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Just out here indulging an appetite for marvels. Religion scholar & interreligious peacebuilder, part-time professor in NYC & Rome, lifelong musician & outdoorsman, feral tabletop nerd, goofy dad.
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I want to see a Rooted in Trophy game take over every holiday. Claus Manor for Christmas. Token for Valentine’s. Butter Princess for…. Independence Day?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

check out this interview with myself and SJGames' CEO @meredithplacko.bsky.social where we talk about this union and how it's felt ! also appreciate the number of times i repeat myself in a single sentence

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Is the game I’ve dreamed of designing for years and realistically never would have? One can only hope. What an absolutely luscious concept!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Daughter, 3, on my lap at the bus stop, sweetly: “I love you!” Me: “Aw, that’s so sweet, I love you too!” Daughter, offended: “Not you, dad! I love that truck.”

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I’m just a boy, standing in front of literally anyone with #ttrpg design chops, asking who wants to collab on a Wickedness-style trio game inspired by Fear & Trembling and The Brothers Karamazov, with the playbooks “The Aesthete” - “The Ethicist” - “The Knight of Faith”

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

the first of the wanderhome folktales, "The Prince and the Raven's Cave," is now available on my patreon! it includes the story of the prince and how he disguised himself as a woman to meet the raven at the bottom of the world, but it also extra stuff for wanderhome! www.patreon.com/posts/first-...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine a world where your tiny comfortzone is entirely machine-controlled. Where you never learn or experience anything new, take a chance on anything, discover or make anything. Imagine a world where you have no original thought of your own, and where you're just fed endless, luke-warm slop.

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

#Same. It’s gonna be a good one, too, if you’re… into… humanistic inquiry… hoo boy.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The younger child has now discovered Thomas. I thought I was out. I thought I was free. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

For less than a pint of lager in a London pub you could download all six issues of Wyrd Science today, over 600 pages of features on tabletop games from the gothic literary roots of Ravenloft & graphic design of Mörk Borg to the politics of Root, the history of horror RPGs & the future of wargames

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

So... if you're looking for a place where indie TTRPG creators have had a voice... Got close to 150 reviews of indie TTRPGs/TTRPG related books on TTRPGkids with links to projects. I'm not a loud person, but I am not (nor have I seen the community) being quiet. www.ttrpgkids.com/category/pos...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone who is mad at Polygon today is justified in their frustration at this media ecosystem But also you should go read and comment on all of my articles I've published on Polygon featuring indie RPGs so they do more of it. Writers there are beholden to the bullshit restrictions of Executives

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

Indie Publishers are apparently not being loud enough, so here I am being 📣 LOUD 📣 about @hatchedgames.bsky.social: 💀 GAST 🦷 - Boxed solo folk horror zines - Crowdfunding 13th March for #Pocketopia - Using Carta, the first of many SRDs in 'seasons' Discord & Backerkit below ⬇️

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

A proposal to address student cheating, improve instructor-student relations, and push back against carceral pedagogy: radical honesty. 1/18

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

Discovering that the public library handles ILL requests with greater efficiency and speed than my university library was absolutely game changing. Would not have finished my book without the NYPL.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Scuse me as I borrow (and cite!!) this for my intro course

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Aye aye! An incomplete but playable version of Dispossessed, a campaign framework for The Between featuring demon-stalked exorcists in Depression-era New York City, is exactly my design goal for the coming year.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Oh hey. To celebrate, I just made God Feed free through Sunday. Thanks for giving it a spin, @majcher.bsky.social ! Happy new year, everyone else. (Happy birthday, me.)

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

As a reminder, instead of starting the year doing whatever you're doing, you could be playtesting my work-in-progress, an RPG set in a traveling carnival in the 1930s Dust Bowl instead. Just a thought. Just throwin' that out there. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

submitted 61 days ago • 85 comments

[quietly] what if [lowering voice] university is about learning something [almost inaudibly] other than “skills”

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Wholesome* fun** for the whole family***

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Don't buy anything from us today. It won't ship in time for the holidays and we're going to have a big sale later this week anyway. Instead if you're feeling generous this holiday season, kick some money over to The Trevor Project and support LGBTQ+ youth. give.thetrevorproject.org/campaign/645...

submitted 64 days ago • 9 comments

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? indie game designer: ah, i left that there intentionally, actually! whatever we come up with here together will be better than what i would have written, and we’ll feel more ownership over it, right? what do *you* think goes in there?

submitted 66 days ago • 8 comments