Natalie Ash (she/her)

This gorgeous, disturbing adventure is out in the wild.

Check it out in action on our YouTube, then pick up your own copy!

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A moth woman drenched in red stares at the viewer, holding intestines in her hands. Her mouth is bloodied. The white text reads CALPINI a dungeon game, compatible with MORK BORG.

The zine of CALPINI on a wooden floor

🩸CALPINI is officially released! If you missed the campaign you can now purchase it physically and digitally on our store. 🩸
Journey through the corrupted temple and see if you can survive long enough to uncover the mystery of the corrupted Priestess. #ttrpg #morkborg
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Okay, like, is the thing worth talking about what two consenting adults might have gotten up to together? I feel like (1) that shouldn't really be an issue, and (2) is missing the many horrific things done by at least one of those people did with not-consenting not-adults.

Maybe that's just me.

It's hard to disagree with Oswalt's position, here. 🤷‍♀️

Yeah. The action-shooter part is not a great fit to the story.

A friendly reminder for pals heading to PAXU next weekend, just in case you’re overdue on getting your vaccines, no time like the present. They won’t hit full efficacy by con time, but something is always better than nothing! Let’s keep this con as safe as possible, make the appointment. 🧡✨

I can't wait to see all of my mutuals that play Fortnite regularly to not touch the game for the entirety of the season in solidarity of all of their trans homies! It's so nice knowing so many people that aren't just allies when it's convenient for them! 🙂💖

Hint. Fucking. Hint.

While it cannot be used in all places, paying with cash hits Visa/MC in their bottom line.

I've done some looking into it, and the consensus I found was that people with dyslexia often have a harder time reading justified text due to the inconsistent spacing.

Between that, and my personal aesthetic preference, I opted to left-align and not hyphenate.

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Thanks all for the interest in roleplaying history!

(The first character I ever made was an elf, written out on the green character sheets for Basic D&D.)

Last time I broke a promise to myself, I felt - physically - really terrible for 2 days - from what I did - and now have to reshuffle my understanding of what principles I do hold inviolable.

Collecting variant covers would not have come with all that.

I guess I should comic book 🤷‍♀️

😈 You are not bound by the Hays code. 😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who are not punished by the narrative by the end of the story. 😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who win. 😈 You are allowed to have evil characters who make evil look fun and cool. 😈 You are allowed to make your fun, cool evil character the protagonist. 😈 You are allowed to glorify, romanticize and eroticize evil characters and villainous acts. 😈 You are not obligated to teach your audience a moral lesson.

seems like a necessary post

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:

“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

Drunk border patrol agent was in a womens restroom with a loaded gun + one in the chamber
then wandering the parking lot of a restaurant with his gun out then resisted police and threw the fucking thing *loaded*
The police tried to deny giving any of this info but this indie newsroom prevailed!

Yaoi: focusing on romantic relationships between men
Yuri: focusing on romantic relationships between women

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates

Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

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I'm sure that this is not a piece of great design. Rolling for everything just to find what points can be turned into interesting stakes sounds like it would be really slow. And, me, I don't have the patience for that.

But it's an idea to keep in your GM cap: sometimes roll, then figure it out.

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But we don't need to come at the situation with an a priori understanding, we can create that a posteriori.

This is *kind of* like Maq's option 2, but we don't need to come up with a reason until we know we need to.

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But the reverse is also an option: the thief biffs it. Which is unrealistic for "best lockpicker in the world", so then we ask ourselves, what is the fiction that explains the failure?

So first we roll, then we determine what fiction fits the roll...

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Maybe the lock doesn't have a state until it is picked. We roll to see *what the lock state is* rather than how well it is picked. The GM says, this door is locked. Thief: show me your skill!
Now, this thief rolls and aces it - great, no problem, nothing you haven't seen before it's like butter

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But the a prior nature of the lock also implicitly accepts the GM as the arbiter of the world. The one who determines the difficulty of the lock.

Now, this is where the secret 4th option exists... and it's not some amazing new insight I'm bringing, a lot of solo-focused gameplay has this:

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Heck, it mirrors the way we think about navigating our world: challenges are either easy or hard, we either have great skill or little, etc.

But we should remember that the game space is nothing but shared imagination — we desire it to be consistent and coherent so we can effectively share it

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They all assume that there is a fixed and determined state to the lock. That the GM has already decided what state the lock is in and how it relates to the situation and to the lockpick's skill.

It's pretty simulationist as far as design goes, but it is also really easy to understand.

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Maq posits the greatest lockpick is trying to pick a lock and offers three responses the GM could/should have (it does read a bit prescriptive): 1-the lock is picked, 2- the lock cannot be picked, 3-there are stakes that we resolve with the dice roll.

But all of these have one thing in common:

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Both Maq and Rob have some good and interesting points about "Why Dice?" ( I also have a lot of curiosity about the game that made a bajillion dollars), but I think there is an a priori expectation both of them have, and that there is a secret 4th option, but I need to unravel that assumption 1st

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"This could take down Democrats, too."

I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.

Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856