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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con

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ENNIE-winning author of The Monsters Know What They're Doing and other stuff. Humanist, antifascist, curmudgeon. Teeth on the board. ✶✶✶✶ Home: spyandowl.com Blog: themonstersknow.com Newsletter: onefootinfairyland.com Mastodon: dice.camp/@KeithAmmann

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 7d

TODAY'S THE DAY! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games, with cover illustration by @kroovv.bsky.social and interior illos by @jencmars.bsky.social, is now on shelves!

Get it at your friendly local game store or through one of these links: spyandowl.com/making...

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 39m

Speaking of framing things appropriately

Screenshot of the last two posts by unraveled, followed by the Endless Screaming account going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH"

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 4h

Wow. I've gotten literally hundreds of unsolicited text spam messages from Democratic candidates, but congratulations, @janetmills4me.bsky.social, on being the first candidate to send me two different ones on the same day.

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 6h

Any TTRPG art friends looking for a quick turn around gig?

Client needs 3 humanoid character pieces (head, 1/2, full body) in a semi-realistic (think TTRPG book) fantasy art style. Full color.

Needs for next week, I’m not available.

Ideal if you have store front you can charge from (eg Etsy)

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 6h

Thiel. Was. Always. Like. This.

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 7h

Thanks to my readers for launching MAKING ENEMIES into a terrific first week of sales!

One humble request …

If you're enjoying it, and you bought a copy from Amazon, please leave a review to counter the right-wing crank who dissed it as "PC nonsense." www.amazon.com/dp/16...

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 8h

The only "wave of violence" being perpetrated is coming from the masked fascists kidnapping our neighbors and friends, tear gassing our streets, and threatening anyone who tries to speak up.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 23h

It's Gamehole Con week! Got your badge?

MAKING ENEMIES will be available for purchase at Chimera Hobby shop, and I'm signing books Friday and Saturday from 2 to 6 PM. You can also catch me on panels Thursday (on writing RPG books) and Saturday (on monster design) at 7 PM.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 23h

You're just begging for someone to ask, "What's upsmon?" aren't you?

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 23h

It doesn't matter whether they look "good" or "bad." It would make them look DOMINANT, and that's dangerous. Better to have people all over the place feeling bold enough to say, "You're not the boss of me."

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Ah, well. I needed a good excuse to close all the tabs I have open.

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Screenshot from an SMS conversation:

"There's a Cooper's hawk trying to hang out along the alley and the crows are absolutely hounding it. Following it just far enough away it can't catch them while screaming and flapping around it so it can't catch anything. A real metaphor for life"

"Rooting for the crows NGL"

"They always win"

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Large ones being shut down by force would demoralize the nation and make the fascists' job that much easier.

Be everywhere.

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Also, a few large ones can be shut down by concentrated force. A thousand geographically dispersed ones can't.

We're a dispersed country. If you want to maximize attendance, protests have to be dispersed, too.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

I think they're much more effective. Because I think the only way we get out of this is for elected officials in red areas to be shown that THEIR voters have had enough, and they can't just wait out the storm in their home districts.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

I genuinely thought you were going to choose a different option. The LOL I LOL'd.

Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Mighty convenient that there's no such requirement that applies to EXTRAJUDICIAL ABDUCTIONS

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Brave's developers are NFT/crypto bros.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 1d

Firefox or Vivaldi, I think. Mozilla's been making noises about putting AI in Firefox, but I think it's still safe for a while yet.

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Tom Lommel @tomlommel.com · 1d

Gutted to hear about the passing of @robowieland.bsky.social today.
He wrote games, wrote about games, and was a smart, passionate advocate for the TTRPG hobby. Gone too young.

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 2d

I haven't had a lot of opportunity to travel in … well, this century, but Madison, Wis., always makes for a pleasant getaway.

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RPGBOT.net @rpgbot.bsky.social · 2d

Making Enemies: the latest from Keith Ammann (@themonstersknow.com). It’s available now, and it’s fantastic.

(Not a paid promotion, but I did get the book for free)

#dnd #pathfinder #ttrpg #dmadvice #booktok

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 2d

Try:

It's abhorrent.
It's abusive.
It's criminal.
It's unconstitutional.
It's a flagrant violation of human rights and dignity.
It's immoral.

"Inappropriate" is taking your 10-year-old to an R-rated movie.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Keith Ammann 🔜 Gamehole Con @themonstersknow.com · 2d

They shouldn't even address Vought. They should address the public about how they plan to PROSECUTE Vought when voters return them to power. If they can convince a court that they have standing, they should SUE Vought. They have no business PLEADING with him, which is how this statement comes off.

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