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Gamer, podcaster (Infectious Enthusiasm - @iepodcast.bsky.social), editor #TTRPG system analyst. Curling fan. He/him. I make jokes for 12 people at a time. Black Lives Matter. Trans rights are human rights. I have friends everywhere.
What I'd like to do with Thoughtcrime is to make afro-fantasy/future/grimdark/whatever stock art more available to ppl. It becomes a sel-reinforcing cycle: every time I want to do something in TTRPGs, it is easy to find plentiful sources until I want black faces, then... it gets difficult.
Tennessee Game Days was excellent! Every game I played this past weekend was new to me and I enjoyed all but one of them. This is the first year that neither @kal-el03.bsky.social nor I won anything in the Play-to-Win room but we have a short list of games we want to buy now.
The weather is doing that thing where it's not hot. I may have to start wearing one of those...I think it's called a jaquette.
I am at a boardgame convention this weekend and I need to report that I am still bad at Scythe.
Oh, also, BlizzCon came and went with zero mention of the book from Blizzard's people. Which is strange given the whole point of Universes Beyond is to funnel new customers into D&D's hobby sphere.
Heeeeeey you! Do you want help making your words better? Written, spoken, both? I'm available for audio and games editing! If nothing else, it's free to have a chat. DMs are open and email is in the bio!
Aesofstaves Thank You Yunho
Alt: Thank you from Ateez Yunho
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we wouldn’t be able to tour without the support we see at the merch table and online through our merch tour. Like literally. That’s the money we use to put gas in the van. We wouldn’t make it to the next show without those grabbing merch!
New Star-Wars character just dropped.
Fat, Bald Dabus@thebleats.by86400.link · 3w agoDork pumplings is a pretty good spoonerism.
We're live with WARHAMMER Age of Sigmar: Soulbound - The Creeping Dread! www.twitch.tv/otherdoc
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WARHAMMER Age of Sigmar: Soulbound - The Creeping Dread | Saturday September 19th 2026 | Streaming tabletop rpgs.
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If you are interested in playing It Wants Souls or The Decay (from @coffeeallnight.itch.io ) and are in the Boston area around Oct 9, come join us at @sidequestbooks.bsky.social ! www.eventbrite.com/e/horror-ttr...
Horror TTRPG Game Night @ SQBG
Join three experienced GMs for a night of terrifying games perfect for spooky season!
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I can't watch Princess Bride anymore due to the obvious use of genAI. I mean, six fingers?!? I bet the script was full of em-dashes!
Alas! Now even Nadja & Laszlo have flown out on Ed Sheeran's tour!
BREAKING: Jet Screamer has pulled out of the Ed Sheeran tour.
Derek Sheen@dereksheen.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Five Neat Guys have pulled out of the Ed Sheeran tour.
abandoned malls and cubical farms are 21st century decrepit mansions and musty crypts, reminders that once upon a time, these things and the people who built them had fortunes, now spent; they signal the fragmenting of order, a new world replacing the old, and the fragility of power structures
Join your fellow hackers and help us pick these corpos down to the bones. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...
Dead Net - A Solo Tabletop RPG for High-Tech Low-Lifes
Dive the Dead Net, snag the paydata, survive the churn.
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Just played a solo version of 15 Minute Futures by @gamefiend.bsky.social and decided to create both a utopian and dystopian version. You know, for kicks. These aren't complete futures, but ideas to spin futures out of. I enjoyed the exercise.
I have seen Supergirl and now I believe that the Coen Brothers' version is the second-best adaptation of True Grit.
You have gathered to revive someone recently deceased. Will the ritual be successful? What will you sacrifice? Lay the bones and find out in Come Out From Your Grave by Basil Wright, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg thoughtcrimegames.it...
D&D 4e went "hey so heres some small points of light make up the rest" and you know what. That ruled. That fucking owned. Why didn't they just do that.
#OtD 11 Sep 2017 Game workers form the Syndicate of Video Game Workers (or STJV) in France https://www.gameworkersolidarity.com/action/2017-09-formation-syndicate-of-video-game-workers
you're way better off leveling up your actual writing skills, because any premise/idea/collection of tropes will slap if you can write well. Stop worrying about whether mermaid zombie princesses are in style. Worry about how you put the words together, how you feed info to the reader, etc.
It's the 60s, and a group of people has come to the train station, preparing to leave town. Players collaboratively tell the story of these characters' last 48 hours in Midnight Train Ticket by Laura Simpson, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg thoughtcrimegames.it...
If you care about the workers, you can help by donating to their fund! bsky.app/profile/game...
IWGB Game Workers Union@gameworkers.co.uk · 4w agoToday marks the beginning of our trial against Rockstar to hold them accountable for firing workers who were trying to unionise. In order for us to see this through to the end, we need your support. Please donate to and share our fundraiser for the Rockstar 31: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/wWq5Omj...
I know this is likely only novel to me, but it has me wondering what other tensions we have in games, when are we divided between between what our characters would do, what we as players want to do, or what we think we SHOULD do for the story, adventure, or plot.
Rewatching Colombo from the beginning and, man, they were having fun with that show. Blueprint For Murder BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER!!!!!
Running Amber is the closest thing to a management position I ever want to have..
Rob Donoghue@rdonoghue.bsky.social · 4w agoA curious thing about playing Amber is that it’s the only game where the play experience is comparably busy to a normal workday. Not that play is work, but rather that there are a large number of things in flight simultaneously, more than can be done, but you must manage all the same.
A curious thing about playing Amber is that it’s the only game where the play experience is comparably busy to a normal workday. Not that play is work, but rather that there are a large number of things in flight simultaneously, more than can be done, but you must manage all the same.
