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Freelance DTP/Graphic Designer and Illustrator
InDesign and Affinity Publisher Templates on the #DMsGuild
📧 contact@barkalotdesigns.com
Hi, I'm Nathanaël a freelance layout artist and graphic designer looking for TTRPG work.
I'm available in 2025 for smaller projects right away, bigger projects in Q3, Q4, and all through 2026.
🌐: www.barkalotdesigns.com
📧: contact@barkalotdesigns.com
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This issue is one of the most important to me, personally. I had to sacrifice a lot to work at Wizards. I wrote a really funny twine game last year and had several more in the works. I stopped work on all of them when I became a D&D game designer. I lost a creative outlet that was important to me.
Currently, Hasbro’s guidelines keep us from having total ownership over the work we make in our free time. Our union aims to change that and ensure we own what we make in our free time.
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Wasn't supposed to rain today, so I decided to go to the laundromat...
I've been there 2 hours and it started raining for the 3rd time...
Always fun when you're on foot and there is no decent cover...
Not that anybody asked, but I found the last 4 episodes of Game Changer season 8 disappointing.
While they all looked like the players had a great time participating in the games, I found the viewing experience lacking, often too messy to follow, or plain unfunny and uncomfortable at times.
It's here, it's happening! If you're tired of seeing grimdark fantasy DnD stuff, THIS IS FOR YOU.
Our cosy chaotic 5e campaign book is on Kickstarter NOW! Play treasure-seeking adventurers who accidentally destroy an entire town and wake up a god in the process!
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I like reading LitRPG: reality is a game, numbers go up. It's fun and pleases my brain.
But the amount of unedited trash and Gen-AI stuff that get "published" as books in this genre is awful. It makes it really hard to find something to read.
Any LitRPG readers have book recommendations?
I have an appointment in 6 hours, my brain started focusing on it 2 hours ago. I keep thinking "I should get ready to leave for the appointment". It's making focusing on work really hard.
Brain, please, chill out. We have time.
Temperatures didn't go under 30°C last night. Woke up at 6am, was 31°C. It's only getting worse throughout the day. Luckily this should be the last day of the heat wave for my area. 4 or 5 days at around 40°C was more than enough for me.
I'm in west coast France, in June, this is not normal.
Anyone who replies with depressing thoughts like "This is the new normal" or "we reap what we sow" is getting blocked.
I'm well aware of climate change.
I was venting to the void, I don't need your comments on top of it.
Just received a phone call from someone trying to sell me something. I usually just hang up, but this I decided to try something new, I started repeating the word "No" while he was talking, just a constant barrage of "Nos", and yet he still talked for 51 seconds before giving up and ending the call
The Forgotten God continues!
We published PART 2 last month, which is all about Dryfoot Hill, a bustling trade city in the middle of a wild magic swamp.
Will you come explore its secrets, and find a way into the smuggler's tunnels?
patreon.com/rpgtoons
Just checked the weather forecast and they say in two days it's going to be 32°C (about 90°F)... Could we not? It's only May, calm the fuck down weather.
Tonight YouTube started interceding community post images between the videos in my feed. It's pissing me off so much.
I go to YouTube for videos not static images.
Plus it's from channels I don't know, additionally there is some religious bullshit quoting the bible.
And... Fuck that noise!
Twice today I thought something was wrong with my computer, first Youtube videos were stuck in 0.1 second loop and I couldn't fast forward. Then a few hours later, drag and drop stopped working.
In both instances, it was just because a random object was pressing a key on my keyboard.
Film I've watched more than 6 times? Any BttF, any Die Hard, Wayne's World, Lords of Dogtown, and so many more... I grew up in a time of VHS, rewatching the same movies you had at home over and over was the norm.
Just did my income taxes for 2025, as usual I find it extremely stressful despite it being somewhat straight forward in France, I feel sorry for people in the US, where I'm lead to believe it's a nightmare.
Things about US houses that baffle me as a European:
-Houses built out of wood and drywall with skinny flimsy walls
-Guillotine style windows that can't fully open
-No shutters on windows
-Loose insolation in attics making them unusable
I'm sure there is more that I can't think of right now.
I love being told to calm down when what I said was perfectly calm... love it...
For context, I left a comment on a video saying "It's a shame to see you use so much AI slop", the video creator replied telling to calm down and started justifying it using AI slop as a joke, before privating the video
And I truly meant it, I really think it's a shame, it's a small creator, who makes videos I find interesting and is trying to make a better for their family, but I won't keep watching and supporting them if they continue to use AI slop in their videos.
Over the past year I've laid out more than 20 files with the same 6 guild emblems and I'm finally recognizing which guild they represent without having to check the file name...
Took me long enough...
Not having to do anything for public consumption sounds like a great thing and really easy. I'm not someone who feels the need to be productive.
Depending on how much the "fully funded" part covers, I would travel, do some home improvement projects, and just enjoy my life.
Question for anyone who makes things (professionally or personally or somewhere in between):
What would you do if you had a whole year, fully funded, with the one requirement that you NOT make anything for public consumption during that year?
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There are 13 hours left on In The Library With The Wrench.
I'd love to end over £5k. It's a big ask because there are no big ticket pledge tiers but if you have a spare tenner, maybe pick up my new game?
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I always hear the stereotype "French people always dress up to leave the house, they never wear sweatpants outside" and it pisses me off.
On my bus right now, 5 out of 10 people are wearing sweatpants. Clearly French people wear sweatpants outside for their day to day!
I just read a comic booklet provided by a French organization specialized in comic books explaining medical acts.
They let you choose if you're a boy, a girl, a woman, or a man, and if you have autism or not, or you have a motor disability to adapt the comic to you. Which is nice, in theory.
I decided to read the version for autistic men on how a dentist fixes a cavity. I found the explanations pretty good. Then I decided to read the version for non-autistic men.
The only difference between the two versions was the shape and color of the clock. That's it, same explanations otherwise.
For my followers in the EU, there is an European citizens’ initiative you can sign to demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
If you are for BDS this would be a huge step up.
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
Also, say what you want about the French health care system, but getting my teeth fixed is costing absolutely nothing out of pocket, everything is taken care of without private health insurance.
Dentist appointment done, they gave me four more appointments over the 6 weeks to treat the two cavities that have been causing me issues.
I called that dentist 2 months ago, they told me the waiting list for an appointment was 2 years, I'm glad I said that I didn't care, put me on the list.
10 minutes ago, I was told that I have a dentist appointment in now 35 minutes... Not long to get mentally ready, but also not giving much of a chance to overthink it and bail.
Dentist appointment done, they gave me four more appointments over the 6 weeks to treat the two cavities that have been causing me issues.
I called that dentist 2 months ago, they told me the waiting list for an appointment was 2 years, I'm glad I said that I didn't care, put me on the list.
I just realized, I don't even know the name of the dentist I saw today, four different dentists work in that dentist office, and the one I saw didn't introduce themselves.
I've been taking the marketing for The Mouth Of Winter very seriously, so you should take the book very seriously.
(Genuinely though it's pretty good, you should read it)
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I always stress so much before my telephonic check in with a government employee. I wonder if I'll have to justify a bunch of stuff, etc... to keep my financial aid.
And then they call, they ask how I'm doing, ask if I need anything, and schedule the next appointment. Lasts less than 2min.
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
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