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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 27/07/2026

On the same note of PF and rules, I play digitally with my group, but I also have a GM screen with magnet rules for the game that I set up because it helps organize quick info references. Archives of Nethysis is also a key tool for quick rule checking, that is worth bookmarking.

A gm screen with rule information for pathfinder

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 19/06/2026

Liking what I see on @rpg-trader.bsky.social so far - now I just need to get all my previous products added here! Find me and follow me at rpg-trader.com/creator/1068...

Announcement from Dramatic Dragons that "I'm a creator on RPG Trader"

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 01/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.

A cream colored cat grooms herself while laying on a cat tree in front of a window

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 20/05/2026

"Why sit like cat when I can sit like hooman?"

A cat sitting with her back paws spread and her front paws between them while staring into the distance thoughtfully

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 18/05/2026

Lighting is VERY important when photographing. It turns a photo from "a cute nose lick" to "demon here to murder you"

A cat licking its nose while sitting in the sun with dramatic lighting making its face appear monstrous

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 06/05/2026

It was such a pleasure meeting you this morning! Thank you for accommodating my request to sign and write my favorite quotes in my Farseer Trilogy books! And what a surprise to be the winner of the 20th guest gift basket! Thank you and Barnes & Noble - what a delightful event! (cat Mipha approved)

Assassin's Apprentice book by Robin Hobb, signed with the inscription "Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too."

Royal Assassin book by Robin Hobb, signed with the inscription "To keep in your memory all the words that were said... so they may not be forgotten."

Assassin's Quest book by Robin Hobb, signed with the inscription "Hope is the understanding that everything we have been through, everything we have endured, has led us to where we are now."

A gift basket from the book signing with various goodies that a cat (not from the event) is investigating curiously

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 30/04/2026

This person apparently took umbridge to me describing the HP author as "the Big Bad Witch" and likened it to "burn the witch in a witchhunt." Normally I would explain my reasoning, but when their recent post is something like this, there's no point debating. They just want to stir something up

A post by Bluesky user ladyfirewind.com that claims "I feel like maybe some of you just don't appreciate Rowling because your literacy and spiritual intelligence are generally just not that high. You just don't get it. But most people can tell there is a greater meaning to it, that it is inherently wise. That's why it's so popular."

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 25/04/2026

"I don't want to say something is about to happen because I warned EVERYONE about it, so lets enjoy the show instead."

A siamese cat presses a paw to her mouth and grimaces

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 24/04/2026

Mipha just wants cat-crack [catnip]

A cat lays on a rug, one eye closed with her tongue out as she holds a catnip-filled sardine toy close to her

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 18/04/2026

Hey, psst! Sneaking in a post to warn you that I'm running a "Happy Birthday to me" 25% off promotion on DriveThruRPG for several of my paid products - including my latest monsters, the Bruxe! Promo starts tomorrow and runs through the 26th! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 30/03/2026

Quote-Post with a photo showcasing the energy you bring to Monday

A cat sitting on a pink blanket like a human, her legs spread awkwardly apart.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 27/03/2026

Sat down to work on my script to review The Oracle: Monster Generator by @nordgames.bsky.social, and Mipha wanted to take a peek as well. I think it is kitty-approved!

A dusty-cream siamese cat studies the credits page of the Monster Generator

A dusty-cream siamese cat studies the box of the Monster Generator

A dusty-cream siamese catnlooks up agter investigating the Monster Generator

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 16/03/2026

So after a month of not sharing, I think it is time to introduce the latest member of the family! This is Mipha, a new beautiful kitty who loves to play and be loved! She is a bit of a nervous cat, but she has come a long ways in the month she has been with us!

A siamese cat stares at the camera with bright blue eyes

A siamese cat half lays in a cubby of a cat tree, watching the camera calmly

A pretty siamese cat stares out a glass door at a beautiful day.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 27/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to being some zenith to the feed.

