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She. FilAm. NYC. Freelance writer and cultural journalist. Writing on and for screen and game, both video and tabletop. Fought film school and won. Formerly of media studies. Identifies strongly with the goat. https://genathan.carrd.co/

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I do wanna say LOVE the war hammer.

Also, I know we're gonna hear it when the campaign but maybe a little preview on how to pronounce his name?

16.09.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Relationship Between Game Design and Art Direction with Naoki Yoshida and Hiroshi Minagawa YouTube video by Square Enix

If you’re at PAX West, please come to the Relationship Between Game Design and Art Direction tomorrow, Sunday, on the main stage at 11am PT. If you’re not at the show you can tune in, and see me, your host, along with Naoki Yoshida and Hiroshi Minagawa! www.youtube.com/live/aB2WfPs...

30.08.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Tumulus 04. Return to the sea, a TTRPG and board game publication by Exeunt Press / Skeleton Code Machine.

Tumulus 04. Return to the sea, a TTRPG and board game publication by Exeunt Press / Skeleton Code Machine.

Tumulus 04. Return to the sea.

Shipping early in September 2025: tumulus.exeunt.press

30.08.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It's always funny when formal commentary or academic publications try to extrapolate trends and deduce attitudes of a fandom at large off how a Fandom wiki is handled. 95% of the time, less than seven people maintain that wiki and the decision in question was unilaterally made by one despotic admin.

30.08.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Mecha TTRPG Newsletter You are about to discover that mecha ttrpgs are legion. Or more likely you already know, and that's why you're signing up. It seems as if a new mech game is coming out every month, and so many of these games are worth reading, if not playing. How do you

Last week of the month! That means last chance for you to submit community content to the mecha ttrpg newsletter:

24.08.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I've confirmed, but I will be going to PAX U this year!

I've been feeling the imposter syndrome again in the TTRPG space, as I haven't done as much as I hoped to in the past year, but we push through it.

24.08.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜”πŸ™πŸΌπŸ«‘

24.08.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Using Environments to Streamline your Daggerheart GM Prep
YouTube video by Mike Underwood Using Environments to Streamline your Daggerheart GM Prep

Daggerheart's Environments can help you streamline your game prep while maintaining a balance between flexibility and utility. Here's my advice on doing it for yourself:

youtu.be/h-ht-wMbrms?...

23.08.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Comically, he made a joke about it in an ad read in early C2, alongside deadEarth and Empire of Satanis.

So, someone told him, he remembers it / has a mental list of infamously bad RPGs, or looked it up again to make the same joke (positive), and I can't decide which is funniest to me.

22.08.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Come watch a weird, wonderful, and practically never theatrically screened movie with me!

13.08.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

It's actually been really great to have a stable job, but, man, it hasn't helped with the energy for creative projects.

09.08.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT..
Sword & Key SUMMER SLAM FIGHT THREE ended this past Saturday with Saskia the Air Genasi Oath of Watchers Paladin/ @genathan.bsky.social moving on to the FINAL FIGHT!
The stats show how WILD this fight was!

Check out FIGHT FOUR this Saturday August 9th at 10am PT / 1pm ET!

06.08.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Doesn't... The New Yorker's style guide have it famously spelled out, two words, NO hyphen on top of this? What?

04.08.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's very interesting at any rate β€” and exciting from a production management and creative direction standpoint.

And, ngl, as someone who ultimately found C3 mid, this "giving a breather" is exaCtly the kind of thing I wanted to see after a debrief on what happened there.

03.08.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's kinda funny bc I think a many who could clock it was true, just accidentally posted, kept it to themselves. I mean, I know I and a bunch of friends did lmaoo

It's kinda funny how ime the people who can recognize when it's genuine, just mispubilshed, will keep it private and just be patient.

03.08.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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SWORD & KEY SUMMER SLAM FIGHT THREE IS TOMORROW!
Join us at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET for our next fight of EPIC PROPORTIONS!

Sword & Key Summer Slam is in support of @doctorswithoutborders.org - support your champion or cause chaos tiltify.com/@sword-and-k...

Live on twitch.tv/sword_and_key

01.08.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
A photograph of Vagrant Story on a CRT. Cheeks out, Ashley Riot stands in front of a broken stained glass window bathed in lens flare.

A photograph of Vagrant Story on a CRT. Cheeks out, Ashley Riot stands in front of a broken stained glass window bathed in lens flare.

πŸ“Ί Vagrant Story // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via component

17.01.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 200    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
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SWORD & KEY SUMMER SLAM IS NIGH!
Sixteen combatants previously featured on Sword & Key 5E streams will fight to the death… but only one can wear the crown!
Join us for FIGHT ONE this Saturday July 19 at 10am PT / 1pm ET on twitch.tv/sword_and_key

These streams are in support of @msf.ca

17.07.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Type Help is a perfect example of why mystery games are so damn good right now Type Help is a perfect example of why mystery games are so damn good right now

The AV Club has a nice article up about Type Help (The game we’re remastering as The Incident at Galley House):

www.avclub.com/game-theory-...

