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日本語OK. 🇹🇹 Trini freelance writer and editor. Cohost of the Player vs Plot game narrative analysis podcast at http://playervsplot.com. TTRPGs: Old School Stylish, Nielsenauts. Pathika City Book soon! Blog at Pathikablog.com. Doubles always with heavy pepper

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10.03.2026 21:16 👍 359 🔁 94 💬 27 📌 14
The Roti Royalty of Queens | Sandwich City | NYT Cooking
The Roti Royalty of Queens | Sandwich City | NYT Cooking YouTube video by NYT Cooking

Officially added to the list of places I need to eat at whenever I'm next on the East Coast. @gregoryawilson.com: putting this on your radar for whenever you're looking for a quick lunch or dinner after work?

10.03.2026 18:34 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Hi I'm Stella. You can find me all over the web.
This is my personal account and pretty much the only social media website I am active on currently.
However I am on other spaces, here's a small thread of where to find me.

10.03.2026 21:28 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

The one saving grace is that there’s an ass shots only boss

09.03.2026 22:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Somehow, Resident Evil Requiem still has no ass shots only run uploaded to YT. Everyone’s wasting their time practicing head and knee shots.

09.03.2026 22:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Did you know that in D&D if you guess what face of the die an enemy’s attack roll will land on before it’s rolled, you parry the attack and avoid all of its effects in the game?

09.03.2026 21:11 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This was a wasted opportunity to reveal that hutts don’t look anything at all like Jabba

06.03.2026 21:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
b/w analogue photo of a shopping estate at night. the paint is peeling, and only one unit is lit.

b/w analogue photo of a shopping estate at night. the paint is peeling, and only one unit is lit.

big update to violence. shooting is better. melee is better. cleaned up and split up. expect a bunch more violence shit in june '26.

lukegearing.blot.im/violence

06.03.2026 14:21 👍 70 🔁 20 💬 7 📌 4

Woah, had no idea you did that box! Love the box and game

04.03.2026 22:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy belated!

04.03.2026 14:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A hooded woman looking through various tomes with a glowing crystal providing her light. She's tired. We all are.

A hooded woman looking through various tomes with a glowing crystal providing her light. She's tired. We all are.

A thread of non-obvious things that either influenced BREAK!! and/or make for good BREAK!! inspiration in my opinion. I am going to add to this as I think of new ones (or maybe even find them)

03.03.2026 18:15 👍 71 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0

My read is that the original game is explicitly about you existing in a virtual world which acknowledges the real world (which makes sense given how close in concept to SMT Pokemon originally was in development). That’s why you shrink into a field sprite at the start. I really liked that setup.

02.03.2026 16:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
侠客英雄传3 - Legend of the Chivalrous Hero 3

侠客英雄传3 - Legend of the Chivalrous Hero 3

EraToho TheWorld

EraToho TheWorld

Betrayal at Krondor

Betrayal at Krondor

Lunatic Dawn - The Book of Futures

Lunatic Dawn - The Book of Futures

BTW, if you enjoy the random cool RPGs I post, I'm still updating the CRPG Book's google drive with screenshots:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

There's 34,000 PNGs of over 900 RPGs there - everything from CRPG classics, Japanese hidden gems, untranslated Taiwanese RPGs & Touhou ASCII Dating Sims!

02.03.2026 15:37 👍 235 🔁 63 💬 10 📌 2

Women only want one thing and it’s fucking badass

01.03.2026 18:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Did you know theres only 15 tickets left to our live show at Garycon? Where we review THE VAULT OF THE DROW?? Go grab 'em while you can tabletop.events/conventions/...

25.02.2026 16:17 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

I’m not so much of a curmudgeon that I dislike all reward mechanisms in video games, but it’s wild when the ad copy pretty much sells a game as a designer drug

25.02.2026 17:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Sierra Express An Adventure for Knights of the Road or other OSR-ish modern-ish game systems

www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Just a few days left to back this!

21.02.2026 15:46 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 4

Hey only a week left on my zine month crowd fund! I have a retailer tier so if any small ttrpg shops wanna try stocking a few then now might be the best time to join in.

22.02.2026 21:35 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 2: The Caverns of Thracia (Continued from Part 1, which looked at the state of TTRPG dungeon design pre-Jaquays. These two posts are cleaned up versions of my two Bluesky threads on the subject.) In Part 1, we reviewed earl…

#Jennell #Jacquays, trailblazing #trans woman, #TTRPG designer & artist, is a legend. This article provides a deep analysis of her first big adventure module, Caverns of Thracia, proving that she is the first truly great adventure designer, and arguably the GOAT.

pathikablog.com/2025/05/05/h...

22.02.2026 13:08 👍 78 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 4
Critique bracket.

Critique bracket.

The Critique bracket's winner is:
"How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons" by Pathika

pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...

20.02.2026 13:51 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

So the Jennell Jaquays article made it to the finals. If you want to vote for it to win the critique award I would be very happy! Voting form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

19.02.2026 13:36 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Running it Back: The Case for Replaying Modules Part 1: Why You Haven’t Yet What’s your favourite movie? Your favourite musical album? Imagine them both in your mind. Now, how many times have you wat...

"Okay, so, some of you are gonna say it, and in discussing this with friends some of you have already said it: 'Oh, so are we just gonna let the players read the dungeon first, now?'

I don’t know. Maybe?"

Running it Back: The Case For Replaying Modules.

kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/running-it-b...

18.02.2026 23:09 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1

Hooooly shit

18.02.2026 19:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

has anyone made a manga adaptation of das kapital yet, asking for a friend

18.02.2026 19:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To my Caribbean folks: are there people in your extended family/family friends whose real names you don’t know?

18.02.2026 14:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This means you too PW

17.02.2026 15:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nooo vote for mine instead!!

17.02.2026 15:56 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Bloggies 2026 A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

Round 1 of Bloggies voting ends soon! I got an article in critique about Jennell Jaquays if anyone wants to vote for it.

www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-202...

16.02.2026 23:04 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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METAL GEAR SOLID 2 full game map, everything to scale including Arsenal Gear underneath! 🗺️ www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...

15.02.2026 20:00 👍 186 🔁 59 💬 1 📌 4

As I always say, one of the best accounts you can follow on social media

14.02.2026 00:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0