A tan and cream cat stares into the camera with wide eyes, her mouth open in a yawn that looks like a cute scream

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 13/02/2026

So life has been been busy this month, which means I won't get a 2nd TTRPG story video up this month. 😓 BUT.... I will at least get my review of How to GM Romance up on February 24th still! Sure, it's past Valentine's Day, but it's at least within the "month of love".... right? #HowtoGMRomance

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 02/02/2026

Excited that tomorrow premieres a new tale from my tables! This time I share how one of my NPCs became (unintentionally) more loathed than any other in the campaign - even more than the BBEG! Premieres on YouTube February 3 at 7:00 Pacific, only at www.youtube.com/@thedramatic...!

A shadowy figure stands beside an angry man pointing at the words "The WORST NPC Ever!"

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 24/01/2026

For anyone that's been wondering what @runicpressgames.com has cooked up recently, I've taken a look at their system agnostic #What'sMyFoundation book - full review scheduled for January 27th at 7:00 Pacific on Tuesday! See it first over on my YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/@thedramatic...

A thumbnail for a video, depicting a man standing between an image of What's My Foundation? and the icon for Runic Press. The words "What's My Foundation?" and Review are centered on the screen.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 06/01/2026

Damn, that is a terrible start to the new year. Hope things improve there soon! Biggest good news I have is we adopted a cat on Saturday... and I have a YouTube channel starting up tomorrow morning. Not much else right now, at least. (Obligatory cat picture included)

A siamese cat standing behind a bearded man with her paw on his shoulder

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 05/01/2026

Today was my second day with the new cat we adopted, and she is settling in nicely!

A cat lays on her back with a mouse wand toy between her paws, uncaring that her belly is exposed

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 30/12/2025

I'm launching a new YouTube channel in January that focuses on tales from my tables, advice and tricks I learned along the way, and reviews of products I like! Tale #1 "A Tangled Ball of Disasters" - goes live 6:00 Pacific on January 7! Come watch, come laugh! www.youtube.com/@thedramatic...

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 04/11/2025

Nothing like seeing fantastic art from @deanspencerart.bsky.social and Tara Quinn, as well as the incomparably beautifyl borders from @alderdoodle.bsky.social to get inspired to leap back into the creator seat once more!

A page spread in Affinity Publisher. The left side shows many page thumbnails while the center depicts the current page spread. A beautiful light gray border outlines each page, with the majority of the text blurred except for the title: Chapter 1 - Surrender and Rejoice. The first page depicts a skeletal army advancing through a dark, green mist, and is art by Dean Spencer. The second page has a depiction of a skeleton pierced by several arrows and holding a sword.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 04/11/2025

Breaking open my massive Tales of the Valiant campaign project I started oh-so-long ago for the first time in months. Packing and moving wrecked my workflow, but I plan to get back into it again now! Cover art is fantastic stock art by @deanspencerart.bsky.social

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 18/10/2025

Did a test of my Halloween getup for the year - I would say this is a success.

A man wearinf a black Jedi robe with a skull-like mask and reflective eyes stares toward the camera. A red glow emanates from his lights aberdeen, reflecting in the large eyes

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 01/10/2025

When a company whose products I use and recommend to others says this (especially after being acquired by Canva last year), I don't get excited. I get worried that the things I like are not going to remain what I liked....

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 18/09/2025

tw: Pet Death Unfortunately had to make the decision to say goodbye to Reina "the Pathcat" this night May her Natural 20s roll evermore across the rainbow bridge.

A man sits in a chair with a tortoiseshell cat in his lap.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 15/08/2025

"How DARE my human have books on other languages and one of them is not CAT?!?!? The AUDACITY!" -The Pathcat

A cat laying on a bookshelf in front of books. The tortoiseshell cat with orange, black, and brown fur stretches out on a bookshelf. Her eyes and posture radiate disgust as she stares at the camera. Behind her, books on languages from around the world can just be seen.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 15/08/2025

Woman-owned business? Great. LGBTQ+ owned? Fantastic. But you come into MY house, peddling your AI crap, you better expect a block from me. I don't give any moral ground for that. You know what has heart? Actual humans putting in genuine effort.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 11/07/2025

The Pathcat is in good spirits and requesting attention, despite ongoing health issues.

