Derek Semsick
@dereksemsick.itch.io
TTRPG GM - Ask me about my Mage the Ascension Chronicle. I dare you.
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"Dick Cheney" sounds like a name Tomino would give a politician who lobbies to deploy mobile suits against the space colonies.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Dick Cheney" sounds like a name Tomino would give a politician who lobbies to deploy mobile suits against the space colonies.
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Please repost! @vixiebelle.bsky.social and I are looking for Discords to spotlight for our BIPOC meetup during #PAXU. We want feature places like Rol Latine and Historically Black Dice that allow BIPOC folks in the TTRPG space to maintain and make connections
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Please repost! @vixiebelle.bsky.social and I are looking for Discords to spotlight for our BIPOC meetup during #PAXU. We want feature places like Rol Latine and Historically Black Dice that allow BIPOC folks in the TTRPG space to maintain and make connections
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it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
I can't recommend the Far Horizons Guides highly enough. Any GM who needs a quick system agnostic idea should be backing this campaign and purchasing the previous guides.
The Far Horizons Co-op has just launched the #Kickstarter for the Far Horizons Guide to Mysterious Locations, a new system-agnostic #TTRPG supplement for use in a wide array of different games!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fal...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fal...
Far Horizons Guide to Mysterious Locations
A system-agnostic tabletop supplement to add strange and magical locations to your game worlds.
www.kickstarter.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I can't recommend the Far Horizons Guides highly enough. Any GM who needs a quick system agnostic idea should be backing this campaign and purchasing the previous guides.
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I'm available to book games via StartPlaying. I can run quite a few things, but games that I can run immediately are
D&D 5e, VtM and Hunter v5, Liminal Horror, Don't Rest Your Head, Kult, Our Brilliant Ruin, and Inevitable
Book here: startplaying.games/gm/sneakernet
D&D 5e, VtM and Hunter v5, Liminal Horror, Don't Rest Your Head, Kult, Our Brilliant Ruin, and Inevitable
Book here: startplaying.games/gm/sneakernet
Professional Game Master - Zachary Vaudo | StartPlaying
2024 CRiT Awards Nominee for Best Indie GM.
Willing to traverse between the Dark-and-Discomforting and the Weird-and-Ridiculous? Then let's play a game.
Regular GM for D&D 5e, VtM and Hunter v5, Don...
startplaying.games
August 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm available to book games via StartPlaying. I can run quite a few things, but games that I can run immediately are
D&D 5e, VtM and Hunter v5, Liminal Horror, Don't Rest Your Head, Kult, Our Brilliant Ruin, and Inevitable
Book here: startplaying.games/gm/sneakernet
D&D 5e, VtM and Hunter v5, Liminal Horror, Don't Rest Your Head, Kult, Our Brilliant Ruin, and Inevitable
Book here: startplaying.games/gm/sneakernet
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Today is my birthday and I'm extremely close to 200 followers! I would love to hit 200 today so if you are seeing this, give me a follow! I make Sci-Fi TTRPGs, Adventures, and Tools 😁
If you already follow me: Please repost and share my account, it would make my day 🎂
If you already follow me: Please repost and share my account, it would make my day 🎂
August 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Today is my birthday and I'm extremely close to 200 followers! I would love to hit 200 today so if you are seeing this, give me a follow! I make Sci-Fi TTRPGs, Adventures, and Tools 😁
If you already follow me: Please repost and share my account, it would make my day 🎂
If you already follow me: Please repost and share my account, it would make my day 🎂
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No matter the system, the GM’s duty is to provide the necessary context for players to make informed and dramatic decisions. Stop gating crucial lore behind a skill check, a specific approach you want the players to take, or a hidden condition. Be generous with info, signal risks, and deliver. 🙂↕️
August 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
No matter the system, the GM’s duty is to provide the necessary context for players to make informed and dramatic decisions. Stop gating crucial lore behind a skill check, a specific approach you want the players to take, or a hidden condition. Be generous with info, signal risks, and deliver. 🙂↕️
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I've started a #TTRPG blog—specifically about solo TTRPGs, and soloing games not designed for solo play. My second review is up—it's about Pendragon (pub. @chaosium.bsky.social), and it's a long one!
