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Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex […]
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In the wake of @bigbadcon's 2025 hiatus announcement, I discuss something I think we need to start expecting from #TTRPG conventions: significantly better ventilation. https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/clearing-the-air/
@Da_Gut Oct. 7. Preorders are live; links are at https://spyandowl.com/making-enemies.
The Oobit is mastering the important life skills.
@pteryx @Alphastream Rationalized by, "It's the Multiverse. These monsters behave however you want them to in YOUR world." But fundamentally motivated by risk aversion.
@bigbadcon What about the in-person con?
QsotN:
"Does misty step work through a window?"
"Yes, if you can see through the window."
"Does it work through a stained-glass window?"
"Yes, but you come out looking like a Picasso."
"The common room is abuzz with news of another murder, a human woman named Avra Dreamfall … "
"Avra's now a cadavra." #RPGQuotes #DnD #TTRPG
Musical flashback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcak0MU8LSw
@earthshaking THEY'RE JUST KIDS
YOU WOULDN'T ATTACK KIDS, WOULD YOU
And today I follow up with part 2 of my thoughts on an antifascist #TTRPG, in which I hark back to a game-changing computer RPG from the 1980s, Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/thoughts-on-an-antifascist-rpg-part-2/
If you want to follow an outstanding nonprofit news organization that DOES pay its writers, follow @ProPublica.
TIL (on Bluesky, not here) that @TheConversationUS doesn't pay its writers.
Guess I'm unfollowing.
A reminder that The Conversation has huge revenues - $14.9M (2023) - and doesn't pay writers, including people who are non-tenured. You shouldn't write for them or share their work as a matter of labor solidarity with those of us who aren't fancy tenured folks. https://www.patreon.com/posts/better-90000969
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Making Enemies explores everything that goes into creating monsters and villains from the ground up for #DnD 5E, #Pathfinder 2E, #Shadowdark, the #CypherSystem, and #CallOfCthulhu. Includes 20 original monsters and interviews with some of the most brilliant names in RPG and creature design. #TTRPG
Want to show your gamemaster some appreciation this #InternationalGMsDay? Give them a copy of How to Defend Your Lair (https://bookshop.org/book/9781982171353), or preorder them a copy of Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games (https://bookshop.org/book/9781982171353)! #DnD #TTRPG
Making Enemies explores everything that goes into creating monsters and villains from the ground up for #DnD 5E, #Pathfinder 2E, #Shadowdark, the #CypherSystem, and #CallOfCthulhu. Includes 20 original monsters and interviews with some of the most brilliant names in RPG and creature design. #TTRPG