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9th-level layabout, vindictive good. He/him. Markedly left wing. RPGs are inherently political. Orcs are racist AF. #Vaccinate #BLM #TLM #AbortionIsHealthcare

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Coming August 6th on Kickstarter! The City of Arches – A high fantasy city sourcebook for Lazy GMs!

Sign up to be notified and tell your friends!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slyflourish/the-city-of-arches-a-high-fantasy-5e-rpg-city-sourcebook

scottfgray ,
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@slyflourish This looks pretty cool.

scottfgray , to random
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Anyone making bullshit kneejerk accusations of AI use against artists working on the new D&D books can seriously go fuck themselves. I am so done with this shit.

https://www.facebook.com/KaterinaLadon/posts/pfbid0Ytjzc2jZoVn1hsyNQseca3tcAzMiwpYApfw5YBEqSamshTvZEY6gpZEc2dc9BrbCl

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This morning, as I was laying on the couch watching my son draw, I was reading a review of an #OSE adventure by Bryce Lynch. While criticizing florid prose, he wrote "Adventure writing is technical writing and has a different set of rules for how to present information." I'm inclined to agree with this statement, even though I've never really thought about it in those terms. Thoughts?

#TTRPG

scottfgray ,
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@Tim_Eagon Adventure writing, like all RPG writing, has to contain a fluid mix of technical writing and story writing — which is why RPG writing is as difficult as it is. I don’t think there’s any secret trick about how much of each type of writing an adventure needs in order to be well-written. It’s more about making sure that the story writing doesn’t occlude the technical content, and that the technical writing doesn’t obscure or minimize the story.

scottfgray , to random
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Shiny!

I am hugely enamored of the updated dragon designs, which kick several kinds of ass.

https://www.gameinformer.com/2024/05/14/the-art-of-the-new-dungeons-dragons

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“This machine kills AI.”

scottfgray , to random
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On the Insane Angel Studios blog! The shortest distance between two points in a campaign is always a straight line — but what can you do when the players and characters decide to take a more circuitous route?

https://missivesfrommooncastle.blogspot.com/2024/04/going-in-all-directions.html

scottfgray , to random
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A new design diary talks about lineages, how your choice of lineage traits shapes your character’s relationship to their line, and how the CORE20 system mysteriously inspired another system entirely.

Awesome worldborn concept art by @Kayandp

https://core20rpg.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/first-of-your-line/

An illustration of three essaruks, one of the twelve worldborn lineages of CORE20: To left stands a young dark-skinned bard with long white hair and visible lower eyeteeth, wearing a loose top and baggy pants, with one leg prosthesis and a lute slung over their shoulder. To right stands an older light-skinned scholar wearing loose robes, their gray hair plaited in long knots and tied up. Between the two, their arms hold up a young child wearing a loose sarong and laughing.
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    This is Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks talking about the amazing opportunities to use AI in D&D and Magic: The Gathering.

    I would very, very, very much like Chris Cocks to fuck off straight into the goddamn sun.

    https://venturebeat.com/games/how-hasbro-is-jumping-on-the-game-opportunity-chris-cocks-interview/

    The advantage we have–it’s funny. This is cutting-edge technology, and Hasbro is a 100-year-old company, which you don’t usually think is–usually you think there’s a threat there. But when you talk about the richness of the lore and the depth of the brands–D&D has 50 years of content that we can mine. Literally thousands of adventures that we’ve created, probably tens of millions of words we own and can leverage. Magic: The Gathering has been around for 35 years, more than 15,000 cards we can use in something like that. … We can leverage all of that to be able to build very interesting and compelling use cases for AI that can bring our characters to life. We can build tools that aid in content creation for users or create really interesting gamified scenarios around them.
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    The is a new approach to d20 fantasy, built on a foundation of freeform characters with no classes and no levels. It turns the aging “pass/fail” core d20 mechanic into fuel for shared storytelling — and you can play it right now!

    https://core20rpg.wordpress.com/the-core20-playtest/

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    More than just a preview, the public playtest package for the includes the full “Playtest Player’s Guide” and “Playtest Magic Grimoire” — the entirety of the player-and-GM-facing rules of the game — plus a 180-strong creature package and guidelines for GMs. Game on!

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    The cover of the CORE20 “Playtest Player’s Guide” with art with Xavier Beaudlet. Beneath a cloudy night sky, a red-haired warrior with a longbow in hand stands atop a rocky rise with their white tiger companion at their side. They watch a ruined tower in the near distance, which has lights glowing in two windows, a spectral apparition rising from the open ground-level entrance, and monstrous bats circling in moonlight above.
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    scottfgray , to random
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    Time is a complete dick.

    Tim_Eagon , to random
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    I'm fascinated by stars getting relatively close to our solar system (and by relative, I mean penetrating the Oort Cloud), something I just learned about the other day.

    #astronomy

    scottfgray ,
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    @Tim_Eagon That sounds like something that would be very bad.

    scottfgray , to random
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    Oh, hell yeah.

    scottfgray , to random
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    At Winter Fantasy. Played my first at-table game (as opposed to playing online) in ages. Needed to cough at one point. Started instinctively looking around for the mute button.

    scottfgray , to random
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    The is a new approach to d20 fantasy, built on a foundation of freeform characters with no classes and no levels. It turns the aging “pass/fail” core d20 mechanic into fuel for shared storytelling — and the public playtest is on right now!

    https://core20rpg.wordpress.com/the-core20-playtest/

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    scottfgray , to random
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    I feel like the CEO-bonfire turbine is the exact breakthrough energy source the world needs right now.

    scottfgray , to random
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    Jennell Jaquays gave so, so much to the fantasy TTRPG hobby and industry, from the very beginnings of both. Even if her name isn’t on the game you play, even for gamers who’ve never heard her name — say a quiet thank you tonight for all she did.

    https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/news/jennell-jaquays-dungeons-and-dragons-designer-obituary

    scottfgray , to random
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    I’m reading the new “Lore & Legends,” and every time “D&D” appears, the too-small ampersand and the off-center kerning make me apoplectic.

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    An urgent update to this previous post! “Lore & Legends” is now presenting “D&D” both with the small-caps ampersand and the full-size ampersand. Occasionally in the same paragraph.

    The questionable kerning continues.

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