If you commission a work of art, that doesn't make you an artist. If you pay someone to write a book, that doesn't make you an author. If you ask a person to create a design for you, that doesn't make you a designer. Getting genAI to do something is not the same as YOU DOING THE THING!

I finally made it to my holidays, so naturally I developed a cold to start it off. I seems like a not too bad one but just my luck, I suppose.

Idk man I think a worker owned collective of journalists who aren't afraid to report complicated situations of harm in our industry is really good and I'd like to see it continue and hopefully one day expand. I'd love for said journalists to be able to earn a livable wage while doing it too. 💙

Rascal News@rascal.news · 2d ago

State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...

That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim

There seems to be this assumption that being a fan of a thing means you want more stuff related to that thing to be made. And I know it's true for some fans but I don't think it's always true. Some people might just want to enjoy the thing they like in peace.

Gold Ennie winning "Whispers of the Woods" is now available on @rpgtrader.bsky.social. To celebrate this accolade, we offer 100 digital copies for a price of a latte! Please enjoy, buy, and/or share! :)

Whispers of the Woods on RPG Trader

An ENNIE-winning minimalistic game inspired by 18th-century history and folklore.

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The appropriation of 'accessibility' to mean making a game more marketable to a wider audience also pisses me off! Accessibility in TTRPGs is already underdeveloped: whether encouraging representation of realistic disablement within story or making resources engaging for differently-abled players.

"I've had this before when I've asked. You can see the kids are sitting around a meal and the mum's sitting there with nothing. I remember one mum, I think a year or so ago, and I offered her some free food, and she started crying."

HappyToast@happytoast.co.uk · 6d ago

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Ok, so I had a look at the playtest documents for the new VtM edition (of course I did, I can't help myself) and tbh, I'm not impressed. All the usual caveats about it not being a finished product, but for now - meh.

Seeing new VtM edition news coming out of GenCon I find myself in a position of being interested and yet doubting I'll play it beyond trying it out for general interest. Not because I dislike it (some of the snippets I saw I like, some less so, all is tbd) but because I already have VtM I like.

I've just realised that I once again failed in my attempt to be more active on here more and been more or less absent for weeks. Oops. I'm just bad at social media. How do you...post more regularly?

The final speaker whom we will feature in Session 0 of RPG Roots is Aaron Trammell @aarontram.bsky.social, Associate Professor of Informatics with affiliations with African American Studies and Media Studies at UC Irvine. Find his website and research here: aarontrammell.com 1/

Calling Scottish folks because fuck data centres. Personally I'd go for yeeting the shareholders into the sun but I guess I'll settle for a moratorium petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

Petition: Moratorium on planning applications for all hyperscale data centres until their environmental impacts have been fully assessed

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce a moratorium to prohibit planning permission from being granted for any hyperscale data centres, until it has carried ou...

petitions.parliament.scot

Hi all, I am looking for articles, posts, podcasts about: - GMless/GMfull games - worldbuilding games - the practice of hacking in TTRPGs/ LARP Note: I am not necessarily interested in specific games, but rather in pieces that talk *about* these kinds of games and practices. Links are appreciated!

It's been *checks notes* 10 months since I started the damn thing, but I've finally got to a point with this #drawing of my #D&D character where I'm happy to call the sketch done! Love traumatising my lil Eldritch Knight~! 🖤 (Feed this to AI and I will feed you to the fucking hags)

A damn good list. I want to add the good work of @jenkatwrites.bsky.social and @ksandrarpg.bsky.social - which I think was not mentioned. Go play all of these!

Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 3w ago

Games Not (Only) By Cis-Dudes 🧵 (list in progress I keep on my phone & pasting here) * Apocalypse World * For the queen * The quiet year * Yazeba’s bed and breakfast * Seven part pact * Kagematsu & A single man * Tales of the Fisherman’s Wife * Steal Away Jordan * A Mending * Field guide to memory

Fan of indie dystopian TTRPGs? Fan of supporting artists? The second stretch goal for @memoriesofsunshine.bsky.social is giving money straight to their artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mem...

Embers of Humanity RPG - Print Edition

A hope-filled, post-apocalyptic ttrpg about regular people surviving after the end of the world.

kickstarter.com

I talk a lot about the complexity of ocean conservation, and how real solutions can’t fit on a bumper sticker. Enter the Ocean Cleanup. Launched by a teenager giving a TED Talk, they claimed they were going to scoop all the plastic out of the ocean. 🧪🦑🌎

Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

therevelator.org

A lot of people are enamoured by the idea of great worldbuilding as a Xeroxed copy of reality whilst great worldbuilding is largely about establishing a foundation, and then iterating on it organically so that social institutions, events, and ecosystems feel strongly interconnected.

FKLR-6416 (COMMS OPEN!!)@drone6416.bsky.social · 3w ago

sci fi writers be like: nooo dude you dont get it this setting is really cool actually because i meticulously spent years researching everything to ensure my spaceships follow all relevant physical laws and properties of spaceflight and are feasible fantasy writers: what if a dragon fucked your mom

This chat between two of my fave designers was totally my jam, esp the discussion of the past as a radical canvas for the imagination. Last few hours to jump into either/both projects: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/h... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

When Zephyr met Maskwitches

YouTube video by Handiwork Games

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To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

It is Sunday morning and our kickstarter for Embers of Humanity has entered its final week so I thought I’d write a bit about how this RPG came to be. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mem...

Embers of Humanity RPG - Print Edition

A hope-filled, post-apocalyptic ttrpg about regular people surviving after the end of the world.

kickstarter.com

this idea that a new local data center means a ton of local jobs and innovation is one of the biggest lies tech corporations and their assorted mouthpieces are telling communities (including tribal) to get them to sign off on their unregulated energy hoovering ambitions

Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers

The data center boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has pitted the need for development against a history of exploitation.

nytimes.com

Do you fancy trying a TTRPG which is easy to pick up but hard to forget? That allows you to tell emotionally affecting stories about women fighting against the nazis in WW2 France? Take a look at A Cool and Lonely Courage! planesailinggames.com/games/lonely...

A Cool and Lonely Courage

This is an ENNIE-nominated tragic role playing story game about the women of the SOE (Special Operations Executive) during world war 2, for two to five players.

planesailinggames.com

don’t be embarrassed about making art are you kidding me ????? there’s people proud to say they “made art” by using ai and you’re embarrassed to make art with your human brain ???? come on now

THE HAWTHORNE EFFECT is finally here! Surveil your subjects and piece together the conspiracy that's building around you. Each playthrough will have a unique conspiracy that builds around your character and the people and themes they witness in their observations.

The Hawthorne Effect: A surveillance and Conspiracy TTRPG by InnocentGoblin

They're watching you

innocentgoblin.itch.io

The kickstarter for our community-focused post apocalypse rpg Embers of Humanity is still ticking up. We are approaching our first stretch goal! Have a look! Ask me questions! Sign up for our discord and get the pdf free! #rpg #ttrpg

Memories of Sunshine@memoriesofsunshine.bsky.social · last mo.

Support our Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mem...

ATRAPOS is our upcoming Doomed Mythic Fantasy #TTRPG inspired by Greek tragedies and epic poetry. Tell the tale of a crew of doomed heroes embarking on a calamitous journey home. Will you succumb to the wrath of the Gods or attempt to defy their divine will? www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought