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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(I assume the OP can't read the above, in which case, *the system works*.)

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Without saying your age in text" is just an open invitation for bots to harvest demographic data.

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 06/10/2026

The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

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Microscope (2nd Edition)

The award-winning game of epic fractal histories

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth"

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New Voynich Manuscript theory has just dropped!

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My kind of tourist trap! Visited the Museum of Alchemists and Magicians of Old Prague (I attended the puppet theatre production of Faust in its courtyard the other night). Reputedly Edward Kelley's residence where he conducted mad alchemical experiments for the emperor in the late 16th century...

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"how did you get into ttrpgs" I started out casually, you know, board games like Snakes and Ladders and Monopoly. Then my friends moved to harder stuff like AD&D. Soon, I was hooked and looking for my fix with Call of Cthulhu and Runequest at shady conventions.

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is not the cool cyberpunk dystopia we were promised.

Christopher Hale
@ChristopherHale
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.

Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.

For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-anthropic-nearly-walked-out-on

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 01/10/2026

We're having a little chat about the new Microscope (and games in general), if you're into that sort of thing… www.reddit.com/r/RPGcreatio...

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From the RPGcreation community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the RPGcreation community

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The possibility space spirals in on itself, and suddenly everything's called Rise of the Bonelord: Origins of Dust." I have some dreadfulnews…

Cover to the RPG supplement "Rise of the Bonelord: A Hexcrawl of Bone, Fog, and Sarcastic Magic", illustrated with terrible genAI (very probably) skeletons and a skeleton king against a generic foggy psuedo-Gothic landscape.

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe, just maybe, they’ll recognize Johnny Carson from The Simpsons.

The Simpsons with Krusty the Klown and Johnny Carson

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey everyone! I'm so excited to announce this! If you like the D&D 'walkthrough maps' I've done over the years, I'm proud to present my new book... DUNGEONS! ILLUSTRATED MAPS OF CLASSIC DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ADVENTURES, coming from Ten Speed Press on April 27, 2027! (1/4) #dnd #ttrpg

"Dungeons!" book cover showing the exterior of the Tomb of Horrors, in a nighttime swamp, surrounded by red-eyed monsters. A group of stick-figure adventurers stands with a lantern preparing to enter the tomb

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I am the Revelation! The Tiger-Force at the core of all things! When you cry out in your dreams—it is Darkseid that you see!"

Darkseid, in closeup against a dark background of Kirby Krackle, to his charismatic but obsequious minion: "I like you, Glorious Godfrey! You're a shallow, precious child-- The revelationist-- Happy with the sweeping sound of words! But I am the revelation! The tiger-force at the core of all things! When you cry out in your dreams-- it is Darkseid that you see!"

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CoC.JP is a culture unto itself, with very different playstyles and scenario creation. Translated scenarios are just beginning to reach the English-language market, e.g. in the Miskatonic Repository program on DriveThruRPG.

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Most definitely—and he assembled an absolute Murderers' Row of talent of Mythos writers to contribute.

Credits for Call of Cthulhu d20 (2002). Designers: Monte Cook and John Tynes; Based on the work of Lynn Willis and Sandy Peterson; Additional Deisgners: Bruce R. Cordell, John D. Rateliff, John Crowe, Kenneth Hite, Dennis Detwiller, Adam Scott Glancy, Michael Tice, Eric Rowe, Shannon Appel, Bruce Ballon

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

John Scott Tynes & co. did excellent work on the d20's Cthulhu Mythos and GM chapters, as good if not better than the corresponding ones for CoC 7th ed. It's a shame it's out of print.

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Verna Soulurn's Finale Fantasy sold XX,000 copies. How many copies do you want to order of her upcoming novel Snoligoster Girlfriends?" Booksellers are persuadable folks who, deep down, just want books to sell.

PUNCH Cartoon (1933) of a bookstore, with a timid customer and a confident bookseller

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One (small-ish) advantage for writing tie-ins is that sales can create a track record for sales reps to show booksellers. That drops as an author establishes one, preferably of their own work, but it helps for those starting out.

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was the Gas Leak Year that held it back, wasn't it?

The cast of Community's fourth season, depicted as bobble-head versions of themselves, on display in a row of school lockers

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Neither Community nor The Good Place made the top 50?

New York Times list of The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, with The Good Place at #51 and Community at #97

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Chris Huth @umlauthuth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rattling my tin cup while I work: ko-fi.com/O4O8CAE3 Still need over 2K, but it's rough out there in general right now so in addition to my regular illustration gigs and personal projects I'm trying to put together a fundraiser.

me (smol) being assailed by a metaphorical representation of The Horrors (a cadaver sludge)

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Neither Wargamer nor EN World received preview details about the World of Warcraft D&D book. Instead, everything is being filtered through YouTube influencers and WotC's Dungeon Masters AP series. Covering previews is dubious work anyhow, but journalists were seemingly left out of the first push.

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Chris Huth @umlauthuth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Landlord making noises so I gotta rattle the ol' internet tin cup again. I'm behind basically two month's rent minus what's already been given, and Oct 1 will probably be pretty short too. ko-fi.com/O4O8CAE3

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Massimo Vignelli is spinning in his grave.

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just encouraging all Mac users to contact Apple and tell them it's BS that Siri and Apple intelligence can no longer be fully disabled in the latest update (OS27). Reports vary by device, but between 10G and 30G of AI garbage models downloading. I just wiped and will be staying with 26 for a while 😡

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a figure in gaming, Warren Spector is an even more important bridge between RPGs and computer games than Sandy Petersen. In retrospect, Deus Ex wasn't a breakthrough but a high-water mark—"with the right kind of eyes you can almost see […] that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It comes late in the game, so to speak, but Warren Spector's original Deus Ex was like a wish list with every item checked off.

Deus Ex (Ion Storm, 2000)

Set against a night time cyberpunk skyline, the game's protagonist JC Denton, sporting mirrorshades and a black leather trench coat, looks up toward a source of illumination out of frame.

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The episode's actual title is "A Nice Place to Visit" (by MVP writer Charles Beaumont). Presumably it's too subtle for Youtube's algorithm.

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Paramount's tag sounds like it would be read in the exact cadence of an Onion headline.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you've enjoyed the extensive D&D product histories we published with Designers and Dragons Origins, you might also like this history of Traveller that @shannonappelcline.bsky.social wrote. Deal of the Day today. 👇 🔥

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy #Batman* Day! * Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger.

Ty Templeton comic: What If Bob Kane Had Gone Ahead and Created Bat-Man Without Bill Finger?

A comic strip presents the perfunctory crime-fighting debut of Bat-Man, a red-suited blond hero wearing a domino mask rather than a cowl and a set Da Vinci-esque wings, who arrests a nondescript gangster, with no sign of Robin, Commissioner Gordon, Batmobile, or colorful rogue's gallery.

https://tytempletonart.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/giving-comics-the-finger-bun-toons-yay/

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It certainly brought home how the 1918–1920 "Great Influenza" pandemic could leave such a disproportionately small cultural footprint and little impression on the historical record. Compare it to, say, the legacy of the Black Death.

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Tʀᴀᴠᴇʀɴ @btravern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It doesn't say if it's 5e compatible or not.

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