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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It needs be said: Aggro Crab's PAX booth is Peak design. (I just love the hell out of the food and safety sign there are so many good lil touches to this)

A sign mimicking the Washington Public Heath Food Safety Rating but the symbols have been replaced by PEAK faces, including the top rating which is PEAK.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the first time Ghost Pepper aka Dr pebber aka fruity pebbles has ever chosen to sit in my lap on the couch and I am blessed. Little creepture I love him so.

Fluffy white cat sitting on a lap and pushing its head against an arm

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Gencon Day 1 Breakfast: off to a good start

A pack of advil and a canned energy drink on a hotel table

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Its Free RPG Day and I love it when there are just lil tactile experiments like these A wasting elephant, a royal family of vampires, and fish that when you see them, it's time to GO.

Cards to generate rpg creatures with Elephant: disease carrier to left; Bat:Worshiped by a faction:Monarchy on bottom; and Fish:Forms Interspecies friendships, families or colonies:Hydra to right

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Watched the Dungeon Masters premiere last night and this basically sums up my entire thoughts.

Brooklyn 99 meme, woman holding a dog but the dog's face has been overlaid with a picture of Lavender the Goblin. Bottom text reads: I've only had Lavender for a day and a half, but if anything happend to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

And smacking the nuance button, there are absolutely instances where bulleted lists are good. This is not a binary yes/no toggle. But what made me want to run Lancer was not a summarized flow chart of the Union's bureaucracy. It was this collection of paragraphs.

IMG with text reads: "The first messages arrived almost immediately, and with them came the third great trauma: the voices of Old Humanity, thousands of years ancient and dead, carried on signals garbled by radiation, time, and distance, crying out to their home for help; lost souls that begged for aid, guidance and their loved ones. Millenia of messages, recorded and playing on endless, decaying loops for the survivors to hear.

This was the voice of Old Humanity as Union had never expected it: a desperate cry for help, a lonely gasp as the air ran out. A plea, unanswered, as the lights grew dim.

Shaken and sobered, FirstComm eventually returned to those messages, resolved to answer those calls and to ensure that whatever had caused them would never happen again.

Old orbital stations were retaken. Vast machine minds - the first artificial intelligences - were reactivated and set to puzzle out solutions that humans could not. New ships, proud and able, were launched towards those old signals, along ancient charted paths, and out toward new worlds.

Union could not bring their dead back home, but they would choke the stars with the living."

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

It's archive cleaning day. I save all of my players ttrpg character sheets (if they don't want them) as well as my own. It's not hoarding if there's proper documentation and organization.

A pile of different character sheets and tabletop supplies spread over a table and chairs with hot pink sticky notes to organize the chaos

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Today was an extremely difficult day (lots of extreme highs and lows) so @fenharael.bsky.social made me my own lil pintrest mood board 😭

9 images in a 3x3 grid with the words Arthur Core on top. Images left to right, top to bottom: a green snake, Seattle skyline, belladona, Victor Frankenstein, a winter village, a collection of dice, dark blue star sparkles, a mango lassi, and katsu curry.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Something I'm trying this year is taking physical notes for my games which has evolved into ttrpg scrapbooking. These are the npc relationship pages from my Shadow of the Wolf Lancer game.

Notebook with one blank page ready for notes and the facing page showing npc portraits cut out and clocks for relationships. Scissors and tape also visible.

Pictures of NPCs and circles showing how friendly the character is. Closer to blue is friendlier, pink is less friendly.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Sunday night Lancer time with the lads. It's session zero using the amazing Decuma cards but I'm just stoked for the first in game person of 2026.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Not sure if this is what you were referring to, but this has been debunked as a photoshop job - not an actual site. Original web page on the left, and the image of the gumbo on the right.

A web page describing Israeli Food, with a photo depicting hummus, falafel, and mint

A page from the cagle diaries with a picture depicting Louisiana seafood gumbo

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I am officially sworn in and now a practicing attorney within the state of Washington so that's neat.

A smiling bearded man stands in a blue suit with a paisley red tie in a court house, hands crossed in front of the single button of his suit.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Well then Charlie Kirk, we thank you for volunteering as one of this year's tributes. Hope your Second Amendment was worth it.

Article titled "Charlie Kirk: 'It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.'" Written by Media Matters Staff and published 04/06/23 AM EDT

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Got my copy of @rascal.news physical book and already the essay on ADHD games is too fucking real 🙃 Gonna just eat these essays on page at a time between bar prep

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This is about the height of holiday cheer for me.

