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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Want to thank hale gamesman @whovian223.bsky.social from Dude! Take Your Turn for joining me for a two-player teach of Rune Rite from @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social. He picked it up cold and beat me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_d...

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Rune Rite: Teach & Playthrough | A Craft-Your-Own-Polyomino Flip-and-Write

YouTube video by Breakup Gaming Society

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was. I'm re-uploading the video trying to figure out what happened to the resolution, tho. Stay tuned!

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tabletop Tokki racks up an impressive explainer and solo score of Rune Rite from @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social. Link to video in comments 👇 #flipandwrite #soloboardgame #kickstarter

Screen capture of Tabletop Tokki, a YouTube board game reviewer, playing Rune Rite from The Seahorse and The Hummingbird. Main frame depicts hands on the game's box, rune cards, altar and scorepad. Picture-in-picture at upper right shows Tokki reasoning her way through the game's puzzle.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Celebrity preview plays of @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social's Rune Rite continues apace. Not a bad maiden effort, Ray. Tonight I'm teaching it to my homie @whovian223.bsky.social and R. Buckminster Fuller. #flipandwrite #kickstarter #soloboardgame

Completed scoresheet for solo play of Rune Rite from The Seahorse and The Hummingbird. Five kinds of runes are arranged in a 3x3 grid, each section of which is also a 3x3 grid. Score tabulation is at bottom.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of the perks of bachelor life. Although I've eaten every meal standing up in the kitchen for weeks.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I retaught myself the game in a living room that was hitting 80 degrees well before noon, my head like a brick made of radioactive anxiety; new facts had to be forced in with an augur." Got a review of SETI done, at last. Give it a listen, dingus 👇 #seti #boardgames #soloboardgame

Closeup of SETI board game, showing Jupiter and a purple probe craft in foreground, then Neptune, then a pretty row of blue data markers waiting to be harvested from Sirius A.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My first game of @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social's Rune Rite on Screentop. (Disclosure: I am working with @amanpossessed.bsky.social in formal capacity. It was an easy call. I believe in the man.) Anyway, I'm darn proud of that 4x4 of water runes I stacked in the lower right. #flipandwrite

Screen shot of a finished scorepad from a virtual tabletop solo play of The Seahorse and The Hummingbird's Rune Rite flip-and-write game. A 3x3 grid, each square composed of a smaller 3x3 grid, is filled with five kinds of symbols indicating water, air, spirit, earth and fire runes.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That did not escape me. Pops so hard with the screened-back reds and greens. And the type/images that feel like both newspapers and collage. Knocked my hat in the goddamn creek.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Extra props to your designer John Biggs, as well. So many smart, subtle choices here. It's damn hard to make a board game look distinctive. John did it. It has a voice. I could take pics of it for a week.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks to those of you who sounded off on which game I should learn next from the stack. Chicago '68 by @yoyoni.bsky.social won in a squeaker from a stack of very fine games. It's punched and counted. Cops all over the place. Stay tuned.

Closeup of blue police cubes and Grant Park West location from Chicago '68 board game.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Congrats to @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social for getting Rune Rite into the curated Witchstarter project on Kickstarter. (Launches Oct. 13) 🚨 For my tabletop media people: Hit me up if you want to preview it on Screentop and a new polyomino fits on your Sept. calendar. #flipandwrite #kickstarter

Cover of Rune Rite flip-and-write board game box on black background. A small witch in a large hat and robe raises their hands before a boulder field of glowing, icy stones.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

One of those mornings where I feel like checking out everything on every table in the flea market. No skips.

Screen cap of music streaming queue including Up, Bustle and Out, Wire, Divinyls, Skee Mask, Eazy-E, The Dandy Warhols, Slayer, Shaquille O'Neal, Lynn Tait

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks to the generous, cerebral, and industrious @smolghost.bsky.social and @willjobst.bsky.social of @goodluckpress.co, who showed @liberludorum.com and I the blueprints to their forlorn houses, terrifying caves, and sinister bunkers. Link to our talk is down there. 👇 #SoloRPG #IndieRPG #TTRPG

B/W spread of interior pages of Plasmodics RPG book from Good Luck Press: At left, collage dominated by human hand with an eye in its palm. At right, text explaining how character mutations work.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Boy, you're gonna love the next episode, then. And thanks for listening. ✊

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Saluting Philly in 1987-88. This town was on fire. In Episode 122 I zoomed in on two specimens that I still can't stop replaying nearly 40 years after I first heard them on cassette: • "This is It (Ain't Gonna Rain)" Schoolly D • "Rockin' Music" Steady B #GoldenEraHipHop #SchoollyD #SteadyB

Cover of Schoolly D's Smoke Some Kill LP, with the three-man crew posing under streetlights at night next to a car with its left-side doors open.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I fell once again for Thompson's yen for drawing evocative scenarios where you're sorely outmatched. Your vote is recorded, sir.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You've shoved this one into third! Recorded.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dang, this one's really piquing people's interest. Recorded, Katz.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Third time I've heard that today! Noted.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Want to help pick out the historical conflict game that I fuck up in a future episode? Here are the contenders: • Rocky Mountain Man • By Stealth and Sea • Comancheria • Imperium Classics • Chicago '68 • Taifa • Shores of Tripoli Indicate your preference in the comments. Cheers.

Pile of boardgames atop an aluminum ladder: Comancheria, By Stealth and Sea, Imperium Classics and Chicago '68. Another board game visible on table in background.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

That is a good pace, I thought I'd been seeing more updates from you. Well done!

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Shuffle function performing a little miracle on a Saturday out of thousands of unsorted liked tracks, I didn't have to intercede once

Screen capture of music streaming playlist, showing tracks from Roots Manuva, Sly & The Family Stone, Das EFX, The Wiseguys, Frank Black, Morrissey, Dizzy Gillespie

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

stunning freakin' promo reel, this couldn't look away

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Join @liberludorum.com and I for a chat with @frogqueengames.bsky.social, creator of the solo journaling game, Yap. Perfect story portions. Fun menu. Five stars. Also: Pavlov's House revisited. Track of the Week is "Shut 'Em Up," The Prodigy vs. Public Enemy vs. Manfred Mann.

Screen cap of the PDF for Yap, a solo journaling game. Title of game is followed by the text "introduction" and the question, "Can you tell a story through reviews?

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

heck yes, your reccos mean something in this house!

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm playing a solo journaling RPG called Yap. My character's name is Brian. He is from Corpus Christi.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Always cool to see what's on your very busy table. I was traveling and bit off more than I could chew for Ep. 120, so Crate Digging was extra robust this time out...but stay tuned, one of my side quests is to try making video versions of these curation things...

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

also, the bailout fund will be set at $0

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Well, Brian's a troubled specimen, so it's bound to be interesting

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The eight of clubs indicates my character, Brian, is about to visit a plumber. The five on the die indicates he will drop a 5-star review. I'm playing Yap by @frogqueengames.bsky.social. #solorpg #ttrpg #journaling

Wooden table with a deck of red-backed playing cards, the eight of clubs rolled and showing, a black die and a pen.

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