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Ty
@mindstorm.bsky.social
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I'm just a silly little guy (he/him). Creator of TTRPGs and enjoyer of blogs. Gold Ennie award winner and definitely a person.

https://www.mindstormpress.com/
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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · Apr 15
Remember SKILL CHALLENGES? They're back! In blog form!

Check out my latest post where I lay out an easy and fun way to handle a complex, tense situation. It works in every TTRPG ever made up until this point and all future TTRPGs (disclaimer: this is a lie)

www.mindstormpress.com/quick-stakes...
Quick Stakes For Tense Situations
Quickly create and adjudicate tense situations.
www.mindstormpress.com
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prismaticwasteland.com
With a new baby and toddler, The Odyssey (2026) may be the last movie I'll see for a while, but I was still able to glean (or couldn't avoid gleaning) a few lessons from it for TTRPGs
#osr #ttrpg
What The Odyssey (2026) Can Teach Us About Running TTRPGs — Prismatic Wasteland
Every movie has lessons for running your game if you are sufficiently TTRPG-brain-poisoned, but Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) has more than usual.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
September 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
mindstorm.bsky.social
Annual repost of my garden wall post just because I really like it
mindstorm.bsky.social Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · Oct 24
🚨 new blog post 🚨

What can OVER THE GARDEN WALL teach us about creating adventures? A whole lot, it turns out! Let's break down the structure so we can use it for our own designs.

www.mindstormpress.com/under-the-ho...
Under the Hood of the Garden Wall
Deconstructing Over the Garden Wall to help with RPG adventure design.
www.mindstormpress.com
September 11, 2026 at 4:57 PM
mindstorm.bsky.social
One fun inventory management thing I used once: before heading out to the dungeon, pay the upkeep fee on gear to equip it. Doesn't matter if you end up not using it, just putting on the armor or bringing the rope required the upkeep!

To make it easy, it was just 1/10 of the cost of the thing.
September 11, 2026 at 2:09 PM
mindstorm.bsky.social
I had to have a regular coke instead of coke zero today and yeah, it still tastes like literal mold to me? Not an exaggeration, it's not terrible or anything, but it genuinely has a moldy taste! (I'm so brave for this one)
September 10, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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isaacisafraid.bsky.social
These are the blogposts made for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon, from 17th of August to 10th of September.

I used the opportunity to rally the Indonesians and international TTRPG hobbyists to create gameable blogpost related to Indonesia.

Enjoy!

afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-t...
September 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
some hellenistic sculpture studies i did + the references. traditional ink lines + procreate paint
Two artistic studies of Hellenistic marble sculptures. Two reference images of Hellenistic marble sculptures of torsos, with missing or broken limbs.
September 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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hypercubexl.bsky.social
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
mindstorm.bsky.social
hearing Nathan Fielder got Amanda Seyfried for the documentary: "my god... he's going to Rehearse this"
September 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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valerialoves.bsky.social
I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque.

Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length.

valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...
How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?
A survey on campaign length and lethality
valerialoves.com
September 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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lazylitch.bsky.social
I'm building a boxed set
It will integrate all my previous works into a single sandbox world

Sign up here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/laz...

#TTRPG #RPG #TabletopRPG
Coming soon: Demidirge: Frontiers of Fear
A Corrosive Campaign Setting
www.kickstarter.com
September 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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prismaticwasteland.com
I have made using True Names for fae and demons compelling and gameable, which some said was impossible.

Also, this is part of both the ongoing Name and Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagons
#ttrpg #osr
True Names in Elf Games — Prismatic Wasteland
Rules for learning and using True Names against fey, demons and other sorts that preserve player agency. Also a brief note about animals in human form. For the Name and Indonesian Blogwagons.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
September 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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riseupcomus.bsky.social
I issue you a challenge: Write your dungeons in 4-5 room elemental building blocks. Try writing a dungeon patch every week for a month. Post your dungeon patches on your blog so your friends can use them. Take dungeon patches from your friend's blogs. Make your megadungeons like a quilt.
The Elemental Level of Megadungeon Construction
There was a post on Facebook (cess pit that it is) that I found really inspirational. Here's a screenshot so you don't ritually defile yours...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
September 3, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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dinoberrypress.bsky.social
Last December, Nova lost her father to a years-long battle with lung cancer.

