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Chloe @ Small Stories

@smallstoriesgames.bsky.social
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"Hell, the worst I can get is life." Jack of several trades including TTRPG design, recipe writing, and photography. Any pronouns. Opinions now yours. website + blog both in progress at smallstories.io

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satah 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 25/08/2026
1. TITS OUT 2. FEEL IT ALL 3. BE YRSELF AT THE TOP OF YR LUNGS 4. SUPPORT YR LOCAL LIBRARY 5. TOUCH THE MUSIC THAT IS EVERYWHERE IN EVERYTHING
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satah 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 25/08/2026
BE TACKY BE KIND TEACH A KID TO READ THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL A FUCKIN BOUT BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GLAMOUR & GRIT & EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG HAIR BIG FEELINGS
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 03/08/2026
Print versions will be made available to every @nycschools.bsky.social middle and high school and distributed at select events. So thankful to the Civics For All Comics Group for this amazing opportunity to do service. @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social Some interior pages below. Please share widely!
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 03/08/2026
We are seeing an increased ICE presence in NYC - making it imperative that NYers KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. I wrote a comic with @mayor.nyc.gov @nycimmigrants.bsky.social @davidhahn.bsky.social @elllewrightart.bsky.social @tayloresposito.bsky.social to do that! DOWNLOAD: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/co...
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Massive respect to Jason for doing this, a client (not in the media world) tried to stiff me last year and ghosted me for several months and I wish I had spoken publicly about it!
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For anyone else unaware of the Freelance Isn't Free NY/NYC protections: www.nysenate.gov/legislation/... & www.nyc.gov/site/dca/abo...
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NYS Open Legislation | NYSenate.gov
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@queenregnant.bsky.social
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tor (is summoning KRALDUM from the mud) @toothandshore.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
hello! are you a collage artist AND/OR tabletop game designer? I would be tremendously grateful if you'd fill out this survey about possible connections between the two practices, to inform a piece I'm writing for @playtestmaterial.bsky.social
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Pay it forward this Friday and get a great set of TTRPGs in this special charity bundle. Your support helps offset some brutal medical bills designer Rae Nedjadi incurred after a month in the hospital. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
On the left, an illustration of Rae Nedjadi with short curly black hair and horn-rim glasses, wearing a purple and pink striped robe. Next to that, the covers of the games in the Rae Nedjadi Recovery Bundle: Our Haunt, Apocalypse Keys, Doomsday Delights, Brindlewood Bay, Defy the Gods, Once More Into the Void, Blue Rose, Raccoon Sky Pirates, Glow, The Love Balloon, The Wildsea: Ships Gardens, Paragons, Gingerbread Kaiju, The Hunger in the Void, Space Post, Seers & Roebuck, For Coin & Blood, Dynasties & Demagogues, Party Beach Creature Feature, Heroic Maps - Villages (Summer), Quantum Entanglement, and Infestation at Devil's Glade.
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I loved working on this extremely well-designed vampire game and can't wait to actually play it :~)
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Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New game alert! Solo or duet ttrpg about being a vampire looking for your maker in a vast magical house. Truly stellar layout from @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social so it's worth checking out just for that! mishagw.itch.io/blood-memories
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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 01/03/2026
Game devs, graphic designers & artists - our All Fonts Pack is back on sale at 90% off for the whole of March! 🌻 - 1200+ fonts - Commercial use in unlimited projects - Free updates
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90% off our All Fonts Pack this March
To celebrate the coming of spring, we're giving you a whopping 90% off our All Fonts Pack for the whole of March!
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Several things can be true at once: - this probably was not on purpose from the MCG team - whoever put this together should have done better due diligence - this might not have happened if Rascal’s community press releases were not presented in visually identical ways to the editorial work
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🍁 Wendigo Workshop 🍁 @wendigoworkshop.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If you need art for your TTRPG project, we have made this small list of affordable places to look (we even update it from time to time)!
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Art Resources for Broke TTRPG Creators! by WendigoWorkshop
A small document with a bunch of resources for TTRPG creators on a budget
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Queer Games Bundle @queergamesbundle.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The Queer Games Bundle is officially disbanding. There will not be another bundle this year. Thank you for your support over the years. Please continue to help each other. A community can only exist if it helps each other survive in a meaningful way. Read our final statements here:
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Queer Games Bundle is ending
When I set out to make the Queer Games Bundle in 2021, I wanted to get revenge on a world where $200 usd could mean the difference between fucking up your life or being okay. I just wanted people to b...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/02/2026
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)
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Seamus Conneely of Cannibal Halfling Gaming @cannibalhalfling.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Five Tiers of RPG Publishing Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…
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Five Tiers of RPG Publishing
Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only one that turned a profit in the entire company. Not only that, but Wizards is responsible for roughly 47% of the entire company’s revenue and over 90% of all revenue growth over the last year.
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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 09/02/2026
Bookmark the URL: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic... the bundle launches at midnight PT
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No ICE in Minnesota by jesthehuman and 651 others
No ICE in Minnesota: 1439 items for $10.00
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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
were it not for the active exploitation of contract workers i would find this neopets ttrpg debacle really enjoyable. what a treat to have an adaptive work that completely crashes the original thing through a plate glass window
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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We're looking for GenCon 2026 GMs! We won't be going ourselves, on account of the *fucking everything* right now. But if you're going, and fancy getting paid money to run multi-table games, please fill out this freelancer form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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RR&D Freelance Applications
Rowan, Rook and Decard is a small tabletop game design studio based in the north of England. We are always looking for freelance artists, writers and other professionals, and we value applications fro...
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seosamh dáire @saint-vagrant.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
my friend Ahmad and his family are suffering in the cold, and the rain tore their tent apart so they desperately need to secure a new one, but it's expensive. on top of that, his mother's eyesight is deteriorating without medical help. please consider sharing/donating 💔❤️‍🩹 chuffed.org/project/1572...
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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Psst. Hey you. There's free stuff in my ko-fi library for you to use in your projects - even commercial ones. Don't tell anyone I told you 🤫 ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...
Page decor illustrations with a mining town theme.6 colour cover illustrations on vintage bookbinding style.30 colour illustrations of fantasy swords.Black and white page decor illustrations with a nature theme.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
icymi… if you have games on itch, consider participating in another charity bundle. this one is for minnesota.
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Viditya ✨ Voleti @vidityavoleti.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Hey folks! Did you know that it's really easy to find games made by poc on itch.io? Just use the "poc made" tag! There you'll find your next fav TTRPG & support some great designers, new and old! If you're a designer, tag your games poc-made so they show up on the feed! itch.io/physical-gam...
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Top physical games tagged poc-made
Find physical games tagged poc-made like Alone Among the Stars, A Land Once Magic, Alone On A Journey, The Magus: Oracular Edition, Last Train to Bremen on itch.io, the indie game hosting marketplace
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Exactly. When you play a game you don’t just play rules or a system you also play people and ideas and media and society. System is blurry, games are blurry, play is blurry. All theory can provide is a lens. Long live play. Long live Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Jumpgate Games @jumpgategames.itch.io · 24/12/2025
Just in time for Jewish Christmas, we have a new TTRPG 🎲: The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back! TVSTMAWGTSIB is a dreidel-powered heist TTRPG about reclaiming the Temple menorah from the Vatican. Itchfunding a print run till Jan 1! 📆 🔗: jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib
The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back, with a hand-drawn menorah. A silly, Dreidel-Powered rotating-DM trifold heist TTRPG by Jess Levine about reclaiming the Temple Menorah from the Vatican.
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gloria 💖 @glowpinkstah.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
In 2026 I hope to make a positive difference for how people perceive & talk about fat characters in TTRPGs - Include “no body shaming/fat phobia” in lines and veils. Bring it up in your session zero - Ask artists to give your character a double chin or belly. if it’s not right give clear feedback
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
genuinely my favorite episode of folio ever
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I am rereading Deliria, the TTRPG that made me fall in love with TTRPGs, for the first time in probably 20 years/since I was 13, and at the time I did not appreciate how genuinely great an approach this is. Tbf when I was 13 I didn’t know Brucato was best known for writing Mage the Crunchcension
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
if it's games I am personally capable of running: Changeling: the Lost (either edition) Good Society Trophy Fiasco that said: I don't think this is a very representative breadth, it's just what *I* can do. you need games that represent the most prominent design movements imo
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
My friend Luiz, a talented game designer, is itchfunding colored art and layout (by me!) for his game Melody of a Never-ending Summer! MoNS is a bit like if Pokemon met Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley. Check it out and support here: luiz-paulo-ferraz.itch.io/mons
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Melody of a Never-ending Summer by Luiz Paulo Ferraz
A heartfelt TTRPG about youth, growth, love and friendship.
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itch.io @itch.io · 28/11/2025
🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨 For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction. Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale itch.io
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
So grateful to @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social for the perfect amazing absolutely essential layout they did, Drink My Sweat would not be the same without you <3
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
My copy of DRINK MY SWEAT came 💖💖💖 it’s so special to see this in person and the fruits of my layout labors (printing…then cutting up so much paper…then scanning it) and of course to have a game by THE @queenregnant.bsky.social in my home
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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 03/11/2025
Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys. Thankyou 💔
me in a red tee (white guy with mohawk, dreads and tattoos) cuddling Oz (black, breindle & white husky-staffie cross sitting on wooden table, leaning against me).
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Mad Dog Henderson @paulsrockinbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it
Opt-out. You can decline this Agreement to Arbitrate-and no other provision of these terms-by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of September 29, 2025 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate Disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, Discord also will not be bound by it and there shall be no arbitration agreement existing between you and Discord, whether under these or prior arbitration provisions. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you may exercise your right to a trial by jury or judge, as permitted by applicable law, but any prior existing agreement to arbitrate Disputes will not apply to claims not yet filed. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you will not be opting out of any other provision of these terms and you agree to be bound by all other provisions of these terms, which shall remain in effect as allowable by law
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 27/09/2025
My friend and industry colleague Heidi has received the devastating news that her partner can no longer fight off his cancer and must go into hospice. She will lose him soon and she is a good person who has already lost so much. Please consider helping her defray the costs and survive the aftermath.
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Donate to Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story, organized by Heidi McDonald
I was a game writer at the height of my career - author, freq… Heidi McDonald needs your support for Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story
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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Worth pointing out that Kickstarter United is NOT currently calling for a public boycott of Kickstarter's platform. The work strike encompasses 59 "community support specialists, trust and safety analysts, marketing professionals, software engineers, and other tech workers" under the old contract.
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Absolutely adore this — it really speaks to me both as a player and a designer, and it is clear and comprehensive in a way I didn’t personally find the Expressionist Games Manifesto to be
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satah 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 04/09/2025
game jam i mentioned! 🖤
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Chloe @ Small Stories @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I forgot to post about this when it started but I’m currently running my second jam for Monsterhearts skins: itch.io/jam/skin-of-... I didn’t post abt it last year bc it was more of a me-and-my-friends thing but hey!
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Skin of a Killer 2: Back 2 School
A game jam from 2025-08-15 to 2025-09-16 hosted by Small Stories. Summer's over, and school's back in session. Who will you become this year? This is a game jam for making fan skins for Monsterhearts ...
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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Grateful for this kind shout-out, and I wanted to highlight the praise of @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social's layout - they took my vague vision of a zine that felt like a riot grrrl had made it in 1992 and made it feel really special
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folio: multi-guest solo TTRPG actual play @foliopod.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🏰🤰📜 FINAL EPISODE of TO HONOUR & OBEY with HB & @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social 📜🤰🏰 called to the court, to scandals of men-at-arms, to grandmother's visions... you need more than wits. you need your flame-lit truthsense, your curse-sharpened teeth, your memories of a jilted lover's ancient tomes
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039 - to honour and obey 03 - with HB & chloe sobel | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
[link to the episode transcript]the game is to honour and obey by laurie o'connel https://laurieoconnel.itch.io/to-honour-and-obeythe guests arehappy birthday | gm36.itch.iochloe sobel | smallstories....
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folio: multi-guest solo TTRPG actual play @foliopod.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🏰🤰📜 EPISODE TWO of TO HONOUR & OBEY with HB & @smallstoriesgames.bsky.social 📜🤰🏰 your mother tries, but your husband's position means yours is different from hers. blight, uneven ledgers, farm squabbles-- at any time she'd have dealt with perhaps one of these problems. all of them & more are yours
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038 - to honour and obey 02 - with HB & chloe sobel | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
[link to the episode transcript]the game is to honour and obey by laurie o'connel https://laurieoconnel.itch.io/to-honour-and-obeythe guests arehappy birthday | gm36.itch.iochloe sobel | smallstories....
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