Cover of (I must remain) The Glad Cowboy, by me. It's a freeware bit of cowboy art with a smiling emoji over it.
I just released another short ttrpg zine.
(I must remain) THE GLAD COWBOY is storygame where one player plays a Glad Cowboy and the other player plays The Repressed Horror At The Thing They Did. #ttrpg #indiettrpg
kierongillen.itch.io/i-must-remai...
A group of kids stand on a fracturing surface filled with splinters of white light. They're all in the same school uniform, with Bobby at the front holding a satchel and a determined expression. To his right is Tony, blonde and terrified but standing. Behind him is DJ wearing a hat with a hamster with a determined expression on his shoulder and behind him is Nikki. She's the biggest kid, with glasses, pig tails and wielding a ruler like a sword. To her right and off Bobby's left shoulder is Ada, the smallest of them and the one with the most determined expression. The title reads MYSTERY OF THE MIDNIGHT CARTOGRAPHERS by BARRY NUGENT'
Flights of Foundry' is written in green against a dark blue background. Black dragons speckled with white dance through it.
A forest at night with a cottage to one side of a clearing and a fire in the centre of it. The fire forms a wolf and a horse head above the forest and the title CAMLANN - A Post-Apocalyptic Audio Drama is written above it.
DJ Afrosia's 90's New Jack Swing remix. DJ Afrosia is a woman in a brightly coloured top, DJ'ing in a daylight filled cheerful room
#TheFullLid - 6th March - Happy Friday! This week we're solving the mystery of the Midnight Cartographers with @geeksyndicate.bsky.social 's new book, we've got Bandcamp Friday recommendations, @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social crowdfunding and DJ Afrosia plays us out.
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Sabrina Carpenter licking her lips
Me every morning making the same coffee I always make
CENTCOM told me his unplanned war kept eating interceptors so I asked how many interceptors he has and he said he he just goes to INDOPACOM and gets a new Interceptor so I told him it sounds like he’s just feeding INDOPACOM interceptors to his unplanned war and his strategy cheese started crying.
See, this is why I am a nonfiction writer. The truth can be its own metaphor
A crow says "I just want to"
"Focus" Crow is now very detailed and crouching down
Update: I am baking out a loaf so it doesn't overproof and wearing a face mask to both moisturise my face and confuse my kids.
Me: I am a sane, normal, capable person
Also me: I have to meet someone for a thing in five and a half hours time so I can now do nothing
Sprinkler system in the back! Can you fuckin' believe it?!
Psychopompaddington
Step 3: Group Character Creation Character creation in Vermillion Vespers should happen at the table, out loud, with other players listening and reacting. This is a design recommendation with mechanical weight behind it. When a player chooses their Burden, the table hears it and begins imagining what that curse-shape means in the base setting they picked. When a player chooses their Blood, another player notices the overlap or the contrast with their choice and begins thinking about what that means for the relationship between their characters. When a player writes their first Mark, the table witnesses the commitment and begins planning how to test it. The best characters are built in conversation. "I am thinking about a Fury with the Blood of Grace" becomes "Oh, that is interesting, because my Oracle would have opinions about a rage-driven healer" becomes "What if we knew each other before, what if your visions warned you about something I was going to do" becomes a relationship that will sustain the first arc of the campaign before a single die has been rolled. Walk through the eleven steps of character creation together, pausing after each step to let the table react.
Step 4: Worldbuilding Build the city together using the Night Signal system. Each player defines elements at Whisper Range first, centering the fiction around the player characters (the focus characters of the emerging tale), then expands outward. The GM participates as a player, establishing and building out from key NPCs, following the Wattage economy like everyone else. This step typically takes 20-60 minutes and produces a city dense enough to begin play.
