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Tabletop and video game designer, currently working on Spindlewheel Forever. See my previous work at https://22to22.itch.io and get the Spindlewheel deck at https://plusoneexp.com/products/spindlewheel-30
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at last, a @seaexcursion.itch.io review with the answer to "What is Spindlewheel?"
Spindlewheel is Dixit by way of Oulipo. Spindlewheel is Oblique Strategies if Brian Eno got wrung through the ATU folklore index. Spindlewheel is tarot for the queers who think that Rorschach tests should have more verse poetry, and Grapefruit for the aesthetes who like it when their solitaire bullies them. Spindlewheel is as much a tool as it is a lens, as it is an engine, as it is a game.
October 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Wizard: your research is never complete.
DOUSING ROD Some myths are fireside tales at best - Leading the lost further away from rescue OLEANDER LAKE Dense ice all summer long, winter dragonflies buzzing - Algae swirling around mangrove roots, sinking into soft mud SPIRE Built with the master’s tools - Loadbearing stones straining against their own destruction TRANSCRIBE The fine art of translation - It’s science when you write it down
September 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Warlock: you struck a deal.
AUNTIE L. A nosy meddler with the best intentions - Fabulously wealthy, morally indistinct, hauntingly unfamiliar CURSE Mincing an oath, all bark and no bite - Hate with nowhere to go HOUSEHOLD GOD Little tyrant, Hoarder of treats and petty blessings - Grandfather’s religion, an altar crowded with dust PERSONAL DEMON For intimate gatherings, serious inquiries only - Widespread calamity traceable to a single vendetta
September 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Sorceror: for you, there is no distance between feeling and acting.
CRYSTAL Bent light shattered into color, speaking kaleidoscopic - Platonic formations of happenstance ECSTASY Sickly-sweet desires curling hot and hollow - Satisfaction brought it back SORROWS Wading through flooded streets, gently pushing floaters - Agony without end, sublimating into an ocean THUNDER Electric hum above skin, harrowing roar - Lightning’s applause, footfalls rolling across the plain
September 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Seer: you watch the possibilities bloom endlessly.
CASSANDRA Lucky liar thwarted at every turn - Omniscient and ineffectual, discredited and ignored FUGUE Forever waking in freefall, vibrant details slipping past - Time unmarked by memory, autonomous movement PSYCHOSOMATIC The mind’s death grip on the body - The fantastical made concrete VEIL A permeable boundary, concealing without protecting - A delicate but unmistakable refusal
September 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Rogue: you know what you want, and you take what you need.
BLUE BLOOD Gagging on a silver spoon, life is so hard - Loan after loan against the reputation of a name DOG EAT DOG Chewed up young and spat out rough - No one is coming to save you LEGITIMATE OPERATOR The lion’s share for the pleasure of doing business - Nice work if you can get it TABULA RASA Springing fully formed out of nowhereville - Sweet summer child, won’t last long
September 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Ranger: stay focused on the reality you can touch.
GREEN FLASH A glimpse of another world - Primordial flinch, acting purely on instinct HUNTING BLIND A predator’s camouflage - Waiting for the birds to sing ROOT A larger conversation beneath the surface - Tangling soil, cracking open stone, stretching as above so below TRADER a stony gaze and a hard bargain, Skinning knife at the hip - Years of building trust, a slowly strengthening network
September 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Monastic: your vows make an open book of your heart, and a roadmap for those beyond it.
ALCOVE Even here, nestled between stones, secrets still echo - Not the highest place of honor, But an altar nonetheless BELLY BREATH A balancing act, an anchor in the squall - bellows for resounding laughter HERMITAGE A pause in the downpour, dry straw and dim candles - An outdoor kennel for a pet sage MASTER What you have to learn you already know - Founding principles disappearing into effortless form
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Fortune Teller: the cards have a voice, for those who listen.
FAIRGROUND Light and sound in the dark, impossible spectacle - An empty field in the light of day, like nothing ever happened HARUSPEX What does your gut tell you? - Cut it open and watch it writhe: That’s where the little god lives STAGE NAME Elevated honesty, fully clothed in just a winning smile - An alias for every occasion, no true name underneath SWORD SWALLOWER playfighting with live steel - Beats digging ditches
September 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Fighter: your reputation precedes you.
LOOT Trading boots with the dead, measuring sole to sole - The finest prize, proof of valor RUST A blunt instrument, a sore left to fester - Inevitable decline, debts coming due SPIT Defiance till the end - Close enough to catch the scent of their last meal TRENCH Kicking in the dirt like an animal - Pinned down in a temporary shelter
September 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Druid: all things have names.
BLADE OF GRASS One of many, missing the trees for the forest - Trampled, buffeted, burned, and yet unfazed CARYATID The weight of the firmament rests on her crown - Choosing humanity over home GRAFT I will bet my life on your survival - A quilt of mannerisms, their blood in your veins HARVEST The sweep of scythe and sickle, rhythm’s reward - Take only what you can carry; let others do the same
September 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Cleric: the chef always eats last.
APRON Flour-streaked and tear-blotted, names embroidered on the hem - Stiff with bleached stains, weary of all the red BLACK DIRT Gathered under fingernails clawing up from the broken coffin - Fertile ground, clay packed around the poultice UNDERTAKER Psychopomp’s understudy, preparing each for their big day - tailor’s tape, stylist’s powder, carpenter’s nails WEEPING HONEY A divine distress, A sweet sorrow - Signs of infection, a tacky yellow ooze
September 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Bard: the power is in the telling.
EMBOUCHURE Taking the shape an instrument requires - Absolute control, though it may look a little funny GUTSTRING Reach deep and strum well, let it hum in the ribs - Transform horror into beauty, plant flowers in the gore HOLLOW BODY A warm round resonance, a voice lifting high - Peer down the mouth and find there’s nothing inside JESTER Aiming right between the eyes - Makes a funny noise when kicked
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Barbarian: you never do anything in halves.
GODKING Seizing legacy bare handed, uncontested in battle, a living legend - Inhuman brutality over mortal weakness HOPLITE Fighting for your conqueror in a foreign land, no memory of home - Better to be the boot than the snake LEATHERWORK Hide tanned in strips, scars soft against skin - May it serve you better than its last owner RIVERBEND A blind corner, a hairpin turn - A wandering cartography, the bane of empires
September 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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A preview thread of cards in the new Spindlewheel Forever playbook expansions: ☸️♾️🧵
A photo of the 200+ card print and play deck next to the spindlewheel box.
September 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Oracles After Hours will debut next Friday, Sept 26th starting at 12:30pm EST on QGCon's Discord Stage! Come ask your questions to @22to22.bsky.social @mariabumby.bsky.social and @temporalhiccup.bsky.social and help one of them win tarot poker by rewarding your favorite answer! discord.gg/m7ZCath623
Oracles After Hours Featuring: Rae Nedjadi, Sasha Reneau, Maria Mison, Produced by: Paddington @QGCON2025
September 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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finally settling on a time and place for my solo playtest of Spindlewheel Forever :) twitch.tv/teacabbage see you there!
a fancy graphic that reads "soloing spindlewheel forever live 7:30pm pst"
September 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The backbone of Spindlewheel is reading, interpreting, and playing cards. As long as you're doing that, you're playing correctly. Which is why I'm adding two games to Spindlewheel Forever in which you are explicitly forbidden from doing that
CORRESPONDENCE: choose a method of correspondence that you can share with the rest of the table. Private messages, letters, arguments in the Opinions section of the local news, etc. Keeping your cards in mind but concealing your hand, discuss what's on your character's mind. Yoou may go back and forth as often as you like, or write your missives to be unsent and unanswered. WAIT FOR GODOT: You are stranded in transit between places. Describe what there is to sit on, and what you are doing with your hands to pass the time. You are finally alone with all of your questions, frustrations, and insecurities, especially with how they intersect with your fellow characters': if you deflect or ignore them now, you are making a point to do so. You may ante cards if you have them but you may not play from your hand, draw from the source deck, or advocate the Arbiter. Silence is an answer. Inaction is a choice. Play until you arrive at your conclusion.
