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he/they ✦ game writer & producer daggerheart, confluence rpg, kids on bikes 2e editorial project manager @ springernature prev: ✦ editor @ hunters ent ✦ td @ pixel circus ✦ jr. games producer @ darrington 🔗: alexteplitz.com 📧: [email protected]

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · Sep 19

Hello Bluesky, I'm Alex! I'm a writer, game designer & editor working in TTRPGs with a passion for horror and queer storytelling.

✏️ Editor at Hunters Entertainment
⚙️ Writer and Project Assistant for Confluence: The Living Archive
🎥 Tech Director for It's Too Early
💜 Available for freelance work!

Alex wearing a white sweater and jean overalls, wearing glasses, taking a selfie. Camera and studio equipment is visible behind him.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 13h

i'd love to!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 14h

okay adding it to the list 🫡

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Kate Sanders @katekatydid.bsky.social · 18h

kate at rest. ty @aldermancy.bsky.social for capturing🙏

Kate reclining on a white couch reading a book, wearing a blue crop top and red pants

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 17h

one of my fave photos everrr

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 21h

this is so so so cool

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Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 1d

COMING OCTOBER 20th!

Tune in for a TWO HOUR discussion about teaching games through actual play featuring an absolute POWERHOUSE panel.

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@friede.bsky.social
@itsquinns.bsky.social
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

Subscribe to Talk of the Table wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk of the Table Patreon w/ Dr. Emily Friedman, Quinns, & Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Roundtable: Teaching Games Through Actual Play

Pictures of each guest are in circles on a yellow background. To each side are anthropomorphized dice, one with a mouth and one with an ear.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 1d

watched silence of the lambs for the first time and it's making me evil (i want to go to grad school for queer film studies suddenly)

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 1d

lhod book of all time

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

OH WAIT THEY REALLY DO

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

please be proud of me i canceled two events and am not attending new york comic con... guy who is going to take a break and go for a run <---

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

honestly the lesbians i keep meeting are so cool it does feel like time travel

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Anica Cihla @atticus.haus · 4d

THE CRYPTID SHOW IS LIVE ON BACKERKIT NOW. Please back it and share it with your friends! Also please enjoy these fucking fantastic bumper stickers i came up with as a backer reward
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 3d

blessed be!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 3d

happy lesbian visibility day. dykes saved my life this year 💖🧡🤍

diana reading under a blue plaid blanket on a white couch by a white curtain on film

three leatherdykes with tattoos, sitting together and looking at the camera. one wears a thick black leather harness with brass jump rings. the butch next to them wears a denim shirt over a t shirt that reads 'good boy.' the third wears a black top off the shoulder and blue jeans.

ali, a lesbian wearing a baseball cap, holds up their tank that reads 'dyke nyc run club' against a background of the water by the west side piers of new york

two curly haired masc lesbians with tattoos. one is kissing the other on the forehead, revealing only the bottom half of their face.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 3d

congrats!

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Eryk ☭ (but make it Red Scare for Halloween) @peregrinecoast.press · 24d

🚨 Announcing: Rites of Renewal, a neo-pagan folk horror sandbox crowdfunding during Mothership Month.

With words by @jlcable.bsky.social, fully illustrated with lino art by @pickledpennies.bsky.social, and published by Peregrine Coast Press.

The Solstice is Coming. Will you join the festivities?

The Solstice is Coming

From Peregrine Coast Press - The Solstice is Coming

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 4d

📻 tuning in!!

Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 4d

WE ARE LIVE!!!

The Cryptid Show by @atticus.haus at ttrpg.link/CryptidShow
Black Flies by @goosepoopgames.com at ttrpg.link/BlackFlies

THE BLACK CRYPTID COLLAB LIVES! Support these spooky season #TTRPGs now!

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 4d

today i saw a bed frame so beautiful i started crying at work

an image from facebook marketplace of a $450 queen bed frame of dark mahogany stained wood and a large elegant headboard inset with red and white stained glass in the center

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 4d

CONGRATSSS SHAGHIK

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 5d

killer crew!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 5d

oh my god. news for calebs

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 6d

love the fit!

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 7d

exactly !!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 7d

yanni and anna visited me in nyc recently! i love making new friends by bonding over how cool their art and games are.
@theurbanavian.bsky.social @ofthatilk.bsky.social

alex and yanni stand smiling in front of a bustling italian market in new york city. the photo is slightly grainy from being shot on film

yanni and anna peruse perfume samples, backlit by a large sunny window. the photo is grainy from being shot on film

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Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 8d

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability.

Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't.

You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius.

Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill.

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