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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

6 months

new newsletter, if you were on the old one you got migrated across. rip tinyletter. image unrelated

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 months

new poast, discourse free tm

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Luke Gearing

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3 years

if you describe a hole in a dungeon as arm-shaped your players _will_ put their arm in the hole

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

7 months

i wont get in the trenches about social mechanics i wont get in the trenches about social mechanics i wont get in the trenches about social mechanics i wont get in the trenches about social mechanics i wont get in the trenches about social mechanics i wont get in the trenches ab

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Luke Gearing

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2 months

once again i am thinking about the nightmare that is the ad&d monster manual for "beaver, giant"

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

so i got to read a draft of the mothership Warden's Operation Manual early and there's one technique that has massively changed my games for the better. keeping a good notebook...

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Luke Gearing

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11 months

yesterday i put my notice in at work. starting jan 1st i'll be the Lead Writer at @playTKG ! full times games. games for days. games games games.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

cyberpunk is popular because it can be hollowed out and turned into nothing but self-referential aesthetics - the critical representation of capital becomes the 'default dystopia' - the reduction of different cultures to 'product' becomes 'wow cool katana' -

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

how to track consumables in games: write down how many you have. every time a consumable is used, reduce this number by one.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

was informed of an absolute gem of an rpg and it is a doozy (and is also on sale)

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

wolves update is out. it now has over 500 hexes fills o dark ages inspired old-school material. itch below

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

9 months

i've been revisiting a lot of old traveller stuff and one name keeps appearing under all those illustrations. RIP Jennell Jaquays

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

7 months

i'm still fucking blocked

Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

11 months

yesterday i put my notice in at work. starting jan 1st i'll be the Lead Writer at @playTKG ! full times games. games for days. games games games.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

with the addition of Wandering Isles & Sea Monsters, Wolves upon the Coast is now complete. thank you everyone for coming along on this journey. for those unfamiliar, itch in the reply. tldr early medieval hexcrawl in not-quite northern europe

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

ttrpg text be like

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 months

@jesawyer the secret rpg technique they don't want you to know: just write things down

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

solo ttrpgs represent the neoliberalification of what was once an inherently social medium "They are casting their problems at gaming groups. And, you know, there's no such thing as gaming groups. There are individual game players and there are games."

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

running a game in person, aka "rawdogging RPGs"

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

i've made an exciting rpg discovery traveller is good

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Luke Gearing

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

she said yes!

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

wolves upon the coast is now 240 keyed hexes and costs $30 - the new update is live on itch now!

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

something very satisfying about hand-drawing your own shitty little hexes

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

9 months

me and the boys meeting up for some parallel play (i am trying to run an rpg, they are browsing twitter)

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

10 months

wolves upon the coast updated to have actual real maps throughout rather than my hideous scrawls. hire @AllThingsTruly for your dungeon maps - she does great work

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

11 months

anyone else noticed an uptick in gnomes this winter? i have to empty the traps like twice a week. usually i let them stay in there and suffer as a warning to the others but this year they just eat the trapped ones. i swear i saw one with a screwdriver near the window last night

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

7 months

update: now banned from the discord too

Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

7 months

i'm still fucking blocked

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

"The Emperor of Texas has heard the plight of his allies across the desert. The Plague wracks them and empties out villages. From his riches he promises to provide medicine. The price is their independence." new thing is out - post-apocalyptic/western hexcrawl, minimally keyed.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

okay this has been preying on my mind a while BUT i want to give back to the wider community. i'm offering to work with one person at a time to help develop your idea or manuscript and help you get it published - whether that be self-pub or an established publisher. 1/3

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

all RPGs are destroyed bar one of your choice. this becomes the new foundational text and touchstone for the hobby what is that rpg

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 months

uncharacteristically, i'm very mad about something commonly held up as "good" in ttrpgs. groundbreaking new pivot for me

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

19 days

giving up on ttrpgs. i'm into bowling now

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

5 months

before i quit my normal job a lot of business freaks would talk about how AI could improve this workflow or save the company money or whatever. if you looked them in the eye and just said "how" they had nothing to say but "using AI"

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 months

ttrpg people learn to read challenge level : impossible

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

9 months

introducing a fun new character to the twitter experience, the versimillipede. she shows up and critiques your rpg writing for a lack of verisimilitude. it is impossible to impress her.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

write* for one hour every morning have a procedure for hexfills write an intro to each area to use as a touchstone when you get stuck if you need to skip something, do it *this includes time spent staring at a blank page thinking, making lists of ideas, crossing them out etc.

Idle Cartulary

@idlecartulary

2 years

Honestly Luke I’d love a thread or post on how you achieved this logistically

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

7 months

entire tl this evening

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

od&d today and 42 characters & hirelings died in a single reflected spell. near tpk, only 2 survived.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

one of the things that's really interesting with writing Wolves and my self-imposed limits is doing a lot of reflecting about the stuff in Volume 2: Monsters &. Stuff resonates together that I had no awareness of when writing it:

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

6 months

keep seeing people post about this "mothership" game can anyone tell me about it

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 months

florence is very beautiful and the stibbert museum is great. it also has this dark souls ass knight

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

gosh sure glad a game came round and made things punk yep wasn't doing nothing of the sort in 2015

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

6 months

success in a niche field is directly measured through the ratio of petty grievances and grudges you either hold or are the subject of

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 months

what's the name of that movie with an alien on a spaceship? it bursts out of a guys chest or something

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

xp for gold models a world which rewards greed. the way to gather power is raw brute accumulation. i wonder if we all live under a similar system which rewards accumulation at the cost at others??? maybe doing good in the presence of this is more impactful and meaningful

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

did you know you can kludge together a sci-fi dungeon crawler using a horrible mix of 40k first edition, od&d dungeon stocking procedures and the realms of chaos books i bet you didn't

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 month

i've pulled broken system #000 from sale. it was made 10 years ago by a couple of teenagers pulling images from public domain archives. the way some of these images were used, considering their history, was inappropriate and disrespectful. for that i apologise. [thread]

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

okay the blogpost is done and live

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

random encounters are so good

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

play report from someone running wolves for 8 months "Wolves Upon the Coast is a masterpiece. It is one of the best things to come from the OSR. I prefer it to Wilderlands. Highly recommended. 5/5."

From the osr community on Reddit: 8 months playing west marches Wolves Upon the Coast

Explore this post and more from the osr community

www.reddit.com

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

magic item

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

3 years

This is a scorpion that has been completely replaced by copper. The piece was on display at the 2019 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show and demonstrates the process, similar to what happens in petrified wood formation, caused by copper-rich fluids [read more: ]

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

if you would like to spend exactly $62 on a giant hexcrawl with integrated monster manual, treasure book and rules system buddy do i have good news for you

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 months

"they flee combat, but don't worry - they'll fight if you're trying to break into their mudcastle in order to kidnap their children to sell into slavery" bro what the f u c k

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre is Dracula. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance against Dracula: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

poast

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

this was written in 1987 for a wargame in an optional chapter

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

liberate yourself from mechanics burn your core books - or at least give them away to those who covet them - your apprenticeship to the Designer is over - play play play

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

rules light fans/ game designers argue about theory because we can't argue about character builds / optimisation

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

11 months

@playTKG this does mean the mothership official account will have to unblock me. i am the true victor

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

6 months

d100 carousing consequences

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

you didn't forget, did you?

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

9 months

100% correct opinion, the shit about rounding up entire gangs and doing psycho-surgery on them goes extremely hard

Salamander, Designer of Games

@Sallymander40k

9 months

I think GW made a mistake in taking the direction they did with Space Marines. I much prefer the idea of Space Marines being only semi-lucid drugged up psychopaths who spend most of their time crushing dissidents for the crime of asking for a five day work week or rights.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

if it were me i would simply live by the sword and not die by the sword

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

once again pondering how to use sniper fire in an engaging and interesting way in rpgs. the 'red dot moment' is iconic but is extremely movie-logic, but having the "realistic" (verisimilitudinous) action of just killing off a PC sucks - taking out NPCs first is an easy fix...

