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Hendrik ten Napel checked into the Genziana Hotel @napel.itch.io · 14h

🔪Welcome to the Genziana Hotel🏔️

Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.

The Girls of the Genziana Hotel by Hendrik ten Napel - Gamefound

Play as chambermaids in a 19th century alpine hotel investigating the disappearance of their friend.

gamefound.com

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 6h

“They gave you plain black paint? Bad luck.” Her side of the room is dappled gold.
Another test failed & I didn’t know I was being tested. “Maybe—a forest in moonlight,” I say.
A laugh. “Amazing—want help?”
After, we are striped like tigers.
Like light & shade on the jungle floor.
Like our new home.

Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social · 12h

On an interplanetary merchant ship, strictly enforced rules and regulations are how a crew survives with ship intact and food properly rationed. Even so, each crewmember is allowed a few grams of paint and personal items for their bunk. What does your cot look like?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 15h

It is! And I haven't found the bottom of it yet!

Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 15h

I blame @jasoncordova.bsky.social , actually. I wasn't even following him on Twitter at the time, but he posted something about monster combat in Trophy Gold that really caught my attention, which led me to Trophy, which led me to Brindlewood Bay, which led me to The Between, which...

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 2d

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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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 1d

The short-form Carved from Brindlewood game I'm writing is based on Twin Peaks, by the way. I've pitched it for Volume 8 of Sprigs & Kindling (if I can get it to cooperate before then). Pitches are currently open for three S&K issues—check out the zine below!

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 8d

Sprigs & Kindling sprigsandkindling.com is actively seeking pitches:
Vol 6: Endings & Beginnings. Any Carved from Brindlewood-related creation. Due Dec 1, 2025
Vol 7: Gods & Monsters. The Silt Verses TTRPG and Arkham Herald. Due Mar 1, 2026
Vol 8: Short-form CfB. Due Jun 1, 2026

DM me with pitches!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

sprigsandkindling.com

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 1d

If anything, after editing and revising, the game has gotten even longer 😭

Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 3d

Writing a short-form game is hard, y'all! My current WIP is several pages too long to be called "short-form" at the moment. If only I were better at the editing and revision side of writing...

Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 3d

Writing a short-form game is hard, y'all! My current WIP is several pages too long to be called "short-form" at the moment. If only I were better at the editing and revision side of writing...

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scarewolf 🔜 DE ATL @wherewolf.bsky.social · 4d

Hey everybody, I hate to ask, but I’m putting out my hat if anyone can help. I haven’t talked about it because I didn’t want to make it a big deal but two weeks ago I had to make an emergency room visit. With the big unexpected expense, start of the month payments I’ve hit a negative balance hard

Buy Arthur a Coffee

Become a supporter of Arthur today!

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 8d

Sprigs & Kindling sprigsandkindling.com is actively seeking pitches:
Vol 6: Endings & Beginnings. Any Carved from Brindlewood-related creation. Due Dec 1, 2025
Vol 7: Gods & Monsters. The Silt Verses TTRPG and Arkham Herald. Due Mar 1, 2026
Vol 8: Short-form CfB. Due Jun 1, 2026

DM me with pitches!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

sprigsandkindling.com

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 10d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 12d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 10d

I am still on a KPop Demon Hunters jag. This is pretty intense, moreso than my Encanto jag and much moreso than my brief Hamilton jag. It’s gotten to the point where I, a 55-year-old man, have a favorite KPop Dance Cover troupe. youtu.be/Rwo36UIFM-w?...

[DANCE IN PUBLIC] SAJA BOYS 사자 보이즈 - SODA POP Cover by Saycrew Indonesia

YouTube video by SAYCREW DC

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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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Evil Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · May 30

my body is a machine that turns
purchased TTRPGS
into unplayed TTRPGSs

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 16d

This is an excellent take.

Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 16d

We haven't gotten to the KPDH-associated Threat yet, but so far it's been super fun! I'm playing The Vessel, and after we wrapped, my husband (who was listening from our loft) came downstairs and was like, "Did I hear that right? You did it with a fish-person?" And I was like "YES, I DID, 100%"

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 16d

Had the first session of the playtest for my KPop Demon Hunters–inspired playbook and Threat for The Between this morning! Huge kudos to @likethejeans.bsky.social for jumping in and GMing, @raezee.bsky.social for inhabiting the new playbook, and @rebeccahall15.bsky.social for her hard-bitten Legacy!

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · Apr 12

Charles Xavier: My school helps mutants control their powers. This is Cyclops, he was my first student and he is totally incapable of controlling his powers. This is Jean Grey, she started with Scott. She also cannot control her powers. And meet Rogue, yep you guessed it, can't control her powers

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 21d

We're at $3,152 out of $15k and that's amazing! We have just been conditionally approved for a new apartment pending background checks and we're steps closer to getting our family in track to leaving DC! Please share this wherever you can and thank you so much!

gofund.me/6ae338dd2

Donate to Wes & Bran's Urgent Move: A Fresh Start Needed, organized by Wesley Franks

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. It feels like more … Wesley Franks needs your support for Wes & Bran's Urgent Move: A Fresh Start Needed

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 17d

That looks excellent! Now I want soup

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mcc @dryad.technology · 17d

At Queerness in Games con. Watching Avery Adler's keynote

Situate design and play within the body. You are an animal, making games for other animals.

Embrace the weirdness of the body. We're snotty, hungry, leaky, horny animals that are easily frustrated, excited, and startled.

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 19d

This is amazing.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 19d

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 26d

Backed! This looks amazing. So glad I saw this.

Quinn Majeski 👁️ Absurdia Crowdfunding Ends 10/17! @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · 27d

Live now on Backerkit!

Absurdia is a love letter to classic and contemporary absurdist works like Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls in #TTRPG form.

Subvert normalcy. Embrace chaos. Get weird.

Back today 👁️
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/q...

Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition

An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.

www.backerkit.com

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Sean Tibbitts @pizzoc.bsky.social · 26d

I immediately went out and bought Koriko after watching this video. Haven't started it yet, but I am very excited to play it. What I can say is that the boxed set is gorgeous!

Matt Risby @thebadspot.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ever play a cozy solo journaling game so hard you had an existential crisis?

Me neither.

#soloseptember

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Koriko: A Magical Year - A Solo Journalling Game SO GOOD I Had An Existential Crisis | RPG Review

YouTube video by The Bad Spot

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