rpg where you play all of padme's handmaiden decoys (but crucially not padme herself)

“Maybe birds go to the moon in winter” is one of the more charming misconceptions in science I’ve heard

this could be us but you're (not) playing (my game)

they announced the full cast of the Mad King GOT prequel play at the RSC and the most important thing to ME is this: there's another Sanditon actor in it. playbill.com/article/game...

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Expect Three Visitors is my game inspired by Scrooge - you play spirits and their clients who are ruining the lives of those around them. As you show them their past, present and future, can you find redemption for your clients? It'll be available from @patchworkfez.bsky.social on stand 4-912. #UKGE

keep catching interesting snippets about how people culturally relate to complaining and I wonder how it manifests down the line that basically every white person in America is descended, near or far, from the type of person to go “fuck this, I’m OUTTA here” about wherever they lived before

IT'S HERE! The dollhouse is COMPLETE which means you can get the SUPER ULTRA EVERYTHING BUNDLE for BASICALLY HALF PRICE! It has the CORE RULEBOOK and also TWO SETS OF BONUS FUNTIME RULES and, I kid you not, FORTY FIVE ADVENTURES itch.io/s/186886/dol...

some book sale sights that I enjoyed: 1) sale so big they had maps 2) too many lovely boneses, too many helps 3) the two most important subcategories of the "biography" room 4) a "true stories" room which was overwhelmingly chicken soups for the soul that I forgot existed

big annual used book sale, thought “I deserve a little treat!” bought 26 books for $26 and lost feeling in my tote-bag-carrying shoulder, couldn’t be happier 🥰

I like to make game

I wonder if there is an extent to which this ties into what I was talking about yesterday with book packaging. Pretty Little Liars was a work-for-hire book packaging assignment from Alloy Entertainment (like Vampire Diaries!). It was not conceived as someone's passion project, but as a product.

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

One of the things that came up in this session is one of the most common pieces of advice I find myself giving in playtests or when my pals ask me for feedback on something, so I'll throw it out here in case it helps anyone else 🧵

#NowReading Pilgrims of the Air by John Wilson Foster

did you know: books good

What I always thought was funny about these Quirk Books parodies is that they got a different guy to do Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and he clearly had a much better understanding of both Austen AND the Cthulhu cosmic horror angle, and the end result was a lot better

Politely but firmly lecturing my bunnies that this is a stupid place to dig a burrow when there’s a bunch of more sheltered spots in the yard that would hide them better

I really do feel like the devs I work with are like trickster genies sometimes. Pushed a change that accidentally hid a button. Ask for the button to be un-hidden. They re-add the button but it doesn't do anything. "Well you just said you wanted it shown, you didn't say you wanted it to WORK" ok

When I was a senior in high school, I was elected to be the “student rep” on my town’s school board. This position came with full voting rights like any other school board member. And the year that I served, they wanted to make cuts to the language dept (to pay for football facility improvements!)

Tonight I got to play in a playtest for my friend who I peer-pressured into being a game designer in the first place which is such a fun feeling like yes let me continue to support the monster I’ve created, I will not be a deadbeat design dad lmao

I’m like not a car person generally but once in a while one really just grabs me. Parked next to this adorable vintage Mazda 121 at the grocery store today and couldn’t stop staring at it, what a great little car

(also I add more community copies on all my games on Free RPG Day, my birthday, and Christmas, so like, if anything looks low on free copies, it will not be for long! get em if you want em!)

no really check out THAW, it's FREE dollars and I think it's a real fun time if I do say so myself

There really was a brief, foolish moment in time when I thought 5 or 6 adventures would be more than enough. HOW NAIVE I WAS. MORE STUFF. MORE STUFF. GIMME STUFF, ALL THE STUFF

No, hang on, re-read the number of adventures you're getting here. Re-read it. This is a rad ttrpg that channels the spirit of play from barbies, and it's worth picking up for that alone, but also if you crave Stuff you can obtain a large amount of Stuff at the Big Discount.

IT'S HERE! The dollhouse is COMPLETE which means you can get the SUPER ULTRA EVERYTHING BUNDLE for BASICALLY HALF PRICE! It has the CORE RULEBOOK and also TWO SETS OF BONUS FUNTIME RULES and, I kid you not, FORTY FIVE ADVENTURES itch.io/s/186886/dol...

I keep having to fight down the feeling of wishing I could read more books faster and wishing I could make more games faster and do more of this and more of that and more more more because it just feels a little too close to wishing my life away

🖐️ hmmmm what'll it be what'll it be what'll it be 🤚

real talk, Paulette Goddard as the gamine is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen wtf, that was Charlie Chaplin's actual wife, having quirked up goofball swag really does work

I have really bad news about what the movie "Coffee and Cigarettes" is making me want

I think Ferrari should make an electric pacer or gremlin. And I do mean "an" because I think they should make one, for me only, and then flee before Enzo's ghost comes to haunt them forever

finished two books today, rotating between "reading in the garden" and "reading in bed". only proper use of a holiday if you ask me

I put up a finch feeder with nyjer seed (what my bird store excursion was for) and I just can’t imagine ever getting sick of seeing these little guys :) I know they’re ultra common birds but they’re sunny little friends

re: american pope issuing an encyclical on AI

mmhmm yeah that’s pretty much how it works I think

people talking about various low-demand penguin classics titles being kept in print through print-on-demand, and being very indignant about it; I am mostly indignant at ever having to go through different virtual storefronts to get things from ingram lightning source

LEWIS HAMILTON GREATEST OF ALL TIME IDGAF LET'S GOOOOO

eating a bowl of strawberries and grapes and a handful of peanuts. deconstructed PB&J

I went to the bird supply specialty store and 1) I was the youngest person there by a solid 30 years, and 2) I walked in like "is there anything starlings don't like to eat?" and every single person who came in after me walked in with the exact same question (safflower)

You know the meme about seeing some orientalist nonsense and calling Edward Said? I need that but for demon-haunted-world conspiratorial thinking and calling Carl Sagan

Looked out the front door, saw a bunny who hopped right up to the front porch! A bold creature!

saw this pic of some bears and I'm not even gonna lie to you; I sat right up like "holy shit bigfoot sightings really are just bears" like I already knew that but seeing the soles of their hind paws makes that REALLY obvious

#NowReading The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Extremely real bit in Evelina where some gentlemen are being asked if they keep an almanac (calendar) around and one is like “never, I will not be oppressed by the passage of time” and one is like “I have five actually, it’s the only way I ever know what day it is”

coffee nap

My girl Evelina is so funny. Writing a letter home like “hiii all is well here! My upstairs neighbor who I thought was going to kill himself was actually just going to use those pistols to rob people :) I talked to him and he’s okay now :)” please have some compassion on your poor guardian’s nerves

I have ordered The bookshelves That were in The IKEA And which You were probably Hoping I’d avoid Forgive me They were capacious So light And so tall

remember when we all used to say this

tonight Greg said we should order Five Guys and watch The Mummy in bed, which like. fuckin obviously we should do that. perfect plan, no notes