Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)
@owenkcstephens.bsky.social
28+ year veteran of writing, developing, and publishing ttRPGs.
Co-Author of Starfinder and Star Wars Saga Edition, worked on D&D, Pathfinder, Fantasy AGE, Everyday Heroes and more.
Freelance writer/consultant
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He/Him
Co-Author of Starfinder and Star Wars Saga Edition, worked on D&D, Pathfinder, Fantasy AGE, Everyday Heroes and more.
Freelance writer/consultant
https://www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephens
He/Him
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"Pathfinder 1e Rules, Old Skool Concepts"
I bring my 26 years of professional work with the d20 engine that drives Pathfinder 1e to create a single-class reboot of the Fighter/Magic-Use/Thief concept from older editions.
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I bring my 26 years of professional work with the d20 engine that drives Pathfinder 1e to create a single-class reboot of the Fighter/Magic-Use/Thief concept from older editions.
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The Esoteric, a prepared psychic spellcaster with a memory palace, for Pathfinder 1e.
(Draft form, due to a burst pipe :( )
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(Draft form, due to a burst pipe :( )
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Still Not Done With PF1: Esoteric Class, a Prepared Psychic Spellcaster (Draft) | Owen K.C. Stephens
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January 27, 2026 at 10:36 PM
The Esoteric, a prepared psychic spellcaster with a memory palace, for Pathfinder 1e.
(Draft form, due to a burst pipe :( )
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(Draft form, due to a burst pipe :( )
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The Esoteric, a prepared psychic spellcaster with a memory palace, for Pathfinder 1e.
(Draft form, due to a burst pipe :( )
www.patreon.com/posts/still-...
(Draft form, due to a burst pipe :( )
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January 27, 2026 at 10:34 PM
The Esoteric, a prepared psychic spellcaster with a memory palace, for Pathfinder 1e.
(Draft form, due to a burst pipe :( )
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(Draft form, due to a burst pipe :( )
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Fuck.
Heater in the game room died.
Burst pipe. Game room is flooding.
Fire department is coming to shut off water from the street.
Emergency call to the plumber, but we aren't the only people with plumbing emergencies. It'll be a couple of hours before there's a chance the plumber will be here.
1/2
Heater in the game room died.
Burst pipe. Game room is flooding.
Fire department is coming to shut off water from the street.
Emergency call to the plumber, but we aren't the only people with plumbing emergencies. It'll be a couple of hours before there's a chance the plumber will be here.
1/2
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Fuck.
Heater in the game room died.
Burst pipe. Game room is flooding.
Fire department is coming to shut off water from the street.
Emergency call to the plumber, but we aren't the only people with plumbing emergencies. It'll be a couple of hours before there's a chance the plumber will be here.
1/2
Heater in the game room died.
Burst pipe. Game room is flooding.
Fire department is coming to shut off water from the street.
Emergency call to the plumber, but we aren't the only people with plumbing emergencies. It'll be a couple of hours before there's a chance the plumber will be here.
1/2
Russia is using foreign press-ganged conscripts who are tricked into paying for the privilege of being beaten and placed on the front lines.
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Bangladeshi workers lured to Russia for jobs were forced to fight in the war in Ukraine
An Associated Press investigation found that Bangladeshi workers were lured to Russia by the false promise of civilian jobs and thrust onto the battlefield in the Ukraine war.
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January 27, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Russia is using foreign press-ganged conscripts who are tricked into paying for the privilege of being beaten and placed on the front lines.
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#GameNightQuotes: (Circa 2019) "You think 'It's getting away,' and then your goddess whispers 'Try this,' and you see how to cast fireball. And you think 'Wait, really?' and your goddess whispers 'Everything buuuuuurns."
"Ah, that special moment when the very first fireball is cast in a campaign."
"Ah, that special moment when the very first fireball is cast in a campaign."
January 26, 2026 at 10:29 PM
#GameNightQuotes: (Circa 2019) "You think 'It's getting away,' and then your goddess whispers 'Try this,' and you see how to cast fireball. And you think 'Wait, really?' and your goddess whispers 'Everything buuuuuurns."
"Ah, that special moment when the very first fireball is cast in a campaign."
"Ah, that special moment when the very first fireball is cast in a campaign."
"So... dragons just MAKE treasure while sleeping?"
"Oh yes. You know how humans wake up covered in dead skin flakes, sweat, and eyelashes?"
"Yes?"
"Well for dragons it's coins, magic swords, and rings of power. Sometimes I have a runeblade on my butt for days and no one tells me"
"Oh yes. You know how humans wake up covered in dead skin flakes, sweat, and eyelashes?"
"Yes?"
"Well for dragons it's coins, magic swords, and rings of power. Sometimes I have a runeblade on my butt for days and no one tells me"
January 26, 2026 at 10:25 PM
"So... dragons just MAKE treasure while sleeping?"
