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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸

@byconniechang.bsky.social

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they/he/she. chinese-american. ENNIE-winning TTRPG & narrative designer threading queer drama with black-hearted apocalyptica. Game Master for @transplanarrpg.bsky.social. Previously: Bungie, NetEase 🌟 byconniechang.itch.io 🌟 📧 [email protected] 📧

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello, Bluesky! I’m Connie (they/he/she), an ENNIE-winning, Chinese-American Game Master and TTRPG designer exploring divinity, monstrosity, grief—and what it means to kill god.

I run @transplanarrpg.bsky.social, an all-trans, POC-led #ActualPlay in a noncolonial, antiorientalist multiverse. 🏳️‍⚧️✨

A photo of Connie smiling and laughing in blue hanfu with a peacock style crest around their shoulders. Their hair is shaved on the side and they’re wearing glasses. The foreground contains an animal bone and a large miniature figure of a tabletop character in robes wielding a longsword.

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Planet Arcana @planetarcanapod.bsky.social · 8h

Huge thank you to Sydney Web Fest for awarding us Best Original Score for The Network Defenders!!!

This is our first win for music in our series which is deeply important to us, so this one means a lot ❤️

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Reckless Attack Podcast @recklessattack.bsky.social · 2d

On October 5, 2021, a stack was born.

136 campaign episodes (and a bunch of A-Talks, Behind the Screens, Adjacents, etc. etc...) later, we stack ever higher.

And it's only getting better from here.

Unspeakable amounts of thanks to the froggy folks who have joined us for this adventure.

Text: Celebrating Four Stackin' Years of Reckless Attack hot damn we're still here PICTURE: A group f adventurers including a humanoid woman holding a spear, a grung with a crossbow and tricorn hat riding a frog, a dragonborn monk, and a dwarf wielding a large hammer

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 20h

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We’re still going!

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#ConnectingGaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza

Two Years of Genocide+: Crips Aren’t Done Sending eSims to Gaza Two years, what the fuck. It really has been two years to the day since Israel’s heightened and prolonged genocide against the…

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 38m

ICON!!!!

GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 6h

This series means the entire world to my trans Chinese heart. 💖 I’m so happy that our story of intergenerational grief, rage, and becoming within/beyond mortality and divinity is resonating with folks across the world. Go Last Hope go!!

Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 1d

What news on the winds? 🐉

We are so proud to share that GODKILLER: Last Hope picked up the wins for Best Actual Play Video and the festival-wide LGBTQIA+ Diversity Award at the Sydney Web Fest! It means the world that our story of rage, love, and becoming resonates across the globe. Thank you SWF!

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a proud lifetime member of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH), which is launching an online discussion series. I'm honored to contribute to the first session! It's free and open to everyone, so check it out and spread the word!!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/abwh-maste...

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 21h

LAST HOPE MY BELOVED!! Thank you Sydney, our love goes out to y'all!!

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 1d

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DRAK @drakoniques.itch.io · 7d

Oh potatoes and molasses! 🍂🎃

It’s that time of year again! Alongside your annual rewatch of OVER THE GARDEN WALL, you should watch BEYOND THE BROOK. It’s the Over the Garden Wall inspired TTRPG actual play I produced with some incredible talent.

Check it out!: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A vignetted image of a dimly lit forest trail with a few rays of sunlight making it through the canopy in a painterly style. In the center stand 5 characters, a young White girl with ginger hair dressed up as a witch, a young adult person who seems to be made of orange and purple honey, a scruffy young adult with tanned skin and brown wolf ears and a tail, a grey translucent young kid who seems to be made of wind and smoke, and a Black young adult woman in a dress made of leaves and flowers with a fox laying by her side. On the right-hand side, cloaked in and made of shadow is The Fiend, watching the kids with glowing white eyes. The image reads “Beyond the Brook"

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing my Panels/Events for #PAXU

First, I will be work the The PAX Intersection Games Library all weekend! We will have BIPOC, LGBTQ2SIA+ and Disabled Storytellers running and teaching games all weekend. You can also check out one of our games to play!
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PAX Together

The gaming community is a wonderfully diverse place and the PAX Together Intersection is meant as a celebration of that. Whether you count yourself among the under-represented, or just want to learn a...

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Sea 🩸 @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social · 1d

I apologize in advance for the emotional havoc I intend to reap with this game. Thank you for a beautiful system, @moreblueberries.bsky.social!

