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Pro GM, game designer, writer, creator. Tabletop RPGs are my vice. He/him
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What a horrible night to have a curse
My TikTok app with 666 notifications
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Irrespective of my feelings on the current state of Magic, we did get Yiddish on a Magic card
September 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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My only criticism of the mods for the tactical drive pattern/mech frame is that these two mods that only that pattern gets access to are autopicks
Starmetal Hilt: 1/mission, when your heart is on the line, this weapon will auto- matically Crit. You’ll know when it’s time. Relic//Verdict [REDACTED]: This weapon is a key. Find the lock. Can only be chosen at character creation and can’t be changed.
June 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The last ability here has been one of my favorite powers I've ever read in an RPG since I encountered it in early drafts. It basically says if a friend would be knocked back past you, you get to catch them. It's so simple but so evocative, and in a system where speed is basically your HP, powerful!
HEAVY PATTERN - MASS 2 THRUST 2 MP 5 ▶ You roll 3d6 on Saves and keep the highest. ▶ You begin each mission with 2 Armor Charges. Spend a charge at any time to do one of the following: ▷ Completely negate a single attack’s Impact and effects on you. Lose 1 Speed. ▷ When a Leading ally takes Impact that would drop their current Speed below yours, be their anchor and pull them to Match you instead. Take 1 Drive Stress for every remaining Speed they would have lost.
June 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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INFINITE REVOLUTION is here and I'm reading it! Scattered thoughts on Gwendolyn Clark's game of mechs, magical girls, and going supernova to follow:
the cover of Gwendolyn Clark's RPG Infinite Revolution; a pink- and green-haired girl in a black battlesuit with bright red linework is surrounded by floating green futuristic handguns before a prismatic starfield
June 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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That layabout do-nothing finally got himself a proper job? Huh. I thought he was dead.
May 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The text you never want to receive from your mom
A screenshot of a received text reading “what is sigma?”
May 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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how to get bsky post framed above workspace like
the simpsons meme where mr. burns puts up a sign that says "don't forget you're here forever" but homer puts up pictures of maggie that make it say "do it for her" but "her" is replaced with jeeyon shim's prof pic and handle
May 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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the title screen of Peasant's Quest, with a burning peasant in the bottom right corner and the dragon trogdor silhouetted on a mountain above him
April 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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@outridercreative.bsky.social sent me this photo he used as a reference for one of his Secret of the Night Market illustrations and I have never wanted to step into a photograph more.

Peep the cheese balls in the background
Anthony bourdain, tie untied, sips wine with one hand and holds a platter with a pig’s head in the other. He’s behind a set dinner table with meat, wine, cheese, fruit and candles and in front of counters and cupboards, one of which holds a full tub of cheese balls.
April 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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It was @dsradam.bsky.social who first put me onto "OSR and PbtA are way more similar than they think" and reading @dicegoblin.blog's Block Dodge Parry had me nodding my head along. These are Moves, hahaha!
A page from the TTRPG Block Dodge Parry reading: To summarize the tools and sections of this book: ■ If something sudden and unexpected happens to the PCs and they respond nearly out of instinct, roll an Ability Save (page 10). ■ If a PC wants to undertake a specific action of which the outcome is uncertain (or if failure of the action would be interesting), use the Time, Gear, Skill framework (page 11). ■ If a PC wants to undertake a process or task that has multiple steps or stages, each of which can fail (or cause delays), check the Complex Task system (page 22). ■ If a PC is at odds with an NPC, they can just talk it out. If that fails, you can rule on their debate, negotiation, or discussion using Social Conflict (page 26) ■ If things move past the talking stage and weapons are drawn, see the Combat (page 30) and Weapon (page 84) rules. ■ When navigating the wilderness, see Wilderness (page 122) for procedures. ■ When delving into a dungeon (or a similarly dangerous environment), see Dungeons (page 136) for procedures.
March 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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So cool that @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com was able to immortalize the heyday of Twitter discourse right as the website died—in tabletop party game form no less! Very proud of the incredibly hard work he did
March 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Bullet ricochet meme; me shooting “dice goblinism is conspicuous consumption” at “consumer capitalism” who reflects it at “friends who collect dice”
March 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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This gorilla figure has SO MUCH going on
A toy figure of a gorilla with a robot arm and leg, fantasy armor and weapons, and one modern sneaker
February 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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GAME DESIGN TIP: By committing yourself to never reading or playing any games before you design one, you too can sound as stupid as the creators of ANTI-MONOPOLY
The description from the back of the box of a board game called “anti-monopoly”, which makes the claim that it’s the first game ever with asymmetric rules for different players
February 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Here’s the cross section of a mine… hmmm…
A papercraft cross section of a mine, showing buildings above ground and caverns, shafts, and miners below
January 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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So people used to sell catalogues of these miniature papercraft scenes and castles, and there’s a shop opening up in my city that sells reproductions (and originals!) as the guy collects, scans, archives, and preserves them.

