@tezrak
#SFF enthusiast; #TTRPG designer, helper; He/him; of a certain 40s age. You can't take Jersey outta the boy, capisce? Peep me at tezrak on Discord for chat/DMs. http://linktr.ee/tezraktheimpslayer #ShadowlightAndPersonaeRPG
Since we're talking marketing today... I have a zine about branding coming out, but, like, here's a place the vast majority of us (including me) often just *don't do the work,* and if you want to improve results, you should do that work.
GM Tip: When you don't know a rule mid-game, make a quick call and move on. Look it up between sessions. Stopping play to debate the rules kills momentum. Accuracy matters less than flow.
#ttrpg #dnd #rpg #ttrpgCommunity
On a balmy August day, swimmers float down the Aare River. A small crowd gathers on the Untertorbrucke to watch. Bern, Switzerland.
Swimming the Aare on a hot summer day.
#UrbanGaze
#HumansOfBluesky
#Switzerland
#Bern
NOT A DRILL,
Navi's decided to return to social media. Everyone be cool.
Once again, I am broccoli, and your girl @navidrake.bsky.social is popcorn. Follow accordingly.
Square aged paper with eighteen emblems in the shapes of animal heads in watercolor style, all as graphic silhouettes of different colors, arranged in a large hexagonal pattern. Title reads: “The Eighteen Sigils.” The sigils represent the eighteen clades: Avian, Bovid, Canid, Caprid, Cervid, Cetacean, Chiropteran, Felid, Glires, Marsupial, Musteloid, Perissodactyl, Pinniped, Primate, Proboscidean, Reptilian, Suid, and Ursid.
And now each taxonomic clade has its own sigil. Thank you all for the notes on these designs.
#Illustration #NossSaga
Square aged paper with eighteen complex triangular glyphs, each of a different color, arranged in a large hexagonal pattern. Title reads: “The Eighteen Clades.” Each symbol has a smaller subtitle beneath with the name of the clade: Avian, Bovid, Canid, Caprid, Cervid, Cetacean, Chiropteran, Felid, Glires, Marsupial, Musteloid, Perissodactyl, Pinniped, Primate, Proboscidean, Reptilian, Suid, and Ursid.
Square aged paper with eighteen animal drawings in watercolor style, arranged in a large hexagonal pattern. Title reads: “The Eighteen Spirits.” The animals are: Arctotherium, Bootherium, Chital, Clouded leopard, Double-crested basilisk, Great gray owl, Hazel dormouse, Honey badger, Javelina, Nyala, Red-shanked douc, Ribbon seal, Sperm whale, Steppe mammoth, Thylacine, Tundra wolf, White leaf-nosed bat, and Woolly rhinocerus.
Every fantasy series should have cool glyphs for their taxonomic clades. Which one looks the coolest to you?
#Illustration #NossSaga
Screenshot talking about AI usage
Sad that I have to unsub from roleplayingtips dot com because AI usage
Do you have a fave TTRPG that involves food or cooking? I'm looking for some interesting ones for an article.
no noise, no movement, nothing, only stone, arches, pillars, a memorial to a long deceased, forgotten abess, on the spire of the tower: a crow, looking down at me looking up; questions, unasked, unanswered on an endless sunday eve, before spring, before dusk
#photography
#classicmono
#EastCoastKin
My friends, today is the day my new book with @superdillin.bsky.social is out!
Available everywhere books are sold, the Ultimate RPG Villains Backstory Guide is your companion for making the the best of the worst!
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I will check @quailridgebooks.bsky.social to see if they can get it for me
My neighbor was one of the 300+ fired from WaPo last month. She wrote the very popular Local Events newsletter, which she's now relaunched as her own. Give her a follow -- and check out her coverage of @unpub.org! ♦️🎲
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Sketch of Batman head and a little shoulders and logo action. Batman's left shoulder kinda scribbles down into Gary's signature.
Batman by Gary Gianni.
#comics #art
Painted private commission of Leo from teenage mutant ninja turtles sitting.
Leonardo by Alex Maleev.
#comics #art #tmnt
Is it wrong? To crave a succulent lasagna? To kill? Medieval Garfield
Disclosure: "The music is AI generated" 😞
You made a whole-ass game and couldn't license some loops? Or just go without music and let players know that it pairs well with their lofi or their synthwave?
*sigh*
Same sentiment but for "promotional artwork".
Again, you made a whole-ass video game. That's an incredible amount of work, but I see what's clearly gen AI promo art or screens and I'm out.
Creative folks, don't underestimate how much using AI "tools" makes your *actual work* look suspect. 💖
I mean that's what the core of #ShadowlightAndPersonaeRPG is...
Hi, I'm Shao Han, and I work on TTRPGs!
Here's some of my current projects:
Da Xia (WIP; FitD wuxia & gong'an short stories in WW2 Singapore)
Shrine (remaster in progress; Palanquin-based; xianxia, ghosts, death, karma, community)
Unnamed wuxia project (WIP; loneliness, melancholy, wandering)
Screen shot from Threads of a connect request of someone who passed away a couple of years ago.
Hopped back on Threads and saw I had a ton of connect requests, so I went to take a look. #StarTrek bird app family, iykyk.
I’m super excited to be running a full campaign of Vaesen over on Nerds with Dice!
Our first April casting call is live!! A Vaesen campaign!!
GM: @thenerdonwheels.bsky.social
Session 0: March 23rd 7pm Central
Session call time: 6:30pm Central, with sessions starting on April 2nd and running weekly until the final session on June 4th
More info in the form: tally.so/r/eqAEAx
I mean, same thing right?
Hey, friends. Three years ago today I released VOID 1680 AM, the response to which legitimately changed my life.
I've added 100 community copies free to download. Become the late-night radio DJ of your dreams and build a playlist tied to your history with music here: bannerless.games/voidam
Money does not equal art.
Signal boost!
Promo image of Found Out Productions Missing Month Stream. March 15 2026 at 7:30 EST. Featuring Glaiza, a nonbinary Asian American person with a side shave and wavy hair dyed purple with glasses on, wearing a black top, winking at the camera. And Shiv, a white woman with long blonde hair, blunt bangs, and a black headband. Wearing orange earrings that say 'Boo' a silver nosering, and 60s inspired makeup
This Sunday, join us for the first installment of Shiv's show: Parallel Play! This show is to explore the magic of Solo TTRPGs! Our first month includes the creator of Missing Month @classicalglaiza.com playing alongside Shiv. Sunday March 15 at 7:30 EST/4:30 Pacific
#ttrpg #actualplay
Can confirm @queeringsmite.bsky.social is a quality GM well worth your (insert your coin of the realm here)
Come play Draw Steel and have a bloody good time. A really fangtastic time. A game you can really sink your teeth into. A game so fun you won't even bat an eye at all these puns. Or maybe you think puns suck, which is ok, it's not a high stakes issue.🩸