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A photo of the physical edition of The Time We Have, a tragic storytelling card game, in the sun against a tan wooden desk.

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 1d

Two years of continued and livestreamed genocide following decades of occupation, colonization, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes is sitting heavy in our hearts and souls.

We must continue to fight for liberation beyond fiction. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 2d

✨ DON'T FORGET ✨

Games For Raices starts this Saturday October 11th and it's going to be amazing!

We will have Kids on Brooms, Draw Steel and Daggerheart and we will be raising funds for @raicestexas.bsky.social

We will also have Giveaways thanks to the awesome folks at @hellomcdm.bsky.social

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AKA Michelle Jones @aleshakills.bsky.social · 1d

Are you looking for a dramaturge for your next AP? Are you a GM or producer with a concept you aren't quite sure how to execute? You can hire me! Rates negotiable, I am open to skill share for friends.

Trade Offer Meme of man in suit with steepled hands.
Left text - "I receive: Upwards of $50"
Right text - "You receive: Show concepts,
worldbuilding,
character writing,
plot guides,
and dramaturgy"

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Tales Yet Told | New Episodes Bi-Monthly @talesyettold.com · 1d

🩸Blood in the Snow🩸
A gothic horror actual play about Vampire Knights hunting monsters. Coming Oct 31st.

System: Hunt by @gilarpgs.bsky.social
Game Master: @straynerdboy.bsky.social
Cast: @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social @rocketsandpens.bsky.social @scarydogfriend.bsky.social

A promo image for Blood in the Snow from Tales Yet Told. In black and white text it reads: "From the mind of Oleander. Our Vampire Knights: Kendrick as Elvira Jibril, Fabian as Blythe, and Josephine as Swan Arcati. Coming October 31st." Behind it is a a grungy, black and white picture of a castle on a mountain surrounding by a red halo of red. The art is framed by gothic corner piece.

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 1d

I love you moon….

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 1d

🥮 Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 🥮

The Mid-Autumn Festival, aka Zhong Qiu Jie (中秋节), gives thanks for the harvest, community, and family.

We hope that everyone gets to have a warm and joyous fall sharing good food, drinks, and laughs with loved ones. Now, go tell the moon that she’s beautiful! 🌕

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3 Black Halflings 🎉 IS 5 YEARS OLD 🎉 @3blackhalflings.bsky.social · 1d

Last Saturday, Candace and Jeremy had a Movie Watch Party with our paid Patrons in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month!

Next up: horror for Halloween! Our options are The Substance, Prey, The Blackening, Mad God, Suspiria (2018), and Get Out

Join the 3BH Patreon to vote on which one we watch!!!

Halloween Movie Watch Party!!! | 3 Black Halflings

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Count Breeedo🩸🔜 PAX U @breeedo.bsky.social · 2d

I fucking hate this so much. I hate this so fucking much, but I can't continue to stay silent anymore while my integrity is continuing to be misconstrued and people keep getting hurt. This statement details my experiences while living with Noir Enigma (@/thenoirenigma) when I was homeless.

My Experience w/ Noir Enigma

01/20/2025 I’m writing about my experience with thenoirenigma, or Noir Enigma. His partner, AJ Fox (pahnita), will be included in this statement, but I want to make clear that I don’t harbor anything ...

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 2d

HI also tagging in @seaplaysrpg.bsky.social!!

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GM Connie Chang 🌈🐸 @byconniechang.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, my favorite pastime... threatening my players with my opening spiel

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Transplanar RPG 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @transplanarrpg.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you all so, so much for tuning in to our ARC INTERLUDE! It means the world to finally bring this story of grief, collapse, loss, and love to fruition after such a long hiatus. We'll be returning with our Arc 4 Premiere on October 25th, but in the meantime...

Welcome home, Transplanerds. ❌

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Velveteen Mango 🥭 ⭐ @velveteenmango.bsky.social · 3d

falls to my knees so loudly that multiple space stations jolt a little. transplanar rpg arc 3 interlude <3 put me on Any other planet and watch it turn blue also. from my tears

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Cai K 𓄿 𝖈𝖔𝖜𝖇𝖔𝖞 𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖎𝖉.𝖞𝖊𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖜. @estelofimladris.bsky.social · 3d

I'm still reeling from the fucking wild @transplanarrpg.bsky.social interlude.

I feel like I scaled a massive mountain last night. The adrenaline has not left me yet.

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