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Zedeck Siew

@zedecksiew.bsky.social
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Writer of small fictions. Creator of "Creature of Near Kingdoms", "Lorn Song of the Bachelor", and other SEAsian fevers. Port Dickson, Malaysia. zedecksiew.tumblr.com

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 23h
The “protest against the death penalty” that Neo Swee Lin and Lim Kay Siu (and others, including myself) have been charged for was this: we went to court to support a friend who’d been charged. Afterwards, we stood outside the courthouse and someone snapped some photos. Then we left. That’s it.
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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 23h
This is how journalism that picks up a narrative from govt sources and other media end up misrepresenting reality to readers. This says charges are for “protests against the death penalty” which, w/o context, paints a diff picture from what actually happened. www.independent.co.uk/asia/southea...
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Singapore actors charged over protests against death penalty
Singapore retains the death penalty for murder, certain drug-trafficking offences, and serious firearms offences
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote a post about keying, and how it's weird that we don't have a name for all the various styles! Note: this post is not about the best kind of keying (though my preference does exist). It's more about naming the thing so we can discuss the thing. newschoolrevolution.com/the-keys-to-...
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The Keys to My Heart
My day job consists largely of reading adventures and providing feedback. And while I've read hundreds of OSR modules by now, I still don't have a good way...
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
COMING SOON: In prelaunch w/ Violent Delights, another game inspired by Shakespeare: Mousetrap is a cursed game-within-a-game that won’t go back into its box. It’s game night. You and your friends have gathered to play a Hamlet-inspired game manuscript from 1983. But there’s a catch…
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Coming soon: Mousetrap & Violent Delights
A cursed game-within-a-game that won't go back into its box, and a chess-based RPG about Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cover for my upcoming horror adventure, the Forgetting of Lockwood Manor. Art by @robbiaburns.bsky.social This will be the fourth release in the Cairn adventures series.
A spooky ass house
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨YET ANOTHER BANGER ALERT🚨
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How it started vs How it's going:
A screenshot of a conversation between me and Karly, where I aks if she wants to get her adventure in print.A screenshot of a successful Kickstarter campaign.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🔥WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEKEND🔥 It was the opening of Sharon's exhibition: "Missing From The Scene". People came to see her prints, our puppets. People came to see each other after a long while, friends from Malaysia and Singapore and the Philippines. 1/
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Holding Form" Sharon Chin 2026 Shadow puppets made of Tetra Pak cartons,stainless steel wire, rattan rods, synthetic string, residual inks Dimensions variable "MISSING From The Scene", a new solo by @chincarok.bsky.social , opens today, from 3pm onwards, at The Back Room, Zhongshan Building, KL.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A robot eye on our boundary wall, watching the refinery gas flare over the roof of the school next door. A feed from this camera is running in "Missing From The Scene", @chincarok.bsky.social 's new solo about absence and attention, opening 26 Sept 2026 at The Back Room Kuala Lumpur.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Missing From The Scene", a new solo exhibition by @chincarok.bsky.social , about absence (people from towns; principles from art; animals from ecological niches), opens 26 Sept 2026, in Kuala Lumpur. The invite posters are questionnaires: about what you think is missing from your local art scene.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨PEAK MONONOKE VIBES ALERT🚨 @sandroad.moe makes a mean game
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨ESSENTIAL TTRPG POST ALERT🚨 This framework will be so useful to so many people
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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026
[ ~ Where grief stirs, spirits linger ~ ] Dive into the kaleidoscopic fantasy of Beneath the Floating World, a Carved from Brindlewood game of psychedelic zenpunk exorcism ~ Uncover twisted truths, face supernatural horrors and navigate your mortal woes . . . sandroad.itch.io/restrain-ref...
The cover for beneath the floating world ~ Featuring an onryo-esc figure above two silhouetted exorcistsThe beginning of character creation rulesThe center fold describing the parallel Day and Night phases of playThe 12 Exorcist Moves that can each define a character
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...
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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive
Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨SALIENT REMINDER ALERT🚨
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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 18/09/2026
I think my writing for Beneath the Floating World hit another high water mark...
Description for the stand the Big Chili and the Chili Hawker Modisara
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 16/09/2026
Resurfacing an old blogpost, it is interesting that standard dice notations (e.g., 1d6, 2d20, etc.) originated not from the original publisher of D&D but from the Alarums & Excursions fanzine. playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-...
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The Origins of Dice Notation
As a previous post here covered ,  Dungeons & Dragons was the first game to make practical use of all five Platonic solids as dice. The ...
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What I did today: mount our shadow puppets onto their rattan gapits. ( That's @chincarok.bsky.social in the background, laughing about rotisserie chicken)
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Details from "Restless Spirits", a new print work by @chincarok.bsky.social ---collagraphs of shadow puppets we made together! For her new solo exhibition "Missing From The Scene", a show about absence and hoped-for presences, opening 26 Sept at The Back Room KL.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When I first heard about Roko's Basilisk, I thought it sounded like something out of White Guilt. Has anybody else made this association? Ie: the Other is by definition vengeful and malicious, we must behave according to this ironclad assumption.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨EVERGREEN REMINDER ALERT🚨 This also applies to rulesets and systems. Just jury-rig stuff, folks. Designers don't know your table---you do.
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I review The Doom of the Dark by @falsemachine.bsky.social, discuss Tunnels & Trolls in our System Matters segment, and answer a mailbag question. www.patreon.com/betweentwoca...
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The Doom of the Dark | Between Two Cairns
Yochai, Brad, and Sam review The Doom of the Dark by Patrick Stuart, discuss Tunnels & Trolls in our System Matters segment, and answer a ma
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨INDONESIA STRONG ALERT🚨 So much good shit in here!
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The Amanda Lee Mystery House @amandalee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BUGS coming soon to patreon & comradery
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
MACE OF THE MONKEY KING: playtesting continues! After last week's excitement (the PCs fought a cockerel god by ramming him with their car), tonight's session was a talkie. The party's impressively gory vehicle gets them invited to dinner with the Ong Tongs, who run the biggest factory in town. 1/
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bicoloured arboreal ant, arowana, mosquito. @chincarok.bsky.social 's bestiary expands. Collagraphs of shadow puppets for her new show, "Missing From The Scene", opening 26 Sept.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Puzzle pieces to a new bestiary. ( @chincarok.bsky.social is working on her set-piece puppet collagraphs for "Missing From The Scene", a new show opening 26 Sept at The Back Room, Kuala Lumpur! )
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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Made a little personal version of Luke Gearing's Violence
Zine with a full cover color showing German soldiers holding a shirtless man around the neck.Color zine cover showing Germans cutting a man's hands off.
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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque. Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...
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How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?
A survey on campaign length and lethality
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨EXCELLENT POST ALERT🚨 Team picaresque, here! A player character has never died in any game I've run. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...
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How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?
A survey on campaign length and lethality
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In the studio today @chincarok.bsky.social was mixing colours for her set-piece print: a large, three-part collagraph of the shadow puppets we have been making for the last month. 1/
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Our podcast is now on YouTube. youtube.com/@betweentwoc...
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Between Two Cairns
A weekly podcast dedicated to role-playing game discussion and review in the OSR tradition. Hosted by Yochai Gal, Brad Kerr, and Skullboy. More at betweentwocairns.com
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Danny Fist 👊 @dannyfi.st · 29/08/2026
I had to drop out early but still managed to capture some great pearls of wisdom from @zedecksiew.bsky.social (as well as a little sneak peak at his upcoming adventure (totally unrelated note but did you know there is a Malay version of Journey to the West?))
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🚨WORKSHOP SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCTED🚨 I collapsed into bed right after, but I was happy to do so. Everything I know I learned from folks in the scene---their kind messages and answers; their wisdom shared in blogs. Passing knowledge on is a duty and a privilege.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨WORKSHOP ALERT🚨 Doing this workshop tomorrow with @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social for LFG---ie: Indonesia's hottest TTRPG community)! Moderated by @isaacisafraid.bsky.social . Come join? I worked hard on my 16-slide presentation! (Plus am using my next adventure as a case study- so sneak preview!)
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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For those who are wondering wtf is going on in my country, Indonesia, right now. Today we are also having a protest at the capital.
