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Say it with me:

Constraints breed creativity.

Agency isn't maximum possibility.

Agency is the power to make choices in ways that matter *relevant* to the point of the type of game you're playing together.

The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill to make it illegal for corporate investors that own 100 or more single-family homes to buy houses in the state's largest counties.

Nashville Democrat's Charlane Oliver’s “Homes not Hedge Funds Act” passed with only one no vote.

holy shit

Once a company says they want to be the "Starbucks of" whatever they do, you can bet they're treating their employees badly.

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It sounds like there's major tension between capital and labor at the BE Hive (Nashville's only vegan deli, and a regional seitan deli slice manufacturer)

It's tempting to view vegans as left coded but capitalists gonna capitalist

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Sword Opera - Mythic Gazetteer, LLC | DriveThruRPG The daring drama of the clash of steel. The thrill of the rubber meeting the road. The forlorn silence of a decadent garden after a lover's quarrel.   In Sword Opera, you play as skilled paragons bala...

Sword Opera is the Deal of the Day!

Get your high powered, high feelings #TTRPG of melodramatic action for TEN BUCKS!

For fans of The Three Musketeers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and John Wick. Play as high powered paragons who balance their ambition and loyalty in dangerous Underworlds.

There is no one "perfect system", there's only systems that do what you need them to do better or worse for what you're trying to run/play. Trying to make everything (genre/story/etc...) fit one model is a recipe for stress and heartache.

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Oh, no! You got the Denethor edit!

screenshot of an AI generated thumbnail with a pretend person holding a pretend box of the Old King's Crown expansion with the word's DON'T BUY IT on there

Hey board gamers - your feelings an opinions about games are being turned into slop.

There's a channel called Board Game Critique. All their videos are clearly made with AI. They fess up to this, but they claim that they write their own scripts.

I cannot definitively prove that they don't, but 1/x

Man we are about 15 years late for me to get excited for a Firefly reunion

It's really fucking good.

Black Future: Emancipation of Stars from the Griot Anthology from Thoughtcrime Games.

When Earth burned, black people and anyone desiring freedom left for the stars. Pilot soulships to find new homes and travel the universe in Black Future: Emancipation of Stars by Quinn Murphy, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg

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I think it's a great starting point. In fact, if you like it, you'll probably be into anything else he wrote.

Consistency is actually a major factor I consider when describing a TTRPG quality. I wrote about that and the other factors here: thoughtcrimegames.beehiiv.com/p/delivering...

Playlist Dungeon by Thoughtcrime Games Micro-musical TTRPG dungeoncrawl

Playlist Dungeon, a 1-page "songcrawl" #ttrpg where you build characters and dungeons from your favorite songs, is out in the wild, along with the Wu-Tang inspired intro adventure, "Last Chamber".

Check it out and start your own playlist below!

Neighborhood Robots from the Griot Anthology from Thoughtcrime Games.

Tell the story of a community that overcomes its government's failures by putting together its own mechs to help defend itself from a variety of threats in Neighborhood Robots by Navaar Seik-Jackson, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg

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SIGNUPS END TOMORROW! #TTRPG

Reich Breakers cover from the Griot Anthology from Thoughtcrime Games.

Fill the shoes of government-created super soldiers fighting against the empowered forces of the Third Reich in Reich breakers, by Shan Wolf, one of the amazing TTRPGs included in the Griot Anthology! #ttrpg

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I miss Space Academy. I still make the door-opening sound when I go into a room, sometimes.

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When I was in 8th grade, the whole school gathered to watch The Omega Man in the auditorium. We also watched Hellfighters.

This episode has sparked a wonderful conversation on the Unwritten Discord and a deluge of appreciation for so many games with 🤯-design.
unwrittenearths.com will get you a link to the Discord if you were looking more comprehensive list or have a game to share that blew your mind.

Randomness in #TTRPGs is good. Especially when it is used for character and setting generation.

e.g.
Fiasco
Gamma World 7th Edition
In A Wicked Age
Cyberpunk 2013's lifepath system

Cover of Community Radio, Second Edition by Thoughtcrime Games

Grab Community Radio, everyone's favorite improv #ttrpg of a strange, strange place, and the community radio station that supports it on @ipr.bsky.social and Tabletop Bookshelf!

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Mike Pondsmith's Other Games Looking at the work minus the mirrorshades.

The career of Cyberpunk steward Mike Pondsmith gets weird and fascinating when we travel away from Night City and into the decade between 1985 and 1995.

This game was published in 1987

My Bounty Hunter character was captured and thrown in a cell. The GM said, "They took all your equpment"

Me: "Including my knife?"

GM: "Yes.

Me: "What about...my other knife?"

GM: Smiles and looks at my character sheet. "Yeah, they missed that."

Cut to a daring escape attempt.

Here's a bit of genius game design from the West End Star Wars RPG.

Each Character archetype had a list of equpment pre-loaded. Two items for the Bounty Hunter were

Knife
Another Knife

I'm gonna start a edition war about Nobilis.

It's gonna be me vs. maybe one other person. Kinda cozy.