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Hot Take :

Two of the most important pieces of media that people need to know about the 20’s

Will be

The Watchmen Series and Peacemaker

And their most important moments both hinge on the fate of Black women in water

all the pages of HOW'S MY DRIVING, laid out side by side

it's done! Live on my ITCH & PATREON soon!

Black Americans will always find joy even when the world around us is burning.

And where joy can’t be found, we create it.

That’s one thing they keep trying to take from us and it pisses them off that they can’t.

Ok, putting my blockers on, will not be back on until this afternoon!

Don't forget: Imagination is for Everyone.

Absolutely!

Lol. To be honest, I completely conflate these two in my mind.

(Also, this is about as public as I get about helping. I don't care or need to take credit, I just want to help folks express their creativity and share it!

Occasionally though, you have to let people know so they know.
Now you know.)

Here is my occasional note: if you are black TTRPG designer and can use help with anything - design advice, brainstorming, connections - please feel free to reach out and I will do what I can to help or find someone who can help.

We need more black TTRPG designers.

new day, new hopes of getting more help! thank you all for those who have given so far!!!

i have to try and pay this today so i’ll be back to reblog a few more times!

Oh damn. Oh damn.
These are must-haves.

Whatever you think about Coates (I am a fan), he conducts himself with rigor and discipline. He asks hard questions of himself and of the world.

Klein was right about something once and just spouts nonsense into the nearest mic.

Something that makes me deeply irritated is that Coates and the very unserious Klein are considered as 'equals' to have a 'debate'. I couldn't get through a minute of their chat without shutting it off.

<slow clap>
Bravo.

Ooooooh

I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years

Folks, having a solid crew of comrades you can rely on in real life or virtually is always essential and in the coming years we are all going to need to lean on each other.

Congrats!

Cover of Community Radio, Second Edition by Thoughtcrime Games

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Concept art from #lotr (1978) by Mike Ploog

This whole ICE nonsense quota based racist policing is so useful for illustrating so many Black civil rights concepts that people have been confused about for decades.

People used to ask me, "Why do Black folk cheer when they see a man successfully run from the cops? He's a criminal!"🤡

No.

The Random Prompts TTRPG Jam A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-24 hosted by Far Horizons CoOp & Marx of High Water. Back in the early days of Far Horizons CoOp, we used to produce regular collections of short games. Sometimes...

there are five prompts left in the #randompromptsjam hosted by me and @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social! i mean we can start doubling up if we get more entrants than that, but if you want to join, now is a great time! there's still basically four weeks to write your #ttrpg thing and submit it!

If you enjoyed a game on Itch, leave a comment!

Honestly, it really brightens a creator's day. And it's a big encouragement for others who may be interested in getting that game.

Itch hides reviews from the game page, so I find comments more useful in the long run.

Like a game? Comment away!

On top of that, I can actually use different sets of frames, and give people tools for changing the elements in response to whats happening.

Last, I can actually use the secret Council as another driver of sub plot.

BUT. What I am using in Surge is the other side of this: after you do a few cycles, the table builds context and a sense of where they want to go. In these conditions, it would be actually really nice to let a scene go longer and use some of that. Surge uses a cadence of timed/untimed scenes.

The "secret" here being that most ppl aren't improv geniuses and dont have a sense for the best way to progress and/or end a scene live with partners without looping or rambling on. The timer for these scenes removes the pressure of having to worry about that.

What makes the scenes in Community Radio work is the way you set them up with frames and elements, discuss with the group how to start, and then just letting go. Folks tend to question the timer for slice of Life scenes but those are most of the time THE secret sauce...

Ive been trying to spend a lot of time on how slice of Life and broadcast scenes work to enable more plot-centric play, but ive realized that those are the special sauce and I shouldn't do a ton with those.

Anyway, I was hinting at it yesterday, but what I am doing with the scenario ("The Surge") is using the Community Radio's Cycles more or less intact, but changing how you interact with elements, frames, and the secret council.

Electricity from most power sources is actually damaging to the zombies long term (human body is not made to conduct it!) and is short lived, while human bio electricity is both well tolerated and lasts longer, so the zombies absolutely need that sweet human spark.

The zombies become fast and mindless when they are fully 'charged'. They are slow but cunning when they are on low charge, setting traps and luring people in.

The zombies crave and need electricity, but human bio electricity is most craved...