A man with short hair, nose ring and beard looks wearing felt reindeer antlers and is mildly displeased about the whole affair.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Finished putting down the last box at the new place when a package was dropped at the door... Statement Begins.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

For Trans Day of Remembrance we read the names of the dead and for each name, cut a rose from its stem. I wrote something to try and end with hope. I couldn't read it. There are too many here and I don't know if it will get better.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Shoutout to best fandom bud for tolerating my liveblogging of KinnPorsche like 20 lifetimes ago

Text from a discord conversation:
- Starting ep 2 now I'm calling this one Welcome to Bodyguard Con
- We have our own hotel
- Okay Pete is an adorable nerd and I'm adopting him right now
- OH NO put that wasabi paste down
- NO PORSCHE
- NO
- "This your new guy? Seems your type." Ah I'm glad that the general homoeroticism of the bodyguard is acknowledged
- [casually insulting several mafia heirs] I'd say that Porsche doesn't understand the gravity of his situation, but he's had guns pointed at him life 5 times and it's only ep 2 I think he understands and has 0 survival instinct
- ... Okay casually shooting the apple of Porsche's head was fairly sick I will grant it to Kinn

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

I played Chuck in Eat the Reich and it's one of my favorite play experiences ever. Terrible cannibal cowboy vampire ❤️

A cowboy vampire in a wooden coffin, smiling with a sharp toothpick in his moth. All of his teeth are sharp and misaligned. He wears a necklace of human teeth and has an ear pined to the lapel of his coat.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

12. Bluebeard's Bride - How did I not mention Bluebeard's Bride to this point?!? One of my favorite memories in gaming was running this where a 1950's housewife fed a player's hand lovingly into a garbage disposal on a soundstage to of crackling audience laugh track.

A woman admires a string of gold pearls in front of a vanity mirror with her back turned to the reflection of a woman who is gaunt and menacing in the mirror.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

11. Mork Borg - Okay I have to confess... I don't actually like running Mork Borg. BUT. BUUUUUUT. It's such an amazing book-as-art-object. Just oozes style and graphic design in a way that's really inspiring. So while the game itself might not be my fav, I often pop it open for inspiration.

a rough sketched skeleton with a pig's head and an upside down cross on it's forehead stands in front of a neon yellow background with the name Mork Borg in big, rough, font behind it.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

10. Deimos Academy - Hey do you wanna experience boarding school trauma in the form of being haunted through a coloring book? Never was at a boarding school but if you don't think I draw on every wild experience of being a transman at an all girls catholic school for this game...

The cover of Deimos Academy, featuring the school shield and paper doll cutouts above a collage of many different paper materials. Tentacles overlap one side where a sepia class photo is on the other.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

9. Wildsea - Hypergreen apocalypse! Oceanfaring but instead of water it's trees! Kaiju sized terrors from the depths of the forest floor! Play as a colony of 1000 spiders who are all simultaneously puppetting a flesh suit!

The stat page for a monster from Wildsea called the Snapperpillar. It's got a caterpillar like body with many sharp legs and then an alligator head that splits into four maws.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

8. Koriko - I promise I like more than just horror have this lovely little solo journaling game that's got big Kiki's Delivery Service vibes and is heart warming in ways that's just... aaaaaaaaaa

The cover art of Koriko: a magical year. Featuring a person on a motorcycle with a cat riding on the back. The person is wearing jeans covered in patches and a tall witch's hat. A cat sits on the back of the bike and the view over the stone wall shows a town on a seaside cliff.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

7. Call of Cthulhu - Listen I'm a simple man and I like the classics. One of my favorite games I'm running right now is the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign and it's so fucking good. Any time I have an excuse to dig up my 1920s library its a good time.

The cover to Call of Cthulhu, depicting Cthulhu rising up out of the ocean, surrounded by sharp pointed obelisk and a very very small boat at the bottom left.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

6. Tension - This is a two player game modeled off of Hannibal so if I ask you to play I either trust you with the deepest part of my soul or I'm trying to flirt with you.

Hannibal holding onto Will Gram by the back of the neck, heads both tilted towards one another.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

5. Spire - If Alien is my excuse to describe awful body horror, Spire is an excuse to describe intricate masks with intricate metaphorical detail and give the enemies extremely elaborate, pretentious, and stupid names.

A person with gold tip fingers and exposed ribs revealing a honeycomb hive underneath while bees buzz around their crowned head.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

4. Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous - This is an anthology where I'm not sure I'll ever get a chance to play some of the non-solo games but holy shit. Special shout out to My Love, A Poison

A floating table covered with dripping blood/red slime, a tooth floating above it and halo'd in black. Text reads: Sadia Bies & Banana Chan - Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous - An Anthology of House Horror LARPS

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

3. Alien the RPG - I love the stress dice! I love keeping track of where the alien is moving and exploration turns. Look at this lil beautiful guy. I just like games that give me an excuse to describe body horror. There's a lot of good body horror here.

