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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer)

@ravenquill.bsky.social

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Josh (he/him). I write gun rules and PC species for D&D. Polyamorous, LGBTQ+ ally, anti-fascist 🇺🇦🇵🇸 🚫 AI/NFT/crypto Firearms: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/441768 Species: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/488980 Find more: https://linktr.ee/ravenquill

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reason #0 - Because you want to 😉

Check out my comprehensive rules in Smoke & Thunder: Firearms For Fifth Edition and it's sequels!

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · Aug 26

🧵 Why you should include firearms and other technology in your #dnd game...

1. Because they're historical - Gunpowder is older than many of the common weapons in D&D. Rapier, longbow, and even halberd are more recent inventions than gunpowder.

a man with long hair is talking about black powder .

Alt: a man with long hair is talking about black powder .

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 1h

This is a pretty cool concept. I love @theagilmore.bsky.social (not active on Bluesky) as a musician. If you like heartfelt indie music, radical experiments in community, or retro media, check out this new project.
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Something new is coming. It’s called The Echo Line. A real phone line, a new kind of song project. You call. You hear a message from me. If you want to, you leave one too. Anonymous. Honest. Human. Ea...

TikTok video by Thea Gilmore

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 18h

If you think you might be able to hook me up with a job even if just temp or data entry online labor message me and I'll share my linked in with you in dms

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 14h

Implicitly!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22h

these people know how extreme they are

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 23h

The remaining dead hostages were killed by Israel’s bombs and they’re stuck under the rubble. Trump knows that, Netanyahu knows that. They’re pretending Hamas is violating the deal because they already did and are about to do it even worse.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5d

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

The Pentagon’s new press policy bars journalists from reporting anything that hasn’t been approved by the Trump regime.

The NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, and NPR are refusing to sign the agreement.

Kudos to the media outlets standing up to this blatant authoritarianism.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Madness Heart Games @mhp-games.bsky.social · 23h

Overgrowth is now available on @drivethrurpg.com! Using our BADASS system, guide your twisted nature druid into battle as you destroy powerful, corrupted corporate polluters! "Save the Planet. Unleash Mayhem." - Nate Southard, Author and Game Developer #TTRPGs legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/492064

Art card featuring a hunched, mossy nature druid with curling antlers facing off against a glistening pig monster emitting toxic green sludge from nozzles on its chest. Text reads "Overgrowth: A BADASS Game By John Baltisberger and Simone Tammetta"

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay! Nice to see you again. My name is Aimee, and I'm a dark-beautiful #DarkArt freelance #illustrator. My current wishlist for projects is: 📚 Book covers and 🃏Trading/Playing card games, but I'm open to anything!
💼: AimeeCozza.com
✉️: [email protected]

An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.

A man curled over onto his elbows, his head in his hands, amidst green leaves. A glowing, luminous dagger dangles above his neck and spine. His hands are cupped and outstretched towards the sky. Luminous liquid slips through his fingers.

A small child holding a bunny rabbit stuffed animal standing in front of a line of darkened forest. Inside the forest are lots of glowing sets of eyes

An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 2d

There's a Cooper's hawk - a bird that primarily hunts and eats other birds - hanging out in our alley, but it is going to have zero luck catching anything because the neighborhood crows discovered it and are giving it no peace. The hawk is miserable, the crows are having a good time.

Be a crow

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 1d

Any TTRPG art friends looking for a quick turn around gig?

Client needs 3 humanoid character pieces (head, 1/2, full body) in a semi-realistic (think TTRPG book) fantasy art style. Full color.

Needs for next week, I’m not available.

Ideal if you have store front you can charge from (eg Etsy)

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Kate Blagodatskikh @blagodatskix.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay 👁
I'm Kate, freelance illustrator who works on illustrations, book covers and loves to paint horror, mythology and nature 🌿

Portfolio: blagodatskix.carrd.co

• Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/blag...
• Socials: linktr.ee/Blagodatskikh
• Contact: [email protected]

The illustration of the woman with blind eyes that is surrounded by light.
She has peony flower in her hands and many, many eyes in her body that are visible from the cuts.

The illustration of the woman, siting in the dark with coral and tentacles emerging from her back.

The illustration of the sand watch, figure of woman inside the glass. Watch surrounded by two hands - one old and one young.
Also, there a lot of mushrooms on the bottom and top of the illustration.

The illustration of the mermaid lounging under lily pads in dusk light.

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Kim Sokol @kimsokol.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #portfolioday!

I'm Kim, a fantasy artist in gaming and publishing who loves light and mood. Currently I work primarily on Magic: The Gathering and am actively seeking more book cover work!

