Elad Hen
@eladhen.bsky.social
חשבון מסטודון עברי: eladhen@tooot.im
ttrpg mastodon account: eladhen@dice.camp
ביורוקרט של כוח לעובדים ושחקן תפקידים. ציוציי מטעמי בלבד אם לא צוין אחרת
A worker's union bureaucrat by day 📂📋🖇️ a ttrpg player and podcaster by night 🎲
ttrpg mastodon account: eladhen@dice.camp
ביורוקרט של כוח לעובדים ושחקן תפקידים. ציוציי מטעמי בלבד אם לא צוין אחרת
A worker's union bureaucrat by day 📂📋🖇️ a ttrpg player and podcaster by night 🎲
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upping my rates because I got back into magic the gathering
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
upping my rates because I got back into magic the gathering
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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Everyone is vulnerable to believing that their expertise - writing, tech, engineering, philosophy, whatever - is The Most Important One that’s going to Fix Everything, but there’s something unique about gambling addicts saying “what if we tried gambling our way to the truth?”
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Everyone is vulnerable to believing that their expertise - writing, tech, engineering, philosophy, whatever - is The Most Important One that’s going to Fix Everything, but there’s something unique about gambling addicts saying “what if we tried gambling our way to the truth?”
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6-fold ward against AI-induced psychosis
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
6-fold ward against AI-induced psychosis
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One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.
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it's time to play a game of [pointing microphone to audience] IS! THAT! GOOD?
archive.is/Rk9XL#select...
archive.is/Rk9XL#select...
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
it's time to play a game of [pointing microphone to audience] IS! THAT! GOOD?
archive.is/Rk9XL#select...
archive.is/Rk9XL#select...
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Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S.
He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America.
Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America.
Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S.
He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America.
Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China.
These men poisoned America.
Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.
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The subgenre of “cozy games are are actually about death and grief” (Cozy Grove, Spiritfarer, Gris I think but I haven’t played) is another banger category
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The subgenre of “cozy games are are actually about death and grief” (Cozy Grove, Spiritfarer, Gris I think but I haven’t played) is another banger category
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When the ALA recognizes one's work, that's pretty dang cool.
"The games recognized as 2026 Platinum Play Classics are Clue, Jenga, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Apocalypse World, Call of Cthulhu, Mario Kart 8, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater."
#ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd #PBTA
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
"The games recognized as 2026 Platinum Play Classics are Clue, Jenga, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Apocalypse World, Call of Cthulhu, Mario Kart 8, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater."
#ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd #PBTA
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
GameRT Announces 2025 Platinum Play Award Recipients
www.ala.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
When the ALA recognizes one's work, that's pretty dang cool.
"The games recognized as 2026 Platinum Play Classics are Clue, Jenga, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Apocalypse World, Call of Cthulhu, Mario Kart 8, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater."
#ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd #PBTA
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
"The games recognized as 2026 Platinum Play Classics are Clue, Jenga, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Apocalypse World, Call of Cthulhu, Mario Kart 8, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater."
#ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd #PBTA
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
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Whether you're resting after eating, escaping from annoying family members, traveling, or not involved at all in US holiday madness, we've got an early episode for you!
friendsatthetable.net/website/perp...
friendsatthetable.net/website/perp...
Friends at the Table: Perpetua 24: Aquatic Ambush! 02
The Little Snail floats aboard Captain Hornbeam Hypostyle’s Crystal Conch Express, strapped down to its large, open deck, cutting a boxy silhouette against the light of the horizon. Beautiful though i...
friendsatthetable.net
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Whether you're resting after eating, escaping from annoying family members, traveling, or not involved at all in US holiday madness, we've got an early episode for you!
friendsatthetable.net/website/perp...
friendsatthetable.net/website/perp...
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הנחת היסוד שלנו כשאנחנו מדברים על זכאויות היא שתמיד, באופן בלתי נמנע, יהיו אנשים שזכאים לזכות ולא מקבלים אותה (אי-מיצוי), ואנשים שלא זכאים לזכות וכן מקבלים אותה ('רמאות', לצורך הדיון). שני המספרים תלויים זה בזה - ככל שנבדוק יותר נגלה יותר רמאים אבל נגרום ליותר אי מיצוי.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
הנחת היסוד שלנו כשאנחנו מדברים על זכאויות היא שתמיד, באופן בלתי נמנע, יהיו אנשים שזכאים לזכות ולא מקבלים אותה (אי-מיצוי), ואנשים שלא זכאים לזכות וכן מקבלים אותה ('רמאות', לצורך הדיון). שני המספרים תלויים זה בזה - ככל שנבדוק יותר נגלה יותר רמאים אבל נגרום ליותר אי מיצוי.
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טוב, יאללה, ננצל את ההזדמנות לשרשור על מלחמה ברמאויות במדינת הרווחה.
למען הרקורד: אני חוקר של מדיניות רווחה, וחקרתי ספציפית את הנושא של טענות לרמאות וההשפעה שלהן על עיצוב הטבות של מדינת הרווחה (ספציפית, חופשת לידה לאב)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X17696175
למען הרקורד: אני חוקר של מדיניות רווחה, וחקרתי ספציפית את הנושא של טענות לרמאות וההשפעה שלהן על עיצוב הטבות של מדינת הרווחה (ספציפית, חופשת לידה לאב)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X17696175
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
טוב, יאללה, ננצל את ההזדמנות לשרשור על מלחמה ברמאויות במדינת הרווחה.