August 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Now that you have the deck, what do you play with it? :3c Detective is probably my favorite introduction to the system! Punchy and accommodating nearly any number of players, the whole game is free in the preview of Spindlewheel Microgames: 22to22.itch.io/spindlewheel...
the full ruleset for Spindlewheel Detective, as seen in the Spindlewheel Microgames collection.
August 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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bigger updates include:
- Abilities you can unlock by playing different patterns, such as Clockwork (fitd long term projects), Whispers (Disco Elysium Shivers), Mixed Feelings (vibe check an NPC), and Even a Worm Will Turn (*HP bar appears*)
- clarification on Journey, Clock, Villanelle, and Pulse!
Clock Clockwork: declare a project. Assign a character to see it through. Make a stack of 3 cards from your hand. At the beginning of a scene, flip a card in the stack: this is the first step of the project. At the end of the scene, draw a card from the source deck to see if it succeeds. During the scene, other players may play cards onto the stack to help or hinder your progress. If all 3 steps succeed, the project succeeds. If 2/3 steps succeed, the project fails but the cards go back into your hand. If 1 or no steps succeed, the project fails and all cards go to the Arbiter. Downtime Whispers: pick a spread from those available in Downtime. Instead of drawing one card for the Arbiter to answer a question, you may draw into that spread to answer; once the spread is completely filled, the answering cards go into your hand. Holiday Mixed Feelings: reveal a character’s hidden feelings by drawing a card from the source deck. If you can change their mind about it, take that card. Hunt Even a Worm Will Turn: when violence is played on your character’s hand, instead of accepting it you may begin a 3-slot Wound tracker and fight back. If the other players have this ability, they also have a 3-slot Wound tracker; otherwise they are vulnerable to fictional positioning alone. Once a Wound tracker is full, your character succumbs to their wounds and your hand is at the mercy of the victor.
August 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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behold: the core loop of Spindlewheel Festival, Longform, and Forever!!! [VFX: lightning and thunder, i laugh triumphantly]
three diagrams describing the core loop of Spindlewheel.
August 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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So stoked to say be participating in @qgcon.bsky.social's online liveplay of Oracles After Hours, an interactive poker reading featuring myself, @temporalhiccup.bsky.social, and @mariabumby.bsky.social, produced by @paddington.bsky.social !! Stay tuned for more details 👁️🪙🪙🃏✨
a title treatment like neon signs that read "Oracles After Hours" next to the fool, the 3 of cups, and the wheel of fortune. "Featuring: Rae Nedjadi, Sasha Reneau, Maria Mison. Produced by: Paddington". under it reads Oracles After Hours @ QGCON2025 surrounded by rainbows.
July 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Big (but largely aesthetic) update! #coverreveal
22to22.itch.io/spindlewheel...
spindlewheel forever: a companion for campaign tarot by Sasha Reneau. the spindlewheel logo is overlaid over creative commons filigree.
May 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Pro Wrestling Forever
occasionalell.itch.io/the-links-be...
"are you playing to the camera, the crowd, or me" over two wrestlers and a chain
May 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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22to22.itch.io/spindlewheel... >:3
each card is an attack, a feint, a taunt, a parry, a block, a step in your deadly dance. when you can't reply, draw from the deck to take a wound. when you reach 3 wounds, you can't hide the blood in your teeth. flip a wound card, and meet your opponent's win condition. take the loss gracefully, or flip another wound to push through it at great personal cost and keep fighting.
May 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM