I've written a new essay about my experience opening my copy of City of Six Moons, designed by @amabel.bsky.social, and the emotions it inspired in me. It's a strange and beautiful game, which more than earned the reaction it provoked from me. Enjoy! seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...

Conservative Supergirl movie where she's trad and her cape is an apron. Also instead of some woke actress she's portrayed by courageous truth teller Kevin Sorbo

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Ms Rachel went to Delaney Hall

I guess I can say it now: I'm one of the folks hit by the Paizo layoffs. My last day will be in early July. I'm devastated. I love the folks I've worked with the past three years. I love the fans. I love the games we made. If you have an opening for a remote editor, I'd love to hear from you.

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Not the point but "Dem HR lady" is just plainly preferable to Blackwater Nazi domestic abuser

Hey folks. As some of you might have seen on the blog, Paizo was hit by layoffs today. I am safe but I don't feel particularly good about it due to many of my dearest friends finding out they are losing their livelihoods. As these fine folks are looking for jobs and mutual aid, please boost them.

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clawhammergames.itch.io/fame-ashcan The ashcan of Fame, my upcoming game, is now available on itch.io (and soon to be available for free on my website as well)!

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more! thoughtpunks.com/ope...#TTRPG #OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

Saw Shakespeare in the Park last night and while I appreciate an attempt to draw contemporary parallels, treating conflict between ICE/DHS and protesters/Mexicans as a grudge between families is not it. Possibly worse—

A long New Yorker story about the sex-trafficking network of Andrew Tate, friend to the Trump family www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Rules: "The GM describes the environment and the players describe character actions" is a rule; I don't think that's really debatable. "Your character can't ride a horse, because this setting has chocobos instead" has debatable rules-nature. I call dice + numbers rules "mechanics", but that's me.

Vaguely: if there are valued parts of play in every RPG session which “don't touch on rules” and you are suggesting that writers “design towards them as well” That’s rules It doesn’t stop being rules because it’s not +1 to Smork checks against Fuzzies when flanking It’s still rules

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if you look at a recent printing of a paperback novel (past 3 years let's say), digest size, 250-300 pages, no art besides the cover, uncoated paper stock, EVEN THAT will have like MSRP $18 USD these days. I think most customers just legitimately don't know what printing costs lmao

Warframe is a cozy/wholesome game. Its primary loop is about basically having infinite power and never feeling at threat and the narrative especially in 1999 involves hanging out with your chill buds and dealing with the bad stuff then flirting. You even have a pet that dosn't get lost in the alps

So on other platforms, I've written a lot of short fiction about a very haunted town called Martin's Passage. Some of that has been now turned into what is hopefully the first short novel in the setting, about a family with a curse and a problem with lake cultists. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2SQYCQ

The Space Race was Soviet IPS-Northstar vs American Harrison Armory Now we're in the private spacecraft, corporatized, sleek-but-vaguely-sinister Smith Shimano period And I fear what will bring about the HORUS times

I think people don't realize that the 'give a trans person 50$' meme isn't a joke. You can save a trans persons life by giving them 50$.

Transworld donated 10,000 copies of Unseen Academicals. Which feels like a very deliberate choice as the book, at its heart, is about characters growing and becoming more successful by embracing new things or by reading.

TTRPG players expect too much production value for too little money. They want coffee table books for the cost of novels. Too many people out there care more for the pretty pictures than for the words.

What’s a TTRPG One Tree Hill you’re willing to die on?

"story" is overemphasized in TTRPGs so much it is harming game design and I don't JUST mean Forge fanatics game mechanics aren't friction, they're fiction. You just suck at playing/designing games.

TTRPG creators assemble, I need your suggestions for tabletop games that tackle themes of resistance, rebellion, fighting for what's right, etc. No AI involved in their creation please, and I'm especially eager for games made by minority creators!

Memory is the key anxiety of our world. All our information technology has given us unprecedented ability to not let go. VHS recordings of learning to ride a bike for the first time which would not have existed even a century ago. Audio of times lost. LLM Puppeteer mimicry of our loved ones.

4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.

When I recorded this line I was still in the closet. Recording this line actually helped me realize I should come out. So thanks Ushikoshi and @spikechunsoftinc.bsky.social

honestly you should read the book cover to cover unless there's some reason you physically can't, and even then that just shifts the conversation to "well there should be video tutorials (or whatever) and you should watch them" without changing the underlying point

hey you don’t have to post show theories that are in the explicit text of the show. You can just notice them. It’s called watching the show

Going to think about this every time people try and act like WotC is somehow a "progressive" company or that D&D has become a great "queer game" somehow

This is one of the saddest things I have ever seen They LICENSED a song that costs at LEAST 15 grand to do so for the CEO of their publisher presumably in an attempt to gain points with the asshole through some executive's demand

the reckless ben v american fork police department case just got way more interesting because AFPD accidentally posted all unredacted footage to their public dropbox. when people pointed it out and started downloading it the link was disabled. currently downloading a copy

wait till these motherfuckers hear about food

"your body will require regular maintenance" okay??? everyone's body requires regular maintenance it came free with your fucking mortality

ICYMI: I completed this duology of posts talking about how to remove randomness from TTRPG design!

A powerful Pride month to you all. Stay strong and hilarious 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤

taking a deep breath in order to say people have Absolutely Got To Learn that Not Everything Is For You, and that doesn't make the thing bad, nor does it need to be changed. you can just say "it's not for me". and move on. we need MORE niche, not more appealing-to-the-broadest-swath-possible

My friend, one half of local ttrpg powerhouse @dogpetrol.bsky.social, needs help. If you donate at least £10 and repost the fundraiser link, I will send both physical and digital copies of one of my games for the cost of P&P (while stocks last). Comment below to claim.

This is a pretty good post. More than a decade ago I fund raised my way through cancer. My general advice is: - Ask before you need it; people need time to get money - Ask more than you think you'll need bc extra costs will appear - People can often donate more mid month than near the end

Someone at UKGE said to me “it seems like you’ve been here forever” and that is a kind compliment but I suspect also says a lot about time dilation & (lack of) institutional memory in TTRPG circles.

So im watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit if you cant tell by my last post. But because you know me by now....I gotta take it there lol. Remember the scene where the judge was looking for Roger in the bar and used the "Shave and a Haircut, two bits" riff to lure him out? 🧵

I attended a disability resource fair that I had hoped to table at, but they were waitlisted on spots. I get there, and the ridiculous AI therapy org with the gaudy AI art characters had literally *multiple* tables. And my org, that does peer advocacy skill building groups, didn't get a spot. Ugh.

an added wrinkle to the shit about account labelling is that for people in the UK etc mature content is still locked into completely hidden unless you hand over ID or use a vpn. so 'mature' accounts are... just going to disappear for them