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

me, living by the sword: haha this rules, i hope there are no consequences to this

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

to all 3 of you who get this i'm sorry wittr are great

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

celebrate the heat death of twitter by paying to listen to me talk about dungeon design (registration in reply)

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

if you send me a receipt of your donation to an abortion org i will send you an itch key of stuff up to that value.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

bullet point writing? oh, you mean dungeon listicles

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

did another wolves retrospective tl;dr: people talking about your game is invaluable. thank you so much to everyone who has done so. you have enabled this project to be a success.

Wolves Upon the Coast Grand Retrospective 2 - Luke Gearing

It’s been about two years since I started selling Wolves Upon the Coast Grand Campaign, and about 10 months since the last retrospective. I’m not

lukegearing.blot.im

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

diana jones award, sponsored by raytheon

Diana Jones Award

@DianaJonesAward

1 year

Anthony Joyce-Rivera ( @AJoyce_Rivera ) is a Hispanic, two-time ENnie-nominated game designer, entertainment and gaming military consultant, and an active-duty U.S. Army Strategist.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

7 months

oWo

Exalted Funeral

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

5 years

oh fuck i'm doing a book again

GRADIENT DESCENT: Module for Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG

A brand new zine-sized module for the Mothership Sci-Fi horror RPG. Androids, AI, memory, and existential horror abound.

www.kickstarter.com

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

it's actually super cool how a bunch of big names with connections and entrenched relationships can have a huge chilling effect on discussions and thought!

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

what if a dungeon was just like 100 dogs and some of them had human faces

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

legally a wifeguy now

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

lesser game designers when the Thinking Adventurers arise

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

me and the boys back in the day, not a cellphone in sight

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

why are you writing games and not content for games

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

There are 2d6 goblins in this room. How do you open? #HirelingHustle #DungeonGrind

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

well i'm very happy to report that you can in fact sell a pdf for $30

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 months

petrification victims are the ai art of fantasy worlds "did you carve this statue yourself? it's remarkably lifelike"

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

wolves upon the coast cover reveal

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

something i've noticed in newer writers is "writer voice". don't worry about trying to sound like a writer and just write the idea - your voice will emerge there, not by trying to be writerly

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

1 year

okay so medium+ sized publishers can have lower prices and make up for it by having much higher net sales. you can't (if you want to make money), but you're still in the same market, so the pressure of their low prices is going to effect you. what can you do?

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

11 months

if you would like my address feel free to DM me! i look forwards to you "beating me to death"

bardsgambit.bsky.social

@TheBardsGambit

11 months

@StrigaRosa What the fuck is this tom-fuckery? Incentivising behaviour is bad for your game?! That's just basic fucking game design, what senseless idiot wrote this nonsense!? I want a specific individual so I know exactly who to bludgeon to death with copies of Critical Play

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

3 years

i'm still fucking blocked by mothership because of Davepoasting the sacrifices i make for you

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

thank you everyone who has spoken about, played or read Wolves. releasing something like this in a non-traditional slowfund, at a high price, without art or layout (except those great maps by @AllThingsTruly ) *and* no marketing was a big risk - and one that'd paid off immensely.

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

out now - the sequel to Volume 2: Monsters & .... &&&&&&&&& TREASURE - 130 magic items with terse description and implications beyond themselves - new treasure tables without letter codes - a6 format and spiral bound lnk below

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 years

rules light in terms of 'total corpus of rules' vs rules light in terms of 'rules used in play' games can be rules light in different ways - games which process everything via rules aren't rules light by second view, despite being lighter in word count

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

uhoh

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

4 months

author copies of tephrotic nightmares got here and this binding is fucking bonkers

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

2 years

it is my birthday. please post the most despicable thing your character (or players) have ever done. mine is when when blood meridian'd a frontier settlement with 100 dogs. close second is collapsing a dig site with the workers still in it because the monolith dig up did nothing

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Luke Gearing

@LukeGearing

9 months

system doesn't matter unless it's one i wrote then its very important

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