"Oh yes. You know how humans wake up covered in dead skin flakes, sweat, and eyelashes?"
"Yes?"
"Well for dragons it's coins, magic swords, and rings of power. Sometimes I have a runeblade on my butt for days and no one tells me"
"Oh yes. You know how humans wake up covered in dead skin flakes, sweat, and eyelashes?"
"Yes?"
"Well for dragons it's coins, magic swords, and rings of power. Sometimes I have a runeblade on my butt for days and no one tells me"
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Basically nothing matters until you can finish a comic. Doesn't have to be long but I talk to so many people who ask how they can pitch to a publisher and I'm sorry but the abstract idea isn't important. Publishers only want to know if you can do a beginning, middle and end and get it done on time.
What advice would you give an aspiring comic creator? - 🦝
January 26, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Basically nothing matters until you can finish a comic. Doesn't have to be long but I talk to so many people who ask how they can pitch to a publisher and I'm sorry but the abstract idea isn't important. Publishers only want to know if you can do a beginning, middle and end and get it done on time.
After he was on the ground.
After he was disarmed of a weapon he never drew.
After he'd already been shot once.
ICE shot Pretti in the back.
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After he was disarmed of a weapon he never drew.
After he'd already been shot once.
ICE shot Pretti in the back.
apnews.com/article/minn...
Videos of deadly Minneapolis shooting contradict government statements
Videos quickly emerged showing the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis protester by a Border Patrol agent that has been widely denounced as a case of excessive force carried out by untrained federal offic...
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January 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM
After he was on the ground.
After he was disarmed of a weapon he never drew.
After he'd already been shot once.
ICE shot Pretti in the back.
apnews.com/article/minn...
After he was disarmed of a weapon he never drew.
After he'd already been shot once.
ICE shot Pretti in the back.
apnews.com/article/minn...
Seriously, if THIS guy could get a game-writing career that includes an Origins Award, being hired by the top-three ENnie-winning RPG companies, and millions of paid ttRPG words in print?
You can manage to get published and known.
(A historical picture from my "Nervous Baby Mole" phase.)
You can manage to get published and known.
(A historical picture from my "Nervous Baby Mole" phase.)
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Seriously, if THIS guy could get a game-writing career that includes an Origins Award, being hired by the top-three ENnie-winning RPG companies, and millions of paid ttRPG words in print?
You can manage to get published and known.
(A historical picture from my "Nervous Baby Mole" phase.)
You can manage to get published and known.
(A historical picture from my "Nervous Baby Mole" phase.)
#TypooftheDay: (Circa 2020)
"You gain fat healing 2"
...
"I'm pretty wounded. Pass me the chocolate cake."
"You gain fat healing 2"
...
"I'm pretty wounded. Pass me the chocolate cake."
January 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM
#TypooftheDay: (Circa 2020)
"You gain fat healing 2"
...
"I'm pretty wounded. Pass me the chocolate cake."
"You gain fat healing 2"
...
"I'm pretty wounded. Pass me the chocolate cake."
"It's not going to stop until someone stops them."
Pick a number of murdered citizens you find so unacceptable, you'll take extreme action to stop it.
Five murdered? Twenty?
Pick the number now. And when the administration reaches it, remember you thought that number demanded action.
Pick a number of murdered citizens you find so unacceptable, you'll take extreme action to stop it.
Five murdered? Twenty?
Pick the number now. And when the administration reaches it, remember you thought that number demanded action.
I don't know how to tell folks this, but it's not going to stop until someone stops them.
They feed on the horror and cruelty. They get off on it.
It started with them celebrating cruel legislation, & now we're here. Complicity is killing our country.
They feed on the horror and cruelty. They get off on it.
It started with them celebrating cruel legislation, & now we're here. Complicity is killing our country.
January 24, 2026 at 7:59 PM
"It's not going to stop until someone stops them."
Pick a number of murdered citizens you find so unacceptable, you'll take extreme action to stop it.
Five murdered? Twenty?
Pick the number now. And when the administration reaches it, remember you thought that number demanded action.
Pick a number of murdered citizens you find so unacceptable, you'll take extreme action to stop it.
Five murdered? Twenty?
Pick the number now. And when the administration reaches it, remember you thought that number demanded action.
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Walz: "You kill a man, and then you just leave? You're law enforcement -- you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not gonna clean up our mess?'"
January 24, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Walz: "You kill a man, and then you just leave? You're law enforcement -- you just leave? Is there a single case in American history where you just, like, walk away and say, 'I guess that just happened and we're not gonna clean up our mess?'"
The US federal government is deploying troops to US cities, killing citizens, declaring the dead to be domestic terrorists before investigations, and denying state law-enforcement access to investigations.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
The US federal government is deploying troops to US cities, killing citizens, declaring the dead to be domestic terrorists before investigations, and denying state law-enforcement access to investigations.
