T. L. Bainter

It's like AI always says: you're not just [x], you're [y] 🖤

Really proud of this one! If You're a #ttrpg player, consider snagging The Manticore Encounter on #HeartOfDaggers for less than $2! I packed it as full of content as possible.

Really? Deems? Deems needs to be replaced? People don't know the word deems and are unable to look it up if so?

I absolutely despise "clarity" suggestions for writing (automated suggestions, not those generated by humans... at least not as a general rule). The vast majority of these suggestions amount to calling readers stupid, completely changing the intended meaning of the phrase, or both.
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#writing

Pretty excited about this one (and some other things I'm working on). Pretty fun to convert creatures and rules from the @aen.quest/Scathe RPG to #Daggerheart, and making these adversaries and environments was a welcome break.

#RPG #RPGDesign

YouTube video by Scathe RPG The Rooks of Elzveir Announcement Trailer

The opening animatic for The Rooks of Elzveir TTRPG actual play series is here now, along with a release date for the first episode... it's almost time. 👀
youtu.be/rET6AMh7OTA?...

I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing.

"That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done."

"That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."

printing/painting a creature for a TTRPG session. This griffin was used in Chapter 2 of the upcoming series (Chapter 1 will be available SOMETIME this summer). Just finished running the battle today!
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Yes, my wash did explode, why?
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#dnd #dndsky #tabletop #ttrpg #rpg #hobby #art

Meanwhile, at Sucker Punch 💦

Gamer grrrl 🤍🐍🎮

💀💀💀

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

An image a fairy-like creature with a praying mantis-esque head, magenta-gradient insect wings, and dark green skin. It has human-like hair and is holding a human's finger, which it appears to be eating. Text from the tabletop book from which it originates reads: Dracipava Bloodline While unassuming in their size and appearance at first glance, dracipava are astonishingly dangerous. At a moment’s notice, they can swell their heads to incredible size, open their mouths like a blooming flower to reveal their multiple rows of sharp teeth, and devour the head of a stunned victim. Dracipava society in the Weird Domain is quite bizarre, with adult women devouring the heads of the males immediately after mating, a ritual that has always been part of their reproductive process. These fairies are more insect-like than other fairies, with faces like a praying mantis, buzzing dragonfly wings, and clawed hands and feet. Perk: Skull Devour. As a Primary Action, you devour the skull of a Dying creature within 1 Pace of you, killing it instantly if it cannot survive without a head. Gain Excess Hit Points equal to twice the creature’s Size. Perk: Dragonfly Wings. You have small dragonfly wings. Increase your Flying Pace by 3.

Worked hard today just to get to the part of the book layout where I could add art for my favorite boi.
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#ttrpg #ttrpgDesign #ttrpgSky #dnd #dndSky #tabletop #bookDesign #bookSky #fairy #fey

I'm spending the rest of the day writing a fanfic about Vine and TikTok boinking each other in every single way.

Image of Trump talking about wanting to have the US Government own a 50% stake in TikTok

Actual madman talk

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

to be fair they did used to have an episode of crash course.

Loved Nosferatu. Incredible retelling, great gothic horror, mesmerizingly unsettling.
I then came back home to be reminded that media literacy is as dead as half the town of Wisborg.
What scenes did you miss? What classes did you skip in high school?
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#Nosferatu #mediaLiteracy #film

_stares at salad_
...sigh, yeah.

Oh for sure—writing comes so much more naturally. I churned out the text faster than anything, but the design? That's much slower (along with, of course, all the rest of it).

Good luck to you! :)

The first 90 minutes of the session ARE the mucking-about minutes! 🫠

Thank you so much!
I honestly had absolutely no idea what I was doing about a year ago, and this is my third attempt at it. Just started with Affinity Publisher and it's been great! Definitely recommend it. :)

Are these better? Yes? Maybe?

I promise the resolution is significantly higher than it appears here. I have no idea why it looks like it has been compressed on a Windows 95 machine, turned into a .JPEG, put onto a USB drive, uncompressed on a Windows XP machine, and then posted here.

