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Talk about TTRPGs (mostly Legacy World of Darkness because that's what I'm currently playing), make gaming memes, and a few other things. Have an actual play for Werewolf the Apocalypse right now you should check out (see pinned post).

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · May 23

We have a Discord btw. Come join and talk about games!

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J.F. "Woke Bigoted Clout-Chaser" Sambrano @indigedroid.bsky.social · 13h

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More about my pup, Goshé, some general life updates, and a preview of something I'm currently writing.

Life Update and In Bhudevi's Twilight Teaser #1 | J. F. Sambrano

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 13h

I'm finally getting ready to pull the trigger of running a more low key Delta Green game next month. I'm pretty excited too. Decided to run the Impossible Landscapes

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.

NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.

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President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the
cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao.
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Trump pardons crypto executive
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Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family's own crypto venture

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Travis Legge @travislegge.bsky.social · 18h

Join us now at the @dorktales.bsky.social Twitch for Episode 1 of the Scarred Lands: Cities in Dust Actual Play! www.twitch.tv/dorktales to support the Scarred Lands Player's Guide for Savage Worlds Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oan... #scarredlands #actualplay #ttrpg

An orc woman carrying a spear with a glowing tip and wearing a tabard with the sword rose holy symbol of Corean walks through knee-deep mist in a cavern filled with goblins. Text reads Scarred Lands Cities in Dust. Episode 1 Into the Crucible Lands. The Dork Tales, Savage Worlds, Onyx Path Publishing and Aegis Studios logos are present.

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 18h

GenAI can only use what's in its training data. It can only pull upon ideas of the past and mix them, never build upon them with original thought. It creates a sea of sameness that locks in our existing biases into place. It's why it's so popular with reactionaries.

A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 18h

More AI tangents today:
Let us say, for the sake of argument, that AI doesn't eat up an ungodly amount of energy, water, resources, and people in the global south to proof read vile shit to make sure it's actually working. GenAI is still bad. It is a force of cultural and moral stagnation /1

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✨TheMandii✨ @themandii.bsky.social · 18h

TONIGHT!

In the island metropolis known as Thaylen City, four disparate souls become intertwined in forces beyond their control…

Can’t wait to finally share my character cosplay ✨

#cosmere #ttrpg #actualplay #brandonsanderson #cosmererpg
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MagiRPG @magirpg.bsky.social · 3d

"Above silence, the illuminating storms —dying storms— illuminate the silence above."

Join us this Thursday for the premiere of Dying Storms, our brand new Cosmere TTRPG from Brotherwise Games, GMed by @craiggumz.bsky.social.

See you at: twitch.tv/magirpg
Character art by: @crhysbe.bsky.social

Dying Storms, a TTRPG actual play, with Character art and visual assets from the Cosmere Roleplaying Game

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 19h

As the studios, publishers, and all that other jazz continues to move towards AI (for whatever fucking reason) remember you should make your own art, whatever that is. You might not think your art is good but I PROMISE you that your bad poem, generic story, or scribbles will be better than any AI

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Tonya R. Moore @tonyarmoore.com · 19h

Ew. Ghoulish. Exploitative. Abusive. Fucking Disrespectful.
(plenty more where those words came from to express my absolute disgust with these..."people")

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:

“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”

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S. John Ross @sjohnross.bsky.social · 1d

When I'm not doing RPG stuff for work, I'm doing fan RPG stuff, and one of my projects has been from-the-ground up vector remasters of the classic Paranoia forms.

(Also making several all-NEW forms, natch ... and adventures for introducing them, and ...)

#ParanoiaRPG #TTRPG

A two-color rebuild of the classic black-and-white "Equipment/Weapon/Vehicle Request Form" from the early West End Games editions of the Paranoia RPG. The grey tones that had been halftone screens in the WEG original are now solid red tones, possibly indicating that this form would be issued to a Red-Clearance citizen.

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone remember the game PsyOps? Where you're a psychic super killer? It popped into my head and I'm reminded that it had the worst co-op experience I think ever. Where one player controlled movement and the other controlled pulling the trigger and powers on the same character

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Onyx Path Publishing @theonyxpath.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI There are several titles from Onyx Path Publishing up to 31% OFF in the @drivethrurpg.com Halloween sale! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher... Includes The World Below, Curseborne Tasty Bits, They Came From Beyond the Grave and more! #Halloween #ttrpg #horror

DriveThruRPG Halloween Sale: Save Big on Spooky Picks until October 31! Contains images of the Scion: Masks of the Mythos, The World Below, and They Came From Beyond the Grave covers

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 1d

New episode of GM Talks is now up! I'm joined by @travislegge.bsky.social to talk about the Scarred Lands Player's Guide for the Savage Worlds system! We talk about the setting, mechanics, inspirations!
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ned...
Podbean: abunchofgamers.podbean.com/e/gm-talks-e...

GM Talks - Episode 40 - Scarred Lands Players Guide ft Travis Legge

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 2d

This. Transphobia is a moral panic that has been heavily funded and weaponized by a lot of powerful & wealthy people over the last decade, and it's scary but NOT inevitable - and *certainly* not the fault of their victims.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2d

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2d

If you’re thinking “huh, it’s pretty notable that they didn’t just pop this guy federally, especially since that would undermine the administration’s narrative about political violence,” astute observation, have an inquiry into the U.S. Attorney’s Office about that. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump charged with threats against Hakeem Jeffries

Prosecutors said that Christopher Moynihan was among the first rioters to enter the Capitol grounds and watched rioters fight with police at the rotunda door.

www.nbcnews.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

I'd take "it's a republic not a democracy" a bit more seriously if they cared about all the ways American government has a deep tradition of republican symbolism going all the way back to the Founders, and how it's now being torched in favor of the aesthetics of gilded royalism.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 2d

I wasn't able to contribute to this one, but the Ghost Show critical essay anthologies are always great. They're Kickstarting a new sci-fi anthology, so check it out and back it if you believe in it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...

Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution

More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules

www.kickstarter.com

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes obviously stupid plans from pain in the ass minor antagonists should actually work. Just so players know how it probably feels for the big bad and minor antagonist plans are unlikely to completely derail the game

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Travis Legge @travislegge.bsky.social · 3d

Curseborne, Scarred Lands, and Trinity Continuum: Aberrant all getting some love in this week's installment of the Onyx Path Publishing news! youtu.be/K16GJDWOOHg?... via YouTube

The Onyx Path News - Aberrant, Scarred Lands SWADE, and Curseborne

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 3d

"Fire is old hat and inefficient! I heard it from a reliable wizard who worships the forgotten gods of the earth that if you put garlic in their ears after knocking them out they'll dissolve in a few short hours and saves you the stench of burning them"
-Very Charismatic but incredibly wrong NPC

A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 3d

I think all those work as well but also, just as with people in our world, people can just be confidently wrong about things. They truly believe something (even something outlandish) and talk about it like an expert even if they aren't. I think it's a fun way to spice things up.

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A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. I've been implementing a lot of the above. But also, having someone be completely thoughtless and essentially living in an alternative reality while still being nice and caring and causing harm because of it makes some good roleplaying and a bit more critical thinking on the PCs part

A Bunch of Gamers @abunchofgamers.bsky.social · 3d

One of the problems I've encountered in my games is after the initial "suspect everyone for betrayal" stage of interacting with an NPC a lot of players seem to treat the information as gospel. How do I correct for this? Make NPCs wrong and be sure to introduce stupid but charismatic NPCs

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