iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Axe of the Blood God - An RPG Podcast @bloodgodpod.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This weekend is the big AOTBG Charity Livestream for Trans Lifeline! And what have we got planned for it? Well, take a look at our schedule!

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Arcane Sword Press @arcanesword.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Coming Soon in Fall of 2026: SPACER, my personal rewrite and expanded version of Classic Traveller designed to be released under the Creative Commons sharealike license for FREE. This means people can make their own content for Spacer or design a new game using it!

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Matt from Knot Hollow @knothollow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I really hope everyone in the TTRPG space watches this video – maybe 2 or 3 times. You might well get pissed off by some of it, but we ALL need to talk about this. And maybe even DO something. (And NOT just the actual play people.) Thank you, @michellicopter.bsky.social, for every bit of this.

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We Need to Talk About Diversity in TTRPG Actual Play

YouTube video by EUphoria AP

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Satanic Panic | DNGN CLUB @dngnclub.itch.io · 17/07/2026

Excited to announce my new game coming to Kickfunder:

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Satanic Panic | DNGN CLUB @dngnclub.itch.io · 12/07/2026

Still trying to scrape together some travel funds!

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Matt from Knot Hollow @knothollow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I had a huge smile on my face the whole time I was reading this. It made me feel like I was there... again! Thanks, Maxim!

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Justin Sirois of Severed Books / Games / Toys @justinsirois.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Voting has begun! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ #ttrpg #ennies #ennie #sickestwitchrpg

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Matt from Knot Hollow @knothollow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Yes, very easy to recommend and I do so gladly!

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Matt from Knot Hollow @knothollow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I wanna tell you about Between Two Cons (June 26-27, in Portland) because it was such a fabulous experience. It was unique among the cons I've been to, and I heard that from all the attendees I talked to. Please enjoy these random thoughts...

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/06/2026

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech. Like: “4. Please, please stop asking me to verify my humanity by clicking on tiny motorcycles.” and “35. To Mark Zuckerberg, specifically: Shut up about the Roman Empire.” [theringer.com]

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The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Introduce yourself with ten post prompts you have responded to

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Even 200 people subscribing at $1/mo would be a huge boon to this maker. Since I tend to be reaching the same folks on here, asking to maybe spread the word 🙏 I don’t release a new zine every month but try to keep my art output decent 🤷 patreon.com/perplexingruins

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Gaz @evilgaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'm back from North Star gaming convention and it was great fun. 😁 Here are some GM tips, which are not new, but bare repeating: You are the independent arbiter of the game, welcome ideas and support for the players. Remember you're all responsible for the fun, so devolve that responsibility 1/

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Robin J | Cozy RPG Reviews @cozyrpgreviews.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

@bobworldbuilder.bsky.social is running a large-scale, single question poll, just for curiosity: which is your favourite TTRPG? I wanted to do my part to share it around non-D&D-exclusive spaces. So pick (or write-in) your favourite here :) forms.gle/A8TBNsCWq9Xe...

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Poll: What Is Your Favorite TTRPG? (2026)

This is a simple poll with a lofty goal! With your help, we can reach across the entire tabletop roleplaying game community, both online and offline, to learn which TTRPGs are the most popular in 2026...

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The DIE Metadungeon crowdfunder finished on Friday. The DIE Metadungon crowdfunder is still going. The DIE Metadungeon crowdfunder will never end. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

There are ten minutes left. There are four hours left.

The campaign is over. There are nine minutes left.

There is a weekend left. There are thirty seconds left.

There is forever left.

The deathmarch stagger of our conjoined Backerkits has reduced us to broken meat. Hauled ever-onward by the yoke of Goodman Games’ success, feet red-raw and ragged, we squint into the thin light of the fourth dawn and curse our hubris.

We only wanted to make a book. We are not allowed to make the book; the money will not come. Goodman Games’ coffers swell beyond reckoning and twist the rusted iron wheels that carry them onward with a migraine screech: innumerable, unrecognisable coins from empires old are stacked high upon them like god’s tuppenny falls, and we snatch up fallen currency with splintered fingernails out of a desperate desire for something - anything - to do, as though our actions have repercussions and words have meaning. The money will be ours once this is over.

And this will never be over.

