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Ennie award winning tabletop rpg designer, pin lover, polyamorous person, Seattle Check out my work at Mothlands.com

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If you haven’t tried the co-op, it’s a blast

09.03.2026 03:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Slay the Spire 2’a co-op is great! Multiplayer specific cards and events and the added element of negotiating battles and other decisions adds extra depth and chaos into the mix!

07.03.2026 21:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The rules and rulesets you create don't have to answer to people who don't choose to use them. They have to answer to the people who do choose to use them.

05.03.2026 22:57 👍 542 🔁 110 💬 11 📌 8

Really resonated with what they had to say about authenticity and their mixed experience working with licensed stuff.

20.02.2026 03:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Attended an inspiring talk by @bananachangames.bsky.social on their journey through the world of TTRPGs and finding their voice.

If you’re in Seattle and in the hobby, definitely look out for their live play of Forgery at @hugohouse.bsky.social in April.

20.02.2026 03:54 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
So High - Mewgenics Official lyric Video
So High - Mewgenics Official lyric Video YouTube video by Planet Ridiculon

If Mewgenics doesn’t win awards for its music at the end of the year … well it just WILL

youtu.be/DGJpUitB_mM?...

19.02.2026 08:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm prepping a scenario for Mothership and it's nice to be writing horror again!

17.02.2026 23:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quinns Quest Reviews: Public Access!
Quinns Quest Reviews: Public Access! YouTube video by Quinns Quest

New Quinns Quest video!! 📺👻🌵

Public Access by the Gauntlet is razor sharp, powerfully strange and enormously thought-provoking. My players are still daydreaming about our campaign, even though it finished six months ago. I think your players will too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLrr...

17.02.2026 15:45 👍 435 🔁 119 💬 7 📌 37
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Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...

Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

14.02.2026 02:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.

12.02.2026 22:47 👍 2890 🔁 764 💬 58 📌 138

By the way, it’s super cool to see members of the Blades design discord getting backer tier slots.

Props to @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social and Ema, in particular 🩷

11.02.2026 00:05 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Does this call for another Unusual Suspects playbook jam?

10.02.2026 23:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very weird to see so many people making comments, even POSITIVE ONES, mind you, about not being able to understand Bad Bunny’s music because it was in Spanish.

Have you seriously never enjoyed music in another language?

It seems so improbable if you care anything for music.

09.02.2026 17:47 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

Build an entire character around a mechanic their GM has home-brewed out of the game

09.02.2026 05:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rolling, unprompted, to open an unlocked door

09.02.2026 05:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Breaking stealth for the dumbest possible reason

09.02.2026 04:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My housemate and I watch the hot new anime together on their time off.

When we started “Sentenced to be a Hero” we were initially skeptical but each episode has won us over.

Key pluses:

1. Cool dark fantasy premise
2. Good character development
3. It doesn’t commit the sin of over explanation

08.02.2026 21:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cairn is a beautiful, if melancholic, game.

At every point it tells you to slow down, be cautious. To take in your surroundings.

But then the impatience slips through. The eagerness to push yourself. To let the adrenaline seep in and wash away your anxieties.

And that’s when you’ll fall.

07.02.2026 20:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really enjoying Cairn but, man, when you have a big fall and it’s been twenty minutes since you saved … devastating

05.02.2026 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was enjoying the learning Deadlock. It's got cool character design and fun movement. But then I got to the point where people started dropping slurs and I realized it's just another sweaty ass moba so it got the delete.

04.02.2026 19:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m in a love-hate relationship with the world

01.02.2026 03:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now and again random folks ask me what I’m doing for the weekend and often I tell them I’m playing/running a role playing game.

50/50 chance they immediately think it’s a sexy thing.

Wasn’t all that long ago the number of people who were aware of sexy roleplay but not RPGs was approaching zero.

01.02.2026 01:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just watched a “Deadlock for beginners” video. The dude started by reassuring players it wasn’t complicated and then went on to soft ball more than a dozen intricate mechanics and systems while alluding to a dozen more that we “don’t need to worry about yet.”

MOBAs, man

28.01.2026 19:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No justice, no peace. For anyone.

24.01.2026 16:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Against Dominant Mechanics Some rules guide play. And some rules monopolize it. Designing by omission.

Excellent essay by Clayton

www.explorersdesign.com/dominant-mec...

The existence of these mechanics is one of the reasons I feel you HAVE to playtest your game.

Sometimes even good ideas can disrupt the flow of play.

20.01.2026 22:40 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t think DnD 5e is badly designed, per se, but a huge aspect of its design clearly revolves around reproducing a feeling of nostalgia for past editions.

I’m really curious/concerned about the direction DnD will go in now that pretty much all the designers are gone.

15.01.2026 20:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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My partner demands I tell people I started doing pixel art less than two weeks ago

13.01.2026 07:22 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

08.01.2026 00:15 👍 44256 🔁 17127 💬 1079 📌 778
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Making sprite art is fun

06.01.2026 03:11 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

If there’s anything certain about the unprovoked attacks on Venezuela by our government, it’s that the ill wind we sow now will blow back in our direction.

If not tomorrow, then in our children’s time.

03.01.2026 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0