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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · 1d

Look what got delivered today 👀

Signed by @rasalvatore.bsky.social even

#dnd #books

Picture of the cover of the book “The Finest Edge of Twilight” by RA Salvatore.

Signed inside of the book “The Finest Edge of Twilight” reading “To Brandon, Out of the shadows, she comes. RA Salvatore”

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · 5d

Carbon is very upset about getting fixed. I think she’s plotting my downfall.

A black cat wearing a cone after a surgery up against a wall.

Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · 8d

It’s been a while since I’ve run a game for new players. I ran a skill challenge and they all freaked out at the success before failure or being trapped and panicked a bit. Really fun seeing the excitement as they succeeded. #dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 13d

This is Denni. She took an unexpected babysitting shift when she found a baby koala in her yard. She cheerfully delivered the joey to her human, who put them back in the tree to be reunited with their mom. 14/10 (FB: Steve Lamplough)

Denni, a golden retriever with a sweet face, sits and looks up at the camera with a smile. she has a passenger clinging to her back. a baby koala. the joey's eyes peak over the top of Denni's head.

Denni is standing and looking off to the left of the frame. the baby koala on her back looks at the camera.

a super zoomed photo of the baby koala and their mom high up in a tree. the adult koala holds onto her joey and looks down at the camera with what we would like to think is appreciation for caring for her baby.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 17d

I talked on stream yesterday about my issues with the Arcane Archer Unearthed Arcana. I'm big on fixing problems, so I've drafted my D&D 5.5E Arcane Archer Redux, and gave design notes for why I made the changes. You can check it out for free right now!

drive.google.com/file/d/1u_S2...

Arcane Archer _ Land of the Blind.pdf

drive.google.com

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Matthew Mercer @matthewmercer.bsky.social · 22d

Travis and I has a great chat with Prof. DM around community questions, rumors, and general game topics. :)

youtu.be/1pKvM_N9qq4?...

No B.S. Interview with Matt & Travis from CRITICAL ROLE

YouTube video by Dungeon Craft

youtu.be

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29d

-Style Pizza

xkcd.com/3142/

Comic. [Graph with x axis for City Size and y axis for Tastiness of “<City>-Style Pizza”. An arrow points to bottom left corner, labeled Towns with bored restaurant owners who have come up with a fun prank to play on visitors. A shaded area covers the length of the y-axis on the left, then narrows toward the right, with the bottom curving upwards toward the right. Arrows within the region point in all different directions labeled Various controversial regional specialties. An arrow points to the upper right corner of this shaded region with label New York up here somewhere.]

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Sep 14

The nice side of the hour and a half drive to see the family is I get quite a bit of an audio book knocked out. My day to day driving is just not that much anymore.

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Sep 13

#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Sep 13

Mercury approved white dragon egg miniature.

A white and gray kitten sniffing a dragon egg miniature.

A whitish blue/gray dragon egg miniature.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · Sep 12

"If I wanted that, I would ask a junior dev to do it. The results would be the same but unlike the AI, the junior dev would learn something and go on to become capable of doing my job. If AI replaces the junior dev, where do senior devs come from? Who fixes the code, then?" 2/2

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · Sep 1

RT if u agree

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Greg Tito @gregtito.com · Aug 28

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

arstechnica.com

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Aug 23

Left is a primed dragon egg mini, the right is a green-black with a copper wash. Four more to go.

#dnd #dnd5e #dndminiatures

Two dragon egg minis, one primed and one painted green-black with a copper wash.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Aug 21

Going Online was an action you took and then walked away from as soon as your mom needed to make a phone call

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SlyFlourish.com @slyflourish.com · Aug 21

Pick up Lazy DM books and fantastic adventures at the Sly Flourish Bookstore!

https://shop.slyflourish.com/

#dnd #ttrpg

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Aug 19

That’s really exciting!

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JP Coovert @jpcoovert.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today is probably the last day to pre-order the Dragon Town box set at the reduced pre-tariff price. Backerkit pre-orders will get shut down and moved over to my new website very soon, and the price of the special edition box is going up! dragon-town.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Aug 17

I did a fair bit of D&D crafting today. Healing potion test, primed some dragon egg minis, and a Gygax 75 booklet. #dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg #osr #dndprops

D&D healing potion prop with d4s to roll in it.

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Aug 14

Both of the kittens I got have finally relaxed enough to both be on my bed at the same time. Send help though, one is sleeping on me abs I need to use the bathroom.

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SlyFlourish.com @slyflourish.com · Aug 11

Sly Flourish Summer Sale! 20% all books (except City of Arches) and free US shipping for orders of $60 or more! Discounts applied at checkout.

shop.slyflourish.com

#ttrpg #dnd

Sly Flourish's RPG Bookstore

Award-winning and best-selling books to help you run awesome tabletop roleplaying games!

shop.slyflourish.com

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lauren badillo milici @motelsiren.bsky.social · Aug 9

the black mold inside my stanley cup talks to me like the green goblin mask

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Aug 4

Kickstarter delivery day! Issues 1-4 of Knock! and I’m only waiting for issue 5 now. #ttrpg #osr #dnd

Issues 1-4 of the zine Knock! by The Merry Mushmen stacked up on a desk.

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Brandon @arcanekobold.bsky.social · Aug 3

Just testing some paper tricks for props. I might have gotten the paper too hot when trying to reveal the lemon juice secret message.

#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

A map handout for D&D that has a burn on it.

The back of a D&D map handout with a burn and secret message revealed by heat using lemon juice.

A D&D map handout folded over with writing added to the back of the map.

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