that dehumanize and exploit.

This week, the members of the pact killed two birds with one stone by ensuring that the King of Isha (who had declared a problematic war on Scuttleport) got eaten by the golden dragon matriarch (who was angry at humans for trespassing in her volcano lair and wanted a sacrifice to appease her wrath).

Behold the mighty Nikkal, Prince of the Silver Moon, the Timeless, Sorcerer of the Pact, Stormchaser, Keeper of the Runes, Regent of the Throne, Bearer of Crown and Blade, Furious Lord of Lords and Great Lord of Magic

If you follow me, you likely understand that advocating for a theocratic ethnostate is a form of political violence, as is trying to strip women of our rights, and prevent queer people from participating in society. Liberal society is singularly incapable of seeing structural violence as violence.

Hello everyone! I am excited to announce that my very first TTRPG module, Immortal Winds, is out now! Immortal Winds is a mission module for #LancerRPG , intended for 3-5 players at License Level 2, exploring the eerie aspects of its world! Please check it out! scratching92.itch.io/immortal-winds

this is fine

I don't remember the last time a game release overloaded every single major game retailer's site all at once holyyyy

Played a Lancer oneshot at PAX (Tombs of Delios, by @kastark.bsky.social) alongside a bunch of new players. It's a good game!! Folks picked it up very fast, and basic NPCs offer interesting tactical challenges.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that all the people weighing in to propose/uncritically defend the construction of a TTRPG "canon" are anglophone white men