I just want to thank Past Eppy for writing this. Really enjoying writing about "your table" without feeling the need to qualify it with caveats about playing online or via the astral plane or whatever.
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Epidiah
@epidiah@dice.camp
mastodon 4.7.3Author and tabletop role-playing game designer Epidiah Ravachol. Perhaps known for:
Dread
Swords Without Master
Worlds Without Master
Vast & Starlit
Wolfspell
To be concluded…
(he/him)
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Joined April 06, 2022
At long last, Swords Without Master shall slip the bonds of Worlds Without Master, issue 3!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unwrittenearths/swords-without-master?ref=4g25pr
Funded so fast, I'm reeling!
Writing up an example of play for the new edition of Swords Without Master and I've completely scrapped three drafts already. I kept thinking purpose of the document was to illustrate the rules, and everything got bogged down in minutia that had already been capably explained elsewhere.
The focus should be on people playing, not the rules they are using. How are they expressing themselves and negotiating with those rules.
Folks!
⚔️ The Season of Swords is upon us! Swords Without Master is coming out of the pages of Worlds Without Master Issue 3 into a full, stand-alone release!
🔮 Follow the Kickstarter page to get notified on launch in early 2026
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unwrittenearths/swords-without-master?ref=4g25pr
Folks!
The year is 2025 and I am officially a paid electronic computer programmist!
Right now...
Swords Without Master
is in
Worlds Without Master, issue 3
But in 2026...
Swords Without Master
will be in
A stand-alone, printed omnibus from The Unwritten Earths Symposium!
There are a lot of bad, probably AI-generated, tech tutorials out there that heavily rely on AI-generated images.
If you're out there fighting the good fight and writing tech tutorials, keep that in mind. If I'm scrolling through search results and see a preview image of a haphazardly slapped together cut-and-paste job on some stock photos I'm going to think, "At last, signs of humanity!" and I'll stop scrolling to investigate further.
Saw this blank notebook on sale at the local grocery store and I'm already backing the Kickstarter for whatever #ttrpg its eventual purchaser scribbles in it.
I do appreciate the quantum state of D&D where it is both whatever you make it so there's no wrong way to play it; but it's also a giant pile of trivia that you can absolutely can get wrong and should be corrected on.
Replying to
Absolutely did not expect to strike a chord with everyone else on this one.
I'm going to mute this so that my notifications don't spend the rest of the day blowing up. But thank you all for being so cool about it. So far, going micro-viral on Mastodon has been a far better experience than it ever was on Twitter.
I've only been coding for five years now and even I'm nostalgic for a time when vibe coding meant installing a dracula colorscheme and firing up a YouTube synthwave channel while you type up your 67th todo app.
I celebrated by learning to play the He-Man theme on my devil's femur.
[WARNING: Headphones off and volume down.]
Hey folks, Nathan D. Paoletta and I are cooking up something good here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unwrittenearths/adventure-and-hobbyist-annual-2025?ref=avlq4e
Give it a follow so you don't miss when we launch in a few weeks.
Starting to get art for the new Unwritten Earths Symposium project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unwrittenearths/adventure-and-hobbyist-annual-2025
And folks, FOLKS!
Never mind. I take it back.
I just saw a Discord bot respond to a help request with AI slop and a disclaimer that said it wasn't responsible for the accuracy of the information it provided, even if it was information about itself.
Now I'm a Linux man page stan.
My personal horror story is realizing how old Dread is this year.
Riding a post-playtest high.
Hey software devs,
Please, even if you find it helpful to ask ChatGPT and its ilk technical advice, please, please, please don't just copy and paste that mealy salad into a blog or Medium post or whatever. I've grown so weary of slogging through this.
Hey, it's Valentine's Day!
I bet you're thinking, "Today would be a great day to check out a romance game, especially a queer one, or even several! Oh, and, it would be great if I could benefit a charity like Outright International while doing so!"
Well...
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/511948/queer-love-bundle-bundle
Learning to build a web app from scratch is a fun journey from…
"Here are about 10,001 programming languages you can use to build your web server"
…to…
"Here are exactly 0 programming languages which can center a
on a web page, but we've all agreed to repeat the the word 'flexbox' over and over until you stop asking how."
(I've centered the
. It's fine. Flexbox is fine. CSS is fine. Having only 1 choice for styling the most widely used computer application in the world is fine.)
Front end folks!
Let's say I want to replace a character in a sentence with a SVG. You know, like how the monks used do with their drop caps and illuminated manuscripts.
What's the most accessible way to do this? How do I ensure screen readers know what's going on?