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A schedule for a bookclub: Week One "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin 9 pages Available in The Wind's Twelve Quarters. "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin 20 pages Available in The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

A schedule for a bookclub: Week Two "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" by N. K. Jemisin 22 pages Available in How Long 'Til Black Future Month? "The Ones Who Don't Walk Away" by Sean Vivier 5 pages Available on an archived version of Vivier's website. “The Ones Who Take The Train To Omelas,” by John Holbo 4 pages Available on Holbo's website.

A schedule for a bookclub: Week Three "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim 8 pages Available on Clarkesworld Magazine's website. “The Ones Who Come Back to Heal,” by Cynthia Gómez 10 pages Available on Strange World's website. "The Ones Who Know Where They Are Going" by Sarah Pinsker 6 pages I'm having difficulty finding this one online or in any print collection.

A schedule for a bookclub: Week Four "A House by the Sea" by P. H. Lee 14 pages Available on Uncanny Magazine's website. “The Odyssey Problem,” by Chris Willrich 24 pages Available on Clarkesworld Magazine's website.

1/3 Starting a bookclub in the TTRPG development server for Starship Odyssey.
Including works by Ursula K. Le Guin, @nkjemisin.bsky.social, Sean Vivier, @jholbo.bsky.social, @isabel.kim, @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social, @sarahpinsker.bsky.social, @p-h-lee.bsky.social, and @librariangoblin.bsky.social.

Oh, very cool, thank you! Love your work.

3/3 And if you want to join a great Discord server developing a #solarpunk #scienceFantasy TTRPG based on #PbtA mechanics, let me know!

2/3 Any others you recommend that are in direct conversation with Le Guin's "Omelas"?

A schedule for a bookclub: Week One "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin 9 pages Available in The Wind's Twelve Quarters. "The Day Before the Revolution" by Ursula K. Le Guin 20 pages Available in The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

A schedule for a bookclub: Week Two "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" by N. K. Jemisin 22 pages Available in How Long 'Til Black Future Month? "The Ones Who Don't Walk Away" by Sean Vivier 5 pages Available on an archived version of Vivier's website. “The Ones Who Take The Train To Omelas,” by John Holbo 4 pages Available on Holbo's website.

A schedule for a bookclub: Week Three "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim 8 pages Available on Clarkesworld Magazine's website. “The Ones Who Come Back to Heal,” by Cynthia Gómez 10 pages Available on Strange World's website. "The Ones Who Know Where They Are Going" by Sarah Pinsker 6 pages I'm having difficulty finding this one online or in any print collection.

A schedule for a bookclub: Week Four "A House by the Sea" by P. H. Lee 14 pages Available on Uncanny Magazine's website. “The Odyssey Problem,” by Chris Willrich 24 pages Available on Clarkesworld Magazine's website.

1/3 Starting a bookclub in the TTRPG development server for Starship Odyssey.
Including works by Ursula K. Le Guin, @nkjemisin.bsky.social, Sean Vivier, @jholbo.bsky.social, @isabel.kim, @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social, @sarahpinsker.bsky.social, @p-h-lee.bsky.social, and @librariangoblin.bsky.social.

GM Tip: If you want tension, give the players more things to do than they can possibly handle. This way they have to pick and prioritise. Show that the clock is always ticking and the world won't just stop to wait while they resolve their current plot hook.
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Woah, that's super cool! Congrats!

Easy way to improve your TTRPG story line: Add more weird little guys.

Don't know what the merchant should be like? Weird little guy. Can't think of how to deliver a hook? Weird little guy shows up. Party in danger? Surprise, weird little guy to the rescue.

Weird little guys are story line glue.

You know that saying "No matter how slow you're going, you're lapping everyone on the couch"?

That's basically blogging and game design. If you're like, putting words on paper? You're lapping everyone who just has the ideas.

Yes! I'll DM you.

If there are no resources about this, I will go and do, then write the resources myself, hahah.

Anyone have any experience collaborating on TTRPG design using Git and GitHub? Starting to do so now! I'd love to learn from you.

A kanban board tracking the project management of the Starship Odyssey TTRPG. Tasks are related to the website, graphic design, and architecture of the ship. It also tracks the pre-alpha tasks, showing the the stats are done, and the basic moves & GM guidelines are both in progress.

The current state of the Starship Odyssey TTRPG!

Pre-order Mappa Mundi - An Exploration + Ecology RPG on BackerKit Leave your sword at home, Chronicler! A sharp mind and a curious spirit are the only weapons you'll need!

Mappa Mundi - An Exploration + Ecology RPG is available to pre-order!

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, funding over £75,000, we're happy to make Mappa Mundi available to pre-order.

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Oh, one of the books I _actually_ wrote is all about vehicles in 5e and A5e. I haven't gotten round to detailing the Creative Commons release or getting it out in Braille, but you know, time and spoons and all that. (affiliate link)

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The Cunning Folk TTRPG A game of Mischief, Magick, and Revenge.

Do you like causing a little mischief? Getting into a touch of shenanigans? Perhaps just a bit of hijinks as a treat?

Don’t lie. You do.

Channel that inner fae trickster by backing #TheCunningFolk, a #TTRPG that is whimsy made manifest by the entirely horrible @emilygreymoore.bsky.social

A promotional image for the TTRPG Starship Odyssey. It features this text in front of a view of space: Starship Odyssey Embark aboard the *Starship Odyssey*, a gleaming, near-utopic starship-city serving as humanity's gleaming yet unexpected final ark. Within its sectors, you'll explore a vibrant solarpunk community rich in interspecies art, high-stakes diplomacy, and cosmic discovery. The diverse communities await your influence to tip the scales as tensions rise towards conflict. *Powered by the Apocalypse*-based mechanics encourage narrative choices and invite players to become magiartists, technomancers, and galactic ascetics. As members of a new cohort aboard the ship, you’ll uncover a tangled web of politics and celestial mysteries. Discover a personal identity on the *Odyssey*. Forge friendships across boundaries. Navigate faction alliances. Shape the future of humanity in ways only you can, as every decision echoes through the cosmos and determines the fate of all aboard.

I've started a discord server for folks who want to be involved with Starship Odyssey. Artists, graphic designers, creative writers, playtesters, and more! Please DM me for an invite!

First meeting went incredibly well!

I'm meeting with two people from the solarpunk server today to discuss Starship Odyssey, and I should be able to make good progress on basic moves and playbooks too!

Healing from my surgery is going well.

One of the coolest things you can do right now is commission a real artist.

People act like chronic illness is a vacation, where you get to stay in bed & have your needs met by others

The truth is it’s a constant battle. Against your body, against ableism, against poverty & against a medical system that doesn’t know how to help you

There’s no break. It’s a 24/7 job

All art is fanart
All canon is headcanon
All text is hypertext

Role-playing games are scavenger media, in which available materials -- whatever's at hand: stuff you've read, stuff you've experienced, stuff you're anxious about, stuff you wish would happen -- are then transformed into an emergent narrative via active engagement by one or more players.

Don't worry, we all have cravings sometimes.

When you’re chronically ill, your baseline is everything.

The non disabled can’t possibly fathom the amount of time & energy that goes into maintaining what’s left of our health.

It takes ages to make the tiniest gains, and only split seconds to lose them.

Be kind. Respect our boundaries.

Wrt the “cozy fantasy discourse”: imo, as with all media, I Like to be able to notice where/how works engage with politic (cuz they all do, even in “Not” engaging) but also we gotta temper that with the nuance of “if you never let your brain Just Vibe at all you might burn out on theory alone”

Update 1: Free5e is bigger than you may realize · Free5e: A Free Open-Source Dungeons and Dragons Alternative I learned to play D&D in 1982 during the Satanic Panic. We first played during Boy Scout camp and were hooked. But we couldn’t afford the books, so we just used d6s pulled from a Monopoly box,…

Here's the power of #Free5e. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyr... #TTRPG #DnD

"It’s easy to forget that we are the culture. That our voluntary acts—where we shop, what we buy, what we read and watch, what we celebrate and share, how we build communities of care—that those things are what define the culture."

I'm starting to believe that in order to fix society, we should fix popular culture. Escapism cannot offer the right space for unwinding and intellectual stimuli when it's designed by corporations