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Paul Czege
@paulczege.bsky.social
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Game designer. Currently shipping a zine about how to play immersive journaling games:
https://www.paulczege.com/
On Masto as @paulczege@dice.camp
He/Him.
#JournalGaming
#ttrpg
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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · Sep 1
It would be such a missed opportunity to not talk about the journaling game zines I've published on this platform where you actually see the posts by people you follow.

The Ink That Bleeds is about immersion and bleed and self care and...
A copy of The Ink That Bleeds and a copy of Be With Me, both journaling game / zines by Paul Czege.
paulczege.bsky.social
It's been a while, but I'm now in Act 3 of @luciellaes.bsky.social's Cage of Sand and discovering the bodies of murder victims. The first of them is The Star, who is my friend Irah I met in Act 2 and who showed me around, and I'm pretty messed up now finding her dead.

#journalGaming #ttrpg
A home printed copy of Cage of Sand by Luciella Elisabeth Scarlett, along with my current journal, my current orange ink pen, and six face-up cards from the Terra Volatile tarot representing the bodies of murder victims I discover: The Star, the VI of Swords, the Queen of Coins, the Knight of Wands, the King of Swords, and Judgement. It's interesting that all but one of them are Major Arcana. The odds are against that.
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
The loadeds have broken free of the cereal aisle @kiennas.bsky.social !
toomanymouths.bsky.social lillian @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 5h
oh wow that’s crazy

oreos with bits of

of oreos. in them

Real Bits of Oreos
a photo of Oreo Loaded cookies, which promise real oreo cookie crumbs in the filling of the oreo
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Cards from Etteilla’s “Livre de Thot” Tarot, published around the time of the French Revolution.

More on this beautiful and beguiling creation in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/etteilla-thot
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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isaac-fellman.bsky.social
Made Amazon's top 20 SFF books of the year! www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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czamboni.bsky.social
This just arrived!
Excited to get into it during my Winter break. 📖

Thank you @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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katelynburns.com
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
police dressed as military in front of a police tank police dressed in camo like soldiers like total knobs cops dressed head to toe in camo like full kit wankers
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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jameswallis.bsky.social
Any RPG-heads recognise this quote and know who originally said it (we think a game designer)?

"Just because D&D is behind me does not mean it's beneath me."
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
My sense is the iPhones were secretly boosting their photos of the aurora borealis like they do photos of the moon. But not this. Gorgeous.
rleggos.bsky.social Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 9h
So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍

