Michael Valdez
@michaelvaldez.bsky.social
(He/Him) Author of lighthearted purposely dumb sci-fi books and TTRPG adventures.
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Blurred Weaponry (Saints of the Void, Book 1) by Michael Valdez
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I’m the author of a small number of things. You can find my dumb, action-packed #scifi novels via these links:
Blurred Weaponry (Saints of the Void, Book 1) books2read.com/Blurred
Northwater (Saints of the Void, Book 1.5) books2read.com/Northwater
My #cyphersystem TTRPG adventures: bit.ly/Sunlit-CSC
Blurred Weaponry (Saints of the Void, Book 1) books2read.com/Blurred
Northwater (Saints of the Void, Book 1.5) books2read.com/Northwater
My #cyphersystem TTRPG adventures: bit.ly/Sunlit-CSC
Proud to be the 909th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Cypher: Faster. Easier. And Even Better!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Cypher: Faster. Easier. And Even Better!
The award-winning TTRPG perfect for forging the stories YOU want to play. Lightning-quick character generation. Super easy to GM. Unique and imaginative campaigns. And all the flexibility, story focus...
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September 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Proud to be the 909th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Cypher: Faster. Easier. And Even Better!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Finishing prep work and scheduling for Cypher System games, I realized that I needed a sort of tour for the CS Character Builder for my players. There's a couple online already, but I figured to make my own, too! 🎲
bit.ly/CypherBuilder
bit.ly/CypherBuilder
Cypher System Character Builder | Quick Tour
This is a quick run-through of the Cypher System character builder. There's others online, but I wanted to do one that was very bare-bones for my future players. 00:19 Cypher Tools site 00:37 Character Builder site 1:13 Making a Pre-Gen 2:08 Making a character from scratch (Guided) 2:35 Pick your Type 3:06 Pick your Focus 3:36 Pick your Descriptor 4:00 Character mostly made! 4:19 Abilities at Tier 1 4:46 Assign Pool points 5:22 Name, Image, Equipment 5:44 Character Finished! 6:19 Viewing options and Foundry Export 6:44 Outro Music Credit: Loyalty Freak Music "Waiting TTTT" Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
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March 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Finishing prep work and scheduling for Cypher System games, I realized that I needed a sort of tour for the CS Character Builder for my players. There's a couple online already, but I figured to make my own, too! 🎲
bit.ly/CypherBuilder
bit.ly/CypherBuilder
Proud to be the 3,824th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Magnus Archives RPG: Tangled in the Web! 🎲
February 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Proud to be the 3,824th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Magnus Archives RPG: Tangled in the Web! 🎲
Working on Foundry VTT modules, my to-do list included safety tools and I ran into this absolute BEAUTY. It has fully nine menus of drop downs and a notes page.
What an incredible tool, just assign it to a player and let them make choices. It's called "Consent Form - Emotional Safety Tool" by YanK
What an incredible tool, just assign it to a player and let them make choices. It's called "Consent Form - Emotional Safety Tool" by YanK
January 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Working on Foundry VTT modules, my to-do list included safety tools and I ran into this absolute BEAUTY. It has fully nine menus of drop downs and a notes page.
What an incredible tool, just assign it to a player and let them make choices. It's called "Consent Form - Emotional Safety Tool" by YanK
What an incredible tool, just assign it to a player and let them make choices. It's called "Consent Form - Emotional Safety Tool" by YanK
🎲 Special thanks to anyone that dropped something on my [still in v1 for Playtesting] Pay-What-You-Want
adventures! bit.ly/SunlitCSC2
I turned it around and bought some Spelljammer DnD Adventurer's League stuff since I'm about to start running that again. (details next post) 1/2
adventures! bit.ly/SunlitCSC2
I turned it around and bought some Spelljammer DnD Adventurer's League stuff since I'm about to start running that again. (details next post) 1/2
Sunlit Hands Series 2 CSC Edition - Monte Cook Games | Cypher System Creator Program | DriveThruRPG
A dragon is putting together a plan to takeover Sunlit, the magical traveling town. With an established coterie and allies, the town and its residents are in danger, and a group of at least somewhat a...
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January 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
🎲 Special thanks to anyone that dropped something on my [still in v1 for Playtesting] Pay-What-You-Want
adventures! bit.ly/SunlitCSC2
I turned it around and bought some Spelljammer DnD Adventurer's League stuff since I'm about to start running that again. (details next post) 1/2
adventures! bit.ly/SunlitCSC2
I turned it around and bought some Spelljammer DnD Adventurer's League stuff since I'm about to start running that again. (details next post) 1/2
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Mouse Archer on a Barn Owl ❄️
January 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Mouse Archer on a Barn Owl ❄️
🎲 HERE WE GO AT THE ABSOLUTE END OF 2024! Finished and released the 1.0 of Sunlit Hands Series 2, another pay-what-you-want trilogy of #cyphersystem #ttrpg adventures! Playable together or as one-shots, there's traps, fightin', puzzlin', and explorin'.
Available at: bit.ly/SunlitCSC2
Available at: bit.ly/SunlitCSC2
Sunlit Hands Series 2 CSC Edition - Monte Cook Games | Cypher System Creator Program | DriveThruRPG
A dragon is putting together a plan to takeover Sunlit, the magical traveling town. With an established coterie and allies, the town and its residents are in danger, and a group of at least somewhat a...
bit.ly
December 31, 2024 at 7:58 PM
🎲 HERE WE GO AT THE ABSOLUTE END OF 2024! Finished and released the 1.0 of Sunlit Hands Series 2, another pay-what-you-want trilogy of #cyphersystem #ttrpg adventures! Playable together or as one-shots, there's traps, fightin', puzzlin', and explorin'.
Available at: bit.ly/SunlitCSC2
Available at: bit.ly/SunlitCSC2
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Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: An Energetic Stellar Nursery. This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years away. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...
December 24, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: An Energetic Stellar Nursery. This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years away. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...
Boy, the best idea I had for improving readability problems I knew were there but had a hard time truly finding was printing my unpublished #TTRPG adventures and bringing them to work. I made a ton of teeny-tiny fixes, none of which changed the stories, but all of them made things feel better 🎲
December 21, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Boy, the best idea I had for improving readability problems I knew were there but had a hard time truly finding was printing my unpublished #TTRPG adventures and bringing them to work. I made a ton of teeny-tiny fixes, none of which changed the stories, but all of them made things feel better 🎲
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MCG's 2024 Holiday Gift is here! ❄️ 🎁 ⛄
Donate $10 on us to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heart to Heart International, or the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to make the holidays a bit brighter for someone else! Or get a friend or loved one the gift of good games!
www.montecookgames.c...
Donate $10 on us to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heart to Heart International, or the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to make the holidays a bit brighter for someone else! Or get a friend or loved one the gift of good games!
www.montecookgames.c...
December 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM
MCG's 2024 Holiday Gift is here! ❄️ 🎁 ⛄
Donate $10 on us to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heart to Heart International, or the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to make the holidays a bit brighter for someone else! Or get a friend or loved one the gift of good games!
www.montecookgames.c...
Donate $10 on us to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heart to Heart International, or the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to make the holidays a bit brighter for someone else! Or get a friend or loved one the gift of good games!
www.montecookgames.c...
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NEW JWST IMAGE OF NGC 2566!!! 🌌
image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
December 18, 2024 at 6:33 PM
NEW JWST IMAGE OF NGC 2566!!! 🌌
image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
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I'd like to thank the people at my job treating my like garbage for... fun? No clue how ppl like that think.
Anyway, updating my resume and cover letter made me remember how WILDLY skilled I am in my industry. Holy cow, I've done so much stuff! I feel truly alright about getting a better job.
Anyway, updating my resume and cover letter made me remember how WILDLY skilled I am in my industry. Holy cow, I've done so much stuff! I feel truly alright about getting a better job.
December 17, 2024 at 3:27 AM
I'd like to thank the people at my job treating my like garbage for... fun? No clue how ppl like that think.
Anyway, updating my resume and cover letter made me remember how WILDLY skilled I am in my industry. Holy cow, I've done so much stuff! I feel truly alright about getting a better job.
Anyway, updating my resume and cover letter made me remember how WILDLY skilled I am in my industry. Holy cow, I've done so much stuff! I feel truly alright about getting a better job.
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Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.
December 16, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.
Five minutes in LinkedIn to upload a new resume and I never want to see it again. It's like a website from 2005 made exclusively for people who smile while explaining layoffs.
December 13, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Five minutes in LinkedIn to upload a new resume and I never want to see it again. It's like a website from 2005 made exclusively for people who smile while explaining layoffs.
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this paragraph caught my eye. apparently if you've publicly complained about your insurance they might have you on a person of interest list
December 8, 2024 at 12:03 AM
this paragraph caught my eye. apparently if you've publicly complained about your insurance they might have you on a person of interest list
I was too busy working these warehouse holiday hours to notice but.... AMAZON STRIKE, HURRAH! 🫡
December 7, 2024 at 10:09 AM
I was too busy working these warehouse holiday hours to notice but.... AMAZON STRIKE, HURRAH! 🫡
Huh, turns out paying attention to progressive politics and knowing what "words mean" results in specific ppl being SURE that you're a toddler. I mean, I knew that, but sometimes I let something slip and have to remind myself: "Michael, this person that already thinks you're dumb. Keep it down."
November 18, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Huh, turns out paying attention to progressive politics and knowing what "words mean" results in specific ppl being SURE that you're a toddler. I mean, I knew that, but sometimes I let something slip and have to remind myself: "Michael, this person that already thinks you're dumb. Keep it down."
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Guys, has anyone posted the YES, MADAM (Corey Yuen, 1985) final fight scene on here yet? Extremely important for the website to run properly.
November 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Guys, has anyone posted the YES, MADAM (Corey Yuen, 1985) final fight scene on here yet? Extremely important for the website to run properly.
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The Democratic Party needs to be gutted and remade. If they don’t learn that lesson from this election we have to make them understand it.
November 6, 2024 at 7:04 PM
The Democratic Party needs to be gutted and remade. If they don’t learn that lesson from this election we have to make them understand it.
Funny enough, the anger in me is actually STOPPING me from doom scrolling [as much]. I closed browser windows to prep for IT certifications. I need to improve my situation, make more money so that I can give money to righteous causes, and have more time to fully engage with those same causes.
November 6, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Funny enough, the anger in me is actually STOPPING me from doom scrolling [as much]. I closed browser windows to prep for IT certifications. I need to improve my situation, make more money so that I can give money to righteous causes, and have more time to fully engage with those same causes.
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I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.
November 6, 2024 at 8:44 AM
I'm never going to have a better use for this meme.
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