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merciary.bsky.social
@merciary.bsky.social
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(He/Him) Bisexual ttrpg nerd
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feliciadavin.com
raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible
June 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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imaginationarcade.itch.io
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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ilananight.bsky.social
TTRPGs for Trans Rights: Ohio is live on @itch.io! For as low as $5, get over $1700 worth of games, zines, digital accessories, and more!

All proceeds benefit @kycohio.bsky.social and @transohio.bsky.social, two organizations doing important work for LGBTQ+ folks in Ohio!

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The promo image for the bundle, featuring the logos of the recipient organizations
March 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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jdragsky.bsky.social
my article on the Palette Grid (which explores my dissatisfaction with lines and veils, and which opens up new approaches to discussing safety during play) is now available for the general public:
possumcreek.medium.com/the-palette-...
The Palette Grid (a safety tool)
While I’ve been working on a new game lately (Seven-Part Pact, as if I’m ever working on anything else) I ran into an issue with a lot of…
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March 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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graham.loadingreadyrun.com
Preposterous that someone nominally in charge of seven companies can act so deeply unemployed.

Buddy, I run one company and I’m trying to figure out when I can find time to take down the Christmas tree.
January 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM