Basheer Ghouse
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He/Him, Nebula-Finalist and Ennie Gold winning RPG writer, developer, and cultural Consultant.
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KP Upadhyayula
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If I can ask y'all for some help, please read & just share the following? Medical emergencies + 2yrs of unemployment + debt is a hell of a combo. Any support would be a huge help. So far, through your kindness I've been able to pay off $3k of my $20,000 debt
gofund.me/5bfe73dd9
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Donate to Disabled Vet & Family Need Help After Job Loss, organized by Prakash Upadhyayula
My name is Prakash (aka KP), and I am a disabled veteran doing my b⦠Prakash Upadhyayula needs your support for Disabled Vet & Family Need Help After Job Loss
https://gofund.me/5bfe73dd9
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Kara Ling
5 days ago
I'm co-running a modified Cataphract game which starts in one week. It's a 'play-on-Discord' wargame set across two fantasy medieval continents and will run for 1 year realtime. We have 55 players(!!!) signed up but will need more, if you're interested let me know
samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-...
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Cataphracts Design Diary #1 - Sam Sorensen
Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military
https://samsorensen.blot.im/cataphracts-design-diary-1
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9 days ago
Spent the entirety of the last two weeks pretending I was Anthony Bourdain Here is a link to the full compilation and a retrospective at the end:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#OVER/UNDER
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Over Under Anthony Bourdain Compilation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS7r-9fu1giC3XSic1MDTSNlbHKN8seD-kkcf9vF4l84qp_V6D71YZrB8nkQldr4m9PAnNUUy4os_Kz/pub
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Kati ā”ļø PAXU
9 days ago
If you're having
#over/under
fomo, want a recap, or left mid-game, you can read about what happened on my public timeline here:
app.mural.co/t/oneshots51...
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O/U Timeline
https://app.mural.co/t/oneshots5137/m/oneshots5137/1761243818098/6941b0e08d353455ebe14c6bc9ec3f6782f1d58a?sender=uaba2201dfb20343092656264
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Justin McElroy
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Vorse
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This was the coolest shit. Going through the logs Kara shared and then testing the fully functional program was the highlight of the game's back half. Felt like dead-eyed officers optimizing the sacrifice of your friends/planning horrific bloodshed in a war room. Huge props to Kara.
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RPing the actual experience of having weird shift times in
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by travelling for a buddy's wedding party and having to catch up on what the fuck is happening at work when I get to the hotel. Wild first couple days.
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Noordin Ali Kadir
2 months ago
Iāve been called a terrorist since I was seven years old. Today changes nothing for me but I remember the first time the face of that accusation reared its head at me and mine, and the violence it has excused as recently as a week ago. My empathies to those who are new here. I wish this on no one.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
2 months ago
they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter
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Noordin Ali Kadir
2 months ago
A lot of people tend to forget that sex between men in Canada was only decriminalised in 1969. āThe state has no place in the bedrooms of the nationā - Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Justice Minister (later Prine Minister). Only 56 years ago. A lot we considered normal today are RECENT.
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Lorde Stan Account
3 months ago
Redux of an old post of mine that was borderline unreadable, but which had a nugget of wisdom worth salvaging. There are two totally different types of hexcrawl and nobody else seems to have pointed this out before.
knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...
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How Do You Handle the "Inside" of a Hex? (George Lucas Special Edition)
[Context for this post: this is a re-write of an old post of mine I wrote back in 2021. I wasn't happy with my explanation, and it's filled ...
https://knightattheopera.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-do-you-handle-inside-of-hex-george.html
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jeeyon shim ģ¬ģ§ģ°
3 months ago
This is the best product listing copy Iāve ever read
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THEMIGHTYCAOLf
3 months ago
I have no earthly recollection of how I managed to pull this shit off.
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ghin
10 months ago
Beatdown vs. Boogie Woogie (Convict Colosseum)
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
4 months ago
When I take commissions from WOTC and other medium to large corporations, I don't make overtures about how them hiring me - a queer woman of color - uplifts my peers or my causes. It uplifts ME personally, and that is really cool, but this isn't world saving or transformative in any way.
