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Managed by Lowell Francis aka edige23 designer for Hearts of Wulin. An online ttrpg community focused on indie rpgs, storygames & other ttrpgs-- with a commitment to safety and inclusivity. openhearthgaming.com
Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/
We've hit all our stretch goals for our TTRPG anthology!! 20 new one shot incursions for Trophy! We're not going to be printing a lot of extra books so be sure to get in on it now or you'll be sad later! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...
Also just for reference,
Ive written for TTRPGs.
Was a part of long-form AP that lasted 5yrs.
Make a fantasy world-building podcast thats been runnin for 10 years.
I AINT NEW 👴
I assume Jiangshi's already been mentioned. Uranium Chef for Fate is a Worlds of Adventure cooking competition. Also Bury Mary: The Great Lich's Bake Off.
Sword Opera is the Deal of the Day!
Get your high powered, high feelings #TTRPG of melodramatic action for TEN BUCKS!
For fans of The Three Musketeers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and John Wick. Play as high powered paragons who balance their ambition and loyalty in dangerous Underworlds.
Talking Long Campaigns
In this community talk we're going to talk about "long" campaign best practices, planning, dealing with burnout, and more. Lowell has ideas and he'll be leading this discussion group– This is part of our Open Hearth series of community RPG talks.
#ttrpg
an online friend asked me to spread the word for this survey for readers of Chinese wuxia fiction in English. #wuxia #cdrama #chineselit
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Yesterday, the KIDS Act has Passed the E&C, and soon will be pushing into the house! This is a combination of KOSA, SCREEN Act, App Store Accountability Act, and other bills into one package.
Contact your Reps, and tell them to OPPOSE these bills! Stay strong, and fight for your rights and privacy!
I've been saying for a while, Wuxia's going to be a rising wave. Oh look, we've got about half a dozen shows coming soon. To brush up your Xia sense, here's some handy articles. In this one, I look at how the genre relates to similar ones in Western fantasy. 1/ #sff snowpavilion.co.uk/condor-heroes/
Know the basics of writing a story, but want to refine your techniques and level up your writing? Please check out my Advanced Short Story class - www.catrambo.com/classes/adva...
Doubtless there are some who will be delighted that I have continued down my 'TTRPGs and Cold War masculinity' rabbit hole in the short article I'll be submitting for the @historygamesnet.bsky.social 'Analogue' theme.
This week on Dice Exploder I've got @olddog.games on talking Blades '68, Dungeon World, and "draw maps leave blanks". How much should you define about your game in advance - as a player, as a GM, as a designer? Tim's smart!
Really eating up this first episode of Realis. It’s especially helpful hearing Austin breakdown what he thinks is interesting about his system and hearing his excitement.
Now the whole things makes me want to make a Realis hack but instead of moons it’s islands/continents and it’s a pirate game 🤔
A Different Kind of Hex Ep. 7 - Showing & Telling
Ian, José, and special guest Shane explore the space between direct exposition and embodied demonstration during play. What are their best use cases? And how can they, when used well, support each other, the player & the entire table?
#ttrpg
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:
you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.
It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer.
In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)
If you were OK with “Substack, the Nazi Bar,” maybe “Substack, a front for the gambling on life and death casino” might convince you.
An interesting corner of the Cthulhu Mythos universe is... Cthulhupunk! There are way more of these RPGs than you think, and Bobby Derie @deepcuts.blog covers them all in Bayt al Azif issue 6!
More of Bobby's writing
Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
deepcuts.blog
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Bayt al Azif has been interested in publishing some of my Cthulhu-related history, but it's part of a general trend also including articles like this and on the history of Call of Cthulhu in Sweden.
(There's of course plenty of material directly applicable for your games, but I love this stuff!)
At the bottom of the Substack settings page, under "Danger Zone," you can turn off all subscriptions at once.
Apologies to all my friends on Substack. I'd gritted my teeth and supported you because I love your work. But Substack's partnership with Polymarket is the last straw for me.
The Power Fantasy No. 16 makes a case for already being the best series of 2026
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It's wild that the M&M 4E Kickstarter is nearing $250K instead of, like, $2M. It's a titan of the genre, up there with MSH and Champions. People should be throwing money at a new edition! Lucky for you, it's not over yet.
BEASTS is live!
BEASTS is a Powered-By-The-Apocalypse Tabletop RPG about teenagers with the power to transform into animals fighting a secret war against secret invaders.
Come back the project and help make it a reality! Share this post and spread the word!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lat...
Another great piece of crit from way back in the day, Evan Narcisse was one of the first, the most insightful people to call out Detroit: Become Human for its appropriation of the imagery of the Black civil rights movement, while making vile use of Blackness to stand in for the monstrous.
At the @balibrary.bsky.social BALibrary Fandom Fest! 10am-3pm Free library comic con: art, cosplay, crafts classes, Maker Lab, photo ops & more! balibrary.org/fandom
"If a new version of it is posted, I only insist that I be described as the 'six-foot-two, blue-eyed, multi-lingual, Pulitzer-winning author and champion rower Mark Oppenheimer.'"
We hit goal! So excited!
We need another $2k to reach our first stretch goal, fancier binding for the books!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pet...
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