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Dan Kozlowski
@kozimdan.bsky.social
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Volleyball player. TTRPG Nerd. Improviser. He/him
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Just performed improv in the first time in 3 months. Good to do again but man am I drained (for real). Being HR for the North Pole is tough work
October 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Anyone interested in a semi-regular coop playthrough of Valheim
July 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The TTRPG path to enlightenment
Expanding brain meme: -I can homebrew and re-skin Dungeons & Dragons 5e, repurposing its core rule set for whatever kind of game I want to run -Actual universal systems, like GURPS, Fate, Cortex, Savage Worlds, Cypher System, etc. do not require homebrew, as their core books include character options and modular rules for any setting, genre, or time period, making them better system choices for players who want to use a single system for every game that they run -"Universal" systems where combat is a heavy design focus and/or an integral element of the gameplay loop often compromise on mechanical support of social encounters, making them poorly suited to run drama, diplomacy, "cozy", and other game modes with little to no combat, therefore they are not truly universal -Setting/genre-specific systems are in many cases better at facilitating the story that a GM wants to tell than universal systems, because they often employ mechanisms and design choices that encourage the players to engage in a style of play that is in line with the setting or genre, creating cohesion between the narrative being created by the players at the table, and the tools that the system gives the players to create that narrative -Reverse-engineering the process of conceptualizing your game's setting/story before finding a system to run it with, instead opting to read a system's rules with the primary goal in mind of understanding how the designers intended the system to be played and what types of stories they sought to tell with it, both maximizes your ability to pull from the toolkit of mechanisms in the game's design, and expands your storytelling ability beyond your personal inventory of tropes and touchstones you might otherwise default to, sometimes even giving you altogether new ideas for the types of stories you can/want to tell with a TTRPG -I can homebrew and re-skin Pasión de las Pasiones, repurposing its core rule set for whatever kind of game I want to run
April 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Man. Playing volleyball is fun
June 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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First draft/attempt at a town map for a shadowdark campaign! Thanks to the tips and guides from @jpcoovert.bsky.social
A hand drawn map of a riverside town.
June 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Session 0 of Fight with Spirit was a blast! Can’t wait to start making the story of this ragtag group of hockey players as they work their way to the grand finals!
June 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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@jamesjhaeck.bsky.social 6 months after we chatted about it over lunch at PAX. I’m finally going to play Fight with Spirit! Session 0 with my group tonight!
June 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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@islahinck.bsky.social how far/how much do I need to go in to Blue Prince before listening to the more spoilery discussion you and Jason had with the creator? I feel I’ve discovered a good amount but I know there is still lots to discover and unlock and I don’t want too much spoiled.
May 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The seasonal change of my phone wallpapers to use and rotate through the newest Season Essentials from @chillhop.com is always tedious but worth the effort.
March 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Thanks to @easyallies.bsky.social @islahinck.bsky.social for hopping in on some of my monster hunts tonight. A great way to end my day.
March 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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A player told me they couldn’t make our Draw Steel game this week. So I went to go figure out how to adjust the upcoming combat for 1 fewer player, and oh my god that was so easy. It didn’t even take 5 minutes.
March 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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30 seconds from January! Really similar to last year. But this month I tried out new things with my normal hobbies. A hobby night for mini painting, a new volleyball menu, new cooking tools. New hangout bar. Overall just a month of new stuff.
February 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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@hellomcdm.bsky.social @barilleon.com One of my players wrote up a speech his Dwarf Tactician would have given as his performance during the feast the party put together for Aelian’s Comet in Bay of Blackbottom for our Draw Steel playtest!
January 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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I guess the silver lining to the bus being late is the fare box not working, so I get a free ride home.
January 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I can’t remember the last time I had a lefty experience in a righty world. But learning to use an Instapot is not when I expected to have.
January 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Okay I like, really need to just hunker down and make something with these cards. Because otherwise this is just getting out of hand… @storyenginedeck.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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Nothing better to wrap up a long weekend than a Hawkeye marathon.
December 16, 2024 at 6:05 PM