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Just time traveling here from 9 months ago, with this anachronistic reply… Is there an interplanar tavern where TW and SotS time travelers might meet? In a Sigil of sorts?

(The new Wizards time traveling DLC doesn't quite get there, but does venture time travelers aren't so surprising sometimes…)

OSR: Ultraviolet Grasslands GM-Facing Maps I've made 3 GM-facing maps for Ultraviolet Grasslands (reviewed here ). Spoilers abound. 1. UVG Only Locations Main locations are code...

Kudos. Also, great work on where to drop some Trilemma adventures into the UVG long map: coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2019/10/osr-...

Maybe #Trilemma-Adventures is in the zeitgeist. I stumbled upon all this stuff for the 1st time earlier this week. Now, I picked up the PDF today... Awesome deal!

@kevinkulp.bsky.social, Please can we pitch you for a role with the #MMRPG dev team on a TVA Expansion to the Marvel Multiverse RPG that might be announced one day... ? Oops, sorry, nvm, too late, just did 😜

Disclaimer: This post 💯 does not (of itself) imply any endorsement by Mr. Kulp or Marvel 😃

Yeah, you heard me. Raised by celery, not on it.

A running joke since 1993. I stand by it 🤣

No, for realz :|

Watched the latest #Eldritch-Lorecast. Another great episode. Kudos @shawnmerwin.bsky.social, @thebenbyrne.bsky.social, @jamesjhaeck.bsky.social & @dailydael.bsky.social ‪+ Dante, as always.

Anyway, I posted on Bluesky about the new Dark Sun TM app. If interested, check it out...

Carefully note, some #trademark protection may have continued to exist, under common (judge-made) law, even without having filed any application. #TM rights arise via actual use of #distinctive marks in trade.

* Though I work as a trademark lawyer, this thread is not legal advice.

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(Notably, the app didn't list other books or any t-shirts, clothing, etc.)

If interested, you can review Wizards' new US TM application, for yourself, via this link:
tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

3/4 #WotC

To file the US trademark application, Wizards declared a *bona fide* (good faith) intention to use the DARK SUN trademark, in US commerce, in association with the listed goods and services:
- Downloadable games
- Roleplaying games
- Online games

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> What's up with the recent DARK SUN trademark application? (A quick analysis.)

On 13 October 2025, Wizards filed a *new* application to register its DARK SUN trademark in the United States.

(It was not a mere procedural renewal of any previously existing US TM registration.)

🧵 1/4 #DarkSun

> Someone, somewhere, will say, "Don't do it. You don't have what it takes to survive the wilderness." This is when you reach deep into your wild heart and remind yourself, "I am the wilderness." – Brené Brown (2017)

re: #Dolmenwood, the Wood of #Cairn2e & the Mythic Wilderness, á la #MythicDungeon

Side-eyeing no more—at long last having received the [unrelated] #Kickstarter and notwithstanding The Orangutan's tariff temper tantrums—I've now converted my $1 pledge via #Backerkit to order this sweet sweet slipcase and the core rules book!
#Shadowdark
#WesternReaches #ArcaneLibrary

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Its somewhat academic and field-specific approach aside… This article may interest many involved in the #ttrpg space – including game masters, players, and designers alike... Among other things, it speaks to the nature of "role" playing, and may help with player immersion and engagement. Cheers!

"Roles do not merely involve thinking about engaging in such a role, and then enacting the role, in such a strict causal and temporal order. Narrative dramaturgy gave effect to the bi-directionality and shared impact of frontstage and backstage in engaging with roles."

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10/10

"Participants showed that there was an abiding influence, which we called “visceral lingering”, to their role engagement and the empathy it was intended to impart"

9/10

"Emotion was shown to be a feature of displays of reflexivity. The emotional engagement – turmoil, in some cases – experienced and reported in the RPG, accompanied observations around the weight of [...] encounters and [...] decisions"

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"It was the influence of others in the RPG – that is, sociability itself – that facilitated engagement in collaborative role play."

