Kayla MacQuarrie: "Stand-Up", October 8th at The Bread and Roses Pub as part of the Lambeth Fringe lambethfringe.com/events/kayla...
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Writer/Designer/Artist of TTRPGs (as Rat Wave Game House) "Stand-Up" Comedian Kayla MacQuarrie Podcasts with Game Soup and This is Your Lifepath Buy books: ratwave.square.site
You know what's also really annoying? the fact the majority of theatres need you to be on their access scheme (which they often want evidence for) so it's not really possible for anyone other than me to get the tickets if we're going together
Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin))@laurieoc.bsky.social · 2w agoIt actually baffles me that theatres don't have more wheelchair accessible spots. Your whole thing is chairs! Why can you not make room for more chairs?!
Trying to map the branching path of Darkness and Distance chapters which often involves noting out vague ideas of where chapters are going and one I jotted down twice now was "Failure leads to Vengeance" which does admittedly sound like parody star wars/dune dialogue
Games by winners of the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program from previous years, including @stoichamster.bsky.social, @moreblueberries.bsky.social, and @ratwave.uk
This image actually contains 7 of my games
Indie Press Revolution@ipr.bsky.social · 5d ago13/18 Dread, Alone on a Journey, Thousand Year Old Vampire, and The Zone
13/18 Dread, Alone on a Journey, Thousand Year Old Vampire, and The Zone
7/18 The Monster Overhaul and many other fine games in Booth 449 at a convention in the Midwest.
multiple entities now have been so bad that they've managed to make uefa look good. uefa!
Did a solo playtest of the first two chapters for Darkness and Distance The scientist started out as stuck up and naive, he preserved most of his relationships and resources through the start but burned up all his skills on the last challenge and didn't so much abandon the creature as pass out
Coming to Booth 449 I'm with the Damned & Other Games The Gallant and the Virtuous Out of the Fold & Other Games A verifiable Rat Wave hit parade on offer! Banger after banger after banger after banger etc.
Indie Press Revolution@ipr.bsky.social · 2w agoHere's the list of 154 games from 92 publishers we're bringing to #Booth449 at #GenCon2026 www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Gen-Co...
Playtest Material commissioned a piece on melodrama in TRPGs from @ratwave.uk which supports one possible explaination for this
Over on my blog I have a post up talking about some changes I'm making to Darkness and Distance after a self playtest, as well as the rationale behind various bits of the game's guts. (Darkness and Distance will feature as part of Kayla Dice's Absolute Monsters www.kickstarter.com/projects/rat...)
Revisions in Progress: Darkness and Distance
Last month I announced an upcoming collection of monster-focused story games entitled Kayla Dice’s Absolute Monsters and outlined the project. Amid other busyness I have made progress on a few of t…
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If they're calling it "Black Label" will they fully copy the DC playbook and have accidentally exposed dick in the first release
Learned about doctors absolute horses at a young age Tickets for "Stand-Up" lambethfringe.com/events/kayla...
If you're a big theatre goer and you don't have any wheelchair using friends you're missing out on the better seats by the way Movies too to a lesser extent, oh you think you're a cinephile? Name your 5 most disabled friends
Kayla Dice/MacQuarrie@ratwave.uk · 2w agoCan you guess what I saw today?
I just posted an article looking at solo games through the lens of samuel beckett and the theatre of the absurd over on patreon. Right at the bottom members will find more advanced thoughts on the subject below. www.patreon.com/posts/164724...
RPG Book Club: Samuel Beckett and the inherent absurdity of solo journaling. | Laurie O'Connel
This is the second part of a series called RPG Book Club where I attempt to write about books I’ve read that make me think differently about
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin))@laurieoc.bsky.social · 2w agoTrying to write an essay about how cozy games and bleak unwinnable horror games are usually just reskins of one another since they're both fundamentally concerned with rejecting the possibility of progress
Blog Rewind Week continues on my Patreon with a look back at the digital collage art I've used in Psychodungeon, the Rat Wave mixtape trilogy, and for Full Send's art lightly re-edited with messages from the future and there's more of a sharing of the pieces of what went into each art piece
Blog Rewind: Frankenstein's Artwork (Thoughts on Digital Collage) | Kayla MacQuarrie/Dice
(Blog Rewind is the title I'm giving posts which are basically just re-posting blogs/newsletter editions. This post is a revised edition of
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Learned about doctors absolute horses at a young age Tickets for "Stand-Up" lambethfringe.com/events/kayla...
This week on Game Soup I derailed the podcast to dunk on Carter Hall! Available now on all good podcatchers
Chloe 🦌@plumtreechloe.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat if you were in an eternal cycle of death and rebirth, but your nemesis was too? This week on Game Soup: Toxic Yuri Adventures pnc.st/s/game-soup/...
An action movie called "Ruthless" where the main character is avenging the death of their sister (sister called Ruth)
I don't think my stage presence is drastically different than when I performed on two legs in my twenties, but doing it sitting down makes it come across 110% more cunty
Kayla Dice/MacQuarrie@ratwave.uk · 2w agoHaving lived such an interesting life does make it hard for people playing guess the disability lambethfringe.com/events/kayla...
Having lived such an interesting life does make it hard for people playing guess the disability lambethfringe.com/events/kayla...
My name is Kayla and I'm a comedian/writer/artist/designer/podcaster/diva/icon/showoff book tix to my upcoming stand up comedy show at lambethfringe.com/events/kayla... & follow the pre-launch for Kayla Dice's Absolute Monsters, a collection of story games at www.kickstarter.com/projects/rat...
Hello! I'm currently looking for freelance writing and editing work. I'm made a shiny new portfolio, you can find it here. laurieoconnel.com
Laurie O'Connel - Tabletop Game Writer & Editor
Laurie O'Connel: Tabletop game writer, editor, and accuracy reader.
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Ladies, is it a good sign for your weekend plans when you log onto bluesky and see your boyfriend has posted this?
Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin))@laurieoc.bsky.social · 2w agoIt actually baffles me that theatres don't have more wheelchair accessible spots. Your whole thing is chairs! Why can you not make room for more chairs?!