A tortoiseshell cat sitting upright on a porch beside the window.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 09/07/2025

This is what Linkedin says is their reasoning: 1) My job title - huh, sure.... 2) The implied seniority of my position based on my title - if you say so 3) The country I am from - hate to break it to them, but I have not been associated with the UK for over 200 years..... Just... wow.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 09/07/2025

Of course, I say this, and then this gem ends up in my messages. Like... how bad must Linkedin's algorithm be to think that I, who has no connection to the UK, would be a good match for this?

A sponsored DM from Linkedin: "Invitation to Join HM The Queen's Centennial Commemoration. Hi Trevar, I'm reaching out with History of Parkiament Trust for the global celebration of 100 years of Monarchy & Democracy, marking HM The Queen's Centennial. We'd like to invite you to Westminster Abbey & schedule an interview for press and our documentary. Can we arrange a call? If yes, click on the 'Want to know more?' button below." They also included an email to reach out to them at.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 20/06/2025

Nothing more exhilirating than making a world map for your fantasy novel, and having it look fantastic, too! Now to post it to #worldanvil, add pins/labels, make articles for all the key locations... all while continuing to write the book that it is based on! Made with #dungeonfog #deios

A fantasy map for a novel's world. A large continent spans the majority of the map, with several islands and archipelagos around it. The glacial south pole fills the bottom right corner of the image. The continent includes several biomes, such as a desert, swamp, forest, and an unusual area surrounded by mountains that appears to be devoid of life. A mountain range curls down from the northern point of hte continent down to the lower third of hte space, where it splits into two prongs that wrap around either side of a heavily forested region.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 06/06/2025

And now and obligatory pic of the Pathcat - she is doing better than she has for the last few weeks, but not out of the woods yet

A tortoiseshell cat lays on a cat perch in the sun, eyes wide as if to say, "What have I done?!?!?"

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 06/06/2025

Unfortunately, the Pathcat has not felt 100% lately, so I've been distracted taking care of her. Fortunately, someone discovered one of my battlemaps I listed on DTRPG on Tuesday and I forgot about. So that's a reminder I should say things about what I've done www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

A battlemap with several rooms lit by torches and fires. "Water drips from unseen stalactites along the cavern’s ceiling, falling with a loud plink in the pool spanning the center of the cave. Torches gutter around the central pool, their light gleaming off stalagmites and making the shadows eerily darker. A pair of paths steadily circumvent the pool, rising to a large, glowing altar. Chants echo in the darkness from hoarse, enraptured voices, filling the chamber with eerie dread."

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 31/05/2025

When the writing is tough and the day is stressful, and homemade pizza makes at least one thing good....

A pizza with pepperoni and thick crust waits to be cut into

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 09/05/2025

With the world getting darker and less joyful, sometimes a wander in nature is what you need to feel a bit better.

A view of a forested valley. A river runs through the center of the gorge, and mountains loom high on the left side. The day is mostly clear and beautiful.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 06/05/2025

That look of betrayal as the sun disappears behind a tree.... 😂

An orange and black tortoiseshell cat glares over her shoulder at her human because the sun stopped shining on her.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 06/05/2025

Morning cuddles in the sun. Great way to start the day

An orange and black tortoiseshell cat lays on her humans lap looking contentedly i to the camera. Sunlight warms her fur, brightening her coat to make her coats' colors pop.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 05/05/2025

They keep going.... and I admit to barely remembering running these sessions

Two pages of notes that are frantic details from DND sessions long past

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 05/05/2025

It's so funny when you see players realize "Oh crap, this is serious" and start taking notes in greater detail when they come across a devil (Lord Ackarell) they need to discuss things with.

Handwritten notes from a DND session, getting more detailed toward the end.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 01/05/2025

"It's dangerous to go alone... take this!"

A carved rock depicting a sword stuck in a stone. The rock is resting on a natural shelf created by a tree.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 30/04/2025

Something that will never make me NOT laugh is that, in the process of coming up with an alternate name for "fey" creatures in my fantasy novel's world, the one I consciously chose is "feyliens" Worldbuilding is fun

A meme featuring the man from History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" that sums up every answer as "Aliens"; only, in this one, the caption reads "FEYLIENS"

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 25/04/2025

Who needs to query GenAI for ideas when great inspiration just arrived on my doorstep? (Answer: Nobody with an imagination ever needed GenAI, but definitely not anymore) Glad to finally have these fantastic tools from @nordgames.bsky.social's crowdfunding campaign!

