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Dyslexic, Hiker, TTRPG enthusiast/writer. Particular devotion to the Mirror of Patience, Patron of Workers. Check out my modules 'Raven's Loft,' 'The Yaksha's Sigil' and 'Thrown Voices'!

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · Aug 21

My Liminal Horror module, Raven's Loft, is finally released!
I hope you all like this spin on Ravenloft- the first nsr / osr module I've made.

I tried to keep to the spirit of the AD&D module as much as possible in a modern setting. For the Twisted Classics Jam.

orthopraxy.itch.io/ravens-loft

Raven's Loft by J.

A Liminal Horror investigatin of coastal terror

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 14h

Daily bunny no.3107 doesn't need a kitchen

A bunny in the wilderness cooks a stir-fry over a portable stove. It is evening, and he's hung up a tarpaulin nearby for a campsite. A chipmunk and a raccoon wait eagerly for their food.

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 1d

For me, it was YTVs late Friday night spooky block.

Freaky Stories, Are you Afraid of the Dark, Truth or Scare, Big Wolf on Campus, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids. All that stuff got me real early

J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 1d

Every once in a while I get the urge to write a "In Defense of *Blood in the Chocolate*" blog post, but then I think better of it.

Probably for the best.

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 1d

Obviously I have a complicated relationship with The Game that module was written for, but it introduced me to the OSR, so I suppose I owe it something at least.

Lots of great modules are trapped within that game...

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 1d

I can remember exactly where I was when I first opened the Veins of the Earth PDF

I was working at a care home, and I had just turned on Star Trek IV for the residents

I randomly stumbled on it while looking for modules for a 5e game

By the time the movie ended, my brain chemistry was different

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 1d

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Sep 9

in a way aren't we all holding a barrel in the darkness

BouleRonde @bouleronde.bsky.social · Sep 9

Donkey Kong holds a barrel in the darkness

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 2d

GOBLIN

J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 2d

TONIGHT!

GOBLIN!

SUSPIRIA!

LIVE!

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Pe Metawe Games @pemetawe.bsky.social · 2d

Teen Drop-In Indie RPG Games! Come by Tues Oct 14 for 11am-2pm and play Shadowdark with our GM.
Age 13+
$5/person welcome but not required.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 7d

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 9d

Today was session two of Brindlewood Bay @pemetawe.bsky.social.

The Mavens tracked down a Cancerous Cardiovascular Cult in: 'Cardio Makes the Heart go Stronger?'

This is a special scenario because it was written by, well, me! It's Vol 2 of Sprigs and Kindling! Find it at: sprigsandkindling.com

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 12d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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hellojed @hellojed.bsky.social · 11d

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 12d

There's going to be some *good stuff* in this issue, let me tell ya!

Go read S&K!

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 12d

Happy October! We have a Sprigs & Kindling Volume 5 cover reveal for you! This volume is themed around the TTRPG Trophy and creator @jesseross.com did the art! It's incredible!

You can check Volumes 1 to 4 of S&K here: sprigsandkindling.com

A man has his head thrown back as a tree erupts from his chest

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 15d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 16d

Unironically I think this should be illegal. We should have the right to be dead.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16d

"Dad—I’m creating this chatbot to talk to you." Jon Michael Varese on the resurrection of his dead father through ChatGPT:

I Used ChatGPT to Resurrect My Dead Father

My own private Frankenstein

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 15d

A Margherita pizza isn't for sharing; it's just for me. Not appropriate game night food.

A cheese pizza *is* for sharing, and therefore appropriate game night food.

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J. @orthopraxy.itch.io · 15d

Breaking story: angry man can't read

More news at 11

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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 17d

this fucked up apple is trying to House of Leaves me

the applejacks apple standing in fromt of a wallpaper maze. he says "here's my room! isn't my custom wallpaper amazing? solve the maze on the wall to find the way out of my messy room! then we can make like an apple tree and leave!" the maze is unsolvable

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che! @s-che.bsky.social · 17d

ashcan of DEAD INTERNET THEORY, my ttrpg about time travel and how online is a world-ending cognitohazard is now available anywhere you support my patreon.

www.patreon.com/posts/dead-i...

several clowns. four are green. four are pink. one is purple.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 20d

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

line———

Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19d

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Infographic titled "AI Isn't a Ticket To an A," explaining how chatbots work, what the data show about the prevalence of these technologies and how they're used, what we know about the quality of their output, and what we know about the impact that frequent use of these technologies has on their users and on content creators, low-wage workers, and the environment.

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 20d

Coming next summer!
Join @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I at Between Two Cons, an indie RPG/OSR convention in Portland, Oregon.

Fill out this survey to influence how it takes shape:
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The Between Two Cairns podcast is hosting a convention (Between Two Cons) next year in Portland, Oregon, and we'd love your help! Please answer the following questions so we can plan accordingly.

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