למען הרקורד: אני חוקר של מדיניות רווחה, וחקרתי ספציפית את הנושא של טענות לרמאות וההשפעה שלהן על עיצוב הטבות של מדינת הרווחה (ספציפית, חופשת לידה לאב)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X17696175
למען הרקורד: אני חוקר של מדיניות רווחה, וחקרתי ספציפית את הנושא של טענות לרמאות וההשפעה שלהן על עיצוב הטבות של מדינת הרווחה (ספציפית, חופשת לידה לאב)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X17696175
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Anybody available to talk to me about SRDs?
Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you?
What's your favorite one that I should look at?
Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you?
What's your favorite one that I should look at?
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Anybody available to talk to me about SRDs?
Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you?
What's your favorite one that I should look at?
Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you?
What's your favorite one that I should look at?
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מצטערת יש רק כותרת אחת נכונה לטקסט הזה וזה לא זאת שנבחרה
💔Blue whales are going eerily silent
Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations
"it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds
“They were spending all their time just trying to find food"
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations
"it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds
“They were spending all their time just trying to find food"
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
מצטערת יש רק כותרת אחת נכונה לטקסט הזה וזה לא זאת שנבחרה
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I really don't like anything about D&D's alignment system, but I appreciate its power as a shorthand, and I'd love to do something that could work similarly, and this is a swing at that.
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...
Oops, All Heroes
Caveat before all of this begins – the material I’m about to use is sourced from a psychology paper on values which were used as the source for the diagram in a Common Cause article. I …
walkingmind.evilhat.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I really don't like anything about D&D's alignment system, but I appreciate its power as a shorthand, and I'd love to do something that could work similarly, and this is a swing at that.
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...
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I updated my guide to digital preservation of Actual Play to make it easier to navigate & added a little diagram to explain the relationship between backups, digital preservation & digital archives
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
Digital Preservation of Actual Play
All My Friends Are Stories is a project designed to help people tell collaborative stories through Table Top Roleplaying Games (TTRPG). There are so many ways to play TTRPGs: you can play them for the...
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I updated my guide to digital preservation of Actual Play to make it easier to navigate & added a little diagram to explain the relationship between backups, digital preservation & digital archives
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
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Just ran a session of #GodfleshRPG with @icel.me and @yushuv.bsky.social and I’m happy to say it’s really cool!
I haven’t GMed since, like, ‘93 but Aviv and Yehuda were great sports.
Godflesh is a PBTA game about adventurers seeking to attain godhood by consuming the flesh of dead gods.
I haven’t GMed since, like, ‘93 but Aviv and Yehuda were great sports.
Godflesh is a PBTA game about adventurers seeking to attain godhood by consuming the flesh of dead gods.
ICYMI!
Godflesh: Cycle of Inheritance, an RPG about leaving order and civilization behind and venturing into the Wildlands in pursuit of the dead flesh of fallen deities, has a public playtest!
@icel.me worked super hard on this, and we can't wait to hear your feedback!
zeroprep.io/gfplaytest
Godflesh: Cycle of Inheritance, an RPG about leaving order and civilization behind and venturing into the Wildlands in pursuit of the dead flesh of fallen deities, has a public playtest!
@icel.me worked super hard on this, and we can't wait to hear your feedback!
zeroprep.io/gfplaytest
Godflesh: Cycle of Inheritance – The Public Playtest 🎲 - Zero Prep Games's Ko-fi Shop
In the shadow of fallen gods, a new cycle of divinity awaits...
The Chrysalis Quickstart packet invites you to ascend to goodhood in a realm where di...
zeroprep.io
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Just ran a session of #GodfleshRPG with @icel.me and @yushuv.bsky.social and I’m happy to say it’s really cool!
I haven’t GMed since, like, ‘93 but Aviv and Yehuda were great sports.
Godflesh is a PBTA game about adventurers seeking to attain godhood by consuming the flesh of dead gods.
I haven’t GMed since, like, ‘93 but Aviv and Yehuda were great sports.
Godflesh is a PBTA game about adventurers seeking to attain godhood by consuming the flesh of dead gods.
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
Just finished a 12 sessions game of Fall of Magic for my ##ActualPlay.
This game is absolutely brilliant. We got so much milage out of its understated prompts. Highly recommended.
##ttrpg ##fallofmagic
This game is absolutely brilliant. We got so much milage out of its understated prompts. Highly recommended.
##ttrpg ##fallofmagic
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Just finished a 12 sessions game of Fall of Magic for my ##ActualPlay.
This game is absolutely brilliant. We got so much milage out of its understated prompts. Highly recommended.
##ttrpg ##fallofmagic
This game is absolutely brilliant. We got so much milage out of its understated prompts. Highly recommended.
##ttrpg ##fallofmagic
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Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out - BBC News
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
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Once again, I remind you: there’s no such thing as guardrails; it’s just. More. Prompts.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Once again, I remind you: there’s no such thing as guardrails; it’s just. More. Prompts.
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I think a lot about “default” expectations in our time — how often they are of very recent construction. (We have dates for when umpires were introduced to kriegsspiel)
If I do my job right, my students don’t assume roleplaying games have a “master” — any more than that games have a win condition.
If I do my job right, my students don’t assume roleplaying games have a “master” — any more than that games have a win condition.
Generations of game designers tried their best but the only word they could muster was “GMless”
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think a lot about “default” expectations in our time — how often they are of very recent construction. (We have dates for when umpires were introduced to kriegsspiel)
If I do my job right, my students don’t assume roleplaying games have a “master” — any more than that games have a win condition.
If I do my job right, my students don’t assume roleplaying games have a “master” — any more than that games have a win condition.