Art Martinez-Tebbel

logging onto Bluesky

Guy getting on the plane away from Gen Con and someone says “at least it isn’t an anime convention” and this it the lack of solidarity that led nerd spaces to be alt right training grounds.

I think the announcers on Fox should be telling me how much everyone involved stands to lose if this baseball game on the racetrack thing gets rained out.

Top four of the Mets batting order heard Reddit talking shit about them the last couple days.

I didn’t even demo it. I thought the box looked cool and the designer (an Italian man obvi) gave me a good quick pitch.

As we enter the third day of Gen Con the only game I’ve purchased is about electing the pope.

Ok I think I’m done retweeting bits of that thread but do feel free to peruse it at your leisure, it’s very funny.

in cyberpunk games you shouldn’t lose humanity for modifying your body you should lose humanity the more money you get

theres no difference between warlocks and clerics you should just make cleric a subclass of warlock with a specialization in illuminating manuscripts

superhero ttrpgs, werewolf ttrpgs, and mech ttrpgs should use the same system to differentiate between different character modes

if you dont know how to write a joke you dont know how to write a game, if you dont know how to tell a joke you dont know how to run a game

you should not get to name your character, only your character’s parents and then someone else plays your parents and names your character

all wordplay puzzles and riddles in ttrpgs must work in the native language of the characters and not the players if its an elven puzzle then fuck yeah all of you are going to be learning elvish and elven culture to work it out anything less than that is not true to the world and is gamist bullshit

all examples of play should be written as an episode of its always sunny in philadelphia no exceptions

why is there no han solo solo journaling game we have strayed from the path of righteousness (puns)

if youre going to include an appendix n of influences it should be listed by order you encountered them and a 1,000 word essay on each item or dont include them at all (dont include them)

monsters should not have standardised stats or moves they’re scary monsters who the fuck knows what theyre capable of the only number you should know about monsters is how many are they and even that is too much certainty

all sculpted miniatures are graven idols and an affront to god just use different colours wooden cubes if its good enough for the eurogamers its good enough for you

if youre going to be simulationist give me the gravitational constant and periodic table of your stupid made up world anything with less fidelity is narrativist bullshit

if youre going to put your name on the cover as a game designer you should put the artist and layout designer and editor and developer names on there too do it comic book style or not at all

tarot cards ain’t shit just use a standard deck of playing cards and then add like 22 random tcg cards if you like pretty pictures

Look, I’m against the carceral state but you should go to jail for doing this.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE AT THE MUSEUM AND A SECURITY GUARD IS TALKING TO THEM SECURITY GUARD: I WANT YOU KIDS TO OBEY EVERY SIGN YOU SEE IN THIS Museum SIGN-QUIET P2- NANCY AND SLUGGO READ THE NEXT SIGN THEY SEE SIGN- LOUNGE P3- WHEN THE SECURITY GUARD RETURNS HE’S SURPRISED TO SEE NANCY AND SLUGGO LAYING ON THE FLOOR…LOUNGING ABOUT

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
August 1,1945

That binder has class art in it. If you’re at Gen Con and want to see something cool head over to @possibleworlds.bsky.social booth. It’s in the 200s row. On the west side of the aisle.

Hey, I’m at Gen Con this week. If you see me, and if you want to, do come and say hi.

I’ll do my best! Drew Gilbert is an interesting prospect. He was never going to make it in New York but he might turn in to an actual baseball player.

As someone who feels weird about wanting an AirTag on my stroller the people comfortable with this absolutely blow my mind.

The only way to make this product ethically is to make it so obvious it could have an AirTag in it that it would be too obvious for a bad actor to keep them on.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

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