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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Saving Dictionaries to json files in Apple Shortcuts is a dangerous road to go down.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Aaaargh!!! What good are little hummus cups without little bags of baby carrots???

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Remember when you could find an orchid that wasn't a Phalaenopsis? They're nice and all, but I miss the part of the orchid craze when other species were more commonly available. I had a Dendrobium of some sort like 30 years ago and it was lovely. I'm taking recommendations for where I should shop.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

If you're interested in learning to gamemaster and are headed to GenCon, Bringing Fire is offering a workshop where you get actual hands-on practice running a game, with coaches guiding and supporting you. More info, including links to register: bringingfire.com/academy/gm101

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GM 101 — Bringing Fire

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Here is the link to my page for Bringing Fire, BTW www.threads.net/@bringingfire_

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

#TTRPGCommunity Anyone here active on Threads? Recently made an account for my campaign composer and I am hoping to find mutuals from here + cool TTRPG accounts to follow over there. Reply with a profile link so I can follow you there!

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Bringing Fire’s GM Academy attempts to create a “Community of Practice” through which novices can systematically learn through trial and error, and share their wisdom with other GMs. Our Head of Education described this quite eloquently here... give it a read! bringingfire.com/blog/a-commu...

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Becoming a GM involves a particular kind of learning called “social learning” – basically, learning to do what you see other people doing.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

I haven’t signed up for anything because I registered as a helper (I’m just on this one panel about teaching GMing); I’m going in blind and plan to sign up for stuff now. Open to suggestions!

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Oh just myself, I'll be giving feedback, not testing stuff I've written.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Slightly different, but: I'm building software to support gamemasters, and I've wondered how I should handle interacting with other people who are working on their own similar projects. I decided to engage, and I don't feel like there's a risk of our projects losing their distinct vibes.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I'm stoked for it! Besides some play testing, I'll be on a panel talking about teaching GMing.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Of course, this is just an overview of a fundamental cycle we could spend much more time discussing. If you want to learn more, check out the blog below! TTRPG TTRPG Tech TTRPG Rising bringingfire.com/blog/describ...

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Judge - Judgment is not just about interpreting the outcome of a die roll or other game-mechanical procedure, but also about making the decision as to what procedure to employ at all. These are broken down into the categories of karma, drama, or fortune.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Listen - We aim to teach GM's to listen not to confirm what you already know but to reshape your own understanding and generate surprise and novelty. It takes practice, but is rewarding. Try recording a session you run listening back on input from others you might have accidentally overlooked

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Describe - You need to get people on the same page in terms of what they are imagining together, to establish a shared sense of situation so that actions/intentions make sense in the context of the game. Using all the senses, and sharing NPC's perspective is key here.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

One of the first lessons we teach in our GM101 sessions is the “Describe, Listen, Judge” cycle. DLJ is a comprehensive framework for understanding what a GM does, and a tool that helps diagnose and correct hiccups and miscommunication at the level of play. Let's break them down🧵

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DC Bradshaw @dcbradshaw.com · 27/10/2023

The indie TTRPG creator directory now has 197 profiles on it, which is just incredible. But it'd be a shame for it to stop there! Any chance of a signal boost folks? @ttrpgcommunity.bsky.social

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

TTRPGTech Spotlight: I’ve been playing with my Pixels (gamewithpixels.com) devkit and it is oh-so incredible! Pixels smart dice know what number they rolled, use bluetooth to share it to apps, have programmable lighting… and they look badass! Can’t wait for these to come to market.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

Nice to meet you! I'm feeling my way around the new space as well... I run a TTRPG tech startup that's building a campaign manager for GMs and we also ran some really great workshops for aspiring GMs at GenCon.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

7. There are 3 major gaps in the existing landscape. There is no central point capable of working with all the aspects of a campaign, there is a scattered and isolated landscape of tools that do not play well together, and the tools that exist are cumbersome and restrictive.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

6. Prep wins! Some GMs spend half an hour prepping for a 4-hour session; others spend four... or more! Regardless, most GMs orient their routine around prepping an upcoming session; they create fiction and produce campaign ambiance to fill the needs of that preparation.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

5. GMs manage campaigns using 3 modes: author, prep, and run. No matter their individual process, everything a GM does falls into one of three core focuses. Running is largely isolated from the other two, but most GMs do authoring and prepping together, flowing back and forth.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

4. ”Actual campaign material” consists of 5 essential elements: setting, plot, prep, logs and ambiance assets. A campaign composer can’t be complete without handling them all. GMs use each of those elements in very different ways, making it hard to design a unified system.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

3. GMs are barely using campaign tools. They use tools for mechanics like character sheets and stat blocks, but for actual campaign material, they overwhelmingly just use note-taking apps. They prefer these limited tools because they’re flexible, and existing campaign apps are too cumbersome.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

2. They all agreed: Better tools make better games. I expected more GMs to tell me they were frustrated with current tools, but that was not the case. That said, I still encountered universal excitement for new tools that are easy to use and built for a GM’s specific needs.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

1. There’s no one GM style to rule them all. Duh, everyone knows that! But to build the best possible tools for them, we need precise language to describe *how* they’re different.. We built a list of components that describe GM personas like “crafty”, “world-builder”, and “kit-basher.”

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

I interviewed 100 GM’s while developing my campaign composer, Bringing Fire, and I loved every second of it. Here are 7 things I learned in doing so. Would love to hear your input!

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

With a predicted overnight low of 65°, and no significant rain forecast for nearly a week, I think #NYC finally just had the downpour that signifies the end of a month of ceaseless humidity and rain multiple times a day.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

Hey, let's all just remember for a second just how f'ing good Melissa Etheridge is.

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Every time I listen to M83 I think to myself “oh yeah, I should be listening to more M83!”

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

#TTRPGTech Spotlight Audio is a great way to bring immersion to a #TTRPG. I’ve been checking out ambientsphere.com 's prototype; I like how tuning parameters like mood, environment, and weather covers a lot of cases while still being fast and simple. Show them some love!

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Ambient Sphere

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sean s. n. murphy @seansnmurphy.ca · 02/07/2023

if you’re in the ttrpg space can you repost this so I can follow you

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Avery Prometheus Rosen @averyprometheus.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Hey, I'm Avery! I am building a creative tool that helps GMs write, prep, and run campaigns, with a focus on fostering a true #TTRPGTech ecosystem. bringingfire.com I would love to connect, and get GM feedback on the platform. Hit me up! #TTRPGIntro

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Bringing Fire

Comprehensive, integrated, and adaptive tabletop RPG campaign management for every GM.

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