I'm a couple of days late because of Gen Con, but that's no excuse. Jews were not the only victims then. Jews are not the only targets now.
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Fell this morning after the previously broken ankle shivered and felt like it was going out from under me. Climbed back in bed. It does not feel like it healed correctly. I need to see someone as soon as possible. Requesting help. ko-fi.com/chezdispense...
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#GenCon haul. Except the cat. I did not buy Grimmy there; he was just very interested in all the new smells.
What do @northerndreamer.bsky.social , @druidgmdesigns.bsky.social , and I do the night after a fun (but exhausting) Gen Con? We play Dice Gods! (Another really fun game from @paizo.com and @joeadultman.bsky.social!)
Now that I'm home from Gen Con and can brain, I promised @jasonbulmahn.bsky.social and others that I would give my thoughts about #13Omens from @paizo.com that just had its play test debut. I thought about this game on the whole as a player, a GM, a rules designer, and as an adventure author: ⬇️
Oh hey, this is finally out! I did a brief Starfinder jaunt for this book, writing the Nuar ancestry. If I had a nickel for every time Paizo had me write a bovine ancestry I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice.
Paizo@paizo.com · 4d agoAbsalom Station is a melting pot for cultures, and conflict alike! Flesh out your adventures with GM tools, lore, two new playable species, and more with the new Starfinder Absalom Station: Center of the Galaxy! Get the book online AND at Gen Con booth #203! Get the book: https://bit.ly/4w7w4F8
I worked on this! Wrote Botscrap and Arcanamirium :)
Paizo@paizo.com · 4d agoAbsalom Station is a melting pot for cultures, and conflict alike! Flesh out your adventures with GM tools, lore, two new playable species, and more with the new Starfinder Absalom Station: Center of the Galaxy! Get the book online AND at Gen Con booth #203! Get the book: https://bit.ly/4w7w4F8
🧵Hey folks, I'm Shan and I wrote on Absalom Station: Center of the Galaxy. I wrote the section on the Stewards, and Bastion. thank you to @mechaspacewitch.bsky.social for this awesome opportunity to slightly alter the perceptions of the Stewards as just "Space Cops"...
Walking through the Gen Con exhibit hall and I hear loud yelling about the "honor of the Veskarium! " at the @paizo.com booth, even from hundreds of feet away over the din of the crowd - of course it's the delightful @alexaug.bsky.social entertaining a demo table! 🤣
GM: The dragon is dead Goat: And with my third action, I "feint" #Pathfinder #GenCon @rigbees.bsky.social @alexspeidel.bsky.social
There is something surreal about watching 400+ people play a game I wrote - a feeling I hope never gets old. Much love to the developers, editors, and artists who made this great <3
I have arrived at Gen Con! I won't be checking social media too much for the next few days, so please ping @ me if something important happens or if you want to get a hold of me!
I feel like there was a missed opportunity somewhere from pizza- or dessert-makers, who could have made it the best 3.14159265359 days in gaming in order to better feed the masses. I'll see myself out.
As the person who had the privilege of writing humans and ryphorians for Starfinder's Galactic Ancestries, I cannot properly state just how awesome the art for this book is. Check out this amazing artist, including a couple of the human pieces they did!
Veto Zomer [Open to work]@vetozomer.bsky.social · last wk.I'm happy to show the designs I made for the Starfinder 2e Galactic Ancestries book. It's rare for me to get to illustrate human characters for Starfinder, so it's always a pleasure when this kind of work comes along. But don't get me wrong, I love weird aliens too, 🤣 AD: Kyle Hunter
So - Gen Con! I'll be there in a few days, but with no bells on, I promise. Is anybody else from here attending? Want to meet up and discuss past (or future) work?
"אֵיכָה יָשְׁבָה בָדָד, הָעִיר רַבָּתִי עָם--הָיְתָה, כְּאַלְמָנָה; רַבָּתִי בַגּוֹיִם, שָׂרָתִי בַּמְּדִינוֹת--הָיְתָה, לָמַס." A meaningful Tisha B'Av, and easy fast.
Things aren't good y'all - early this week my infected hand started going south. Today I saw my doctor and he said its septic. Now I'm in the hospital for round 2 of IV antibiotics, testing, and surgery. So, if you can help keep the beacons lit, I'd appreciate it. www.gofundme.com/f/help-ivis-...
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Paizoverse: the Golarion Mapping Project (under Online Content, I believe) is put together by the team who does the Pathfinder Wiki! Throw them a vote too!
Shan Wolf@shanwolf.bsky.social · 4w agoEnnies Voting is live! If you can? please toss in a vote for Starfinder 2e: Alien Core, and PF2e and SF2e Foundry Module! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/
Good news! Starfinder Alien Core, which I worked on as developer and an author alongside many other amazing people, was nominated for an ENNIE Award! Voting opens *tomorrow* (7/10-19). If you get a chance, please show my fellow devs, authors, artists, and editors some love with a vote? Thank you!
I wish I could do more other than boosting the signal, but I've only made it this far in 2026 thanks to other people giving *me* financial help. PLEASE help Ivis and Auryn if you can.
Ivis K. Flanagan 🔜 GenCon@northerndreamer.bsky.social · last mo.I swear, when it rains it pours - and life has thrown Auryn and I into the eye of a hurricane. More details on our GoFund Me, but TLDR: between being laid off, emergency surgery, and a totaled car, we're in far over our head. Any help, even boosting this post, is appreciated. gofund.me/b57cb5e96
cw: pet loss I am trying not to be ashamed of the fact that I need the help doing this, but the idea of not having anything to remember my cat by + the vet costs associated with trying to get her seen quickly has put me in a spot where I'm choosing to. I feel hideous. I'd feel worse not doing it.
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An error on behalf of my electric company has put me at risk of disconnection due to late fees and due offsets I didn't expect to pay. Disconnection would mean eviction per my lease and threaten my job. ko-fi.com/chezdispense... I need to raise this by Monday to avoid the payment bouncing.
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It's Juneteenth, please reflect on how white folks get the day off as a national holiday, while black and brown folks (who often work hourly jobs) have to work on the day that was supposedly all about us. After reflection? Give a black person some money.
The hardest part of being a game designer is not the design. It's not the marketing, logistics, business stuff. It's the inability to consume any media without thinking about how you'd make a game based on it.
I'm still working on my portfolio and such - but, if you don't have work to offer and still want to support me and the fuzzy one, you can always buy me a coffee on my ko.fi (ko-fi.com/northerndrea...) and I promise Auryn pictures in exchange.
Spent the entire day trying to take care of people... there are quite a few people, including really close friends of mine, hurting tonight in my industry. If you follow me on social media, you probably already know what I'm talking about. Please spare good thoughts for them in the days ahead.
Finished GMing the #Pathfinder Night of the Gray Death adventure by @ronlundeen.bsky.social last night. Overall, a lot of fun to run, and my players really loved it! Hi-jinks did most certainly (and repeatedly) ensue leading up to the finale! I can tell a lot of care went into writing this module.
Michael Bramnik ✡︎ 🟦 🔜 Gen Con@canisdirus.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfter she stabbed herself on purpose at the start of her first turn in combat.
To be fair, I did sort of let the party's cleric attack the darkness a few minutes later.
Ivis K. Flanagan 🔜 GenCon@northerndreamer.bsky.social · 2mo agoGame Night Quotes: Ci'tron (18th level female human Scarlet Rose Gray Maiden): "Can I attack the darkness?" GM: "No." Ci'tron: "Can I attack the wall to dispel the darkness?" GM: "No - and you're lucky I'm not sharing you asked this." #Pathfinder #GameNightQuotes #GamerGirl