Heads up to my fellow ttrpg designers, heretofore undiscovered picklist by Bram Stoker just dropped

Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

I hate how actually fun this movie was and how it was quickly put up on a shelf by powers that be. Anyway it’s on tubi for free

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, now I’m rewatching the cinematic masterpiece that is “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” because I have what? TASTE. And more than a dash of whimsy.

A reminder for everyone that SW5e, a fantastic complete Star Wars fan build for D&D 5e, already exists. For free. Maintained by a loving team of humans, and created by credited human artists.

Madilynn the Alchemist (they/she) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@madilynnalchemist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Next up in Universes beyond DnD edition: Star Wars. *screams into pillow*

Apropo of nothing: I'm increasingly concerned about the way folks wield the idea of "privilege" in such a way that very much fails to differentiate between "special advantage" and "basic human right." Like "your generational wealth, rooted in whiteness, gives you contacts" ≠ "your right to safety."

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

I need new books and authors! Current vibe is cozy-ish, with elements of romance. It could be a full romance, but doesn't have to be. Very open on setting: contemporary, historical, fantasy, and sci-fi are all fine, and zero-spice to full-smut are all welcome. Would love a series of standalones!

There's a driving force in our neurodiversity movement that works to simply include "acceptable" neurodivergencies, like ADHD and Autism, in our existing neurotypical societal power constructs, rather than building a true neurodiverse framework that would include the dangerous, messy, unacceptable.

I've been nicknamed "thera-parent" by one of the neighborhood kids because I mediated a dispute about someone feeling left out in a way that apparently sounded like I'm a therapist—to which I responded with a somewhat baffled, "this is just what a parent does?" Hence, I'm a thera-parent I guess???

Hell yes, field trip across the ocean to Oxford when?!?

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last mo.

new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes

A happy Saturday night specifically to the folks in my neighborhood that are having a big campfire the perfect distance away from my place, so I get the perfect amount of that beautiful campfire smell while laying on my hammock. I got perfect ambiance without having to chop my own firewood. 500/10

fyi DTRPG has waived their usual fees, so 98% of your purchase goes directly to Rae via this bundle. If for whatever reason you don't want to use that service, Rae also has an itch page at temporalhiccup.itch.io or you could consider his (somewhat dormant) patreon www.patreon.com/swordqueenga...

Evil Hat@evilhat.bsky.social · last mo.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but coffee is not a sufficient nutritional strategy. (It's me. I need to hear this. Three cups of coffee for brunch does not a healthy bodymind make...)

I can say with complete certainty that my therapist went home today, sat on her couch, thought about our session, and went "um what? Did not see that coming, what a weird and abnormal side effect of a very common therapy tool, not on my bingo sheet" Clearly I'm WINNING therapy. Obviously nailed it.

I have mostly caught up on my emails and messages today. *Magnanimous bow* You may now clap for me.

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

Last. Week. Of school. *exaggerating huffing and puffing* Almost. There. *Desperate wheezing* Just gotta. Survive. *Gasping for air* One. More week. *Lets out breath sounds that strikingly resemble a dying hyena*

“Every mistake is a starmap to the life I've lived.”

Maddie Jacobus@tacobusart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Fucking Point, a short on how AI sucks. Now in one big, easily reskeetable post.

Hey Cortex fans! Volume 3 of the Cortex Prime Spotlights just dropped on DriveThruRPG at Rusty Sellsword Design's publisher page. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

this and like people doing joke alt text really stinks its not hard. someone said "write how youd describe it to someone over the phone" and its a billion times easier

BasiliskOnline🦎@basiliskonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just blocked some guy for pretending to use alt text. So heres a heads up: if you post 4 screenshots of a movie, yhe alt text is just "movie title" four times ESPECIALLY when the post is about the outfits shown, you piece of shit.

I'm on the phone with my 87YO cult-raised grandma, who tells me how she called the phone line to do the census. The meandering tale gets to her being asked "if I'm a man or a woman." It is 30% rant, 50% confusion, and 20% octogenarian "kids these days". I'm searching for a way to gently guide her—

I'll say more when I can focus a bit, but for now ... While I'd love to stay in games, I'm also open to editor positions elsewhere in the publishing world. Fiction would be lovely. Before joining the games industry, I spent a decade and a half in higher ed roles that inform my work today.

Lynne M. Meyer: TTRPG Editor, Writer, and Consultant

Hail and well met! Here you can learn a little about me, my TTRPG work, and how to get in touch. Let's create together!

lynne-m-meyer.carrd.co

Winner of Greatest Article Title Ever goes to...

"I don't have.... In out of... I don't have any... legs-cloths!" I shouted aggressively at my husband, to his confusion. Yes, I forgot the word PANTS. I am a good writer with a good vocabulary. Probably. Maybe.

Some neighborhood kids saw me in the yard with crutches the other day, and then walking without them in my kitchen today. And honestly, explaining dynamic disability to kids is one of my favorite things. Those kinds of questions from kids are important. Understanding those concepts early matters.

Hear me out: mint instead of grass. Yes, mint spreads like wildfire and is hard to kill—which is WHY I should allow the mint that escaped my gardens to grow wherever it wants. Also, because it is so hardy, it needs less water than my grass anyways. So we're agreed? Spearmint and peppermint lawns?!

... it says that 41 million US adults have used cocaine AT ONCE. Can you IMAGINE that party?

🌈Dr. Frizzle@swilua.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m crying. I asked him to send me a screenshot so I could use it in class and it literally says “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

I don't know if it's a roast or a toast, but I feel Some Kind of Way™️ about Facebook memories showing me a post from well over a decade where my recently uncovered rare mental health disorder is absolutely sitting center stage, hiding in plain sight, and with the benefit of hindsight it's so obvious

For real, adding this to the Coda.

Ciera "Panda" 🔜 PAX U@ragepandapajamas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In case you missed it Anne may be hyperfixating on being a freaking badass and it's like watching someone save the archives from a fire

The Cortex Prime Game Handbook is live on DriveThruRPG for the first time! 256 pages of the most flexible RPG toolkit I could make—build any genre, any tone, any kind of story you want to tell. I'm so proud of this book. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Five stars to the sun shining so bright but ZERO stars to the 100 km/hr winds currently causing havoc outside and to my head. (Also every time it gets this windy, I ALWAYS think about "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"—one of the 12 VHS tapes that supplemented our 4 farmer vision TV channels.)