14.07.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I've swapped modern live service games for a browser game that's been running since 2009 I’ve found my new favourite book, only it’s interactive and I choose where it goes, if the constables will let me.

This is a beautiful article on Fallen London. The FL team put out some of the best writing in games *every single month*, and it’s wonderful to see that recognised.

(Got quite emotional to see shroom-hopping mentioned, too: one of my first pieces of work for games.)

www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/iv...

12.07.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 397    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8
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Mets broadcaster Keith Hernandez got buzzed by a foul ball in the booth and had no idea it was coming! πŸ˜‚

10.07.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 246    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 14

I want to explore more TTRPG Adventures (not systems/rulesets/mechanics (i have plenty of those); prewritten adventures/settings/scenarios), but I don't like D&D-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off Fantasy

I like superheroes.

Are there superhero Adventures that will get me excited to run them?

05.07.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 1
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I think about this post so much

02.03.2024 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3194    πŸ” 972    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 22

obligatory scandalized Queens girl gasp

26.06.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
I'm holding two regular American quarters. Below on a table in a transparent cup you can see the rest of my "tokens" which are also quarters.

I'm holding two regular American quarters. Below on a table in a transparent cup you can see the rest of my "tokens" which are also quarters.

I went to a barcade in London and bought 36 tokens for 20 pounds. These "tokens" turned out to be American quarters and I have never felt so owned. Essentially I gave them $27 and got $9 back

24.06.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2024    πŸ” 383    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 26
A promotional image for Fragments of Loss, a Rangers of a Broken World TTRPG actual play.The background is of fracked rock. At the top says Fragments of Loss and below it are photos of the cast. From left to right there is Amber, Gena, Angela (GM), Mirm, and Sebastian. At the bottom it says they play Mondays at 3pm Pacific at twitch.tv/sword_and_key. To the left is the S&K Logo, and on the right is the Trans Lifeline logo, which the cast is raising money for.

A promotional image for Fragments of Loss, a Rangers of a Broken World TTRPG actual play.The background is of fracked rock. At the top says Fragments of Loss and below it are photos of the cast. From left to right there is Amber, Gena, Angela (GM), Mirm, and Sebastian. At the bottom it says they play Mondays at 3pm Pacific at twitch.tv/sword_and_key. To the left is the S&K Logo, and on the right is the Trans Lifeline logo, which the cast is raising money for.

After facing the dangers of destructive constructs and turbulent landscapes, the rangers meet their true foe at last

Join us today at 3pm PT for Session 7 of Fragments of Loss: Unearthing Memories

Fragments of Loss is a Rangers of a Broken World #ttrpg #actualplay raising money for Trans Lifeline!

23.06.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

the worst part about having a job is having to go to work 😭

23.06.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The banner for the Second Annual Paid RPG Day, "as free to buy as they are to make!"

Listed are five titles:

No-Tell Motel ($15): "Spy on a world of sin and accuse a killer in this single-player murder mystery ttrpg. Just don't get it wrong."

VOID 1680 AM ($10): "Build a playlist and connect with other voices in the darkness in this award-winning solo rpg."

Lighthouse at the End of the World ($10): "write a strange tale of dark pasts, ill omens and restless dead in this solo journaling rpg."

Killer Ratings ($10): "Navigate reality TV ghost hunters through melodrama, backstabbing, and spectral doom in this horror-comedy group rpg."

Wayfarer 1 ($5): "Play space probe and mission control, slowly losing connection in this two-player letter-writing RPG."

The banner for the Second Annual Paid RPG Day, "as free to buy as they are to make!" Listed are five titles: No-Tell Motel ($15): "Spy on a world of sin and accuse a killer in this single-player murder mystery ttrpg. Just don't get it wrong." VOID 1680 AM ($10): "Build a playlist and connect with other voices in the darkness in this award-winning solo rpg." Lighthouse at the End of the World ($10): "write a strange tale of dark pasts, ill omens and restless dead in this solo journaling rpg." Killer Ratings ($10): "Navigate reality TV ghost hunters through melodrama, backstabbing, and spectral doom in this horror-comedy group rpg." Wayfarer 1 ($5): "Play space probe and mission control, slowly losing connection in this two-player letter-writing RPG."

Following another Free RPG Day, I'm proud to kick off the second annual #PaidRPGDay!

Today, I'm offering my games at a price you can pay to have them! Take a look and consider supporting your favorite indie publisher today, whoever they may be.

Shop (with money) now: bannerlessgames.itch.io

22.06.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6

Oh hey, are you getting a bit of intimidating FOMO bc you are interested in the Final Fantasy part but scared to death of the Magic The Gathering part?
Have I got a blog for you!!!!

21.06.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Spread the word! ALL of our games are FREE on @itch.io for Free RPG day!

From Badger + Coyote to Substratum Protocol and everything in between!

Go get them: itch.io/s/155360/pan...

21.06.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

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