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Aaron Voigt

@aavoigt.bsky.social

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Portfolio and contacts at aavoigt.com TTRPG Videos: https://youtube.com/@aavoigt Co-host: https://www.youtube.com/@mortifiedpod Games: http://aaronsxl.itch.io He/him

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · Aug 27

My latest video is a setting analysis of @felixisaacs.bsky.social's "The Wildsea!" I borrow inspiration from the work of scholar Stefan Ekman, and use his critical worldbuilding ideas to imagine how the world's culture is impacted by key setting touchstones.

How the Wildsea Produces Culture [TTRPG Setting Analysis]

YouTube video by A.A. Voigt

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 5h

Pew Pew Bang has rocketed to a “must listen“ show for me—highly recommend their recent Pokemon episode

Pew Pew Bang! @pewpewbang.bsky.social · 5h

Pew Pew Bang is officially an award-nominated podcast! Thank you to The Astra Awards for putting us up for Best Game Podcast & to everyone who has listened to/shared our show. 💛

Best Game Podcast

Nerd of Mouth
Pew Pew Bang
The Besties
The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 11h

The early games really leant into the true messiness of history, which was something I enjoyed about them -- I would have played the shit out of THIS.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 13h

Hey it's that guy from Assassin's Creed 2

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 13h

Twitter sucks but it was worth it to have almond croissants in Baltimore

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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 7d

happy SPOOKY SEASON, folks!

I'm teaching a virtual class on FOLK HORROR (and how to better understand themes in movies), and there are 10 spots left!

You'll get access to all the required movies.
Subscribers to my patreon or twitch get a 15% discount code!
www.newberry.org/calendar/fol...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 16h

this sounds super neat, good luck with DVPit today!

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Binary @binarystar.games · 17h

binary-star-games.itch.io/death-has-co...

Death Has Come to This Town by Binary Star Games

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 18h

I’m thinking a lot about reviewing (& shaping my teaching to reflect on the form’s history, evolution, & practices now)

Would love recommendations of reviews — of anything! — that include meditations on what a review is for, as seen in the back half here:

why *some* critics hated THE GREAT GATSBY | my thoughts on the show's ★ review in the West End

YouTube video by MickeyJoTheatre

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Cherae @clclark.bsky.social · 22h

ICYMI: My latest essay is out @reactorsff.bsky.social!

“It is impossible to consider gratuitous anything that can explore such a wide range of human being. Sex manages to be a reckoning with the body, the self; with desire in myriad ways; a reckoning with the forbidden…”

Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny - Reactor

C.L. Clark discusses writing sex, desire, and queerness in Nicola Griffith's Ammonite

reactormag.com

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 1d

If you wanna see indie creators succeed, remember you can always write reviews, talk about your play experience, do shoutouts, plenty of stuff that helps so much since there's only so many places that offer us outreach, especially if we are outside of the D&D/OSR space

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Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 1d

Okay I want to ask you all now.

What does it mean for a ttrpg game mechanism or system to “support the story“ or “support storytelling?”

Leon Scarillaro 👻 @barilleon.com · 1d

Sometimes I drop a discussion question in my discord server and then disappear so I have something to read later

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 1d

What do technofeudalism, Chinese restaurants, and struggling game platform itch.io have in common? @newmadras.bsky.social has some thoughts, especially about the "platform" part.

Itch.io isn’t like other platforms

It’s like a 3.5 star Chinese restaurant.

www.rascal.news

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Grace Gittel Lewis @incaseofgrace.bsky.social · 1d

LOOK AT MY CHILDREN I SPENT SO MUCH TIME REDESIGNING THIS WEBBED SITE

Also need to note-- there's an RSS feed you can follow to stay up to date! apra.incaseofgrace.com/apra.xml

Don't like RSS but don't want to miss an article? Follow my newsletter! incaseofgrace.beehiiv.com

#icog

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 5d

Looking for an amazing solo or duet #TTRPG?
We have over 400 titles listed in our index over at solorpglist.com

#SoloRPG #DuetRPG #TTRPGfolks #GMless #Worldbuilding #Journaling #DungeonCrawl #TabletopRPG

Solo RPG List - Find Solo and Duet TTRPGs

Discover amazing solo and duet tabletop role-playing games that can be played with—or without—dice, tarot cards, playing cards, pen and paper, etc.

solorpglist.com

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Spencer Campbell @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's about time that I find someone to give money in exchange for the production of a cool logo for an upcoming project.

Hoping this is worded enough to not summon bots and spam. But if this is something you do, reach out with rates and samples!

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

"You have elected to take a job where the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work!"

Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/business/793...

A photo of Bari Weiss over a headline: "Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed"

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juliet @follypersist.bsky.social · 2d

there *should* be a random chance of encountering a muppet in your day-to-day. like, .1% of the population should be muppets, minimum

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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 2d

Happy mid-autumn festival! Presenting the annual share of one of my favorite things I've ever written (hosted on my outdated portfolio site rip)

It's a short creative nonfiction piece about identity and home and mooncakes 🥮🌕

perfectly-petrana.com/2018/09/25/%...

中秋节快乐

There is a full moon tonight. When we were children, we would light lanterns. There is a legend that goes with this tradition, though depending on who you ask, it changes. There are some that say t…

perfectly-petrana.com

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 6d

ALERT! ALERT! We're in the last days of being able to preorder my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: ON ASSASSIN'S CREED, which is a book about the Assassin's Creed franchise and how games reflect and impact the real world! Click this link and use the code MN93450 for 30% off! z.umn.edu/14943

Everything Is Permitted

An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchiseA hooded figure stands i...

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Not Writing Games @notwritinggames.bsky.social · 2d

"You need great/expensive/eye catching cover art to be able to sell games."

My game Nasty Brutish & Long has a cover that is literally just words.

I have sold 100 copies. It is well-reviewed. I am very proud of it.

notwriting.itch.io/nasty-brutis...

Cover art of Nasty Brutish & Long showing the title in dark printed script with a bloody red ampersand. Below a that a revolution is described as if it was a broadsheet from the industrial revolution.

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just a gigantic spider @gigantic-spider.bsky.social · 2d

My September TTRPG Crowdfunding Retrospective is here!

ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/10/sept...

But since last month was a pretty standard month for the campaigns themselves, I want to highlight the Kickstarter strike that's currently happening! Yes, it's hot union summer, fall, and forever

September 2025 TTRPG Crowdfunding Retrospective

If you're not already aware, the Kickstarter workers' union is currently on strike but have not called for a boycott of the site. To find...

ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com

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Eclipse @eclipse.gay · 2d

TONIGHT at 8:30 PM EST, it's The Dovecote with @seaexcursion.itch.io! Tune in as we discuss Caro's wonderful and influential games, ttrpg news and more!

[no promo image today - I'm at work!]

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