Brian Stauber
staubington.bsky.social
Brian Stauber
@staubington.bsky.social
Coach - Facilitator - GM - Dad - Nerd (in no particular order)

Finding human connection through shared experiences

https://www.staubercoaching.com
https://staubington.itch.io/
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Twelve people enter... twelve people leave 😉

#gladlands
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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A major glitch has emerged in the regime's plan to send Tom Homan to Minneapolis
January 26, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Still dying from these @dimension20.bsky.social Chili Cook off Contestants

Slap mandel
Dorothy Suzuki
Otto von skid
Bean can
Palma egress
Wandy scrapes
Splat the eye kisser
Twit ogalvy
The Fetted molar
Friedrick lube
January 24, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Rend Repair Purpose is finally up!

Drawing from the art forms of Kintsugi and Blastover tattoos, it’s a journaling game about creating space to grieve then reconstructing yourself to face the world with boldness.

staubington.itch.io/rend-repair-...
Rend Repair Repurpose by staubington
A journaling game about making something new from that which was lost.
staubington.itch.io
January 14, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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IT’S HERE 😍😍😍 After a superbly fun weekend at @magfest meeting all you lovely, sparkly gamers, OUR STEAM PAGE IS LIVE! Add us to your WISHLIST!!

#GloxiniaGame #MAGFest2026 #DanceGame #IndieGame #Coding #GamePlay #RhythmGame #Unity #CSharp #FMV #AfterEffects #Steam #SteamWishlist
January 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Snorlax woke up in a rave! #magfest
January 10, 2026 at 11:06 PM
For anyone at #magfest make sure to check out my very good friends’ booth in the Indie room!

Queer Rhythm Game Fever Dream! Space Channel Five but it’s Town at 3 am

Booth 67!
January 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hat, I know you're the one
January 10, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun
December 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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If you’re naming me in the same breath as TTRPG studies then you should be following and listening to and citing Professor Torner who has done more for analog game infrastructure than any one person can comprehend. (Any number of us shine from reflecting Evan’s light)
Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D.

Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.

Parlor games were feminized...
December 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Imagine someone stole all your shit and then you give them a billion dollars.
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
✅ Get a write-up in @rascal.news

My thought experiment on what a TTRPG expirience based on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald would look like got covered!

Wasn’t expecting this honor but definitely something to check off from my bucket list.

www.rascal.news/the-gales-of...
The Gales of November
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Its tragic story was the focus of folk-rock artist Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald....
www.rascal.news
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Super cool that Affinity has stopped allowing you to buy their software around the same time my free trial expired.

Was trying to avoid paying a subscription fee for InDesign, much less reformat the projects I was working on, but here we are.
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Something that’s amazed me in reading through the Daggerheart Core Rulebook is the dedication to “shared storytelling first”. Shows up in both mechanics and GM guidance.

It’s definitely something DnD tried to do in 5e 2024, but seems antithetical to the brand and continued ties to wargaming.
September 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I'm excited to announce that @peoplesbooktakoma.com will again host an Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair!

🗺️📌 Takoma Park MD
📆 Sat, Oct 18
📑 Indie zine booths all afternoon
🎤 Panel discussion with designers at 4pm

peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/indie-...
Indie & Local Tabletop Games Fair 2025
The DMV is home to some of the world’s leading tabletop game designers! Come meet your neighbors whose games are available at hobby shops, online, and even your local bookstore. Designed in t…
peoplesbooktakoma.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
2025 means making clickbait memes for a better world!
"I don't normally do this, but I had to share"

Someone in the Designed in the DMV Discord made this clickbait meme ad for The Bonsai Diary after someone else shared how they talked about the game with their therapist.

🤣 (for the ad not the therapy)
September 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Todayborday, I'd like to wish alla y'alls a Mario Paint Labor Day!
September 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Just ran #EatTheReich as the first session of my Sunday Scaries TTRPG series and hoo buddy did the players understand the assignment. I think everyone involved needed that cathartic release due to the month DC has had.
September 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Thirty years ago, that dog beat you at basketball.

Now it's back to ruin your second wedding.

It Didn't Say Anywhere In The Rules That A Dog COULDN'T Play Basketball is this month's comedy horror one-page TTRPG.

PDFs, text-only version and "design notes" here: www.patreon.com/posts/it-did...
August 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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kids should be allowed to have phone in school. not a typo, i think there should be one giant thirty foot tall phone in each school that kids have to share. they will gather around it every day, hooting and hollering like the apes in 2001: a space odyssey
August 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Earlier this year I started a series of blog posts about how board games are amazing tools for improving collaboration, communication, and decision making within organizations.

I just published my newest entry, this time focusing on the award winning Sky Team!

www.staubercoaching.com/blog/skyteam
Collaboration Through Gaming: Sky Team — Stauber Coaching and Consulting
Whether you supervise staff or just closely collaborate with others, understanding how your team approaches work, communicates, and makes decisions is critical in finding success. Tabletop games offe...
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August 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Amazing solo journaling game from a DC local!
New!

The Bonsai Diary is a draw-and-journal game that creates space for contemplation.

www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/The-Bo...
August 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM