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sam “over and under” sorensen
@samsorensen.bsky.social
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Tabletop RPG writer, editor, graphic designer (for hire!). Corpselike academic. he/him
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screenshot of text from Michael Lange's block-by-block NYC mayoral voting prediction (https://substack.com/home/post/p-177872464): "As the results pour in, you will be able to see The Commie Corridor from space."
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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NYC TTRPG Book Club! this Thursday at @boshis.place, 7pm! we're reading @felixisaacs.bsky.social's new project, PICO! come chat with us!
illustrated poster depicting anthropomorphic adventurer bugs. text reads "NYC TTRPG BOOK CLUB / Felix Isaacs's PICO / Thursday, November 6th, 7:00pm / boshi's place — 1002 Metropolitan"
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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hola gamers, extreeemely short notice (been v busy with #OVER/UNDER, so sorry) but tomorrow we're meeting for NYC TTRPG Book Club not at @boshis.place but next door, at GRIMM! we're reading Tania Herrero's award-winning CROWN OF SALT—come chat with us!
square poster in black, orange, and pale blue. an illustration depicts a spiky melting mouth-of-sauronesque guy. text reads "NYC TTRPG BOOK CLUB / Tania Herrero's 'Crown of Salt' / Thursday, October 23rd, 7:00pm / GRIMM - 990 Metropolitan"
October 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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some desert ascetics in the 400s were gettin close
Of course, then as now, not everyone waited for the afterlife. In the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says that “every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.” In other words, by distancing themselves from the physicality and sex long associated with women, female ascetics and nuns approached something like manhood. A lease from around 400 C.E. refers to two ascetics as “female renouncers.” Amma Sarah, a fifth-century hermit in what is now Egypt, is quoted as saying, “According to nature I am a woman, but not according to my thoughts.” A hagiography written by a man about his cloistered virgin sister hesitates to insult her with the title of “woman,” given that she is “above nature.”
October 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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some of my favorite memes from #OVER/UNDER
meme depicting a basic diagram of solar power, but all the labels are replaced with terms for converting to the Solarian faith meme depicting an in-universe ad for OxiSafe insurance featuring a woman breathing in stylized air zoomed-in and blown-out image of megamind; text reads "no tokens?" green square with lower-case text reading "bratva"
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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a good template is flexible, stretchy. these are two spreads from @archons-court-games.itch.io 's OWE MY SOUL TO THE COMPANY STORE that I did the graphic design on. it's built on a basic 3x4 grid, but we could scale and warp that grid in lots of ways to get things to fit as needed
screenshot of a PDF spread from "Owe My Soul to the Company Store," depicting a bunch of yellow boxes on a black background screenshot of a different PDF spread from "Owe My Soul to the Company Store," depicting a bunch of yellow boxes on a black background
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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not to dog on this random blogpost but if this past year has taught me anything it's that there are some truly romantic-ass moments hidden in the spreadsheets, if you look for them
screenshot of a blogpost with text reading "Most rulebooks, of course, do not concern themselves with that. They are IKEA manuals for imaginary worlds – efficient, readable, and as romantic as a spreadsheet. But then there are the other kind of books: the books that make their own language the instrument, that understand that rules are spells and that tone is worldbuilding."
October 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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NYC TTRPG Book Club at @boshis.place! this Thursday, the 9th, at 7pm! we're reading Jason Cordova's Brindlewood Bay, a book I have innumerable opinions about! come chat and discuss with us!
poster with an illustration from "Brindlewood Bay" depicting three old ladies shining a flashlight in the dark. red text reads "NYC TTRPG BOOK CLUB / Jason Cordova's 'Brindlewood Bay' / Thursday, October 9th, 7:00pm / boshi's place — 1002 Metropolitan"
October 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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imo the true potential of miniatures as things that Actually Exist In Space (rather than fancy guys that sit on bases) has yet to be unlocked
image of an old Warhammer 40K rulebook (2nd edition? maybe 3rd?) depicting the outline of an Eldar Dreadnought (old name for a wraithlord) with a graph overlaid, with much of the graph's space being empty because the Dreadnought has a fairly narrow profile. the graph is numbered 2–12 on each side, with an example of play describing players rolling twice to determine the physical location that a missile strikes the Dreadnought relative to its profile
September 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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what's up gamers, the teaser page for my new Mothership Month '25 project, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, is up on backerkit now—this one's about space trucking!!

