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

NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
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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
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.
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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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
@brotherwisegames.bsky.social
"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
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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Ew. Ghoulish. Exploitative. Abusive. Fucking Disrespectful.
(plenty more where those words came from to express my absolute disgust with these..."people")
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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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
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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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
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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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.
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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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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Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
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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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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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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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
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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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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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"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
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.
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
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