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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Low-key, Crows has shown me how exhausted I am with "games that help you tell a good story". Crows just...is a fun world to inhabit. What story there is just happens organically as you play. The pressure is off me as a GM to "tell a good story".

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Woke up to discover that @loandthehighroad.bsky.social just surprise-dropped their album that I thought was scheduled for November holy fuck this is gonna destroy me I'm gonna be so unbelievably annoying about this

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tbh as someone who recovered from being a "compulsive" gamer (i.e. sinking thousands of hours into skinner box games) I feel this entirely. So many people in the comments saying "It's okay to play games!" are missing the point entirely.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't think I can talk enough about how important a good beginner module is in getting me to adopt a game like, Daggerheart has sat on a shelf for the better part of the year due to a lack of good beginner modules

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E. R. F. Jordan 🏳️‍⚧️ PROXY, available now! @erfjordan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wake up, sleeper. Time is short. The station is falling. If you're getting out alive, you need to get to work. Now. hexjellyfish.itch.io/stationfall

hexjellyfish.itch.io

Stationfall by E. R. F. Jordan

A two-player game about loneliness, dependency, and surviving calamity.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Had a case of the autism and started writing a zine for Crows dawned on me that it literally doesn't have an open license or anything yet anyways so fuck it I guess we'll find out soon if I'm just distributing it as free fan zine lmao

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I swear the mandolin must have some kind of reverse-Tiffany problem, in that it seems to be universally perceived as a medieval-era instrument, despite only being like, 300 years old

Screenshot from the Codex VTT, tooltip for the Musical Instrument gear, which reads:

A portable instrument such as a lute, lyre, mandolin, drum, or fife. Playing it requires both hand slots.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Team I think Crows is The Game for me like, The Game I've been waiting for.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Spinning up a Crows game on the Codex and utterly gobsmacked with how much basic functionality has been missing from other VTTs up until today 2 minutes and my grid is lined up with my map through a simple calibration interface. What is going on in the VTT space that this is not the norm.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Can't help but think about a Moonring RPG using Crows...

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I gotta say, AI has really done a great service for me by showing me which of my friends would put on the One Ring if given the chance

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Articles about the AAA games industry in 2025: "Another high-profile failure sacks 200 million dollars and leads to 800 layoffs." Articles about the AA industry in 2025: "Is it possible to play all these good games in one lifetime? Will the industry collapse under the weight of all this quality?"

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Oh, so there is forced transitioning of children...

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

You know, I'm very happy with the Draw Steel books, and the Delian Tomb adventure. But there's something missing. We have so many recurring characters who have made a return in from the MCDM cinematic universe...except for one MCDM answer me this: where is Pinna

A freckled ginger girl with long, curly hair in maroon-coloured robes and a matching pointy witch hat which flops down to one side, in classic fashion. She has a polite yet slightly anxious smile, and her hand is touching a double-terminated pale-green crystal on a string around her neck.

The same ginger-haired witch leaning down with a wand in hand to produce a small puff of pastel-coloured magic, to the awe of a young girl in a green peasant dress, and a very excitable dog. This scene takes place against the backdrop of a busy, bustling marketplace.

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AdamMakesTTRPG @adammakesttrpg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Behold, the writing team of Twelve Realms! I'm so lucky! I tried to count the accolades/awards they collectively have and I lost track. I'll try another time. Help us to get to 1K followers so we can make this game and these folks can get to writing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gno... #ttrpg

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Thinking about a trans-inclusive fantasy world that is also misogynistic Sailor: "Captain, I've been thinking, and I really want you to call me Ivy, rather than Ivan, if you could." Captain: "Aye, of course, Ivy." *draws pistol* "But as ye know, women on ships are ill luck. Get ye to the plank."

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Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

regular reminder that the people who created your favorite characters were largely marginalized individuals with antifascist views

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Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 03/09/2025

I was next to (one of) the AI slop booths at DragonCon and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. So, as you may or may not know, there was a booth selling AI slop images printed on acrylic panels at DragonCon. They were in booth a-10. I was in a-11. Here’s what happened from my perspective.

Image of a skeet of a picture of a table with a sign on it that says “vendor removed for selling AI art”

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izzy, dear oh deergirl @izzydizzydeergay.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

ai bros can never understand that heating sand is the most promising technologicaly development this century so far

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Alex Morash @alexmorash.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Media outlets seem to have soured on the AI hype machine.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled

4 panel comic titled Right Winger getting cancelled

Panel 1: Newspaper headline: I HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.
Subheading: Bront Fondant speaks exclusively to the Times.

