iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

i cant stop laughing at everything about this sorry

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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy #swordtember⚔️

Ink drawing- a woman sits in a tree with a sword on her hip. She is eating an apple from the tree. There's a face in the tree!! Woah!

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole Con @tabletopbookshelf.com · 08/06/2026

NEW: City of Blood and Plaster is a system agnostic setting zine with NPCs, factions, and mysteries for your next exploration of Gilded Age Chicago. The scenarios and play materials all take inspiration from Gothic horror and Chicago history. From @storygameschicago.bsky.social

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole Con @tabletopbookshelf.com · 07/06/2026

NEW: Vesta Mandate is a sci-fi political thriller roleplaying game for 2-4 players. On Vesta Station, you play the conniving mastermind with a secret agenda that will bring the Station to its knees or uplift it to a new era. from @storygameschicago.bsky.social

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

if jar jar binks had breasts and was in knights of the old republic it might look a little something like this

Jar Jar Binks with boobs is sitting in lounge seating in a cantina and addressing the player, she says "Yousa Like Jizz?" 1. What’s a nice girl like you soliciting strangers’ opinions jizz for in a place like this? 2. Like it? Sister, I'm the foremost expert in the galaxy. Not interested (Leave) 4. Ohh right duh cantina music used to be called "jizz" in star wars (intelligence) 5. Die, Monster! (Attack) 6. Attempt a Gungan accent

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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Things you read on a blog might make you angry. They might upset you. Stop visiting that blog. Don't waste your time posting comments. Move on and find a new blog. There are so many fun blogs on the Internet. You'll easily find a better one.
There is always another fun new blog to read online.

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Vesta Mandate has been nominated for an Indie Groundbreaker award for Best Setting! It’s so cool to see an aspect that @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I spent so long agonizing over get highlighted. And it’s amazing to be in the company of such incredible games. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

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Indie Groundbreakers Awards — Indie Game Developer Network

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In the social sciences this is known as the reagan bowtie

Graph showing good thing going up over time until ronald reagan then precipitous decline

Inverse line of bad thing

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

From: Citizen Harold (1971), dir. Hugh Foulds, National Film Board of Canada

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Erica Bridges @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Kickstarter campaign for Nostos is live!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...

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Nostos

a tabletop roleplaying game about sailing home and saying goodbye.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

From: Yoshitaka Amano's 1001 Nights (1998), dir. Mike Smith, Hyperion Studio

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If anyone with an SDR and antenna wants something to do this weekend: I would really like to compile a database of IQ recordings from the No Kings protests that have a strong police presence. Generally in the 100Mhz - 1Ghz range, and more specifically frequencies used for P25.

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I wanted to talk about this moment quickly cause I've been thinking about it a lot. It felt like a climax of the session mechanically and it feels worth exploring why @ryanzenith.bsky.social and I built it like this. Watch like 2 minutes from the point shared here for context.

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Vesta Mandate | Harboring War Criminals - One-Shot

YouTube video by StoryGamesChicago

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Jesse B. Miller @jessebmiller.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I made a bunch of custom moves for my Apocalypse World game and they're working really well so I wrote them up to share here. bsky.app/profile/jess... #pbta #gamedesign #ttrpg

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Storygames Chicago @storygameschicago.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Check out a One Shot of Vesta Mandate, run by @ryanzenith.bsky.social and with players @collinjryan.bsky.social, @jessebmiller.bsky.social and Kat Hannigan. If you're looking to run Vesta Mandate at your table, the first half hour has a deep dive on the Session 1 Procedure and character creation!

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Vesta Mandate | Harboring War Criminals - One-Shot

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I have been toying around with this concept for YEARS. Glad someone finally beat me to it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

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Diabolic Dialect

Grab your Spellbook, don your robes! Dive into a magical game of weird wizards and insane, linguistic spellcasting!

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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Anybody less into RPG theory than me is a 5E-only troglodyte and everybody more into RPG theory than me is a fart sniffing navelgazer.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I'm thinking about how every artform that I do - music and writing - has, like, technical terms that mean specific things and are used to describe complex, technical concepts with precision, so that you, as an artist, can communicate with other professionals efficiently and deeply Except for TTPRG

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Chase @chkurk.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The second season of Gamestorm is starting with a bang! Our first episode is out now with guest @outridercreative.bsky.social. Come checkout the first episode and the game we made! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3atsr... storygameschicago.itch.io/when-we-were...