(Does this count for #SelfPromoSaturday?)
(Does this count for #SelfPromoSaturday?)
Can I Solo Pendragon?
Pendragon is, as the name suggests, an Arthurian TTRPG. Half high chivalry, half gritty medieval simulation—and this is on purpose, because it's about the myth of Arthur as a shining beacon of honor.....
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July 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I've started a #TTRPG blog—specifically about solo TTRPGs, and soloing games not designed for solo play. My second review is up—it's about Pendragon (pub. @chaosium.bsky.social), and it's a long one!
(Does this count for #SelfPromoSaturday?)
(Does this count for #SelfPromoSaturday?)
Check out Invisible Sun: Electric and Indigo on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Invisible Sun: Electric and Indigo
The legendary Invisible Sun RPG immerses you in magic that feels truly magical, characters that are deep and memorable, and rich and satisfying campaigns. Now in a re-envisioned presentation, it’s a p...
www.backerkit.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Check out Invisible Sun: Electric and Indigo on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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What Makes Starscape Unique?
Easy ship mechanics allow full customization and control without tons of crunch, and the time-efficient rules include all players in ship-to-ship conflicts.
See what else sets this #ttrpg apart below!
goldenlassogames.com...
Easy ship mechanics allow full customization and control without tons of crunch, and the time-efficient rules include all players in ship-to-ship conflicts.
See what else sets this #ttrpg apart below!
goldenlassogames.com...
April 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
What Makes Starscape Unique?
Easy ship mechanics allow full customization and control without tons of crunch, and the time-efficient rules include all players in ship-to-ship conflicts.
See what else sets this #ttrpg apart below!
goldenlassogames.com...
Easy ship mechanics allow full customization and control without tons of crunch, and the time-efficient rules include all players in ship-to-ship conflicts.
See what else sets this #ttrpg apart below!
goldenlassogames.com...
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if a piece of legislation has a name like "The Protecting Poor Defenseless Children from Evil Online Terrorists and Kidnappers Act of 2025" you can be damn sure that what it actually does is fund facial recognition equipped robo-murder dogs and make it a felony to listen to Chappel Roan in public
April 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
if a piece of legislation has a name like "The Protecting Poor Defenseless Children from Evil Online Terrorists and Kidnappers Act of 2025" you can be damn sure that what it actually does is fund facial recognition equipped robo-murder dogs and make it a felony to listen to Chappel Roan in public
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open.spotify.com/show/5htC6e4...
Alright I need all of your help.
For the first part of ‘help’ if you see this post, repost it. That would be a gigantic help.
Because if we can get to 100 people watching our Spotify in 30 days we can monetize it.
We’re getting close! TIA!
#ttrpg #tpg #vtm
Alright I need all of your help.
For the first part of ‘help’ if you see this post, repost it. That would be a gigantic help.
Because if we can get to 100 people watching our Spotify in 30 days we can monetize it.
We’re getting close! TIA!
#ttrpg #tpg #vtm
Vancouver by Night
Podcast · VanCityByNight · Join vampires as they traverse the world of darkness in Vancouver trying to make their way being pulled in multiple directions politically and walking a knife edge of terror...
open.spotify.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
open.spotify.com/show/5htC6e4...
Alright I need all of your help.
For the first part of ‘help’ if you see this post, repost it. That would be a gigantic help.
Because if we can get to 100 people watching our Spotify in 30 days we can monetize it.
We’re getting close! TIA!
#ttrpg #tpg #vtm
Alright I need all of your help.
For the first part of ‘help’ if you see this post, repost it. That would be a gigantic help.
Because if we can get to 100 people watching our Spotify in 30 days we can monetize it.
We’re getting close! TIA!
