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Teens around table casting water spell.

Delighted to announce Hatchlings Design, a course for teenagers (starting locally), offering students an opportunity to write and publish their own solo TTRPG. The course will use the Carta system by @catlinggun.bsky.social and lean heavily into developing themes and improving literacy.

Meet Hannah Spencer - Green MP candidate for Gorton and Denton, and the only vote to stop Reform.

man in bed holding a dog and a gun, he looks alarmed

Klaus Kinski (left) and a dog.

Oh you mean the company funded by PETER THIEL?

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

I'm so glad we can all agree Affinity tables suck to use.

I took the time to record a quick tutorial on my (free) Patreon that teaches you the right tricks so you NEVER have to use them ever again for your TTRPG rolling tables and other layout needs.

Share it, and please join my (free!!) Patreon

That is an incredible pull quote from Meta, jesus. Masks fully coming off.

This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Five Tiers of RPG Publishing Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earn…

This is a good perspective on the orders of magnitude in the TTRPG publishing industry, and by and large positions us correctly at the bottom-most named tier (while acknowledging that there's a broad swath of indie designers further down). cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2026/02/11/f...

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

This is a bracing read, and also one to share with anyone you know questioning the severity of this virus:

A digital ink drawing of a Shrine Anchorite being attacked by a hoard of Grail Thralls with a Plague Knight in the foreground.

Inked my @trenchcrusade.bsky.social fanart.

#art #fanart #trenchcrusade

the hunt

The Peasants are Revolting! with George Francis Bickers (ItR S11:E02 - 173) YouTube video by Rookery Publications

Ca-caw! Got romantic plans for Valentine's Day? We'll be cosying up Inside the Rookery with George @threesailsstudios.bsky.social to hear about Gallow's Corner. Let's have a (Peasants') Revolting Valentines!

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Typewronger All Night Bookshop Fundraiser Typewronger is staying OPEN ALL NIGHT to raise funds to pay our bills - come buy books!

For Edinburgh readers and writers...
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If you know anyone who's ever come to the UK to live alongside you, and you'd either miss them if they were gone, or at the very least reckon they deserve to be treated humanely, please put aside some time to fill this in.

UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government.

Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.

It's that time of year again!!! 🥳

It's Goths for Breakfast time! This year, it's running on 28th February 9am - 10pm GMT. Online. Pop in and out as much as you like!

It's a charity teach-a-thon, raising money for Magic breakfast to feed hungry kids.

Get tickets - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

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Bikini Armor Battle Damage I dedicate this reblog to all the nerdbros who conflate "historical accuracy" with "no women, queerness and people of color" and "white men with swords looking boring and serious". Reality is so much....

Bikini Armor Battle Damage did a post on it at least.

Does this work? Tumblr is weird on mobile...

Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.

"Experts say the altars were once the centrepiece of the most northerly temple to the god Mithras known of in the Roman empire."

Public domain art resources Using public domain art in tabletop game design

Feels like a good day to remind everyone that there's tons of human-made public domain art available for free. Perfect for TTRPGs and board games!

Where can you find it?

Right here!

Part 1: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom...
Part 2: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/more-publi...

#ttrpg

Intertidal Market

can you explain all these gaps on your cv

yes that's to show where one word ends and the next one begins

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Really looking forward to this, I'll be helping the designers run it on the day, ably assisting the players in their mythical journies. Will it be Valhalla style with mead flowing for our heroes or more like Ragnarok... come join us in a legendary game and decide your own fate!

Canal, Manchester, 1926, photo by E.O. Hoppé, German-born British photographer (1878-1972).