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Tobias

@tabletobrpg.itch.io

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💖💜💙 | Germany | linksgrün versifft 😌 | Sad Space Cowboy (he/they) My itch: tabletobrpg.itch.io My blog: tabletobrpg.blot.im

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Tobias @tabletobrpg.itch.io · Nov 23

New followers, time for a new pin. 😌

I casually write #TTRPG stuff.
I‘m a sucker for sandboxes, soulslikes and metroidvanias.

My itch: tabletobrpg.itch.io
My blog: tabletobrpg.blot.im

✅ Leftist views
✅ Trans rights
✅ Free Palestine
🚫 No AI

If you disagree with any of that, fuck right back off.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.

buff.ly

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Tom Kilian @tomkilianart.bsky.social · Aug 23

Dolmenwood moss dwarves

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Tobias @tabletobrpg.itch.io · 20h

Hank Scorpio ist bei eat the rich definitiv nicht mitgemeint. 😌

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Prismatic Wasteland🔜PAXU @prismaticwasteland.com · 1d

NEW BLOG BANDWAGON
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas

Blogwagon Announcement: Merry Hexmas — Prismatic Wasteland

A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has all the information you n...

www.prismaticwasteland.com

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Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 1d

This week in the Bathtub, it’s the Rolling Coast! Does this amusement park setting for Mausritter a funhouse ride, or is it a tower of terror? find out! idlecartulary.com/2025/11/03/b...

Bathtub Review: Rolling Coast

Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…

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Tobias @tabletobrpg.itch.io · 21h

Such a banger episode. 😌

On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 21h

29 years ago today, The Simpsons first met Hank Scorpio and Homer said goodbye to a shoe for the second time in his life. “You Only Move Twice” first aired November 3, 1996.

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · Aug 26

📰 NEW MINDSTORM POST! 📰 I've thought a lot about what makes good worldbuilding, and the most consistent throughline seems to come down to one thing: being an absolute sicko about it. Here's a post about it, including some interviews from other designers.

www.mindstormpress.com/sicko-worldb...

Sicko Worldbuilding

Question: What does it take to make compelling worlds? Answer: Going sicko mode.

www.mindstormpress.com

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 1d

As a part of my ongoing series "I Am A Hopeless Fantasy Maps Dork", I did a vid on what a GM is going to be able to get out of the Dolmenwood maps book. I own a whole bunch of fantasy atlases, and I have never seen one quite like this. (I know that's the monster book, it was the better thumbnail!)

A Quick Look At The Dolmenwood Maps Book

YouTube video by Jim Rossignol

www.youtube.com

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Kumo @thehangrystories.bsky.social · 1d

Weihnachten im Schuhkarton geht wieder los. Wer radikale Christen nicht beim missionieren helfen will, sollte da nicht mitmachen. Ein Überblick über die Kritik: www.bistum-trier.de/glaube-und-s...

Es gibt auch Aktionen der Tafeln, Malteser und viel mehr, wo man Spenden abgeben kann.

Eine umstrittene Missions- und Geschenkaktion: Weihnachten im Schuhkarton

Immer wieder erreicht uns die Frage, warum kirchliche Einrichtungen des Bistums Trier sich nicht an der Aktion "Weihnachten im Schuhkarton" des Vereins "Samaritan´s Purse e.V." (vormals "Geschenke der...

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☀️Houndsaint☀️🤕 @houndsaint.bsky.social · 2d

Boris Artzybasheff, a Ukrainian illustrator who immigrated to the US in 1919, was known for florid, grotesque explorations of surrealistic anthropomorphism, combining human and machine into fearsome, laboring hulks of metal & flesh.

These illustrations are from “Machinalia.”

#historyofillustration

A massive anthropomorphized sheet metal press, forcing steel into shape under enormous, wrought hands

A white-hot metal billet being picked up by a hook-billed lift with threatening eyes. The covers for the heat sinks are flat, impassive salamanders with distorted, contented, human faces.

A huge, horse-like bucket with a rolling human eye and scowling mouth offloads sparking hot molten metal into a mold in a long line of other molds, all of which have cartoonish human faces and human feet. They appear afraid and pained in anticipation, and the mold being poured into cries out

Molten metal being poured down a human-shaped funnel’s back into a furnace with a gaping mouth human and staring eyes. The bucket pouring the metal is devised like a smiling man’s head, with hands gripping and twisting its ears to let the molten cargo pour down its nose.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 2d

🎉 The Explorateur's Anniversary 🎉

My little community side project's still chugging along, and I'm happy to say, this month's issue's one of my favorites. Lots of great links, a new look, updated categories, and stats from last year's performance.

www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

The Explorateur: Issue #13

Monthly design jams, critique, theory, and inspiration for tabletop rpg designers by rpg designers. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

www.explorersdesign.com

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Rise Up Comus - 🔜PaxU @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 3d

Today, come with me to the Marish: the boggy and fertile farmland at the eastern borders of the Shire. Visit Farmer Maggot (you will not be his strangest guest) or see if you can unravel the mysteries of the haunted Deephallow House.

The Marish - Middle-earth Hexmap

An installment of my hexmap for Middle-earth project. Follow the "Middle-earth Hexmap" tag for all entries in this series. The Marish is a ...

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Tobias @tabletobrpg.itch.io · 3d

Time flies 🥺

Cleo @herbstlaubliebe.bsky.social · 3d

Japanweh ist leider sehr groß aktuell.

Ich vermisse Onsen ;-;

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Personable | Markus @personable.bsky.social · 3d

New Carouse, Carouse!

This time featuring, among other things, me writing about Over/Under, AI in games (not like that) from Patchwork Paladin, a review of Gorman's Larder by @giantrobottackler.bsky.social and a selection of blog posts, as always!

www.carouse.blog/november-202...

November 2025 - Jacked In

We're approaching the end of the year, and the northern hemisphere is getting properly gray and wet now (the perfect weather to stay in and play RPGs). Perhaps the southern contingent will play outsid...

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Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 3d

It’s that time of month again: Idle Digest time! This newsletter is for people who don’t follow blogs, but still want to keep up with my work and what I’m interested in! open.substack.com/pub/idlecart...

The Idle Digest #12

Idle Cartulary's Digest for October 2025

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 3d

Everything good about this place feels like dandelions growing up through the cracks in the pavement, that they're desperately trying to spray with roundup.

My community is a weed, to them. Something unruly, refusing to behave, not knowing its place.

Bluesky @bsky.app · 3d

Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.

We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky

Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...

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Tobias @tabletobrpg.itch.io · 3d

I‘ve hoarded a large number of maps myself and they’re fine as works of art themselves, but ended up using almost /none/ of them, simply because I’d have to design my encounter around the map, rather than finding a map that supports my needs. Also the amount of time spend browsing them was tedious.

Tobias @tabletobrpg.itch.io · 3d

This one is right up there with the battle map ‚industry‘. 🌚

Cassi Mothwin @cassi.mothwin.com · 6d

Dice consumerism is something I really hate about this hobby.

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Tobias @tabletobrpg.itch.io · 3d

A good little read about what’s problematic about all these cozy slop games nowadays. 👀

a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower

more like no thoughts to declare

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 28d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.