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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's the Autumn Bingo! Join us in discord! Link below!

Autumn Bingo board with gaming, creative and cozy activities.

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's the Autumn Bingo! Join us in discord! Link below!

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026

In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)

The fractal game of epic histories

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Round two, taking into consideration the feedback I've received from multiple sources. Two or three stars?

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Could you take a look at these logos? I'm updating my personal branding and could use some help. Which variation is your favorite (4 star, 5 star, 3 star)? What natural associations come to mind and what vibes is it giving? Or if you have any better concepts, I'd like to hear them!

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have been reducing pain meds (with doctor supervision and direction) and let me just announce that I hate it. I'm not good at suffering in pursuit of something that is hopefully better. I'm better at suffering in the manner I've practiced.

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Ted Bushman | Westward Bound Is in Early Access! @tedbushman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today on backerkit, we've finally released our early access version of WESTWARD BOUND, our "oops, all dogs" standalone Last Caravan game about a group of dogs finding their humans after an alien invasion transformed North America. I want to tell you about it! (1/?)

A colorful TTRPG cover that shows a red-rocks landscape below where a car is driving towards a ruined alien ship. Above the landscape loom three cute figures of dogs!

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"What's he doing?" "Sure doesn't look like game design." "How would you know what game design looks like. You're a sheep." "It doesn't even look like breathing." "Good point. So game design looks like death?" "Seems so."

The faces of three of the sheep from The Sheep Detectives, looking down at someone who's dead

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Humble @humblebundle.com · 17/09/2026

Marissa Marcel was a film star. She made three movies, none of them released. Then she disappeared. Immortality and the Narrative Masterpieces bundle support Worldreader | bit.ly/3UvbPTX

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Montford Tales @montfordtales.com · 16/09/2026

What do you do when a strange old book, and an invitation to write to other werewolves, turns up on your doorstep one day? A journaling and letter writing game for 1-2 players. Find out more at www.montfordtales.com/the-almanac-... Don't bite the messenger. #soloSept #soloSeptember

A softcover game book in tones of green and gold is displayed next to tarot cards, narcissis, and a wolf skull.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've done hand deliveries. When someone has lived close I've emailed and asked if they'd like to meet up at a park or library for a hand-off, and then it's super fun to chat for a bit. A couple of people have declined, but more have agreed than not.

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We are in our final handful of hours and we've hit all our stretch goals! If you haven't gotten your box set, now's the time!

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AquaVertigo @aquavertigo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you LOVE world building in RPGs, AND you enjoy solo gaming, please consider supporting @adepticarus.com KS for Arium, which is on the verge of hitting its last stretch goal of Solo Mode Stuff! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ade...

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Arium Complete Box Set

3x Ennie-Nominated Collaborative Tools for Any RPG Group.

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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ssssssssss The Golden Cobra Challenge 2026 is OPEN for sssubmissions. Ssubmit by October 15th! www.goldencobra.org

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Golden Cobra Challenge

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How much replay value do you expect in a solo TTRPG? How often do you play more than once?

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Banana Chan 🔜 Portland Retro Gaming Expo @bananachangames.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I made a trilogy of horror solo journaling games. The final game is Sample. It’s about a DJ who meets a tragic end and it’s set during Y2K right before the ball drops. Players create their own music and choose melodies to determine the outcome. Follow here before we launch: tinyurl.com/2af9nnte

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Will Munn @ Adept Icarus @adepticarus.com · 25/08/2026

All RIGHT! The Arium: Evolve & Arium Complete Box Set Kickstarter is LIVE. You know what to do. Thanks for helping spread the word. It means so much to a small press games publisher. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ade...

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Arium Complete Box Set

3x Ennie-Nominated Collaborative Tools for Any RPG Group.

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wake up babe it's the afternoon and also a new solo game just dropped for #soloseptember As with all my games, this can be played in a single session of under an hour. You will write your letter. You will make edits to your letter. You will not send it. michellicopter.itch.io/the-letter-y...

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The Letter You'll Never Send by Michellicopter

A short epistolary game to play alone

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Chant Evans @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Solo TTRPG players of the Internet! When you're playing a solo RPG that is mostly writing... how much game do you want in your creative writing exercise, or alternatively, how much writing do you want in your gaming? Like, where's the balance? (Please help me out with some reposts!)

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Don't write in layout!" Bruh, I'm not a game "writer", I'm a game "designer". Being able to visualize the end product and the poetry that comes from the melding of words and graphics is huge. I'll do whatever works best for my process.

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A staple of my kitchen is The Whatever Tart, and next month Mail Day patrons are getting a printed copy of this illustrated recipe. As you might imagine, it is the easiest tart to make and great for clearing out your vegetable drawer.

an illustrated recipe for the Whatever Tart, a basic tart guide that can use whatever is in the fridge, as long as there is puff pastry, some sort of cheese and some sort of filling.

a real life example of the Whatever Tart made with gruyere, corn, red onion, some tomatoes and basil.

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We've funded! Now's the time for stretch goals! Let's bring on more writers!

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Will Munn @ Adept Icarus @adepticarus.com · 08/09/2026

I chatted about the state of worldbuilding in games (and Arium, of course!) with Paco Jaen. Fantastic conversation! www.gmsmagazine.com/will-munn-in...

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Will Munn interview: Arium and cooperative worldbuilding in TTRPGs - GMS Magazine

Arium is a worldbuilding TTRPG with a different approach to colaborative worl buidlging with more defined mechanics between players and GM.

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BAMF Podcast @bamfpodcast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@adepticarus.com was recently on to chat about Arium - their new worldbuilding RPG. Fun chat and you need to check out this game #ttrpgcommunity. www.youtube.com/live/wnkH4et...

