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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 5h

@greenroninpub.bsky.social's Vigilante's Handbook is currently the hottest product of the entire site on DriveThruRPG.com! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Green Ronin Publishing released the Vigilante's Handbook today. That inspired to me to write up a (rules agnostic) villain organization, the Lukka Crime Clan! www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephe...

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"It's called a Hex-Wolf because it can Hex people, right? ... Right?!"

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Short Fiction, "Feeling Super Chosen" www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephe...

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Jacob Blackmon @jacobblackmon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are horrific! They are overpowered! @owenkcstephens.bsky.social is STILL not done playing with the #Pathfinder1e #tabletop #rpg rules! www.drivethrurpg.com/product/5865...

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, I admit it. I have MISSED having the #1 Pathfinder product on DriveThruRPG! (And #28 for the whole site.) legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5865...

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @office-anomaly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hits her with the gachafication beam #rkgk

drawing of regular velma (left) and gachafied version (right)

gachafied version is wearing an orange-yellow-white colorblock top with cutouts on the chest and shoulders, and an asymmetrical wrap-around pleated skirt. she is carrying a polearm that resembles a long magnifying glass

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Assume I am going to write an EIGHT-PAGE third-party product for Pathfinder First Edition. "The Genius Guide to... " That's about 6,000 words. It can't cover Golarion, or any other setting that isn't explicitly open. What would you buy, if I made it?

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Kaya's Kosmos @kayas-kosmos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🐳 Breaching the Skies 🐳 #Art | #Flowerpunk | #CreatureDesign

A pair of Cetaphrax (colossal whale-like feathered dragons) flying through an evening sky. Each have a purple, pink and yellow colour scheme, multiple wings and one long, protruding horn on their head.

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

THE GENIUS GUIDES ARE BACK! RGG is #StillNotDoneWithPF1! For the first time in 43 months, there's a new Genius Guide for Pathfinder First Edition! Unfortunately, it's Horrifically Overpowered content. For EVERY official class. Don't say we didn't warn you. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#GameNightQuotes: GM - "These are all Demonspawn, corruptions of mortal flesh." PC1 - "Holy cow, I thought those were bushes!"

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Snide T-Shirt" Has ever-changing snide commentary. When wearing the shirt you take a -2 penalty to Diplomacy checks. These comments also warn allies when something bad is about to happen. While you wear this and they can see you, your allies cannot be surprised. You do not benefit from this effect.

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Game Designer "Never Have I Ever" Prompts. "Never Have I Ever: Used an art order as a way to get a professional artist to create something I've wanted to see for years and lack the skill to do myself." #GDNHIE

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Personal Post. "One Year Anniversary of My Mother's Death" I don't trust social media to show folks my posts anymore. So, I recommend you grab a free membership to my Patreon if you want to know how I am doing and what I am thinking, from now on. www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephe...

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Personal Post. 9*26*26 One Year Anniversary of My Mother's Death | Owen K.C. Stephens

Heya folks. This is a Personal Post. No game content, no industry insights, no (intentional) humor, not even news about my recovery from can

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Turning Fireball into Iceball is easy. Here are 110 deeper variants for Pathfinder First Edition, now on Fantasy Grounds!

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hey folks! Social media can't be trusted to show you what I am posting. Patreon can. There's a FREE membership level that gets most content, and ALL news about my life, career, and so on. So, PLEASE, come sign up for free. www.patreon.com/cw/OwenKCSte...

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Owen K.C. Stephens — Geek blogs & RPG rules (Starfinder, 1e/2e Pathfinder, 5e & more)

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Kolbettins are 2-headed kobolds. Usually of 2-different dragon colors and styles. They are often seen as kobold chosen ones of great import, despite actually being no more intelligent, driven, or powerful than typical kobolds. #AppendixO

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anubore are jackal-headed baboons, weighting up to 160 lbs. and traveling in packs. They are territorial, carnivorous, and sapient genius necromancers. #OwensIdeas

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"I Identify the potion." "It's a potion of growth." "So if I drink it, I'll gain important insights into my own nature and how to be a better person?"

