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On Blended Reality
One of my many fears is losing control. I am a recovering perfectionist, which means that for the most part, I like it when my actions can directly influence my success in a situation. Is there a test? I can study and practice until I gain a mastery of the material to pass it. Is Continue reading
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Capturing Life in a Game
I want to capture the feeling of an experience–and that’s the essence of most forms of art. We want to evoke things that we’ve experienced in our lives and transport it like a picture frame…like a portal to that place for others. There’s something about that capturing process in the different mediums of art that Continue reading
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The Theme Park MMO and the Parallels with TTRPG Design
I am a big fan of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) genre of games. I grew up playing RuneScape, and I still play Old School RuneScape today. Because I am still an MMORPG fan, it comes with no surprise that I am a fan of Josh Strife Hayes, who creates videos surrounding Continue reading
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On Jam Culture and Community
If you’ve been keeping up with this blog in any amount of way, it is not a secret that I am both an improviser, but that I am also a fan of jazz. I am a fan of the music, the culture, and the magical things that can happen when you share a language–albeit a Continue reading
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Selecting TTRPGs for a general convention
I am currently preparing a list of games that I would like to run at a local nerd convention! This nerd convention is a general convention, and it has various sorts of nerd things going on: cosplay, panels, and gaming rooms. There is both a video gaming room and a table top gaming room, which Continue reading
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Developing Taste and Still Enjoying Food (and Games)
Reading tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) can be like eating food– And don’t forget it, because literally, that is this whole blogpost. From baby to bigger kid 2023 was a big year for TTRPGs, and a big year for me. We started the year with the Open Game License (OGL) fiasco, which resulted in me jumping 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
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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