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I just happy im coherent, having not slept in 24 hours [i have been finishing up on Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground by Stu Horvath. Such a great book. I will miss just cracking this open and having a read over a beer in the evenings tho]

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My red flag is i find discussions [or discourse if you please] in ttrpgs really exhilarating and fun [when not outright rude] although im aware many others find this stuff tedious to even see happen.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

BTW fuck anyone who starts calling story games or anything like it "Improvisational theatre games" and discarding them as not "real" ttrpgs. Attacking the diversity of experiences in the hobby is gatekeepery, antagonistic, and stifling: Cross polination of design schools leads to great games.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

i dont understand how people write without paragraph indentation omg

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I hate that when i try to log into my bank on my laptop it requests i confirm it with the app IF MY PHONE WASNT DEAD I WOULD JUST USE THE APP

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

woo!

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

things like fonts and word spacing are genuine infohazards. once you start thinking about that stuff you obsess about it everywhere and it makes you crazy. why is all text different yet normal except for the stuff I format

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

Nasi goreng is by far the best breakfast

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In the floaty feeling of having just finished an incredible book.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Great thread! The idea ive been toying with is that the players are suspects in a "locked room" murder, and therefore are suspects. The aim is to clear themselves of the crime first and foremost while also creating character relationships, with solving the murder one way to do that!

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Goodreads is rancid, and storygraph is so overconcerned for stats that are complete nonsense. Why can't books have one good logging site [tho neither do i want to see reviews or ratings, ew no thanks]

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Since there was interest, You Will Die In This Tape is a spinoff of my TTRPG/postmodern horror game You Will Die In This Place (liz-shrikestudio.itch.io/you-will-die...). I put it together in a weekend, hoping to recoup some art costs. I'll have some copies at Norwich Games Con in August.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Some people get lost that language is about communication; if i say i am a game designer, i dont care if you agree or not, i dont care if that's "literal" or not. But it conveys a sense of what i do, of how i engage an artform. Just as when i say i am a writer.

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Something about this is that a lot of ttrpg performances [actual plays ect] emulate, or follow already established narrative styles - ie. Character arcs. Where as i do feel there is an under-utilised performance space more similar to warhammer battle reports ect. "Actual actual plays".

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it

submitted 23 hours ago • 35 comments

Darkest Dungeon WLWeek || 02 - Sisterhood #ddwlweek2025 #ddwlweek

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

I seriously geek out over writing (mine and that of other writers). I don't want to do it faster. I want to slow down and luxuriate.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I wish i didn't have a petrifying fear of snakes. I'd love to have a pet one

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FBC Firebreak kinda sucks, really dissapointing but amidst matchmaking issues the game is just...boring and pretty generic, and the aesthetic leaves a lot to be desired with none of the...style or weirdness of control. Also kinda misses the entire appeal of the FBC.

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The movie my girlfriend's grandfather wrote. [That will never not be freaking cool]

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Whether its video games or ttrpgs or board games, the entire industry goes this crisis of "theres so many games, do we need anymore?" Meanwhile, the entirety of novel publishing is like... That's olllddd news. Catch up.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

As somebody who works on both adventures and systems (and hacks, and the wierd adding systems onto systems or whatever you call solo rules) this entire discussion is fundementaly vapid. It's like arguing if short stories or novels are better.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

HUGE INDUSTRY SHAKEUP I scream, as I watch one colossal monopoly dedicated to maintaining the creative status quo eat another colossal monopoly dedicated to maintaining the creative status quo

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

sometimes people criticize elves cause they're just "humans but better" yeah okay, did you ever consider that they're just better than us and we should kiss them??? huh???

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Art by Brom 'The Ghoul Princess' for Dungeon Magazine (1998)

submitted 504 days ago • 6 comments

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin is a fucking amazing novel

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Darkest Dungeon WLWeek || 01 - Curio (Bloodflowers) #ddwlweek2025 #ddwlweek

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Illegally jailbreaking and modding your bot girlfriend to install unapproved genitals not compatible with her approved gender installation.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments