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So the Jennell Jaquays article made it to the finals. If you want to vote for it to win the critique award I would be very happy! Voting form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Running it Back: The Case for Replaying Modules Part 1: Why You Haven’t Yet What’s your favourite movie? Your favourite musical album? Imagine them both in your mind. Now, how many times have you wat...

"Okay, so, some of you are gonna say it, and in discussing this with friends some of you have already said it: 'Oh, so are we just gonna let the players read the dungeon first, now?'

I don’t know. Maybe?"

Running it Back: The Case For Replaying Modules.

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Hooooly shit

has anyone made a manga adaptation of das kapital yet, asking for a friend

To my Caribbean folks: are there people in your extended family/family friends whose real names you don’t know?

This means you too PW

Nooo vote for mine instead!!

The Bloggies 2026 A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

Round 1 of Bloggies voting ends soon! I got an article in critique about Jennell Jaquays if anyone wants to vote for it.

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METAL GEAR SOLID 2 full game map, everything to scale including Arsenal Gear underneath! 🗺️ www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...

As I always say, one of the best accounts you can follow on social media

YouTube video by VGCartography DEMON'S SOULS Illustrated Map Walkthrough

DEMON'S SOULS map breakdown video is finally done, check it out! some samples below 🗺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_hq...

remembering the time @enginqueer.bsky.social got mad at me for saying the “caRIBbean” is a real place where people live but the “caribBEAN” is a fantasy imagination land with pirates n shit

Holy shit this is exactly right

Wrote a bit about making a dungeon book and how I'm starting to view dungeon crawls as a conversation between the dungeon and the players. And what that kind of storytelling means.

www.failuretolerated.com/talking-to-t...

So many cool games where our expectations unfortunately had to be set by pricing. I still think Friday the 13th on NES was a really cool game, but I can’t imagine anyone was happy about paying 70 USD for it when it came out.

This was a no brainer for me. Stella is extremely talented and a kind person.

Von Hynd Manor A gothic horror zine of noble predation

My zine month zine is officially funded! Woo! Thank you to all the 37 backers who made this possible! I'm looking forward to seeing how far this goes. www.kickstarter.com/projects/von...

The Sierra Express An Adventure for Knights of the Road or other OSR-ish modern-ish game systems

www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Ok I did a kickstarter after all. Just a very small one.

from 30 D&D dollars (revisions not included): February non-dairy Legendary, Honour almond milks. Will do: titles mockups, flyers, potions, other simple stuff. Heavily modified image of chris pine in the honor among thieves poster.

Emergency graphic design commissions: help me buy almond potions and you get some whatever.
-30 usd for small stuff such as flyers, titles, etc. NO revisions.
-I reserve the right to choose and reply, because i'm not great at being a human person.
-DMs/Email in bio.

I think often how they get rewards for doing the same thing Black folks get disqualified for.

YouTube video by Dos Goats Films Suffer Official Trailer

Finally got round to watching Suffer this evening - it was good! An honest to god sword-and-sorcery film with strong feminist overtones. Really striking visuals too. Clearly straining hard against its limited budget, but in a way that felt endearing rather than shonky.

no it's not. but there's definitely a lot of privilege in taking the position that your desire to be praised and loved for "art" you didn't create at the very moment you choose is more important than communities having clean water and accessible electricity.

Mad respect for Mothership being less than 2 weeks old and already bringing such fresh new voices and perspectives into the conversation. Happy to support more of this!

I need to think more on the difference between enjoying something 'bad' through the lens of hipsterish ironic detachment, and enjoyment of the same via a kind of gleeful sincerity that doesn't care for prior appraisals.

I am neither Haitian nor an American immigrant so I can’t speak to this further, but one of the many tiny flourishes that make me adore Wonder Man is that ‘Pacoima’ implies one of the reasons Simon feels alienated from his family is because he can’t speak (but still understands) Haitian Creole.

That puzzle from Monkey Island 1 where you have to make the navigation recipe to get to MI but you don’t have any of the listed ingredients is so ripe for use in TTRPGs. Technically this is a big part of Unknown Armies already

E.g. as a black or brown person in the US, the set of tools and opportunities that will present themselves is going to be limited in breadth. At some point if you want to do something no one else around you does, you may have to do something that will feel like forcing it. That’s ok and necessary.

I see a lot advice and video essays where people say to not try or have dreams, to use what tools are in front of you, and the basic idea behind this isn’t bad: you might get further not forcing yourself into a single concept of success. But I think this advice doesn’t quite work for minorities.

ICYMI, the latest Missive went out yesterday!

鬼は外！福は内！