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Hannah Shaffer

@hanbandit.bsky.social

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TTRPG designer & scent enthusiast. Co-creator of Questlandia, Mud: A Golem Memoir, and other little games. Emerging back into the world. 🌈🎲 (she/they) Games at https://turtlebun.com/

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 10d

All our RPGs will be in this bundle. Every show of solidarity with Palestine keeps the global rally cry loud and ever-present. 🇵🇸

Molgannard Press 🇵🇸 @molgannardpress.bsky.social · 10d

PCRF aid Bundle coming soon!
itch.io/blog/1060997...

PCRF aid Bundle coming soon!

Hello all, The

itch.io

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 11d

The Libby app is one of the miracles of modern tech tbh

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perry dimes @prdgm.bsky.social · 10d

ya sex is nice but have you ever made a particularly pertinent comment during book club and everyone starts snapping in approval

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 10d

All our RPGs will be in this bundle. Every show of solidarity with Palestine keeps the global rally cry loud and ever-present. 🇵🇸

Molgannard Press 🇵🇸 @molgannardpress.bsky.social · 10d

PCRF aid Bundle coming soon!
itch.io/blog/1060997...

PCRF aid Bundle coming soon!

Hello all, The

itch.io

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 22d

One of the many sad impacts of the proliferation of AI art is a sudden public skepticism that any art is real. The past week I’ve seen multiple artists across different mediums getting randomly accused of AI because their art is just too cool and good to be believed in a world of fakes.

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 25d

They look like how cats were drawn in medieval paintings.

A white and black kitten, and black and white kitten, with serious faces.

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Sep 4

We just celebrated a milestone—episode 100 of Design Doc! “The Realest Place on Earth” is a two-hour special chronicling our attempt to playtest a roleplaying game at Six Flags and all the ways it failed miserably, and some actually good game design it resulted in! open.spotify.com/episode/0nTC...

The Realest Place on Earth

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Aug 28

I sometimes forget about that! That was a fun project. It all comes full circle 😄

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Iain @iainnd.bsky.social · Aug 27

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Aug 12

Congrats to all involved!🥰

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Aug 6

Happy wedding Quinn!!

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · Aug 6

I might have to push back Five Fires crowdfunding a month or two since it's bumping against my wedding this year, and I am pretty sure I don't want to drive myself mad with both of them.

Still going to do it, so please follow it here! Get Ready for Five Fires share.google/3Llk0ypadyUX...

Get Ready for Five Fires

From Thoughtcrime Games LLC - Get Ready for Five Fires

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · Aug 6

instituting a statute of limitations on rules queries in the Discord

screenshot from the RRD discord of a message I posted today. It reads:

"Grant Howitt — 2:26 PM
Hey there - sorry about the delay in response. I wrote this game so long ago I cannot remember my motivations behind doing so and the rules you describe seem alien to me. I suggest you follow your heart and choose whatever option feels right to you."

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Tracy @theothertracy.bsky.social · Aug 6

You Are the Dungeon.

You are eternal and ever-growing.
They venture into your depths to plunder and loot.
They will leave, never to be the same again.
They will never forget you:

theothertracy.itch.io/you-are-the-...

You are the Dungeon by TheOtherTracy

Send them to their doom. Never stop growing.

theothertracy.itch.io

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Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · Aug 6

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · Jul 25

We brought Wonderland to a real-life theme park! In the latest episode of Design Doc, we talked about how to take tabletop rules off the table. What needs to be simplified, what can be dropped, and what should we wear?

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Jul 21

We are headed to Six Flags tomorrow to try LARPing Escape from Wonderland on a roller coaster. Face coverings aren’t allowed but to my knowledge Liminal Zone Glasses get a free pass.🕴️

$Hannah wearing pink light refracting kaleidoscopic sunglasses.$

Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Jul 21

Me too! My heart is too soft for fostering. 🥹 I just want to take every cat in my arms.

Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Jul 21

Continually appreciating the local shelter’s mad dash to give names to incoming strays even during critical-capacity kitten season. Today’s adoptable hopefuls are tabby Half Off and black cat Free Shipping.

Photo of two kittens. A tabby cat and black cat.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · Jul 16

M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).

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•pisscauldron• @pisscauldron.bsky.social · Jul 16

i inject estrogen because i'm a transsexual. i wear crocs because im nonbinary

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · Jul 16

Thanks to everyone who's backed the Five Rings Wrestling Alliance - we've funded! I just got to send @danenglish.bsky.social that very exciting email.

Funding runs through July 25th, and we're always looking for more pros to join the FRWA roster!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

Five Rings Wrestling Alliance: An Athletic WWWRPG Promotion

In FRWA, premier athletes enter the Squared Circle in pursuit of fame, fortune and championship gold!

www.kickstarter.com

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · Jul 16

this is my life now

Screenshot of notifications screen with a humorous amount of “The Spotted towhee is here” notifications

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Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · Jul 16

Plus One is looking for 4 "Zine Weight" #TTRPS to help support next year in a very particular way.

We want to run 4 titles by newer creators through 4 different "funding platforms" & track the process for each one.

The platforms are:
-Kickstarter
-Backerkit
-Gamefound
-Zine Club

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Jul 16

New Design Doc out today! This one is about our attempt to plan a game of Escape from Wonderland at Six Flags, and whether it’s actually possible to LARP on a roller coaster. Probably one of my favorite recent episodes. 😄

episodes.fm/1298080097/e...

Roleplaying in the Park

Listen to Roleplaying in the Park from Design Doc wherever you get your podcasts!

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Whenever I leave this world, whether it's sixty years from now, I wouldn't want anyone to say I lost some battle. I'll be a winner that day." - Andrea Gibson

Rest in power Andrea Gibson. I am gutted, but so moved by the art and fierce gentleness of spirit they brought to this world.

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