TTRPG Tip 51. The combat pillar of D&D and its clones is the most important pillar. Why? Because the game tells us that by having many more pages and rules about combat and few about the other pillars. Where you focus the game loops and the transition from game to story is what your game is about.

Non-artists: please gently let your well-intentioned niche blogger friends know that generating an AI illustration for their posts is not a harmless novelty. There are so many sources for free, eye-pleasing, not-environmentally-rapacious images. Creative Commons licenses, public domain art history.

I think they ought to start naming them after major corporations who contribute significantly to climate change. Hurricane British Petroleum. Hurricane Nestle.

I'm putting together a game release calendar for Rascal! Most of that involves emailing publishers and designers, but I can't do that if I don't already have your email. Share this around, and please send me a list of games that are RELEASING in the next 1-5 months to: chase@rascal.news

“Unintentionally” I’m sorry but at this point if you have all the symptoms of a communicable disease and you go out into the world you’re culpable for whoever you end up disabling or killing.

drjoepajak.bsky.socialOct 6, 2024 1:54am

Coughing, sneezing, sore throat, headache, maybe other symptoms, and still going out and mixing? You might be unintentionally spreading COVID to people who are vulnerable. Remember, only the most severe cases are being detected through hospital testing. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Doctor explains why XEC variant could bring back masks and social distancing

Doctor Joseph Ambani has warned that the XEC variant of Covid-19, which is currently surging across the UK, has the potential to fuel a tripledemic this winter

Musk has killed Twitter. It has lost 20% of its active users in the US in the last year. 30% in the UK. It’s also a cesspool—and one of the worst business gambits of all time, with Musk losing tens of billions. Previously, I explained why Musk illustrates what I call “The Myth of the Secret Genius.”

The Myth of the Secret Genius

From Elon Musk to Elizabeth Holmes and Donald Trump, many very rich people are effective at convincing us of a myth: they're secretly a genius, and you're just too dumb to understand. Are they right?

STAR DRAGONS ARE ALMOST HERE! 💫 🐉

WPwildmagepress.bsky.socialOct 6, 2024 9:55pm

Three days to Horizons release! These protostellar wyrmlings from “Draco Ex Astris,” designed by @ilgingell.bsky.social and illustrated by @alliebriggsart.bsky.social, will mature into sequence star dragons and eventually into giant starwyrms—mighty forces in the cosmos and at your game table! ✨

TTRPG Tip 51. #dnd defined three pillars of play: combat, exploration, and roleplaying. Not all RPGs use that model, but a game often has divisions that can help us understand game play and design. Each phase or division can also do something unique in the game vs. story generator dichotomy.

I am so thrilled to reveal that I had the opportunity to illustrate the cover of the first issue of HORIZONS by @wildmagepress.bsky.social#art#dndart

Erin's correct. Under this reskeet I will ramble and muse about my issues with the "likes don't matter" take.

EBerinbiba.bsky.socialSep 16, 2024 9:25am

This post won't stop circulating and it's *NOT TRUE*. It's only true for the main timeline but for feeds, like Discover for example, posts are pulled in based on their popularity aka Likes. There are algorithms here! Many different ones! Which is one of the cool and unique things about Bluesky!!!