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[Paraphrasing] ~ The collaborative and dramatic setting triggered engagement in the role. Immersive RPGs help participants connect to the experience on an emotional level that lasts beyond the time frame of the RPG ... ~

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"At one point in time, engaging in the role play experience, the participants reflected on and changed their normal behavior (back stage) to that of the role they are portraying (front stage)"

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"Participants reported that they perceived other participants in the RPG session to be convincingly “in-role”, which, in this interactive environment, in turn influenced them to engage deeply with their roles."

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"Our findings show that embodied immersion into roles involves four particular dimensions: (i) role commitment; (ii) simultaneous evocation of front and back stages;
(iii) reflexivity; and (iv) visceral lingering."

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"When a person enters any social setting, they consciously or unconsciously put into effect information about their roles in that setting as well as information about the roles of others." ~ Attributed to Erving Goffman (1922-1982)

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🧵 9 interesting quotes / take-aways from 'Understanding Processes of Role Adoption in Pedagogical RPGs: Narrative Dramaturgical Perspective on “Social RPGs” in Health Professions Education', by S.Aboushawareb, G.Bartlett, A.Issa, T.Barnett & P.Nugus. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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A screenshot presented by the WeCroak app reads "Celebrating Day of the Dead" and "New quotes all day". The screenshot's subject quote reads: "Numbers and maps tell horror stories, but the stories of deepest horror are perhaps those for which there are no numbers, no maps, no possible accountability, no words ever written or spoken." This is a quote from 'Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions' by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Lizzie Davis) In the bottom left and right corners of the screenshot are the words "About" and "Leap" respectively.

Happy #DíadelosMuertos / #DayoftheDead eve!

A Valeria Luiselli quote maybe worth remembering for keepers, wardens, and other #horror / liminal space #TTRPG designers...

#MementoMori
@lizziedavis.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
#TerrorManagement #TMT #WeCroak
#Mothership #CallofCthulhu

Um, Kettlewright is awesome. That is all. #Cairn2e
kettlewright.com

Same image as in the preceding post, but with the words blanked out ~ "This one wants yours."

A further modified version of the preceding image, but with the center figure horizontally flipped ~ "That one wants more."

Swipe left / right, in succession.

Same old same same : "This one wants yours." / "That one wants more." Bah. Flip that.

Next up. What's new? Help others get their due. And they can help you get yours too.

(...cont'd)

- Magitecnica - Codex 1: The Use and Misuse of Powers Great and Small
- Unseen City / Down The Snail's Spire
- Into The Odd
- Knave 2e
- Knock #5
- Acid Death Fantasy
- Troika!
- The Black Hack
- Between The Skies
- The Book of Changing Years
- Kids On Brooms

Fin (for now...)

A stack of A5-ish ttrpg books includes: - Whitehack - Role-Playing Mastery - So You Want To Be A Game Master - Cairn 2e Player & Warden Guides (no spine text shown) - Breach Of Contract (no spine text shown) - Mothership Warden's Operation Manual (no spine text shown) - Magitecnica - Codex 1: The Use and Misuse of Powers Great and Small (no spine text shown) - Unseen City / Down The Snail's Spire (no spine text shown) - Into The Odd - Knave 2e - Knock #5 - Acid Death Fantasy - Troika - The Black Hack - Between The Skies - The Book of Changing Years - Kids On Brooms The stack sits on a cardboard box against a grey wall, with a dice bag resting atop it.

This growing stack of A5-ish ttrpg books brings me joy:

- Whitehack
- Role-Playing Mastery
- So You Want To Be A Game Master
- Cairn 2e Player's Guide
- Cairn 2e Warden's Guide
- Breach Of Contract
- Mothership Warden's Operation Manual...

(cont'd...)

Old news, still true:
The new Android ≠ Good

#google
@newsfromgoogle.bsky.social

For example,
- Cropping in Photos app now with less functionality and worse UI
- Mobile phone autorotate = yes please. Autorotate in Phone app (i.e., the one you use to call ppl) = No thank you.

They broke #Android

* Not legal advice