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Sean K Reynolds, game designer at @MonteCookGames; formerly D&D/Pathfinder; he/him; I forget to follow back; https://linktr.ee/seankreynolds
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Many sips later, the latte art has morphed into “view from the bottom of a well as a bird looks in on you and the full moon rises above.” :D
Paper coffee cup, pattern in the latte foam looks like a bird’s head looking left and a moon above.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Cute seasonal latte art by barista Gabi! #snowperson #TopHat
Paper coffee cup, latte art of a snow person with a top hat and their arms outstretched for a hug
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I made bloobermuffins
Tray of freshly-baked blueberry muffins
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Been fiddling a bit more with color schemes for the orc tokens @thiseffingm.bsky.social printed for me for my upcoming Middle-Earth campaign … different white “face paint” options for the red-background ones. Almost a Blood Bowl sort of vibe, now but not comical, and that’s okay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A bunch of flat-ish 3D printed tokens with abstract orc faces. Black with green background, black with white background, grey with blue background, grey and white with deep red background.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Flashback to 2005 when we were at Castle Denning in Washington shooting scenes for Gamers: Dorkness Rising movie. Fun times. :)
me with a goatee and a red bandana on my head me in my Inquisitor costume, red robes with a sun medallion me my my Inquisitor costume, red robes with a sun medallion, cowl up concealing my face. With my two guards, both from the church of Theron, goddess of the light. cast and crew shot of that day, about 25 people gathered in front of the two front gate towers of the castle
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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In our fantasy #Cypher playtest, @ethanschoonover.com was playing a Rogue (or was it Thief?) and due to his weapons & abilities he had to track a lot of easing and hinderings. His smart solution: green poker chips for eased, blue for hindered, so he could quickly determine his overall modifier.
Ethan's flowchart for his character's focus, with a stack of blue poker chips, one XP card, and a stack of green poker chips.
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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(microdream I had last night)
@latiajacquise.com : We're hoping to get Adrienne Barbeau as a guest for this convention. Did you know that her full name is A-dri-dri-enne Bar-bar-beau-beau?
Me: I thought it was A-dri-dri-da-dri-enne Bar-bar-ba-beau-beau-beau?
Latia: No.
Me: *checks Wikipedia* Huh!
still frame from John Carpenter's "The Fog" showing Adrienne Barbeau in a radio station broadcast booth at night. She's wearing a red sweater, holding a microphone, and looking concerned.
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I hope you voted today!
screenshot of The Wizard Of Oz showing Dorothy on the left and Glinda on the right. Speech bubbles for Dorothy say "Going to say it three times" and "I don't want Republicans running the government any more." Speech bubble for Glinda says "No honey, that won't work, you have to vote."
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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I have lived in Seattle off and on since 1997, but this 2018 photo is the first one I have ever taken with the Fremont Troll.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont...
selfie, me in the left foreground looking toward the troll. behind me to the right is the Fremont Troll, a large stone sculpture holding a Volkswagen Beetle in its hand, under the Fremont Bridge.
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Heading up to Sequim for my wife’s uncle’s birthday, and Im bringing homemade enchiladas!
Glass pan of enchiladas
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Me in the Paizo warehouse, bothering Heather, who was having NONE OF IT.
the shipping label table in the Paizo warehouse. I'm on the right in my scary clown makeup. On the left is Heather, wearing a grey hoodie, olive-colored hat, and glasses. She's facing away from me and rolling her eyes in my general direction.
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Another carpool photo, this time with normal lighting.
me made up as a scary clown. I'm wearing a red flannel shirt and blue overalls. My face and head are covered in white clown makeup. Around my eyes is black makeup. Nose is red, red circle on each cheek. Uneven extra-large blue eyebrows. I've drawn extra-large teeth on my bottom lip and chin so that when I close my mouth tightly it looks like a huge distorted grin.
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Photo from inside the carpool. I scared a few people in other cars this way!
me made up as a scary clown. I'm wearing a red flannel shirt and blue overalls. My face and head are covered in white clown makeup. Around my eyes is black makeup. Nose is red, red circle on each cheek. Uneven extra-large blue eyebrows. I've drawn extra-large teeth on my bottom lip and chin so that when I close my mouth tightly it looks like a huge distorted grin. Here my mouth is shut tight and pulled as high as I can, making the grin extra big.
October 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I forgot there were more clown photos from this day!