check it out: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
orange poster with text reading "What lies beyond Prospero's Dream? / Who feeds its denizens? / Supplies its luxuries? / Satiates its hungers? / Ordinary people." with a mockup of a Mothership booklet, also orange
September 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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listen to Vignelli
September 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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NYC TTRPG book club this Thursday the 25th at boshi's place!! we're reading @violentmedia.itch.io's strange, unsettling, and excellent "Wet Grandpa"—come chat with us!!
poster of collaged images depicting a large glassy eye, with text reading "NYC TTRPG BOOK CLUB / Evey Lockhart's 'Wet Grandpa' / Thursday, 09.25.25, 7:00pm, boshi's place - 1002 Metropolitan"
September 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Canadian philosopher Bernard Suits with photoshopped-on sunglasses
September 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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rules-
vegemite
September 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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NYC TTRPG book club! this Thursday! we're reading LANCER, itch dot io's favorite mech RPG, arguably a more successful and beloved 4e than 4e itself! come chat with us!
poster depicting a large mech (art from LANCER) with text reading "NYC TTRPG BOOK CLUB / Miguel Lopez and Tom Bloom's LANCER / Thu. Sep. 11 19:00 / boshi's place - 1002 Metropolitan"
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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massimo vignelli's six fonts genuinely rewired my brain a smidge. every project I look at now, I wonder why I'm not just using one of these six
alphabet and numeral glyphs of six fonts: Garamond, Bodoni, Century, Futura, Times, and Helvetica
September 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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timeline depicting four lines in four colors: - pre 2018–2020, blue: trad - 2018–2021, green: storygame - 2020–2023, red: OSR - 2023–2025, purple: weird simulationisty post-OSR
August 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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occasionally I go through some random tool I have an account on (miro, in this case) and discover maps I'd forgotten

this one's basically ready to go for a cataphracts game lol
screenshot of a topographical map of a fictional place. it's covered in digital hand-drawn lines for rivers and roads, plus a bunch of internet-whiteboard sticky notes with various fantasy-historical names and labels
August 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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NYC TTRPG BOOK CLUB! a week from today! we're reading Dennis Detwiller's gargantuan Delta Green adventure, IMPOSSIBLE LANDSCAPES! it's been a hot minute since we've read a big old traddy-trad adventure, it should be good! come join us to discuss!
poster with marked-up and mangled text reading "NYC TTRPG BOOK CLUB / Dennis Detwiller's 'Impossible Landscapes' / Thursday, August 28th, 7:00pm / boshi's place - 1002 Metropolitan"
August 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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five years behind the curve imo www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
cover of "Izirion's Enchiridion of the West Marches," a 5e campaign guide for West Marches-style games
August 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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checks out
two-axis graph that says "sword <-> gun" and "dry <-> wet" with a bunch of my projects listed on various positions
August 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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this one's actually really good, I'd forgotten how funny it is
text that reads "When You Deal With Things That Are Not Games, Roll + Life: On a 10+ You do the thing. On a 7­9: You do the thing, but it costs you, or there’s a hard choice, or whatever. Look, we all know how 7­9 works on Act Under Fire." text that reads: "*Eye for Thematic Content When you play someone else’s game, roll + Creativity. On a hit, something in your game inspires you to how you could do things in your game, gain 1 Idea. On a 10+, also recover 1 Stress. On a miss, you muck their game up with too much touchy­feely narrative stuff; you and they both gain a Stress." text that reads: "*Curriculum Vitae Name three to five games you have published, and choose a theme for each. Decide which one you are most famous for. Whenever you like, you may decide what the Features for those games were. (Those games were original, and therefore do not use Stats or Playbooks.)" text that reads "*It’s Complete... Enough Your game does not have to be complete for you to Launch the Kickstarter. You must have at least one completely filled row of progress boxes. Take ­1 to your roll for each row of progress boxes that is entirely or partially unfilled."
August 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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alright gamers, it's happening. if you want one of these puppies come find me at gen con
photo of a cardboard box with 100 copies of the Cataphract rules printed as booklets
July 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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museum store glue trap
July 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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the legacy of the Paul Rudolph Brutalism architecture at the Met reaches its next step—Kisho Kurakawa Metabolist architecture at MoMA

modernist architecture heads stay winning
July 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM