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"Mickey's Craziest Adventures" is a modern graphic novel that claims to be a reprinting of a lost comic from the 1960s. This metafiction provides cover for Trondheim and Keramidas to send us on a madcap race around the world with Mickey and Donald 💙📚 #comics #bookreview @lewistrondheim.bsky.social

Working on randomized castle tiles for my #Arthurian #roguelike. They're made out of 4 different components combined randomly. Also I think I have a title! Court Of Ravenous Titans or CORT. I figure a roguelike should have a good acronym. #procgen #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

🖼️ José Agustín Arrieta, C19th. #Caturday

@nyrath Any insights about challenges for a nascent rogue star civilization: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114047834178073400

It's Friday...

"AI adoption is a mix of virtue signaling and panic purchasing. Universities aren’t paying for AI—they’re paying for the illusion of control...that if they adopt AI at scale, they can manage how students use it, integrate it seamlessly into teaching and learning, and somehow future-proof education."

My dear #ttrpgcommunity, I have written another blog post about why, to me, Settings matter more than systems. It also includes my top picks for games you can use with your own setting. Hope you like it! #TTRPGs #worldbuilding #NSR

Excited to share the second essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. This one on E.R. Eddison's THE WORM OUROBOROS (1922), a challenging, rewarding novel written in beautiful, archaic prose imitating early modern English poetry/plays. It's a playground for literary critics and fantasy scholars!

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

Grab three six-sided dice, a notebook and a pen and get ready to build your own personal hell and fill it with devices of torment in d666 from @critkituk.bsky.social Create a terrifying temple of torture and make a name for yourself in the underworld 🔥 tabletopbookshelf.com/products/d66...

snesbians (snail lesbians) who are snarried (snail married)

A comic about the good stuff

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

autocomplete was getting a little aggressive, suggesting long phrases, and suddenly I had a cursed vision of the future: gen alpha using an "AI assisted" chat app that suggests multiple good responses and everyone's just tapping away at dialog pickers like life is a visual novel

Book Review: One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed A short collection of stories in a grim and engaging world mired in perpetual war. @princejvstin.com has our review for Friday at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2025/02/book...

If you played TTRPGs between 1970-2004, PhD Candidate Geoffrey Ramirez (Binghamton U) is seeking participants for “Character Creation: The Tabletop Role-Players Oral History Project” as part of his dissertation. Interviews will be archived at the Strong Museum of Play (can be time-locked, etc)

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This little #zinequest project looks fun, its a city with a much of petty gods. Has some real Lankhmar vibes. www.kickstarter.com/projects/spa...

Landing page is up for In Ruins! Build the castle. Ruin the castle to make a dungeon. Compete to control the dungeon. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal...

Dungeon

A grey day doesn’t need to be a blue day

For published adventures, if some question comes up immediately in play, and requires a lot of work to answer, it should be included in the adventure. An example from the brilliant Gradient Descent: 🧵 1/4

I finally read Nick Bantock's modern classic, "Griffin & Sabine," an epistolary novel where each postcard is illustrated, each letter can be removed from its envelope. In this first book of the series, Sabine reaches out to Griffin, and their friendship begins. 💙📚 #bookreview

Uhh yeah I'm still watching chopped #gentlecomicshabit

I still love mimics. They're just lil guys who like hiding.

Empty rooms! What are they good for? Contrastingly, how do you transform empty rooms into interesting spaces for charged battles? All this and more is discussed in chapter 8 of my Designing Dungeons Course! dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games/docs/chapter8/ Join me in making a dungeon!

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Comic panels on company time.

www.bastionland.com/2025/02/jour...

I just think that having people live in sheds in their ma's back garden is not the same as providing homes, no matter how much you reduce the building standards and regulations for sheds

WashPo [Feb 18] -- Kansas overrides Dem Gov. Laura Kelly's ban of pediatric affirming care bill. Follows a 2024 move in Ohio when lawmakers overrode Rep Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a similar ban. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

A couple months ago, wrote a small supplement for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM called At the Shrine of Fortitude. For "reasons," I revisited the supplement recently. Readers? It's some of my better writing. And it's free. Check it out, if you haven't. riseupcomus.itch.io/at-the-shrin...

Another sneak peak of an interior spread from Roguelike Megadungeon #OSR #TTRPG #ZiMo25 #ZineMonth2025 #ZineMonth

the best picture of me ever was taken 10 years ago, and i don't think anything will ever top this one

Washington Post is reporting that the US Gov't program to send free COVID tests to households will be shut down tonight, and the remaining tests destroyed. If you haven't already ordered yours in the latest batch (autumn 2024's) it's super quick & easy, price $0.00 covidtests.gov

d100 - “Swansong Abilities” Boons & Bequests That Might Make Character Death More Memorable blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/02/d100... #osr #randomtables #ttrpgs

🚨 New Blogpost: I started a campaign without a game system, collectively designing any rules as they were needed. Here is how my Calvinball experiment fared and the rules we patched together #ttrpg #osr

Writer complaining that viewers think Walter White is cool probably should not have made Walter White cool as hell, just a stonecold badass motherfucker who looks swag as fuck and gets all sorts of banger lines and has a cool story. That was your first through fifth mistakes.

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️