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this is so important it needed its own clip actually

My first five RPGs were, if I'm remembering correctly: 1. D&D 4e 2. D&D 5e 3. Call of Cthulhu 4. (stay with me) Actual Cannibal Shia Lebeouf, a oneshot that my CoC GM was tickled by and ran for a sesh 5. GURPS Traveller

I'm way behind on blog posts nowadays, but I'm doing my best to make them thoughtful and worthwhile. This week I spend some time thinking about TTRPGs that ask players to draw at the table, why that's not very common, and what I think we miss out on: thoughtsabout.games/blog/posts/d...

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

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

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The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

I keep up with anime less than I'd like but I still needed to limit myself to series (no movies) to narrow it down my9animes.com/en/share/efb...

Fuck Microsoft

esp in Affinity the juice with styles is the ability to pile on and combine and tweak a ton of decorations and finetune the font till it looks slick as hell, then apply it to the whole doc very easily. I really liked how styles let me make, like, GM Advice style Asides in boxes and stuff

also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley

My fweaking car 😭😭😭 A moment of silence for this beautiful beast. She gave herself life for mine, and for many of our games as well. 😔 I am ok though! Made it out with 15 stitches and some bruises. Light work 😎

IPR has been one of my first brushes with wider distribution in the indie ttrpg world and Nic was kind, helpful, and professional throughout our correspondence. he's truly given me a wonderful welcome into this space, please please please help him out!

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Like an underrated harm of LLM coding is that it basically starts to strangle actual evolution of software engineering as a field. Why invent better ways of doing things? Why come up with better languages, better abstractions, better tooling?

This is a long post, but I think it's worth sharing a bit more widely than I usually do. @househouse.com's Big Walk found me at a time when I had a lot of particular feelings about walking, and was a lens through which to process them.

I'm behind on my blogging, so here's a big one to justify the delay. This starts with a video game and goes into some other stuff that's been going on in my life recently. To everyone I regularly play games with, or go on adventures with: know that I love you thoughtsabout.games/blog/posts/b...

For everyone else as well; Currently fully booked until November, but still plenty of availability in 2027 🩷

an honest brutal legend 2 would be the saddest game of all time. i would play it but just thinking about rod halford recording alone in the booth fucks me up

A fundamental problem with "oh it's useful for coding" is that "generating more software faster" has, if anything, negative marginal utility in itself. The world is not suffering from a software shortage. The world is suffering from a software quality crisis, which LLMs seem more likely to worsen.

Open Hearth Podcast Ep 22: Basic Fantasy RPG, Fearful Symmetries, Void Technicians Host Tea talks Moria and Shane about things they recently played, cover three RPGs in more depth, and then the group finishes up with some things they've been digging recently. #ttrpg

I missed this boost from Tomas when the game first launched, but his testimonial is one of the ones I used on the itch page and it was some of the first feedback that made me feel confident that players would see what I was going for, even without me at the table. thanks again for playtesting!!

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New! Ridge City Riders is a GM-less RPG for 3-5 players of building hoverbikes from scrap and racing them into the dream of a brighter future. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/

My first printed TTRPG, Ridge City Riders, is now available at @ipr.bsky.social! That means that if you want a physical copy and don't have direct access to me irl, you can now get one! www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Ridge-...

I don’t want to pick on this person, this is just a really illustrative reply. something happened along the way where arguing from a place of conviction—believing that your opinion is correct — is received as prescriptive, an imposition. This is not a great development, imo

a song & some art to go with it music.eash.dev/track/primer

This analysis rings very true for me! Most folks I regularly play TTRPGs with are not in creative fields and don't have a lot of time for creative hobbies; game rules provide inspiration by establishing context and giving a framework for what to say and do; they help everyone creatively participate