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The V-Team is a villainous super-minion hiring agency. Working through temp agency fronts and dark web contacts, they provide as-needed, per-job, pay-in-advanced powered minions for masterminds who need mid-to-low-tier supervillains on a budget. #StreetLevelVillains

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BUG Master is minion-villain for hire with an insect theme and a pathological love of back-up guns. He's surprisingly skilled and effective, but with his insect-themed costume with 10 different sets of twin back-up guns, he's seen as an unstable B-Lister. #StreetLevelVillains

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#MoviePitch: "Exit Ticket" Due to shortages of energy, food, and water, each graduating class of teens has a legal max size. Those in the lower 90% of aptitude are seized and placed in the Final Exam Annex, and their days televised until the class is cut down to size. Battle Royale+Cube+Hunger Games

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Morgat are mutated, violent, twisted humans with psychic telekinetic strength (especially over rock), weak flight, and unsteady psychoportation through spacetime. Originating in the Ural Mountains in the 1960s, they have spread to other dense wildernesses worldwide. Concern Rank: 7-9 #Mythfinder

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Wowzerz 🦔 @wowzerz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you want to save the princess and get your reward here's how! Sign up to Hidden with my link and sub for only $5 and I'll get a bonus $50 for every new sub 🤠 hidden.com/u/vvowzerz

A selfie of me in a dark blue fantasy outfit

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"No army was every as vicious as a kitten with string, nor any victory parade more noble." #merothianproverbs

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"There are more bones at dragons' feet, than horned skulls at dragonslayers' feet." #MerothainProverbs "Dragonfire is no hotter than a torch, but it can cover your entire village from above." #MerothainProverbs Dragons are not the worst tyrants. #MerothainProverbs

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"It's not worth the blood." A way of dismissing a disagreement as being not important enough to kill someone over it. If said among friends it can be a way to say you are sorry or give forgiveness, but directed at anyone else it's a significant insult. #NjorProverbs

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"A woodsman's axe can learn to savor the taste of flesh." A warning not to push anyone who works for a living too far, and to acknowledge soldiers aren't the only ones who can fight. #NjorProverbs

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"An old bear knows its own woods." Both actual bear-hunting advice, a warning about home-court advantages, and commentary on what managing to grow old means in the harsh realms of the Njor. #NjorProverbs

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In my quest to write a Combat Trick for EVERY combat feat in Pathfinder 1e that doesn't have one, today I release 20 more, from "Balor Whip" to "Blades Above and Below." Available to free members (though paying Patrons get a compilation page!) www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephe...

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I admit, I HAVE been considering getting something like this for a few years. And I trust Gaming Paper's manufacturing quality, as opposed to something drop-shipped by an internet vendor. Check it out! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g...

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MiniMover: Move Miniatures Without Reaching Across the Table

The MiniMover is a lightweight, 2-foot aluminum tabletop tool that lets you push or pull miniatures across large battle maps without standing, stretching, or knocking over the battlefield.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here is the check that Susan Collins' PAC got from a defense contractor's shell company in exchange for millions of dollars in government contracts

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Max Dunbar @maxdunbar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An Elf Warlock and Tiefling Eldritch Knight Been chipping away bit-by-bit on this for a while before work each day... Going to try and do that more often... So onto the next one! #Dnd #fantasyart

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Steven Marsh @stevenmarsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I failed to appreciate how the Internet would end up amplifying and rewarding the too-cool-for-school "best to just assume it sucks and complain preemptively" contrarian mindset as far as popular media… as if millions base their personality on "You're gonna entertain ME? F--- you! Work harder! BOO!"

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a big part of why it's so hard to make Star Wars movies.

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I wrote the adventure "Tomb of the Shadow Serpents" for Wizards' new hardback, "Arcana Unleashed." Wizards was so gracious as to send me a copy with the alt cover as one of my contributor copies. I now have a credit for at least one official Wizards' release for 2e, 3e, 3.5e, 4e, 5e, and 5.5e.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A Menagerie Press conversion of the Tomb-World of Alak-Ammur, an adventure for level 6-8 heroes by legendary designer Monte Cook. 100% compatible with Shadowdark. In collaboration with Owen KC Stephens and Rogue Genius Games. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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Monte Cook's The Tomb-World of Alak-Ammur for Shadowfinder

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The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁 @thebacklistbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

added some ALT. #noai

magicmooshka:

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

animatedamerican:

Hey OP? Thank you for articulating something I've been trying to get clear in my own mind for a while now.

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

RULE 36. SIZE MATTERS. Sometimes bigger is better. Sometimes smaller is smarter. But the tactics of wasps killing giants is different than of giants killing wasps. #KrazyKragnarRulesofAdventuring

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Leo Tag is a vigilante in paramilitary tac gear, who is officially absolutely not an agent of law enforcement and who seems to always know what suspects the police don't have enough info to arrest or the D.A. prosecute. He breaks laws to provide such info. #StreetLevelVillains

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An important boost to tabletop freelance success no one talks about? Find a way to get to know people who hire well enough they know, and are comfortable using, your first name in a friendly manner. No, I have no idea how I've ever managed that, and have no advice on doing it. #RealGameIndustry

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Killed by a skillet is no less dead than killed by a sword." #MerothianProverbs

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You miss every target you do not shoot at. But arrows in your quiver never draw innocent blood. #MerothianProverbs

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