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Judd Karlman (he/him)

@juddthelibrarian.bsky.social

Librarian, Grappler, Diagnosed ADHD late in life, TTRPG'S Podcast: Daydreaming about Dragons https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daydreaming-about-dragons Blog: Githyanki Diaspora https://githyankidiaspora.com/

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HODAG RPG@hodagrpg.bsky.social · 20h ago

I AM BEGGING YOU to go check out what's popping off from Indonesian creators in the Appendix N JAM!!! (Also mine too please. I am not Indonesian but nobody is perfect.🤷‍♂️)

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's an Appx. N Jam 2026 Indonesian submissions Collection (not made by me). Last year there were only 3 Indonesian submissions. This year there are 21 Indonesian submissions. Awesome OSR adventures and other TTRPG modules, made by Indonesians! itch.io/c/7897044/ap...

Dan Schkade@danschkade.bsky.social · 5d ago

An old Doc Samson I found in my digital archives while I was looking for something else. What a great character, in concept and quite often in execution. A real Hulk's Hulk.

Doc Samson, gamma-powered super-psychiatrist, a large jacked man with long green hair.
Judd Karlman (he/him)@juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

Excited to rock out with a face to face game of Mythic Bastionland tonight! They rolled up the Meteor Knight and the Boulder Knight. It says something about the knights and myths that no matter the combination they always feel thematically linked, even when randomly drawn together.

Party In The Front - Comms Closed@partyinthefront.bsky.social · last mo.

Some good news, bad news, and more good news: -These 3 prints are out on my inprnt shop (check bio)! All 35% off atm! -I'm putting the series on hold. I'm realizing more and more I'd like to try different things for Elric. -I'll be working on new unrelated original stuff, hopefully, FINALLY!

Portrait of Elric of Melniboné, a character from Michael MoorcockImrryr, the dreaming city from Michael Moorcock's Elric saga. Towers and domes rise above the clouds. A dragon lands on a tower in the middleground. Elric watches in the foreground. Illustration of the Melniboné throne room, from Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga. Elric sits upon the ruby throne with Cymoril on the floor next to him. An angry Yrkoon with his back turned to the couple, is coming down the throne steps.
Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 6d ago

“The chief pleasure of THE HEART OF THE NHAGA is how it combines the familiar structure and conventions of an epic fantasy with worldbuilding details that to a Western reader feel entirely alien.” @NussbaumAbigail reviews new work from Lee Young-do

The Heart of the Nhaga by Lee Young-do, tr. Anton Hur: Review by Abigail Nussbaum

The Heart of the Nhaga, Lee Young-do, tr. Anton Hur (Harper Voyager US 978-0-06334-989-6, $32.00, 448pp, hc) June 2026. The promotional materials provided by Lee Young-do’s English-language publish…

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Aaron Voigt@aavoigt.bsky.social · last wk.

Been a while since I could find the time to write anything, but somewhere in my drafts is an essay about Obojima and Austin Walker's piece "Real Human Beings" www.avclub.com/real-human-b...

Real Human Beings: Shadow of Mordor, Watch Dogs and the New NPC

Real Human Beings: Shadow of Mordor, Watch Dogs and the New NPC

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Zedeck Siew@zedecksiew.bsky.social · last wk.

What's the deal with games needing monsters you can kill with no remorse? I keep seeing TTRPGs touting this in their marketing ... There was Obojima, a while back; now Deathbringer with its pig-faced orcs. I genuinely don't get this! What desire is being served here---and whose? 1/

Judd Karlman (he/him)@juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · last wk.

Tools to help. I've been enjoying his videos for a long time and I applaud the act of making the Dewey Decimal System useful for gaming. Did using the system like the ones above bring a book into our D&D game described as Snake Person Erotica?Yes.Did it get stealthy stuck into backpacks, hoods and…

Tools to help.

I've been enjoying his videos for a long time and I applaud the act of making the Dewey Decimal System useful for gaming. Did using the system like the ones above bring a book into our D&D game described as Snake Person Erotica?Yes.Did it get stealthy stuck into backpacks, hoods and duffels of fellow adventurers throughout the campaign?

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Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · last wk.

The Cleveland Public Library's union voted overwhelmingly, 97%, to authorize a strike, which will happen in August if the administrators continue to stall contract negotiations. As an author whose work is carried by those libraries, I whole-heartedly endorse the library workers.

Judd Karlman (he/him)@juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · last wk.

All this Odyssey discussion and I realize I have a shirt for that. 100% of artist's proceeds goes to Advocates for Trans Equity. "Judd, it looks like you grabbed an open source image of a helmet and stuck it on a threadless shop..." "You are correct." shopofjudd.threadless.com/designs/cori...

Corinthian Style Helm MASC T-Shirt | Judd's Shop

Corinthian Style Helm on MASC T-Shirt – Sometimes one just sticks a maybe-ancient, maybe-not Corinthian-style helm from the Cleveland Museum of Art on a t-shirt design and let it be.

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The Torment Nexus doesn't love you back@bankuei.bsky.social · 2w ago

With all the Odyssey talk going on, my take is I don't want folklore/myth movies "if they were real" I want more surreal myth movies. I want The Fall, The Green Knight, Pan's Labyrinth, Mirrormask. I want movies where weird dream shit be happening and the world feels eerie and unhinged.

ngoziu@ngoziu.com · 3w ago

ORION (2026) is my latest comic and book #2 in @dc.com's Fourth World series for young readers! I'm starting a casual thread to talk about my ideas/the process that went into writing and drawing this project. 🌞

Three books laid out on a rug. They overlap each other. The first is an omnibus of New Gods by Jack Kirby with Orion on the cover in the heat of battle, the second is Old Gods & New by John Morrow which has a CMYK color palette and features a heroic figure stretching their arms, and third ORION by Ngozi Ukazu, a YA graphic novel which shows Orion walking toward the viewer taking off his helmet.
matara@mataramg.itch.io · 2w ago

someone reminded me abt chimaera, 1 of my favorite deep sea freaks. which also reminded me that those weird spiny pad tentacles displacer beasts have are actually a real thing (chimaera have them). they're called tentacula & the spines are called denticles (they're made out of Tooth Stuff).

cropped image of a Displacer Beast from dungeons & dragons, which is a sort of large six-legged black cat with two long tentacles coming from its back that end in pads with spines coming off of them.cropped image from an infographic about chimaera, which are deep sea relatives of sharks & rays. it shows their "frontal tentaculum", which is a little tentacle ending in a pad covered in boney spines called denticles.photo of a deep sea chimaera, a relative of sharks and rays. it is a long cartilaginous fish with big fins and huge eyes. its skin is split into patchwork-like sections which help its ability to detect miniscule movements in the water. this one appears to be female, as it doesn't have the tentaculum on its head.