Today, we’re releasing The Man And The Mountain, her eulogy for him.

www.dinoberrypress.com/shop/p/the-m...
The Man and the Mountain — Dinoberry Press
The Man And The Mountain is a short game for 2 players about facing hard truths and living with world-shaking events. The Mountain challenges The Man, The Man pushes beyond his limits, and together w...
www.dinoberrypress.com
September 1, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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mindstorm.bsky.social
Blades of Thesus: a webapp that outputs a cheatsheet for Blades in the Dark. You select which of the Deep Cut mods you want to install, and it subs out and fixes the appropriate rules. The community can also publish their own mods which can be installed and generate new reference booklets.
September 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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seraphina.diceexploder.com
I wrote a manifesto. It's mostly for me, but maybe it can be for you too!

seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...
Write More Short Blog Posts: A Manifesto
Why? Because you wish you blogged more and you like citing yourself. Where? Your blog, or wherever else you want. I'm not picky. When? Whenever someone asks a question in a Discord server and you have...
seraphim-seraphina.itch.io
September 1, 2026 at 2:38 PM
mindstorm.bsky.social
Blades of Thesus: a webapp that outputs a cheatsheet for Blades in the Dark. You select which of the Deep Cut mods you want to install, and it subs out and fixes the appropriate rules. The community can also publish their own mods which can be installed and generate new reference booklets.
September 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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seraphina.diceexploder.com
Sam has created something magical with Dice Exploder- it was the impetus for my passion for games blossoming. I'm so thankful for all the work he's put in.

I'm stoked to carry the show forward! Great season coming up, and I'm thrilled to show you all what I have brewing for the future of the show
August 31, 2026 at 6:27 PM
mindstorm.bsky.social
Some really good GMing advice here, all about confidence!
August 31, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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elmc.at
your favorite spell from that 80s game and what is not

elmc.at/it-aint-blorb/
It ain't blorb
No quantum ogres were harmed.
elmc.at
August 27, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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prismaticwasteland.com
I now have copies of Nyarlathotep's Liegemen and the Sea Weed! It's a "Baywatch Meets Lovecraft" adventure with killer writing by @nightnoon.games and art from the GOAT @betterlegends.bsky.social. Grab a copy!
#ttrpg #osr
www.prismaticwasteland.com/shop/p/nyarl...
Nyarlathotep's Liegemen and the Sea Weed — Prismatic Wasteland
Beywatch Meets Lovecraft. It's 1994 and the lifeguards are keeping watch over the beaches of Southern California. Not only do you need to keep beach-goers safe from dangerous riptides, heavy surf, and...
www.prismaticwasteland.com
August 25, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
I love my spouse so much and he runs a very cool blog did you know??? It's called mindstormpress.com
August 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
I'm in this!
ckcarpenter.bsky.social C.K. Carpenter 🏳️‍🌈🌻🍉 @ckcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 20
COMICS CREATORS,

Only 1 week left to VOTE for the Ringo Awards!

They've just announced that many categories are close this year and that one vote could make a difference.

Please consider unSEEN/unHEARD: Disability & Neurodivergence for BEST ANTHOLOGY, free to read for another week.

Thanks!
ckcarpenter.bsky.social C.K. Carpenter 🏳️‍🌈🌻🍉 @ckcarpenter.bsky.social · Aug 9
In response to being Ringo nominated, we've made our anthology FREE TO READ on multiple platforms until Aug 26!

unseenunheard.carrd.co

COMICS CREATORS, enjoy, and if you like it, please VOTE for us for BEST ANTHOLOGY at ringoawards.survey.fm/ringo-awards...

Thanks!
August 24, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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69dinguses.bsky.social
Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG is now live on Itch!

Cadastre is a highly re-playable tarot-powered RPG for 3 players. Meet your 19th-century survey crew and brave the frontier as you plot a treacherous border region.

dadstep.itch.io/cadastre-a-l...
Cadastre: A Land Survey RPG by To Be Resolved
A tarot-powered tabletop game about borders and the surveyors who draw them
dadstep.itch.io
August 24, 2026 at 10:36 PM
mindstorm.bsky.social
So this is the exact game @nornnoszka.bsky.social and I made: CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT

(They're playing The Siren and The Mortal)
catsuka.bsky.social Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Aug 22
New trailer for "The Lovers", an indie Filipino short film by Studio Heartbreak, coming to Youtube in a week.
www.youtube.com/@studioheart...
August 23, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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binarystar.games
Released for Astronaut Mission Jam: DENIAL_OF_SERVICE; is my newest NULL_SPACE job! Investigate a sabotaged automated shipyard and try not to get Fucking Killed by the saboteur who did it.

binary-star-games.itch.io/denial-of-se...
DENIAL_OF_SERVICE; by Binary Star Games
Investigate a sabotaged shipyard in this NULL_SPACE job!
binary-star-games.itch.io
August 21, 2026 at 5:53 PM