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@s-che.bsky.social
bearded woman, grad student, game designer, mostly in that order.

pay my rent @ patreon.com/s_che
this fishlike creature, featured on ben franklin’s coat of arms and the university of pennsylvania logo, is theoretically a dolphin.
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
hmm
September 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
DEAD INTERNET THEORY is inspired by some of my favorite pieces of media/things i can't get out of my head. stuff like GAME CHANGER. THE REHEARSAL. HUNTER X HUNTER. and. i think that's basically it. yeah.
no other major media touchstones here.
September 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
ashcan of DEAD INTERNET THEORY, my ttrpg about time travel and how online is a world-ending cognitohazard is now available anywhere you support my patreon.

www.patreon.com/posts/dead-i...
September 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
not available anywhere yet (ashcan soon maybe?) but my next game is very much about making worse and worse games until we drown in them. sort of a maximally pessimistic version of what you're describing.
September 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
starting a phd in three and a half weeks (aaaaaaaa) and i know no better way to celebrate than resurrecting the dream library book club.

come read/play/discuss REALIS with us.

discord.gg/hVC756XGSd
August 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
wrote about last week's Game Changer, games that have other games inside of them, and the joy of using machines to break things from the inside out.

also a tiny peek at DEAD INTERNET THEORY, the game i'm working on now.
July 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
she's so girlypop
July 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
game design
May 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
i did this to myself
April 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
this month we're continuing the pastoral party with @riseupcomus.bsky.social's osr game of hobbit nonsense UNDER HILL, BY WATER. already played one session and loved it.

if you want to get in on that discussion or the next two weeks of one-shots, well, come on in.

discord.gg/hVC756XGSd
February 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
last month my #ttrpg book club kicked off a springtime full of fairies by spending a month with @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social's UNDER HOLLOW HILLS. i wrote some thoughts about playing it and also why we play games at all.

www.patreon.com/posts/dream-...
February 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
go birds
January 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
love to queue something up & then forget to promote it

new article up now (last week). i talk about building and breaking, excitement and terror, and perform something they're calling "cheSMR"

This Game Has a Hole In It!

www.patreon.com/posts/this-g...
December 12, 2024 at 11:47 PM
don’t worry, it’s really not that complicated
December 6, 2024 at 3:33 PM
hey. i'm che. i'm a trans game designer & grad student in religious studies. i write rpgs about queerness, religion, and nostalgia & also academic papers about queerness, religion, and nostalgia. i also run a monthly virtual games book club out of a space called THE DREAM LIBRARY.
November 22, 2024 at 10:06 PM
this month, the Dream Library's rpg book club is digging into Bluebeard's Bride as we continue our unit on intimacy & monstrosity in #ttrpgs. we're recruiting for our first play session tomorrow, come join!
discord.gg/hVC756XGSd
October 1, 2024 at 9:14 PM
gotta be real, this is a weird one!
patreon supporters at $3 or more get to play around with two prototypes of parasitic journaling games, A CALAMITOUS COINCIDENCE and THE ALCHEMIST. #ttrpgs www.patreon.com/posts/parasi...
August 22, 2024 at 2:32 PM
this game rules
August 17, 2024 at 5:24 AM
threat maps r good
July 26, 2024 at 6:51 PM
good morning folks. new article about how every game is a map-making game is up now for patreon backers. come cancel me for design takes i had in middle school.

www.patreon.com/posts/two-vi...
July 19, 2024 at 1:34 PM
over on tumblr i am talking about playing a one shot of APOCALYPSE WORLD, why you should not play a one shot of APOCALYPSE WORLD, and why APOCALYPSE WORLD is one of the greatest rpgs of all time

www.tumblr.com/che-bur-ashk...
July 15, 2024 at 7:51 PM
black friday sale is live on a bunch of my itch games! half off on Gun Cowboy, Beneath Pirate Flags, [three dudes go bowling] & more

itch.io/s/110269/che...
November 24, 2023 at 3:04 PM
BENEATH PIRATE FLAGS, my long-ashcan'd ttrpg of intimacy, vulnerability, and liberation on the somewhere-sea, is out on itch for real.

sche.itch.io/beneath-pira...
October 26, 2023 at 1:19 PM