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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 30/09/2026

I had to come back on here to share the Spotify playlist I made for my Blades '68 game. So here, in no particular order, are all of the Billboard Hot 100 from 1968 open.spotify.com/playlist/5AF...

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Blades '68

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 14/04/2026

Started playing Persona 5 and my husband asked what it was about. Me:“So it’s like magical girls, but not just girls, and it’s like Final Fantasy VII because they summon these personas in battle, but also it’s a high school relationship game that’s about taking down a pervy teacher.” Didn’t help 😂

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 02/04/2026

Went to an elementary school event and the kids had some time out on the playground. There had apparently been a battle fought with chalk about whether the 67 meme needs to die. “67” written and crossed out, over and over again, on the basketball court.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 03/03/2026

Watched Bob Roberts hours before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. It was a prescient gut punch when we watched it, doubly so now. Someone ask Tim Robbins his predictions for the next 40 years of U.S. politics

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 25/02/2026

I counted at least 70 standing ovations and 5 chants of “USA” during last night’s State of the Union. It sucked to watch, it was infuriating, but I think everyone should hear it. It was frightening and we need to know what their priorities are.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The Bloggies 2026 submissions are closing this Saturday night! Please submit your favorite blog posts, blog series, and newcomers on this year's official web page: www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/ (And please, share this far and wide 🙏)

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The Bloggies 2026

A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 31/12/2025

Those aren’t movies about men and I didn’t see Wicked

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 20/12/2025

I want to hear about all these movies you enjoyed! I watched one movie, Friendship, that I despised, but then followed it up with Twinless which I adored. Also share your Letterboxd so I can see your reviews 🙂

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 19/12/2025

…and most of all - playing games with cool, creative friends 💕

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 19/12/2025

Played Daggerheart again last night this time @dngnclub.itch.io running his homebrew setting on a time-traveling train. Highlights: - Jack’s Owen Wilson impression - Wes Anderson train car with an angry badger - NYC subway car full of off-brand mascots in anti gravity…

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 17/12/2025

You’re reminding me I never listened to Dadlands

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 17/12/2025

TTRPG killjoys: “you can’t play a version of an established character from TV” Me: “fuck you I’m playing Guinan as an orchid cactus and there’s nothing you can do about it”

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 17/12/2025

Starbucks workers are STILL striking. Here's some easy ways you can support us, with links in the replies:

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 16/12/2025

Lol yeah I was so confused when I got in trouble 😂

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 16/12/2025

Fun story, my parents had a waterbed and when I was 4 years old I poked holes in it with a safety pin to see what would happen. My parents woke up wet in the middle of the night.

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

resharing this little award I made for everyone who is "ruining" the #TTRPG space 🤭

A golden award plaque with an engraving that reads "Single-Handedly Ruined TTRPGs - For improving the community by making it more inclusive and diverse (and making bigots mad)"

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 14/12/2025

Spent some time browsing YouTube to discover new music and discovered these trends: Jazz is back? Almost pop punk Dance moves inspired by David Byrne

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 10/12/2025

Did they even consider that left wing voters don’t consider themselves Democrats for the very reason that they aren’t left enough?

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 08/12/2025

Saw Wake Up Dead Man yesterday, so good. I just want to highlight the scene with Bridget Everett playing Louise over the phone. Phenomenal acting that made me cry but also the scene is a touching and pivotal character moment.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 08/12/2025

Just finished playing Citizen Sleeper. That last choice I had to make had me sitting and thinking for 10 minutes, no joke. Love it when a game does this. Also this game is basically a solo Blades in the Dark set on a space station.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 08/12/2025

It doesn’t sound like my personal cup of tea, but character building looks fun. If you’re interested, I covered it on the last episode of my podcast.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 08/12/2025

Just to be crystal clear because the socials are constantly lying: I have not followed you on or joined Lemon8 and I have not joined MetaAI, and I won’t do either of those things in the future.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 05/12/2025

Moana it’s time you knew The village of Motunui Is Y'ha-nthlei The dancers are practicing They dance to an ancient song …oh no

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 05/12/2025

Ok hear me out: Moana but when they find the coconuts that are black inside it becomes cosmic horror.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 05/12/2025

Did anyone else play Dredge and think “I need to do a Call of Cthulhu game set on a fishing boat?

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 03/12/2025

Just saw Twinless. Fucking amazing. Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney do incredible work. Especially after seeing Friendship, this film is so much sharper, deeper, and funnier.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 30/11/2025

If you liked the movie FRIENDSHIP we need to have words.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 30/11/2025

$1 double features were a staple of my childhood

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 20/11/2025

My new obsession: soapbox races. The creative racers, the color commentary, the nail biting drama. It’s amazing youtu.be/ZS0nP2IAs44?...

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 19/11/2025

I think this is my issue with the “kitchen sink” game, like Rifts (or how everyone decided to play DnD). For me, if the game is more like a toolset, fine. But when you have a setting and lore it doesn’t work as well for me.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got. But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu. www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...

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Dare to Play it Straight

The rarest tabletop genre is the simplest one. A call for more anti-mashups.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 19/11/2025

😊 tbh the world is on fire and I just got depressed and wanted to hide inside and play video games

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 19/11/2025

I think a lot of people think meta gaming is only “cheating,” like using their knowledge of the monster manual to trivialize encounters, when it encompasses a wide range of game behavior, some of it that makes the game more fun to play.

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 19/11/2025

Yeah I got it on Steam, it was on sale but might not be on sale anymore

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 19/11/2025

@finjico.bsky.social finished my second playthrough having saved everyone and made peace with the Gardeners. THANK YOU for a wonderful game

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Characters Without Stories @characterswithoutstories.com · 18/11/2025

I’ve been starting to come back to TTRPGs, been hiding in a hole for months 😂 Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two! Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!

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