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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 19/07/2026

I'm at a Vindys concert tonight and if you don't know this band - you should.

Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 13/07/2026

I had a chance to sit down with Alan Ernstein at RAGECon this weekend (in addition to playing a couple of his games, too!) And I've got to say it was a wonderful experience. He gave us some advice about game development as a set of skills that require individual practice.

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Murder of Crowes @moc.boardgameplayer.net · 12/07/2026

Third live playtest with the new streamlined card draw. I was concerned not having a card market would limit player choice on dragon evolution, and i suppose it does, but the players don't see it. They draw four and keep two each round. Small choices, still lots of variation.

This is game 5 of Here Be Dragons at RAGECon; four players around our kingdom board, vying to be top dragon

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 11/07/2026

I met @mmmmmmmercury.bsky.social at @ragecon.bsky.social and she is awesome - thank you for talking with us about our Here Be Dragons game and helping us distill the experience!

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Murder of Crowes @moc.boardgameplayer.net · 11/07/2026

Live at @ragecon.bsky.social five player game of Here Be Dragons!

Five players in the second round of Here Be Dragons!

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FanCons.com @fancons.com · 30/06/2026

New convention added: RAGECon 2026 @ragecon.bsky.social July 10-12, 2026 A gaming convention in Sparks, Nevada, USA

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RAGECon 2026 Information | FanCons.com

RAGECon 2026 convention at Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, NV on July 10-12, 2026. Learn more at FanCons.com.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 10/07/2026

@mattleacock.bsky.social I hope i get a chance to meet you in person at @ragecon.bsky.social and thank you for the many many hours of forbidden island, desert, and pandemic we have played. Alas, I could not find a slot to play your games there, as I was already full.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 30/06/2026

@rf-seattle.bsky.social thank you for guest speaking at our board game class today, Mr Flynn! I appreciated the insights you brought to our session.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 21/06/2026

This is where my daughter, wife, and i work on boardgames together. This will hopefully someday be our first published game.🤞

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 10/11/2025

The senate's "Aimless Eight" democrats need to get primaried. They should also get kicked off their health insurance.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 10/11/2025

Weak-kneed, rancid-jello spine, surrender-monkeys: 24 million people needed you to have their back. 4 million desperately so. What did you do all this for? They didn't budge because they knew you'd give up.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 21/10/2025

I've played Garage Rock three times at protospiel events and it's a wonderful game. You all play packs of teenagers in the Big Hair era trying to break into the big time. It's a blast. Really looking forward to this one!

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Garage Rock

Get your music aired from Johnny Law’s pirate radio station treehouse then prepare for the Battle of the Bands!

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 18/10/2025

Youtube: ads Me: skip Youtube: fad videos Me: where are my subscriptions? Youtube: -- Me: you should rebrand spamtube. It would be more accurate Youtube: were not interested in accuracy Me: clearly

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 12/10/2025

Slowly making our way through the ancient cistern under gloomhaven. Stupid oozes. My kingdom for a wet/dry shop vac.

Stupid oozes. My kingdom for a wet-dry vac

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 01/10/2025

Only morons believe this. That party-line republican budget has loaded our economic pipeline with a payload of middle and low income pain. Minimally, I expect democrats not to approve a CR for this smoking pile of fecal matter. All GOP is doing is moving up the timeline on these mass firings.

This budget strips medicaid for regular Americans. I expect democrats not to approve a CR for this smoking pile of fecal matter.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 25/09/2025

I'm not sure how anyone thinks this is ok. I'm not sure why dems aren't pushing this message to the hilt. Stupidity, I think. If the tables were turned ...

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 25/09/2025

I'm already deeply disillusioned with the democratic party. But if they fold on this shutdown because the admin threatens to fire people they already aim to fire ... I'm done with them. We need a new party.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 14/09/2025

Playing Vantage for the first time today. This is an AMAZING game. Wish Mr Stegmeiyer was on here so I could thank him directly.

Vantage is a very different kind of game

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 12/09/2025

6. Employee photocopies form to digitize it and then copy-pastes it into an email 7. Clicks send 3/3

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 12/09/2025

3. Employee rolls eight, 10 sided dice to generate code and then cross checks against all other codes rolled today. 4. Code added to code request form, form placed in outbox. 5. Mail person picks up forms, sorts, and walks to building next door 2/3

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 12/09/2025

I had to ask the online DMV for a verification code today. It took 20 minutes to get the code. And I'm thinking: why? How? 1. Reads request for code on computer and fills out code request form 1287b-4 2. Form hand-delivered to code generation dept 1/3

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 06/09/2025

Liberals, when they win, may take care of someone you don't like. Conservatives, when they win, may hurt someone they don't like.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 06/09/2025

But ultimately, I don't wish that on these people, or any other. Maybe that's the difference, in this day and age, between liberals and conservatives.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 06/09/2025

If these weaklings had to actually endanger their lives to do this "job" - if they could get eaten by a monster - they wouldn't. They'd be back on the couch.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 06/09/2025

I told my wife the other day I sometimes fantasize there were demons or monsters, so these pathetic ice bastards could get the surprise of their (short) lives when they corner a victim.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 06/09/2025

... because if you can't make your life better, at least you can make someone else's worse.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 06/09/2025

These are the same people who will spend time and energy hurting people they don't know, whose lives can't affect them, because they're gay, or queer, or trans ...

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 06/09/2025

These are the same people who watch their unvaxxed kids die of *measles*. Measles! And they say: "it couldn't be avoided"

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 06/09/2025

After all, these are the same people that you can't convince that a tariff is a tax paid by local businesses who import goods.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 05/09/2025

I suppose I'm not surprised that these numb-nutz fail to realize that university grants form the very seeds of our economic growth and that their dear leader is dooming their grand kids to poverty.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 05/09/2025

And I am absolutely flabbergasted that they eat it up as long as s somebody they don't like gets hurt in the process.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 05/09/2025

I am surprised by his propensity to kick his own constituents squarely in the crotch

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 05/09/2025

I'm not surprised that he's retaliating against states (and cities) that voted against him because he's a petty, vindictive, tiny little man.

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Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️ @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net · 05/09/2025

Of course the US economy is stumbling, the guy running it is an idiot.

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