Portfolio: kimsokol.com

Two queens, one in armor, look at each other on a balcony overlooking their kingdom as the sun sets

Book cover featuring an elven and a half-elven woman with the scene of a tall tower and forest below

A fake YA book cover featuring a girl with a candle burning away a circle of leaves

A formally dressed vampire woman smiles as she throws red petals over a balcony

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Yorgos Cotronis @cotronis.bsky.social · 1d

Hello hello #portfolioday
My name is Yorgos, I'm Greek and I make book covers. I'm available for new projects from December onwards.

Here's some of my work!

Painting of a woman with a facial tatoo in long black robes holding a Zweihander

Painting of a woman wearing a crown, in a field of rye. A wolf stands besides her, mostly in shadow.

Book cover for the novel EPIPHANY. It depicts a woman half submerged in water with flowers growing around her.

A book cover for the novel "The Moss," showing a girl covered in flowers and moss with glowing white eyes.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

🚨BREAKING: Federal court DENIES Indiana motion to dismiss lawsuit challenging Indiana’s new law — Senate Bill 10 — banning the use of student ID for voting. www.democracydocket.com/cases/indian...

🚨 Count US IN v. Morales

Learn more.

www.democracydocket.com

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Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 23h

DOGE fired around 280,253 low-level federal employees making, at best, less than $35k a year, only to have the Republican budget bill mandate hiring 100k ICE agents costing $800k each with bonuses, tactical gear, and other infrastructure.

Money a Plenty for Rubber Bullets  , but none for Medicaid.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 23h

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 23h

"The 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment is out and can broadly be summarized as, 'We suck,'" said one climate scientist.

World's Forests 'Still in Crisis' Halfway to Deadline to End Deforestation: Report

"The 2025 Forest Declaration Assessment is out and can broadly be summarized as, 'We suck,'" said one climate scientist.

www.commondreams.org

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Michelle Pecoraro (Comms Open + DTIYS) @coveofmadness.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Michelle, concept artist and illustrator, open for work (commercial and private), especially in the Tabletop Gaming and Genre Fiction Realms.

💼: www.coveofmadness.com
🖼️: vgen.co/CoveofMadness
📧: michelle.pecoraro[@]hotmail.com

#ttrpgart #fantasyart #illustration #conceptart

An illustration of a goliath hunter on his mount in snowy mountain terrain, facing off against a crag cat. The Goliath is a young man, dressed in brown and white furs, accented with red and blue woven panels. He wields a red horsebow. His mount is a mixture of a reindeer and a markhor goat. His tack and gear matches the colors and motifs of his rider. He is mid leap. In the foreground, a white sabertoothed cat pursues the pair. In the background are snowy peaks and Giant ruins.

A digital portrait of an elven woman with golden blonde hair in sweeping chignon. She holds a hand to her chin, looking over her shoulder, eyes down cast. She wears shades of blue and gold.

A cleric astride a flying broom raises a glowing sword above a battle field. Golden, rays of bright light stream out from the sword. Her party members and herself are wrapped in golden glowing flowers and vines. They stare up at her in awe.

The party members, counter clockwise from the top left are: A dwarven artificer wearing jeweltones and riding a magic carpet, the cleric wearing a gold breastplate and blue robes; a giant fighter in full adamantine plate and a dragon helm; a half-drow Psi-fighter in blues and purples, floating mid-air and holding her crossbow; and a tiefling ranger, arms stretched out in joy and relief.

Behind the party members is a truly gargantuan giant, you can see him only up to his knees. He wears silver greaves and you can catch a glimpse of his great axe.

Ruins of a city are in the distant background.

A giant-sized cowgirl reclines in the pasture with her livestock (primarily cows, with a few chickens sneaking in) as the sun rises off screen.

She has red hair in pigtail braids and wears a cowboy hat and boots along with a magenta and leather western bodice, and suede pants with runic inspired panel/stitch detailing.
The crescent moon and the tears of Selene are between a horizon of red rock hills and puffy pink clouds. A barn with thatched roof is nestled in the shadow beneath a crag at the right edge of the image.

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ThatGamerAjax @thatgamerajax.bsky.social · 1d

This just released today, and after a super quick glance (only so much I can do while at work), but I can already tell it's genuinely *perfect* for this time of year. Go and grab your copy today!

Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 15d

SPINE is in beta, and it will be free for a limited time on @itch.io

The beta will be released on itch on October 14th and will include digital versions as well as a printable booklet. A physical beta will go on sale at the end of October.

backwards-tabletop.itch.io/spine

A dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book. Free for a limited time. Art: Cover preview of SPINE, featuring a spine in the shape of a vortext.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a fun version of this: end-to-end development of a vaccine costs about $3-4B (assuming no incremental benefits in platform tech!). OpenAI's last cap raise came out to $40B. So, for the cost of non-consenually seeing Jason Momoa plow Marilyn Monroe, you could instead fully cure ten diseases.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i feel like i could make 20 aubrey-maturin adaptations with that disney 360 degree set and a handful of live actors for the cost of what openAI spends each day generating videos of MLK appearing on joe rogan

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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