Panel 2: Bront Fondant speaking on BBC Radio: “…Forced into silence”

Panel 3: Bront Fondant talking to Sky News: “Unseen. Unheard.”

Panel 4: Bront Fondant giving a speech in front of a huge audience. He screams “CONDEMNED to live in OBSCURITY”

4 panel comic titled Trans Person Getting Cancelled

Panel 1: Is empty

Panel 2: Is empty

Panel 3: Is empty

Panel 4: Is empty

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Beverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I've been thinking a lot about how I really hate the implication that AI skeptics are luddites because most of the AI skeptics I know are relatively tech savvy while the biggest AI champions I know can barely use email

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

the return of LPs has nothing to do with the ~warmth of analogue recordings~, it's just that it feels nice to perform a physical action to do something rather than just press a picture on a piece of glass

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Carlos Cisco @carloscisco.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If you enjoyed playing The Dying Spire (Daggerheart) or Road to Broadhurst (Draw Steel) at Gen Con and you're spooling up projects for either (or any other game for that matter, I'm not picky) you should consider hiring me to write for you! Love designing foes and player facing materials.

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Wes Craven’s New Adventures of Old Christine @thecharleswebb.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Hot take: most games are priced way too low Second hot take: most consumers aren’t being paid fair enough wages to adequately support games Third hot take: the highest-cost tier of game development? Could be less asset-intensive!

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Congratulations to @hellomcdm.bsky.social and @daggerheartrpg.bsky.social on consuming all my upcoming weekends for maybe ever Daggerheart and Draw Steel are masterpieces. Our hobby is so beautiful.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Sometimes I wonder if we set gender liberation back by focusing on pronouns. In trying to normalize using the correct pronouns for people, I feel like we put so much on pronouns that we've circled back to "your gender is how you're perceived" instead of "your gender is how you express".

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Apparently I have to add to this post: if Pacman Ghosts were invented today, they would be sold to you as "AI Ghosts"

New York Times article excerpt: Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy AI programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If procedural level design was invented today, it would be sold to you as "AI level design" If predictive typing was invented today, it would be sold to you as "AI typing" If adaptive GPS routing was invented today, it would be sold to you as "AI GPS" So much hype bullshit in this AI bubble.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

here's a fact-checked version of CGE's statement on Codenames in case you needed it

Post from CGE labeled "Why we created the new licensed version of Codenames" (Harry Potter Codenames)

A picture of a man in a suit hugging a massive bag of money.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 29/07/2025

Pro tip: Whenever a tech company says something is "inevitable in the next five to ten years," you can confidently replace that text with "hopefully financially viable because we've suck a lot of resources into this."

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

In the surreal position of falling in love with Daggerheart and planning an entire campaign for it while also waiting patiently for Draw Steel, a game I worked on and have been anticipating for over a year how am I going to run all these games, team. How am I going to run all these games.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's surreal to me, living in an era where there are multiple high-quality fantasy heartbreakers floating around, and I get to not only play them all, but work on some. I love this era in TTRPG.

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Georgia Cook @georgiacooked.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

“I asked ChatGPT” yeah, well I asked the ten-year-old version of you who wanted to be a writer, and they are SO disappointed in you. Okay. Okay. Rant over. I promise.

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Peter Chiykowski @rockpapercynic.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

AHAHA my first TV interview and the thumbnail looks like I'ma pop off about how the government is hiding the existence of extra-terrestrials rather than plugging the innovative new D&D party game Dungeon Tryouts that we are releasing over at story engine deck dot com www.chch.com/morning-live...

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Plognark @plognark.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This is exactly why I cannot use AI for any part of my job: what I do has to work. People who gleefully embrace AI are just signaling that what they do is superfluous enough that a fancy autocorrect could do it. This is why so many middle managers and executives love it.

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Cassandra, Undisputed Queen of Skulls @theicequeer.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Every time a client asks me to write a short dungeon, there is about a 50% chance they are going to receive a dungeon that ends in a Metroid-style timed escape sequence, and that's just something everyone needs to make peace with.

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Goatnokama(Inge) @goatnokama.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Hi everyone! I just finished my second art-pack! It contains four elf characters (3 fullbody, 1 portrait), inspired by the Wode Elves of #drawsteel. Artpack is a paid product. It contains tokens of each character. I am open to any suggestions, hope you like it! goat-nokama.itch.io/wode-elves-a...

goat-nokama.itch.io

Wode Elves Art Pack by Goat-Nokama

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