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Real Events, Fake Explanations: Using Out-of-World Things to Inspire In-World Events
One of my favorite things to do in a scene, if the opportunity provides it, is to acknowledge something that happens outside of the scene as a part of, but a different experience than what we know in real life. I remember that during a performance where I was improvising with my team, a cell Continue reading
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Lord of the Rings – First Impressions, Thoughts on Side Characters
Being a fantasy nerd, you would think that I have had some type of exposure to Lord of the Rings. It is the basis of modern fantasy, after all! Besides reading The Hobbit and eventually watching those movies, and then watching the Rings of Power TV series, I have not watched the original trilogy or Continue reading
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What is success: On procrastination
For most of my life, I grew up completing things on the due date. Yes, nothing would be submitted late (for the most part) and my assignments would be completed when they were expected to be done. The day of. On the day that something needed to be completed, I would be working to complete Continue reading
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Fan to Idol(?) Interactions
So, I got to meet a person this weekend that I knew from actual play! I got to tell them about how I enjoyed their performance, and it was a nice interaction. What I noticed about this interaction, and most interactions where I’m talking with someone who I know from streaming, or a performance is Continue reading
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The Death Throes of Journalism
Journalism is in its death throes with its newest bout of layoffs, where you can read about in many places, but perhaps you can start here. I’m not a journalist, I’m a blogger-writing-goofy-guy, who puts up writing on the Internet. However, that’s not to say that I’m not affected by these layoffs as a reader. Continue reading
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It’s not just my fun
I think about how to be a better GM all the time. It used to be worrying before, and from a place of anxious perfectionism. Nowadays, I can comfortably say that it’s for the sake of getting better. I decoupled the toxicity from the desire to get better at a skill, and I’m in a Continue reading
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Why am I writing?
I have to make this blogpost. It’s going to be a short one. It’s a reminder. I write to stave the void. Is it to engage an algorithm? No. Regular posting is coincidentally good for algorithmic places and social media, but it’s not necessarily good for a blog. I think? I don’t know. Is it Continue reading
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The Quantum Die
There was a fun blogpost by Prismatic Wasteland that encouraged designers to make a new resolution mechanic– and naturally, I wanted to make an un-resolution mechanic. Wave Function Collapse What happens when something resolves? Well, that means that something happens. There is a period of uncertainty as to what could happen, and then it settles Continue reading
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The Outside-ness of Being Much Too Late (A Musing On Belonging)
Growing up, there were a good amount of experiences that I did not share with my peers until much later in life. Part of the reason was because my parents had immigrated to the US, and the pool of people who were also being raised in a first-generation, immigrant household was smaller than the pool Continue reading
About Me
An avid storyteller who enjoys all sorts of mediums for storytelling, but primarily games. I have been a Game Master since 2015, text roleplayer since the ambitious age of 8, and a reader since before that. I worry more often about my art than I should.
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