Andrea

100% agreed - we are cute as heck here!

Genuinely a great person to comm. Look how cute this is! @acbenning.bsky.social and I have never looked better.

I consider myself very fortunate to have been awarded a grant for my work on Print It Yourself. Hope y’all are ready for the next few issues, we have some big things to cover and I have a little budget to spend on materials now!

Thank you again, Ken. This was a kindness.

oh my fucking god canada please go vote

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

I am now a publisher.
I know there are so many really great third-party MÖRK BORG titles out there that haven't had a printed version done or are obscure for whatever reason. I'd like to print them and make them more available, sell in my web shop, bring to cons etc. More will hopefully come.

Front covers of two zines. Left: Wands & Laserguns, featuring a futuristic neon city. Right: This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl, featuring a large frog with a small crown

Interior of Wands & Laserguns explaining that you play as a high fantasy wizard who has been teleported to a cyberpunk dystopia

Interior of This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl explaining that you have fallen into an arcane temple. A frog is taunting the player character.

New #ttrpg day!

Review copies of two really fun looking solo games from @shoutingcrow.bsky.social and @no-name-games.com

Wands & Laserguns - a fantasy cyberpunk... um... hexemup?

And This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl - which is self explanatory really.

Can we all acknowledge that "eat less, move more" is pretty lackluster advice if you don't first ask about food and exercise habits?
The medical profession needs to do better.

#DietCulture #Medicine

Loving these. Justin has put in the work and his fingerprints are def leaving their mark! Who knew you could fold a piece of paper so many different ways. and the Eraser stamp! 😍

EVERY time. Especially if the lesbian in a dress really likes to twirl...

But more seriously - liquid leading is a thing; just kinda give and take between both partners as you go. It's nice.

if only you had listened to my 'put dressing on it!' at any point in the last decade, hahah

The photo shows two side-by-side images. The left image depicts a group of people in military-style camouflage uniforms raising a Canadian flag on a pole surrounded by rocks, with a helicopter in the background. The right image shows a group of individuals, some in red uniforms and one in a dark coat, standing in front of a Danish flag on a pole, with a frozen landscape and mountains in the background.

From 1973 to 2022, Canada and Denmark were at war.
Over the course of the war, several soldiers on both sides were wounded....by hangovers. And it was all fought over a tiny island the size of a city block.
Let's learn about The Whisky War!

🧵1/16

a telescope with legs and a single large eye where the lens would normally be. Wires dangle from its tripod, sparking.

The scope-creeper would like to know if that project you're working on could maybe needs to be scaled back a bit? Perhaps you could add those extra features as an update or supplemental material? Just sayin'.

A screenshot showing a bundle on Itch named the "HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Bundle", which raised $16,525.

ah nice one lads

If you like thinking about tabletop game design and are looking for inspiration, check out Tumulus. It's a print-only, quarterly from Skeleton Code Machine.

Each issue has a different theme. Subscriptions are 1-year with no pesky auto-renew!

Learn more: tumulus.exeunt.press

A diagram showing how stapled zines are made. First, printed sheets are stacked neatly with the long side of the paper on a horizonal axis. The cover is on top, and the centerfold is on the bottom to ensure that the flat end of the staples is on the outside of the booklet. Then the halfway point is measured: make a vertical line and indicate where the top and bottom of the line hit the edges of the page. Then measure two inches from the edge of the top and bottom and mark the spaces on that line. Some special gear makes this process easier: a long-arm, swivel-arm, or booklet stapler are designed to reach the center of letter or A5 paper simple. Staple the page on those two inner markings. Flip the booklet over, then fold the book in half on the center line. Put a crisp crease on the spine. A bone folder makes that a little easier. If you have scruffy looking pages that aren't line up nicely, you can trim the edges carefully with a ruler and a craft knife. A paper guillotine or rotary cutter also work well for this final step.

Develop your drawing skills. You don't have to do it well to make it worth your time, even.
Roast a friend? Draw them looking silly.
Psychic obsession got your ass? Relieve the pressure with visual manifestations.
Explain a concept? Make a diagram.

Here's how stapled zines are made, for example.

Finally managed to pay off my student loans (class of 2008). Somebody clap - I got it done before I turned 40!

#StudentLoans #GoalAchieved

Cryptobiosis: A Mothership Module by GomezWritesGames A terrifying module for Mothership® 1E

Speaking of "my favourite adventures released this year", have y'all seen this MOTHERSHIP adventure by @gomezwrites.bsky.social? I'm deeply jealous of the layout, and I love the horrible choice presented to the players mid-game. Awful. Wonderful. Love it.

gomezwritesgames.itch.io/cryptobiosis

Whoops, guess I annoyed someone on Twitter because my boring little shouting account has been hacked and I can't recover it (they set up two factor authentication with a code app, so I'm hosed I guess...) heck.
#hacked #TwitterSucks

Authors Against Book Bans Our Mission Statement We are Authors Against Book Bans. We, a coalition of writers, illustrators, anthology editors and contributors, and other book creators, stand united against the deeply unconstit...

Btw Authors Against Book Bans ( @authorsabb.bsky.social ) might seem kid lit driven bc so many challenges are happening in schools, but I think every author should consider joining. Book bans are bad for everyone.

www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

Make Your Own Bad Moon Submission by Shouting Crow A design guide and collection of resources for physical game designers

I decided to publish a free game design resource guide yesterday. You know, the least advisable day of the year to release anything.

It’s got SRDs, art, design tips, a very short tutorial, and more tables than anyone should put in a 24 page document.

Enjoy?

shoutingcrow.itch.io/bad-moon-guide

Monthly Mega Dungeon Maker by Shouting Crow A journal for daily megadungeon projects

Are you planning to do a daily dungeon type project this year? I made a free, printable journal for that in 2022. No spark tables, no fluff, just room to write and draw.

I like to print them out and staple them into four-week zines and fill one out a month.

shoutingcrow.itch.io/monthly-mega...

Forever Open Source 2024 A game jam from 2024-01-01 to 2025-01-01 hosted by Rev Casey. Celebrate Open Gaming! Welcome to the second yearly Forever Open Source Jam! Take a moment to review all the fantastic entries from the 20...

Just wanted to tip my hat to @thoughtpunks.com for hosting the Forever Open Source jam. (2023 AND 2024, fingers crossed for 2025!) The submissions and jam overview page are both treasure troves of useful resources and has been a guiding light for my own resource guide.

itch.io/jam/forever-...

HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. Distribute Aid Logo Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.

@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.

Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

A mostly dead red poinsettia in a gold foil wrapper. Not looking festive for the holidays.

Not sure the poinsettia likes the office....but there are new leaf buds starting in all the nodes, so maybe salvageable.

#plants #poinsettia

Three pothos cuttings suspended in glass globes and decorated for the holidays

Five Silver Satin pothos cuttings in glass test tubes, decorated for the holidays.

Office plant update: we're festive! Roots coming along nicely, and new growth on the Silver Satins

#plants #pothos #SilverSatin #MarbleQueen #GlobalGreen

Mentions by someone with a big following are awesome, but don't underestimate the impact anyone can have by sharing a thing they love. Whatever modicum of success Ironsworn has had, I can trace back to a very kind Reddit post in 2018. My web visits went from ~10/day to hundreds and thousands.

Tyrian Vale is an incredible little adventure that will delight the Arthurian enthusiast in you.
Also, Katt is very precious to me.