1/x
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If I think about the fact this is even a question that has to be asked I think I'd pack it all in and go live in woods
Grok is being used to create sexualised images of women and child abuse material which are posted on X.
So, why is the Department of Education still posting images of children to X?
If Government Departments are going to continue to use X, can they at least stop posting images of children?
So, why is the Department of Education still posting images of children to X?
If Government Departments are going to continue to use X, can they at least stop posting images of children?
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 AM
If I think about the fact this is even a question that has to be asked I think I'd pack it all in and go live in woods
I seem to have eaten something that doesn't agree with me. I'm hoping this is not full-on food poisoning, it's NOT a good time to need to go to the hospital.
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I seem to have eaten something that doesn't agree with me. I'm hoping this is not full-on food poisoning, it's NOT a good time to need to go to the hospital.
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
Folks, spreading anti-Trump parodies as if they were true just makes it easier for Trump supporters to ignore actual issues.
PLEASE check your sources before re-posting.
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PLEASE check your sources before re-posting.
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Did Bondi say, 'Jesus Christ would never have stormed a church' in protest of its leaders?
Users shared the alleged quote in the days after protesters disrupted a St. Paul, Minnesota, church service as part of an anti-ICE demonstration.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Folks, spreading anti-Trump parodies as if they were true just makes it easier for Trump supporters to ignore actual issues.
PLEASE check your sources before re-posting.
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PLEASE check your sources before re-posting.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...
Twelve quick alternatives to having a fantasy game start at a tavern.
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The Adventure Starts... NOT At A Tavern | Owen K.C. Stephens
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January 22, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Twelve quick alternatives to having a fantasy game start at a tavern.
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#ttrpg guys talking film! New episode this Saturday. Talking LOTR and why the Ranger class has been such a challenge for game designers. @jacobblackmon.bsky.social will be there! @owenkcstephens.bsky.social might be there!! @darrindrader.bsky.social will be there! www.youtube.com/live/d4INAb1...
RPG Guys Talking Movies: LOTR and Why RPGS get Rangers so Wrong
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January 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM
#ttrpg guys talking film! New episode this Saturday. Talking LOTR and why the Ranger class has been such a challenge for game designers. @jacobblackmon.bsky.social will be there! @owenkcstephens.bsky.social might be there!! @darrindrader.bsky.social will be there! www.youtube.com/live/d4INAb1...
Part of being a successful independent or freelance creator in the ttRPG space is getting noticed, and that can involve being able to be entertaining outside of the work you create.
And that is a performance... which is HARD for a lot of creators.
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And that is a performance... which is HARD for a lot of creators.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Part of being a successful independent or freelance creator in the ttRPG space is getting noticed, and that can involve being able to be entertaining outside of the work you create.
And that is a performance... which is HARD for a lot of creators.
www.patreon.com/posts/perfor...
And that is a performance... which is HARD for a lot of creators.
www.patreon.com/posts/perfor...
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We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.
"Shrieking"
When disturbed shrieking creatures shriek. They cannot flank (you can track it by sound easily) or make Stealth checks.
After every 5 full rounds of combat with a shrieking creature, there's a 1-in-6 chance of attracting a random encounter that, annoyed by the shrieks, attacks everyone.
When disturbed shrieking creatures shriek. They cannot flank (you can track it by sound easily) or make Stealth checks.
After every 5 full rounds of combat with a shrieking creature, there's a 1-in-6 chance of attracting a random encounter that, annoyed by the shrieks, attacks everyone.
January 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"Shrieking"
When disturbed shrieking creatures shriek. They cannot flank (you can track it by sound easily) or make Stealth checks.
After every 5 full rounds of combat with a shrieking creature, there's a 1-in-6 chance of attracting a random encounter that, annoyed by the shrieks, attacks everyone.
When disturbed shrieking creatures shriek. They cannot flank (you can track it by sound easily) or make Stealth checks.
After every 5 full rounds of combat with a shrieking creature, there's a 1-in-6 chance of attracting a random encounter that, annoyed by the shrieks, attacks everyone.
More than gold, silk, spice, wine, or grain, Te Astra runs on imported Scyvva, a beverage made from diluted skorkian venom. In Te Astra it is always served hot, with a dried fruit added to sweeten and flavor the Scyvva.
What's the must-have drink of your world?
#Worldbuilding
What's the must-have drink of your world?
#Worldbuilding
January 20, 2026 at 9:06 PM
More than gold, silk, spice, wine, or grain, Te Astra runs on imported Scyvva, a beverage made from diluted skorkian venom. In Te Astra it is always served hot, with a dried fruit added to sweeten and flavor the Scyvva.
What's the must-have drink of your world?
#Worldbuilding
What's the must-have drink of your world?
#Worldbuilding