Monique Franzsen

Thank you for the heady WoW nostalgia vibes (former player). Your shots are so beautiful.

A wooden chest with eyes and teeth

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Hi I'm Frankie, a smol gremlin who makes and sells tabletop themed trinkets and treasures at tabletoptinkering.com, like this handmade mimic!

Post your promos and remember that uplifting others is the best way to build your community 💜

No AI thanks

#smallbusiness #ttrpg

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Applications are open for our Mentoring Programme.
If you're aged 16-18, live in London, Greater Manchester or Merseyside & have creative ambitions but don't know how to achieve them, this could be just the opportunity you need!

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Apps close on Mon 29 Sep so be quick!

Support African Translation Project African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3575, 64%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

Spear Maidens* Unite! Have just over a month to bring in $3575.

Want to see this go fast?
- Rally, Visibility
- Big $ donations
- Art Shop micro-donations from bigger name creators

We can!

@authorizedmusings.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @vriccithode.bsky.social

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

Hi #TTRPG #OSR #DnD friends - I am looking for cartography/illustration work in September/October! If you're looking for maps for your adventure module, or for your home game, send me an email at matthews.rj@gmail.com!

My rates are available on my website which can be found in my bio!

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

a graphic for DNGN CLUB'S emergency moving sale / 14 pdfs for 14 bucks / dngnclub.itch.io

Landlord is selling our house with no warning and we have to be out by the end of the month. Making the best of a stressful situation - Shares and reposts appreciated!

If you haven't played Promise Mascot Agency yet, what are you waiting for? It's a business sim/collectathon/fever dream about an ex-Yakuza trying to find redemption by revitalizing a forgotten community. Heartwarming stuff.

If you HAVE played it, ignore the fact that I have 0 jobs in progress.

Don't Bring Me Trolley Problems, Bring Me Trolley Solutions The Trolley Solution is a fantastic collection of silly dilemmas and game genre spoofs

I've written about the absolutely brilliant The Trolley Solution by @bydandans.bsky.social. It's so funny, and packed with incredible genre spoofs. A real find.

kotaku.com/the-trolley-...

Crowdfunding kayfabe is dead Troika! publisher Melsonia retires its Kickstarter-green trunks and exits the ring.

Disillusioned with major crowdfunding platforms, @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io joins a small but growing bloc of tabletop creators trying literally anything else.

“Everyone on crowdfunding, on both sides, are agreeing to maintain a weird kayfabe of cute creatives and benevolent patrons."

Thanks to Grace Sanders for interviewing me for Nottingham's legendary culture mag, @leftlion.bsky.social. Had great fun discussing #THIRST, Japanese spider-ladies, British river hags, writing for teens, and much more.
leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

One of my favorite things to consider is that the pigeons we see in cities are abandoned information infrastructure

My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

DIY Crowdfunding TL;DR we're hosting our own crowdfunding campaigns here and also here NOW. Down with the old order, long live the new flesh. Melsonia has been in operation for over ten years now, and we've made a ton...

Blogpost on "Why Melsonia Is Too Good for Crowdfunding Platforms Any More"

www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/d...

Text mounted on a screen reads as follows: WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION? 1. DOESN'T MATTER 2. WHO CARES 3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM 4. NOT YOURS

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Inspired by someone on reddit, this is what I'm calling the "#daggerheart Moh Scale of GM Moves".

Note that spotlighting an adversary (the Daggerheart equivalent of taking an NPC action) is only the fourth hardest move you can make.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

A comic cover for a comic named Revenants by Tim Jardim. It is labeled Book Two: Operation. It shows a Belgian malinois anthro character looking into a broken mirror, which looks like it has been shot directly in the eye. In the area where the glass has fallen away, a dog skull is revealed, with a bullet-sized "hole" of light where the eye should be. He is making eye contact with the viewer, looking haunted. There is a green mottled background. The art was made using watercolour, ink and gouache.

My hand holding up a watercolour painting. It shows a Belgian malinois anthro character looking into a broken mirror, which looks like it has been shot directly in the eye. In the area where the glass has fallen away, a dog skull is revealed, with a bullet-sized "hole" of light where the eye should be. He is making eye contact with the viewer, looking haunted. There is a green mottled background. The art was made using watercolour, ink and gouache.

