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John Booth

@johnbooth.bsky.social
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I tell stories, play games, and geek out around Ohio.

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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My daughter's NYC production company is fundraising for this month's "It's not about my mother" show: gofund.me/1ceae1c6e #supportindependenttheatre #supportthearts
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Donate to it’s not about my mother, organized by Kelsey Booth
About Rally Point: If you are just meeting us for the first time: Hello! We are a small the… Kelsey Booth needs your support for it’s not about my mother
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm a guest on the latest episode of "The 80s-est," talking #EmpireStrikesBack - the80sest.substack.com/p/s4e7-16-ca...
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S4E7: 16 Candles Region 3v14(Empire Strikes/Mom)
Listen now | Featuring Joe Wack & Keith Marsteller
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
How I Spent My @garycon.com 2026: johnboothwrites.blog/2026/03/27/g... #ttrpg
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Gary Con 2026
Last week, I drove to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin for my seventh trip to Gary Con. I’ve made the journey every year since 2018 except for 2020 and 2021, when there was no in-person convention. It&…
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I had a fantastic @garycon.com and will be writing more about it, but in the meantime, here's the 'zine I took with me, expanding on the one I did last year: johnboothwrites.itch.io/the-hidden-s... #TTRPG #dnd #garycon
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The Hidden Smithy of J.J. Popp & Son: New Beckets, Further Studies by JohnBoothWrites
An RPG supplement offering details on five magical rings and other items.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Here's my bottom line: Much of what they are doing is bad. Much of what they are doing is unpopular. Pushback is working. We are winning. Keep fighting. Be creative. Push for what you'd want. Allow for insiders and outsiders. Realize that change takes time. Reduce harm in the meantime.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Exterior of a McDonald's featuring a vintage fiberglass sculpture of an "apple pie tree" character -  a tree with a cartoonish face and it's branches laden with apples and fried pies.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Meant to tag @bastionland.bsky.social . I love tabletop RPGs so. very. much.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Learned to play Mythic Bastionland tonight in a fun one-shot. First time for everyone at the table and I loved it. #TTRPG
Two players at a table covered in RPG dice, books, and character sheets.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This reminds me of watching @jonathanhliu.bsky.social & our friend Dave learn Robinson Crusoe at Gen Con 🤣
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Well, *I* read the whole thing and it made me miss sitting down & talking with you!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
One thing to add: Democrats really shouldn’t fear to be anti-ICE. It’s specific, unlike “defund the police.” If asked, say “Of course I support enforcing the law. ICE isn’t doing that. They’re breaking laws—really important laws, like the Bill of Rights—not enforcing them, which why I oppose ICE.”
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
To folks in Minnesota: In Nov., District 20b has a chance to be represented in the statehouse by a truly qualified, decent, and committed person who I'm proud to call a longtime friend. Whether you're in the district or not, please let people know about Hutch: vote4hutch.com/issues/
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Issues – Vote for Michael Hutchinson
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The book is a delight and you should seek it out! I'm a big fan of the all the earliest Star Wars "beyond the screen" stories.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Mark Corcoran's art for #StarWars: The Mystery of the Rebellious Robot is far too underappreciated.
An illustration from Star Wars: The Mystery of the Rebellious Robot. Chewbacca, Han, and C-3PO are struck by falling debris. At right, Threepio is wheeled away on a dolly.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I am 'the rubber band broke and now I lost the little spray straw' old.
Close up of a can of WD40.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It's true that most Cleveland-area Gen X'ers seem to have a Trent story. 😂 (My less mundane encounter with him is declining an invitation to hang out after a show because I had to drive back to Bowling Green since I had an early class. 💯 true. Also I am a big dork.)
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I said hello to Trent Reznor in line for the Blue Streak at Cedar Point.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I've been a Numenera fan since its creation. It's the first game I ever GMed, and it's still my favorite system and setting, so yeah, of course I'm in already. :)
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Those YES & KNOW books were a must-have on long family road trips.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
These are mine and I did all this damage having the best times and I will never get rid of them.
A severely damaged Kenner toy X-Wing sits atop a beat up vintage Star Wars board game.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
As Cleveland Guardians fans check out the newly released promotional schedule, it's important that I share this goofy thing I drew last summer. 😂
A pencil sketch of a Mandalorian helmet with a Cleveland Guardians C and a Kyle Manzardo moustache.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I saw this after I posted. Still excited!
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Will this be fully standalone like the original (which I love!), or will I need to buy the new 2nd ed. Cypher core book to play?
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
My neighbor and I have started almost every work day with outdoor back-porch coffee since spring 2020. It's a bit, and we are fully committed to it.
Footprints leading through about a foot of snow across a driveway and yard to a back porch.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Joseph "Frostgrave" McCullough?
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My 2025 in creative/personal #writing: johnboothwrites.blog/2026/01/22/m...
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My 2025 in writing
Last year, I kept track of how far I ran (miles), how much I wrote for fun/free (words), how much time I spent playing RPGs with friends (hours), and how many books I read. Bluntly put, 2025 was no…
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My 2025 in #TTRPG: johnboothwrites.blog/2026/01/11/m...
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My 2025 in RPGs
Last year, I kept track of how far I ran (miles), how many books I read, how much I wrote for fun/free (words), and how many hours I spent playing tabletop roleplaying games with friends. The Monda…
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
(Also, I get it: I am back to CDs in the car and we bought a basic turntable over the holidays.)
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
FWIW, our "home stereo" is the Blu-Ray player, which I just tested on a 30-year-old CD and plays peachy.
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Bill Adcock (he/him) @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
And a little #selfpromosaturday action: THE TWIN HEADS OF AVARICE is a system-neutral tabletop #RPG scenario, cowritten by myself and @forgeofice.bsky.social , set in his Lost World of Azor. An Ocean's 11-style heist in a sword-and-sorcery milieu. reverse-ettin-games.itch.io/the-twin-hea...
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The Twin Heads of Avarice by Reverse Ettin Games
A heist scenario set in the lost world of Azor.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
#Books I read in 2025, and what I learned: johnboothwrites.blog/2026/01/10/b...
A stack of books: Dan Chaon's You Remind Me of Me, John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars, Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, Every Day I Pray for Love by Yayoi Kusama, and the RPG books The Midderlands, Light of Xaryxis, Boo's Astral Menagerie, and Astral Adventurer's Guide.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I ran about 370 miles in 2025: johnboothwrites.blog/2026/01/04/m... #running
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My 2025 in Running
As I did in in 2024, last year I tracked my running (in miles), my personal writing (by word count), how many hours I spent playing RPGs with friends, and how many books I read. In 2025, I covered …
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Negative Agent @negativeagent.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Started up the band blog, and I’ll update it sort of regularly with music news. First post is up! Ampwall.com/a/negativeagent/news #Metal #IndustrialMetal #IndustrialMusic #ElectronicMusic
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TRANSMISSIONS THROUGH STATIC: Negative Agent News | Negative Agent
News, thoughts, and updates | Negative Agent
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'm sure you've thought of this, but what about an "Everything BUT D&D" or "Try A New RPG" event? Beyond the D&D crowd, there are certainly people who would really enjoy RPGs but may not be fans of the traditional fantasy setting, and may be unaware that alternatives exist.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
As we bid goodbye to 2025 — and all the thuggery, corruption, squalor, and cruelty it spewed — I want to thank you for standing up to it. Some thoughts on the year that was... robertreich.substack.com/p/thank-you
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Tim said it best. Thank your inspirations when you can. #TTRPG
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
De'voreaux White, who played Argyle in Die Hard, also played the Young Guitar Thief in The Blues Brothers. (I like to think they are the same character.)
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
There's simply no better federal law/courts coverage and analysis out there. Subscribe or turn in your Nina Totenbag. (No shade: I adore her.)
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
That was mine, too.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I have loved and supported public radio for decades, but Cleveland's Ideastream is way on the wrong fucking side of this and should be embarrassed and ashamed.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I've had to go and clean up the tipped recycle bin twice so far. Currently it's using a big truck as a windbreaker.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
OMG I forgot I have this picture from the Christmas I got that X-Wing!
Two kids look over the back of a brown couch.. it's 1978 and one is wearing earmuffs and holding a brand new Kenner X-Wing Star Wars toy.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Me, 1978, hoping Dad can capture the moment the Death Star cannon "explodes." It is less dramatic than I see in my mind. #StarWarsSunday
A young kid in the year 1978 playing with a Kenner Star Wars Death Star toy.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I've collected some neat #StarWars stuff over the decades, but this is what's left of my original X-Wing (as seen in "Plastic Galaxy") and I think it's still cool.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
You really helped shape the visuals of the Ninth World and all its weirdness, kind of doing for Numenera what Ralph McQuarrie's original concepts did to capture the feel of what Star Wars was going to be. Hope to catch you at a con sometime and get something signed.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I came to your work through Numenera. It's just fantastic.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This is a good one with a lot of fun possibilities.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Happy 51st time on the tree to this once-green and holly leaf-shaped ornament I made as a five-year-old in 1975.
A pale dried blob of craft dough that was once green and holly leaf-shaped hangs from a worn bit of red yarn on a Christmas tree. The ornament is covered in glitter and was made by a five year old in 1975.
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John Booth @johnbooth.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Numenera Monster of the Week Dusk City Outlaws FASERIP Marvel
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