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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required

@aaronderschaedel.xyz
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He/Him | Definitely Not Young Best known for his YouTube channel about ttRPGs Also does a lot of writing and graphic design for ttRPGs Basically, ttRPGs are pretty much my life; but I do enjoy smearing ink on paper as I quaff entirely too much coffee.

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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 11/10/2026
Technically, yes. Though given that making a ttRPG is kind of the right of passage of everybody in that hobby... ... Maybe hold off on calling yourself that till you publish something. And also bear in mind that most people think computer games when they hear "Game Designer." Language is hard.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 11/10/2026
Panic at the Dojo.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 11/10/2026
Two columns for text per page goes a long way. Especially since that makes it easier to read on a small screen such as a phone.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 08/10/2026
Every so often, I'll print out and bind the ttRPG booklets I write.
A black softcover book bound with thread. It has a green label that reads "Dead Dudes and Deities"
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
October 5 2000, Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber debuted on the N64 in the Americas! Well respected Japanese dark fantasy artist Toshiaki Kato was commissioned to create the key character art used both on the cover of the Japanese release and the in game character portraits!
Ogre Battle 64 character portraits
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Letterabcd @letterabcd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THIS IS SO FUCKING REAL DUDE REJECT HARRY FRAUDER EMBRACE THE TRUE GOATS
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Spheal Posting @sphealposting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
low effort spheal post showing the pokemon spheal from the pokearth youtube video in the snow looking vacant and the text says "I am both dumber and smarter than I look. do not estimate me"
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Cass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New Blog Post: Why I Love Unfair Traps in Arcade Games People usually dislike hard memo traps in arcade games, or at best think they're "not that bad". I love them, though, and I think arcade games would be worse without them. Here's why: duckberet.com/blog/i-like-... (game: Violent Storm)
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
you already know (after some delay) what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, or just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't tend to need the help. with that said, onwards!
an edited version of the box art for the dreamcast survival horror game Blue Stinger. the face in the background has been replaced with a picture of my fursona (a pink kangaroo), and the title now says Spacetwinks Rec Thread. 'Sega Dreamcast' has been changed to say 'Online Kangaroo', 'Sega' was changed to say 'Dogs Bower', Activision is changed to say 'VideoGames', and 'Rated M for Mature' now says 'The Letter M', above the letter M.
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Outbursts Of Everett True @everetttrue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Morning Star Rockford Illinois August 05,1915
P1- EVERETT SEES A HORSE LEFT OUT IN THE HOT SUN BY ITS OWNER 
P2-EVERETT LOCATED THE OWNER 
EVERETT : IF YOU'D HITCH THAT CRITTER A FEW STEPS FORWARD IT WOULD BE OUT OF THE BROILING SUN-SO AND DO IT YOU LAZY GALOOT!!!

EVERETT THROWS THE OWNER TOWARDS THE STREET WHERE HE LEFT HIS HORSE
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 01/10/2026
Oh it's already happened. I was driving at the time so I couldn't snap a photo... But I saw one while I was driving through Nashville today.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 01/10/2026
You've heard of Joker Cars, but have you seen a The Amazing Digital Circus Car?
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 30/09/2026
Mood for the day: Would you assume light can exist without casting any shadows?
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 30/09/2026
Second one from Street Grimoire; this one is about more of the fluffy bits and stuff that a GM would need to know.
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Shadowrun 5e - Street Grimoire, Lore Guide
YouTube video by Aaron der Schaedel
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 30/09/2026
Good news: you got the rest of your life to explore other things. Feel free to mourn what you feel could have been: five years is a long time. You can move on whenever you're ready.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 29/09/2026
Tenra Bansho Zero. Primarily because players aren't expected to be on the same "team." Then they remove character death. And finish up with quick level ups, based on how entertainingly you roleplay. That game is a work of art; everybody should play it at least once!
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 29/09/2026
This thread enunciates why I decided my big passion project needed to be its own game, as opposed to a third party source book for some other game. Even if it dooms my creation to obscurity. (It may have already been so, truth be told.)
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 29/09/2026
Start with character creation if it has one. If it doesn't? Then you decide how characters are made, and apply the rest of the rules based on your chargen system. ... understanding probability will serve you well in this situation.
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This fucking thing
Brian saying "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Kuromi"
Kuromi "damn right"

