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Dan Phipps

@itsdanphipps.bsky.social

Ttrpg making guy with a flowchart brain. I make lists of things. Half of Gem Room Games. He/him.

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Punchy@punchystream.bsky.social · 3d ago

i still hate the doom "you control the buttons you press" tweet and that people repost it like it's real wisdom. fundamentally unserious approach to game design. that is actually very much what I buy a video game for. are the buttons fun to press. if there is bad button why did you put bad button

Dan Phipps@itsdanphipps.bsky.social · last wk.

I've started giving myself a strict time limit of no more than one hour per ork boy, purely to keep myself from thinking about things like whether or not a checkered pattern axe makes sense. I'm making a lot more mistakes but having a lot more fun with it.

An ork boy with red and black checkered axe and armor
Zedeck Siew@zedecksiew.bsky.social · last wk.

So, I got into tabletop games by hanging out at a friend's game shop. (I'd met him while clubbing.) This was a fairly typical FLGS. 40K, Friday Night Magic, a coupla V:TM tables. The core group of dudes where old uni mates. These were true-blue grognards. They used to play Napoleonics. 1/

The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Table of Contents Preface List of Maps PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA Introduction PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle Glossary Bibliography Index
Dan Phipps@itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 3w ago

When I park my car at work the weight of the empty child seat triggers a reminder to look in the back seat and when I do I see that my daughter is at preschool and I'm here. I would like to play a wizard game about that feeling.

jay Dragon is sleepy@jdragsky.bsky.social · 3w ago

here's a question from the AMA that i've been asked a lot and i wanted to show to other people — i think there's a lot of anxiety about thinking through masculinity in 7PP as a cis man and i hope this answer can help reassure some people

oxaitza • 3h ago I know the game is supposed to touch on themes of toxic masculinity. What are the things you want/wish a cis-white male would a) experience and b) have to come to gripes with during play? Know it is not your job to teach, but also know that sometimes I can be a little unaware of where the critique is just because of privilege. Hope the question makes sense and doesn't lack tact! jdragsky OP • 3h ago Hi, no need to be apologetic! This is a game about toxic masculinity, but it's not restrictive in that approach. You are a cis white male, which means you've also experienced and thought about toxic masculinity. One of the points of the game is that the expectations of masculinity are difficult for everyone to maintain (you want to be strong, but you're scared you're too weak. you want to be a good dad, but your job pulls you away from your kids, etc.) I'm not interested in legislating a single correct way to engage with the themes of the game. Instead I encourage you to play the character that speaks to you and engage with it on your own terms. As long as you're compassionate to your fellow players, you'll find your own path.
Snowden St.@snowden.st · 3w ago

every once in awhile we have to hand it to Oregon, and hosting the game on the state tourism website is p good stuff

The Oregon Trail Game Online - Play For Free! | Visit Oregon

Play the classic Oregon Trail game online free — no download, no sign-up. Guide your wagon from Missouri to the Willamette Valley. Can you survive dysentery? Play now in your browser.

visitoregon.com

Anarchic Squid@leahanelson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Where on the World Wide Web can I find the original version of Oregon Trail? Elle Wood was playing it in Elle (somewhat anachronistically bc that’s set circa 1995 but whatever) and I want to show tween what it was actually like (amazing, perfect).

Dan Phipps@itsdanphipps.bsky.social · last mo.

Neo Trad game: you can map out the increasing specialness of your guy for 20 levels in the future (of which you will play 3)

Taylor Felicity@rollforfelicity.bsky.social · last mo.

Narrative game: you play a little guy and they’re special OSR: you play a little guy and they’re not special Wargame: you control little guys and they aren’t special but you spent a lot of time painting them to look special Worldbuilding game: the world is your special little guy