@dzappone
TTRPG creator (Chaosium, RuneQuest, BRP), writer, mapmaker, and inventive (if mediocre) artist. Zen-minded, coding for a living, and always building worlds. If I could choose to believe or not to believe, you know I would choose not to.
My phenomenally talented partner in crime, Melanie Sallis, is part of this year’s Austin Studio Tour — the city’s biggest art event.
Stop by Studio #227 on either weekend (Nov 8–9 or 15–16) to see her latest work.
👉 atxstudiotour.com/location-227/
#austinstudios #austinstudiotour #creativeaustin
“Your silence will not protect you.” — Audre Lorde
Silence is compliance. It comforts the oppressor, not the oppressed.
Speak up. Show up. Push back.
They count on your fear. Prove them wrong.
#Resist #NoJusticeNoPeace #AudreLorde #SpeakTruth
What non-RPG games would you consider as gateway games to roleplaying games?
For example, Tales of the Arabian Nights
#rpg #roleplaying #roleplayinggames
Ringworld
Traveller (classic)
RuneQuest
Wildsea
Chaosium’s up for a bunch of 2025 ENnie Awards—fan-voted RPG honors. Voting’s open thru July 20. Check out what’s nominated and link to vote here:
www.chaosium.com/blogvote-for...
I don’t think you need to defend owning four copies when. Or at I hope not or I’ve got a problem with my RuneQuest collection. 😆
No Kings Day is about the rule of law, not the rule of one. Know your rights. Show up. Stay free.
psychicwarfarereport.substack.com/p/no-kings-day
Ignore the Constitution, piss on the oath—you’re not the president. You’re a fraud in a flag pin, squatting in stolen power. No oath, no law, no legitimacy. Trump’s not a president—he’s a thief stealing the people’s inheritance and the nation’s soul.
open.substack.com/pub/psychicw...
My brain energy feels like this song these days.
youtu.be/_fBC3yhPeDY?...
If you’re not angry, you’re not awake. This isn’t law and order—it’s sanctioned cruelty. And it’s happening in plain sight.
#Austin #Immigration #ICE #StopTheRaids #HumanRights #WootenPark #TexasPolitics
Now they’re being hunted like fugitives while we’re told to “stay out of the way.”
In our grocery lines, our driveways, our goddamn living rooms. These people cook your food, fix your roofs, raise your children.
This is what it looks like when the machinery of fear rolls through your neighborhood. Not some distant border checkpoint—right here, in Austin.
No criminals. No threats. Just people. Human beings. Vanished in broad daylight by men with guns and acronyms.
The official line: “targeted arrests.” But I saw the aftermath. A teenage kid at the corner store, shaking, telling me they took his grandmother, his aunt, and a friend’s boyfriend.
Wooten Park looked like a war zone today—ICE agents in ERO vests, SWAT trucks blocking the street, Texas DPS skulking like snakes in tall grass.
With Trump and Musk, it’s not just a lack of ability—though God knows that’s part of the circus. The real rot is a void of wisdom and self-awareness. Raw, thrashing plans without empathy or foresight. Jet engines on a shopping cart. Hollow men with loud toys.
Most tabletop games aren’t epic. They unravel session by session in water-stained notebooks, interrupted monologues, and half-muttered regrets. The story creeps in between a bad roll and the sound of someone trying not to laugh too hard.
Start at Gimpy’s and ultimately end at Gimpy’s. The Meat Market is where they decide if they’re going to any drinking establishments in Bad Side. Apparently it’s a pub crawl mini-campaign at this point.
That’s from the Pavis boxed set. I printed it on 4 sheets of paper and taped them together.
RuneQuest - The First Annual Great New Pavis Pub Crawl. #RuneQuest
That sounds extraordinarily like you to say. 😜
You’re only the main character in your own life—to everyone else you’re an NPC.
If the system won’t fix itself, then people have to force change—by any means that work.
Where are all the people who solemnly swore that they would support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic?
