There are 4 different people from #YEG working on this TTRPG anthology of Trophy incursions! :D Me, @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, and @orthopraxy.bsky.social! Supporting small indie press games means supporting local!
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A draft deck for Magic: the Gathering's supreme vintage cube format, featuring Temur cards with a focus on artifact hate.
Trophy number four for the day!
I'm convinced that hatebears and called shots are the key to this format.
Gorilla Shaman is cracked in this format.
Decided to take a spin with Vintage Supreme Draft while it's up at MTGO, and proceeded to trophy three times in a row. The last one was a clean 6-0.
My colours were different every draft, but the core was the same: two-drop hatebears and value creatures, backed by as much artifact hate as possible.
I'll be running a two-day workshop on Running Roleplaying Games for Everyone on March 14-15 in Charlottetown, PEI. Come join us for this hands-on workshop, made possible with the support of PEERS Alliance and Pride PEI!
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the importance of knowing your audience
I cosign all the values you're talking about here in terms of bespoke design leading to really exciting breakthroughs, and the value of experimenting farther afield (obviously!).
I just... also never want to begrudge someone using the tools they can get their hands on. It's all making.
So for me, when I see people using imperfect tools for their design work, I try to bite my lip rather than saying "hey, have you considered investing eighteen months of free time into designing your own custom tools" because, like, I'm just happy they're making shit.
And I think this past decade's proliferation of SRD-based design work in our little neck of the woods is just the pendulum swinging. And I don't think it's a coincidence we're seeing a more diverse and global field of designers coming out to play?
Because bespoke design is resource-intensive.
For the first dozen years of this century, indie design folks (ESPECIALLY forgeheads) were really intense and dogmatic about the importance of bespoke mechanics and novel systems and an ecology of self-contained products.
And we learned that it shoves marginalized folks out of the space, esp POC.
me talking about game design like *references The Quiet Year* *references The Quiet Year* *references The Quiet Year*
Avery Alder
Award winning TTRPG creator Avery Alder joins us at Conpulsion 2026
Absolutely this.
The thing about belonging to any scene / community / field for the long long term is that you end up living alongside all these dipshit echoes of who you used to be, and you have to guess constantly about who lost patience for you well before you stopped being those dipshit versions of yourself.
I believe that there exists a world where we are all warm, and sheltered, and liberated, and healing, a world without prisons or genocide or greed, but if we are ever to reach that world, we must learn how to sit with heartbreak and grief and let it transform rather than immobilize us.
I believe that white queer leftist spaces tend to suffer from a lot of irony poisoning, because of that thing I said earlier about not recognizing the image of power divorced from all-too-familiar cruelties, and I am heartbroken seeing my friends so often contort themselves to deny their own power.
I believe that sharing simple kindness and warm food with your neighbors is an essential component of liberatory worldbuilding, because it allows us to develop localized networks of mutual aid, but this only happens if we allow ourselves to become genuinely vulnerable and curious toward one another.
I believe that pleasure is a necessary axis of any movement for liberation, and women activists from Emma Goldman to Audre Lorde to adrienne maree brown have been shouting that for over a century.
I believe that most of us do not have a clear vision of what power looks like divorced from cruelty and exploitation, and so we have come to fear and resent power in all of its forms (while our political enemies have learned to idolize cruelty as an attainable proxy to their own stymied power).
I believe that climate restabilization can only be achieved if we repatriate land to its indigenous keepers in every stolen place, if we let go of greed and reject capitalism (consumer luxuries and all), and if we repair our wounded relationship to the more-than-human world.
I don't feel like I talk about my political core beliefs very much here on bluesky.
I believe that prison abolition, decolonization, and the dismantling of both capitalism and ethnically-demarcated militarized nation-states are all essential to human dignity and achievable within my lifetime.
A game of Magic: the Gathering in which a beefed-up Carnage Interpreter is attacking for lethal damage on turn four.
Initially, I was really reluctant to pivot off blue artifacts midway through the draft, when my lane was clearly contested. But rakdos sacrifice was clearly what was being passed to me. So I made the pivot.
And, uh... turns out Tolarian Academy and Carnage Interpreter are really good together.
Five Fires cover from Thoughtcrime Games.
As a crew of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers, your art helps you heal & deal with the stress of life, but that same art can do more. It can move those around you. It can shake up the system.
Grab the Five Fires (Ashcan Edition) #ttrpg and you can change the world!
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On the one hand, being sick while also having ADHD has killed my motivation to do anything but sit in my basement and draft vintage cube. On the other hand, I've gotten four trophies in a row today.
medium.com/@isabellerue... looking at a bunch of different PbtA and Belonging Outside Belonging games and discussing how they handle setting up PC bonds. I think this one is pretty good #pbta
I wish more folks knew that crowdfunding really fucks with your brain in ways you cannot expect.
We have new creators do small projects 1st because it helps you learn what it’s like.
Weird chemicals, highs and lows, backer feedback loop. It’s a trip.
Teen girl in hospital bed reading from her little clam shell
Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014
My copy of Midnight Muscadines just arrived and I am so excited to play this weird little cozy-dark exploration game.
A system built to eat people never stops eating people.
