Thank you so much, that's delightful!

Love these, especially Sweetums! Allow me to propose in addition:

Link Hogthrob as Humperdinck (Humperlinck)

Uncle Deadly as Rugen

Sam the Eagle as the impressive clergyman

Rizzo as ROUS

Statler & Waldorf as "Booooo!"

And finally, one word: FOZZINI. Can't you hear it? "Inconceeeivable!"

Already said it once today and I'll say it again in front of everyone: Happy birthday!

Getting to finally hang out with you in person after years of online camaraderie was a major highlight of my con last year, and I'm looking forward to doing it again. ✨

*DREDGE*

Oof. What a Monday, I hope it improves from here. 🤞

Without being allowed to say Tootsie, I would have to say it's probably a very close contest between Hook and I ❤️ Huckabee's.

Yay! I'm so excited about Big Bad Academy!!

Thank you Chris!

I remember when you and I were the only vendors in that little side room at our very first hotel, and just look at how it's grown!

I tend to conceptualize mechanics as a combination of "here is a tool" and "here is a mindset."

The improv tip of 'yes, and' is a great example because it's a literal tool (start by saying these words), as well as a reminder to hold a collaborative, generative mindset.

My personal GM and player style is informed by my training as an improv & stage actor and my past profession as a drama therapist.

I try to reflect that style in my mutual support mechanics, to hopefully create replicable techniques and approaches for a playful environment of reversible authority.

I've also been thinking about this issue a lot in designing Abyssal (FitD historical monster game in production w/ @evilhat.bsky.social) because play-to-find-out in a big historical setting with player-driven narrative can be daunting...!

My duet games are written with this explicitly in mind, too! Because they are collaborative narrative building with a very minimal structural arc to guide the story, I intentionally create two kinds of scaffolding: providing support for oneself, and providing support for one's play partner.

Absolutely, it's just who she is

YESSSS

Well Lara doesn't! 😆

Dejá vroom

TIL there's an actual name for what I've just been calling "mothman voice-to-text" in my head

The ritual is almost complete. Utter the arcane words barely bound by the text that restrains them and free our elder, The Red Velvet

Congratulations!!