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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Got this game at PAGE by @meldar16.bsky.social Already thinking of the dungeon ideas to make for it.

Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Heading to PAGE 3 in North Philly this weekend to run some MP. There are still open tables for Friday and Saturday Mystic Punks! Also, craft time with new initiative cards.

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My friend who works on campus did some regular Black Sun/Nazi sticker removal around downtown a couple of years back. They are out there and we all need to remember it.

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Holy moly! You knew that guy! These scumbags are too out in the open.

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Levi Combs @planetxgames.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

HALLOWEEN TRASH, a group collaboration #ttrpg #zine is dropping soon from a murderer's row of creators, including myself and @smoggo.bsky.social @mysticpunks.bsky.social @johnmcguirerpg.bsky.social and @joeyroyale.bsky.social Check out the cover by Klon Waldrip!

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John Hambone McGuire @johnmcguirerpg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Halloween Trash, an absolute banger of a group collaboration zine, is dropping soon from a murderer's row of creators, including myself and @smoggo.bsky.social @mysticpunks.bsky.social @planetxgames.bsky.social and @joeyroyale.bsky.social Check out the cover by Klon Waldrip! !

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Dungeon Synth Happy Hour had an auspicious start considering the clash of music from a festival outside and the fact it was literally a plastic skeleton and someone live-streaming Skyrim.

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I might be preaching to the choir, but did anyone else breath a sigh of relief that Donny Osmond wasn’t shot?

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

TOXIC CRUSADERS #1 is out today. You do not want to miss the mainstream debut of @tristanwright.bsky.social We brought these mutants back after 33 years with as much snot and eco-terrorism as we could pack into 22 pages.

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Knobcon ruled. What’s up with the midwest and Hobby Conventions? Is it the weather? So many tailored to all my particular interests.

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Congrats @calebzane.bsky.social on the big Ennies win for Triangle Agency! Best Rules! Best Writing! Best Game! Athens got something to say!

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The Ⓐtomic Ⓔlbow @garbageskeleton.skin · 22/07/2025

They won't let anyone check out those fanzines, but you can read most (if not all) issues of Paperback Inferno here: www.fanac.org/fanzines/Pap...

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Paperback Inferno

Paperback Inferno, Paperback Parlour, Philip Stephensen-Payne, Joseph Nicholas, Andy Sawyer, 1977-1992, Clubzine, BSFA - British Science Fiction Association

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Too sweet. My wallet is blaming you for this, Ginny!

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Mystic Punks got to play with the big kids at MomoCon this year thanks to @ginnyloveday.com. Saw many friends old and new. Spoke on fun panels and even managed to convince some great players to try out MP. Biggest takeaway: I might be getting into Warhammer 40k despite avoiding it for years.

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Been listening to the new Organically Programmed. Get it on Bandcamp or listen on your favorite streaming service. Lovers of 70s space disco, library jazz, Gary Wilson, Burt Bacharach, and the Love Boat. I’m bias but it’s solid and catchy. cloudrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/organi...

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Organically Programmed, by Organically Programmed

11 track album

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Blows my mind that it was omitted. Must have been a misprint!

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Waiting for tonight’s MP game and thumbing through @prismaticwasteland.com new book, Prismatic Wisdom- a beautiful book of resources for the discerning game runner. It had me at the die-cut cover tbh. Get it from @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We are running a bunch of Mystic Punks at MomoCon 2025! I will be on a bunch of panels this year too. Thanks to the rad @ginnyloveday.com for putting together a spectacular gaming lineup for the con.

D&D Alternatives: A world of TTRPGS Thursday May 22nd 7-8 MomoCon

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Can we just admit that music streaming is to musicians as Generative AI is to artists? Another way for technocrats and corporations to exploit and control creativity.

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Secret Doors RPG @secretdoorsrpg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

@smoggo.bsky.social “Thanks for the Gary Con game! Highlight of the con!” -Bryan Setzer

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It’s easy when you got top shelf players itching to let loose!

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find. They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iam... WE ARE LIVE! I’m excited to announce that our first stretch goal is the inclusion of Dungeon Synth superstar Hole Dweller on the soundtrack!

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Mystic Punks: Dead Hills Mall

Bringing you a mind bending psionic adventure zine built for Mystic Punks and a cassette synth soundtrack by Fantasy Audio Magazine.

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Critical Hit Parader @criticalhitparader.com · 14/02/2025

Heavy Metal Monster Manual & Stories Behind Prog Rock Album Covers Plus Mystic Punks: Dead Hills Mall Adventure Zine & Cassette Synth Soundtrack @greedygorgonpress.bsky.social @smoggo.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/critical...

Three images: 1) A black and white picture of an axe wielding warrior battling a demon from the Heavy Metal Monster Manual 2) A dayglo red and blue album cover from Uriah Heep showing two magicians having a spell duel 3) Roger Dean artwork for the Relayer album by Yes showing a wintry scene with white horse mounted soldiers

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Emmie @sweetearthflying.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Perforated guitar loops. Sidrax changes the state of Cocoquantus

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Levi Combs @planetxgames.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The super talented Tiger Wizard from @epiclevels.bsky.social made a rad battle helmet for the Sewer Rats - all hot glue, rats and nat ones! #tigerwizard #sewerratsrpg #rpg #ttrpg

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

One week until we launch this project for #zinequest. A new Zine/Cassette project from @mysticpunks and @fantasy_audio_magazine. Weird music fans rejoice, @organicallyprogrammed will be creating music specifically to match the Scanners vibes of the adventure. youtu.be/LzjqTgYoLxw?...

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Mystic Punks / Fantasy Audio presents Dead Hills Mall

YouTube video by Jay Domingo

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Space Penguin Ink @spacepenguinink.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

And make sure to follow the Backerkit launch page to be notified when LIMINAL HORROR: DELUXE EDITION goes live! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Prepare for LIMINAL HORROR: DELUXE EDITION

From Space Penguin Ink - Prepare for LIMINAL HORROR: DELUXE EDITION

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Lukasz Kowalczuk @elkowalczuk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Kick out the germs, mfckers! commissioned by @goatsflyingpress.com

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

From TV Guide: Dark Guide Zakk takes 3 Mystic Punks on an adventure of a lifetime through the streets of a fantasy Athens Georgia. All through the crazy Punk stylings of JokerJokerTV. Tuesdays at 7PM stating FEB4th. JokerJokerTV.com

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John Hambone McGuire @johnmcguirerpg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Ahoy! I wrote a zine on launching your first TTRPG campaign as a community resource. Download it FREE on DriveThruRPG. legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5096...

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"There was no justice done here... Violent criminals are now being returned to their neighbourhoods." Former Capitol police officer Winston Pingeon says President Trump's pardoning of January 6 rioters means "political violence has effectively gotten a free pass". #Newsnight

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Good news! Trump has been negotiating a deal with the authoritarian monster that signed and issued the executive order banning TikTok.

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Dark Guide Jay Domingo (he/him) @smoggo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thanks Dice & Diversions Atlanta. Ran a couple of short Mystic Punks games and had a blast. Look how happy they are with the TPK that happened. Tested the new Character Sheet/Mystic Menu prototype that is coming soon. #dice&diversions #mysticpunks

2 gamers hold up their Mystic Punks character sheets

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