Step 5: Connections This is the step most games skip and the step this game cannot afford to skip. After characters are mechanically complete and the world context is established but before play begins, the players define their connections to each other. The relationship should be specific, weighted, and loaded with fictional potential. The structure is simple. Go around the table. Each player looks at another player and starts a statement or asks a question: • "I owe you because..." • "I saved you once. Did you acknowledge it?" • "We share a feeding ground, and it is…" • "We survived a thing together. Why don’t we talk about it?" • "I loved someone you destroyed and we…" • "I watched you do something I cannot forgive. I haven’t told you that I saw. What was it?" • "You know my worst secret and you…" • "You remind me of a love I lost. The resemblance hurts me. How does that make things awkward for you?"
The player being looked at responds and fills in the other half. By the end, everyone should prompt at least one other player and be prompted by at least one other player. The web doesn’t need to be complete. It can be filled in more in play. It doesn’t need to be even. It’s normal for 1-2 people to be the social lynchpins or hubs. Notice that these connections are not all positive. "I owe you" and "you know my worst secret" are relationships built on vulnerability. "I loved someone you destroyed" is built on grief and anger. The best connections generate obligation, tension, intimacy. Comfortable relationships are wonderful in life. In this game, comfortable relationships are wasted potential.
I'm not just proud of the core rules and concept for my vampire game. I'm extremely proud of the GM and player tech that I'm including. I 100% encourage other TTRPG designers to steal these dead simple but deep setup ideas.
tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.
in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.
Ask and you shall receive
My complete #MarcDane action-thriller series is now available in the USA (thanks to Bolinda Audio & @awfulagent.bsky.social for bringing them to 🇺🇸!)
Get all 6 audios via Audible...
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...Amazon...
www.amazon.com/dp/B09PYPYJ8...
...or Kobo!
www.kobo.com/us/en/series...
Ah the glorious early days where everyone reposted the same six accounts all of whom were already sex pests or instantly caved under the weight of nanocelebrity to become one
🚨 This evening, a notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news wire, to all media across the UK
We believe it is strongly in the public interest to publish this memo. This is it in full 👇
I just launched ALL-CARDS on Kickstarter for Zine Quest!
- TTRPG style collaborative storytelling
- Light TCG battle mechanics
- Compatible with cards you already have lying around!
- Pokemon, Magic, Garbage Pail, Tarot, even ALF cards!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dev...
several copies of the paperback of The Sleepless are stacked on a desk, with a bunch of dice, pens, bookmarks and so on
Happy paperback day to me! THE SLEEPLESS is now available in cute lil' purple format (Prince, I feel, would approve), with plenty of time to catch up before THE DREAMLESS arrives
🔥 enemies to lovers
🚫 forbidden touch
🦊 strange gods
🦄 monsters
🍄 wild magic
www.waterstones.com/book/the-sle...
Sorry, I meant he put his own name at the bottom and nobody else supports him.
It's a very short list.
The most important part of the Neil Gaiman statement is where he thanks all of the people who have stood by him and then names them all.
Also, can we agree that if he is on any panel or event the first question is always "do you agree it is essential to believe victims of sexual assault?"
Pictures of them hanging off a dock in Puerto Rico like it's their personal Platform 9&3/4 (just kidding, they can use the actual Platform 9&3/4, given who popped up in the files)
Between the kid glove handling of rich pedophiles and their associates and the terrible opsec of the current politicial class I feel like we are just months away from a leaked group chat of young rich guys who are seething they were born too late to get on Epstein's email chain.
Dark Woke is here
Everybody to Kenmure Street has won an international award at Sundance Film Festival. Well timed, cos it will remind doubters, haters & sceptics that neighbours will protect one another against an authoritarian state - in Glasgow 2021 or Minneapolis today. www.thenational.scot/news/2581367...
I've always enjoyed the fact that even though just the sight of the hole compels him to his death, he still has the presence of mind to keep his boxers on so nobody sees his bum
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
fun fact! a great way to support authors w/out buying their books: request their book at your local library! it seriously helps
Imagine bodying an entire medium in about 30 seconds. They still got it.
