iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

never forget lemon grab's immortal words (yes, i get to post annihilation riffs until the power goes out)

lemon grab from adventure time declaims the words from the tower tunnel in Annihilation

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is a Fighter? A miserable pile of class feats.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm glad to see Not-PAX-South come back (especially for folks that can't make it to either coast as easily). Late June in Houston is gonna be some pretty brutal weather, though.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 26/08/2026

Products aren’t people and don’t “have to” do anything www.rascal.news/products-are...

Grid of black and white MTG cards from the Zeta Set release, their art composed of scavenged image, collage, and DIY aesthetics.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You could even make a Beaconest Edition if you need a secret, third definitive edition!

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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 12/05/2026

Four Pillars Gaming published hundred of AI-generated profiles over the past four months and when people asked to be taken down, they doubled down, defended their process, and refused. The ramifications of hallucinatory LLM "histories" threaten to erode truth and destroy the historical record.

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AI-generated profiles of TTRPG designers ignite fury across social media

4 Pillars Gaming’s new website adds AI-generated slop to an already ephemeral online historical record.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It's very expensive (5 Hope out of a maximum of 6, maybe 7) to use, but you can get the best die roll out of three sets of 2d12. If it's an attack roll, you can combine damage rolls to make a big damage roll. It's alright, but I figure most players will spend Hope in smaller increments.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

There's a giant chunk of tech people who purport to be at the forefront of new philosophy, new thinking, who cannot fucking think their way out of a paper bag. Who literally are the fucking dregs of thought.

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big tiddy Rebell @rebell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

NEW LAIR ALERT!!! 🚨 The newest, wackiest, funniest experiment of the Secretive Lair is Premium Pauper Precons!!! ✨ Each PPP will come in a luxurious foil, rare stamp, and be ready to play Pauper decks for $99.99 starting price. But that’s not all!!

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The duality of rpg crowdfunding

A summary of the reward tiers for the Realis crowdfunding campaign. The options are a $50 hardcover + pdf tier or a $25 pdf only tier.

The $999 dollar tier for the Traveller 5e campaign, including a 4 monthly payment option. Includes a bunch of doodads and stuff that's superfluous to actually playing the game.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

@aptshadow.bsky.social's books apparently make good cat sleeping material

Tuxedo cat sleeping on a copy of Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

They all do this. And it feels like a reflection on the humans behind them, whose inflated careers are built on never admitting they don’t know the answer. The ‘smartest people in the room’ if ‘smart’ just means glib and facile, turning out lies with complete conviction.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I really wish we'd get books with 3-4 class archetypes instead of new classes every year or so. The game clearly still has mechanical space to explore, but adding more classes leads to this feeling of complexity creep.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

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👻ZH00000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Tonight you'll be visited by three spirits

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The older I get, the more I believe that the character optimization forum mindset of the 3.5e/pf1e days has harmed RPG discourse. The "geniuses" who think they can Break The Game™ believe that they understand game design. They don't. I can break vases, but that doesn't mean I know how to make one.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

If anyone going to #PAXU wants a recommendation for great Malaysian food, Banana Leaf Malaysian Cuisine rules. It's authentic, and exactly the sort of food I remember from my childhood in Singapore/Malaysia. Only downside is there's very limited options for vegans.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

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Jason Bulmahn @jasonbulmahn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I am sad to hear that the Auralnauts Youtube duo are splitting up to focus on their own work, this does give me another opportunity to share what is, I think, there best series... The recut of Star Wars into.. well.. an entirely different story. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSCm...

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STAR WARS EP 1: Jedi Party

YouTube video by Auralnauts

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

That's literally the only way Eleizer Yudkowsky knows how to write, because his entire belief system is so absurd it can only seem plausible if described in parables and references to movies or video games

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

No amount of GM prep for your RPG night is better than making sure you're excited when your friends walk through the door

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/10/2025

OpenAI will be releasing a new version of flappy bird

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Markus aka The Chindividual @thechindividual.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

And if you want to know more about this dragon and the other super cool Remastered dragons, check out my video about them!

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Embodiments of Magic - Dragons of Golarion #pathfinder2e

YouTube video by The Chindividual

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Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Acts of imagination and creative play do have a place in countering the rancid, psychotic imagination of this administration. It's just one way, but the juxtaposition is important because it helps us remember how utterly bankrupt it is in normal human values.

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It's like the Greatest Hits of bad sustainability: making plastic trees for an overproduced crowdfunding game *and* greenwashing by tree planting? I expect the shipping of these games (they even have plastic freight containers!) alone will wipe out any contribution from the trees.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The Psycho Gundam, imo. Especially the Mk II, and definitely the one that shows up in GQuacks. Huge and blocky like a tank, and has the domineering vibe that anything sitting on the monster-angel line needs.

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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/08/2025

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

If you haven't checked this out yet, I highly recommend taking a look at Dragon Slayers. Slayers is fantastic, and More Slayers™ is something I've always wanted.

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries - hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf - art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Humanity in HELLPIERCERS: needs to seize Heaven to get into HELL. Foxes: lol, lmao, git gud

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Of course there's a world building course. Can't be a Board-Certified D&D Dungeon Master University alum without that.

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Red pop but add Tajin on it.

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Green Ronin Publishing @greenroninpub.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Did you hear the news? Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition makes its debut at this year's Gen Con, in the form of the 4e Heroes Handbook: Origin Edition! Learn more about our plans by watching the announcement video- and stop by booth 101 at Gen Con! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-mQ...

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Honestly can't think of a product I'm more excited for. Mutants and Masterminds 3e was formative as hell for me, and I'm hype to see what 4e brings to the table.

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 24/06/2025

Came across another discussion of D&D 4E and had a brain wave

A bingo table for people posting that 4E is bad, with spaces like:

They Insulted The Players
No I didn't play it, why do you ask
Pathfinder outsold 4E. Source? Uhhhh
Every class is the same. Casters AND fighters are good
Faerûn went through a world-changing event. This has never happened before
4chan meme
It's a superhero comic
Can you believe a D&D game would use a grid??
There's no roleplaying
Clean layout and clear rules are bad, actually
It's a video game
It's an MMO
It didn't “feel” like D&D (free space)
It's a tactical minis figure battle combat skirmish tactics wargame
It's a board game
Healing surges don't make sense, if you pretend not to understand how HP works
Gnomes/Tieflings/Dragonborn/Turbodraculas
It's an anime
What looks like a game design term until you realise it's almost exclusively used in 4E posts Disassociated mechanics (okay, fine, fill in the one on the left too)
Warlords don't make sense, if you pretend not to understand how HP works
“Here's why this rule makes no sense” example that relies on the group acting like space invaders in human suits
If they called it something else, the #1 TTRPG would have been more successful
How do daily powers work? What was wrong with “1/day”
Someone posts an actually good critique of 4E without hitting another square

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Is adding exclamation points okay or can I only HELLPIERCE without punctuation?

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Wurtz @wurtztime.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Slayers was my first real exposure to the modern indie RPG scene, and it still rules! Go get yourself one (1) Slayers.

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