Chris Bissette 🐻🌈
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Chris Bissette 🐻🌈
@loottheroom.bsky.social
Professional grumpy person. Award winning RPG writer of The Wretched, Treasures Of The Troll King, A Dungeon Game. Co-designer of Tunnels & Trolls 2025. Words in Pathfinder 2, Fallout, Discworld, etc.

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Good morning! It's December, which means it's time for my annual advent calendar!

The Mouth Of Winter is 25 chapters of grimdark fantasy, releasing daily through Christmas. Mercenaries break an ancient covenant. A monster wakes up. Nobody's having a good time.

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The Mouth Of Winter by Chris Bissette
A serialised dark fantasy novella
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Issue 99!

Poetry by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan & Alex Jennings

Flash by Malena Salazar Maciá & Corey Farrenkopf

Short fic by Eleanor Glewwe & M.L. Krishnan

PLUS interviews with:

Kemi Ashing-Giwa; Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older; Moniquill Blackgoose

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan
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December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The megadungeon bot now has close to 50 commands working, mostly back end ones for me to use in setting things up and doing database management, but I'm genuinely very excited about it.

Might add it to the Loot The Room server and run some test games soon.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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If the last 15 years of the tightening chokeholds on society and culture from the tech sector and the American conservative animus have taught us anything, it’s that it’s healthy to be extremely skeptical of anyone calling the humanities “low utility” or similar
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Today on writing Reddit: a man who thinks he's invented a new genre.

It's litfic.
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I asked ChatGPT.
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Developing taste is the best thing a writer can do but it's also the thing that will make you think "maybe I'm illiterate" the fastest.

GenAI can't develop taste.
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
There are still 16 chapters to go which is very good in my opinion
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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You should buy my book.

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December 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Wish I had this before I got fed to an ancient monster at the bottom of a massive fucking pit 🥲
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
You should buy my book.

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December 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Chapter 9 of my serial winter horror novella THE MOUTH OF WINTER is now live on itch!

If you haven't got in on this yet now is a great time to do that. Daily chapters until Christmas, for just £3.99.

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The Mouth Of Winter by Chris Bissette
A serialised grimdark horror novella
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December 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Chapter 9 of my serial winter horror novella THE MOUTH OF WINTER is now live on itch!

If you haven't got in on this yet now is a great time to do that. Daily chapters until Christmas, for just £3.99.

loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025
The Mouth Of Winter by Chris Bissette
A serialised grimdark horror novella
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December 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I am doing as I am told.

Please pick up my serialised advent calendar horror novella. It's got murky morality! It's got the trolley problem! It's got an ancient and hungry and sleepy monster!

go.loottheroom.uk/winter
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Today's chapter of The Mouth Of Winter in a nutshell

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December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Knives Out was all about storytelling through costuming (and Glass Onion repeated this to a lesser extent). Wake Up Dead Man is all about storytelling through lighting. It's genuinely great
The film hits Netflix Friday, but I recommend seeing it in a theater that's playing it if ya can. Not only does it all look great (the lighting changes are all amazing) but it really benefits from being with a crowd that gets swept up in the properly fun twists 📽️

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Cinema Is My Church: Rian Johnson on "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" | Interviews | Roger Ebert
An interview with the writer/director of the Knives Out movies.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
NESS were kind enough to furnish me with an ARC of this, which coincided perfectly with my reading slump and therefore didn't get read. I aim to fix that before the end of the year because it sounds great
⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS, our first ever novel, is out now! ⚔️

Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!

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December 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS, our first ever novel, is out now! ⚔️

Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold!

👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Literally this
the trick with getting people to play non-D&D games is just to do it and not act like its a big deal at all.
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Avatar 3 tickets, acquired
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I continue to see sales from a journo talking about The Wretched on Twitter and frankly I wasn't prepared for a sudden massive bump in orders, so I'm very sorry if you've been waiting for your order to go in the post. I'm getting through them as quickly as I possibly can.
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today's chapter of The Mouth Of Winter in a nutshell

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December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Chapter 8 of The Mouth Of Winter is live! Here is a meme to explain what happens in this one.

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December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
People who pay invoices within minutes of receiving them really are the best
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 winner event!

@cdrose.bsky.social reading from his winning novel & in conversation with @asack.bsky.social.

📍@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
📅 14th January, from 7pm

FREE TIX 👇
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C.D. Rose, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre Presents the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 in conversation with Amy Sackville, Chair of Judges.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM