LORE - A Lord of the Rings Adventure Game Retroclone "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a ...

Every year, I reread the LotR trilogy. This last year's reread amped me up and I started keying Middle-earth 12 miles at a time

Concurrently, without meaning to, I wrote a game to run the hexcrawl

I call it Lore - a Lord of the Rings Adventure Game retroclone

Here's what I think is fun about it🧵

Why should that stop you?

Terrible writing gets published all the time.

True!!

Nier the American version

We finally have two good dad games: Bioshock 2 and Pragmata.

(Three, if Death Stranding counts, I guess.)

Pragmata rules!! It’s the kind of offbeat game that I want more of.

sketch- a woman ascends a staircase lined with paintings. She is holding a candle

Lifted from my sketchbook 🕯️

Thanks for all the new follows! If you're interested in Project Margrave, I'd love if you stopped by my Discord. It's got references for all the characters + mechs, plus an illustrated prologue dropping very, very soon! discord.gg/margrave

Pragmata doodle

I made a coiled sword for my home bonfire and posted it in the dark souls reddit and got comments asking how people could commission one. I replied "sorry, I can't discuss that here, I'm not allowed to self promote" and got a permanent ban for "self promotion by admitting you take coms elsewhere"

what the fuck is writing scaling

A portrait of a elven femme with wavy black hair and amber lit brown eyes looking to her left the background is red yellow and orange swirled sunset colors her earring is surprised emojis

A portrait for @flairiart.bsky.social

Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community. 🏳️‍⚧️

My brain was made to paint vivid landscapes of unreal worlds or draw lesbians but instead I’m using my vital life energy to do work that should have been done (by my coworkers) three weeks earlier, and then to scrape together enough energy to bring my car to the car wash after work.

[ #witchhatatelier #art ] coco and a little friend :)

left 4 dead and its sequel are full of some of the best small details and bits of environmental storytelling you can find in games. valve's jay pinkerton told me it's because the team opened up the writing process to the whole studio. as others have said about L4D's graffiti: AI could never

WHITTIER, CA VOTES OUT ALL GOP INCUMBENTS ON BALLOT, FLIPPING CITY COUNCIL IN DEM SWEEP • 10.8K Q 801 214 / 356

My hometown took out the trash last night and voted to oust the MAGA mayor after his failure to do anything to stop ICE from kidnapping our neighbors. He had been mayor for TWENTY-SIX YEARS!!

Also, my mom taught 5th grade and one of her students just got elected to city council. Let’s fucking go!

A lot of institutions are noticing progressive voices taking center stage in the leadup to midterms and 2028 and want to cause as much misinfo and chaos as possible. Trust, but verify, etc.

LRT: Be *really* careful about headlines nowadays, I remember seeing two *strikingly* similar headlines back in January attributing a quote that “we shouldn’t push for new dem leadership now” to both AOC and then Mamdani, respectively. Dunno if either actually said that, lol.

I am exhausted from a day of book writing, but I had to see if this headline was accurate, and ... yeah, no, it isn't.

The Haunted Ken doll on the shelf:

“Was I weird? I feel like in was weirds. I definitely was weird. Then again, it was 12 years ago.” Meg says, being held by an ethereal being that represents… well you be the judge!

“Weird” (2022)

Seaside

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The Song of Achilles ✨
#TSOA

I have some apprehension about next week, but I’m sensing positive change on the wind.

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

DnD table of a halfling mini atop the token of a Shield Guardian, facing down the token of a spiked crocodile creature.

Notebook featuring an inked image of the mutant crocodile with spikes jutting out everywhere. Art by @grungomungis

Great Nimble 5e session that briefly became a Giant Robo fight with a horrible mutated Crocodile kaiju.

I got to stand on the shield guardian’s shoulders and shout commands and everything.

Art by @grungomungis.bsky.social, who is also DMing.

A doodle of a Ditto laying face-up on the ground and staring blankly into space. The text reads "BORN TO BE DITTO, FORCED TO DO TAXES".

me this week #pokemon #pokopia