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When We Were Teenage Ghost Hunters by Storygames Chicago

a storytelling game

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Collin J Ryan @collinjryan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

YEAH come talk about it im a lil exploration gremlin and I need it

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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Also: I’m convinced whenever you see people come out of nowhere and have massive success in this industry, it’s because they had a trust fund, or they’re parachuting in from some other industry, or their dad is a marketing exec or something. Like, that’s almost *always* the case.

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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 @sinland.gay · 28/01/2026

listen man: I have a single guiding principle for being on social media and that is to never vaguepost. Live and die by the sword of your opinions or shut the fuck up. To the extent social media is a community (barely, it sucks), I think this sorta soft indirect IYKYK shit is so insidious.

What's the matter vagueboy, afraid you might say something?

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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Courtney (they/he) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @courtana.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

My absurdist queer game about coming out in the workplace is making the rounds before its Q2 release! Keep an eye on the itch page for updates. courtana.itch.io/corporate-sp...

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Corporate Sponsored Outing by Courtana

An absurdist queer corporate collaborative tabletop roleplaying game about coming out in the workplace.

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

one of my long-running campaigns finally died. as an intermezzo before the next one, we've decided to to play a few sessions of Triangle Agency set in 1974

'70s style pseudo-advertisement for "The Triangle Agency," depicting a groovy office space. text reads "More than a corporation. / As an employee, we provide you with not just a job, but a mission."

'70s style image for a course or seminar, depicting a big triangle cut into negative space around an orange-ish lined square. text reads "Resonance and You: A Practical Approach / Agent Training Seminars—Concepts and Problems / PRODUCED BY THE AGENCY AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICE"

'70s-style advertisement for "The Triangle Agency," featuring an image of Lee Majors and a slick sports car with photoshopped-on details. text reads "He knows there's only three ways this can go. Make sure you choose the right one. / The Triangle Agency works in secret to keep our world safe from dissentients, dissonants, and dissidents. If you see an agent in the field, no you didn't."

manual cover done up in the style of '70s EPA manuals, with abstract geometry and a black-and-white industrial landscape. the title reads "Reality and its Consequences," with other text reading "Field Agent's Handbook / Triangle Agency Series C / August 1974"

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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Sasquatch Diaries Jan 3rd sasquatchdiaries.neocities.org

caption reads:Missed out on the phat assed moon everyone's talking about because I was too busy eastin. Drawing shows critters howling at the moon, which has an asscrack, and sasquatch facing away staring at a wall.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Eddington and Pipe Rock theory are the two most prescient cultural works of 2025 that I think are just like clear Rosetta Stones for understanding this era of internet/social media www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj...

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Pipe rock theory

YouTube video by Conner O'Malley

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Storygames Chicago @storygameschicago.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Need a game to play over the holidays? Get our new holiday one-shot adventure The Gingerbread Factory! Flee from the sticky monster, DOUGH. Fend off the Wizard-hating carolers. Unravel the mystery of gingerbread life. Get both The Gingerbread Factory and Diabolic Dialect in a bundle, now on Itch.

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The Gingerbread Factory by Storygames Chicago

My, my. All the gingerbread has come to life! Rita Rhizome needs your help to fix it!

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snow @snowttrpg.itch.io · 23/12/2025

Let's fucking go

An screenshot of "Social Games" saying "We are Ourselves in Play."

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Collin J Ryan @collinjryan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i thiiiiiink it's Taco Bell Friday. feelin a mighty hankerin to Live Más

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

it's important you understand this before trying to invite me to your party

Octopath 0 screenshot: "The following items are needed to impress them.' [Pepperoni Pizza x1] (Held: 0)

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Collin J Ryan @collinjryan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

why does indianapolis tap water taste SO bad unlivable

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Hushpuppy Art @hushpuppyart.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A half memory clings like a scrap of flesh on carrion. Once upon a time, in another life, the path you walked was that of a…

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Rereading LOTR and the flight to the ford, where the party rushes poisoned-by-an-evil-blade Frodo to Rivendell to heal him of the cursed wound inflicted on him at weathertop, is a little less frantic and harrowing than I remember

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Storygames Chicago @storygameschicago.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

We’ve got a Storygames Chicago Giveaway Bundle, just in time for the Holidays! We’ll be drawing winners on the 22nd. Enter for a chance to win by reposting or quote posting this post! You can find other ways to enter in the image in this post!

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