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Kat Clay

@katclay.com

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🎲 ENNIE and ARPIA award-winning TTRPG author. Writes Call of Cthulhu. Short stories in Interzone, Aurealis, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Game reviews on YouTube. Hobbit in a leather jacket. 🇦🇺🐨

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 2d

Genuinely shocked and amazed to have won the award for Best Scenario for Resort at the Australian Industry Roleplaying Awards.

I am truly grateful to all the playtesters, my friend @johnnylogmar.bsky.social, the fine folks @chaosium.bsky.social and the TTRPG community for their support. 🙏

A blonde white woman in a black dress in front of a sign that says resort

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JS @theeldritchjs.bsky.social · 5h

And this 2ND in line baroness was brought to life beautifully both in play and illustration by @annspaghetti.bsky.social! I really played up the class from @chaosium.bsky.social and all it's author's gaslight chtulhu, so she and Kirk McDougal be scheming while the rest rushes to St. Paul's Church

a hand drawn aristocrat by my amazing friend @annspaghetti.bsky.social! showing her Call of Cthulhu Character Phoebe De Boyes-Lyon, an villianess and aristocrat in the British empire during the Gaslight Cthulhu setting.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 7h

Love it! Hope you have a brilliant time.

Kat Clay @katclay.com · 7h

It's Baron from the Baronies!

JS @theeldritchjs.bsky.social · 12h

Running @katclay.com's hammersmith haunting again today this time over on roll20 with friends from all over the globe :) 6 investigators so one more then is usual, we made their character an scheming villainess, second in line to an barony. Her sister actually sponsors the club to keep her busy.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 18h

The Stream of Chaos begins with Amelia Tyler!! 🐙 @chaosium.bsky.social

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 22h

Headlice is my favourite game of PAX so far.

Absolutely madcap parasitic adventures, but they got the mechanics just right. Hilarious.

A poster and screen showing a game featuring a bouncing headlice

Kat Clay @katclay.com · 1d

PAX I am here!

I'm not doing panels or content creation this year, just chilling and catching up with friends. If you see me, feel free to say hi.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 2d

Also I really need to share my outfit from last night's ARPIAs cause they said gala and I answered. 💁‍♀️

A blonde white woman in an evening gown next to a game worlds sign at ACMI

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 2d

Also thankyou! Your feedback about not labelling boxes as 'box' was helpful 😁

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats to Chaosium community content creators @katclay.com and @davidwaldron.bsky.social, winners at the Australian RPG Industry Awards #ARPIA tonight, part of Melbourne International Games Week.

Kat won Best Scenario for 'Resort' (Call of Cthulhu) and David was awarded Best Emerging Creator.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 2d

Rendered my entire thank you speech in interpretive song.

Kat Clay @katclay.com · 2d

Thanks my friend, and thank you for supporting me 🙏

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 6d

I rewatched Princess Mononoke again tonight (first time on the big screen) and it is truly a perfect movie.

Also let's all please live in harmony with the forests thanks very much.

a bunch of ghosts are standing in a dark forest

Alt: a bunch of ghosts are standing in a dark forest

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 12d

It's got the Royal Selangor stamp and is signed 1996. Goes with my Gollum goblet...

Kat Clay @katclay.com · 12d

Can't believe this seriously good op shop find of the Galadriel goblet by Royal Selangor. Straight to the Gondor room.

A pewter goblet of Galadriel with closed eyes.

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Stu Sellens @johnnylogmar.bsky.social · 14d

Had such a great time recording this play-though of @katclay.com's The Well of All Fear.

Thanks again to our Keeper @valygirlheather.bsky.social, and to our amazing guests @tayacampbellover.bsky.social and @maijaihibberd.bsky.social of @damselsdnd.bsky.social

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The Well of All Fear (Act 1) | Regency Cthulhu Actual Play

YouTube video by Miskatonic Playhouse

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 20d

I've been streaming The Drifter this week and I'm loving it, the viewers are loving it, and I reckon it's a bloody ripper @dave.powerhoof.com

A still from the the video game The Drifter with a man underground with a young person in pixel art.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 20d

Thanks mate, I actually only review video games at the moment, just because I write TTRPGs. But happy to connect if you're working on your own productions.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 22d

A real privilege to give a guest lecture on writing for games at RMIT tonight.

Means a lot to me to hopefully open the door to TTRPGs to someone else, the same way @markmwrites.bsky.social did for me.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 24d

I think especially with ttrpgs, the story should be able to work without fancy fonts, images and maps. These are nice things to have, but in the end it's theatre of the imagination.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 25d

This is one of the reasons I provide a plain text Word doc with my games.

Sure, people could misuse it but it's worth it for accessibility. If you ever need to convert it to an epub to meet your needs it's fine with me.

Alyssa Visscher (she/they) @alyssavisscher.bsky.social · 25d

I would really love to see TTRPGs also released as an epub so I can read it on my phone in dark mode when I'm curled up from a migraine.

Most TTRPG pdfs aren't easily viewed on phones, and it's an accessibility issue rarely discussed. And there are more applications for epubs than my migraine days.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · Sep 7

This made me feel better about taking months to write a game review, because I always want it to be the best review I've written to date, and I mostly don't care if anyone reads it. I'm happy in my little literary game criticism corner of the internet.

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · Sep 7

Been thinking about this all week; but really this just brings a bunch of stuff bubbling up that I've been sitting on for way longer. On the death of criticism:

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Games Criticism is Dead; Long Live Games Criticism

A response to Grace Benfell’s Endless Mode piece, “Silksong Hastens the Death of the Critic” Last week the long-awaited sequel to Team Cherry’s hit search-action game Hollow…

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · Sep 7

Also I need this trinket plate, I will succeed because I am insane.

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Kat Clay @katclay.com · Sep 6

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy.

Screen shot of the Disco Elysium soundtrack playing on Spotify.

Kat Clay @katclay.com · Sep 4

Bye bye husband...

Happy Silksong day to all who celebrate! 🪡

A picture of a man in a beanbag playing Silksong