Matt Forbeck
@forbeck.com
NYT bestselling, award-winning author/game designer. He/him. Current projects: Marvel Multiverse RPG, Minecraft Legends novel, and Shotguns & Sorcery 5E.
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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Can't speak to this book, but DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN has become, I think, my very favorite "mainstream" comic. Even more than Miller's "Dark Knight Returns" or "Batman: Year One."
(Among many other things, it's a pretty realistic depiction of severe depression/mental illness.)
(Among many other things, it's a pretty realistic depiction of severe depression/mental illness.)
Happy pub day to pal @chrisryall.bsky.social! His personal and historical look at one of my favorite comics ever, DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN, is worth your time. It's a great year to be a Daredevil fan! (I'm biased, I know)
www.bloomsbury.com/us/daredevil... @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/us/daredevil... @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
Daredevil: Born Again
Explore the Stories Behind the LegendsWhat happens when a hero loses everything? In Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil: Born Again, the comic's tit…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Can't speak to this book, but DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN has become, I think, my very favorite "mainstream" comic. Even more than Miller's "Dark Knight Returns" or "Batman: Year One."
(Among many other things, it's a pretty realistic depiction of severe depression/mental illness.)
(Among many other things, it's a pretty realistic depiction of severe depression/mental illness.)
My dad's memorial marker was installed on Friday. I think he would have liked it.
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My dad's memorial marker was installed on Friday. I think he would have liked it.
To all you veterans out there, thank you for your service.
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
To all you veterans out there, thank you for your service.
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Dear Seattle friends:
There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
komonews.com/news/local/s...
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Dear Seattle friends:
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okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...
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If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
I had a great time at M+DEV this weekend with my son Pat, who volunteered at the show. Folks enjoyed my talk about how to make a living as a freelancer, and I loved catching up with old friends and making new ones. Ben Kvalo and his crew at Wisconsin Games Alliance did a wonderful job with it.
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I had a great time at M+DEV this weekend with my son Pat, who volunteered at the show. Folks enjoyed my talk about how to make a living as a freelancer, and I loved catching up with old friends and making new ones. Ben Kvalo and his crew at Wisconsin Games Alliance did a wonderful job with it.
Gamers! If you're interested in the Spider-Verse expansion for the Marvel Multiverse RPG, you can watch Rafael Taramona run Marty Forbeck, Fuzzy On The Details, other great players, and me websling our way through an adventure Ralph and his pal Rene wrote.
youtu.be/-j2Y2FrT2l0?...
youtu.be/-j2Y2FrT2l0?...
MMRPG Matt Forbeck Roleplays The Spider Verse Expansion in "Six Ways To Vengeance"Roll20 OBS Session
YouTube video by MorganWolf Marvel Multiverse RPG Corner
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November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Gamers! If you're interested in the Spider-Verse expansion for the Marvel Multiverse RPG, you can watch Rafael Taramona run Marty Forbeck, Fuzzy On The Details, other great players, and me websling our way through an adventure Ralph and his pal Rene wrote.
youtu.be/-j2Y2FrT2l0?...
youtu.be/-j2Y2FrT2l0?...
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
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new document retention "policy" just dropped
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
new document retention "policy" just dropped
If you missed the roundtable we had at The Rogue Bookshop, read this summary from the Beloit College student paper. :)
roundtable.beloit.edu/2025/11/05/a...
roundtable.beloit.edu/2025/11/05/a...
A Rogue Writing Panel - The Round Table
Local writers gathered for a panel held at The Rogue Bookshop in downtown Beloit.
roundtable.beloit.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If you missed the roundtable we had at The Rogue Bookshop, read this summary from the Beloit College student paper. :)
roundtable.beloit.edu/2025/11/05/a...
roundtable.beloit.edu/2025/11/05/a...
Heading off to M+DEV today. Hope to see folks there. I'm speaking tomorrow at 2:30, so come heckle me with hard questions.
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Heading off to M+DEV today. Hope to see folks there. I'm speaking tomorrow at 2:30, so come heckle me with hard questions.
Gamers! My old GW pal and legendary sculptor Tim Prow has a Kickstarter for miniatures for the Unquiet Dead, and it ends in just two days. Go check it out!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/die...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/die...
Diehard Miniatures: Unquiet Dead!
The Undead Expansion set is a brand new release of Fantasy Undead including an LE figure, Giants, Familiars, Skeleton and Zombie units.
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Gamers! My old GW pal and legendary sculptor Tim Prow has a Kickstarter for miniatures for the Unquiet Dead, and it ends in just two days. Go check it out!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/die...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/die...
"I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see."
NEW: After my last piece about what's slowing down game development, folks wrote in to ask "why didn't you talk about bad leadership?"
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
It uhhhh never came up. So I returned to the well and asked devs to explain why better leadership—not AI or any other tool—is vital to efficient game development.
How poor leadership slows down game development
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"I've known adventures, seen places you people will never see."
Stopped by the excellent Cataclysm Games in Machesney Park, IL, and signed their stock of Marvel Multiverse RPG books. Go grab them if you can!
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Stopped by the excellent Cataclysm Games in Machesney Park, IL, and signed their stock of Marvel Multiverse RPG books. Go grab them if you can!
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
Nice to wake up to a big dose of hope in American this morning.
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nice to wake up to a big dose of hope in American this morning.
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thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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repeat that last line to yourself. this is enormously important.
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
ACTION. that WE DO. this is all real; this is all possible; this is all essential. let's DO THIS.
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
ACTION. that WE DO. this is all real; this is all possible; this is all essential. let's DO THIS.
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
repeat that last line to yourself. this is enormously important.
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
ACTION. that WE DO. this is all real; this is all possible; this is all essential. let's DO THIS.
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
ACTION. that WE DO. this is all real; this is all possible; this is all essential. let's DO THIS.
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If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE