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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 26/09/2026

*muttering a mantra like a prayer* i do not need another jacket, i own enough jackets, i do not…

A brown and tan varsity-style jacket with embroidered baguettes, croissants and donuts.

The back of a brown and tan varsity-style jacket with embroidered baguettes, croissants and donuts.

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/08/2026

Not every mechanic explored in here is relevant to TTRPG design, but with the number of innovations that have moved into TTRPGs from board games, I’m finding it a useful read.

Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design ed. Geoffrey Engelstein & Isaac Shalev

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 22/08/2026

My TTRPG actual play style icons are Taliesin Jaffe and Lou Wilson.

Lou Wilson in the iconic tombolo Crouching Tiger Hidden Beverage shirt

Taliesin Jaffe in Critical Role’s big Variety photoshoot wearing the Taft Eden boots I bought because of this very shoot

Lou wearing a light shirt/polo with a pattern of fish outlines on it that I love

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 22/08/2026

Another fav indie Canadian apparel brand is Carmico. Their stuff is just so cheerful and comfortable. I adore their aesthetic. carmico.ca

A red cardigan with white strawberries embroidered down the arm.

A blue bomber jacket with edges and waves of pale yellow, and a star motif.

A faux suede jacket in two-tone brown, with big pink flowers embroidered on the back and sleeves.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 22/08/2026

Their stuff is so pretty and I think you — yes, unspecified reader with excellent taste, YOU — would like it very much.

A dark green cardigan with a sword embroidered down one side of the chest, it’s hilt tangled in ivy.

A small backpack in the shape of a grey knight’s shield.

A shot of a long sleeve shirt, its arms dark brown and body light brown, embroidered with a jackalope across the chest.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/07/2026

The exceptions of course being those who’ve migrated to my shelves of pride — including my TTRPG collection, and the tall shelf that used to be part of my remote work backdrop before I shifted my camera so my backdrop is now mostly an empty wall.

A bookshelf full of TTRPGs, roughly sorted by how tall they are.

A bookcase set up as a display, featuring indie RPGs, a plastic monster skull mask, a bronze colored griffin, plastic steampunk goggles, etc.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 28/07/2026

yes yes i remain mr no fun

A screencap of my muted words, the most recent addition is ‘Jimothy’.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 30/06/2026

Been a while since I’ve done one of these! A few months’ worth of purchases and Kickstarter rewards. I’m in heaven.

TTRPG books laid out on a wooden table: The Librarian’s Apprentice, Stone: A Dwarven Saga, Inezumi, Tacklebox, Galatea, March Winds April Showers, Deathmatch at Castle Von Glaum, Abbadon The Thirteen Seals, Assemblage, Hieronymus, Wild Space, Full Send, To Honour and Obey, Skies Above, You Will Die in This Place, Death Game, Lie to Him.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 03/06/2026

What have yall been reading this year? For me, mostly a lotta gay (with a handful of rereads, esp at the top of the year) and a bit of poetry and other fiction. #amreading

GoodReads Reading challenge page showing Contract Season and Season’s Change by Cait Nary, The Book of Luke by Lovell Holder, Final Tilt by Lucien Burr, and Game Misconduct by Air Baran.

GoodReads Reading challenge page showing the Captive Prince trilogy by CS Pacat, Shadow Blight by Annick MacAskill, and Lucky Bounce by Cait Nary.

GoodReads Reading challenge page showing A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman, Ask and You Will Receive vol 1 by Niyama, The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam, The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness.

GoodReads Reading challenge page showing Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System vol 1 & 2 by Mo Xiang Tong Xu, Roommate by Sarina Bowen, and Space Struck by Paige Lewis.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 30/05/2026

I’m also wearing my new @hushfallarchives.bsky.social socks as I putter, and they are so damn comfy.

RJ is wearing black socks with a lunar moth inspired design in mint green and pale pink.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 23/05/2026

I’ve been repeatedly recommended to get some hobbies that I’m not trying to excel at / monetize (and that don’t require screens), so I’ve been occasionally doing little sketches to relax. It’s been really, really nice.

RJ in a black baseball cap that says MEMENTO MORI, a cardigan with an embroidered snake around the shoulders, and a red shirt underneath.

A bunch of art supplies laid out around a sketchbook and a culture magazine on a picnic table.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 22/05/2026

so apparently I couldn’t actually see it until I went to your profile

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 03/05/2026

Went to a faerie ball this weekend.

RJ, wearing a brocade vest embroidered with flowers and a crown of black devil horns with red spars of crystal jutting between them.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 12/04/2026

This will not look on me like it looks on him. I do not know that I can pull it off. But fuck me, I’m in love.

A model wearing a capelet / crop top designed to look like a series of biblically accurate angel wings, from the front.

A model wearing a capelet / crop top designed to look like a series of biblically accurate angel wings, from the side.

A model wearing a capelet / crop top designed to look like a series of biblically accurate angel wings, from the back.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 11/04/2026

my timing is perfect. legitimately been planning to order this for ages, will probably be my first purchase once my wardrobe moratorium ends in June

A sleeveless red and black flannel shirt from Homo.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 09/03/2026

New arrival today! And man, even just flipping through, the art style is so fckin cool. (Cc @floaker.bsky.social)

The front cover of zine ttrpg THE THUNDER PERFECT MIND.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 23/02/2026

save me from myself young jeffrey dean morgan you’re my only hope

Scruffy, young Jeffrey Dean Morgan circa 1991. Still incredibly hot, but more in a ‘Jensen Ackles and Jared Leto had a baby’ way than now.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 21/02/2026

do i…….. want one of these? do i……… NEED one of these?

A person in a cyberpunk-vibed hoodie with a black suburito, a long wooden training sword, resting over one shoulder.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 20/02/2026

Oh no. Steady Hands have opened preorders for a Mollymauk Tealeaf cardigan and I’ve sworn an oath to purchase no new clothes til summer. NO! BEGONE, BEAUTIFUL THING!

A dark purple cardigan with colourful designed of moons, suns, arrows and digits.

The back of a dark purple cardigan with a large light blue design of the moon, ringed by the moon phases in dark pink.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 14/02/2026

I also want to say, I love the little deck of playing cards I’ve set aside for my TTRPG use. They came from a new years cracker and it feels so cool to have a little travel deck to use for these games.

A copy of solo journaling ttrpg A VISIT TO SAN SIBILIA; a stack of very small playing cards with two jokers laid out to display and the grey plastic case they belong to.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 14/02/2026

I improvised myself a table I could use to roll the traits of each character's writing style going into the first entries. We'll see if it's useful as I go, or if it ends up feeling clear as mud, but it's already helping me grasp contrast points between certain POVs and styles.

TEXT:

Character’s Writing Style

Each is a range, rolled on a d4 from one extreme (1) to the other (4).

Terse to Long-Winded
Guarded to Expressive
Cynical to Hopeful
Realistic to Daydreaming
Self-Aware to Self-Ignorant
Intentional to Exploratory
Observational vs. Internal

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 07/02/2026

It’s cozy chore hours here on this gentle Saturday. Life takes so much damn maintenance, gang.

RJ grins, giving the peace sign. He’s wearing a brown knit cardigan over a bright red tank top featuring a pale yellow Cerberus.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 27/01/2026

I….. am genuinely shocked this book exists?? Looking forward to digging into it and reporting back

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 27/01/2026

My nightstand stack is very pretty rn. I like it.

A stack of mostly books — card-based treat The Time We Have, book The Dictionsry of Obscure Sorrows, graphic novel Hello Sunshine, on top of a stack of poetry books.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 24/01/2026

done, was planning to buy em eventually anyhow, hope it helps 💙

Snapshot of an order summary of purchasing Project ECCO and A Land Once Magic from moreblueberries

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 17/01/2026

The bedside-table stack, which is a little more manageable.

Poetry books on a bed: Crush by Richard Siken, Space Struck by Paige Lewis, Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith, Half-Lit Houses by Tina Chang, Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt, IRL by Tommy Pico, Shadow Blight by Annick MacAskill, Begging For It by Alex Dimitrov.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 17/01/2026

i will never finish reading all of this poetry if i keep buying more poetry

A queen bed covered in collections of poetry, as a cat curiously sniffs at em.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 16/01/2026

The jacket in question! One of *three*, the purchase that launched my 6 month clothes shopping moratorium. 😂 Thank you @morningwitch.com for the beauty

RJ in a black jacket with purple embroidery of flowers and cicadas.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 13/01/2026

Do yall think these would go together? Y/N? (I don’t own either one, just outfit daydreaming.)

Pine green vest with dinosaur skeleton emboidery from Vanished Vendor.

Black pants with silver floral embroidery down the side from Perte d’Ego.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 12/01/2026

18. THE TIME WE HAVE. My newest acquisition, a gorgeously-produced and — from what I hear! — emotional card-based duet rpg by @moreblueberries.bsky.social. I can’t wait to try this one. FEELINGS!

The deluxe edition of two-person ttrpg THE TIME WE HAVE.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 04/01/2026

I am tired of having a bunch of fantastically interesting tomes of game design on my shelves that I’ll ’read later’, so one of my initiatives for the year is to get into reading them. Complete with a nerdy little Sheets tracker with three-month milestones, and a list of other relevant readings. 😁

A stack of books including Thematic Integration in Board Game Design by Sarah Shipp; Cardboard Ggosrs by Amabel Holland; New Tactical Games with Dice and Cards by Rainer Knizia; Mathematics of Tabletop Games by Aaron Montgomery; Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design by Geoffrey Engelstein and Isaac Shalev; Introduction to Game Systems Design by Dax Gazaway; and Challenges for Game Designers by Brenda Braithwaite and Ian Schreiber.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 04/01/2026

17. PAINT THE TOWN RED, a gorgeous tale of vampire angst and ferality. I wanna play this one so bad, gang.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 02/01/2026

Started my day off reading The Ink That Bleeds, Paul Czege’s guide to immersive journaling games. It offers some intriguing tools to engage with immersion and bleed, as well as some really interesting thoughts and experiences from his own immersive play.

The cover of The Ink That Bleeds by Paul Czege.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 01/01/2026

My top 10 most played games on Steam (by total hours), as of the end of '24 and then at the end of '25! Blue Prince missed out on the '25 top ten by *less than an hour of playtime*, because I casually did a few relaxing runs of Anomaly Collapse during winter break 😅

'24: Baldur's Gate 3, Wildermyth, Balatro, Slay the Spire, Cobalt Core, Slay the Spire: Downfall, Griftlands, Wildfrost, Disco Elysium, Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

'25: Baldur's Gate 3, Balatro, Wildermyth, Slay the Spire, The Last Spell, Cobalt Core, Griftlands, Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch, Slay the Spire: Downfall, Anomaly Collapse

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 30/12/2025

Next year is gonna be the ten year anniversary of two projects *really* dear to my heart from my webseries era: All For One, a queer genderbent sorority take on The Three Musketeers, and Inhuman Condition, a supernatural therapy series secretly about living with a politicized identity.

The poster image for Inhuman Condition featuring castmates Torri Higginson, Thomas Olajide, Clara Pasieka and Cara Gee.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/12/2025

Actually, if you're interested in picking up any of the last few pieces available at Envygreen Manor, it seems as though you have just over a day before their doors are properly closed for good.

Envygreen Manor will be closing its doors for good at 11:59pm PST on 12/31!

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/12/2025

[side note: the other mind behind Envygreen Manor also launched a new apparel brand, VANISHING VENDOR, but I haven't yet ordered any of their wares yet. That said, I am very intrigued by this vest, and hopefully more coming like it. www.vanishingvendor.com ]

A green vest decorated with an embroidered dinosaur skeleton.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/12/2025

HUSHFALL ARCHIVES: From one of the two major figures behind Envygreen Manor is Hushfall Archives, a newer brand with a really cool, theatrical vibe. They've had collections inspired by Shakespeare, medieval tapestry, and now fandom's beloved Supernatural. Gorgeous stuff. hushfallarchives.com

A blue denim jacket with a jacquard depiction of Caspar David Friedrich's painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.

A Supernatural-inspired bomber jacket, brown, covered in pictures and maps and news articles evoking that show's vibe.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/12/2025

That said, the Eden boots were the beginning. I saw them when I was freelancing and had no money, and were so far out of my budget they may as well have been exclusively available to residents of the moon. My second ‘fashion moment’ was my Primavera Vest from Envygreen, which I still treasure.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/12/2025

Reader… I married him.

Taft’s Eden boot: black floral jacquard with brown leather toe and heel, sitting on a stowage box lid in RJ’s home.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/12/2025

It still amazes me that the difference between the version of me that averted his eyes from mirrors and only owned t-shirts and jeans & me now is: - Growing a beard - Seeing Taliesin Jaffe in these Taft boots and being driven mad with lust for a CLOTHING for the first time in my life

The Critical Role Vanity Fair ensemble photo, including Taliesin Jaffe wearing Taft's Eden boot.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/12/2025

ENVYGREEN MANOR (RIP): Envygreen Manor has closed its doors, and only a handful of its products remain available, so you may need to keep your eyes peeled for secondhand chances. But I ADORE their vests; some of my favourite pieces in my whole wardrobe. envygreenmanor.com/en-ca

A dark red brocade jacquard vest decorated with orange flowers and snakes.

A black brocade vest decorated with various flowers.

A navy vest decorated with red and blue coral and sealife.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 29/12/2025

MIDNIGHT HOUR: I've had mixed success fit-wise with this fun, gothy brand for hoodies and t-shirts, but by the gods, I love their cardigans. Light, easy to wear, with fun witchy/gothy vibes don't feel kitschy or halloweeny. And some GORGEOUS short-sleeve button-ups, too. www.midnighthour.com/en-ca

Black light cardigan with an embropidered snake coiled around the shoulders.

Grey light cardigan with a black barbed wire design.

Red light cardigan with a design of silhouettes ravens on branches.

Dark-green short-sleeve button up with sketch-y designes of moths and swamplife.

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