Every Akatsuki member and if they're still on Twitter: a thread.
Derek Semsick
@dereksemsick.itch.io
TTRPG GM - Ask me about my Mage the Ascension Chronicle. I dare you.
I got a call at work about that last one.
In the first hour the kid was home, we had to: define what the fourth wall is and what breaking it means, explore the meaning of crossing the Rubicon, look into the the etymological origins of the word vegetable as a non-botanical term, deconstructed the Latin cases in e pluribus unum.
My first five TTRPGs in order 1. Vampire the Masquerade 2nd edition 2. Star Wars (West End Games) 3. MechWarrior (FASA) 4. Cross Splat WoD game (I was playing a Shadow Lord ) 5. Mage the Ascension 2nd Edition
My first five TTRPGs in order 1. A mishmash of editions of D&D available at department stores and used book shops in the mid 90s 2. Bushido 3. Beyond the Supernatural 4. GURPS (one steampunk campaign, one monster hunting campaign and one short lived adaptation of After the Bomb) 5. 3rd edition D&D
Is CALAMITIES on this list? It is! Do they say it’s SUCCESSION meets THE OMEN? They do! Is it on a list with excellent authors and excellent books? HECK YEAH IT IS
10 New Horror Books We’re Reading This Halloween
Indulge in the season by cracking open a scary one.
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You have to believe the imaginary scientists. I think it's a law or something.
4 out 5 imaginary ttrpg scientists agree that back The Decay makes you cooler, smarter, and more attractive. I don't know why I made up a scientist who disagrees with me. I'll have to imagine more scientists to look into it. #ttrpg #rpg #horror #halloween www.kickstarter.com/projects/cof...
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Your character sheet says your mage uses Tarot. Okay. What do they actually do with the cards? Shuffle? Meditate? Calculate? Tell a story? Enter trance? Ask a spirit? Mage gets much more interesting when Instruments become verbs.
Me creating a horror for this game is a stretch goal! Come on! You want more Carlos out there don’t you?
At 4:00 pm EST today all hell breaks loose. #ttrpg #rpg #indierpg #kickstarter #witchstarter #horror #halloween #thedecay www.kickstarter.com/projects/cof...
The Decay: Survival Horror Roleplaying is now live on Kickstarter! Go back your new favorite horror ttrpg and get the Early Bird prices during the first 24 hours. We have such sights to show you. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cof...
The Decay: Survival Horror Roleplaying
A tabletop roleplaying game of weird horror and the struggle to survive it.
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Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop). 1. The Wild Sea (GMed by @coffeeallnight.itch.io ) 2. Vampire the Masquerade 6th edition playtest 3. Werewolf (5th Edition) 4. Mage the Ascension (20th Anniversary edition)
Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop). Hyperboria - con one shot (fun session, system is fine) Daggerheart - con one shot (struggling to find a single thing I like about it) Vampire (V5) The Decay: Survival Horror Roleplaying (my baby 🖤)
One great thing about AI is that you can now be in a one-person cult and still not be the leader
Look at this sweet game from @atlasgames.bsky.social: Ars Magica Definitive Edition, with a cloth map of Mythic Europe! Mark and I put everything we had into this game, and I guess that's why it has such legs. "A fantasy RPG for gamers who are tired of fantasy RPGs" is what we called it in 1987.
For any #WerewolfTheApocalypse #Therian folks out there who might like their symbol done up in glyph stylization, I had a Wyld urge and made one Version with transparent background you can download for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IH7O426CE20
Your mage has accumulated enough Paradox that you know something unpleasant is coming. Do you: A) Stop using magic B) Keep everything coincidental C) Deliberately trigger the backlash D) Cast something spectacular and trust fate 🎧 The Perils of Paradox: magethepodcast.com/the-perils-o...
The Perils of Paradox – Mage: The Podcast
Mage: The Podcast
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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞? #poll - Paradox - Conflicting paradigms - Players getting too clever - The Storyteller saying "Are you sure?"
A quick thread about the Player Principles from #PuppetRun and where each one comes from: These principles really are mechanics because they help to reinforce the tone of the game 🧵1/10 www.kickstarter.com/projects/car...
Coming soon: Puppet Run
A tabletop role-playing game of puppets, horror, and identity based based on Meguey and Vincent Bakers' Otherkind Dice system.
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You cannot design away bad players in a tabletop rpg. You cannot build enough guard rails to stop bad faith play. The only rule that helps is, "Play With Better People." Because those guard rails suck for every good faith player that has to bump into them, design for the people who WANT to PLAY.
"When I was a kid, we didn't have that mamby-pamby health care! If you got sick, you DIED, like an honest, red-blooded AMERICAN! If I'm elected, I promise that if you get sick, you'll die too, as God intended!"
Is that...is that supposed to be an argument against healthcare
🎉 Finale Celebration Livestream! 🎉 To celebrate this history making Kickstarter @felicia.day will be streaming live on Twitch. There's going to be a lot of weird shit. Music, dancers, weapon masters, a juggler, a falconer, an escape artist, a fire eater - we're closing this Kickstarter out in style.
As a parent, I don't enjoy events where I'm required to hang out with other parents. And it's because I don't want to talk to them about parenting, the ONE thing we have in common, because one of them will spout some thin cover nonsense for "Kids are property", and I am not allowed to punch them.
i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics
So much of modern political thought - from the election of Donald Trump to the New York Times saying children shouldn't be allowed to cut off their parents - is really just older cishet white people saying it's unfair to experience literally any consequences for their racism,
Check out Dark Conspiracy – A Horror RPG in the Modern Age on @BackerKit! I'm a sucker for horror and Traveller. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Dark Conspiracy – A Horror RPG in the Modern Age
The classic horror RPG of Dark Conspiracy is back, this time using the Traveller rules engine!
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The Poxy Boggards make questionable life choices by making a deal with the devil. Song rips, though.
Drink Til I Die (Official Video) by the Poxy Boggards
YouTube video by The Poxy Boggards
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