Berthoud Pass, CO last night
Milky Way to the left and red glow to the right above mountains with just a little snow on them in a very starry sky. I didn't use a star tracker and this was a 30 second exposure so some star trailing is visible.
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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munkao.bsky.social
"Former Child Prodigy, Godboy Latong"
Southeast Asian Fantasy. Man, with long hair, dressed kind of like a monk/ascetic/guru. A string of skills across his torso. He is sort of levitating save for the walking stick in his hand that is in contact with the floor. Text below "Former Child Prodigy, Godboy Latong"
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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mariabumby.bsky.social
Okay my feed has no mention of any cool jams lately and i think i kinda need a bit of a spark/just wanna vibe off of a prompt is anyone runnin a jam??
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
paulczege.bsky.social
Some days feel like layout or graphics days, and some days feel like writing days. Today's problem was it feeling like a layout day for things I haven't written yet.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
paulczege.bsky.social
Definitely fumbling my focus today.
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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mcfadden.bsky.social
Only person slower than Merrick Garland at doing their one job is the Grim Reaper.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
My counter argument is the poorly drawn comics I make with my son. His characters, my scripts, his art, my lettering. This is Princess Maclumpha talking with her bff Shark Girl about her new workout routine.
A comic drawn by my son with a script by me. Princess Maclumpha says: I started a new fitness program at the gym. Shark Girl says: Yeah? What is it? Princess: Giant toad wrestling. Shark Girl: Wow. That sounds cool. How's the burn? The next frame shows Princess Maclumpha about to wrestly a giant humanoid toad. Princess: It's great. The giant toads are super strong. You're terrified the whole time. Shark Girl: That sounds great. Princess: And you can barely breathe for how stinky they are. Shark Girl: Wow. Princess: And their bufotoxins give you a rash. Shark Girl: Huh. And then a frame where the Princess and Shark Girl are just looking at each other. Princess: But it's so worth it. Shark Girl: Yeah.
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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magathachristie.bsky.social
In the acknowledgments of my latest game (Allucinalia, version 2) I shout out @paulczege.bsky.social’s “The Ink That Bleeds,” a wonderful treatise on immersive journaling games. I carried my copy around with me while I was revising my work. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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How To Buy The Ink That Bleeds - by Paul Czege
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November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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aiccontemporary.bsky.social
The Drawing Class https://www.artic.edu/artworks/209580/
Gift of Society for Contemporary Art
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
paulczege.bsky.social
I do all sorts of bizarre stuff. I wreck the page numbers. I use unreadable subheads. I obscure stuff with splatters of blood. But I make sure you can read the text, because I want you to play the game.
A page from The Ink That Bleeds. It looks great. There's some text in grey along the margins in a handwriting font, like it's bleeding through from the other side of the page, but it's ornamental, not essential to play. The main text is fully readable. The first page from Two Raw Morsels. There's some blood spatters and a bloody thumb print obscuring the game title a bit, but the main text is fully readable. A page from The Clay That Woke. There are subheads in an evocative, undreadable font, but you don't really need them to navigate the text. The main flow of rules text looks great. A page from The Sneeze. The page number is blown out, like it took a blast of air. And the main flow of rules text uses two different fonts that feel a little odd together, but they're both totally readable and great.
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
paulczege.bsky.social
At what point do Schumer, Kaine, etc, realize they got rolled and now people are going to lose their healthcare and die?
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
paulczege.bsky.social
One foot on land and one in the water. When she comes up she always makes me think of tea.

#tarotSky
The Star from the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. She is crouched with one foot on land and one in a small pond, pouring water from an ewer in each hand, one into the water and one onto the land, where it flows away in five rivulets. She is nude, and there are stars in the sky, and an ibis in a tree.
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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billthepony.bsky.social
Ooh this is such a good way of framing it.

Is there a republican today Who's afraid of Chuck Schumer right now?

Does any Republican hold even 10% of the rage and frustration that we held for McConnell?

It's like Schumer sees his job to be popular among Republicans and unpopular among Democrats
playtyperguy.com Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 2d
Consider that McConnell in the was considered a liberal bogeyman prior to 2014 bc of how he obstructed Obama in minority and made life difficult for him every chance he got. No way that MAGA views Schumer this way, as a real obstacle to their larger agenda
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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lumpley.bsky.social
Hey, I'm doing an AMA over on r/PbtA, if anybody's interested:
www.reddit.com/r/PBtA/comme...

I've answered a bunch of questions and a bunch more to go. If you want to read up or add to the pile, please come!
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November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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kylec.bsky.social
NEW: The lame duck conservative majority on the DougCo School Board plans to use its last meeting Tuesday to pass a 10-year extension for all charter schools without a review of their performance and finances. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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kevinblades.com
Hey all, selling a #puppet from my private collection. If you've ever wanted a Legally Distinct Celebrity Amphibian made by me, you're in luck. Direct shop only, not part of the current sale. #muppets #kermit

www.operationpuppet.com/product/lega...
four images of a puppet that resembles but is still legally distinct from Kermit the frog
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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paulczege.bsky.social
Hope you're having a good morning 🌞
A copy of The Ink That Bleeds enjoying a nice Colorado sunrise.
October 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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paulczege.bsky.social
Daedalus: "Icarus, don't fly too close to the sun."
Icarus: "mhm"
Daedalus: "What? I can't hear you."
Icarus: "hmh"
Daedalus: "What?"
Icarus: "Six seven."
A black and white photo of two birds that look like Daedalus and Icarus, high in scintillating sunlight.
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM