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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 06/10/2026

The kickstarter for the new Microscope is live! I can't wait to see what you make with the new edition www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...

kickstarter.com

Microscope (2nd Edition)

The award-winning game of epic fractal histories

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

(I loved it so much - I read the Grossman translation)

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

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

To conclude, GoPlayNW was fun and I'm looking forward to next year! Kthxbye

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

And finally we played murderous animals getting revenge in The Witch is Dead. I got to play a cat!

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

We then revived a GPNW tradition, and ran My Daughter the Queen of France - the game where we play out a play about Shakespeare, in front of Shakespeare, about how much Mr. Shakes sucks. I think we had three soliloquies and three quits - so pretty good.

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

Continuing on the Marc train, I ran his game that's currently strolling confidently to the finish line of playtesting, Pottery Shards. I have perfected my pitch - if you like describing things and places, play Pottery Shards. (I love describing things and places)

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

We had a bonus game of Eden by @thehintguy.bsky.social at our host's house! We had a wise old dinosaur, a bunch of adorable raccoons, and some feisty camels. Playing as animals is fun.

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

Then I ran a blast from the past, Metrofinál - a surreal game about bodhisattvas at the end of the world traveling the subway, looking for those who will remake the world. It's been burning a hole in my game bag for yeeeears, so it was nice to bring it back out and share the weirdness.

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

First game of the con was Sweet Thirteen - a playtest game of tweens having big feelings about low-stakes problems told in the style of a middle grade book series. It was very charming and funny! Daniel and Carla if you are on the internet - I hope you finish this game soon so I can play it again!

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

I just recently finished the first one! These guys are a bunch of doofs. Also I now hunger for a prize.

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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

Omg I think you've unlocked a childhood memory of watching some or all of Legend at tooooo young of an age lol

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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

To be clear, four fish are namd Nightendew and two are Jerrys.

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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

Lol at LA as a remote location 😂 External playtests coming soon, but not this-weekend-soon. @thehintguy.bsky.social - Please add Tomes to the list! ❤️ Yay!

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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

I was thinking of that time we played with that kid at ECCC! The White Knight! And our all our princesses with that small child at GGC! And the epic Anica Kean game! Etc etc etc!

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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 · 21/06/2026

Aw thanks for letting us know! @thehintguy.bsky.social made a big feelings game for sure! <3

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Hell yeah! You never cross the same salami river twice 😌

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

I'm intensely curious about the structural approach @ktwelves.bsky.social takes to these - like are you building from the center out? Is there a meandering wall of cheese or custard cups put down first? Do you just feeeeeeel where each thing needs to go?

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

That is very, very funny 🤣 I think we both need to calibrate our expectations lol

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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

The death of the farm boy was tragic and so shocking in the moment - but in a way it was a lot easier to stomach knowing that it was just the dice. The only player who got to say anything about his death was me, and although it was difficult to do, it gave me some amount of control and closure!

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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

This Means War by @lamemage.com is in public playtest! As my character's buddy at the dress shop behind enemy lines would say, "I've brought muffins!"

arsludi.lamemage.com

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

After Marc's character reported another professor for a slightly sympathetic, old essay about the enemy: "I think it was really rotten what you did to Professor Magine. And if that’s the way university is, I want nothing to do with it.” So fun!

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

Star pupil was only just introduced in the round, but I am now ride or die this guy lol.

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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 · 17/05/2026

Kin slaying? More like kin you elves all chill the fuck out

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

You make three cool fucking stones la-di-da

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

Also I'm very very impressed at how fast this went from a series of unhinged tables to something both playable and fun. Getting to watch Ben go from giant-brain-fever-idea to playable text is a treat!

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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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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Aw! Yay! Thank you for sharing! (Also isn't gaming while camping just the best?!)

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Caroline Hobbs @chobbs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Petition to make the horse roll for character fate each season!

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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

Just imagine how much the neighbors would envy a hobbit with that many rings!

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

I've been making desserts with pistachio pudding recently, and I can say with confidence that it has fixed me 😂

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