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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 14h

I finally finished reading Don Quixote - the longest shitpost in history!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So exciting! Microscope is such a foundational game - really psyched for it to be getting a second edition

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Playing all the sad women to get emotional revenge for Ben's game KILLING my farm boy

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here is my very belated #GoPlayNW 2026 wrap up thread! I had a terrific con this year. As always it was so much fun to reconnect with old friends and meet new friends too!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You'll be shocked to hear that I've thrown out my rules and started over! Again! 🫠

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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 07/09/2026

It's Monday, which means it's Story Game Night! Come join us tonight from 5pm-8pm in downtown Olympia, WA to play some story games as a community. We will meet at Altitude 15. We hope to see you there! #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #storygames #roleplayinggame #olympia

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have had an extremely harvest/cooking day. We made apple cider with garden apples, ice cream, cream cheese (super annoyed that I just now learned you can make cream cheese at home), and I'm now dehydrating garden plums and raspberries. 😮‍💨

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My son understands the comedic value of contrast, which is why his new fish are named Nightendew and Jerry.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Super fun session of Marc's current project, Pottery Shards, last night! You know it's good when your friend describes a piece of technology as "looking like the inside of a sliced tomato" and you viscerally recoil from the ick!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We thoroughly enjoyed Coyote vs. Acme! It also reminded me of the time @thehintguy.bsky.social ran a Toon Town session of Fedora Noir, and that playing cartoons + humans is extremely fun 😂

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Some of my most treasured game experiences have been with Microscope. I'm very excited for the new edition!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I feel like I'm getting more and more analog in my writing process. I've started printing game drafts for revisions and am quite enjoying it!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The cycle continues: draft rules, "this will be great!", playtest, "this is terrible!", draft rules, "this will be great!" etc forever and ever 😂😭 (This time's different though! It will be great!)

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

😭 My farm boy character lives on in my heart!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Our This Means War game last night was hot hot hot! Spotlight rounds are a ton of fun - we all do scenes about one character, using simple secondary characters to great effect. Marc's patriotic professor mixed university politics with war politics and totally disillusion'ed his star pupil.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We've been playing This Means War for a couple weeks now, and having a blast! (Not like a 'ha-ha' blast, but like a 'this is very dramatic and suspenseful and also I'm devastated that my farm boy character was killed' blast) You should check it out!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yeah! I had a lot of fun making a world while thinking about how cool The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One Missed Call is a two-player game that my partner @thehintguy.bsky.social and I wrote together when we first started dating. It's about loved ones separated by space, and it's one of the few games that makes me cry every time I play it!

lessthanthreegames.itch.io

One Missed Call by lessthanthreegames

a story game for 2 about loved ones separated by space

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"It is quietly devastating" I couldn't ask for a better tagline for One Missed Call! 😂 ❤️ Thank @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social you for the sweet and thoughtful review!

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 16/04/2026

Unboxing challenge: I'm looking for more GMless games that you can play together without any reading in advance. Games you can just pick up and follow the instructions cold Show me what you got!

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Children are great because they can help you see things in a whole new way. Like how my 7yo just told me he thought Lord of the Rings is probably about Bilbo trying to get a bunch of rings.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

After it had been sitting in our 'to play' pile for 13 years, we finally played Happy Birthday Robot! It was just waiting for us to have a kid, and for that kid to be ready to have the restraint to only make one butt joke 😊

Happy Birthday Robot, a storytelling game. Dice, coins, and a handwritten story.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My 7yo picked up a Downfall book and had a whole stream of consciousness about the title and the cover image. "Downfall. Woah, why is it in the sky? That seems like a bad idea. Pieces of it are falling off. Oh falling dowwwn. Down Fallllll. That is Not Safe. Why is it falling? Have you read it?" 😂

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I've been enjoying writing by hand lately - a short story, a blog post, planning documents. And so I was really excited to see this Kickstarter cultivating analog play from two local writers I know and super respect. Jenn and Sarah have the deep thoughts about writing and play! Very hype!

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The Joyful Practice Handbook

analog play for dark times

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In our Downfall game last night we had the joy of getting to call for a consequence in the very first scene. Sure, the Hero can get that promotion she's been chasing, but oh no looks like Ms. Giant Wrench is getting leapfrogged out of engineering directly into a management job.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I hope I'll see lots of folks at Go Play NW this year! It's my favorite con - small and covid-conscious, with a wide variety of games run by kind and interesting people <3 Buying your ticket now helps ensure the event can happen, so please register if you plan to come! goplaynw.org/membership-d...

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Go Play NW Membership Drive

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I just finished reading Watership Down last night. Holy smokes! What a great book! And now all I want to do is play rabbits in every game ☀️🐇🔪

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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Come hang out with me in Seattle. GoPlay NW continues to offer a top-shelf curated selection of players and facilitators. Big Bad Con vibes, mixed with Seattle cool. Bring paperweights, Beacon Hill is windy as fuck. goplaynw.org/membership-d...

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Go Play NW Membership Drive

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I did a little write-up of a playtest we had a few weeks ago of @thehintguy.bsky.social's current project - Pottery Shards! This one is getting close to being done! Now I just need to figure out what the best archaeology themed emojis are...

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What We Played: Pottery Shards

Playtesting continues for Marc’s latest project, the archaeology game currently titled Pottery Shards!

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 18/02/2026

doooods, hear me out: Polaris, but the Mistake is AI… (cuz yeah, people all over society pull their scooby doo masks off and push that slop)

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Marc and I are trying to get more into the habit of doing play write-ups like in the olden days of the Story Games Seattle Meetup, if for no other reason than it's fun to look back on them years later. Here's one @thehintguy.bsky.social did for a playtest of my current project - Entanglement!

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What We Played: Welcome to Sentai High! (Entanglement playtest) - <3 Blog

“Now if you’ll excuse me… I have to go do a group project.” - Val, Tiger, and Riyuji’s consistent excuse for ditching Venetia over and over.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Pffff tidying up the table I picked up the In This World papers from a game @thehintguy.bsky.social played with his friends yesterday wtf this is so great lol. @lamemage.com Look what your games make people do 😂

Game notecards. Frogs are squishy. Frogs are cute. something something frogs are dogs.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Got that good "prepping for a playtest" vibe today ☕✏️

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I came out of my cave and did an interview with the lovely folks on the Read, Play, Game podcast about a month ago. Listen to our delightful conversation about Fedora Noir, gm-less games, and what I'm working on next! <3

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Fedora Noir - Interview (feat. Caroline Hobbs) | Read, Play, Game

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We just started playing this in our Sunday night group! We really enjoyed set up and have the most adorable lil tavern! 😊

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Having a second grader in my family means I'm on the bleeding edge of culture. Please enjoy this new take on an old fave:

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

My parents apparently saved my 1998 Furby, and we have now unleashed it upon our kid to his great delight. I had completely forgotten that according to the tag, Furby can SEE INTO THE FUTURE, so I blame it for all of this *gestures wildly*.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I finally did a writeup for one of the Downfall games I played last year! We did something *weird* and explored two different cultures in the same broad setting, with the same Flaw. River hobbits and dirty horses warriors! One ended in disapproving gossip and the other in a bloodbath - such stakes!

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<3 Games Blog: River Hobbits & Dirty Horses

One of the things I enjoy most about longer-form Downfall games is the ability to let things simmer, explore relationships outside of the Hero, and get into the heart of what different voices in the s...

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Yesterday was a really productive day for the Less Than Three Games team! We both ran playtests for our works-in-progress and got some very valuable insights 🥳 Plus we made some sexy vampires (in my game) and some bog monsters (in Marc's game)!

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 03/01/2026

Every now and then I see someone asking for recommendations of a GMless game to play. Well a bunch of us made a list, complete with explanations of why we thought each game was great, so you can decide for yourself. Don't see your favorite? Add it! www.reddit.com/r/gmless/com...

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From the gmless community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the gmless community

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

It was another fun year in gaming! Downfall, Kingdom, Epitaph, a bunch of playtests, In This World, Rules of Law, Follow, Grasping Nettles, Going for Broke, BFF!, Inheritance, and a bunch of others I am not organized enough to have written down! I'm looking forward to more adventures in 2026! ❤️

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Reminded this week of how fun and versatile Follow by @lamemage.com is. Marc wanted to make some Christmas Magic, but the rest of us chose chaos. We played "The Gods" quest with the goal of making mortals worship Santa! You'll never guess - it got dark! lol

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

We had a hilarious playtest of my relationships and feelings game last night. A delightful princess-switch situation led to some pretty funny scenes of mistaken identity! More games should have two identical characters where only one of them actually wants to switch! #summerlab

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Yay Rules of Law! I've played it a few times now, and it's simple, fun, and thought-provoking! All the good things!

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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 07/11/2025

Fedora Noir is a roleplaying game in the style of classic film noir #ttrpg #ttrpgs

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

One of my favorite things about doing risograph printing is the creative constraint of limited colors! I've been having a ton of fun with scarlet and medium blue. This is the first of a series that I finally had time to print last week at my local community print collective!

Risograph print with shades of red and blue. Giant peony on a hillside. abstract clouds and circles.

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Hurting my brain again by trying to describe turn order for table play *and* online play with a rotating starter for the loop. Is right down? What is clockwise to a list?

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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 03/10/2025

"Which would you rather play, a GMless or a diceless RPG" To which I say, "why not both" To which you say, "examples please" Leaving out (checks notes) every single one of my games, let me throw out a few. If I miss your favs, chime in!

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