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tanze bravopueblo / w.s. healed @tattletale.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

wrote an essay about encoding, decoding, 'you missed the point by idolizing them' and anton chigurh—but most of all about designing tabletop roleplaying games: medium.com/@rosequarter...

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THE COIN DON’T HAVE NO SAY

“It’s just you.” Encoding and decoding in tabletop roleplaying games.

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chevalier d'ely @ely.fyi · 11/11/2025

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

whether that's a solid removal package or something like hashaton or kenessos in the command zone, it does wonders for keeping me engaged in games

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

edh tip: if you're like me and have trouble paying attention to stuff that doesn't involve the most important and specialest person at the table (me) i can't recommend enough playing a deck with lots of instant-speed plays

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Golgari Gal @golgarigalsplashes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My heart is like a claw machine It’s only function is to reach It can’t hold on to anything No, I can’t hold on to anything

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Sorcery
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
The scrape of shovels and the tumble of cold dirt soon muffled their pleas.
Illustrated by Greg Staples

Altered with a trans flag in the background of the sky. The text box has been painted to look like pavement with chalk writing “there is still time”

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

white people trying to express their dislike for an inanimate object: okay imagine a racialized minority

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

i fucking love the duo cards. what an incredible way to emphasize that bloomburrow was about multiple factions coming together ahd finding common ground, literally printing cards featuring two different animal folk with mechanical effects bridging the common ground between those animals' mechanics

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

it is generally very strange that you put out a piece of writing saying "here's a cool way of playing and designing games, that i'd like to see more of" and people's reaction was like "the despotic child-empress is enacting another kafkaesque decree upon us"

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

first look at my upcoming chuunicore ultraviolent teenfeelings ttrpg ULTRADAMNATION: INDEBTED TO THE GODS OF THE DARKNESS is up on my patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/ultrad...

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ULTRADAMNATION: INDEBTED TO THE GODS OF THE DARK -- a first look | rose quarter-drifting

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

people who think the badass antihero who looks cool is badass and cool are not in fact producing an illegitimate or unfounded reading of the work just because you disagree with it. Yes even if the antihero does a bunch of bad stuff and is really sad

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

if you dont like the insane and bigoted mods on bsky dont worry you can go to mastodon and choose between one of infinity billion sets of insane and bigoted mods with more free time on their hands #dencentralization

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

thinking about my favourite low empathy characters... racter... wenduag... villanelle... delaney 'regina-saskatoon' pollack... aracely sosa... baru cormorant... c'venash vishneri... insul... ianthe... notice how much like any other narrative trope its cooler and better when girls do it

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

skills are often most fun when they are provided 'by' something... (background, npc, class even)... it turns something that is only a technical competency into something produced by a history and a social world... +2 to lockpicking or basket-weaving can be a narrative ability if you let it be...

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

for my patreons--the game of the ball, pt. i, a short fable helping illustrate some of the paradoxes of defining 'the game', and a prequel to an essay i'm hoping to have out next month :) www.patreon.com/posts/game-o...

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THE GAME OF THE BALL, PT. I | rose quarter-drifting

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TrashDeck @akatopdeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A screenshot of a page from the core rulebook of the tabletop RPG "Lancer". The screenshot is of a third-tier talent called "Here, catch!", describing an ability where mechs can eject superheated fuel rods as a means of attacking their enemies. Exact text follows:

Here, Catch!
You've modified your mech to launch its superheated fuel rods at enemies. Gain the following weapon as an integrated mount:
Fuel Rod Gun
Main CQB, Limited 3, Unique
[Threat 3][Range 3][1d3+2 Energy damage]
On Attack: Clear 4 Heat

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Personable | Markus @personable.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an online woman, in possession of an interesting post, must be in want of really annoying guys replying to her.

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

& i feel like many people taking it upon themselves to write About Trauma take that Rupture as a given and to some degree yknow create narratives that kind of reifnroce it as prediscursive state-of-play and not as like actual social process... and i think that kind of sucks

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

like yknow in Underside i take quite specific pains to tell you what i (or at least, what the game) believes trauma to be: it is Rupture, an event that is so unthinkable to the people around you that merely experiencing it immediately ejects ytou from society

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

it is veryu fashionable to be making games About Trauma (no judgement, my current big project is About Trauma!) but perhaps we could all benefit to uhhh take the pains to Define Trauma when we do so and actually be thoughtful about what our chosen definition means and what that says

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

jay dragons evil manifesto grew legs came to my house spat in my salad etc... its all Really Fucked Up

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

currently working on: - Underside (traumatized capes struggling with identity, out as playtest!) - PRAXI: Protocol Against Xenoimperialism (OSR-flavored guerilla communist xcom, in dev) - ULTRADAMNATION: Indebted To The Gods of the Dark (chuunicore urban horror fantasy teenfeels, early dev)

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"Just tell them" is such an underrated piece of advice for telegraphing dangers in RPGs. "How can I hint that the hallway is trapped? How can I hint that if they defeat the dungeon lord, they become the next dungeon lord?" Just tell them. Tell them out loud. With your words.

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

UNDERSIDE is a dark superhero TTRPG about the rupture between ordinary life and the exosociety you're forced into when trauma marks you as different and inhuman--and about dressing up in a colorful costume to punch people. Get in on the playtest now at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/unders...

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UNDERSIDE PLAYTEST | rose quarter-drifting

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

solo rpg where you write out your opinions on the new sabrina carpenter album cover on a piece of paper and you bundle it up and you Eat it. You eat it

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

i say this a lot but it's really baffling to me how the popular reaction to wanderhome was that it's 'cozy' when it is literally like a desperately sad game first and foremost

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

After years of fruitless negotiations and exhausting archival work we've finally managed to dig up the long-lost character sheet for the acclaimed SCREAMER-KILLER: Sixth Edition Core Rulebook! thehorizonmachine.itch.io/screamerkill...

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SCREAMER-KILLER 6e Character Sheet by the HORIZON MACHINE

the long-lost character sheet, updated for the newest edition

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

if you're anti-AI you need to stop making it sound awesome and cool. "slop generator" thats good, accurately conveys that LLMs largely produce worthless garbage. but "theft machine"? sorry thats awesome "automatic collage machine" thats badass "copyright infringement" yippeee!

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Regardless of how one feels about the Catholic Church or about Pope Francis, now is a time to come together to claim that JD Vance killed him

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

[on the phone to the board[] yeah. Yeah. i know its a shithsow. the projects getting shitcanned because its 'insensitive'. yeah were just going to have to cancel KILLPOPE: THE TTRPG WHERE YOU KILL THE POPE (FRANCIS SPECIFICALLY). yeah. no dont refund the kickstarter backers are you crazy

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cavegirl @cavegirl.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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Wendy, Were-rat Spiderthing @curatrix-ribston.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

its very cool to be a hater and dunk on stuff that sucks but you can't do it for its own sake. you can't hate to numb yourself to a world of slop. you have to hate because you know art and other things can be true and meaningful and hold the things that take your time to the standard of being good.

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

as underside release gets closer and closer im going to have to start using this account For guerilla marketing. [picks up rifle] [pritning elf scuttles up my shoulders and whispers in my ear] ah [puts rifle down sadly, kicks a rock]

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

ttrpg stands for tabletop rocket propelled grenade

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

the ideal format for a doctor who video game would be a dialogue-heavy party-based CRPG. like disco elysium or a combatless planescape torment

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Esther @dungeonminister.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Hey game designers, especially all my folks in the ttrpg space: I'm making an itch bundle to benefit Medical Aid For Palestinians. If you'd like to donate your game(s), hit up the QR code below or email me at esther at oak grove dot games. Please share widely, and Free Palestine!

Text appears on a black background which fades in an hombre from deep black to light gray, left to right. Palestinian flags appear in the top left and right corners.

The text “GAMES FOR GAZA” appears in a capital font in red flourescent lettering.   The following red flourescent text appears inside a box, outlined in green:

“An itch.io bundle to benefit Medical Aid For Palestinians
To donate games, scan the OR code or email itch URLs to esther@oakgrove.games”

The hashtag #Games4Gaza appears in red flourescent text at the bottom middle of the image.

In the bottom left corner, there is a graphic of two lower arms and hands, one dark-skinned and one fair-skinned, lifting a Palestinian flag. In the bottom right corner there is a heart with the colors of the Palestinian flag.

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

the problem with dnds play culture is the big hydrogen canisters they include in every book

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Binary @binarystar.games · 12/10/2023

Please give this a look. This is such a cool concept and it'd be an absolute shame if it didn't fund. If a 4-game/1-essay anthology on death sounds like your thing even a little, give it a read, I doubt you'll regret it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

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Afterwords: The Far Horizons Guide to Death

An anthology of short tabletop games and essays about death. Created by incredible indie designers, presented by the Far Horizons CoOp.

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

a hot take i have is that the dmg and ph being two different books is at the core of a lot of d&d's pervasive culture problems and severely hamstrings the possibility of it ever designed well. unofrtunately wotc will never change this because they want to be able to sell two $50 books

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

imo script change is the best safety tool because it encourages you to use it for stuff that isn't safety-related and ime that makes people feel a lot more comfortable / less self-conscious about using it when something serious comes up

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

having consulsted some theory ive realized that the RPG is not "the worm" but 'how you play with the worm"

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

adopting a radical new position that 'RPGs' are basically only found under rocks and in mud, and they kind of wiggle about [puts hand to ear] uh oh im being informed by tyhe boys on the ground that ive been thinking of ''Worms'' and im Fuckign Up the Discourse

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 07/10/2023

Constantly thinking about that post “I want a game like Disco Elysium but it’s about a little witch girl in Bavaria trying to find her neighbor’s lost cat.” What about that premise is “like” Disco Elysium. I want a game like Need For Speed but it’s about a family of pine martens in Connecticut

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w.s. healed | the HORIZON MACHINE @thehorizonmachine.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

this website is called bluesky dot com [manifesting this thorugh willpower]

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