All the more reason to wait for the PDF!

Page 43 of the Scathe TTRPG Rule Book. Lists the Daemonborn Ancestry, beginning with the Angelic bloodline, an angel-hybrid being. Text reads: Core Ancestries Daemonborn The distant descendants of beings from the Cosmic, Gloria, or Hel Domain, a daemonborn is a hominid far removed from their divine ancestors. Despite the distance between their blood and the blood of true deities beings, a daemonborn does still sport evidence of their lineage, be that unique skin colors, horns, or even wings. The blood of the holy and vile manifest in these deific descendants in different ways, rendering no two daemonborn alike. Daemonborn Basics Age Limits. • Young: 0-20 years • Adult: 20-160 years • Elder: 160+ years • Life Expectancy: roughly 200 years Ancestral Pace. 4 Core Stats. 19, 6, 5 Perk: Daemon’s Blood. Gain Protection from 1 Esoteric Damage of your choice. Size. 2 (typically between 1.5 and 1.75 meters tall) Type. Daemon, Hominid Daemonborn Bloodlines Bloodline: Angelic Rarely seen but easily-identified by their unparalleled beauty, angelic daemonborn trace their lineage back to beings from Gloria—typically angels. The holy wings sprouting from the backs of many of these beings can be used to soar tremendous distances. Perk: Natural Flight. When you fall or are otherwise not touching the ground, you may use a Reactive Action to extend your wings. This grants you a Flying Pace equal to your Walking Pace until the end of your next turn, which you can extend with an additional Reactive Action when that turn ends. At 20th level, the Natural Flight Reactive Action no longer consumes SP.

The 44th page of the Scathe Core Rulebook. Lists three Daemonborn bloodlines, the Eldritch, the Hel, and the Leviathan. Eldritch is a horrifying, purple-skinned, six-eyed woman with oily hair. Hel is a large, muscular floating demon. Leviathan is a toned woman with gils and fins. Text reads: Bloodline: Eldritch With an ancestral history that is a mystery even to them, an eldritch daemonborn is one descended from the Unknowables themselves—the horrific entities that inflict madness on any who would dare seek to comprehend their majesty. So suffused with madness and eldritch power are they that these entities remain calm in circumstances that would leave most in a state of absolute fear. Perk: Suryphian. You are Immune to being Terrified. Bloodline: Hel Born of the torturous, infernal depths of Hel, daemonborn of this bloodline are usually differentiated from others by their large horns or barbed tails. Some have scaly formations on their skin, usually on joints like the wrists, ankles, and elbows. While colors vary, most hel daemonborn are black, purple, red, or white in color. Perk: Veins Aflame. You are Immune to Fire Damage. Bloodline: Leviathan The dreadful abyss is home to all manner of terrifying creature, and from the dark trenches the leviathan daemonborn have ascended. With blue or purple skin, gills on their necks, and webbed hands and feet, the leviathan daemonborn are the most unusual in appearance of all their kin. Perk: Shallowborn. You can breathe underwater and have a Swimming Pace equal to your Walking Pace.

The fun part of TTRPG design is making it look pretty.
Pushed through today to get to the Bloodlines portion of the layout so that I could finally start adding in Hugo's art.
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#RPGDesign, #TTRPG, #Tabletop #BookDesign, #Writing, #D20, #RPGSky, #Scathe, #Aen, #RooksOfElzveir

It feels like the "serious" media is straight up ignoring the public reaction to the UHC CEO murder. The NYT hasn't even done a "what it says about health care in America" op-ed piece. The fact that the entire country is celebrating a murder IS the story, and they're entirely missing it.

I heard Infrabren sing it to a thrift store employee, but I think that's acceptable.

Dear people who don’t use the Oxford comma:

It’s never too late to do the right thing. Everyone makes mistakes, and we shouldn’t be judged solely by our pasts. What matters is the here and now. So come over to the right side of history for a fresh, new, and beautiful beginning.

Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.

I ...what
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...