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Jason Bowers
@phdnd.bsky.social
Academic philosopher, author, game designer, YouTube creator, he/him
When you show up to the talk with objections already prepared
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Digital Fulfillment is nearly complete; check your inboxes, fellow Seekers of the Yellow Sign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/623...
Update 48: Digital Fulfillment! · 5 Acts: The King in Yellow RPG
Greetings, Fellow Seekers of the Yellow Sign,We're nearly finished with the digital fulfillment of our book! Please be sure to check the email associated with your Kickstarter pledge; you should find ...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Please join me tomorrow evening, Saturday, November 22nd, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Seven Floors" by Dino Buzzati. As always, I'll read for about twenty minutes, then hang around for a short discussion. This one's really excellent!

INVITATION: discord.gg/NkcAyeEy
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I am very excited to have penned a little thing about Salomé's hideous botany, as part of a series of vignettes.

By the way, who else is going to this thing?

Oh, I'm also writing a story about having a thousand limbs but only wanting the ones crushed, which impede my job as a chandelier.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Please join me this Saturday, November 15th, at 7pm Eastern US on the PhD&D official Discord server's General Voice channel, for my live reading of Michael Cisco's weird fiction classic, "Modern Cities Exist Only To Be Destroyed."

INVITATION: discord.gg/XxK62qt4
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
When you're late for work
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
3K SUBS! Hooray, and thanks for supporting my channel! Look out for a special video this coming week!

Meanwhile, please join me on the PhD&D Discord Saturday, November 8th, and 7pm Eastern US, to hear a live reading of "A Bodyless Thing" by Sam Rebelein!

INVITATION: discord.gg/aKkRrEEn
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Has this ever happened to you?
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Anyone else handing out the Yellow Sign to trick-or-treaters?

Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Here's a fun adventure based on the short story "Going, Going" by Meghan Arcuri, from Hippocampus Press' tribute to William Hope Hodgson, "Where the Silent Ones Watch."

Happy Halloween!

youtu.be/n7ybqgu-F-g
Let's make SCAENA in 5e!
YouTube video by PhD&D
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October 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Do you also fear the sea?

youtu.be/xrz9zxb5sCc
Let's make the SEA OF SORROWS in 5e!
YouTube video by PhD&D
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October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Something I didn't bring up in the video; when Draw Steel was announced, a lot of folks online talked about it as though it and a bunch of other newly-announced RPGs were competing against each other.

But we never felt that way. I think the only people for whom all those games really compete are...
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Reposted by Jason Bowers
In The Guardian, horror writers name the scariest stories they've ever read. Eric LaRocca picks Joan Samson's THE AUCTIONEER, one of our classic horror rediscoveries: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
October 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
THE DAY HAS COME!
October 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Chasms, and caves, and titan woods. And time travel (?)

youtu.be/DTb8-xcZx1I
Let's make FORLORN in 5e!
YouTube video by PhD&D
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Please join me on the PhD&D Discord this Saturday, Oct. 25th, at 7pm EDT, for a live reading of "The Hand of the King" by M.R. Summerleigh. As usual I'll read for about 20 min then hang out for discussion. This event will not be recorded. Be sure to mute yourself!

INVITATION: discord.gg/WzPeYUua
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Jason Bowers
Ghost courts are based around summonsing.
 
#quoteOfGame
October 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Please join me on the PhD&D official Discord this Saturday, October 18th, at 7pm EDT, for a live reading of "A Country Doctor" by Franz Kafka. As usual I'll read for about twenty minutes then hang around for discussion. This event will not be recorded. Be sure to mute yourself!

discord.gg/WzPeYUua
October 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM