Fraser
@swordsedgepublishing.ca
AKA accidentalfrase Canadian TTRPG designer of Sword Noir, Centurion, Nefertiti Overdrive, Sword’s Edge & others
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Fraser
@swordsedgepublishing.ca
· Aug 3
F#ck 'Em Up by Fraser Ronald
F#cking up the status quo
fraserronald.itch.io
Just a reminder that F#ck 'Em Up is out there and it's free.
Feel like striking a blow against the status quo and purveyors of brutality with your crew? Time to burn it all down and salt the ashes.
fraserronald.itch.io/fck-em-up
Feel like striking a blow against the status quo and purveyors of brutality with your crew? Time to burn it all down and salt the ashes.
fraserronald.itch.io/fck-em-up
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The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year (box set)
The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:43 PM
The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
You and me both, MurderBot
You and me both.
You and me both.
For fuck’s sake.
January 26, 2026 at 2:53 PM
You and me both, MurderBot
You and me both.
You and me both.
Donated some of my filthy lucre to help families in Minnesota. Daughter threw in a bit as well. Not much, but every little bit helps.
If you got something to spare, maybe send it along.
If you got something to spare, maybe send it along.
we recognize that amazon is NOT AN IDEAL TOOL for this moment, so for those who don't want to give them money (fair!!!) please visit standwithminnesota.com and pick someone from the MANY OPTIONS. There are so many folks who need help! 💓
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
standwithminnesota.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Donated some of my filthy lucre to help families in Minnesota. Daughter threw in a bit as well. Not much, but every little bit helps.
If you got something to spare, maybe send it along.
If you got something to spare, maybe send it along.
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PAX, Magic Con, and Emerald City Comic Con are also produced by ReedPop.
For those that are wondering about ReedPop the company who produces Star Wars Celebration, New York Comic Con, C2E2, & many more and ReedPop’s affiliation with ICE here’s a link to gives all the details actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Star Wars Celebration: Divest from ICE
Star Wars is a story about the fight against systemic oppression, surveillance, and the overreach of a fascist regime. However, the company that produces our largest fan gathering is profiting from th...
actionnetwork.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:56 AM
PAX, Magic Con, and Emerald City Comic Con are also produced by ReedPop.
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America update: hours after federal agents executed a Veterans Affairs nurse on camera, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon watched a film about the president's wife at the White House.
On tonight’s White House agenda:
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
January 25, 2026 at 4:35 AM
America update: hours after federal agents executed a Veterans Affairs nurse on camera, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon watched a film about the president's wife at the White House.
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it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines
Four months of shootings and deaths. This doesn't even count the neglect and death in their concentration camps. Fuck. This. Shit.
January 26, 2026 at 3:19 AM
it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines
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Fascists love to harp back to the glory days of empire, the 18th and 19th centuries, wanting to make X great again, and forget that generally liberal democracy was not leftist elite over reach. It was a compromise to sustain capitalism after conditions led subject populations to revolt repeatedly.
January 26, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Fascists love to harp back to the glory days of empire, the 18th and 19th centuries, wanting to make X great again, and forget that generally liberal democracy was not leftist elite over reach. It was a compromise to sustain capitalism after conditions led subject populations to revolt repeatedly.
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If you want to pick up a POD copy of Songfall Survivors, our massive expansion for After the War, it's now available! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Songfall Survivors - Genesis of Legend Publishing | DriveThruRPG
It's been ten years since the war
After the War is a tabletop roleplaying game of memetic horror, where you play some of the few survivors of a brutal galactic war against an alien hivemind called The...
www.drivethrurpg.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:04 PM
If you want to pick up a POD copy of Songfall Survivors, our massive expansion for After the War, it's now available! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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Art is never trivial. One of the goals of state violence is to undermine the power of artists and the experience of art, however banal that experience might be.
Posting movie stuff feels so utterly trivial right now.
January 24, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Art is never trivial. One of the goals of state violence is to undermine the power of artists and the experience of art, however banal that experience might be.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Hells to the Yeah.
Of course F#ck 'Em Up is in this, but that's free, so also including Starship Commandos and League of Misfits.
Of course F#ck 'Em Up is in this, but that's free, so also including Starship Commandos and League of Misfits.
The No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle submission period is now open: itch.io/jam/no-ice-i...
All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome
Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February
All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome
Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February
January 25, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Hells to the Yeah.
Of course F#ck 'Em Up is in this, but that's free, so also including Starship Commandos and League of Misfits.
Of course F#ck 'Em Up is in this, but that's free, so also including Starship Commandos and League of Misfits.
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The No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle submission period is now open: itch.io/jam/no-ice-i...
All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome
Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February
All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome
Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February
January 7, 2026 at 10:32 PM
The No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle submission period is now open: itch.io/jam/no-ice-i...
All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome
Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February
All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome
Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February
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You should definitely submit a game session (or more!) if you’re going to CanGames. Great people organizing this long-running convention.
If anyone wants to run games at CanGames 2026 in Ottawa, now is the perfect time to submit your events. We would love to see more indie designers and publishers at the show! cangames.ca
CanGames Tabletop Game Convention – Friendly Mayhem Since 1977
cangames.ca
January 25, 2026 at 7:17 PM
You should definitely submit a game session (or more!) if you’re going to CanGames. Great people organizing this long-running convention.
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If anyone wants to run games at CanGames 2026 in Ottawa, now is the perfect time to submit your events. We would love to see more indie designers and publishers at the show! cangames.ca
CanGames Tabletop Game Convention – Friendly Mayhem Since 1977
cangames.ca
January 25, 2026 at 6:37 PM
If anyone wants to run games at CanGames 2026 in Ottawa, now is the perfect time to submit your events. We would love to see more indie designers and publishers at the show! cangames.ca
And in non-political thoughts (difficult, but I need to take a breath)
Working on the second edition of Kiss My Axe is creating a push to update Sword's Edge (and maybe even Sword Noir).
A key change to how Momentum (think initiative) works is being born, and it alters some fundamentals.
Working on the second edition of Kiss My Axe is creating a push to update Sword's Edge (and maybe even Sword Noir).
A key change to how Momentum (think initiative) works is being born, and it alters some fundamentals.
January 25, 2026 at 7:18 PM
And in non-political thoughts (difficult, but I need to take a breath)
Working on the second edition of Kiss My Axe is creating a push to update Sword's Edge (and maybe even Sword Noir).
A key change to how Momentum (think initiative) works is being born, and it alters some fundamentals.
Working on the second edition of Kiss My Axe is creating a push to update Sword's Edge (and maybe even Sword Noir).
A key change to how Momentum (think initiative) works is being born, and it alters some fundamentals.
I dream of a municipal politician like this.
Can we clone him?
Can we clone him?
One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.
January 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I dream of a municipal politician like this.
Can we clone him?
Can we clone him?
How the F is Bill F'n Kristol so far out in front?
this is right. you don't have to work out every detail. start with no. go from there.
Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.
January 25, 2026 at 7:08 PM
How the F is Bill F'n Kristol so far out in front?
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This is definitely true for me. Leiber was a terrific influence, both as a fantasy writer and an sf writer. Genius, and now virtually out of print.
This is definitely true for me. Leiber was a terrific influence, both as a fantasy writer and an sf writer. Genius, and now virtually out of print.
That Other American Tolkien
When I was a child, the novels of Fritz Leiber were way more important to me than The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings. If anything Tolkien was the British Leiber
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
open.substack.com/pub/levgross...
This is definitely true for me. Leiber was a terrific influence, both as a fantasy writer and an sf writer. Genius, and now virtually out of print.
This is definitely true for me. Leiber was a terrific influence, both as a fantasy writer and an sf writer. Genius, and now virtually out of print.
I've set Cute In Kevlar aside as I think I want to approach it a different way, so my current WIP is going to be Harshwood--Silverado as a F#ck 'Em Up! adventure.
While I've got started in Cute In Kevlar--a new adventure for F#ck 'Em Up--my current efforts are to prep for the work team's Christmas party.
And while F#ck 'Em Up is free, the rest of my stuff is on sale for the next few days as part of @itch.io's Black Friday sale.
itch.io/s/168449/bla...
And while F#ck 'Em Up is free, the rest of my stuff is on sale for the next few days as part of @itch.io's Black Friday sale.
itch.io/s/168449/bla...
January 25, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I've set Cute In Kevlar aside as I think I want to approach it a different way, so my current WIP is going to be Harshwood--Silverado as a F#ck 'Em Up! adventure.
For me, the key thing that Cyberpunk 2077 got very right--story-wise--was it made me feel for Jackie. His death never ceases to have an emotional impact, nor does interacting with his mom.
And I've done a lot of playthroughs.
For me, it's the emotional core of the game. Even more than Johnny.
And I've done a lot of playthroughs.
For me, it's the emotional core of the game. Even more than Johnny.
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
For me, the key thing that Cyberpunk 2077 got very right--story-wise--was it made me feel for Jackie. His death never ceases to have an emotional impact, nor does interacting with his mom.
And I've done a lot of playthroughs.
For me, it's the emotional core of the game. Even more than Johnny.
And I've done a lot of playthroughs.
For me, it's the emotional core of the game. Even more than Johnny.
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Overheard a group of high school dudes on public transit: “He saw us playing D&D and now he really wants to try it.”
You go my people. Proselytize the shit out of it!
You go my people. Proselytize the shit out of it!
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Overheard a group of high school dudes on public transit: “He saw us playing D&D and now he really wants to try it.”
You go my people. Proselytize the shit out of it!
You go my people. Proselytize the shit out of it!
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Another guide for turning a lot of AI off in Gmail.
Proton Mail seems to be the thing.
In the interim, here's a guide to turning a lot of this stuff off in Gmail -- ironically, provided by Proton!
proton.me/blog/turn-of...
In the interim, here's a guide to turning a lot of this stuff off in Gmail -- ironically, provided by Proton!
proton.me/blog/turn-of...
How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton
New AI features are making their way to your Gmail inbox. Here's how to turn off Gemini in Gmail and why you should.
proton.me
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Another guide for turning a lot of AI off in Gmail.
It's kinda funny (or depressing . . . y'know, what you will) that this sounds so much like North Korea--it has a hard time believing we actually have freedom of the press, that the government doesn't control the media like Pyongyang does.
Oh. Wait. . . nevermind.
Oh. Wait. . . nevermind.
Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
January 18, 2026 at 10:22 PM
It's kinda funny (or depressing . . . y'know, what you will) that this sounds so much like North Korea--it has a hard time believing we actually have freedom of the press, that the government doesn't control the media like Pyongyang does.
Oh. Wait. . . nevermind.
Oh. Wait. . . nevermind.