My workspace with watercolour palettes filled with browns, greens, umbers, greys, black and white. Tubes of paint are scattered around and the painting is partially visible next to it.

My workspace with watercolour palettes filled with browns, greens, umbers, greys, black and white. Tubes of paint are scattered around and the painting is visible in the middle on top of my desk mat. There is clutter like empty coffee cup, water jar, speakers, and art supplies.

I can finally share this cover I painted for @timmehjimmeh.bsky.social for the second volume of his webcomic, "Revenants"! Go find him in the dealers den at #SAFC2025 #SouthAfriFur! Watercolour, ink and salt. Glass cracks enhanced digitally by @thebeardlyben.art ✨

Gaza: Food, Water, and Cash Aid Reviving Gaza | Mutual AidReviving Gaza is a mutual aid initiative, focused on providing for the immediate and basic needs of people in Gaza.

Mutual aid project in Gaza: Food, Water, and Cash Aid.

I love information games too! I really enjoyed your piece and I'll be following you to learn more about your research.

Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

The Edinburgh connection to London's tax-evading gift shops Plus: A chat with the Transport for London boss running the tube strike negotiations — and how the "hardworking businessman" putting up flags in south London tried to scam an insurer.

Here's something a bit different. We've been reporting from Edinburgh to try to get to the bottom of a mystery in London. Princes Street is the Scottish capital's most famous shopping street — and it's gaining the *exact same* tatty gift shops as London. www.londoncentric.media/p/edinburgh-...

Petition Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content Government should legislate that payment processing companies may not place stipulations on use of their services regarding sales of otherwise legal content and, if they do so, must face legal penalties and must remunerate platforms and individuals for lost income until service is restored. • More details Sign this petition 231 signatures Show on a map 10,000

U.K. residents, could this be your chance to stop paypro censorship in the country? Please sign this petition

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This campaign frame is a meta, digital, love letter to old mmos and made me weirdly nostalgic for the years that I used to play WoW. I love the idea of taking the digital isekai and exploring it in ttrpg format. More of this, please! #daggerheart #ttrpg

Gender of Game Designers: Board Game Geek Top 500, January 2025 A pie chart: 92% of the pie is Designed only by men. They made 461 of the top 500 games. 6% of the pie is Designed by a mixed-gender group. They made 28 of the top 500 games. 1% of the pie is Designed only by women or non-binary people. They made 5 of the top 500 games. Data are for January 1, 2025, using the names in the Designer field on BGG. Not shown are 6 games in the top 500 that have uncredited designers.

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6)
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Google Calendar entry that says "For Gregg." Friday, September 12 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM. "Do you have a minute to chat about Gregg Pendleton?"

You are conducting a performance review of Gregg Pendleton, your direct report. The other party is the GenAI-powered software trying to replace you. Also, Gregg died last week.

If you got 5 minutes, I'd love for you to play my free twine game about grief: For Gregg.

barilleon.itch.io/for-gregg

A copy of Asher's Ridge sits among photos and a map. Letter tiles spell out "Back it now on Kickstarter"

Now LIVE on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

Asher's Ridge is a GM-less, zero-prep #TTRPG for one to four players, inspired by Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Stranger Things.

Connect threads of letter tiles and experience the unexplainable in the (dark?) heart of the Lake District.

Cover of THE OBSIDIAN TOWER, which features an obsidian-looking rambling castle with some artistic crystal stuff going on under it that appears to be crumbling at the edges

UK readers! THE OBSIDIAN TOWER Kindle edition is on sale this month for 99p!

It's about a Warden with broken magic, her spooky castle, the awful night that changes her life, and the dashing international magic troubleshooting squad that saves it...

www.amazon.co.uk/Obsidian-Tow...

I'm going to be taking a step back from the editorial side of Rascal.

With everything going on in the US right now, I found that I simply couldn't write about games any more. And that breaks my heart.

I love this hobby, but I need to shift my energy towards helping my local community.