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For a sec I read this as '12 other jacked game designers' and thought 'yeah that tracks honestly'

Today's arts n crafts project! A 5x5 gameboard for Choir of Flesh by @iamthehornedone.bsky.social, made of real flesh!

(By which I obviously mean foamcore, chipboard, mod podge and a lot of drybrushing and staining with washes.)

DAAAAAAAMN CONGRATS!!

Salted Heart - Dragons Gate
Pencil - Ink - Colour

this is a few years old!

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

Feel like there's a 50/50 chance at the moment that I look for info on the latest awful thing being discussed and find the origin is that snivelling prick Streeting running his mouth again.

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK.

The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.

And the result is endless horror.

my primary impression of fallout 76 was watching an official teaser on the alien update, hearing this weapon's sound effect, and having to rewind to make sure I didn't hallucinate it

Worried about your art being lumped in with the AI accusations? Well good news - you can be shit at art now - it's literally legal to be not perfect again - let those mistakes define you - that perfectionism you chased for the corpos & art directors? turns out they don't know shit!

Support Bundle by Chaoclypse A bundle by Chaoclypse, $20.00 for 9 games

Due to intense health issues, I will not be available for any further art commissions for the rest of the month.

I will still be working on personal creative projects, but at my own pace.

If you'd like to support me financially, I made a bundle of all my paid stuff: itch.io/s/171477/sup...

'tavern' as a music genre is haunting me

Sticker that says "PROTECT AGEING TWINKS" with a damaged QR code

This place really _gets_ me

No Dragonmeet this year but I'm currently drinking in a bar while enthusiastically talking about RPGs to my girlfriend so basically the same thing

Salted Heart Warband WIP - gave myself a little treat and drew something fir myself

I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.

I played a game of D&D online with a bunch of friends the other day. I was thinking of not showing up because I was feeling like proper shit that day. I showed up anyway and spent most of the time laughing so hard I nearly cried.

I'm far more interested in deriving meaning from the fun I have with my friends around a table, and the stories we share afterwards, than whatever profundity I think I can imbue through my exquisitely crafted rules.

And like, I don't want to just endlessly poo-poo Forge games and what have you, but I do think the tendency towards venerating designer-intended experiences and imbuing tone and meaning into mechanics has led to some real ivory tower bullshit that leaves me incredibly cold.

I wanted somebody relatively new to TTRPGs to be able to pick it up, get excited about it, and think "hell yeah, I would love to run that for my friends". As a 'designer', nothing, *nothing* I have to say is more important than the enjoyment of playing.

Decree specifically started out as a solo game I was running for myself, using @chaoclypse.bsky.social 's Chaos Reigns as a basis, itself a hack of OD&D to bring its combat closer to Chainmail, which I tweaked extensively to account for its Destiny-inspired far future setting.

I'm far more interested in rules that accommodate as wide a range of play as possible. I don't really care about *how* people choose to engage with anything I put out, there's not really a 'wrong' way to play.

I'll start by setting out my stall that what I'm not particularly interested in when playing an RPG is 'design intent'. I see this term used a lot, and that some games have it, and others less so, and that it is important that a game's mechanical design facilitates a very opinionated mode of play.

I'm going to ramble about the creative choices I made for Decree for a bit, because I feel like there's a prevailing narrative in TTRPG discourse that deriving your game's mechanics from older titles implies a sort of incuriosity and lack of care about your craft, which I staunchly disagree with.

Goth drag name idea:
Chappell Ronan Harris

An art piece by Goran Gligovic of a sword resting against a battered tree in front of a rocky dungeon entrance amidst a snowy field. The text says UNBAN GORAN GLIGOVIC.

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.

Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

Not me shouting "HE'S FRIENDLY!!"

To be clear, that was very much a rhetorical "Why??", ha. I'm forever vexed by how much people go to bat for this stuff.