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Rori | Montford Tales 🔜 Dragonmeet

@montfordtales.com

Award winning TTRPG designer and illustrator | Rori (she/her) | Asher's Ridge is out now! | Buy my games at https://shop.montfordtales.com

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Katherine Stark@kastark.bsky.social · yesterday

Just in case anyone thinks that this was a reasonable response, here's my prior email which said quite explicitly that I have attended many times before, and that the reason for my non-attendance was explicitly their lack of AI policy and protections.

Hello, I'm a bestselling UK-based tabletop designer and writer who has previously attended UKGE many times. For the past couple of years I had excluded UKGE from my roster of conventions because of your lack of stance on AI, and refusal to implement proper protections for attendees and creatives with respect to genAI content. As a games creative I am contractually obliged to not engage with genAI content on a professional level, and on a personal level I find it deeply distasteful and disrespectful. I was extremely heartened to hear that you'd finally implemented a ban on genAI content, bringing you in line with other conventions - and was considering returning to the expo as a direct result of you implementing this policy. Unfortunately I've recently discovered via social media that you have been caught multiple times in the last week using clearly generated imagery in your promotional materials, including *after* you issued an apology. My confidence in UKGE has once again dropped through the floor. I am contacting you to express my extreme displeasure in your choice to embrace genAI, and to tell you that I will not attend future expos in either a professional or personal capacity until it is clear that there is not only a complete genAI ban but also a cultural change inside your organisation to reflect a clear understanding of why this behaviour is unacceptable. To be clear: the use of generated art or text in any capacity has no place in an organisation seeking to showcase the work of creators. You cannot issue a half-hearted policy and continue to use it yourselves. From the perspective of both an attendee and creator there is no acceptable reason for you to continue to use generative AI, and if you do not stop then I will have to continue to recommend my peers and audience not to attend your expo. Regards, -Katherine Stark
Ramona@alderdoodle.bsky.social · 4d ago

Looking for a ttrpg layout designer that can turn my 17 pages of text into a thing that resembles a solo game. Victorian haunted house vibes. gAI users need not apply.

Rori | Montford Tales 🔜 Dragonmeet@montfordtales.com · 5d ago

Today I tried a technique I've never done before; painting in greyscale in acrylics, then glazing oil paint colour on top. I only had 10 min at the end of the class to throw on the colour, so it's suuuuper simple, but I still learned from it. (I forgot to photo the greyscale painting, oops)

A pair of aubergines on a rumpled cloth. Painted originally in greyscale in black & white acrylic. The aubergines have had a translucent layer of pinky-purple laid on top of the greyscale. Purple aubergines on an orange cloth. Only two colours used to glaze with (ideally I'd have spent more time here and done a lot more, but sadly when time's up, time's up)
FinleyJinley (they/he) ╰⁠(⁠ ⁠･⁠ ⁠ᗜ⁠ ⁠･⁠ ⁠)⁠➝ AdventureX@finleyjinley.bsky.social · 7d ago

We would love to make the lounge a safe space to attend by offering ffp3 masks to those who want them and running air purifiers - but transportable, decent purifiers are a bit out of our budget 😅 We got a Kofi goal for these bits and if you can help us out, that'd be mega! ko-fi.com/finleyjinley...

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tor, mud skeleton@toothandshore.bsky.social · 2w ago

so my dark fantasy solo mudlarking RPG Kraldum is FUNDED!!! & we have 2 weeks left of campaign to make it even bigger & better. so incredibly grateful to everyone who's backed, shared, encouraged, or otherwise enabled me so far 💖🙏 gamefound.com/en/projects/...

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Go down to the shore below the city. Collect what you can. Survive what lurks there and beat the rising waters to make it home.

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Rori | Montford Tales 🔜 Dragonmeet@montfordtales.com · last wk.

I'm exhibiting at the Oxford Indie Bookfair on November 22nd, followed by Dragonmeet on November 28th. 🙌 I am very, very excited and can't wait to see everyone (again!) OIB: www.oxfordindiebookfair.co.uk Dragonmeet: dragonmeet.co.uk

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Rori | Montford Tales 🔜 Dragonmeet@montfordtales.com · last wk.

When you're going through the ugly phase of a project, it's fine to make it uglier 🤣 (It's just masking fluid — I needed to get my *really really* big (3 inch) brush out to get the sea washes built up without them going patchy. This way I don't need to worry about the coastline)

Chris | Junk Food Games@junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 2w ago

We love to see it! Also! Libraries can get ttrpg's from IPR at a discount! I had forgotten until I saw a library ordered one of my games in this sales report Let your local library know! www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Librar...

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Indie Press Revolution@ipr.bsky.social · 2w ago

26Q3 sales reports sent to 253 member-publishers. Many thanks to our customers, publishers, and staff for our best quarter yet!