#ttrpg #tpg #vtm
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Finally found it. The average book thief makes between 60k and 99K USD.
The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare.
torrentfreak.com/wealthy-olde...
The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare.
torrentfreak.com/wealthy-olde...
March 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Finally found it. The average book thief makes between 60k and 99K USD.
The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare.
torrentfreak.com/wealthy-olde...
The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare.
torrentfreak.com/wealthy-olde...
1. Vampire the Masquerade
2. D&D 3rd edition
3. Mage the Ascension
4. Mage the Ascension
5. Mage the Ascension
6. Hellbreakers (playtest)
7. Mage the Ascension
2. D&D 3rd edition
3. Mage the Ascension
4. Mage the Ascension
5. Mage the Ascension
6. Hellbreakers (playtest)
7. Mage the Ascension
1. First #ttrpg you ever played?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
March 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
1. Vampire the Masquerade
2. D&D 3rd edition
3. Mage the Ascension
4. Mage the Ascension
5. Mage the Ascension
6. Hellbreakers (playtest)
7. Mage the Ascension
2. D&D 3rd edition
3. Mage the Ascension
4. Mage the Ascension
5. Mage the Ascension
6. Hellbreakers (playtest)
7. Mage the Ascension
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It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
All 3 patterns are available for pre-order!! If I don't sell enough of them. I'll have to cancel orders. So please support!!
Which ones are you buying? Galaxy, bats or strawberry?
Store: Bibipins.com
All 3 patterns are available for pre-order!! If I don't sell enough of them. I'll have to cancel orders. So please support!!
Which ones are you buying? Galaxy, bats or strawberry?
Store: Bibipins.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
All 3 patterns are available for pre-order!! If I don't sell enough of them. I'll have to cancel orders. So please support!!
Which ones are you buying? Galaxy, bats or strawberry?
Store: Bibipins.com
All 3 patterns are available for pre-order!! If I don't sell enough of them. I'll have to cancel orders. So please support!!
Which ones are you buying? Galaxy, bats or strawberry?
Store: Bibipins.com
@fetterman.senate.gov do you plan on taking a position on the constitutionality of the Executive branch elimination an agency created by an act of Congress?
February 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@fetterman.senate.gov do you plan on taking a position on the constitutionality of the Executive branch elimination an agency created by an act of Congress?
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Our child, holding one leg up in the air while trying to ooze some green slime putty down the inside of his pant leg, muttered a choice epithet to himself, followed by the name of the current president.
I'm not sure how this is related to his current endeavor, and I'm not asking.
I'm not sure how this is related to his current endeavor, and I'm not asking.
January 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Our child, holding one leg up in the air while trying to ooze some green slime putty down the inside of his pant leg, muttered a choice epithet to himself, followed by the name of the current president.
I'm not sure how this is related to his current endeavor, and I'm not asking.
I'm not sure how this is related to his current endeavor, and I'm not asking.
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Tabletop RPG books aren't overpriced. Not even the ones that just had price hikes.
They're specialty technical creative writing social interaction manuals.
At x2 current prices, they wouldn't be overpriced.
This is a huge part of why most ttRPG creators leave the industry.
#RealGameIndustry
They're specialty technical creative writing social interaction manuals.
At x2 current prices, they wouldn't be overpriced.
This is a huge part of why most ttRPG creators leave the industry.
#RealGameIndustry
January 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Tabletop RPG books aren't overpriced. Not even the ones that just had price hikes.
They're specialty technical creative writing social interaction manuals.
At x2 current prices, they wouldn't be overpriced.
This is a huge part of why most ttRPG creators leave the industry.
#RealGameIndustry
They're specialty technical creative writing social interaction manuals.
At x2 current prices, they wouldn't be overpriced.
This is a huge part of why most ttRPG creators leave the industry.