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
4 months ago
I saw a comment in this thread - which Grant responded to perfectly - about how we shouldn't criticize this since some of the teachers are POC. Sure, don't rock POCs for their hustle. But it doesn't change the fact that this does NOT help our industry or marginalized workers as a whole very much.
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
4 months ago
Be ready to tell people who may be your friends or people you love when they're out of line. Help marginalized folks defend their spaces. Platform them. But also: don't presume that one marginalized voice from a specific lived experience or identity represents everyone from that demographic.
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
4 months ago
Recommend your marginalized peers to job postings, positions, and cool things that you think they'd be great in. Build your lists. Be ready to direct folks to profiles, portfolios, social media accounts, etcetera. Check yourself at every turn. Have you enclosed yourself in a white bubble?
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
4 months ago
What has the potential to be transformative were things like Big Bad Con's Meet & Greet, or the Meet & Greet that occurred at UKGE 2025, or the POC Mentorship Program at GenCon. "But I don't have the capacity for that stuff!" Maybe so, but you might surprise yourself over the things you CAN do.
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
4 months ago
If you want to support marginalized creators productively, consider supporting/creating: + Mentorship programs + Grants and micro-grants + Co-ops + Short term contractual positions + Part-time or full-time positions + Accessible spaces for play, dialogue, and design friendly to multiple timezones.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
4 months ago
However because the humanities are largely done in plain language - a cutting edge work of history is entirely legible to a non-historian reader, even if they may not fully understand it - we've been dealing with the practitioners of 'vibe humanities' (in my case, 'vibe history') for a long time. 5/
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Erika Chappell š³ļøāā§ļø Stop Asking For STLs
5 months ago
OKAY! Here is is, Scrungaloids latest version with some really major (and super cool) reworks to action economy which feels really fun in play and totally eliminates the chain-trading common to alternating activation games like Kill Team.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Scrungaloids - The Game!
The irradiated wastelands and monolithic ruins of the far future support a varied and violent ecology. Untold species of infantry, battle tank, robot, and stranger things besides stalk each other thro...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NrGlod1Fs59UpWLwR1kPewiChVi0s3dKLdgOlsWTULE/edit?tab=t.0
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Will Stancil
5 months ago
hey guys if youāre a leftist and you spend all your time being utterly weird about me, specifically, maybe reflect on the fact that when Elon made his AI evil, in addition to becoming racist and antisemitic, it also immediately got utterly weird about me, specifically
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Chesto
5 months ago
every episode of Versus Wolves is like: Woolie: so what did you think of Call Me By Your Name? John: oh. what? you meantā oh Woolie, I didn't watch that movie. I've been too busy legally petitioning the canadian government to change your name to John. I thought it was pretty clear you wanted that
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Kelly Turnbull
5 months ago
Final 60 hours and theyāre SO CLOSE! Less than $4000 to go!
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Kat Tenbarge
5 months ago
Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You canāt magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
5 months ago
Cw: extrajudicial killings, police violence The police and others who went around murdering people in Manila and other cities around the Philippines also had a quota. Do not let things escalate in America. Resist as much as you can, and rest when you have to in order to survive.
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KP Upadhyayula
5 months ago
Donāt be ashamed to shove your art & joy into our faces over & over again yāall! Itās now needed more than ever! I promise you folks arenāt going to get tired of it! (Plus, if someone does, who cares??? They can move on!) Also! Not everyone saw it the 1st time! Or the 2nd! Or even the 100th!
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Rishi Gandhi
6 months ago
Shout out to
@basheerghouse.bsky.social
for backing the project! JOIN THE PROJECT!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bea...
#filmmaker
#thebeastswecarry
#horrorfilm
#horrorshort
#interview
#filmmakerinterview
#entertainment
#horrorcommunity
#horrorfan
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/bea...
I encourage people to check out and back
@rishjg.bsky.social
's newest project. It's a look at the palpable terror and hatred that descended on this country after 9/11 that has become decidedly timely due to current events.
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The Beasts We Carry - A Horror Short
Horror that explores what happens when post 9/11 hate and paranoia turns a school into a breeding ground for nightmares.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beasts/the-beasts-we-carry-a-horror-short
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Rishi Gandhi
6 months ago
Itās a film that confronts not only the monsters outside, but the darkness within. Do you want to be part of a breaking point in the horror film industry? JOIN THE PROJECT!!
mailchi.mp/540a813c8d8b...
