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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸

@byconniechang.bsky.social

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they/he/she. chinese-american. ENNIE-winning TTRPG & narrative designer threading queer drama with black-hearted apocalyptica. Game Master for @transplanarrpg.bsky.social. Previously: Bungie, NetEase 🌟 byconniechang.itch.io 🌟 📧 [email protected] 📧

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello, Bluesky! I’m Connie (they/he/she), an ENNIE-winning, Chinese-American Game Master and TTRPG designer exploring divinity, monstrosity, grief—and what it means to kill god.

I run @transplanarrpg.bsky.social, an all-trans, POC-led #ActualPlay in a noncolonial, antiorientalist multiverse. 🏳️‍⚧️✨

A photo of Connie smiling and laughing in blue hanfu with a peacock style crest around their shoulders. Their hair is shaved on the side and they’re wearing glasses. The foreground contains an animal bone and a large miniature figure of a tabletop character in robes wielding a longsword.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 12h

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 10h

BARK BARK BARK BARK WOOF WOOF WOOF

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 11h

Should we drop a teaser of the new character art for Arc 4 tomorrow...? 🤔

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Ryomasa 🔜 PAX U @ryomasa.bsky.social · 2d

Man, I can’t wait to put together a Dom cosplay for PAX Unplugged. His character description fits me to a T, and also this shirt, vest, gloves, hat, and prop prosthetic hand I happen to coincidentally own for unrelated reasons-

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2d

So… about that Interlude Episode… 😅

A screenshot of the overlay from Transplanar RPG’s The Chaos Protocol Arc 3 Interlude. The overlay features a background of a dusty bar with five facecams framed in elegant gold, a caption box, and text. The facecams feature: Connie, who smiles devilishly while touching their headphone. Their nameplate reads “Connie Chang. they/he/she/ta. The Bartender.”; Jon, who points to the camera with a robotic glove. Their nameplate reads “Ryomasa. any/all. Dom. he/him.”; Val, who stares intently into the camera with a growl. His nameplate reads “Valiant Dorian. he/him. Seir. he/they.”; Cai, who is leaning back in shock with a terrified smile. Their nameplate reads “Cai K. he/they/she. Xainan Esch. he/him.”; and Samm, who is leaning into faer mic to let out a huge scream, fingers curled. Their nameplate reads “Samm Star. she/they/fae. Lumièra. she/her.” Nearby there is a caption box with text that reads: “unforgiving. It is painful and resolute and it is intimately immediately. This really familiar And as your vision focuses a form swims into clarity above, you fist clenched jaw, set, and you look into a face. You haven’t seen in 10 years. And we’re gonna go to break there. Thank you all so much for tuning in. So far to our AR,” At the bottom of the overlay is text that reads: “Background by Czepeku.”

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Pantsless Tables @pantslesstables.bsky.social · 2d

Are you a BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ TTRPG game designer? Do you have a new game/kickstarter launching soon? Would you like to be featured on "BUT WHY?" our TTRPG talk show where we
1. interview a game designer
2. play a one-shot with their game/setting
3. have chill fun vibes?

If this is you, DM us!

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Stories Told Again @storiestoldagain.bsky.social · 6d

WELCOME TO THE PARTY 🔥VELARA🔥
Played by @transplanarrpg’s @byconniechang, Velara will be joining us 🌠 as our party traverses through (literal) Hell #foryoupage #fyp #dnd #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #indiepodcast #podcast #ttrpg #fantasy #storiestoldagain

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Amaan🎙️GODKILLER: Qismat @amaanhk.bsky.social · 2d

We return this Sunday with a brand new episode of GODKILLER: QISMAT, featuring @lesbyearning.bsky.social as Kala … and a few cameos?
Streaming first on Sunday 5;30pm UTC, at @pantslesstables.bsky.social

Character art of an Indian woman in red dress with god jewellery. Beside the art is the photo of the person playing the character. Below it is written: Godkiller Qismat. Art by SoulStuffJunkie

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 2d

DOM! DOM! DOM! DOM!!

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Dan Pyxel | CRiT Award Nominee Best GM (Darrington Press) @danpyxel.bsky.social · 5d

We’re BACK! The Circle of Seekers and Sinners RETURNS TO BadHouseRPG as a six episode Spooptober Mini-Series. The horror show continues starting Oct 10 at Twitch.tv/BadHouseRPG

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2d

So… about that Interlude Episode… 😅

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 3d

how dare you *tramples you with my hooves*

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 3d

for you?!?! 😍😍 i’d make the time… 😘

GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 3d

I do love ✨glowing✨ and ✨sparkling✨ in the sunshine 🥰

GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 3d

touched some grass today 🐴

A selfie of Connie smiling outdoors, in front of a green and white barn. Connie is a Chinese person with light brown skin, large square glasses, and short black hair shaved on the sides. They wear a pale blue hoodie underneath a denim wool-lined jacket. Their right hand is on their head, sweeping their bangs to the right side of their face.

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 3d

*bellows like a dinosaur*

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 3d

CHAOS RETURNS
OCT. 25 | 8PM ET

❌

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Sea 🩸 @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social · 3d

Do you miss Ruination ‘Rune’ Ironsworn?
Do you miss GODKILLER: First Blood?

This is the Intarotgation episode for you. Let’s catch up with everyone’s favorite heretic and see what kind of guidance they need… ⚔️

Intarotgation @intarotgation.bsky.social · 3d

VII Strength
After much needed rest we return with none other than @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social as we talk about Ruin Ironsworn from @transplanarrpg.bsky.social GODKILLER: First Blood.
What do the G̶o̶d̶s̶ Cards have in store for them?
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VIII Strength

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 3d

Brb learning art just to make this happen

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 3d

I love driving my rural farm boy partner to horsie time as a Chinese city girl…. it’s just me, my very clean pants, my ancient Toyota Corolla, and my uncallused hands watching them do horse stuff

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Planet Arcana @planetarcanapod.bsky.social · 4d

Huge thank you to Sydney Web Fest for awarding us Best Original Score for The Network Defenders!!!

This is our first win for music in our series which is deeply important to us, so this one means a lot ❤️

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Reckless Attack Podcast @recklessattack.bsky.social · 6d

On October 5, 2021, a stack was born.

136 campaign episodes (and a bunch of A-Talks, Behind the Screens, Adjacents, etc. etc...) later, we stack ever higher.

And it's only getting better from here.

Unspeakable amounts of thanks to the froggy folks who have joined us for this adventure.

Text: Celebrating Four Stackin' Years of Reckless Attack hot damn we're still here PICTURE: A group f adventurers including a humanoid woman holding a spear, a grung with a crossbow and tricorn hat riding a frog, a dragonborn monk, and a dwarf wielding a large hammer

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 5d

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We’re still going!

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Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 4d

ICON!!!!

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 4d

This series means the entire world to my trans Chinese heart. 💖 I’m so happy that our story of intergenerational grief, rage, and becoming within/beyond mortality and divinity is resonating with folks across the world. Go Last Hope go!!

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 5d

What news on the winds? 🐉

We are so proud to share that GODKILLER: Last Hope picked up the wins for Best Actual Play Video and the festival-wide LGBTQIA+ Diversity Award at the Sydney Web Fest! It means the world that our story of rage, love, and becoming resonates across the globe. Thank you SWF!

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a proud lifetime member of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH), which is launching an online discussion series. I'm honored to contribute to the first session! It's free and open to everyone, so check it out and spread the word!!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/abwh-maste...

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