Instagram post from @buruhperempuan:
DEAR SEABLINGS AND INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS, INDONESIA IS NOT OK. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO INDONESIA. BIG PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING IN INDONESIA. WE REALLY NEED INTERNATIONAL MEDIA TO WATCH WHAT'S HAPPENING AND REPORT IT TO THE WORLD. Instagram post from @buruhperempuan:
HERE ARE 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION HERE:
- AN EARTHQUAKE OCCURED IN FLORES, WHILE FOREST FIRES ARE BURNING  IN SUMATRA, PAPUA, AND KALIMANTAN
- THE PEOPLE OF PATI ARE DEMANDING THE PASSAGE OF THE ASSET FORFEITURE BILL
- WORKING CLASS CITIZENS ARE DEMANDING A LABOR LAW THAT PROTECTS AND PRIORITIZES WORKER'S RIGHTS
- THE STATE BUDGET (APBN) IS BEING USED IN WAYS THAT MARGINALIZE CITIZENS' BASIC RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION
- THE INDONESIAN RUPIAH CONTINUES TO WEAKEN, WHILE LARGE SCALE CORRUPTION CONTINUES TO OCCUR.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"I see you shiver with anticip ..." Guess Tim will be keeping us shivering forever now. 😔
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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i combined this thread with my thoughts on "risk dice" and made a blog post about crowdfunding, goals, and why it's important to treat the risks you take as part of your budget www.patreon.com/possumcreek/...
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Balatro Theory & Risk Dice in Crowdfunding | Jay Dragon (& Friends)
This is an article about crowdfunding logistics. I tend to avoid writing these sorts of "how the sausage gets made" articles since the discu
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🚨ESSENTIAL THREAD ALERT🚨
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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i'm gonna put forward a concept i've been explaining to people off and on while consulting for a while, which i hope can usefully and practically show how TTRPG crowdfunders work. i've been calling it (in my head) The Balatro Theory of Crowdfunding 1/16
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🚨NEW TTRPG WRITERS GRANT ALERT🚨 Mothership continues to lead the way.
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Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 26/08/2026
Mothership Month is back this year, with one big caveat: no crowdfunding, no new releases. Instead we're investing back in the community: For starters: the Jump-9 Writers Grant will invest $9k in 3 new writers to help them each create a Mothership zine. www.failuretolerated.com/mothership-m...
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Mothership Month 2026
<p><strong>Mothership Month is coming November 1 - November 30,</strong> back to our regularly scheduled timeslot. With one big caveat: <strong>No crowdfunding this year.</strong></p> <p>I don’t know ...
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elmcat @elmc.at · 23/08/2026
fuck it elmc.at/death-of-a-h...
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Death of a Hobby
Fuck it.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"mandrill HD 5 once, a man laid with a tiger In torchlight, they are suave and gentlemanly, their tiger souls turned by fire. If the light goes out, they lose all sense of restraint and kill everyone." spiceomancy.blogspot.com/2026/08/man-... Enjoyed this a lot! (Via @riseupcomus.bsky.social )
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Man-Shaped Things
arboreal fellows (aren't we all) lemure HD 1 a restless shadow Caught like curses on jungle treks. Hides in your shadow and eats your dreams...
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This was a fun panel, and really great topics! Was good to get a cross section of different game disciplines and share about our common struggles and hopes for the future. Also featured @hellenus.bsky.social bullying @ithayla.bsky.social during the Q&A hahaha.
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momatoes @momatoes.com · 22/08/2026
What Dust Remains is a finalist at the CRIT Awards. Community copies are now available at momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re... so you can try out the game—and explore legacy and sacrifice in a unique GMless experience.
A faded photography partially obscured behind paper. On top of it is the text "What Dust Remains is a CRIT Awards Finalist".
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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Perennial reminder that the big corporation does not care about you and there are better alternatives.
Chick tract saying that D&D is Mid
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In the latest Ghost In The Shell episode, Motoko has an ecstatic experience, networked to a self-aware android in the moments as it dies. Love this more metaphysical (as opposed to existential) take on the Puppetmaster story. Particularly because of what the episode implies about AI morality. 1/
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