Mark Smylie

Final 24 hours in @drivethrurpg.com's CYBER MONDAY sale (which apparently ran for an entire week!). 30% of select ARTESIA titles from Aegis & Gorgon until this time tomorrow:

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Funeral procession in Rhigos.

Sketch by @marksmylie.bsky.social

#Glorantha

Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general e...

Tascha didn’t just build a volunteer team of more than 100,000 people, she built a community across our city.

And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.

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another Garden of Spheres title page, this one featuring the main character (a woman with dark blonde hair & lizard skin) standing on a tree branch, holding another tree branch, more dragons in the background

also, ICYMI, the book is OUT-out at the PEOW2 shop. the lil preorder sign is gone. peow.studio/shop/na

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has died. Bummer news.

I mean, what do you even need to say about his performance as Shang Tsung? Iconic.

"Pop-up books? Pffff, seen 'em. Back in my day, before I got resurrected as a lich I mean, we had pop-UNDER books and they smoked pop-up books for breakfast."

Huh.
Small town with magic monster-spewing gates opening everywhere.
Huge cast of characters of wildly different competence levels.
Lots of emphasis on tooling up and having random encounters.

Stranger Things is the Arkham Horror board game tv show.

Fairbanks school board reviews district library policy amid community concerns The Fairbanks School Board is scheduled to look at Article Six of its policy, including what materials are allowed in different school libraries across the district.

Alaska school district considering policy to classify graphic novels as legally obscene. This over-expansive redefinition of "seriously offensive material with no literary value" is a serious risk to comics media nationwide. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/12/02/f...

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Final Aegis item in @drivethrurpg.com's Cyber Monday sale: THE LAST BARROW, an adventure/thought exercise, presenting write-ups and stats of a lost barrow and its treasures for three different systems (the ARTESIA RPG, 5E, and @chaosium.bsky.social's RuneQuest):

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Tiny adventures on the grandest of scales—All #MouseGuard prints 25% OFF using code SMALLBIZ before midnight tonight

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#MouseGuard Sketchbooks (including the digital collections that compile years worth of content) are 25% OFF using code SMALLBIZ until midnight (eastern)

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Cover for HISTORIAE MUNDI: A HISTORY OF THE KNOWN WORLD, featuring the goddess Yhera as the Creatrix, defeating and binding the World Dragon at the start of Creation.

The frontispiece intro to HISTORIAE MUNDI: A HISTORY OF THE KNOWN WORLD, originally used as the cover of ARTESIA ANNUAL #3, showing Artesia reading a book against a backdrop of figures from Known World history.

A sample map from HISTORIAE MUNDI: A HISTORY OF THE KNOWN WORLD, showing the Known World during the hundred years prior to the events of the ARTESIA graphic novel series and its novel prequels (one of 11 such maps in the book).

A sample page from HISTORIAE MUNDI: A HISTORY OF THE KNOWN WORLD, featuring an illustration of the Sorcerer-King Azharad, whose burial place is a focus of the prequel novel THE BARROW.

A closer look at another item in @drivethrurpg.com's Cyber Monday sale, HISTORIAE MUNDI: A HISTORY OF THE KNOWN WORLD. A sourcebook expanding on the history material in the ARTESIA RPG, along with the timeline info in ARTESIA ANNUAL #3, filled with info!

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Also available on their sister site, @drivethrucomics.com, should you prefer (and also at 30% off through end of Monday):

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Front cover for the ARTESIA: ADVENTURES IN THE KNOWN WORLD RPG, published by Archaia in 2005 and still available via Aegis & Gorgon (a new revised edition is in the works!).

An extensive history of the Known World, setting for the ARTESIA comics, is included in the ARTESIA RPG. Here is a sample page, with an illustration of the Dúréan heroine Hannath Hammergreia.

In the ARTESIA RPG the Major Arcana of the Known World's Tarot provides links to powers and abilities but also is the basis of the experience system.

The ARTESIA RPG also includes background details like info on the constellations of the Known World's Cosmos, and how they impact character creation and divination in the game.

Next up in @drivethrurpg.com's Black Friday-Cyber Monday sale: the ARTESIA: ADVENTURES IN THE KNOWN WORLD RPG. Written with the Fusion rules (the base system for Cyberpunk 2020); winner of the 2005 Origins Award for Best RPG and nominated for 6 ENnies.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

Looks like a Red-Shouldered Hawk. (Red-Tailed is similar but usually has a white chest.)

Also available on their sister site @drivethrucomics.com, should you prefer, where it is also 30% off through end of Monday:

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Also available on their sister site @drivethrucomics.com, should you prefer, where it is also 30% off through end of Monday:

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Also available on their sister site @drivethrucomics.com, should you prefer, where it is also 30% off through end of Monday:

www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/1...

Next in @drivethrurpg.com's Black Friday sale: the 3rd graphic novel, ARTESIA AFIRE, wholly published by Archaia in 2003. The collected edition includes a story from ANNUAL #2 and a story that appeared in John Kovalic's DORK TOWER. 30% off through end of Monday!

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Next item in the @drivethrurpg.com Black Friday sale: the 2nd graphic novel, ARTESIA FIELD, originally published in series format by Sirius in late 2000 and then as a graphic novel by Archaia in 2003 with a prologue taken from the first ARTESIA ANNUAL. 30% off!

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This is HUGE. Hard to overstate the importance to this event to the town and region. The international comics publishing will also take a hit but they have many other ways to promote and sell. The comics festival IS Angoulême.

Here's a closer look at one of the items in @drivethrurpg.com's Black Friday sale, the first ARTESIA graphic novel. First published in 1999 by Sirius, then later by me via my first company, Archaia. Still available through DriveThru in pdf (on sale!) and POD formats under the Aegis & Gorgon banner.

Glad the one that is only hallucinating 48% of the time is gaining traction in healthcare, legal and financial services, where a single error costs millions

Have a great show!

If you're in the UK at #Dragonmeet this coming weekend, you can find these WIP previews of @martinhelsdon.bsky.social's book on the Esrolian city of Rhigos in #Glorantha at the Jonstown Compendium table in the @chaosium.bsky.social booth. Supplies limited! And profits to a good cause. Enjoy!

DriveThru's Black Friday-Cyber Monday sale runs from now to the end of Monday. The ARTESIA graphic novels, a comics bundle, the Artesia roleplaying game, the History of the Known World, and The Last Barrow adventure book are all 30% off. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Freed from the shackles of the Lunar Empire, the people of Sartar stand at the dawning of a new day.

Lands of RuneQuest: Sartar is coming in 2026!

We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.

Couldn’t say it any better myself. R.I.P. Udo Kier.