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We love our dark skies and occasional auroras. Please help us share them with foster youth by visiting our campaign and donating.
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We fostered and adopted this cryptid. Now we have an opportunity to buy a home and foster more of them. Please help us cover the costs to make this happen. Thank you.
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We crossed $3,000! Thank you for getting us this far. We have time to reach our goal! Please continue to support this effort by sharing this campaign wherever you can.
All of you have been awesome, as we wouldn't be keeping this dream alive without you.
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Unboxing the latest order from @ipr.bsky.social for my academic library's new TTRPG collection 🎉🎲📚
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For the first time in a long time I have the first draft of game rules written out. Still a lot to write for this game, but the how-to is done. Pretty excited about this one.
I also use it to self-check where I am emotionally or to check bias. If I am hoping for a result I know is destructive, or one that is anti-player, I go with the dice results and adjust the game to be less stressful and more player focused.
Not all GMs need to use divination, as some are more in tune with their intuition and have a better stocked tool box to run games. It’s still a helpful tool to check yourself with, and following it has led me to more interesting story beats or combat results.
Divining is using the ritual of rolling dice to figure out what you want to happen in the moment but still ignoring the actual result. If you are indecisive about the direction you want the game to go, roll dice and use the result you hoped would come up in that brief moment of rolling.
This is a complicated one and might need multiple posts:
Fudging vs. Divining
Both have the GM ignore the results of the dice, but they are not the same. Fudging is where the GM already knows what they want and will ignore the dice regardless of the result. This is often against the players.
Good morning! It’s the first day of school here and I’m the first one on site to enjoy this sunrise. I love being a school bus driver.
>IF< your group of GOOD friends play ttRPGS together as a social activity, remember when criticizing someone's effort put into the game that they may just be there for the friendship.
Distinguish between "I don't want to play this with you, so leave," and "Maybe we should all do something else."
If you aren’t having fun, change something until you are. It might be the rules. It might be how you play. It may be that you need a safety mechanic. It might also be that you need to stop playing or leave the group altogether. The point of these games is to have fun, so have fun.
I have worked with these people before, and was even on an early team for this project so many years ago. It just has a few more hours but I hope you can still get your hands on this.
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I just posted an update on our GoFundMe campaign (www.gofundme.com/f/gerlach-fo...) so please go check it out!
Thank you to our family and friends who support us, have mentored us, and who will be just as much family to future foster kids as we will be.
Please, share this and donate if you can.
And then we head back. We slowly collapse the game back to the central big idea. Once it’s all packed up we let ourselves phase back to the present and we ask, “Now that you’ve seen it, and seen that we’ve won, what are you going to do to get back there?”
Lastly we create an NPC or two and tell a story. We give them names and descriptions. We ask questions and answer them by telling their story. We explore living in the future, see why it’s worth longing for. Why we want to be there and make it real.
Then we get into senses for the smaller concepts that the group feel the most drawn to. Robust foster care programs smell like Play Dough and baked cookies. They sound like laughter and music. They feel warm and soft. They taste like comfort food and Capri Sun. They look filled with happy children.
Big concept: Every Child Has A Loving and Safe Home
Surrounded by smaller concepts like: free school breakfast and lunch, robust foster care programs, addiction recovery support, free childcare, spaces safe for free roaming, and a whole basket of social safety nets.
The next challenge will be how to guide a small group through that future through cooperative storytelling. I like the idea of starting big and focusing on one or two large concepts. Going from there, the group narrows down more and more towards fine details.
First rules will have to be around table expectations and buy-in’s. No dystopias, no claiming things are impossible, no talking about past failures. You are in the future, of course it worked! Of course it happened! How wonderful, how good, how happy! Suspend your disbelief and be in the future.
I’m working on a game about radical optimism for the future inspired by @robintransition.bsky.social and his book “How To Fall In Love With The Future.” I was so struck by the discussion in a podcast interview he did that I bought the book and now want to create a time machine to the future TTRPG.
This was not during October, but back in the spring of this year. We are a family that embraces weird and renegotiates the little social rules to make life a fun adventure. Will you help my family start up a foster home in our frontier town that embraces the weird?
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I can’t really give you numbers but we had just as many sales this year as the last but a lower average sale amount, which means we made less this year. We also saw fewer international customers, who are often the ones who make big purchases to avoid shipping fees. Take from that what you will.
Daniel with his tiger, named Tiger, meeting Daniel Tiger. We love the lessons such characters teach children, and do our best to introduce Daniel to them. His other favorites are Godzilla, Nemo, and Snorlax. Some of them he found on his own.
Obligatory link:
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Picking this for our Bug! We adopted him in 2021 from the foster system and he has been a fun adventure the whole time.
Each kid deserves a safe and loving home to be themselves and grow. Please help us so I can get more kids plushies at Gen Con in years to come.
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Maybe I should have mentioned it already, but come see me at @ipr.bsky.social booth 449 at GenCon! I’m working it but I’d love to say hello and answer questions about the foster home I’m trying to set up, or the games I’m finally in a space to work on.
Here is the link to help us do just that by moving towards a future where all children have a home and a family.
www.gofundme.com/f/gerlach-fo...
My wife and I believe in being connected to our world through being in spaces like the labyrinth on Fly Ranch. We will help support future foster children in negotiating their connection and their beliefs, using love, kindness, patience, and gentleness.
Please help us build a better world! (1/2)
(4/4) We seem to want to be angry at a dark future more than work at building a bright one.
Fuck that, let’s dare to dream bright and fight like hell to build the communities that get us there.
Obligatory Link:
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