Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️

Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️

@queerwizard.co.uk

Illustrator and cartographer. DnD 4E Apologist and Old School nerd. I'll make stuff for your game if you ask nicely. Welsh butch bitch in Glasgow (She/Her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💼: http://queerwizard.co.uk 📧: matthews.rj@gmail.com 🎲: https://queer-wizard.itch.io

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Evil Hat@evilhat.bsky.social

Rangers of a Broken World is now live! Inspired by Final Fantasy X, the Xenoblade Chronicles, and Magic Knight Rayearth, the vibe is post-apocalyptic fantasy without the grimdark. You are divinely chosen. Rebuild the land, fight the Horrors, and seed sparks of hope. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

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MÖRK BORG's graphic design is next level. It's genuinely incredible. So many of the 3rd party modules try to ape all the chaos, but miss the mark. I am always quietly judging people who complain about the book. Always. I'm doing it right now.

Johan Nohr@nohr.se

Four reasons why I think MÖRK BORG's index is good. 1. It's divided into three sections so that you can quickly filter to the third you're looking for and not have to sift through as many irrelevant entries. If you're looking for a thing in the Rules, you just ignore The World and Creatures.

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Of all the things I want preserved from the OSR, I think this is #1. I think it’s sorta the OSR’s Blackmoor.

ரமணன்@save.vs.totalpartykill.ca

I thought I had lost these. My maps of @necropraxis.bsky.social’s Pahvelorn. Do the youth even know this was the greatest campaign ever? Hugely influential to me, and many others. Grognardia walked so Brendan could run and all that.

Someday, maybe someday soon, there’s going to be a reckoning for the AI bubble and we’re going to stand admit ashes and realise we burned down the internet chasing a phantom.

I'm weirdly bummed about the PG Bigfoot film being proven as a hoax; EVEN THOUGH I knew win my heart of hearts that it was. It just feels like the world got a little less mysterious.

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It's done! The PDFs have already been sent to the backers, and Angel, our printer, will start working on them next week. A huge thank you to everyone. Stay tuned!

I know in the grand scheme of things AIs destruction of the skills market is catastrophically bad but I can't help feel a small amount of schadenfreude seeing the same tech people who told artists worried about their future 'learn to code' four years ago suffering the same fate now as we did then.

I've had a couple of friends and acquaintances talk to me recently and they're very frustrated and upset that the things *they* care about and enjoy are being affected and I must say finding the sympathy is difficult when I remember two years of 'art isn't actually a real job' etc etc etc

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This is how they've left me. And I need to pick up my uniforms and supplies tomorrow, then do two appointments the next day. And if I don't show tomorrow for internship in uniform and ready, it risks forfeiting a lot. Please don't let my school and agency fuck me over.

My delayed intern stipend? Told stuck pending until Nov 2. Need scrubs & supplies by Wed (175) + meds & copays (240) for Thur/Fri. Boost pls! #TTRPG: bsky.app/profile/did... #IndieGames: www.drivethrurpg.com... #MutualAid: ko-fi.com/revcasey (PayPal or credit/debit): https://bit.ly/payrev

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Rereading old blog posts, and Grognardia reminded me of this essential truth: "don't design rules with bad players in mind. Any rule, no matter how well written, can and will be abused by players looking to find a way to take advantage of a situation."

ok so - I'm 'left handed' in that I draw and write with my left hand, and use chopsticks with my left hand - but I do absolutely everything else as a right handed person. When I did tae kwon do my right leg was my strongest etc. But I cannot write or draw well with my right hand!

Hello friends! I'm looking for work RIGHT NOW 👀

Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️@queerwizard.co.uk

Hello #TTRPG #OSR friends - my September is spoken for but I'm looking for cartography projects for October! Happy to work on personal projects or published works! My rates and contact info can be found on my website: queerwizard.co.uk

For me, a decade plus of using streaming services has totally fractured my relationship with music in a way that I found sort of existentially depressing. It has nothing to do with 'streaming bad' and everything to do with re-evaluating the way I want to engage with art.

Sage Suede@sage-suede.bsky.social

Two months in and you're already saying ‘defaulting to streaming’ like it's a character flaw. The physical-media pipeline claims another one.

the streaming genie is not going back in that bottle, but I definitely think that maybe approaching the art you consume with more intentionality and thought is not a bad thing.

It's only been about two months since I stared rebuilding my physical music collection and *already* I'm noticing myself decoupling from defaulting to streaming albums. I think about an album I want to listen to and I find myself wanting to go to the record shop to buy it instead of just streaming.

I’m listening to the new remaster of Rubber Soul and I know it’s a taste thing but it’s reaffirmed in my mind that anytime I encounter people who have to tell you they think The Beatles are overrated the moment their name comes up; they’re almost always among the most boring, tasteless people alive.

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You're doing a lot of doomscrolling for someone who has a bunch of unread RPG books on their shelf 👀

@bradkerr.net hey Brad - friend of mine wants to back the new Mushmen adventure you wrote but they only ever run Cairn and they asked me how I thought it’d play in that system so I thought I’d just ask you directly what you thought about that?

Hello everyone should back this absolutely bonkers (positive) adventure. It’s great and also it’s got a bunch of cool maps by me!

The Merry Mushmen@themerrymushmen.bsky.social

Winter and the Wolf Princess live now on Kickstarter. Pledge now! (or be damned for ever) (and ever). www.kickstarter.com/projects/xno...

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This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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When I was a kid, there was this rock in the forest along the highway between my town and the nearest city—in the middle of absolute nowhere—where someone had spray painted “USA WANTS WAR”. I remember it clearly, how it was the first time I was made aware of USA’s existence and what their deal was.