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norn noszka @nornnoszka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a good year to get resident evil tattoos just sayin

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is such an interesting post about something I've felt a bit in my own prep. Too much signposting creates the same sort of table habits that too much railroading does. Good read, since we don't typically talk about this 'mirror' of railroading!

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Annual repost of my garden wall post just because I really like it

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One fun inventory management thing I used once: before heading out to the dungeon, pay the upkeep fee on gear to equip it. Doesn't matter if you end up not using it, just putting on the armor or bringing the rope required the upkeep! To make it easy, it was just 1/10 of the cost of the thing.

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had to have a regular coke instead of coke zero today and yeah, it still tastes like literal mold to me? Not an exaggeration, it's not terrible or anything, but it genuinely has a moldy taste! (I'm so brave for this one)

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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

These are the blogposts made for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon, from 17th of August to 10th of September. I used the opportunity to rally the Indonesians and international TTRPG hobbyists to create gameable blogpost related to Indonesia. Enjoy! afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-t...

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Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon ROUNDUP

Links to all the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon blogposts

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norn noszka @nornnoszka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

some hellenistic sculpture studies i did + the references. traditional ink lines + procreate paint

Two artistic studies of Hellenistic marble sculptures.

Two reference images of Hellenistic marble sculptures of torsos, with missing or broken limbs.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hearing Nathan Fielder got Amanda Seyfried for the documentary: "my god... he's going to Rehearse this"

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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque. Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...

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How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?

A survey on campaign length and lethality

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Lazy_Litch @lazylitch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm building a boxed set It will integrate all my previous works into a single sandbox world Sign up here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/laz... #TTRPG #RPG #TabletopRPG

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Coming soon: Demidirge: Frontiers of Fear

A Corrosive Campaign Setting

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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I issue you a challenge: Write your dungeons in 4-5 room elemental building blocks. Try writing a dungeon patch every week for a month. Post your dungeon patches on your blog so your friends can use them. Take dungeon patches from your friend's blogs. Make your megadungeons like a quilt.

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The Elemental Level of Megadungeon Construction

There was a post on Facebook (cess pit that it is) that I found really inspirational. Here's a screenshot so you don't ritually defile yours...

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Blades of Thesus: a webapp that outputs a cheatsheet for Blades in the Dark. You select which of the Deep Cut mods you want to install, and it subs out and fixes the appropriate rules. The community can also publish their own mods which can be installed and generate new reference booklets.

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 31/08/2026

Sam has created something magical with Dice Exploder- it was the impetus for my passion for games blossoming. I'm so thankful for all the work he's put in. I'm stoked to carry the show forward! Great season coming up, and I'm thrilled to show you all what I have brewing for the future of the show

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some really good GMing advice here, all about confidence!

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elmcat @elmc.at · 28/08/2026

your favorite spell from that 80s game and what is not elmc.at/it-aint-blorb/

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It ain't blorb

No quantum ogres were harmed.

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norn noszka @nornnoszka.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I love my spouse so much and he runs a very cool blog did you know??? It's called mindstormpress.com

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Agreeable Chatter @69dinguses.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG is now live on Itch! Cadastre is a highly re-playable tarot-powered RPG for 3 players. Meet your 19th-century survey crew and brave the frontier as you plot a treacherous border region. dadstep.itch.io/cadastre-a-l...

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Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG by To Be Resolved

A tarot-powered tabletop game about borders and the surveyors who draw them

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So this is the exact game @nornnoszka.bsky.social and I made: CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT (They're playing The Siren and The Mortal)

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Binary @binarystar.games · 21/08/2026

Released for Astronaut Mission Jam: DENIAL_OF_SERVICE; is my newest NULL_SPACE job! Investigate a sabotaged automated shipyard and try not to get Fucking Killed by the saboteur who did it. binary-star-games.itch.io/denial-of-se...

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DENIAL_OF_SERVICE; by Binary Star Games

Investigate a sabotaged shipyard in this NULL_SPACE job!

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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So another bit from reading Stonetop RPG. The Trade and Barter Move highlights a particular thing about PbtA Move design. The move: 10+ Make the trade easily & fairly 7+ There's a catch 6 or less The trade isn't going to happen here and now Now let's talk about context is what makes/breaks this.

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you like dungeons, you REALLY gotta get in on this. Castle Automatic is amazing, but for me the big draw of pre-ordering is the Big Map. It's so detailed and evocative it just BEGS to be explored. Plopping that bad boy on the table is like injecting NOS right into your Dungeon Crawling Engine.

