So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

What's up boys? Tabletop developer from the 90s here. I'm going to refer to players as "he", you know, for clarity.

if I was a young person being told that the best our economic system can ever offer me is working longer and longer hours to live with more and more roommates and eat worse and worse food, I might start getting this crazy idea that we need a new economic system

I’m just gonna say this here because idk where else to say it but we can tell each apart from neurotypicals in the wild & we are fully aware neurotypicals are ready to throw us under the bus

mcc@dryad.technology · last mo.

It was never going to stop at trans people.

The whole KS just reads as: "This isn't your whimpy kiddie Dungeons & Dragons! this is for Hardcore Badass Tough Guys who think CHAINS and TIDDIES are HOT! **also dw its called deathbringer but you'll totally get your specialist boy main character moments before your character perma dies we promie"

Magnolia Keep@magnoliakeep.itch.io · last mo.

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a second high-octane post about Deathbringer! This time, we look at the game's actual sales pitch and ask: what is this game, and who is this for? https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-thoughtlessness-of-deathbringers_02053113930.html

Hi I’m a Gen Xer whose politics lean neither left nor right, I guess you could call me an independent, kind of homeless politically, maybe the last sane person in an insane world, anyway enjoy my 300 daily posts dedicated solely to bitching about trans people and the left

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

TTRPG where damage is represented by physically setting the target's character sheet on fire. Damage types dictate where the fire starts (e.g., top-right corner) and the amount is how many seconds the player must wait before stamping it out. Burnt traits are disabled until they fill out a new sheet.

was reminded of the best thread title ever posted on the Mothership sub

Big #PsiRun2e update! More Art! More money for artists! More ways to play the game! Check it out, back the project, share it around! GO! #pbta #ttrpg #superpowers www.kickstarter.com/projects/117...

Update 3: The Big Art and Restructuring Update! · PsiRun Second Edition

Ok, whew! For those that didn't know, I injured my left thumb at work on July 3, and am only now really back to full function. I've been drafting this update in my head all week!! Here goes:YAY!!!!! I...

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Emma Bernard, 25, hasn’t planned to start any beef – but now you’ve said that utterly ludicrous thing, their face is about to do it anyway.

Uh-oh! Autistic person’s face about to say what they actually think

An autistic person who hates conflict is about to accidentally incite it by blurting out their true feelings, it has been reported.  Emma Bernard, 25, hasn’t planned to start any beef - but now…

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The INCREDIBLE amount of uncritically continued hard and soft eugenics in TTRPGS is wild.

Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe@quakefultales.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Intelligence as a default stat in both digital and tabletop RPGs is one of the worst holdovers from D&D

One of the most important moments in my life as an artist was at a summer drama camp in 2014. My teacher said “the audience is everything.” A student asked “so we should be thinking about them?” And without skipping a beat, like it was the most obvious fact in the world, he said “FUCK the audience.”

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 2mo ago

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

hopefully a literacy expert has a good plan for how to teach a bunch of people who think they know how to read how to actually read because we are in crisis

I have run more combats in more systems than I can count, and my one universal piece of advice to make them fun is: JUST KEEP ROLEPLAYING! - Have the enemies talk shit, taunt, joke, monologue, confess! - Ask how PCs feel! Why? - Make actions emotion driven! Hatred! Fear! Jealousy! Envy! Love!

I really hope things go well with rpg-trader.com General issues w/ monopolies aside, It's solves the majority of my UX gripes with other platforms. I'm tired of digging for the most important pre-purchase info on when I'm supposed to even expect to get something to the table.

Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm cautiously optimistic about RPG Trader. If you don't know, it's a new platform for buying and selling rpgs just like DriveThruRPG, Itch, and Lulu. What's making me optimistic? It's rpg-focused. It does away with the 5-star rating system. It has coherent product categories. rpg-trader.com

- Traveller is an ALL TIMER imo. - The Wildsea is good for you DnDers who wanna make shit up the way DnD APers do. - CBR+PNK is a favorite tho I'm still 'gitting gud' at it (FitD is tricky to GM for me). - Genesys has amazing dice I'm so sorry they're bespoke (chessex save us please).

Ian / Sìne@vonaether.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Reply or quote with your favourite non D&D RPG

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

As an autistic person, seeing Tim Walz aggressively pushing for reading TTRPGs they will never play scares me.

On the 5th of May, we honor the victors of the Battle of Puebla, which helped keep Mexico free and end slavery in the United States. 1/

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

Brutal.

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all the myths and mysteries about QWERTY and Dvorak. You can read it here: aresluna.org/the-primitiv...

The primitive tortureboard

Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY

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oh shit. I guess I'm part of trans day of visiblity now. hap gender (or lack thereof)

Did people jump on that guy too fast and too hard? Maybe. I also noticed he immediately deflected his own responsibility and very proudly Took His Ball. Two things can be true: -a marginalized group that was hurt and reeling after its millionth body blow was not charitable -you fucked up dude

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 5mo ago

people are often taking things out of context or are a little trigger-happy, but the journalists on here sure do love to circle the wagons to tell the trannies to calm down and make *that* the big issue as fast as humanly possible 👍

At a certain point it became Unfashionable for poets to care about Meter. they just started writing Whatever they wanted Into a vaguely poem-like shape. Whatever happened to sonnets? Are rhyme-schemes trying too hard? Or did we forget to teach people how To read

ace watkins we need you now more than ever