Backerkit - the mad monarchs above us, the lunatic godlings that rub their palms together in gibbering glee at the thought of their ever-swelling tithe - have decided that we will do this forever. We should have realised that when several people gave money to one of our campaigns before it even started that their intentions were not pure. Now, waiting for the Sahara to trickle through the choke of our hourglass, we can see that limited-period crowdfunding in the style of Kickstarter was never their plan at all. Now, as we glance at Monte Cook - himself a prisoner, shackles willingly fit to his own wrists, just like us - and we see the ENnie-award-winning light fade from his haggard, bloodshot eyes as he grips the filthy collar of a fallen Social Media and Community Lead to drag them back upright and onward, we realise that Backerkit dreamed of a shop that is only open for the next ten minutes forever.

Megadungeon Month will continue until the sun expands and immolates whatever tattered remnants of the earth remain: the miles-wide flotilla of plastic waste in the Atlantic, nuclear waste buried deep beneath the Mojave, Jeff Bezos’ hyperlinked ur-cadaver in his orbital bunker and us, ashen-faced and marching into our final sunrise.

To kill us now would be a kindness to which Backerkit will not deign to stoop. We will do this forever. You can always give us money and you will never receive your books. The last-minute sale will stretch on into eternity, drawn taught and alien like matter approaching an event horizon. We will traipse ever-onward at Backerkit’s brutal behest, caught up in the slipstream of a megadungeon ten times our size, and rue the day we dreamed of publishing a book outside of traditional means.

We are all damned.

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Night Noon Games 🔜 ArcaneCon!!! @nightnoon.games · 28/04/2026

@jacobfleming.bsky.social has a new project and NOBODY TOLD ME!?!?!? In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe, Through the Valley of the Manticore, The Scourge of Northland, and Castle Elkenstone all RULE, so I'm excited to see what he's got for us this time. Looks oozy!

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The Ooze, Adventure Module Zinepack

From Gelatinous Cubism - The Ooze, Adventure Module Zinepack

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Matt from Knot Hollow @knothollow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Most statements that include the word “but” can be improved by changing it to “and.” And don’t trust me, try it yourself.

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Tristan Zimmerman - Molten Sulfur Press @moltensulfur.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Britain. 1813. Across the island, the folk ballads of the common people are coming to life. The dead walk, dragons rise, lovers betray one another, authorities condemn innocents to die — whatever happens in the song happens in real life. My latest TTRPG is now live on Kickstarter! bit.ly/4sc4MLb

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Ballad Hunters RPG

Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 24/03/2026

Please join me for a rousing round of: lol, get fucked aftermath.site/sora-shutdown-...

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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is my favorite RPG book. Don't miss out.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Matt from Knot Hollow @knothollow.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Holy fuckin shit this is almost TOO exciting.

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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

get weirder 🫵

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Now more than ever, please be aware you may be able to read comics for free via your library card on www.hoopladigital.com. Yes! You can even walk inside a library and get a comic book made of paper if you're some kind of weird paper fetishist. As Tupac said, "Only God can judge you" (paraphrase).

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hoopla digital: audiobooks, ebooks, movies, tv and comics.

hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service offered by your local public library that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics …

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Quigley @quigjam.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

There's 6 hours left so give me 5 minutes to just honestly convince you to back Fantasy in My Backyard on backerkit. 🧵

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I want it to be widely known throughout the ttrpg scene that Pathfinder and Starfinder are the products of unionized labor by a bunch of queer and trans weirdos and our accomplices.

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localswampgay @localswampgay.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Tweet that reads Leo Xander
@STALLEON
Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V
- it is bigger
than the car

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Skullboy @betterlegends.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

new trend, every time you theorypost about ttrpgs you have to go outside and you can't come back until you've made a new friend.

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Matt from Knot Hollow @knothollow.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I’m suddenly hearing all sorts of RPG podcasters use the word “reticent.” And they’re mostly using it incorrectly. Please, go look it up, friends.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 03/02/2026

Uh oh, you have billions invested in generative AI: aftermath.site/generative-ai-...

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Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Maybe AI is really a virus that spreads by making its host talk about how inevitable AI adoption is.

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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!

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Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind

An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG

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J.M. Brandt @jmbrandt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Save the over $15k we've raised with this book that will benefit CHIRLA (Immigrant Rights) & Lambda Legal (LGBTQIA+ Rights). All net proceeds after printing will be donated. Horror Not Hate-- a horror comic and art anthology with a conscience. And cool rewards! PLEDGE NOW!!! bit.ly/HorrorNotHate

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Matt from Knot Hollow @knothollow.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"This was never about border control. This is about total control."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and Minneapolis resident, was murdered by ICE today. He was a lawful gun owner. Our government saw his Second Amendment right as a threat and executed him in the streets.

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