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

today's the final day to back seven part pact! we're $110k shy of a million dollars, which is goddamn crazy, and i am so blown away by everyone's incredible support www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

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Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Random darkvision thought: you see in black and white, but anything more than 5 feet away is incredibly blurry: you're basically Velma without her glasses.

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The Amanda Lee Mystery House @amandalee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

greek myths (spot art I am posting shortly to here : www.patreon.com/c/ABestiarya... and comradery.co/amandalee (free to use for your books & games & etc)

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🎃Farmer GaddAAAHH!!!!🎃 @farmergadda.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW BLOG POST!!! A distillation of my deeply held beliefs on elfgame design, evolved from my previous posts on setting design which suffer from early onset linkrot, and confusingly enough ending with me talking about Deathbringer for 2 paragraphs? But not really. Gaze upon my works, ye mortals.

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Farmer Gadda's TTRPG Hayloft : A Matter of Systems

Half of you are legally obligated to euthanize me after this

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Websites that allow The Slop but let you filter it out (like Cosmos and Artstation) should have the filter turned on by default with a small button that says "SHOW ME THE TRASH!" and when you click it your computer explodes.

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Alexander the Fine @alexrineh.art · 15/06/2026

Cyberrats in Space is LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! Get this game of fast, tactical combat, revenge in space, and giant rats in giant mechs! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

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Cyberrats in Space

Rats. Mechs. Revenge.

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Alexander the Fine @alexrineh.art · 17/07/2026

"You know you're in for something special when you're making your little mutated rat and you discover that, YES, you can strap on three (3) jetpacks at the same time. This is the high-octane, loaded-cybernetics rat game you've been looking for!" — @mindstorm.bsky.social on the original Cyberrats

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh hey since we're Odyssey-posting: Did You Know? My game Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition (a blackjack-driven storygame about doomed travelers on a perilous journey home, inspired by an old poem) is available in the @rpgtrader.bsky.social GM-less Games Bundle rpg-trader.com/products/670...

Cover for Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition

Introduction page for Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition

The different Quests you can go on in Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition

The death and haunting rules in Ithaca in the Cards: Second Expedition

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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Why should I check out the Castle Automatic?" Because we had Battle Nuns before Deathbringer (and were the first to do so, DO NOT FACT CHECK THIS CLAIM) www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...

A nun, barely sexy at all!, swinging a censer like a flail while fighting a skeletal monk

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's actually a little known secret that as a GM, you're allowed to dump as much setting lore as you want if you start the exposition with "fun fact:"

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 PaxU @seraphina.diceexploder.com · 10/07/2026

Voting for the 2026 ENNIE Awards is live! I’m one of the candidates to be a judge next year, and I’m asking for your vote! In this thread I’ll explain what that means, why you should vote for me, and where you can read more of my thoughts on tabletop games. vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ 1/

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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Making your own dungeon can feel intimidating, but it's just a series of discrete steps. To help make the joy of writing your own dungeon available for everyone, I wrote the Designing Dungeons Course. Please vote it #1 for BEST ONLINE CONTENT in this year's ENNIES! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/

Designing Dungeons Course: Or how to Kill a party in 30 Rooms of Less. Nominated for Best Online Content for the ENNIES: Tabletop RPG Awards. dungeons.hismajestytheworm.games.

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Boog @das-boog.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

YO! Cyberrats is funded, but we still have a ways to go if we want to do the Long War zine to go with it! We've been hovering around the same total for about a week now, but you could be the backer that lets us add a ton of extras! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

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Cyberrats in Space

Rats. Mechs. Revenge.

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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dawn of the Orcs is back on Backerkit for 10 days, as part of the Ennies Emporium! Play wizards and mad scientists. Build your own orcs. It's a GMless game with just the right mix of strategy and storytelling that everyone who plays it has a good time. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

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Dawn of the Orcs - ENNIES EMPORIUM!

Dawn of the Orcs is an Ennie-nominated GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war, modify and improve them ...

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Kali @helloitskali.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I got to pop into Between Two Cons this past weekend - my first con! - and it was pretty cool, meeting people and chatting shop. But I keep thinking about the wholly well-meaning advice I got repeatedly re: attending cons while having kids, which I've gotten online many times before (1/10)

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Goblins and Gardens @goblinsandgardens.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’m gonna ask for some help. I haven’t done this before and I was trying to avoid but things have been adding up. The birth of our son did not go as expected. We’re all home and safe now but the hospital visit was very expensive. He also had to stay in the NICU for 8 days.

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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The new Charli XCX song is literally just the I Think You Should Leave Sloppy Steaks sketch (positive) youtu.be/BAp4q27hTOc?... youtu.be/buK45NW_ikI?...

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Charli xcx - Wink Wink (Official Video)

YouTube video by Charli xcx

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