Are you: * A PAX West Panelist/Speaker this year (need to already be approved) * super knowledgeable about indie games * someone who wants to be on a panel about life-changing indie games Looking for someone to fill an open spot on a panel I'm running this year!

If Run the Set looks hype to you, go grab it for free (atm): thoughtcrimegames.itch.io/run-the-set If you like it, please rate it on the One-Page RPG Jam page! itch.io/jam/one-page...

Run the Set by Thoughtcrime Games

A place-making TTRPG for 1-4 players about weekly FGC tournaments

thoughtcrimegames.itch.io

Quinn murphy@gamefiend.bsky.social · 8h ago

Another long day of work ahead of me, so I took a second to finish a draft with layout of my one page RPG "Run the Set"! I...think I love this little game. Here it is in trifold form:

It's worth noting for the tech optimists is that the AI success stories you sometimes hear about are not the same as LLMs. Machine learning for folding proteins, or identifying cancer masses, is completely separate technologies that took about 2 decades, a lot of experts, no mass data reaping.

Playlist Dungeon, a 1-page "songcrawl" #ttrpg where you build characters and dungeons from your favorite songs, is out in the wild, along with the Wu-Tang inspired intro adventure, "Last Chamber". Check it out and start your own playlist below!

Playlist Dungeon by Thoughtcrime Games

Micro-musical TTRPG dungeoncrawl

thoughtcrimegames.itch.io

To be clear: If “TTRPGs” in your scholarship, teaching, & outreach start & end with D&D — or even GMed games — that’s a skill issue you need to reconsider. You’re gonna get left behind.

Stop-mo PNGtuber for @foxander.bsky.social in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Foxander messaged me about the idea and it seemed so cool! He sent me drawings and screenshots for the idea I got to work, it took a bit, but I streamed most of the process and am happy with the result! #3dart #vtuber

archiveofourown.org/works/893942... I realized I was not properly using the Chapter function of AO3, and have now posted chapter 3 of my disgustingly earnest DOOM 2016 followup fic in the correct way hopefully.

I hear the book on the top right is pretty good #buymybook

Indie Press Revolution@ipr.bsky.social · 5d ago

15/18 And we reach the end of our tour with Evil Hat Productions including Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts, Girl by Moonlight, and Stewpot by Takuma Okada, author of Alone on a Journey.

Scansion and rhyme? Trust that every time. No rhyme and no scansion? Well that’s probably less trustworthy.

Caffeinate Chat room Dungeon crawler Hypertext markup language World-builder

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

The Locked Tomb

Oregon 🕎🎲@oregonthedm.bsky.social · 6d ago

once u get good at writing you can then access "evil writing" which is when things are deliberately bad. anyway. i guess what im saying is that writing is sometimes a game and for the sheer amusement of being able to make something the way that it is.

Coded a tutorial message for an indicator that warns you about imminent crashlanding, and had a scenario where the tutorial first triggered as I was flying into the sun

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.

OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK

If you're #ttrpg doesn't have rainbows, it's not fucking metal. I'm sorry. I don't make the rules. Well, I do, professionally; but not these rules, specifically.

Been having problems with my phone crashing apps lately. Noticed it kept trying to pop up this Glance "smart" lock screen/home screen crap, and now a few rabbit holes later I've learned I can just... Replace the home screen with something else? So I'm trying Lynx and my word this feels better

Impulsively went to a Hadestown showing at the cinema, and WOW I've got so much to unpack about how it's maybe the thing I most needed to see in this present moment But right now I wanted to talk about something it does that cuts to the heart of storytelling

This is very specifically funny for reasons you will not understand unless you have read Sublimation So you should read it

Isabel J. Kim@isabel.kim · last wk.

like christopher nolan i too have read at least the first line of emily wilsons translation in order to write my adaptation. please go read sublimation available wherever books are available.

I stand by everything I said previously. At least with a major bank I know there is oversight, deposit insurance, and regulation for things like anti-money laundering.

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

X Money is launching in the US starting today

i will make the kakoune/helix of roguelikes they are saying

This really is the year of Jubilee! Between @gailsimone.bsky.social's fun as hell run on Uncanny X-Men to X-Men 97 giving her her flowers and Marvel Rivals! I had to draw her again. First time in years! Done in Clip Studio Paint with an XP-Pen Artist Pro 15.1 #jubilee #xmen #artistsonbluesky

Only just now realized there is an unrealized niche for Gyro Game the eurogame

Want to try out Good Society 2nd edition for yourself? Our free 2e quickstart is released and you are cordially invited to download it in the latest update here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto... Romance, scandal and drama await! 🍰☕️

Coming soon: Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition

Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.

kickstarter.com

Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take

Hey, #ttrpg streamers! Did you know that a complete & fully satisfying game of Swords Without Master can be had in under an hour? If all your players know the rules and come with rogues in hand, it's not even hard to do. We did speed-runs a few years back. I think we broke the 45-minute barrier?

Dungeons & Dragons@dndbeyond.com · 2w ago

A wild Jimothy appears! Encounter the beloved raccoon in your D&D adventures: dndbeyond.link/DnD-Jimothy

Truly wild how much of a fever dream it feels like now

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 2w ago

I know it seems like the fight against AI is really uphill but I want to remind you at one point, people went really hard for NFTs, including $69.3 million for one by Beeple at a Christie's auction in 2021, but now almost no one buys them.

Ok, she’s right! 3 days to to go, top stretch goal is $28K. It’s currently at $19,239. $20k=more art, $24k=more $$ for artists, $28k=a whole new way to play, as a pdf for all backers. Can we get there? Let’s find out!

Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 2w ago

Meg is understating that the project REALLY deserves to hit its final stretch goal — rules for playing ON BlueSky or other microblogging/social platforms. I for one am VERY CURIOUS about what experimental work she’d dream up…

IMAX is great, but the best picture is the one you create with your friends. AGON. Defy the gods and write your name in the stars. Your epic journey begins with a handful of dice. evilhat.com/product/agon/

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.