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seeing i have a whopping 50+ followers, it may be a good time to introduce ourselves and our work to the newcomers. hi all, i'm ali and together with @eda.daelightstudios.com we're Daelight Studios, an #indie #ttrpg initiative building game stuff we'd like to see out there.

i was talking with an indie TTRPG publisher, who said "industry standard for publishing someone else's game is 20% of revenue, or .2-1% of total kickstarter money." which, to me, sounds like "we can't make it work unless we swindle desperate designers." which led me to think: it shouldn't work

well, i didn't expect to sympathize with d&d designers but why not, i guess www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgN... (starting at around late 12th minute) (i disagree with his reasons why 4e failed but no news there)

aga be 🥲 nasip olur mu

i hope @hodagrpg.bsky.social doesn't mind that i was improvising an archdemon name and came up with "Hodag."

talk about having a distinctive style!

@bsky.app is there a way to follow someone through an URL? i want to create a "follow me" QR core, but as it stands i can only send to my profile page

I don’t know if there’s a #dnd 3.5 renaissence going around, (even if there was) if a bunch of homebrew content is meaningful to share… But it’s not like there’s a cost to post, so here’s my continual work-in-progress #GFM github.com/alidursen/35...

Who is the greatest wizard in all of the Stone Isles? What are the major festivals and what can you do during them? How is the moon fucked up? I answer my 21 worldbuilding questions for my campaign setting, In the House of the High King.

And as an aside - you should not doubt how fucking uncool D&D was in 1998 as a game, and how poisoned that particular well had been for a while. Baldur's Gate turned that around, and if you do want a road from D&D then to D&D now, it does strike me that Bioware's needs more credit than they get.

lovely shamelessness: "100% natural materials—no paint, no glue, no artificial fillers" in an AI-slop youtube channel. even this sentence is chatGPT at its worst

new iron maiden album is gonna be fire

Recorded a quick TTRPGs from Japan video (in one take): youtu.be/cB5D4qZ0IYg

A @kierongillen.bsky.social post in spirit

Roleplaying games are a way for humans to imagine and explore. We do not permit AI text in the Chaosium community content program, and sadly we're getting quite good at smelling it. To paraphrase HPL's description of the Necronomicon, AI text reeks with an unholy and unidentifiable stench.

I’ll bet that handwritten library not only changed the industry, but also was stolen and used to train LLMs

Sigourney Weaver really landed that over-the-shoulder basketball shot in Alien 3.

Speaking of #pathfinder and crunchiness and players: Recently met a new group. One player is a self-titled Jimmy-type who is very excited about character options and builds. And I’m just relieved that we are playing a resilient game, not D&D (3.5 or 5) or PF1 because he’d break those games.

I know I'm at odds with the price-quality heuristic devaluing this pamphlet, but I still think it's kind of crazy that this has been free on itch for like 2 months and only 16 people have downloaded it! It's a shame, because I put a lot of effort into it, and it's a really fun bit of storytelling.

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

There are so, so many verified diaries of white Union soldiers at the beginning of the war saying "I don't know about this, I condemn the deplorable violence" and then they get down there and see slavery with their own eyes and immediately go "John Brown was right we gotta kill these motherfuckers"

happy halloween! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikj... #music

*sigh* not gonna lie, a little disappointed in our appx N result. wish people weren’t so positive in the comments just for “being polite.” on a more positive note, i’m now less troubled by the low ratings i gave.

Penguin Colony is now available store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

Apologies to @tkingfisher.com

That must be a Munchkin card

Pathfinder very much is "not too crunchy" and "an easy entry level ttrpg"... If what draws you is a game with colorful and complex character builds that interact with a whole bunch of tactical play If that's what draws you, you won't settle just trying some Tinyd6

Just found out about the passing of the wonderful artist Sanjulián yesterday. R.I.P. Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente) 1941-2026

RIP Spanish artist Sanjulián (Manuel Pérez Clemente) who has left us at the age of 85.

next week i'll be running a #pathfinder #pf2e demo one-shot. i'm excited to finally have a place to put our "playbooks" to use daelightstudios.itch.io/custom-pf2-p...

I recently scrolled through Instagram, a platform I last used in 2019, and saw with horror that about 1 in 4 posts were ads

oh no. this should've been a paraphrase, not the actual quote

“I made an AI agent that applies to jobs for you!” -> a sign that a person is just a tool-user and not a systems-thinker. (Or just a tool themselves)

Ironic that Placebo was a watered down version of The Cure.

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

Art by • Todd Lockwood