Ryan
@fools-pyrite.com
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What I'm Reading: August 2025
RPG blogging may resume soon; there’s another Drowned Isles playtest wrapping up next week and I have some thoughts. Crucially: the game works, I have fun running it, and my friends have fun playing i...
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August 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
What I've been reading recently: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...
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you can smile again, number six
June 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
you can smile again, number six
New blog post: I read a lot of books and wrote down how I felt about em. A lot of sff that didn’t thrill me and a lot of queer/trans literature that did
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What I'm Reading: April 2025
Wow, wonder what might have happened to totally blow up my blogging schedule. Well, time to look at the news and—blog posts have been delayed by a month.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
New blog post: I read a lot of books and wrote down how I felt about em. A lot of sff that didn’t thrill me and a lot of queer/trans literature that did
fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...
fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...
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programmer encounters linear algebra for the first time: (audible discomfort) strange. this vector.......... it's fixed-length and immutable. it's almost like some kind of........... tuple
April 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
programmer encounters linear algebra for the first time: (audible discomfort) strange. this vector.......... it's fixed-length and immutable. it's almost like some kind of........... tuple
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Every once in a while I'll get to tell someone, and they'll suddenly understand what I mean, that PbtA doesn't begin and end with the fiction, it begins and ends with the conversation.
"Fiction first" is an idea that came to PbtA later, from I don't really know where.
"Fiction first" is an idea that came to PbtA later, from I don't really know where.
Whenever I hear someone dogmatically saying "the moves MUST begin and end with the fiction" I always want to crack open Apocalypse World and pull out pretty much any example from the book.
March 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Every once in a while I'll get to tell someone, and they'll suddenly understand what I mean, that PbtA doesn't begin and end with the fiction, it begins and ends with the conversation.
"Fiction first" is an idea that came to PbtA later, from I don't really know where.
"Fiction first" is an idea that came to PbtA later, from I don't really know where.
Reposted by Ryan
Whenever I hear someone dogmatically saying "the moves MUST begin and end with the fiction" I always want to crack open Apocalypse World and pull out pretty much any example from the book.
March 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Whenever I hear someone dogmatically saying "the moves MUST begin and end with the fiction" I always want to crack open Apocalypse World and pull out pretty much any example from the book.
Wrote a blog post about playing my DIY rpg: fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...
I hope to get a chance to scrape some rules together and play again before the spring, and maybe even post a version before the summer
I hope to get a chance to scrape some rules together and play again before the spring, and maybe even post a version before the summer
The First Outing to the Drowned Isles, feat. Tannic
In November, I ran a oneshot using my ruleset/setting/campaign, The Drowned Isles. I was trying to test drive the kernel of a ruleset I’ve written as well as some character classes. This oneshot ran f...
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January 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Wrote a blog post about playing my DIY rpg: fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...
I hope to get a chance to scrape some rules together and play again before the spring, and maybe even post a version before the summer
I hope to get a chance to scrape some rules together and play again before the spring, and maybe even post a version before the summer
oh hey it's me :) you should vote for me for debut blog
🏆BLOGGIES 2024 - BONUS - DEBUT BLOG🏆
I'm excited to introduce this new bonus category (the only change I made to the bloggies over previous hosts) to spotlight new bloggers in their debut year.
You can vote here: forms.gle/FhR5bWcb8yFo...
Voting will be open until 9pm GMT on Monday.
I'm excited to introduce this new bonus category (the only change I made to the bloggies over previous hosts) to spotlight new bloggers in their debut year.
You can vote here: forms.gle/FhR5bWcb8yFo...
Voting will be open until 9pm GMT on Monday.
Debut Blog Voting Form (Bonus Category)
This is the official voting form for the BLOGGIES 2024.
Voting is live for roughly 24 hours (finishing around 6-7pm GMT).
More information on the awards, schedule and previous results.
As a bonus cat...
forms.gle
January 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
oh hey it's me :) you should vote for me for debut blog
I wrote up how I felt about ICON after a ~30-session-campaign: fools-pyrite.com/posts/icon-f...
(TL;DR: game well designed but I don't know if I vibe with the structure)
(TL;DR: game well designed but I don't know if I vibe with the structure)
ICON Final Impressions
The ICON campaign I was playing in wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, totalling 28 sessions in 9 months. I’m not going to write up a big comprehensive review. Instead I’ll just touch on a few things th...
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December 7, 2024 at 2:17 PM
I wrote up how I felt about ICON after a ~30-session-campaign: fools-pyrite.com/posts/icon-f...
(TL;DR: game well designed but I don't know if I vibe with the structure)
(TL;DR: game well designed but I don't know if I vibe with the structure)
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here's a computer take: it didn't actually take that much computing power to go to the moon
December 2, 2024 at 11:58 PM
here's a computer take: it didn't actually take that much computing power to go to the moon
Wrote about some things I've read recently: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...
What I'm Reading: November 2024
Not sure how much life-update I wanna put in these? Let’s see… I got over my COVID infection, the election happened, I began a gradual-but-long-anticipated life change, my partner and I went on a litt...
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December 1, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Wrote about some things I've read recently: fools-pyrite.com/posts/readin...
as bsky gains momentum two things become clear:
1. this will be the defacto post-Twitter, post-Tumblr, post-Cohost place for most of the people I follow
2. it's got enough people that any popular post's replies are truly obnoxious
1. this will be the defacto post-Twitter, post-Tumblr, post-Cohost place for most of the people I follow
2. it's got enough people that any popular post's replies are truly obnoxious
November 10, 2024 at 8:25 PM
as bsky gains momentum two things become clear:
1. this will be the defacto post-Twitter, post-Tumblr, post-Cohost place for most of the people I follow
2. it's got enough people that any popular post's replies are truly obnoxious
1. this will be the defacto post-Twitter, post-Tumblr, post-Cohost place for most of the people I follow
2. it's got enough people that any popular post's replies are truly obnoxious
New blog post! I played a session of ICON (fantasy RPG from one of the Lancer creators) and wrote down some thoughts. TL;DR: totally unremarkable FitD game stapled to an exciting tactics game
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First Impressions: ICON
This week I played my first session of ICON, Massif Press’s tactical fantasy RPG. It’s my usual group less two players, so that makes one GM and then four of us on the other side of the table. So far ...
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March 22, 2024 at 2:03 PM
New blog post! I played a session of ICON (fantasy RPG from one of the Lancer creators) and wrote down some thoughts. TL;DR: totally unremarkable FitD game stapled to an exciting tactics game
fools-pyrite.com/posts/icon-f...
fools-pyrite.com/posts/icon-f...
Hello! I'm new to BlueSky and don't understand it at all yet. I do have my latest blog post up to share:
fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...
fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...
The Drowned Isles: A Scrap Game
I’ve got an RPG campaign burning a hole in my pocket. It’s a fantasy adventure setting, with a little world of my own devising seeded with smaller adventures and modules to ease on prep. The only prob...
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March 12, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Hello! I'm new to BlueSky and don't understand it at all yet. I do have my latest blog post up to share:
fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...
fools-pyrite.com/posts/drowne...