They are looking at that Meta AI Muse demon thing
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 28/09/2026
Don't worry, you're not watching me spiral in real time. ...not yet, anyways. rofl
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 28/09/2026
youtu.be/wgShLr5n2nU
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Dipsomaniac
YouTube video by The Skeletones - Topic
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 28/09/2026
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Work Beer
YouTube video by Shockwire Rock
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 27/09/2026
Misunderstood instructions. Smoked grass instead. Now everything is...ha. Ha ha ha ha. Ha. Ha ha. Ha.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 25/09/2026
Found an indie ttRPG project. German, but also with an English release. (Aaron's a sucker for multi-lingual games. Especially if they're in at least two of his languages.) ...then saw that they used AI for their images. ...dropped. But I appreciate they were up front about it, at least.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 25/09/2026
New update to my main website. I added some new worksheets. As well as a new ttRPG sourcebook. (And updated another one that had some pretty bad typos.) Check it out. Or don't. rofl
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 24/09/2026
Kayfabe off: It would actually go a long way if they didn't use a d20. The dice can make some *big* outward ripples. Don't believe me? Use 3d6 instead of 1d20 when you're playing D&D next time.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 24/09/2026
I launched my own personal website for that purpose: publicly storing various things I've written. That way, I'll always know where I can retrieve what I've made in the event it becomes relevant.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 24/09/2026
Keep in mind: somebody else whomst writes far worse than you is confidently putting out the worst schlock you can imagine. Also, anything you don't like the results of, you can always re do when you know better. It just needs to exist first. You can make it into spheal later.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 23/09/2026
🎶JINGLE JANGLE 🎵
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 23/09/2026
This was the idea behind MOSAIC Strict, actually. But to your point of why not do this: folks will house rule any system when they encounter things they don't like; modular rules available or not. ...DSA had the right idea with optional rule check lists, though.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
Ah yes, my favorite tabletop RPG, the trading card game Magic: the Gathering.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
Yep, more gradient than hard lines. One example: Some of my Gen Z friends (hitting mid 20s this year) still remember watching VHS tapes. Y'know. Something that "died" in the 2000s. They came from a poor family that couldn't afford the newest gadgets of the era.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
... Or something like that, anyways. I forget the specifics, but the soap I used didn't work for them, and vice versa.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
When you spend time around different generations: you realize a lot of that crap is made up, anyways.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
The thing that worked for me was trying out different soaps. The soaps that my black friends would use would be just fine on them, but dry me out horribly after awhile. Meanwhile, what I use leaves their skin way too greasy. Different people have different skin needs.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
This particular player was very disruptive, and got mad at me when I punished him for his in game stupidity. Looking back, there was better ways I could have handled that situation. In my defense though? I was 19 at the time. rofl
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
Agent 64 is a clever game. It has an aim assist feature like the game it draws inspiration from. So the ultimate weapon you find? It has properties that make *worse* if you rely on the aim assist; forcing you to change your strategy to use it effectively!
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
You should *never* feel bad about punting Khezu in *any* form.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
"My name Schaedel. I beat up a snake oil salesman that came to the village, and took all his bottle before I sent him packing. I drank a bunch of them, blacked out, and now I'm just trying to get home."
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
I once had a player hand me a 10 page long backstory (front and back.) They then said they deserve to start at a higher level because of how much care they put into crafting their character. ...we were playing HERO System, a game that *does not use levels.* (I explained this to him several times.)
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
ttRPG Hot Take: If your character's backstory can't be summed up in 5 sentences or less, it's too long.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 22/09/2026
I once saw a polyhedral set that used non-standard shapes; each one was...I think twice as many sides? So the D4 was in the shape of a D8. And the way you could tell which was which was that the highest number on each was red. ... It was also cool because it was made of opalite.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 21/09/2026
I left D&D out of this list because that game needs to quit sucking the air out of the room.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 21/09/2026
The HERO vet that keeps coming up in this explanation also happens to be one of my childhood friends, and he was the one who got me into HERO, which led in turn to me having *basically no fear* when it comes to having complex ttRPG rulebooks plopped down in front of me.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 21/09/2026
Arianrhod - a fan of mine wanted to run it for me; and I am *always* excited by the opportunity to play in a Japanese ttRPG. Acheron - One of the creators gave me a review copy, and kept offering to run a session or two for me. I dragged the HERO vet with me on that one, too.
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 21/09/2026
HERO was me recording and Actual Play, with myself as the game master. The two players were a veteran of HERO, and a complete newbie. FFRPG 4e was a friend wanting to run something, so I jumped in. (Dragging the HERO vet from earlier with me.)
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 21/09/2026
Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits: HERO System 5Re FFRPG 4e Arianrhod Acheron
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Aaron der Schaedel 🧥 No Jacket Required @aaronderschaedel.xyz · 21/09/2026
I originally heard the Rockapella version of this, and while I do generally like their rendition, this version by Harry Belafonte is warming up on me. youtu.be/NVBz13CWwvM
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Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)
YouTube video by Harry Belafonte - Topic
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dad walks into the room "are ya winning son?"

There's a pile of fish. Shannon and Brian are looking at it

Dad "is that fucking fish Jenga"
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Gaz @nyazsche.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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