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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 14h

oh yeah...totally forgot about civ (derp)

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I'm hopefully going to be hiring soon at my job so I thought, sure, I'll head over to LinkedIn to see what that looks like today ... Can I post jobs directly here instead, please?

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Sonya Henar | Open for Comms and Looking for Work! @sonybaloneyart.bsky.social · 18h

Quote your art with fire 🔥

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 17h

(being sincere and not dismissive) Thank you, for taking the time to explain your position/rationale. Ill have sit with that for a bit

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SimzArt @simzart.bsky.social · 18h

Cocoon. 📖

A character with black butterfly wings drinking from a cup and reading. The smoke coming from the cup has a ghost cat shape. The character is surrounded by plants and there's a window behind them. A lamp is lighting the scene from the top.

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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 18h

(Please no Google search or AI) What does “couch coop” mean to you? As detailed as you want to answer

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 18h

the ability to simultaneously play the game with the person next to you... (it takes two, locally, as a modern example). Though theres also hotseat (which i love from Heroes of Might and Magic 3, where players had take turns ..on their turn (hence hotseat)...though haven't seen much of that since

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 19h

(i know whataboutism, but I am curious on the rationale) if my use is unacceptable, what makes staying on these platforms (discord,twitch,bluesky,amazon, fb, ect) rationalized? as they're surveying, collecting and training on your data, and by continuing to use them is complicit in their actions.

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 19h

I think thats an oversimplification, yes that choice would be clear, the competent professional developer. But no choice is made for free unless you live in a vacuum.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026

if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 22h

There's nothing that can't be defeated with the help of an adorable owlbear. #TTRPG #TabletopGaming #DnD #DarkSouls #OwlbearPlush

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 23h

So how do you rationalize staying on Bluesky? Not only are they confirmed to be using ai-code as well. But by being on the AT-protocol means that all posts and images made on Bluesky can be scraped by anyone (but at least bsky dosent train on user data) bsky.app/profile/jay.... bsky.app/robots.txt

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

ah found them! (or at least some..) on the designers website just need to go into each of the albums www.hghigginbotham.com/portfolio-dn...

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Dungeons & Dragons Covers and Art by Henry Higginbotham

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a kid, these covers were absolutely alluring. The gritty, over-engineered metalworks riddled with sinuous runes and bejeweled notches seemed to be everywhere in the 2000s. This unique aesthetic imprinted itself on my mind ever since and, today, still contributes/informs some of my own designs.

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

would have to find it again..but if i recall these covers were handcrafted and then photographed. And still absolutely love them

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

no worries...I was trying to verify it myslef, and google search wasnt returning anything (go figure). Good thing i checked the site lol

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

I also get if that’s not a satisfying answer, or if runs past someone’s tolerance for AI use. I do believe there’s more nuance to how it’s applied, and that not every use is the same (like medical research vs art). But I respect that line/position being in different places for people.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 01/10/2026

Just heard #PaxUnplugged is going full Human Made. Proud of em, it's my favorite gaming con. And it's nice to know they'd prefer to present the works of real creative human beings. That's one less sign booths need to make, but if you'd like to anyways, here's a free icon hinokodo.itch.io/human-made

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Human Made by HINOKODO

An icon pack made by humans

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

Today,that the platform is usable with a robust social system, it can grow organically and/or be used as a proof of concept+proof of community interest for us to leverage and get proper resources to build,maintain, and expand And the path I see,with where things are,is with honesty and transparency

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

I even went back to the original platform creator i first started with 10 years ago, but that was abandoned and was just an in-between jobs project ive also tried bringing in a friend developer in,but that really came down to how much free time can they give to the project esp w/o guranteed payoff

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

as for the other paths: Kickstarter forbids software, social media, and ecommerce projects Investment (crowdfunding or angel) could be a path, but we're really only seen demiplane (based off existing model), and startplaying (new model) succeed, and i havent been able to connect in a successful way

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

My view was that my experience as an IT systems analyst puts me in a unique position to design a robust system, whilst being a responsible steward of the space, while we see every other major platform get progressively worse and I believe the proper way forward is transparency, honesty and trust.