A rough picture of what looks like an astronaut at first glance, but the head is bulging, one eye white and cloudy and also bulging in the socket. Skin is pale white with red purple veins.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

2. Alice is Missing - A game I will always volunteer to run. Got me interested in designing ttrpgs in the first place. Something about having an actual timer on the game also makes it easier to get people to commit to playing. Fucks up my feelings every time.

A girl standing with her back to the viewer, overlooking a small town located between two mountains. The colors are soft pinks, oranges, purples and black.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

1. Vampire the Masquerade - Vampire the Requiem was the first game I ever played & Vampire still holds a very important seat in my little dead heart. WoD first influenced my GMing style, especially political/mystery building. I'll yell about Loresheets and the VtM v5 Hunger Dice all day.

Vampire the Masquerade core rulebook cover. A woman's face with luxurious makeup and a large, ornate earing looks at the reader with a blank look. The covers is splattered with reds and purples that look like drops of oil or water but mostly simulate blood. The picture looks hazy and almost surreal or grimy with a black circle that looks like a water ring left by a cup taking up the top left hand corner.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Fuck it let me yell about games by which I mean I will get one like and suddenly forget every game I've ever played.

A crumpled piece of paper with the text: Get to know my TTRPG taste. For every like, I will post one TTRPG I love.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I know that this mini is for Kingdom Death but they're my new Big Bad for my Curse of Strahd game I don't make the rules

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

If I ever have recounted the first year hell that was our Civil Procedure professor, just know that karma is, in fact, a bitch.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

I ran a short two session game of Stillfleet last month and I gotta say there's no image that has ever told me exactly how to play a character faster than this

3 circles labeled "kink?", "flagellation?", and "medical treatment?" all over lapping and with the center where all three intersect highlighted yellow and pointing to an additional ?

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Finally got a chance to play Eat the Reich and my god what a game. We only got to sector 2 cause we were feeling goofy but every character sheet is a fucking delight to build off of and play. I played Chuck cause of course I'm gonna play the corpse eating cowboy. But next time I'm playing Flint.

Two pin up post cards for characters from Eat the Reich, Chuck and Flint. Chuck is a bullet riddled cowboy, shirtless and playing with his suspenders. The card reads Corpse Eater. Flint is a terrible bat human cuddling and licking a steel coffin. The card reads Ravenous.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Wooooo 10% baby! I still haven't quite figured out how I wanna use bsky but I find this space so much more calming than twitter and it's not even fuckin' close.

Text celebrating the 10M user count, with the number 151,383 and a stamp saying part of the first 10% under the number. Joined Jun 22, 2023

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

If you see this, post your favorite pokemon

Banette puppeting a Clefairy and a Pichu on a stump, surrounded by fog. The img is from the anime.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

I have a new legal study buddy.

A white Siamese cat between a series of legal text books on a book shelf

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Day 20 of #RPGaDAY2024 (I'll go back I promise) Amazing adventure - I ran the Alien Starter Kit: Chariot of the Gods at a local game store. The game went off so well that some of those players are still friends of mine. The couple had unintentionally gotten opposing roles which was *chef kiss*

A small figure in space shines a light on a dark and derelict ship in the void

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

I'm cleaning up my bookshelves and reorganizing my ttrpg library and I didn't realize I had amassed a small hoard.

A queen-sized bed covered in ttrpgs of varying sizes and popularity

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Day 17 of #RPGaDAY2024 Engaging community - I've made more friends off of the Vampire the Masquerade community than any other. VtM & World of Darkness in general is how I met my roommates 14 years ago, how I started pro-gming, and how I made friends when I first moved to Seattle. My fav community.

A screen cap of a World of Darkness Actual Play

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Day 16 of #RPGaDAY2024 Quick to learn - Whenever I didn't have all of the kiddos together to run for my younger D&D tables, I ran Beak, Feather, and Bone because it was wicked simple to pull together. A map RPG that can be a great session prelude to a new area or just a fun time coloring.

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

#RPGaDAY Day 14 - Great Gear I'm gonna go with Traveler on this, less for any one particular piece of gear, and more it's one of the few RPGs where tracking money/economy feels valuable to me. Every Credit matters and debt is a great way to motivate characters into action.

A grid of different ammunition types in Traveler

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Arthur G @causticchemist.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

What's a monthly challenge without jumping in midway though? Day 12 of #RPGaDAY2024 I think Call of Cthulhu has the best supported campaigns, between Chaosium's slipcases and HPLHS phys props. Honorable mention: D&D's Curse of Strahd specifically has so much community support, it's crazy.