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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m just looking for permission to use it to create a free resource for the community. My hope is there are some artists out there that have done some sketches just for fun. Text only pages just seem kind of sad.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Any artistically inclined Cosmere / Brandon Sanderson super fans interested in collaborating to make Spren playable classes for the #ttrpg? I’m happy to do everything but the artwork. This is just for the fans/non-commercial. It just seems a shame that they are not playable. #cosmere #roshar

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My ttrpg group tonight… GM: You can be anything you want! P1: I want to look like Danny DeVito in a spirit of Halloween wizard costume. P2: I want to be LeBron James in a diamond studded bathrobe with a crown. The others seemed “normal” until they started organ harvesting their slain foes.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You should check them out, sounds like you will like them.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you really like Drizzt/Salvatore’s soliloquy’s.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You guys have anyone that would want to chat on stream to let people know what you’re about?

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ESO’s monetization has been predictors for many years at this point. Reference Epic Mounts in loot boxes with drop rates of fractions of a percentage point. But I imagine they are just trying to get out what content they can at this point. Probably plenty of stuff was left half done.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How would you rather the social commentary on current political climates be handled?

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m legit camping at a con because I’m too cheap, and don’t mind sleeping in a tent. I thought that’s what you meant at first. Lol

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Where do I find out more about your gargoyle game?

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I really think AI GM’s are going to work great, and can’t wait for Wizards execs to do what no digital game company has ever come close to doing.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I see why people have been upset by the art. And more than a little disappointed.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just going to tease that and not share how you did it? 🤨

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Valid. It’s a totally different style of game, and doesn’t play anything like the other games.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Unfortunately that might be a while.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ah, I agree. I just recently learned about hack master. I reinvented the wheel making a count up system but apparently that one has been around for a long time. Haven’t tried it myself but when I have playtested my own count up system, our take was very similar to what people say about Hackmaster.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I firmly believe the greatest sin of game design is a lack of imagination, so your points about aspects of gameplay not being exclusive to particular mechanics are well taken. Not something I expect the average gamer to know or care about though. Designers I hope for more though.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think here was some of my point when expressing my preferences. "The most action-packed, high stakes portion" of a game I would like to be structurally rigid in how it's decided. This is what makes me feel like Im playing a game, and not just make believe.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I never suggested they where mutually exclusive, Im not sure where you got that idea from. Nor did I suggest that dice rolling mechanics or irl strategy required turns, so Im a little confused. I would think you where straw manning my argument, but I was never trying to make one.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ah okay, we might be at opposite ends of the spectrum then. I generally prefer ttrpgs where the dice rolling, strategy, and general game mechanics help tell the story, more so than just the narrative/RP interactions. No shade to the other side, just my preference.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sure you might have an athlete retire because all they have done is be at the top of the game winning everything in their sport for years, but that’s not the same thing here. Imagine a chef saying “well, I’m done, that’s the best meal I can ever make, and it’s just disappointment from here.”

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The real issue is the company’s talent left, and they have known for years that they couldn’t make a better game than what they have already done. Think about that. Do you know of any other athlete, artist, business, etc… that’s like “sorry guys, that was the best I can do” because I don’t.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I mean, ESO isn’t exactly the same experience as the rest of the franchise. It’s more like a different game set in the same universe. So pretty understandable why people who like those games don’t consider ESO content for them.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Do you like some of the other ttrpgs with different turn systems or just daggerheart?

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Pretty sure that one guy was jumping over row to help, and his partner was helping.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That’s wild my dude. I thought the alarm would go off if you put more than one plate on.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Wait, is this planet fitness?

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

True, but I think the real problem is 99% of systems are not designed to balance equipment as part of the overall character concept. Typically, at best, magic items are roughly balanced against each other.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well deserved. And tbh I think you deserved gold. What an amazing looking product.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yeah, that’s fair. Too many abilities rely on Dex or Int so it is easy to just juice those, and ignore other things. One of the many problems with GURPS. I set non-combat point allocations myself, but I completely agree this is a problem. And this doesn’t solve it entirely.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ima be honest, I think you keep it with your jewelry so you can put it on every morning. At least that’s what I would do. Lol Congrats on the award!

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yeah, that could be because other systems don’t do gritty tactical combat nearly as well, so perhaps it dominates the space. In classic fantasy settings high strength is by far better than most other options ceteris paribus. But I still don’t see a lot of plate clad Conans running around.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Haha I’m not sure I can fully wrap my head around what that was like, but it is a pretty funny image. Lol I often find them currently to be half helpful, half shocked by my ignorance of not having an encyclopedic knowledge of the game. Although at this point I probably know more than most.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“I think this guy wants to make snarky unreliable narrators for military science fiction novels, in the same way that i want to make druids with a perfect moral compass and 15 animal/plant companions” For the record their moral compass is that of an eco terrorist. Lol

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I checked with some fellow GURPS players and it seems no one has ever made that kind of character, or feel it was pushing them that way. One did have a funny response though.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Probably not? I played in the 90’s but I was young and mostly used the family pc for gaming. Couldn’t clog up the phone line with the interwebs. lol.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What? I’ve been playing GURPS for a hot minute, and it has never felt that way to me. Care to elaborate on what in GURPS feels like it pushing you in this direction? GURPS has plenty of problems, but this is not one I have encountered. Unless we are just using different language for the same thing.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We started by asking what they were doing and why. And then we explained the Civil War and WWII rather briefly with some family’s personal experiences thrown in. We left not knowing if we had gotten through, but the next day they had taken the flags off.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Some college aged kids were driving up and down the beach in their truck with a rebel flag on one side, and a Nazi flag on the other. Needless to say if you know me, I wanted to have a “talk”. But cooler heads prevailed and myself and another friend did go over to talk.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A very valid point. Unfortunately I think people can tune this stuff out, or worse, embrace it. But if confronted, and have to deal with it, might react differently. I can give a rather extreme irl example… Sometime in the 00’s I was on a beach in the south.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I can also say I was looking to cover this topic years ago, as I know many people that use/have used machine learning in their research. But the topic was so hot that I didn’t feel like I could have a conversation in the ttrpg space about how it is used for good things, as well as bad.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yeah, that could also be the circles I navigate in. So I have covered digital games for years, so many people I get into rpgs come from that. I also do pick up games at local stores, or the equivalent online. Not at all uncommon for someone to use one of the sites while playing or shortly after.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

But making people feel bad for not know also doesn’t help, or help them understand. Before AI many people just grabbed images wherever they could. So using AI doesn’t seem any different to them. They were not going to pay for it anyways. Information and a coageant argument is needed.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It seems like there is bifurcation in the ttrpg space, and generally not much meaningful dialogue is going on. I get the frustration, it’s hard to have to explain to people why they should care about the environment, war in Ukraine, AI companies stealing creative works, or genocide.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is really cool, and I’m sure most people have no idea it exists. Most groups I know of use AI. And when I run open groups it’s pretty common to see. I don’t know what the numbers actually are, but I suspect most groups do in fact use AI.

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I really liked Hero Forge when I first discovered them years ago. My question is, has their printing improved so that it doesn't break almost instantly?

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Nightharrow @nightharrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

FWIW, they are working on it. Like actually working on it, not announcing they are working on it to generate hype for their other products. But I also wouldn’t get my hopes up. Their last handful of games have been mid at best. The talent may have left the building at this point.

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