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Hello Stranger, Re-introduction time! I'm Epidiah Ravachol. Perhaps you've heard of my #ttrpg work, like Dread, the horror game that uses Jenga; or Swords Without Master, the one with the tones.† I've been at this indie truly-true role-playing game publishing gig for roughly a quarter century.

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Rereading Larry Hama’s G.I. Joe, and I continue to be struck by how Cobra’s recruitment speeches and slogans could easily be Elon Musk tweets.

Back in the day you could look at the internet for up to an hour without getting mad.

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RIP Walter Koenig (September 14, 1936 – October 25, 2026)

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

Here's a good breakdown of the hype that surrounded that PHP bug everyone was excited about last week: youtu.be/DEiGTK62DcQ?...

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

Not treasure, but Chreasure®, a low cost, high glitter substitute! Available in Pile, Hoard, and announcing the new Chrove size!

Discord's a butt.

Part. 2 is now online! This was a delightful interview, and here you can listen to it: open.spotify.com/episode/7bnG...

In today's CSS Adventures, our hero learns that the difference between `position: relative` and `position: absolute` is that they're both relative.

It's going to be glorious!

Tonight! This piece (and two others of mine, and many other spooky pieces from wonderful folks) will be on display at Northern Contemporary for their annual hallowe'en show!

Big update for Swords Without Master, wherein we post pics of the (proof) book and (final) Eidolon Folio cards, and announce that the book is at the printers! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

I ain’t gonna front: last year @sandyjarrell.com and I released one of the coolest books EVER, an introduction to the DC Universe in narrative form influenced by tons of stuff that came before us, filtered through our own fevered brains, all in a kid-friendly package. We rule the wasteland.

Hey kids, you know what time it is?

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Shout out to all my fellow indie #ttrpg publisher friends, and independent artist and writer and musician friends, et al. You've all, individually, made roughly $80 billion more† than Anthropic so far this year. Starting to think we might be the future. † ±0.001% margin of error.

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I suppose it is nice to know that, for all that it was unsustainable for paying my bills, Bedroom Wall Press has literally made at least a dozen orders of magnitude more money than any AI startup.

Start buying indie ttrpgs or be left behind!

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Shout out to all my fellow indie #ttrpg publisher friends, and independent artist and writer and musician friends, et al. You've all, individually, made roughly $80 billion more† than Anthropic so far this year. Starting to think we might be the future. † ±0.001% margin of error.

Not every wall of text is for you, Eppy.

Update on the use of AI text in Chaosium Community Content programs @drivethrurpg.com. TL/DR: Don't use it in our programs. AI is not art. It is theft from you and every writer who has gone before you, repackaged dishonestly and shamelessly as original. www.chaosium.com/blogupdate-o...

“I use AI because I can’t do X” cool, learn “well I cant learn how because I don’t have talent” okay setting aside my ‘talent is propaganda” soapbox for a second - have you considered collaborating with a group of fellow sickos with varying skillsets?? It is truly incredible, I highly recommend it.