I feel strongly this may affect my RPG hobby in some way
Two papercraft castle, a white fairy princess themed castle, and ragged mountaintop robbers’ castle Front cover for a papercraft castle catalogue for a board game featuring a dragon, knights, and a princess A papercraft scene of the execution of Joan of Arc Twenty or so papercraft scenes from the Arabian Nights on a shelf
January 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I’m referring to this one specifically, a piece I like that magic nerds lost their minds over
The illustration for the magic card Faithless looting from the mystical archives series, depicting a realistic looking human in a stylized red dress and dark hood among painted flames, holding a burning bowl in one hand and tipping out a bowl full of red liquid in the other.
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Brindlewood Bay:
text of the Night Move from Brindlewood Bay: The Night Move When you do something risky or face something you fear, name what you’re afraid will happen if you fail or lose your nerve. The Keeper will tell you how it is worse than you fear. You can choose to back down or go through with it. If you go through with it, roll with an appropriate ability. On a 10+, you do what you intended or you hold steady; describe what it looks like. On a 7-9, you do what you intended or you hold steady, but there is a complication or cost; the Keeper describes what it looks like. On a 12+, you do what you intended or you hold steady, and the Keeper will tell you some extra benefit or advantage you receive. Describe what it looks like. The Night Move is used when Mavens take risky actions at night, or when they encounter something scary or unnerving at night. In BRINDLEWOOD BAY BRINDLEWOOD BAY, nighttime is more dangerous than daytime, and so the Night Move is written to have more perilous outcomes for the Mavens than the Day Move. The Keeper has final say on which ability is used for the roll.
January 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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I'm not much of a note taker, but I stole the idea of the status dropdown from a couple of players who are because I thought it was a perfect little addition to my list of Apocalypse World characters. Here's the fallout of a 15-session campaign:
a screenshot of a google sheets document listing the name, status, and a short description of every character from my apocalypse world campaign. The "status" column is a dropdown that shows whether the character is alive or dead (or in one example, a gun). Over half the characters are marked "dead."
January 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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If you identify as BIPOC and a TTRPG player, a friend of mine is recruiting participants for his doctoral research on games, education, and representation! If you're interested in participating, please respond here or send me a DM and I'll reach out to you!
A poster advertising a doctoral research study. White text on a background of a medieval-looking village with a red dragon's head peeking in from the left side. The poster reads: Participate in reasearch on tabletop roleplaying games and BIPOC experiences! Eligibility: Identify as BIPOC. Have any level of prior experience with TTRPGs. Be able to attend a virtual session. Why Join? Contribute to research that examines representation, gamification, and teaching practices in K-12 education. Help shape the conversation about diversity and inclusion in gaming. For more information please scan the QR code or email the researcher Jordan Lanfair at JLanfair@nl.edu. Please note all participation is voluntary and can be ended at any time. there are no risks associated with the interviews or the research study. End text. Below the text is a QR code.
December 13, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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the children yearn for 4e
Screenshot of Reddit post reading “imagine a “technique list” for all martials instead of a spell list. You get to choose your techniques out of the list and can use them a number of times per rest that make you feel like an actual superhuman combatant, rather than just “bonk, bonk again”. Maneuvers for martials what spells are for spell casters!”
November 15, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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side note I love doing research mid-game and finding out insane things from history like Su Song's 11th century water-powered clock tower/armillary sphere
a diagram of Su Song's water clock tower and armillary sphere
November 9, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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This cafe is giving dogs VODKA
A metal dog water bowl branded with a label for Tito’s Vodka
November 3, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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Tonight in my Blades game, the crew cut a deal with a fire and water demon to help them break into the agricultural ministry and steal a fragment of the shattered sun they're hoarding. The Whisper teleported in via blood ritual and on her first roll to begin stealing the sun this happened:
A screenshot of a dice roll from Roll20 for an Attune roll in Blades in the Dark. The position is desperate, the effect is great, and all four dice rolled 6.
October 31, 2024 at 2:45 AM