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Brian Spookner

@bschoner.bsky.social

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Software geek by day, freelance writer by night, bass guitarist on the weekends, voice actor whenever time permits, and gamer ALL THE DAMN TIME. Cohost of the https://bsky.app/profile/ascentofboardgames.bsky.social podcast. He/him.

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Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 3d

Time for a new volume/edition of Because Internet, @gretchenmcc.bsky.social !

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 7d

9/10, cat should be a chicken.

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 11d

Great ideas and great execution! Also, TIL what a kist is, so thanks for that too!

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 11d

"Maybe make us some sandwiches while you're at it, there's a good girl." UGH.

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 12d

More of @spazzster.bsky.social 's "An Elegy in Crimson" podcast, which is basically @timhutchings.bsky.social 's Thousand-Year-Old Vampire played out in the form of an interview. But this one has me in it! krademachir.podbean.com/e/an-elegy-i...

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 14d

Halloween haiku:

Twelve-foot skeletons
Guard the yards and watch the streets
Plastic talismans

Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 14d

Halloween Season Poetry:

a haiku

Eldritch standing stones
Melted shades of primal gods
Blood-splashed once more

(Like, share, quote post with your own. We can make this a thing. 😜😱 )

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The Ascent of Boooooo'd Games @ascentofboardgames.bsky.social · 14d

Episode 75 is here, as we start examining computer games that were turned into board games...with varying degrees of success.

www.ascentofboardgames.com/e/episode-75...

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Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 15d

Just started act 4…having a blast!

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 15d

This is a fascinating interview about a wonderful game. It's deep, and some might find it a little full of itself, but I'm so glad that a game that can generate this kind of discussion exists. Go play Slay the Princess, if you haven't.

Handel @handelgamer.bsky.social · 16d

Just read through this massive interview about Slay the Princess and got floored multiple times through the whole thing. By god. int-magazine.com/interview/sl...

Slay the Princess’s Tony Howard-Arias and Abby Howard: “I mean, that she loves you. She loves you unconditionally”

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Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 17d

a bald man in a military uniform and tie is sitting at a table talking into a microphone .

Alt: a bald man in a military uniform and tie is sitting at a table talking into a microphone .

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Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 18d

What's your sign?

A sign reading, "Do not dumb here. Not dumb area here."

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 21d

It's an older era of horror, but Fury of Dracula remains one of my favorites. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18...

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 21d

Of potential interest to @paigeleitman.bsky.social

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · 22d

Horse breeding? Is horse semen a resource in the game, or is that still exclusive to Grade Up to Elite Cow?

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 13

IIRC Wildsea was produced in landscape format, seemed to work out fine.

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 12

Taking Firefly as read, mine would be Sports Night and the way-ahead-of-its-time Profit.

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 12

Wait a minute - this is NEXT weekend! (I can read dates, I swear.) Never mind - I'm in!

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thanks! It's our first return in the post-COVID era, so we're really looking forward to it.

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 12

This sounds great! If I wasn't helping to run a real-world puzzle hunt tomorrow (playDASH.org), I would be all over this in real time; hopefully I can avoid hints and spoilers to solve it after the fact!

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Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 11

Did anyone die during character creation?

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 10

Flashing back to "Shifty Checkers" (an actual, if terrible, published game), as referenced in @amabel.bsky.social 's great recent video on the rise and fall of the Aurora company). youtu.be/TH3QT05C25w...

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 10

I always liked "Jigsaw Incomplete" from GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures. Never ran it in GURPS, but had a good time when I converted it to Shadowrun.

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Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 10

Slightly diminish a book...

We Have Always Lived in the Condo

Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · Sep 10

Slightly diminish a book...

Fool's-Goldfinger

Chris Knowles @tarrenam.com · Sep 10

Slightly diminish a book...

Loose Change Island

Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Idiot Control Now" from Pod People maybe?

a man is wearing headphones and saying it stinks .

Alt: a man is wearing headphones and saying it stinks .

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Brian Spookner @bschoner.bsky.social · Sep 10

For my money, a set of TTRPG rules is like a Lego set. I like having the instructions for the "intended" design, and I'll probably build it that way the first time, but after that I'm gonna build what I want - maybe even combine pieces from different sets!

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