AJMarquis, Citizen Journalist
@ajmarquis.bsky.social
Leftist, former physics guy turned amateur TTRPG developer and teacher
why
The best science-fiction role-playing game ever, adapted at last to the world's most popular rules!
Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran Timothy Brown, Traveller 5E is coming from World's Largest RPGs, with crowdfunding in March 2026...
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran Timothy Brown, Traveller 5E is coming from World's Largest RPGs, with crowdfunding in March 2026...
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I stopped caring about trying to stop piracy in 1993 when a coworker of my Dad's showed me how he uses a filter to xerox "nonrepro" blue originals.
This isn't a moral judgment for or against piracy, but I saw the futility of trying to stop it.
This isn't a moral judgment for or against piracy, but I saw the futility of trying to stop it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I stopped caring about trying to stop piracy in 1993 when a coworker of my Dad's showed me how he uses a filter to xerox "nonrepro" blue originals.
This isn't a moral judgment for or against piracy, but I saw the futility of trying to stop it.
This isn't a moral judgment for or against piracy, but I saw the futility of trying to stop it.
Do you have any idea how much extra math and reading practice my kids get because I play board/card/ttrpg games with them?
Yes, TTRPG games is like ATM machine.
Yes, TTRPG games is like ATM machine.
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Do you have any idea how much extra math and reading practice my kids get because I play board/card/ttrpg games with them?
Yes, TTRPG games is like ATM machine.
Yes, TTRPG games is like ATM machine.
The most powerful feeling I've experienced playing a game this year was the serenity of walking up from the basement to the now open room 46. My 9 year old was on my lap and we were silent as we walked.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The most powerful feeling I've experienced playing a game this year was the serenity of walking up from the basement to the now open room 46. My 9 year old was on my lap and we were silent as we walked.
I love all my friends.
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I love all my friends.
The most important question to be asking kids when playing ttrpgs with them is "What do you think [NPC] will do if your character does that?" They are often saying funny stuff without realizing they don't wanna roleplay the consequences.
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The most important question to be asking kids when playing ttrpgs with them is "What do you think [NPC] will do if your character does that?" They are often saying funny stuff without realizing they don't wanna roleplay the consequences.
We gotta stop the online gambling. You've no idea the hold it has on high school classrooms.
November 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
We gotta stop the online gambling. You've no idea the hold it has on high school classrooms.
Avatar the Last Airbender update: Now I know why my kids jump on my back and say yip yip
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Avatar the Last Airbender update: Now I know why my kids jump on my back and say yip yip
Since AI psychosis seems to have leveled or dropped off post gpt5, I'm very curious to know how much OpenAI knew they were causing it
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Since AI psychosis seems to have leveled or dropped off post gpt5, I'm very curious to know how much OpenAI knew they were causing it
You're laughing? A grandma killer lost his dream job and you're laughing?
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
You're laughing? A grandma killer lost his dream job and you're laughing?
It's 2005, and I'm making a blue white control deck.
It's 2015, and I'm making a blue white control deck.
It's 2025, and I'm making a blue white cat girl wizard control deck.
It's 2015, and I'm making a blue white control deck.
It's 2025, and I'm making a blue white cat girl wizard control deck.
November 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It's 2005, and I'm making a blue white control deck.
It's 2015, and I'm making a blue white control deck.
It's 2025, and I'm making a blue white cat girl wizard control deck.
It's 2015, and I'm making a blue white control deck.
It's 2025, and I'm making a blue white cat girl wizard control deck.
I haven't played Magic: The Gathering since Zendikar and I don't have the brainpower to figure out all the Final Fantasy SKUs.
October 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I haven't played Magic: The Gathering since Zendikar and I don't have the brainpower to figure out all the Final Fantasy SKUs.
The new AP Comp Sci maintains what I think is defective ordering, starting with the connection between booleans and other values via comparison, moving to control structures, then backwards to boolean expressions.
October 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The new AP Comp Sci maintains what I think is defective ordering, starting with the connection between booleans and other values via comparison, moving to control structures, then backwards to boolean expressions.
We haven't cyberbullied this nerd off here yet? What's the point of this website
Chart from "The Anxious Generation." How do we reverse this? We get young people to stop spending 5-9 hours a day on social media and video games, and we get them back to real life.
October 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We haven't cyberbullied this nerd off here yet? What's the point of this website
Making my unit 2 slides
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Making my unit 2 slides
what if frasier have ipad
Do you ever sit and wonder which classic TV characters would have embraced newer technology? Stuff that appeared after their run.
#TVsky
#TVsky
October 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
what if frasier have ipad
Starting to read @lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions as rec'd by @erikhane.bsky.social . Introduction does a very good job setting up the subject as worthy of time and about which interesting, new, and nuanced things will be said.
October 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Starting to read @lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions as rec'd by @erikhane.bsky.social . Introduction does a very good job setting up the subject as worthy of time and about which interesting, new, and nuanced things will be said.
Underrated battle royale typing game strat: go on voice chat after the first few passages and just start saying fucking numbers
October 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Underrated battle royale typing game strat: go on voice chat after the first few passages and just start saying fucking numbers
I'm being inundated with Tron: Ares posts on my Twitter For You page and there's no way that it isn't undisclosed paid advertisements.
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I'm being inundated with Tron: Ares posts on my Twitter For You page and there's no way that it isn't undisclosed paid advertisements.
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I've called the process of designing a system from an inspiration set "story interpolation" (middling term, admittedly). I love to use this slide from a talk Tarn gave at Northwestern's Progression Mechanics to illustrate the concept
October 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I've called the process of designing a system from an inspiration set "story interpolation" (middling term, admittedly). I love to use this slide from a talk Tarn gave at Northwestern's Progression Mechanics to illustrate the concept
Hey there are federal agents disappearing people on the streets but, yeah, sure, this slop is "100."
People need to grow the fuck up.
People need to grow the fuck up.
October 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hey there are federal agents disappearing people on the streets but, yeah, sure, this slop is "100."
People need to grow the fuck up.
People need to grow the fuck up.
This is frighteningly specific and I'm sad to say I understand it
October 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
This is frighteningly specific and I'm sad to say I understand it
Where are the kid defenders to get mad about hormones on this one?
So a thing quietly happening in the background for awhile now is rich parents dosing their kids with growth hormone.
I think it's hilarious we're gonna have a generation of seven foot three ogres who claim a working class background and get mad when you ask how they paid for that trip to Europe.
I think it's hilarious we're gonna have a generation of seven foot three ogres who claim a working class background and get mad when you ask how they paid for that trip to Europe.
October 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Where are the kid defenders to get mad about hormones on this one?
The students also didn't like this
October 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The students also didn't like this