A game to end all games. Or: The game you write when you can’t think of anything to write. ✍🏻 Just submitted WORKING TITLE to #OnePageRPGJam! newsaints.itch.io/working-title

We are five sessions into Curse of Strahd and I am really enjoying it as a first-time DM! Buuuut I have a million questions. Questions I can't run by any of the DMs I know. Because they're all players at my table 🙃

So you’re a game designer who wants people to write adventures for your system. Here’s how you facilitate that:

Started noodling away on an analog dungeon generator last weekend. It's going well! Too well!

Oh BOY do I need more RPG friends

Found my LiveJournal from 23 years ago. No punchline, just one very embarrassing trip down memory lane.

"... and never the twain shall meet," etc.

Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

It's today! Big yikes!

Still, there's something inherently violent even about dice rolls. It's like every time you cast a die, something disappears. Some alternative ending, or an entirely different world...

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

My 8-year-old is very interested in what I'll do after undergrad. "Why don't you just choose a job where you go and people pay you to write books?"

But her emails

YOU - “The people who built this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side.” (Tap on the tape recorder.)

As someone who will never catch up on all of the High Republic books, someone please tell me Avar and Elzar get the ending I am holding out hope for.

Hey TTRPG pals, what are your favorite introductory modules/adventures for new players?

To Sir With Love #AmazingGrace #ObamaAppreciationDay #Obama #NoKingsDay

Oh there was also the time I saw Lil Wayne and a bunch of dudes at a theather in New Orleans. He was walking into an Amy Schumer movie.

At an informal wake/memorial for someone on my husband's side. Martin Sheen is there. He introduces himself to us, then to my toddler. Instead of shaking his hand, my kid just picks his nose. Martin laughs and says "Well, I can see you're busy."

My mom told me a story once about meeting Ted Bundy in a bar in the early 70s. She said he was "really weird" and gave her the creeps.

Las Vegas circa 1993, walking through the MGM Grand. I'm not paying attention because I'm 7 and I nearly knock Rodney Dangerfield and a very tall, very beautiful blond woman over. I have no idea who he is, but my dad is mortified.

The humanities are important because without them we have generations of people who are entirely incapable of actually reading an email before they respond to it.

But it is so, so important.

Not a day goes by that I don't think about Quinlan Vos surviving Order 66

8-year old finally decided he wants to try Dungeons & Dragons 🥹

Don’t expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time.

Suzanne Collins already wrote this.

One perk of having a kid is getting norovirus the day before my last research paper is due, so that’s nice

My eight-year-old has decided the world is a simulation "because why else would people do the same 'go to work and go home and do it again' routine every day if they were free?" Related, I'm on the lookout for materials on logic and reasoning for second graders.

Hey pals: I need all of your best public speaking advice

Guess what?!

God speed to the Andor reviewers and their 2.5 hours of homework every week for the next month

A little weirded out that this wasn't already a rule

Submitted my (first ever) conference proposal this week at the suggestion of a wonderfully supportive, encouraging professor.

Happy little Monday for me: got 98s on two papers that nearly broke my back; well on track to graduate summa cum laude; just found out I got a scholarship that will significantly alleviate financial concerns finishing out undergrad.

Post a movie from the year you turned 18 (There's a reason I turned out the way I did)

Kurt Vonnegut man

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I don't think you guys understand, this edition has MATTHEW STOVER'S ANNOTATIONS

Four weeks to go. On track to graduate summa cum laude. The burnout is setting in. Send help.

But will I ever get to sleep past 7:30 again?

VOLITION - Subdue the regret. Dust yourself off, proceed. You'll get it in the next life, where you don't make mistakes. Do what you can with this one, while you're alive.

Kid: UGH MORE COMMERCIALS, WHY?! Me: You know why, bud. Kid: *resigned sigh* …Capitalism.

You’re in her DMs. I’m in her War Crimes Group Chat. We are not the same.

I know The Void was dying to hear about this: my first session as a DM went really well! I have lovely tablemates who are encouraging and enthusiastic! It was fun!

T-minus seven days until my Baby DM Debut and boy howdy do I feel underprepared 😬

Endlessly grateful for professors who challenge conventional thinking in the classroom, but most especially the Latin American History professor who basically clapped his hands together and said "This semester we're gonna dig into all the ways European historians were terrible at their jobs."

Throwing in a creative writing elective was not the right move. Now that I HAVE to write, I can't think of a single damn thing. Send me your muses

Eight-year-old: "This bathroom feels really liminal."