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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium

@epidiah.bsky.social

Author & tabletop role-playing game designer, perhaps known for Dread, Swords Without Master, Vast & Starlit, or Wolfspell. (he/him) https://unwrittenearths.com https://dig1000holes.com πŸ’€πŸͺ

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That moment before every episode where we have to stop chatting because we're wasting good material on just us.

09.10.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Recording another @unwrittenearths.bsky.social with @ndpdesign.com today and kind of excited about it despite having no planned topics!

09.10.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
A fantastical landscape snippet on a grey background, showing a magenta desert ecosystem with oversized fungal growths and impossibly steep hills; the ground splits and fractures like slate or ice sheets. The text label reads " ARID - scaled fungi - bacterial mounds - spiny land jellyfish"

A fantastical landscape snippet on a grey background, showing a magenta desert ecosystem with oversized fungal growths and impossibly steep hills; the ground splits and fractures like slate or ice sheets. The text label reads " ARID - scaled fungi - bacterial mounds - spiny land jellyfish"

I painted this as one of three alien environments developed for Pillar of Fire; we focused heavily on using transformed scale to create an alien feel, while also being playful with colour and shape to keep things whimsical and enticing despite the strangeness.

09.10.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m introducing a law today to keep ICE off Rikers. We must protect New Yorkers from modern-day storm troopers.

09.10.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

17.09.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2948    πŸ” 1145    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 155

a great place to learn more about the game in art directing this fall, AND to hear two game designers I admire say very kind things about me, heck!

09.10.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
09.10.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 14334    πŸ” 4022    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 54
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Pathfinder Quest is fun, quick to learn, and you can play too!

@goodtimesociety.com

buff.ly/GzXrqIn

07.10.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

got another five pages thumbnailed of my comic Wizard Puberty, and really feeling a lot of affection for this sleepy muppet of a wizard and all their hardships and tribulations πŸ§™πŸͺ„πŸ˜΄

08.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, I get to answer β€œwhat does a metroidvania character do when they leave the screen for the squared circle!”

09.10.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It turns out people who are hospitalized, incarcerated or dead can't "vote harder" for you.

Defund was the conciliatory step folks offered you, and you decided to hyperfund them. Hyperfunded the people who literally push the rhetoric of the people who tried to have you killed.

Ok.

08.10.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

08.10.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 808    πŸ” 287    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 3
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I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

08.10.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3531    πŸ” 966    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 43

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

08.10.2025 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7019    πŸ” 1840    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 14

One of the Trump Administration's most openly fascist moments and CNN edits it out.

Tells you everything you need to know about a news network that has a firm policy against telling you everything you need to know.

08.10.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 596    πŸ” 265    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3
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#WarRavagedPortland

08.10.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 35669    πŸ” 11136    πŸ’¬ 1282    πŸ“Œ 1747

Making symbolic links just to feel something.

08.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I know that we're going to have to explain what a fixup is every time we mention it, but I it's such a good fit.

08.10.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wherein the Unwritten Symposium discusses the past, present, and future of Swords Without Master.

Bonus content: You get to hear me realize we're making an old fashion fixup (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fix-up) in real time

08.10.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Episode Without Master The Season of Swords is upon us! Nathan and Eppy talk about Eppy's sword & sorcery classic Swords Without Master, how it came to be, how it works, and what's next for the game: a full standalone relea...

New ep Wednesday! We talk all about @epidiah.bsky.social's Swords Without Master, our upcoming fixup campaign, and bringing on @portablecity.bsky.social as Art Director!

Listen: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/24
Subscribe: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/subscribe
Support: patreon.com/UnwrittenEar...

08.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧡

07.10.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3956    πŸ” 3543    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 63

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

08.10.2025 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 24639    πŸ” 9350    πŸ’¬ 412    πŸ“Œ 167

This right here is the good vibe you might need for your day. πŸ‘‡πŸΎ

08.10.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watched this show a few years back and had a blast!

07.10.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching videos of people reviewing monitors, trying to convince myself that the vibrant colors, spectacular refresh rate, and beautiful sound on the built-in speakers they are trying to show me are not somehow limited by the old monitor and speakers I'm viewing on.

07.10.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
a screenshot from Mapping Police Violence's database that reads:

Police have killed 1,001 people in the U S so far in 2025

a screenshot from Mapping Police Violence's database that reads: Police have killed 1,001 people in the U S so far in 2025

As of this morning's update (tracking through 9/20), the number of people killed by the police in the United States this year has crossed 1,000.

This number will continue to rise, as it always does, with no meaningful attempts to slow it by either major party.

This is all still happening.

07.10.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 455    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 9

πŸ‘€ πŸ’ͺ πŸ§›

07.10.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wolfspell on a Trifold Album Jacket β€” Worlds Without Master A prophecy told in your youth dictates that only fang and claw will rend your destiny, so you must be reborn as beast. The tabletop roleplaying game of adventurers who turn to wolf flesh to fulfill ...

Looks like old Eppy is going to need a new computer monitor.

In unrelated news, have you heard about Wolfspell? www.worldswithoutmaster.com/bazaar/wolfs... 🐺✨

You know! I bet if I sold five of these puppies, I could easily get that new monitor. πŸ€”

That's an interesting coincidence.

07.10.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

Love that cover!

07.10.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So we really don't like to build our name off of someone else's dipshittery

but five months after this post
(which was not the first SM fuckery)

almost EVERY new sticker client mentions wanting to get away from Sticker Mule

So thanks, I guess, weird Sticker Mule guy.

07.10.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 418    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7

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