Laura Hirsbrunner 🍉😷

I always enjoy Levi's perspectives and resources on game design, and this is no exception.

More Instructional Design For TTRPGs by Levi Kornelsen A follow-up!

It's also up! It's also handy! It's also free!

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

The fact that this is sticking is *extremely* good, and I'm frankly surprised every time I remember it that it hasn't had an impact on the AI bubble already.

You *don't own* anything you generate (and shouldn't, even in the imaginary land of an ethical generator).

🪻 HEY, LESBIANS! I'm slowly gearing up to put Lessons in Bitter Annihilation, a TTRPG about lesbians and comphet, into print.

If you are a lesbian and do:
🎨 Illustration
🖱️ Graphic design
🖥️ TTRPG layout design

Please share your portfolio in the replies! Trans lesbians especially encouraged 🧡🩷💜

Beyond the Woods for Legend in the Mist RPG Explore a world of ancient myth and legend in this Irish inspired campaign setting for the acclaimed Legend in the Mist tabletop RPG.

Beyond the Woods for Legend in the Mist is Now Live! We’re incredibly excited to bring the world of Tír Nascath to Legend in the Mist. Back within the first 48 hours to get the exclusive early bird discount on the gorgeous slipcase.
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The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

Well, would you look at that?

Jokes aside I am truly so excited to be working with the rest of the team to bring you some incredible stuff for Plotweaver, and I can't wait for you to see what @kiennas.bsky.social and I are cooking up for Project Folio specifically!

Surprise, I'm co-leading one of the core setting books for Plotweaver alongside @anarisis.dylangrinder.com!

It's been an incredible time so far with these folks, and I can't wait for you all to see what we've been cooking 😊💖

Plotweaver is taking the Cosmere RPG's systems and bringing them to even broader horizons.

I'm very excited about the team we've put together for this.

Groupshot of the Plotweaver team with the Plotweaver symbol

Plotweaver is currently getting developed by a wonderful group of folks!

So, please read (and share!) below about the people making this awesome game 🧵

Important reminder:
If you ever share a document or email publicly (especially from a reporter, organization, or official source) do not post it word-for-word or as a raw screenshot.

holy shit

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet.

(Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.

I think it is human to want spaces where you, personally, can find some respite from the horrors of the world. I also think that expressing a desire for shared hobby/interest spaces to be "apolitical" or a "refuge from doomscrolling" betrays the fact that you really don't get it. Like, at all.

Resisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland.

Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.

Oh that's cute!!

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing?

ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW.

I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.

This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

Sounds to me like someone just volunteered to build me an LED light box 🤔

Hurrah!

...and 6 months from now, it's most likely I'll be sitting in my still-windowless closet-office with a tarp taped over the hole in my wall that I never got around to putting a window in.

Maybe I can stick the pretty stained glass sticker on the tarp to jazz things up a bit.

ohhhh I like this.

Brb, doing a perfectly reasonable thing and knocking a hole in my closet-office wall so I can add a window so I have an excuse for cute stained glass.

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

Plotweaver roadmad showing off what's happening throughout the next year: Q2 2026: Alpha Playtest Q3 2026: Announcement Q4 2026: Secret Q1 2027: Beta Playtest Q2 2027: Kickstarter

The first Plotweaver newsletter has gone out! mailchi.mp/brotherwiseg...

In this month's newsleetter, we show off the roadmap for Plotweaver, an internal playtesting update, results from the Plotweaver survey, and some cool art!