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@adambell.games.bsky.social

tabletop game designer - grasping nettles, my brain is a stick of butter, no stone unturned, legend has it he/him adambell.games newsletter: http://newsletter.adambell.games itch: http://adamebell.itch.io comradery: http://comradery.co/adamebell

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it continues to be W I L D to me how many people disregard the known science behind masks and transmission.

It's a good idea to wear a mask when you go get coffee or go to the library. It's a really fucking good idea when you're going to a room full of 100,000 people from all over the world.

09.08.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

just imagine me bullying from afar 😈

09.08.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

PLEASE just give a fuck, stop getting yourself sick and stop getting my friends sick and stop excluding me and many other people from ever attending these events

09.08.2025 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just get so pissed off seeing people trying to avoid this shit get infected because for some inscrutable reason most people don't give a shit. I also wish I could go to these things and sell my games without it being a risk that is heightened by the vast majority of my peers.

09.08.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

one person wearing a mask goes a long way to preventing their illness but it's not infallible. if everyone wore one? and did so deliberately and with proper mask hygiene? we could make it so that people don't need to take this huge risk just to go to a show that should be about fun and community

09.08.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

maskless at a public gathering is RFK and anti vaxer behavior. you're closer to them than you are to behaving in any sort of moral or scientifically advisable way. you're helping spread a virus that continues to kill and disable people every day! and it's so easy to collectively prevent!

09.08.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

at least at conventions. what the fuck are we doing? why have we collectively embraced a right wing covid position that used to get you laughed out of the room?

doesn't this piss you off? if you're not masking, are you truly content to be a willful participant in the preventable spread of disease?

09.08.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

wear a mask folks. please

08.08.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Y'all we're so close!!

08.08.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

take this down before anybody sees it, that's my true name

07.08.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

so long as you hold power you can defenestrate anybody you want

07.08.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
mockup of a board game box for Uneasy Lies the Head

mockup of a board game box for Uneasy Lies the Head

I am designing a box

07.08.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Dragon Reactor: Embers, Ashes, Moments and Stars A mythopoetic mech TTRPG about war, tragedy, and what you do with the power to change the world.

Dragon Reactor is a love letter to the mech & mecha genres, a game that's in deep conversation not only with the shows and stories that inspired it, but with the video and tabletop games that came before.

It's personal, it's intense, and it's beautiful.
Help us bring it to life!

06.08.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

I cant believe big balls got jacked

06.08.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Get Ready for Dragon Reactor: Embers, Ashes, Moments and Stars From Dinoberry Press & 200-Proof Games - Get Ready for Dragon Reactor: Embers, Ashes, Moments and Stars

Dragon Reactor: Embers, Ashes, Moments and Stars is LIVE on BackerKit!

If you want to see this incredible mythopoetic #mech tragedy #ttrpg come to life, now's your chance to back it!

Early Bird & Returning backers get access to the IN-DEV DOC once the campaign finishes!

bytes.rip/dreams

01.08.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 31

maybe we should cloud seed some of this corn sweat out of the air

01.08.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How come nobody has said anything about Magpie Games using LLM slop in their latest million dollars project and I have to learn it from a literal credit to Envato Elements?

25.07.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3
The cover of Grasping Nettles, written by Adam Bell and illustrated by Sashah Li. The book is square with a yellow background. A wreath-like frame of green nettle leaves surrounds the title

The cover of Grasping Nettles, written by Adam Bell and illustrated by Sashah Li. The book is square with a yellow background. A wreath-like frame of green nettle leaves surrounds the title

BACK IN THE SHOP: Grasping Nettles, a collaborative world-building game by @adambell.games
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Play alone or w a group! A d6 roll moves your piece around the wheel of prompts. Each wedge defines something new about your world, as big as important places or as small as an interaction between citizens

21.07.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

tbh they're nearly different mediums entirely

21.07.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

why is the ennies a voting thing? same question for the mlb all star game

20.07.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tom Yum Cummerbund

19.07.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

writing down the rules for this is turning out to be a real pain in the ass but i'm about to playtest it

15.07.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh great, that means i'm gonna be betrayed and beat up on by crapshoot in some other game system in the future

15.07.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

who wants to go 1v1 in Affinity Suite Lockout Bingo

15.07.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i unironically want to host summer layout done quick now to share tips and tricks

15.07.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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affinity publisher trackpad hex grid any%

(i will not pay for discord nitro so i need to use bluesky to host any bit videos larger than 10 mb)

15.07.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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thinking about hacking the game floor plan for the one page rpg jam

14.07.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve made it past 100 followers for the Kickstarter! Thanks everyone for spreading the word!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

25.06.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

too many people pretending the pandemic ended

13.07.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

damn i really wish i felt comfortable going to gen con, paxu, etc

13.07.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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