#RealGameIndustry
5 TTRPGs I want to play in 2025
🛡️ Pendragon
🤠 Haunted West
🍸 Our Brilliant Ruin
🦹 Aberrant
👿 Assassins, Demons and Dying Gods
🛡️ Pendragon
🤠 Haunted West
🍸 Our Brilliant Ruin
🦹 Aberrant
👿 Assassins, Demons and Dying Gods
5 TTRPGs I want to play in 2025
🌃 NIGHT SHIFT
🚀 Thirteen Parsecs
⚔️ Wasted Lands
💙 Blue Rose
🧙♀️ Old-School Essentials
🌃 NIGHT SHIFT
🚀 Thirteen Parsecs
⚔️ Wasted Lands
💙 Blue Rose
🧙♀️ Old-School Essentials
5 TTRPGs I want to play in 2025
🩸 Paint the Town Red
⚔️ Band of Blades
🇫🇷 The Between: Court of Wolves
🎉 Flabbergasted!
🗼 Spire
🩸 Paint the Town Red
⚔️ Band of Blades
🇫🇷 The Between: Court of Wolves
🎉 Flabbergasted!
🗼 Spire
January 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
5 TTRPGs I want to play in 2025
🛡️ Pendragon
🤠 Haunted West
🍸 Our Brilliant Ruin
🦹 Aberrant
👿 Assassins, Demons and Dying Gods
🛡️ Pendragon
🤠 Haunted West
🍸 Our Brilliant Ruin
🦹 Aberrant
👿 Assassins, Demons and Dying Gods
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we really out here sportswashing jon gruden huh
December 31, 2024 at 6:13 PM
we really out here sportswashing jon gruden huh
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The new version of #KOSA is part of a last-ditch desperate effort to ram the bill through in a must-pass package before the end of the year. That would be a catastrophe for human rights, free expression, and everyone's online safety and privacy. Sound the alarm and take action www.stopkosa.com
Stop KOSA
KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!
www.stopkosa.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:40 PM
The new version of #KOSA is part of a last-ditch desperate effort to ram the bill through in a must-pass package before the end of the year. That would be a catastrophe for human rights, free expression, and everyone's online safety and privacy. Sound the alarm and take action www.stopkosa.com
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Seven years ago, I wrote about how we got married.
It's about a woefully inadequate health insurance system, unethical banking practices, student loans, mental health, and @dereksemsick.itch.io.
It seems like a good time to share it again.
theruralresistance.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/l...
It's about a woefully inadequate health insurance system, unethical banking practices, student loans, mental health, and @dereksemsick.itch.io.
It seems like a good time to share it again.
theruralresistance.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/l...
December 10, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Seven years ago, I wrote about how we got married.
It's about a woefully inadequate health insurance system, unethical banking practices, student loans, mental health, and @dereksemsick.itch.io.
It seems like a good time to share it again.
theruralresistance.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/l...
It's about a woefully inadequate health insurance system, unethical banking practices, student loans, mental health, and @dereksemsick.itch.io.
It seems like a good time to share it again.
theruralresistance.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/l...
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The way people feel & talk about the CEO shooter is - EXACTLY - how the Super-Patriot Nonsense Brigade *want* people to feel & talk about them, instead of as "Those morons who tried to raid a pizza place to rescue nonexistent children in a nonexistent basement from the Clintons", and similar.
December 8, 2024 at 2:24 AM
The way people feel & talk about the CEO shooter is - EXACTLY - how the Super-Patriot Nonsense Brigade *want* people to feel & talk about them, instead of as "Those morons who tried to raid a pizza place to rescue nonexistent children in a nonexistent basement from the Clintons", and similar.
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John Wick did a great breakdown of our super-simple feminist #ttrpg, Virgins & Vixens! Check it out! youtu.be/FeQRf8AzVR4?...
2024 31 Day Challenge: Virgins & Vixens
YouTube video by The Real John Wick
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December 7, 2024 at 9:54 PM
John Wick did a great breakdown of our super-simple feminist #ttrpg, Virgins & Vixens! Check it out! youtu.be/FeQRf8AzVR4?...