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JC (they/them)
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Mid-30s, friendly crank whose been online far to long.

Bigots get blocked. Profiles with AI Art will also be blocked. Try being less of a loser sometime.
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Next in @drivethrurpg.com's Black Friday sale: the 3rd graphic novel, ARTESIA AFIRE, wholly published by Archaia in 2003. The collected edition includes a story from ANNUAL #2 and a story that appeared in John Kovalic's DORK TOWER. 30% off through end of Monday!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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George Barr, 1975
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I finished my first read through of Sword World 1st Edition.

+ Classes are skills
+ Combat has a good foundation
+ Magic is wiggly and dangerous
+/- No social skills
- No encounter or reaction table BUT that seems to be an edition error because the adventures assume one. You can find the rules.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I just rolled up a Sword World 1st Edition character.

I rolled a reasonabley fit, but smarter than most Human. My background was Villian: Thief +1. I spent XP on gaining Sage +1 and Sorcerer +1.

They use a cutlass, and I decided their catalyst is a cloak embroidered with runes.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 27,1947
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Found The Fist of the North Star and Bubblegum Crisis OSTs on my music streaming platform of choice.

I know what Im jamming too today.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Happy Yankee Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"Everything will include AI"

Oh! That frees up more time for pre-AI art. There is more than a lifetimes worth of art and cool shit out there.

...also the underground grottos are still there being humans.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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"There's nothing in the rules that says a dog CAN'T inherit great wealth and vast estates."

Heir Bud
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
What is it with the gamer memes* about reading and learning being a burden?

Reading is FUNdamental.

*Ive been around the block long enough to know the difference between a shit post meme and a "oh ya thats true" meme.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I kinda feel the need to work on in-depth history pieces on TRPGs but it wouldnt be about any big IP-first rpgs (Shadowrun, World of Darkness, etc) or the constructed history that solely orbits around "DnD".

I feel it'd literally just appeal to maybe a dozen people because fandom/nostalgia blinders
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Here's a closer look at one of the items in @drivethrurpg.com's Black Friday sale, the first ARTESIA graphic novel. First published in 1999 by Sirius, then later by me via my first company, Archaia. Still available through DriveThru in pdf (on sale!) and POD formats under the Aegis & Gorgon banner.
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So, hearing ad reads for digital battlemaps doing the...

"you want to draw your players in but doodles dont cut it"

(...as if thats important, manufactured problem)

"the maps vibrancy will make the world more real and do the work for you"

(let us imagine for you? How fucking insulting)
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 24,1953
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
TRPGs are not an entertainment medium but a creative one.

Its a canvas, a life drawing class, a drum circle, jamming with your friends.

It is not an art gallery, an activity book of connecting dots or filling in the blanks, it isn't a concert or improv performance.

Its creative play.
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Civilization, ancient and wicked.
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Postcard from my collection titled “The Rivals”. Undated.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am reading Sword World 1st Edition: Revised/Complete.

One thing that I havent seen people mention is the influence of Fighting Fantasy on the system. It doesn't read much like a DnD hack, I heard it was.

#ttrpg #japanesettrpg #jttrpg
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
What an awful cover for Stormbringer. This is the 1967 Lancer paperback that I got at a bargain.
November 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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uninvited, screenshot, nes (1991) www.avclub.com/the-10-spook...
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Dream on, Sluggo
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM