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Its Jennell jaquays birthdat. She left this realm last January. Her her adventure design and artwork made a bigger impact on me than any other judges guild writer. I even used the color scheme from Hellpits of Nightfang for inspiration when illustrating Duginthroat Divided. Here's a small tribute.

YouTube video by DnD Shorts AI slop D&D is already here and I hate it

The DnD shorts guy actually making informative points.

I didn't know about Terraforming Mars letting the side down and board gamers massively supporting an AI trash project. Disappointing but on brand for Fryxelius.

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We are 3ish days in to the itch bundle sale and hit $3,500, nearly matching the total amount we raised w the sale of the physical zine. Thank you all so much for purchasing the bundle!

If you haven't, you can check it out here!

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For my fellow Pinterest users, you can now begin to filter GenAI results - go to:

Settings > Home Feed Tuner > then scroll all the way right to Gen AI Interests. You'll see lots of radio buttons, so just turn them all off.

Not sure how well this works so far, but so much slop there the past year!

Thank you for this. Wording was 'refine your recommendations' on my account but essentially what's described.

One hundred one-page RPGs later, Grant Howitt isn’t ready to quit Don’t you dare call it a legacy.

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One Hundred One Page Games Jam A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by gshowitt. HELLO MY NAME IS GRANT HOWITT AND I HAVE WRITTEN ONE HUNDRED OF GAME. Below is a list of my one hundred one-page games. Some of them are lo...

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🌈🎲The HELLO//GOODBYE charity bundle contains 203 games for only $12 and is available on itch until November 5th. Get it here! 👇

The 15 most banned books in U.S. schools In the 2024-25 school year, book bans affected more than 3,700 unique titles in 87 school districts across 23 states, according to PEN America.

Thinking I may need to add these to my reading list just because

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The Age of Enshittification In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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In an Exclusive Interview, Dr. Jane Goodall Leaves Behind Her Last Words “In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. What message do I want to leave?”

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This is an excellent point

Kickstarter United workers will strike beginning October 2 Demands include enshrining the four-day, 32-hour work week in their contract.

Unionized workers with @kickstarterunited.org are poised to strike if the crowdfunding platform's management doesn't approve their new contract.

The union has demanded a four-day workweek, minimum living wage salaries, and protections against generative AI encroachment.

a how to guide for creating crossword dungeons. Step 1 - Find and Do, do the crossword. Step 2 - See Beyond, find the inspiring words and start to see the shape. Step 3 - Extrapolate, ditch words you dont like, create walls, you contol the dungeon. Step 4 - Draw the rest of the owl (make the dungeon from the inspiration). Step 5 - BE NOT AFRAID. Its just a dungeon created from a crossword, they wont always work. Useful tips: Metro for daily free crosswords. CrosswordSolver, for tricky clues. DungeonScrawl, for making maps. LootTheRoom - for more random ideas

A comment on itch reminded me of this idea for creating #TTRPG dungeons I had a while back. I still think its neat and I don't think I've actually shared it here on bsky.

So bsky.. meet Crossword Dungeons!
Do a crossword, use the answers and designs as inspiration for the rooms, get creative!

Cartoon character with text bubbles that talk about why making art matters in these challenging times

This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters

If you enjoyed a game on Itch, leave a comment!

Honestly, it really brightens a creator's day. And it's a big encouragement for others who may be interested in getting that game.

Itch hides reviews from the game page, so I find comments more useful in the long run.

Like a game? Comment away!

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
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The Basics: A Superhero RPG by JunkyardTornado Superhero TTRPG

The Basics. A superhero TTRPG.

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Now is a better time than ever to cancel all of your streaming services and read that massive pile of TTRPG books you've been accumulating.

Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee...

This is just what's been on my mind this weekend

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Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Borderlands - First Impressions The new Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set provides a new introduction to Dungeons & Dragons, borrowing heavily from adventure board games to simplify core game concepts without sacrificing too muc...

The more I learn about this new starter set, the less interested I am. I'd still like to see it, but all these components will surely put a higher price tag on it. Hmmm. Hard to make that worth it. The original KotBL remains one of my all time favs.

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Rule One The only RPG rule you can't ditch

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Magnificent art!! Happy birthday

Local D&D club is ready to play | The Plumas Sun A few friends, a handful of dice and a table where everyone gets a turn. For local fans of Dungeons and Dragons, that recipe is helping young people

This is an enjoyable read.

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Get my game, The Basics: A Superhero RPG, in the Free Zine Week 2025 bundle. Support indie creators. #ttrpg #zine

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Free Zine Week bundle!!!

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The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.

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We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

Best Of 2026 marks a decade since I started writing this blog. In that time I’ve written some posts that I’m particularly proud of, or posts that I’m regularly asked to link people to. In…

I decided to put together a small list of what I think are the best posts on Loot The Room from the past decade of writing the blog. Maybe I'll even remember to keep it updated in the future.

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