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we're playing reverse pictionary taboo with a crowd sourced list of artworks and banned terms come hang

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Two adventurers with swords walk through a marsh towards a landscape full of green fields. In the distance there is a massive sword/spaceship embedded into a mountain.

Cover illustration for COSMIC CENTURY KNIGHTS, a ttrpg by James D’Amato and Drew Mierzejewski! Shout out to Tyler from @possibleworlds.bsky.social for being so great to work with on this!

'5 Act Play' inside of a triangle. there is a red curtain in the upper right

5 Act Play is a solo roleplaying game where the player creates a 5 Act Shakespearean play based around drawing cards and using prompts to create drama! #SoloTTRPG

Find it here: https://k-ramstack.itch.io/5-act-play

The I'm Unemployed Sale Sale by From Dust to Dice A bundle by From Dust to Dice, $35.00 for 7 games

psst
actual post sometime this week, but
itch.io/s/155473/the...

Donate to The Trevor Project The Trevor Project https://give.thetrevorproject.org/campaign/692681/donate

Just gave to the @trevorproject.bsky.social again. A note on their site:

"Until 11:59 PM PT, Sunday, June 22, 2025, The Trevor Project’s Board of Directors will match all online gifts up to $100,000, 3:1."

so many cool games in here, including Serious Reading, supporting good orgs!

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

hi again, cis folks!

the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11.

context & guidance in the thread below. it doesn’t have to be hard; you can do it waiting for coffee.

13 days left, as of this post. please comment.

I just released the Museum of All Things version 1.0!!! You can find it at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...

From lo-fi mechs to little witches, and "ancient horrors beyond imagining", here are six up-and-coming Solo TRPGs to play in 2025 Grab a pen and get into some thought-provoking journaling games while you wait for summer.

Very excited about the very kind review/recommendation in this piece! Thanks so much! Want to check out the rest of these too :)

Also, money received through the app is witheld from the creator for 75 DAYS. So not only are you as a member being charged extra, the creator has to wait 2.5 months to get it. It's bad for everyone. Sub through the mobile site or desktop!

These authors have done the Lord's work in synthesising multidisciplinary meta-analyses of individual & structural determinants of behaviour. What a fantastic overview. Hats off!

Focus on removing social & structural barriers rather than targeting knowledge & beliefs! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

University of Cincinnati Protests Lead to "Biological" Bathroom Signs Reversal “Deny, delay, fight back.”

1. Major news: Remember those "Biological men"/"Biological Women" signs at University of Cincinnati?

They have come down thanks to MASSIVE student protests at the college, which have continued.

The latest from S. Baum.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/university...

truly incredible

Folks, I am thrilled to announce that @worldstoforge.bsky.social and I are teaming up with @possibleworlds.bsky.social to bring Cosmic Century Knights to life!

We're joining an incredible roster of talent that represents some amazing growth for a wonderful publisher.

The very talented Sydney Padua made pictures based on the jobs Victorian woman had according to the 1881 census, reminding us they didn't all just stayed at home cooking and looking after the kids.
This should be a book.

sydneypadua.com

Quick intro to Sydette's amazing "Baby has hat" from a talk she did in 2018!

At the stonewall monument rn

And if you would like to let the National Park Service know what you think of the erasure of transgender from the Stonewall Monument you can contact them by phone, email, X, Instagram, and Facebook.

www.nps.gov/ston/contact...

This should be exceedingly obvious, but when Stonewall stays up while references to trans people come down, they will measure the silence of cisgender people as concurrence for whatever they plan next, and it still won't protect you in the end. So please get loud. Our mutual survival depends on it.

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

it cant be overstated how impactful Avery's design work has been on indie TTRPGs. if you havent picked up The Quiet Year (blew open my understanding of what games can be) or Dream Askew/Dream Apart: HIGHLY recommend it.

if you *have* played them: its a huge help to take 30 seconds and give both 5 ⭐

Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art A complete reproduction and restoration of J. G. Heck and Spencer F. Baird’s collection of 13,000+ illustrations from 1851

For those making a historical, natural, or scientific #ttrpg, I've come across this amazing CC0 resource and just had to share.

But you know... amazing to look at regardless! Check it out!

Perfect for placeholder art in my Oppian Wives playtest documents (coming soon).

c82.net/iconography/

This is great news! I love bookshop dot org and order all my books there.

gregpak.link: Yes We Blog! Webring A webring for real people who actually blog. Yes, a functioning webring in 2025!

okay i did it

gregpak.link/webrings/ywb/

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Realis (Ashcan Edition) by Austin Walker A TTRPG of moon-hopping adventure, arcane discovery, fatal conflict, & meditations on the changing nature of the self.

An Ashcan release of Realis, the TTRPG that I've been working on (and off and on) for the last four years is now available for preorder! thecalcutec.itch.io/realis

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.

If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

* First Time Key Narrators: fuck nerves. The friends are getting together to riff and bullshit with each other. They're going to have a good time no matter what. If your first session feels stiff, don't sweat it, it's not because you dropped the ball, it's because things are still developing - the main characters don't really have personalities yet, a crew dynamic is still brewing, and the setting doesn't feel lived-in yet. The pilot session is still a good time, but where the hobby goes from good to great is two or three sessions in when the setting and characters start feeling familiar, start coming to life a little, and start relating to each other in interesting ways. There's a reason it takes a couple episodes to get hooked on a TV show, you know? Besides that, Keying is easy: just give the main characters engaging shit to do, see what gets people stoked, and find interesting ways to give your actors what they want.

Three book covers: L: blue and black colour scheme. Book is titled Stirring Giants. Washed out picture of an old building interior Middle: Corpse Thieves. Right side of cover is black. Left side is image of bird on branch looking up at flowers. R: Yellow cover with black band at bottom. Shapes and squiggles in the yellow section of the cover. Title is Illadelph

Just picked up three games from Bull Press, a publisher who supplies “conversational games” to prisoners that are prison rule compliant.

The games are cool as hell. And their ethos is punk af.

Go support them if you can.

#TTRPG

bullpress.org

A lesser yellow-headed vulture from the side, looking upwards. His head is bright yellow and pink, with red eyes. and

Sev is resplendent in his full adult colors now! It takes years for yellow-headed vultures to grow into their technicolor glory, turning from a simple grey to vibrant yellows, pinks, and blues.