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Human Cleric drawing by Tara Quinn https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/494686/science-fiction-stock-art-illustrations-by-tara-quinn
Today we talk about how in a #TTRPG session players and the GM can look at the same situation completely differently. Check it out and let us know if you've had this happen.
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Human Cleric drawing by Tara Quinn https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/494686/science-fiction-stock-art-illustrations-by-tara-quinn
Today we talk about how in a #TTRPG session players and the GM can look at the same situation completely differently. Check it out and let us know if you've had this happen.
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Head and shoulders image of a white haired man with a white goatee looking off into the distance to the right. Some buildings and a bit of water are visible behind him. Ryan Dancey, former COO of Alderac Entertainment Group.
Text from a LinkedIn post which says: Ryan Dancey Author Chief Operating Officer at Alderac Entertainment Group I have zero reason to believe that an AI couldn't "come up with Tiny Towns or Flip Seven or Cubitos". I can prompt any of several AIs RIGHT NOW and get ideas for games as good as those. The gaming industry doesn't exist because humans create otherwise unobtainable ideas. It exists because many many previous games exist, feed into the minds of designers, who produce new variants on those themes. People then apply risk capital against those ideas to see if there's a product market fit. Sometimes there is, and sometimes there is not. (In fact, much more often than not). Extremely occasionally (twice in my lifetime: D&D and Magic: the Gathering) a human has produced an all new form of gaming entertainment. Those moments are so rare and incandescent that they echo across decades. Game publishing isn't an industry of unique special ideas. It's an industry about execution, marketing, and attention to detail. All things AIs are great at.
Ryan Dancey, a more than 30-year veteran of the tabletop gaming industry, has lost his COO job at publisher AEG a day after saying AI could generate game ideas as good as his companyβs titles Tiny Towns and Cubitos:
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Alligators can live up to 100 years,
Which is why there's an increased likelihood that they will see you later
The campaign got a nice bump in views following the QQ review, so fully feeling the residual Quinns Effectβ’οΈ
18.02.2026 11:05 β π 29 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
Join us tonight on the Cypher Unlimited Twitch stream at 7:30 PM EST. Tonight we discuss the data sphere deck tool, and the Amber Archive Numenera Backer kit. Stop by and join the discussion. www.twitch.tv/cypherunlimi... @montecookgames.com
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Happiest Lunar New Year to all who celebrate!
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This video is useful for creators planning their first crowdfunding campaign.
Please don't take this to be "you first timers suck - don't even try it". It's more like things that potential backers might be looking at in your campaign. From @bobworldbuilder.bsky.social
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Human Cleric drawing by Tara Quinn https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/494686/science-fiction-stock-art-illustrations-by-tara-quinn
Today we talk about how in a #TTRPG session players and the GM can look at the same situation completely differently. Check it out and let us know if you've had this happen.
shadomain.com/campai...
Screenshot from a YouTube video of Rev. Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street https://youtu.be/iTB1h18bHlY?si=h5xxwiRKQp7ZKRtv
RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson
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Resistance is complicated. It forces you to ask hard questions of yourself. How much you are willing to work with people who don't align with your beliefs. How much alignment is enough. Where are your limits. Can you respect others will have different limits.
I loved exploring these ideas in this AP
Valentine featuring Musk saluting and βBe Meinβ
reader, I snorted
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Blades '68 TTRPG logo image
Today we look at new Backerkit campaigns from @EvilHatOfficial for Blades '68 , The Orshin Incident from @dmtales and @grimwoodgames.com , Food & Evil from @goosepoopgames, and Mystery Snacks from @TTRPGkids.com .
Check it out here
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I don't know who keeps doing this but you have to stop I'm begging you
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TotalCon banner image, https://www.totalcon.com/
We'll be at TotalCon (www.totalcon.com/) in Marlborough, MA on Saturday, Feb. 21.
The game of Six-Gun Doomsday I'm running is full, but if you'll be there and want to meet up, do a mini-interview or just say hi, please let us know, here or at shadomainrpg@gmail.com
Blades '68 TTRPG logo image
Today we look at new Backerkit campaigns from @EvilHatOfficial for Blades '68 , The Orshin Incident from @dmtales and @grimwoodgames.com , Food & Evil from @goosepoopgames, and Mystery Snacks from @TTRPGkids.com .
Check it out here
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Youβve got about 24 hours left to get the free deluxe d20. This is a Rockinβ campaign for a Rockinβ, game, so why not check it out NOW and maybe pick up this cool bonus?
11.02.2026 18:23 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Hurry! For the first 48 hours of the Numenera: The Amber Archive crowdfunding campaign, you can get this gorgeous exclusive d20 FREE with any pledge!
LAST DAY! Don't miss out, back now --> mymcg.info/numenera
The online line βBad Bunny is more American than the First Ladyβ isnβt literally about legal status - although he is American by law and by culture - itβs about engagement with American issues, identity, and culture.
Americanness is lived.
seems a little Maryanne/Ginger.
Who somehow also had good cake, without a proper oven on the island,
wolf pupy comic panel 1: a wolf pupy is howling at the moon panel 2: the sun is in the sky now, alone panel 3: wolf pupy says "nobody howls at the sun because it sucks"
moon #moon
04.10.2025 07:20 β π 925 π 233 π¬ 5 π 6y'all probably know how much I <3 the Gauntlet, and the Bad Spot. So DO IT!
11.02.2026 03:02 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Assassins & Monks: 2 of D&D's most controversial classes.
Do they even belong in the game?
My latest video discusses their history, including when they were removed, revised, and restored.
π₯Why the Monk and Assassin Never Quite Fit D&D: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnFB...
#dnd #dndhistory
It can't be bigger than Watergate because in 1972 the 2 major parties were allowed to agree on something, so many GOP congresspeople realized Nixon was wrong. We will never have agreement on any scandal again
10.02.2026 22:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Back in the 1980s, you could afford to own a lonely heart, and now most of us can barely manage to rent one. With roommates.
10.02.2026 19:04 β π 399 π 53 π¬ 24 π 4i'm still not used to the .COM addons , even though we did it ourselves. Oh well
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Numenera advertisement https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/monte-cook-games/numenera
and the NUMENERA update from @montecookgames is live on Backerkit!
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it's live y'all!
10.02.2026 16:14 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0missed the right tags, @evilhat.bsky.social , @ttrpgkids.com , @goosepoopgames.com .
I'll correct in the future