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

does that excuse non-technical people making technical projects and not knowing their depth (commonly referred to as AI slop), no. That is still very much a problem and it also does not excuse shitty corporate business practices, shoving AI chatbots into everything, or making surveillance products

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

In the software development space, ai coding tools is quite ubiquitous and generally accepted as part of the work of software engineering You'd be hard-pressed to find a company or platform where the developers are not using Assisted code in some capacity

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

But where does coding stand in this? I see it as the underlying lego pieces or bricks to give form to a function. Sure, there are marvels of engineering, beautiful architecture, and terrible homes, and they do make a difference in experience but they're not often seen as creative,they're functional

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

In my view, I do truly believe that Generative AI is a threat to creative expression industries (art, writing, acting, etc, anywhere where creative expression is part of that medium).

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

(apologies for the delay) Its a totally valid question and I agree, it is a unique position to be in...especially, while we are simultaneously working on getting our physical products certified as Proudly Human But at the end of the day your assertion is correct, i could have paid someone to do it.

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 01/10/2026

Herbacia & Hydropondal is an Animon Story adventure written by Greg Leatherman for Animon Ani-thology, a supplement guide that is available in digital or as part of a physical bundle with Animon Story This family friendly game is perfect for fans of monster catching games like Pokemon and Digimon!

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 30/09/2026

Understood, and apologies for the delay, I’ve been thinking about my response

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

Looking for a new solo game? UMBRA is a science fiction solo map drawing game that tasks you with starting a colony on a hostile alien planet. Grab a copy of this game by Anna Blackwell, and the whole associated collection, from our store! #TTRPG #SoloTTRPG #TabletopGaming

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

Bluesky CrossPost Upgrade Alright, so I probably spent way more time refining this feature than I probably should have..but thats fine. We now have an awesome crosspost feature to Bluesky. Typically, main issue with crossposting is character counts, where if a post is too long it will truncate

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

and worth a re-mention Roleplay Cafe is a no-AI space

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

so at the very least, can take a poke in from time to time, see whats new We've got a pretty cool physics based dice roller that can even post its results into any discord channel you want. (also i did not expect to get a 20 on that roll for this post....)

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

is the pool of people right now pretty small, sure...and it takes people to make people. (that sounds ...odd) but also, as I finalize and finish out features (there are a lot of them), we can bring more people into the fold. but at this point..the social media aspect of it, is pretty dang solid

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

fuckin purple dot....deleted my emails

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

This also means on the backend you can backfill people whove orderd from your site and give them access to the codex youve built on Roleplay Cafe

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

on the commerce side...having experienced numerous pain points of selling online.. you can set up digital wiki access, you can assign digital downloads, and we integrate to your store backend (currently shopify building out others too)

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

and by having Choose-your-own-adventures, you can technically set up and play premade storylines and even engage with solo-ttrpgs in a new way (and share and talk about them!)

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

by having the system to play a pbp/vtt and create characters, you already have to figure out the mechanics for everything so ...why not allow people the ability to make choose-your-own-adveture stories, where users can take their characters on adventures made by the community

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

This new idea/version frames it differently. I want a place that takes D&DBeyond (Demiplane), and puts a social layer beneath it. Where you can make and create characters (and post as them) Where you can make homebrew and share it Where that homebrew can be saved and used in your game but...

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

Its wild i started this journey 10 years ago The first platform I built came out as reaction to the death of google+. That version ultimately failed because i more focused on publishers and their products... expecting that a community would gather to those things with no real mechanism to engage..

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Roleplay Cafe @roleplaycafe.com · 29/09/2026

New ttrpg app, who dis? We're Roleplay Cafe... and we want to shake up the ttrpg space. I want your game to have a home and a hub I want people to make easily make supplements and homebrew for your game. I want a marketplace for ttrpgs I want a social network for ttrpgs roleplaycafe.com/feed

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Roleplay Cafe: Your TTRPG Home

Living codex, character builders, solo adventures, and a community — all for your tabletop RPGs.

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Mike 🥞 Rieman @twopancakes.com · 28/09/2026

I'm making a GIANT coloring sheet AND supplement! I'm not launching until it's done, but it's a bigger goal and would love if I could get this printed so I'm getting folks on the train early! www.kickstarter.com/projects/two...

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Coming soon: Color Roll Play: A GIANT Tabletop RPG Craft & Supplement

Color magic wizard items (in a VERY large format) that are also usable in your TTRPG campaign or game!

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

My girlfriend recommended your brand to me!

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Metal Weave Games @metalweavegames.com · 29/09/2026

ugh sorry to hear that...thanks for all the work you've done. May the search for a new role be quick and painless

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