I didn't try scowling until I got home from work, it makes the painted-on clown teeth very very grumpy!
me made up as a scary clown. I'm wearing a red flannel shirt and blue overalls. My face and head are covered in white clown makeup. Around my eyes is black makeup. Nose is red, red circle on each cheek. Uneven extra-large blue eyebrows. I've drawn extra-large teeth on my bottom lip and chin so that when I close my mouth tightly it looks like a huge distorted grin. Here I'm frowning, so most of the teeth and red outline are on the extreme lower part of my face.
October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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My 2017 pumpkin carving was a "wrong cat" from #InvisibleSunRPG! (I haven't carved a pumpkin this year … busy busy!)
I need to practice my pumpkin sculpting and get better tools for it... once a year isn't enough!
(And yes, it sorta looks like a goblin.)
Illustration by Roberto Pitturru.
left side shows the face of the "wrongcat" pumpkin carving in normal light. A wrongcat looks like a hairless sphinx cat with eight eyes (and more weird stuff about its body, not shown). right side shows the wrongcat pumpkin in the dark, lit up with a candle inside. center bottom is the actual wrongcat illustration by Roberto Pitturru.
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Not everyone is kind on trick or treat. Keep the kitties inside, please.
photo of a black cat sitting outside among some plants. white text over the photo says "not everyone is kind on trick or treat, keep the kitties inside please"
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Back in 2009, @bendobyns.com wrote and ran a murder mystery party where we were encouraged to dress up as our character. I played a guy who was in the mafia. Quite a fun time!
Photo by Joshua Frost Photography.
me in a grey suit and black tie. Shaven head, Van Dyke beard, serious expression, staring at the camera, red background
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Out of the corner of my bad eye I saw a tiny tiny thing dangling from a thread off of my reading glasses. Turns out it was this spider. Be free, little critter!
Photo of a chair armrest with a tiny, tiny, tiny black spider on it
October 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I got one of these "light speed" d6 from @blackoakworkshop.bsky.social at GameHole Con this year as prezzies for our space opera playtest group—me, @ethanschoonover.com, and @brucecordell.bsky.social, GM'd by Monte. Ethan's is the upper left one, set to "5" to honor the many 5s he rolled on his d20…
Four six sided dice with a theme reminiscent of jumping to light speed while looking through the windows of a very famous spaceship. All four dice are black. Upper left has white ink showing a 5 on top. upper right has yellow ink showing a 1 on top. lower right has white ink showing a 3 on top. lower left has yellow ink showing just the ship's windows (meaning it's the icon face, for the 6).
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Result: not bad, not bad. I know I didn't get close to the lines, this was just a rough cut so I could see if the stringer fit in its intended location … and it does! I'll follow up with the precise cuts tomorrow (I need to get more jigsaw blades for the inner corners, I broke the last one I had.)
2x12 pressure treated board with zig-zag cuts in it for the stair treads.
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Time to cut my very first stair stringer. Wish me luck! #carpentry #remodel #DIY
A pressure treated 2 by 12 piece of wood, with a series of zigzag lines drawn on it. I will make cuts along the lines, and that is where the stair treads will go.
October 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Got this plastic hand toy a few years ago at the local dollar store. (It actually has those spring-activated pull-back-and-it-rolls-forward wheels underneath, but that isn't important to me.) Great for giant undead hand monsters!
White plastic wrist and hand with prominent veins and black fingernails, about three inches from base to tip, resting on the edge of my keyboard.
October 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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On this day in 2010, we were having a weird discussion in the Paizo carpool… #Kuato
screenshot of my Oct 29 2010 post. Text says "What if u were pulled over by a traffic cop who had a Kuato? #paizocarpool"
October 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I didn't think of it as such when I wrote this, but this is TOTALLY an idea for a weird Halloween episode of your campaign—perhaps an alternative version of your world, or PCs getting a peek at something that was invisible but there all along… #spiders #spiderwebs #webs #city #powerline
screenshot of my Facebook post from May 14 2013: "Imagine a world slightly different than ours, a world where the omnipresent power lines criscrossing above our streets are actually the webs of monstrous intelligent giant spiders who use us for food…"
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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While I was playing in Monte's #InvisibleSunRPG game with @darcylross.bsky.social & @jasonrobinson.net I was idly testing some paint options on some orc tokens I had @thiseffingm.bsky.social 3D print for me for an upcoming Cypher Middle-Earth campaign.
Dice cameo by @blackoakworkshop.bsky.social :D
a bunch of flat orc tokens with Warhammer-esque iconography. Each is a round 28mm disk with a large-jawed orc face icon on it. I've painted the backgrounds blue, slime green, blood red, or white, leaving the orc face icon unpainted. In the foreground is a black d10 with silver crossed hammers on the top face and a bone-desert-colored d10 with Anubis' head in profile as the top face.
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM