Tan Shao Han

2025 was one massive period of learning experiences in a million different ways. That goes for both personal life and the hustle over at Three Sails Studios. Our little company went through so much this year, and we're gonna keep working hard to bring you more quality games as the years go on.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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Huh omg I was in disbelief just reading this

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"after the war, if you as a Chinese got involved as a Nanyang Volunteer, in China you'll be seen as a Nationalist, a traitor, In Southeast Asia, you'll be seen as a Communist, as a bandit, by the colonialists, or the regimes that came after."

paraphrasing Q+A; some traumas of being SEAsian Chinese

Ya it's pretty harrowing

Ok the film is finally starting. Time to update later... It's going to be quite a harrowing film. Seeya!

When I research for Da Xia, I see some of the horrors they heard and witnessed, second-hand...

trying to discuss this can be hard, not just because of my presentist biases. But also as an Asian talking about Asian traumas in ttrpgs.. I've been shouted down, talked down to, threatened with violence.

I'm 45 (well turning 45 soon), and my parents were of the generation where they remembered families and friends being... Well.. dragged off to genocide grounds. My parents were reluctant for me to consume Japanese media or products as a kid (I was a weeb), because of their own generational traumas..

Da Xia is in many ways inspired by events and stories like these; Shuang Lin Monastery's full name is "Lian Shan Shuang Lin Shi", 莲山双林寺, or Lotus Hill Twin Grove Monastery... Hence, "Lotus Hill". And Venerable Pu Liang's Buddhist name, 普亮法师, has the word 亮，or "Light"; hence Light on the Lotus Hill.

Venerable Pu Liang was the abbot of Shuang Lin Monastery (双林寺), over in Singapore's Toa Payoh, a beautiful temple. He opened the grounds up for the Volunteers to train.

For his contributions against the Japanese invasions of China, he was arrested, executed..

biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-3/issue1...

Nanyang Volunteers drove and repaired trucks along the Burma Road, a key pipeline for Allied materiel and personnel into China (cos Japanese forces controlled Chinese ports).

They needed a place to train, and that's where the Venerable Pu Liang comes in...

www.chinatownology.com/Nanyang_Volu...

Working on Da Xia agIn, caught ast screening, "Light on the Lotus Hill", about Venerable Pu Liang who supported Nanyang Volunteers (SEAsian Chinese auxiliaries during Sino-Japanese war). He was executed by Japanese imperial forces occupying Singapore, during the Sook Ching （洗清） massacres of Chinese.

Movie you’ve rewatched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode no Star (Wars or Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar. These things make me realize I am a serial rewatcher.

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

Ya that's my party member (we also have a basket of garlic)

That's my skeleknight taking 200 damage over 2 rounds and into a dirt nap, bouncing up and down between death and undeath (it's a L10 party), I have about 115 effective HP, so between recovery tricks, damage reduction, and HP laundering, I soaked up a lot that would have otherwise gone to team! Fun.

My work's wages: a box of Boney Bois from Age of Sigmar ahha. I used to collect and paint what we now call the Deathrattles, mostly for my own RPG sessions. For the Epic I played one of my favorites for such community events, a paladin/undying warlock whom I represent on the table with a Wight King!

That's The Legitimate Business and @telehax.bsky.social doing the good work of running community DnD games across Singapore, across hobby shops and even at public libraries!

Check out Jeremy's work:

www.dmsguild.com/en/browse?au...

And The Legitimate Business too, at:

thelegitimatebusiness.com

Great time at Singapore Comic Con (SGCC); helped old friends at Gamersaurus Rex with sales, played a D&D Epic organised by @telehax.bsky.social and The Legitimate Business (the module was Enemy of My Enemy by @the-i-of-qing.bsky.social!), and visited @munkao.bsky.social and @ehronlime.bsky.social!

Ya it's Tableminis!!

Actually honestly the toilets in my basement area (the gaming side) are nubbad (from my experience today)

Ahhhh ok so uhhh go to the higher floors of MBS, away from the food courts..try to avoid floors with eateries basically. Those nice upmarket area in the mall area, the Shoppes.

I'm not sure if 56th floor SkyPark is open to us indie game designers but pls poop in heights of Mammonite Belial Shait-

Box of Pochai pills.

Best thing I’ve gotten so far at SGCC (thanks Mel & @bigprawn.bsky.social)

+1 item bonus to Fortitude saves, grants save to end the Sickened condition even if there normally isn't one; if there is already a save to end Sickened, treat success as critical success instead

Pochaifinder 2e

Context: it's a cultural immersion trip for students to understand rural health, traditional medicine, and politics and economics of healthcare. I'm glad students were engaged but they were also passive and quiet, so the villagers were worried they were unhappy! Truly a meeting of different worlds.

:') thank you for enjoying (and thus adding to) the beauty in these moments!

The kind words of one of our students lol and their amazing photos that I didn't know I was in cos we were so knackered (I did a lot of joget that night and got called up to make many random speeches lol).

As I like to say, no matter how much I grumble at their assignments; the kids are all right.

Hodag remains among the most powerful artists you could bring to your work. He is a known quantity who offers speed, quality, and price - the man is operating on the trifecta.

Various Zine-whatevers are fast approaching in Q1 of 2026. Now might be a good time to give Hodag a look if you can.