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he/they ✦ game writer & producer daggerheart, confluence rpg, kids on bikes 2e editorial project manager @ springernature prev: ✦ editor @ hunters ent ✦ td @ pixel circus ✦ jr. games producer @ darrington 🔗: alexteplitz.com 📧: [email protected]

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · Sep 19

Hello Bluesky, I'm Alex! I'm a writer, game designer & editor working in TTRPGs with a passion for horror and queer storytelling.

✏️ Editor at Hunters Entertainment
⚙️ Writer and Project Assistant for Confluence: The Living Archive
🎥 Tech Director for It's Too Early
💜 Available for freelance work!

Alex wearing a white sweater and jean overalls, wearing glasses, taking a selfie. Camera and studio equipment is visible behind him.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 8m

please be proud of me i canceled two events and am not attending new york comic con... guy who is going to take a break and go for a run <---

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 10m

honestly the lesbians i keep meeting are so cool it does feel like time travel

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Anica Cihla @atticus.haus · 1d

THE CRYPTID SHOW IS LIVE ON BACKERKIT NOW. Please back it and share it with your friends! Also please enjoy these fucking fantastic bumper stickers i came up with as a backer reward
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 11h

blessed be!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 13h

happy lesbian visibility day. dykes saved my life this year 💖🧡🤍

diana reading under a blue plaid blanket on a white couch by a white curtain on film

three leatherdykes with tattoos, sitting together and looking at the camera. one wears a thick black leather harness with brass jump rings. the butch next to them wears a denim shirt over a t shirt that reads 'good boy.' the third wears a black top off the shoulder and blue jeans.

ali, a lesbian wearing a baseball cap, holds up their tank that reads 'dyke nyc run club' against a background of the water by the west side piers of new york

two curly haired masc lesbians with tattoos. one is kissing the other on the forehead, revealing only the bottom half of their face.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 1d

congrats!

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Eryk ☭ (but make it Red Scare for Halloween) @peregrinecoast.press · 22d

🚨 Announcing: Rites of Renewal, a neo-pagan folk horror sandbox crowdfunding during Mothership Month.

With words by @jlcable.bsky.social, fully illustrated with lino art by @pickledpennies.bsky.social, and published by Peregrine Coast Press.

The Solstice is Coming. Will you join the festivities?

The Solstice is Coming

From Peregrine Coast Press - The Solstice is Coming

www.backerkit.com

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 1d

📻 tuning in!!

Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 1d

WE ARE LIVE!!!

The Cryptid Show by @atticus.haus at ttrpg.link/CryptidShow
Black Flies by @goosepoopgames.com at ttrpg.link/BlackFlies

THE BLACK CRYPTID COLLAB LIVES! Support these spooky season #TTRPGs now!

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

today i saw a bed frame so beautiful i started crying at work

an image from facebook marketplace of a $450 queen bed frame of dark mahogany stained wood and a large elegant headboard inset with red and white stained glass in the center

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

CONGRATSSS SHAGHIK

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

killer crew!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god. news for calebs

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 3d

love the fit!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 4d

exactly !!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 4d

yanni and anna visited me in nyc recently! i love making new friends by bonding over how cool their art and games are.
@theurbanavian.bsky.social @ofthatilk.bsky.social

alex and yanni stand smiling in front of a bustling italian market in new york city. the photo is slightly grainy from being shot on film

yanni and anna peruse perfume samples, backlit by a large sunny window. the photo is grainy from being shot on film

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Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 5d

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability.

Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't.

You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius.

Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 5d

and i'm planning on it ✍️✍️

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 5d

i always love a world bible

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 6d

you're right but also i keep having the best conversations with them. something about laying on a table and being prodded with needles really gets me to open up lmao

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 6d

pretend to be surprised: i am once again down bad for my cool tattoo artist.

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · Jun 21

it's really unfair when a talented artist is also hot. double whammied

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Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 7d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 6d

i believe it

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 6d

unbelievable the kind of power that being a game designer and game master affords me in the queer dating scene in new york city. every single person i've met wants to play a board game or ttrpg more than they want to get laid

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 7d

The thing I bring into my game design from Surrealist games is using off-kilter questions to startle the player into a moment of unfiltered creativity or reflection.

The thing I bring into my game design from Victorian parlor games is a rhythm of social awkwardness, suspense, and resolution.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 6d

halloween flash you are so good for my soul and bad for my budget