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@mataramg.itch.io
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Game dev, GM
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i'm a descriptivist, i believe that words' meaning is how they're used. i believe in the evolution of language, language as toy, tool, and game. i promise i don't have a voice in my head shouting "do you fucking mean graft, you dipshit?" or "grift is informal, graft is a crime in the us legal code".
screenshot of a bluesky tweet from sitting senator Chris Van Hollen. The tweet reads in part, "More grift. The Warner Brothers merger was already suspect, but now Trump's family is getting in on the act."
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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sure. :]
Photograph of a large box of miniatures from Steamforged Games' Epic Encounters line of products. It says "Island of the Crab Archon" on it, and has a large crab-like humanoid on the lid. Another photo of the "Island of the Crab Archon" box, with the lid removed, showing the first layer, where the folded game map and rule booklet lie in bespoke nests molded into the plastic interior structure. Only the game map is currently visible at this layer. Another photo of the "Island of the Crab Archon" box, with the lid and game map removed, showing the second layer, where the game booklet lies in its one-layer-deeper molded plastic nest. Both the game booklet and some of the miniatures are currently visible at this layer. The game booklet, map, and lid have all been removed, revealing just the plastic container of miniatures. There are a goodly variety of different molds and different creatures represented, about 21 miniatures in all.
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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seeing concept art for world of warcraft often makes me think abt Superfantasy's axioms-of-the-genre and how i'd write it now, 5 years later, but this kind of homey, humanizing or "literalizing" art does it doubly so.
image of a piece of concept art labeled "Blood Elf Props - Interior", made by an artist with Blizzard Entertainment for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion called Midnight. It shows a lavishly decorated little room full of furniture, books, art supplies, and other homey comforts, but all done in a gold-trimmed and bejeweled style.
December 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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like look at this thing it's made entirely out of charm points
screenshot of the four-legged mech frame called the Kidd, from the tabletop roleplaying game Lancer. little yellow arrows are pointing at various parts of its structure, pointing out things i think are charming about it.
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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real HORUSheads know whats up
Image of the Balor mech from the tabletop roleplaying game Lancer. The headline of an article from Business Insider has been placed below the Balor with lines implying the headline is actually a speech bubble and that the Balor is saying these words. The headline reads: "How do you get cheap military drones fast? 3D-print them on the battlefield."
December 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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case in point: the only two cool droids.
image of ND-5, the droid companion character from Star Wars: Outlaws. he is a tall roebit with a cowboy gunbelt and a long olive drab duster coat. image of an IG-100 Magnaguard, a lanky droid from Star Wars who wears a big desert tan cloak with arrow-like patterns on it, and carries a big electrified staff.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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by far not the worst of them, but one I remembered how to find fastest. lmao

the number of caveats, the fact that after all that it still gives a save, the fact the payoff for all that is extremely minor (Slowed levels are like -10 speed), the fact it can happen several times on one attack action
Screenshot of part of a convoluted character ability from the Star Wars-themed 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons hack, Star Wars 5E. The ability text reads: "Whenever you have advantage on an attack roll and hit and the lower of the two d20 rolls would also hit (or a creature has disadvantage on a saving throw and the higher of the two d20s would also fail), and the target is no more than one size larger than you (your size or smaller if your weapon has the light property), it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw (DC = 8 + your bonus to attacks with the weapon) or gain 1 slowed level until the start of your next turn."
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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i need to know if @dragoncobolt.bsky.social is aware of this game,,, i'm sure you are, this seems like something you would've already stumbled upon ages ago, but just in case
Screenshot of the RPG Geek website description for the roleplaying game Black Tokyo. It is, frankly, buck-fucking wild, and definitely something that would be... let's say "unlikely" to be published today. I've highlighted some specific bits, such as the creator's name ("Chris Field") and the description of the setting as being a "Hentai-Inspired modern-magic setting". There are a lot more bizarre and troublingly-worded things on this page, though. If I'd wanted to be thorough, basically the whole page would be covered in highlighter marks.
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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holy fucking shit they were still publishing this stuff RECENTLY.
screenshot from the roleplaying game book, "Back to School in Black Tokyo", showing the words "Copyright 2016, Otherverse Games".
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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i need sw5e to stop using the word "virility" when they mean "vitality"... it... it doesn't mean what you think it means, my man

the two are not synonyms my dude

virility means your balls are real strong and horny my guy
Screenshot of a feat from Star Wars 5E, a very bad unofficial star wars dungeons & dragons hack. The feat is called "Forceful Vigor" and the beginning of its description reads: "Your strength and virility rarely go unnoticed, often to the point of distraction." Yeah, man I'm sure the virility is super distracting. Screenshot of another feat from Star Wars 5E, a very bad unofficial star wars dungeons & dragons hack. The feat is called "Vigorous Virility" and the beginning of its description reads: "Thanks to the strength of your vitality, you gain the following benefits."
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Conan Exiles literally has all of these things in it. lol
Screenshot of a bluesky tweet from the person Dragon is quote-tweeting above, named "Destin". The text of the tweet is: "Steam and Epic can refuse any game depicting necrophilia, slavery, or sexual violence. It violates their policies. No one can force them to distribute this. The studio can distribute themselves. No one is stopping them."
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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like bro what do you mean the Primal doesn't touch either the essence of mind? What the fuck is Speak With Animals?

*giant stamp with the words "STRICT MATERIALISM" starts to come down*

But wait, it doesn't touch the spirit essence either...

*second stamp with the words "ORTHODOX CATHOLICISM"--*
A screenshot of a piece of art from the pathfinder RPG book, Secrets of Magic. It shows a pictorial representation of the traditions of magic in pathfinder called "the wheel of magic". The wheel is divided into quadrants, with the points pointing towards the words "mind", "spirit", "life", and "matter", and the quadrants representing arcane magic, divine magic, primal magic, and occult magic.
December 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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started replacing the text on some of my more unhinged worldbuilding diagrams with elvish so that i can post them in da groupchat to antagonize people without spoiling things. things are fine here, dwai.
screenshot of a sort of flowchart showing a large circle at the top emanating waves out to several lower-order items, some of which are permeable to the emanations and some of which are not. lower down, several items have little icons accompanying them. all of the text is in the tengwar, one of the elvish scripts created by Tolkien.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I FOUND JARK

he was standing in this little corner facing the wall for some reason...
Screenshot from the virtual tabletop Talespire, showing a small man carrying a bucket, facing a corner. This is jark the pissboy. Another shot of Jark the Pissboy, showing his position relative to the bazaar outside the inn, where Fimbus the Book Pervert, Kelamiel the Spice Elf, and Antoine the Produce Goblin have set up shop. I don't know why Jark the Pissboy is standing in that corner.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I CAN'T FIND JARK
Screenshot of two characters in the virtual tabletop program Talespire. One is a bald human man with a ruddy nose pointing happily at a mysterious bottle. The other is an even more bald dwarf with a red beard lifting a flagon in a toast. These are Horgnam Crambpf the 3rd and Valde the Cirrhotic, respectively. Screenshot from the virtual tabletop Talespire, showing a small man with a jeweled staff standing next to a large bazaar table loaded with books and scrolls. This is Fimbus the Book Pervert. Screenshot from the virtual tabletop Talespire showing a pair of bazaar stalls with a goblin and an elf woman standing behind them. Both are in roughly equal states of undress; very unsanitary. These are Antoine the Produce Goblin and Kelamiel the Spice Elf, respectively.
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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came back to talespire after only ever using it once, to play around with it a bit and see if it'll work for a thing i was thinking of using it for and lmfao

i forgot... about these npcs,,,
screenshot of a part of the user interface for the program Talespire, which is a virtual tabletop for roleplaying games. It shows the unique NPCs I'd made for a test game, with names like "Antoine the Produce Goblin", "Fimbus the Book Pervert", Horgnam Crambpf the 3rd", and of course, "Valde the Cirrhotic".
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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using an old dm screen, a knitting needle, some plastic bobbins, couple wall hooks, and some decent 60-lb printouts of someone's excellent GM screen panels (www.reddit.com/r/daggerhear...), I have made a daggerheart GM screen w/ fear tracker. :3c
The front of an old Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master screen, with a pair of hanging hooks adhered to the front. The hooks are holding a wooden knitting needle which has plastic bobbins threaded along its length to create a sort of abacus-like setup. The inside of an old Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master screen, showing new pages to help the game master of a different game called Daggerheart. These pages have been glued over the old D&D information. Another photo of the inside of an old Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master screen, showing new pages to help the game master of a different game called Daggerheart. These pages have been glued over the old D&D information.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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oh yeah i made an encounter sheet thing for daggerheart.

it's a lil bit crowded at the moment, a hypothetical second pass would cut down the battlefield section and add a lil more breathing room, but that'll come later. for now at least it does what i needed it to.
image of a sheet for use with the roleplaying game Daggerheart, with sections for multiple different enemies, that the gamemaster can use to keep track of enemy hit points, stress, and other information.
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A friend had this when I was a kid, but we basically just used the stuff in it (esp. the paper minis) to play AD&D, As Was the Style At the Time (in my friend group anyway).

Grabbed a copy for dirt cheap at a garage sale a couple years ago.

That dragon made it into Dragon Strike's logo, also! 🐉
Close-up screenshot of the logo for the TSR board game Dragon Strike, which was in many ways a simplified version of Dungeons & Dragons. The logo features a small image of a dragon taken from the painting featured in the post that I'm quote-posting from Sasha's Retrobytes.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It's him... it's the Task Manager... the One Who Manages Tasks...
Screenshot of a youtube video called "I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew". The video thumbnail shows an older white gentleman with a white beard and a cherubic face—a bit Santa Clausian, to be sure—pointing at his own head. Next to him is an older, possibly Windows 95 instance of the Task Manager utility; the thing what pops up when you press control, alt, delete, and want to close misbehaving programs.
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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There are hundreds of skills, each expansion adding tons more. And any given character only having access to some of them based on their class and subclass choices. Many skills have to be unlocked, either by buying or finding them (or by "capturing" them from bosses, which feels amazing).
Screenshot from the Guild Wars 1 Wiki, which reads: "Learning and Unlocking Skills Newly created roleplaying characters start the game with no skills. They will have the possibility to learn new skills as they progress in each campaign. A skill can be learned by: - Doing certain quests which reward the player with a skill or automatically give the character skills (for example Domination Magic (quest) or The Elementalist Experiment). Most of these quests are secondary quests (they do not follow the storyline) and available as soon as the player reaches a new region (especially tutorial areas). - Purchasing a skill from a skill trainer (PvE-only skills and elite skills cannot be learned this way). - Purchasing a skill from a Hero skill trainer (except for non-Sunspear PvE-only skills). - Capturing a skill from a boss. - Switching secondary profession, which adds the set of default basic skills for each profession. Each time a PvE character learns a new skill (except for PvE-only skills), a small dialog box appears informing that the skill has become unlocked for the account. When a skill is unlocked on an account, it can be used by all PvP-only characters and heroes of the account. Additionally, PvE characters can use a skill tome or elite skill tome (if the skill was elite) to learn the unlocked skill. If the unlocked skill was non-elite, all skill trainers of that skill's campaign (with the exceptions of Halbrik in Ascalon (pre-Searing)) will start offering the skill for all PvE characters of the account, even if it was not already part of their original unique set of skills for sale."
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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my partner brought evil into the house
photo of a small plastic golden snail with a button on top. it's a "buster call" snail from the manga/anime One Piece.
November 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Riff Tamson
Screenshot of a youtube video thumbnail showing the deeply unfortunate shark man from a previous tweet in this thread. The name "Riff Tamson" is at the bottom of the image in big all-caps letters.
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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"tell me u don't know any furries w/o telling me"-ass image
Screenshot of a "karkarodon", a species of people in Star Wars, apparently. It is a shark-like humanoid with webbed hands and feet, but no tail.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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can't come i'm busy doing hot girl shit
screenshot of the Overwatch character select screen. I've chosen the character Juno, with a character skin that makes her look like a magical girl with cute little glowing winged shark friends. screenshot of my spotify, which is listening to cute poppy electro shit from an artist named dark cat. screenshot of Overwatch again, this time a victory screen showing my team after we won. My magical girl Juno is floating with her little shark friends in as menacing of a pose as she can manage.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM