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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Strange TTRPGs for strange people. https://exstasisgames.com Producer for DIE, Hollows, and Voidheart Symphony at Rowan Rook and Decard. All views are my own unhinged ideas, and are not RRD's fault.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 26d

Sorry folks, I have to do the gross thing and actually remind folks I sell games.

Pick up an assortment of solo, system neutral, or even -gasp- honest to god, multi-player TTRPGs on our website or through a variety of online stockists.

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Strange Games for Strange People

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 10h

No, because I want to play out all the preliminary stuff - casing the joint, intimidating/bribing cards, arranging the getaway route. I just want the actual heist to be the pay-off for that.

Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 15h

Do you also remember Sagas of Sundry with something between fondness and hollow, aching need?

Ivan and Becca are offering us another hit, and buy-in is remarkably cheap.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/goo...

Tales of Dread: The Cave

An immersive horror actual play featuring props, sets, and an all-star cast of players to tell a terrifying new story.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 16h

Playing heists in TTRPGs *sucks* because to make it interesting your plans have to go awry. So you're forced into a fail-state. I know many games handle this with flashbacks, but heists are an expression of skill and competence, and for me the scrambling to recover from near-failure is dissonant.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 16h

I think I just realised my ideal heist is researching, planning preparing... and then not really playing the heist - I'd be happy with dice rolls heavily stacked in the players' favour (good prep), only playing scenes where there's a problem to solve.

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LaTia de los Muertos 🔜 Gamehole Con! @latiajacquise.com · 16h

what's your favorite part about playing a heist? asking for Very Scientific Research Purposes

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 16h

Planning it, and having some parts of the plan *actually work*.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I WANT to make for this game jam involves a Disco Elysium parody and one of the unpublished back pages.

Fuck it, staff aren't allowed to win anyway. (I assume.)

Rowan Rook and Decard @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social · 7d

IT BEGINS. Compress your concepts. Minimalise your designs. ...Squish your ideas?

One Hundred One Page Games Jam

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by gshowitt. HELLO MY NAME IS GRANT HOWITT AND I HAVE WRITTEN ONE HUNDRED OF GAME. Below is a list of my one hundred one-page games. Some of them are…

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSSS!

I gave in and started watching ep 1 last night and actually, there's a lot of plot going on so it's quite well-paced. Not a chance in hell I'll finish watching by episode 2, though, so I'm going to fall back on this!

Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 1d

OK, 2035. I can work with that. I can have Plan Z (aka Weekend at Howitt's) in place by 2033 at the latest.

Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 2d

Totally welcome. The more people I can spread this knowledge to, the better.

Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 2d

I have, regrettably, acquired quite a long list of things not to do when printing a book that at some point turned into a shorter list of things TO do, and ways to avoid embarrassing myself in front of printers. If you want any advice or questions answering, you're welcome to message me.

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 2d

Hey, bc I haven't mentioned this in a while, I am (I've been told) a damn good podcast guest, enjoy doing 'em, & can talk about a wide range of stuff.

I enjoy most talking about stuff from an artistic, trans/queer, &/or Jewish lens.

DM me/email me at spider at NerdyKeppie.com :]

Pet/art tax:

A test pour of my new bookends mold, which has Too Many Bubbles, but it features a picture of my wife, a white woman with blonde curls, asleep and snuggling a red-nosed white pibble with freckles, and on the right hand side, a sleeping black and brown hound with grey on his muzzle, tucked in under a white blanket.

My red work crocs are kinda visible at the bottom of the image.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, OK. I'll let 'em off this time, then.

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🦇naomispooksit👻 @naomithinksit.bsky.social · 2d

Good RPG Tiktok accts?

I'm on the tiktok for work reasons and now I need not shite RPG folk to follow

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 2d

Nah, I'm gonna say "draw my dog" has an implied "the actual dog, this dog, the way he looks".

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 2d

I just want to make a series of interviews about the dogs of TTRPG writers.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 2d

I sort of want to watch the new Critical Role but I do not think I want to watch 4 hours of character intros. Has someone done a highlights reel yet?

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 2d

This is where my afternoon has descended to. I blame it on
@sugarpigblog.bsky.social. Introducing the IMPOSTROPHE, a punctuation mark for all the writers out there who need a way of representing their impostor syndrome on the page...

A comma with two "perspiration" marks and a question mark sparking out from the dot

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 4d

lol no you don't, it's mine now.

Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, autumn.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

And ambient anxiety, heavy and redolent of petrichor.

Fucking brains, man.

Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 6d

Reposting at a time when people in Europe are awake. What an idea.

Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 7d

Ahem. *taps mic*

WE'RE NOW AVAILABLE IN FRENCH!

The brilliant minds at Neoludis have translated These Wretched Tales - our three solo horror RPGs - into French as La Trilogie Horreur.

The release is at OctoGônes in Lyon, 10-12 October.

Get 'em fast, folks.

subverti.com/en/maps/fest...

Image shows the front and back covers of a TTRPG book called La Trilogie de Horreur. The front cover is styled as a set of VHS tapes, named Cette Maudite Maison, Le Reflet du Mal, and L'Ombre du Predateur. The back cover includes a short summary of each game in French. Text in English reads: We're Global. 3 solo Wretched & Alone games en Francais, coming October 2025.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 7d

Please also feast your eyes on Neoludis's tease of the French proofs over on Instagram. If you can't get to OctoGônes these will tide you over until they're available online and in stores.

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 7d

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Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 7d

Et tu Affinity?

Chant / Ex Stasis Games is AT HOME AND NOT LEAVING ANYTIME SOON @exstasisgames.bsky.social · 8d

Happy birthday!