Brian Kolm

Original art rescued & returned this past week by Murphy Anderson III: Gerhard's original painted colors (over a photocopy of my original cover b&w art) for TYRANT® #4.

Never thought we'd ever see this again—and it's thankfully here! Scanning from source materials for TYRANT® crowdfunder in Feb.

YouTube video by Starshine Scribbles Get FREE Images From The Library of Congress! #contentcreation #contenttips

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Struggling with doing what I need to do to get the results I want sooooo I did a comic!

First panel is "The Deposition" by Michelangelo. Third panel is a self-portait by Rembrandt. Fifth panel is "Portrait of Pompeius Occo" by Dirck Jacobsz.

YES/NO ORACLE d6 Answer Interpreting 1 No, and... Add a cost or increase intensity. 2 No. No. 3 No, but... Add a silver lining or alternative. 4 Yes, but... Add a complication, cost, or twist 5 Yes. Yes. 6 Yes, and... Add a benefit or increase intensity. • Ask a question as you might ask a GM. • If the answer could benefit the character, frame it so "Yes" is the win. • Even Odds: Roll 1d6. • Likely: Roll 2d6, keep the highest. • Unlikely: Roll 2d6, keep the lowest.

The Yes/No Oracle is an esssential piece of your solo RPG toolkit. The newest issue of The Soloist tackles when and how to use it, types of questions to ask, and handling the "Buts" and "Ands." soloist.substack.com
#solorpg #ttrpg

If you've purchased a game from the Bully Pulpit Games store, it was shipped from Minnesota by the good people at the Atlas Games warehouse.

We absolutely stand in solidarity with our friends there in standing up to ICE, and we hope you will too.

2025 - A year in review Game writing income, publications and future plans

I wrote a small retrospective about 2025.

My releases, my game income and my plans.

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Two panels from my Julius Chancer adventure comic, The Brambletye Box, both close-quarter views of occupants of cars speeding alongside each other and looking at each other; 1) Julius Chancer and Sir Alfred Catesby-Grey, looking somewhat perturbed, 2) a villainous looking group, two men in the front and a woman in a white suit and hat and holding a pistol in the back, smiling and grinning.

Happy new year :-) Lot's of challenges last year - hope for lots of good stuff for you in 2026.

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

🧵

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NO AI Allowed: Sweden Bans AI Generated songs from official charts

Sweden becomes the first country to ban all AI music from their official charts! Huge win!

Exclusive: Check out Netflix's official English-subtitled trailer for 'Samuel,' the minimalist French animated micro-series that will debut worldwide on the platform on February 5.
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The Play Reports Epistle Maps, An Exquisite Hamlet

What if creating maps was done through letter writing? I give you....Epistle Maps. Frist write-up of my first system :)

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I’ve posted this a million times, too many people forgot what social media was like before the algorithm spoon fed you

you can have cool stuff on your timeline if you actually follow people posting cool stuff it’s that easy

A solo rpg game is a great hobby: a pause from reality with dice rolling, creative problem solving, emergent storytelling, take on a roll of someone different, low cost, reason to doodle n draw, sometimes meditative, and fun your way.

#supercity24 #sketchbooksolorpg #solorpg #ttrpg
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A final illustration on the final page of my longest solo campaign so far. In front in J-Box K a.k.a Kurt Mc Ivy a magic born (i.e. magic construct) a superhero in the small northern california town of Heathburg. The game ends with an event, the wedding of his parents Helen and chris and attended by family and friends. His mother Helen plays a guitar with her husband as they sing a favorite son. The game spans 4.5 sketchbooks and so I had to go back and find drawings of different characters, which took time, but was fun.

I finally finished my solo campaign and drew an final drawing featuring at least 15 characters. Started the game in May 2024, played off and on and learned a lot about how I like to play.

219 hours - 101 sessions - 62+ characters - 309 pages

#supercity24 #sketchbooksolorpg #solorpg #ttrpg
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Looks useful for artist

Remeber, the Simpsons didn't predict shit. America just hasn't worked on any of its problems in over 60 years.

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead

The conclusions here are pretty close to some of the conclusions I've reached, many of which form the core of my work's approach to technology. That being: Technology isn't the problem, the people currently in control of it are the problem. Tech can and should improve life for all, not just a few.

As Lin mentions in this thread, we worked on this piece for seven months. I think every member of the team was involved in some way, whether editing or just making sure we were as fair and ethical in our reporting as possible. It's a lot of work. I think it's worth a dollar.

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

It is literally the "ideas guy" applied to artistic practice. To believe that the art does not live in the act of creation but only the single moment of inspiration. That there was no art involved in the Sistine Chapel but merely the arrangement of The Creation of Adam.

Never trust the rates internally decided on for this industry - they rose out of grifters extorting their artists or in the best case out of extremely scant budgets in a universally undervalued artform. Look at the rates that are standard for other industries.

This type of financial exploitation has been going from literally the very start and it persists because ttrpg workers are, apologies, easy marks. There's no industry unions, there's no intergenerational experience, there's no public knowledge.

For fans wanting some original art with their copy of Wind in the Willows, I’ve made a few inked drawings available with purchase:

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A piece by pop-art inspired creator Mitch O'Connell, featuring wolves leering at a sexy cat woman (ymmv) against a montage of advertising clip art

Someone eventually needs to do a deep-dive on black-and-white benefit comics from the 90s (Not It!). There are reams of otherwise-unpublished art floating around in these, like this wild-ass Mitch O'Connell piece from "Images of Omaha The Cat Dancer: A Benefit For Reed Waller"...

Cliches and personality cults are super easy for most nerds to fall into. We want to be accepted and loved, typically have some neurodivergencies that make it harder to be able to gauge true intents or motives, we’re taught by society to trust the masks people wear.

This shows why you shouldn’t

Cool fantasy character art!

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itch is down i repeat itch is down

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A variety of medieval hats

A variety of medieval hats

A variety of medieval hats

A variety of medieval hats

Your regular reminder to put your RPG character in a hat. No. A BIGGER hat.

Some stories are difficult not just because of the effort it takes to tell them, but because of the subject matter. This story is both.

Seven months, six Rascals, five creators, and a dozen drafts, revisions, and versions later... We have a story that is necessary, heartbreaking, and important.