Two large boxes of Oracle Generator cards. One is labeled for Stories and features a soothsayer in front of the full moon. The other is for Monsters and depicts a spiky skeletal creature staring toward the viewer.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 18/04/2025

@jackgogsbane.bsky.social Here's how yours will appear on the page, with links to your site and these socials built in!

A screenshot of a part of a webpage that shows the icon for "Of Gods and Gamemasters". The description reads: "Jack Kellum is a prolific creator with more than 40 years of experience designing for Tales of the Valiant and Pathfinder, but also for other TTRPGs like Chronicles of Darkness, Fantasy Age, FATE, Gurps—the list goes on! His site also houses a series of articles on worldbuilding, with a focus on mythology and history to further enrich your TTRPG worlds!" Below the paragraph are an icon for Bluesky, YouTube, and a website link.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 16/04/2025

Taking new photos to update my website today, realized I should add some props for my GM Screen. So there's my 2 minute drawing of a dragon. Surprisingly okay-ish... if dragons look like foxes wearing capes

A rough drawing of a reddish orange dragon in a black leather initiative tracker sleeve. While it says "Red Dragon" above it, it looks more like a fox with a cape.

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 08/04/2025

This in turn seems to be a reversal of what they said in Nov 2024

A screenshot from Mongoose Publishing's blog:
Artificial Intelligence
The short answer is… we don’t do it.

However, this subject deserves a longer answer than that.

When all the new generative AI systems started dropping, we had a play with them, and at first glance they were sufficient for staff here to ask whether they still had jobs. On closer inspection of the results… well, it is just a bit rubbish, isn’t it?

The problem is that, fundamentally, AI art is not art. It is not an exploration of humanity in any real measure. And this does shine through in the results.

Turns out, to do art, you need an artist.

Now, we do get the attraction, and a powerful one it is too. If you are an at-home gamesmaster, you get to create all these visuals more or less on the fly for your players – and that is excellent at the tabletop. However, it is also gaining penetration on the starting rung of the publishing ladder and this is a bit… less good. I have this idea (and it is just an idea) that it is being driven primarily by writers. And, speaking as a writer, we tend to be a tiny bit weak when it comes to the visual arts. So, we write up a new robot, give some directions to an AI generator, and look upon our new creation – and think, ‘hey, that looks good, it is really shiny and realistic looking!’

(Continued on next image)

A screenshot from Mongoose Publishing's blog (continued from other screen shot)

Meanwhile, an actual artist is sobbing at the result which has little technical direction and absolutely no soul.

The way, I think, to look at it is this: As a writer/designer, you are not using AI to create your text – because you know exactly how bad it is at that.

The same applies to visual art. We writers tend not to be too good at seeing this, and so can get a bit dippy when we see our words transformed into pictures. I am absolutely not immune to this myself.

At the end of the day, if you have an idea for a publication that you want to get out into the wider world, AI art might well be your best tool. If, however, you want to create a solid foundation that will turn you into a more mainstream RPG publisher in the future… hire a real artist. They will appreciate it and you are going to end up with a better title.

So, is AI the ultimate evil? I don’t think it has to be. I would love an AI that handled all our accounts and finances. That took complete control of our administration. An AI that we could trust to review and create contracts.

A reasonably priced robot that flawlessly packed up all of our mail orders would be lovely.

I mean, this was the promise, right? AI taking over all the boring and repetitive roles so we could focus on all the fun/satisfying stuff. Can we have that, please?

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Trevar - Dramatic Dragons @dramaticdragons.com · 26/03/2025

Unfortunately, did not get into the running for the position I applied to a few weeks ago (not unexpected!). But failure gives a chance to improve the narrative down the road, and I wish only the best for the candidate! For fun, here’s the #pathcat changing my pretty good roll because… cat.

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