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Talking Arium the Worldbuilding RPG with Adept Icarus

YouTube video by BAMF Podcast

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole Con @tabletopbookshelf.com · 04/09/2026

LABOR DAY SALE! This weekend only get up to 50% off tabletop RPGs, board games, books, dice & more! Including popular titles like Pendragon, The Wildsea, and Delta Green you're sure to find a new favorite game or great read for your next break from the grind tabletopbookshelf.com/collections/...

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"I am not a graphic designer," I whisper while a shadowy figure tempts me toward a project I have no business attempting.

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Kermit's Dark Side: Inner Battle

Alt: Kermit's Dark Side: Inner Battle

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh, I really like play-testing the solo games I design. I only have to get myself to the table and I can immediately implement changes.

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Will Munn @ Adept Icarus @adepticarus.com · 05/09/2026

WE DID IT!!! Onward to stretch goals. Super excited about these!

Kickstarter campaign for the Arium Complete Box Set, showing $15,023 pledged out of $15,000 by 268 backers, with 11 days to go.

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just $150 away from funding! That's 3 box sets! Would you like one?

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oooh, it's pretty! I've been following this game since before it crowdfunded. I'm so excited to have it in my hands!

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We're sitting at $14k/$15k on the Arium Kickstarter! Now's a great time to back, push us over that goal, and get chomping on Stretch Goals! 🔗⬇️

The Arium Triptych box is featured in the center of this image. To the right of are the three covers of the Arium books, displayed overlapping one another. To the left are the two tri-fold adventures and a series of player aids.

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Student loans may just be indentured servitude.

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 03/09/2026

⚠️ Accessories are here! RPG Trader just got a big upgrade. Creators can now offer print-on-demand physical accessories for their games - alongside digital downloads & print books. Cards. Dice. Maps. GM screens. Tiles. Character sheets. Game boxes. And it all happens directly through RPG Trader.

Screenshot showing the 7 accessories now available - Screen, Tear-off pad, Sheet, Cards Hex Tiles, Dice and Game box

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Once again petitioning the brain people for a way to remove the squiggle meat for maintenance and cleaning like I can with my eyeball contacts.

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RPG Trader @rpgtrader.com · 02/09/2026

If you love solo RPGs, you should probably know about @solorpglist.com. It’s a brilliant community-driven directory for discovering solo & duet games. They even picked up Silver for Best Online Content at this year’s ENNIEs. 🥈 Check it out: solorpglist.com

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Solo RPG List - Find Solo and Duet TTRPGs

Discover amazing solo and duet tabletop role-playing games that can be played with—or without—dice, tarot cards, playing cards, pen and paper, etc.

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Not to give too much away, but one of my favorite bits we designed for Arium: Evolve are the asymmetrical relationships that naturally grow from questions asked from character to character. While many games have a pick list style bond question, we took an Arium bent. Check out our Kickstarter! 🔗⬇️

A handout for Arium:Evolve where you can map your PC relationships.

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Would you say you know how to play Klondike Solitaire? Do you also know how to set up a physical version of it?

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Asha Ence 🔜 PAX Unplugged @ashaence.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There should be something we can ingest or inject that would make us smell terrible to mosquitoes. Spray is insufficient for me.

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Kangaroo's Itchy Scratch

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

‘You can’t own a game’ rendered like the old anti piracy ads

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Fields of Mistria ✨ Out now in 1.0 @fieldsofmistria.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bring a little bit of Mistria home with you! ✨ Check out the Fields of Mistria collection at Fangamer and add a little Mistria magic to your life. 🛍️ www.fangamer.com/collections/...

A cute Dozy Plush is sitting on a pink plush pillow. It's about 10.6 inches tall when lounging on its included plush dog bed.

Mistrian Friends Throw Blanket: It's a soft-finish woven throw blanket measuring 60 inches by 50 inches, made from a 70/30 poly-cotton blend.

Juniper's Bathhouse Bath Bomb Set:

Spa Tonic - "Juniper's Brew"
From Juniper's private reserve, this herbal bath bomb spa tonic is much too good to waste on backwater villagers. Simply magical!

Lavender Chamomile - "Dozy's Naptime"
Dozy won an award for designing this pawsitively relaxing bath bomb blend. The award may have been a dog treat, but don't let that dissuade you.

Black Amethyst - "Dragon's Dream"
A Mistrian favorite, this floral bath bomb captures the undercurrent of deep draconic magic that flows through the land. (This one produces a glittering effect in the water with the help of biodegradable cellulose.)

Green Tea Bomb - "Celine's Garden"
This herbal, floral bath bomb showcases the incredible variety of flora in Mistria. Courtesy of Celine's own garden!

Henrietta Plush: Prize-Winning Chicken Plush. It's about 8.6 inches tall.

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Twenty five TTRPG designers have joined forces to bring you this bundle! Get games about dragons, investigators, knights, chefs, and more for any price you choose. itch.io/b/3856/begin...

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Will Munn @ Adept Icarus @adepticarus.com · 27/08/2026

A. Hire @salvaterra.bsky.social to create gorgeous box art. B. Become a Project We Love. B follows A. The logic is simple.

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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"If The Odyssey made you want to play a game, it's probably Agon that's gonna scratch that itch." -- Judd Karlman. Couldn't ask for a better endorsement! Jump in to mythic adventures with a game all about epic deeds. Grab the book from the Evil Hat website, or the PDF here: johnharper.itch.io/agon

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AGON by John Harper

Heroic action in the mythic age

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