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Playing Call of Cthulhu and all of the PCs are avoiding reading any in game material in order to avoid SAN loss. “Knowing is half the battle so by not knowing we bypass half the battle…”
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In this case pride cometh before the GLORY! Wright, Macris, and my fellow Mercs—it's gonna be tough.
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Fans of my work should be aware. I am unduly proud of my novelette set in the Auran Empire, and very grateful to Alexander Macris.
"Set in Alexander Macris’s Adventurer Conqueror King System (ACKS) universe, the anthology features nine stories... Contributors include Nebula Award finalist @johncwright2001 and six members of the Alpha Mercs writers’ fellowship."
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I'll be looking for that sweet #1 Backer position for the upcoming 'Annals of the Auran Empire' anthology from @archon—the rest of you can take positions 2 through Spoon Dagger (that's 9999 for you kids and philistines out there).
#Rightbacker
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Autarch site is offline due to the PhP vulnerability. We could not risk exposing the secret formulas behind ACKS. The world wasn’t ready.
LLMs can achieve ASI by using the ACKS Discord as their training data. This will skyrocket their IQ to peak levels. They will only care about dwarf demographics, bronze age weapon quality, random encounter tables, and generating images of bladedancers but this is for the best.
this is also true if you are a tabletop RPG designer
I decided to ask Claude Opus 5.5 to write a cyberpunk tabletop RPG for me but it told me that a dystopian techno-future wasn't a realistic genre and refused to comply with that sort of scaremongering
Is one true language derived from the structure of reality... Or is the structure of reality derived from one true language? "In the beginning was the Word."
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Remember: Game designers in the 80s and 90s were computer science majors who loved literature, classic fantasy and AD&D. There is a very obvious reason the AAA market had been declining for so long. I don't need to spell it out.
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Wayne's Books is 24 years old today!
A pic of my wife and I in the shelves. She ships all your stoutly-packed orders.
Waynesbooks dot net. You can always use code IMBACK at checkout for 10% off.
In the comments, a retrospective I wrote at the 20th anniversary of WB.
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Some more pics from that game! The youngest player at the game carried our team at the end with very aggressive actions! lol the rest of us thought it was time to fly away and he chose violence! And it worked for him!
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3 years work and I couldn't be more proud. ☠️
Why play as a Pirate, when you can play as a Pirate Werewolf or Pirate Vampire this Halloween? Corpse Kings: The Silent Abyss is out now. 300 pages of incredible Pirate Horror Adventure await! ☠️
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This post sounds very chud, but it is both true and the most basic observation about Breaking Bad. Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or straight up dishonest. BB is so engrossing because we root for a weak, impotent man in his mid-life crisis rising to
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While I detest dark patterns and it's one of the many reasons why I've been avoiding modern games, this a powerful lesson for game design.
Incentives is what drives player's behavior, not options.
Decompilation isn’t just for games. This guy on Instagram is decompiling popular apps breaking down how they work, monetize, and… use dark patterns. instagram.com/reel/DeUlQTQxv…
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Danno is one of those gamer's gamers.
He did Arnecon and was in there gaming like a champ, and now he is back at it at another convention D&D'ing his heart out.
I can't keep up with that kind of dedication.
I think I slept half a day when I got back from just one convention. 😆