#filmmaker
#thebeastswecarry
#horrorfilm
#horrorshort
#interview
#filmmakerinterview
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Jay Edidin
7 months ago
For those of you unfamiliar with the respective organizations, this is like if Graydon Creed and the X-Men issued a joint statement.
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Team+
8 months ago
Thank you to Sam F. š The team worked hard on this, and reviews mean everything. If you're a consumer of
#3pp
, reviewing a
#ttrpg
book you love keeps us thriving! It's not too late to join the fun!
www.pathfinderinfinite.com/m/product/51...
#pf2
#golarion
#pathfinder
#pathfinder2e
#reviews
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Team+
8 months ago
Thank you to
@gradywang.bsky.social
for leading this book and to Arkon, Alyx Bui,
@hiromicota.bsky.social
@pyrurge.bsky.social
@bigprawn.bsky.social
@collatte.bsky.social
@erenahn.bsky.social
@darthruvaider.bsky.social
@akinomiiart.bsky.social
@basheerghouse.bsky.social
@knightvigilant.bsky.social
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
8 months ago
the post office is such an incredible, beautiful thing. i would die to protect it.
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
8 months ago
I've talked to
@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social
(who is mentioned here, heh)
@friede.bsky.social
and a bunch of others about this a lot, but now we're actually doing the thing. Pastebin for text:
pastebin.com/yMayd6pT
Gonna post it on my Substack, free to read. I suspect this will be a multi-parter.
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If your leader in a war is incompetent and bungles clear opportunities, or refuses to fight when decency and the people they are sworn to help says they should fight, they ought and must be replaced.
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kavita poduri
9 months ago
with the power of aggressive copy-pasting and very simple mathematics, i have created the 14-tick clock, for when you TRULY need to fuck up your FITD players
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Three Sails Studios
10 months ago
MAPPA MUNDI - AN EXPLORATION + ECOLOGY RPG IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! For those with curious minds, adventurous spirits, and a desire to save a world and Do No Harm - Back us now on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thr...
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Mappa Mundi - An Exploration + Ecology RPG
Leave your sword at home, Chronicler. A sharp mind and a curious spirit are the only weapons you'll need!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/threesailsstudios/mappa-mundi-an-exploration-ecology-rpg?ref=5zici9
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Horology Art
10 months ago
Commission for
@basheerghouse.bsky.social
#s GUNS BLAZING, this is one of the backer reward characters from the kickstarter.
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beetle moses
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Pam, Godkillingway v.2025, Patch "Eepy"
11 months ago
Using AI to write your games does two things to me: + It disrespects the necessary processes of design + It cheapens your own abilities. There is no quick and easy way to design the nuts and bolts of your game. There is no way of getting good beyond constant experimentation and failure.
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Nick Peterson
12 months ago
Litteraly the meme
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Rishi Gandhi
12 months ago
I color graded this feature back in 2023. Itās an amazing thing whenever films get to distribution. Folks donāt always understand how much work it takes to get a film to distribution.
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Day One of
#PaxU
: it's weird that my voice gave out after two tournie rounds, it's normally more resilient Day two: that was a rough night's sleep and my throat still hasn't recovered, I hope this isn't serious Day three: Ah shit I have The Plague
12 months ago
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Haven't even left for Philly yet and I've already been racially profiled by my Airbnb for
#PaxUnplugged
. Impressive!
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Rami Ismail (Ų±Ų§Ł Ł)
12 months ago
This game can use your support, if you're a publisher, too! I get that this game might be too risky a subject to publish, but I believe many of you do understand & appreciate the value of a Palestinian-made game. There's an anonymous donation option, if needed for your job.
www.launchgood.com/1948
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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about theĀ 1948Ā Nakba, based onĀ aĀ trueĀ story | LaunchGood
A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land
https://www.launchgood.com/1948
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Cat Manning
12 months ago
This thread is why Iām in the āletās hear both sidesā camp for Ea-Nasir. Also, I do love āof the 18th centuryā here.
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M O E
12 months ago
After a year of working on it, Iām happy to tell you that JINN HUNTER itās now available to WISHLIST IT ON STEAM!
store.steampowered.com/app/3353590/...
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