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Katherine Stark @kastark.bsky.social · 9h

Alberto Dianin and Andrea Ruggeri are cheap, tasteless, talentless grifters and I would not piss on them if they were on fire

Rascal News @rascal.news · 10h

UK Games Expo promoted a tabletop RPG on Instagram that claimed to use "fully ethical and transparent" generative AI. Everything went downhill once the publisher began responding to criticism.

UK Games Expo criticized for promoting RPG with generative AI imagery

Gates of Krystalia’s creators insult commenters, struggle to explain provenance of LLM training material.

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · 18h

Now this is a throwback

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 1d

This blew up. Check out my anarchist game of sentimental constructs surviving atop a sentient landmass maybe?

bsky.app/profile/fsoh...

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 11d

In the #ZephyrRPG, you travel the back of a sentient, walking landmass as the Windfolk - sentimental constructs that seek to fulfill sacred obligations by travelling through the wondrous landscapes of Ophoi, mediated through a system based on color tokens, survival, and mutual aid.

Links below!

Zephyr interior spread where a Windfolk is seen prostrated before a majestic Fleeting

Zephyr interior spread where a group of Windfolk are seen paddling across an underground river

Zephyr interior spread showing Windfolk hunters riding atop Wrecklings through a sunlit treeline

Zephyr interior spread showing a Windfolk desperately running away from a colossal monstrosity of the deep woods

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure how you could NOT come to the conclusion that D&D is basically a great big smothering pillow shoved over the face of "the non-D&D RPG hobby/industry" unless you're being deliberately obtuse or are so fundamentally ignorant nobody should listen to anything you have to say ever

🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 2d

Listening to people say D&D has no negative bearing on the indie creative space at large has me tweaking.

This is a creative monopoly unlike anything seen before or ever. I have a list of marketing outreach channels where 95 out of a 100 contacts exclusively cover D&D/OSR (D&D adjacent)...

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jay Dragon is recovering @jdragsky.bsky.social · 2d

the cinemasins of imagination

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · 3d

american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog

french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading]

polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/afEgKXP2AXI?...
It's one of my favourites.
"Leave the art for the real yearners" is a fucking powerful statement.

"plot hole" Andys when a real "it passes the vibe check" cinema enjoyer shows up

YouTube video by Northernlion

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · 6d

Not gonna lie, I thought being into baseball was a thing Americans made up to trick tourists.

Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · 10d

Who possibly could have seen this coming

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Gwen @gwen-deer.bsky.social · 13d

DnD 4e was the only edition that actually knew what it was and that’s why it’s the best one

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 13d

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Sandy Pug Games @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 13d

I just wanna say for the purposes of humblebragging and future employment prospects: Despite being 2 years overdue and despite the various trials that led to that situation, with the majority of fulfillment costs pay, HELLPIERCERS still lands in the green.

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 14d

SURPRISE!

I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.

It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?

Anyway enjoy!!!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Oath of Moment

【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...

docs.google.com

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · 14d

I'm sorry but stealing the crown jewels from the louvre is a crime so cool that I don't think you should be allowed to go to prison for it.

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🌱Elaine Lithgow 🌱 @elainelithgow.bsky.social · 16d

In today's TTRPG Dev Vlog I chat about a clever way to design covers and other large expensive illustrations to get the most bang for your buck.

TTRPG Covers Can Be So Much More

YouTube video by Is This Something? A TTRPG Dev Vlog

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · Mar 4

Hey gamers, Luna here. I'm a graphic designer for ttrpgs, you can hire me to make your zines cooler, or to kill your enemies with my mind. Unless they deal poison damage, then I'm out. Anyways, you want this. Yes?

Table of contents for the game OMEN. Grey and red stripes decorate the page with the titles for each section.

A 3D render of a spread from wolves at the lake. There's a zine and 2 red die on dark wooden planks.

A spread from a feast for a sphinx. It depicts a centipede person holding an obsidian spearhead, along with the descriptions of said weapon and the rooms 7 and 8. The colors red and gold adorn the white page.

A spread from the goblin mail extras zine. Showing two characters, a mail goblin and a robot made out of mail. The art is black and white and features halftone pictures of stamps.

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Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · 21d

People using Margaret Thatcher' 100th birthday to celebrate her death is so disappointing to me. You can celebrate her death EVERY day of the year, people!

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · 24d

Aes really can rap about anything. His track about invasive aquarium snails is peak.

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Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · 26d

By the way, my real hot take is, die choice doesn't really matter. It's a tiny, unimportant part of game design that gets massively overfocused on. Calling a game "2d6 based" or whatever is like saying a car is "red paint job based".

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Binary @binarystar.games · 29d

Papercult is still up and running and thriving, which is something I *should* periodically remind people when the owner of this site isn't crashing out, but especially when they are: papercult.club

papercult.club

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · Sep 29

I Was Reborn Into Another Randomly Generated World?

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · Sep 19

One of the few "I will automatically buy this game if you said it was good" voices on youtube.

dragonkid11 @11dragonkid11.bsky.social · Sep 19

You know, I don't really have the complete understanding how people look at me, so I'm shooting the arrow here. Like me, hate me, let's see it.

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Oliver @dubiousdevil.bsky.social · Sep 18

*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · Sep 18

Entirely genuine I believe. It might be the perfect post.

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Nate @bigratgames.bsky.social · Sep 18

This reminded me of an all time classic

A tweet from Brad Anderson that reads "I get the point you're trying to make, but I have yet to meet a hetero woman who enthusiastically participates in sex."

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