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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 11h

For our next guest, on Dirty Laundry, the mayor of New York and 5th most powerful Democrat, Zohran Mamdani

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 11h

Is this topical to something that happened recently? Or just a general reminder?

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 12h

I am not at all surprised at this collab between two native New Yorkers — but also no one has more juice than Zohran and tabletop is a keystone for the future of entertainment.

It’s all right there to read.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 12h

Met my wife and, after a brief inventory, 90% of my friends.

Social media is an incredible tool cannibalized by advertisers and propagandists over and over and over again.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Sadie is 🎲 Laying It All on the Line 🎲 @oakleafinsignia.games · 12h

If you liked Small Gods Scatter (award winning 🙂‍↕️) or pretty much anything I've had a hand in planning, playing, running — you'll absolutely love this campaign ✨

Sadie is 🎲 Laying It All on the Line 🎲 @oakleafinsignia.games · 12h

I still need one more player to launch this beginner friendly Daggerheart campaign! If you need something to fill your Thursday nights, we're gonna have a blast with some roleplay heavy dice rolling ✨

startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

Join How Many Daggers is Too Many? | Daggerheart | Beginner-friendly - Discord - Daggerheart | StartPlaying Games

No one know what rewards actually await at the end of the Knife's Edge. You've heard rumors, of course, but you can't be sure that anyone has actually made it to the end of that strange mountain ridge...

startplaying.games

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 13h

Christ would have listened to a lot of System of a Down, I think

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 13h

The lay minister who ran my elementary after school program played this album a lot.

I wonder what he thinks of the world all the time.

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 13h

Do you have an AP or TTRPG stream or podcast launching or airing in October?

If so, let’s talk about doing a promo for you on @uepodca.st

DM me?

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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jex thomas @lastpinepress.com · 1d

It's feeling real Socialism or Barbarism in this motherfucker lately

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molly @mabbattista.bsky.social · 1d

"When the last feather falls / The sage god shall shatter / The first leaf to burn shall / See the small gods scatter"

I loved this arc

Unbalanced Encounters @uepodca.st · 1d

Thank you so much, Sydney Web Fest, for naming Small Gods Scatter BEST ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST 2025!

@emilygreymoore.bsky.social, @ddungeondiving.bsky.social, and @oakleafinsignia.games burned the HOUSE DOWN in our story of love and loss.

WINNER
Best Actual Play Podcast
SYDNEY WEB FEST
2025

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will jobst -> gamehole con @willjobst.bsky.social · 1d

when travel for a trip has 1-2 steps: i'm a jetsetter. this is the life of a wanderer. i'm at peace.

when travel has a single additional step: there is no saving me for i boil in the pit of hell

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🥧 suzanne 🥧 @425suzanne.bsky.social · 1d

For what my opinion is worth - MOST content creators cannot bring in a meaningful volume of backers so I'm shifting away from viewing them as buzz build. Where I'm seeing value in content is in playthroughs. Have them ready when you launch. If they air earlier, have lead capture ready.

Crownfell preorder: Nov 18 @weheart.games · 3d

Advice request:

Is it better to have review coverage in advance of a crowd funding campaign, to build buzz, or better to have that review coverage happen during the campaign so people can back it right away when they see it? 🎲✂️

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 1d

Disaster cowgirl heiress

Unbalanced Encounters @uepodca.st · 1d

#TM4 Meet Flo (played by @emilygreymoore.bsky.social)

Flo is the second child of the Osprey line. Or is she? In any event, she's being disinherited until she proves herself. With a gun.

She's an Infernal Iron Godslinger, a new class from Waste & Wild, a weird-west-WIP we're teasing.

A simple character sheet for Arianna Floridia "Flo" Osprey II, which reads:
Level 3 Infernal Iron Godslinger
STR 8 DEX 10 CON 18 / INT 10 WIS 8 CHA 16
Background: Courtier
Heritage: Anointed
Lineage: Elf?
Armor Class: 14

Her character portrait depicts a young woman with alabaster skin, pitch-white hair, and golden eyes. Her black outfit is broken up by a leather waist corset and knee-high boots adorned with golden snake motifs. In her right hand is a snub-nosed revolver.
A simple character sheet for Arianna Floridia "Flo" Osprey II, which reads:
Level 3 Infernal Iron Godslinger
STR 8 DEX 10 CON 18 / INT 10 WIS 8 CHA 16
Background: Courtier
Heritage: Anointed
Lineage: Elf?
Armor Class: 14

Her character portrait depicts a young woman with alabaster skin, pitch-white hair, and golden eyes. Her black outfit is broken up by a leather waist corset and knee-high boots adorned with golden snake motifs. In her right hand is a snub-nosed revolver.

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 1d

In an ecosystem that relies on reputation and is deeply social, understanding this distinction is so important.

Glaiza @classicalglaiza.com · 1d

Being hurt in private to your close friends is not the same as actively causing people to lose opportunities and getting them rejected for jobs.

For one, I am not in the position of authority to do that and for second, I'm allowed to be hurt among my friends when a bad break up happens.

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Glaiza @classicalglaiza.com · 1d

Being hurt in private to your close friends is not the same as actively causing people to lose opportunities and getting them rejected for jobs.

For one, I am not in the position of authority to do that and for second, I'm allowed to be hurt among my friends when a bad break up happens.

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 1d

Presumably as part of Trump's insane assertion that insurrection is occurring in Portland, F-16s have been buzzing the *suburbs* non-stop since 6am.

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RahRah🫀 @rahrah.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't heard Small Gods you are missing out on an absolutely gorgeous arc.

Unbalanced Encounters @uepodca.st · 1d

Thank you so much, Sydney Web Fest, for naming Small Gods Scatter BEST ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST 2025!

@emilygreymoore.bsky.social, @ddungeondiving.bsky.social, and @oakleafinsignia.games burned the HOUSE DOWN in our story of love and loss.

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 1d

Who me? 🥹

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Emily Greymoore 🔜 PAX UNPLUGGED @emilygreymoore.bsky.social · 1d

So stoked to have such an amazing story, with such incredible performers, who told it with so much heart and wit, finally recognized! And a massive thank you to @pcperini.com for GMing, editing, soundscoring, and helping mold this masterpiece.

Unbalanced Encounters @uepodca.st · 1d

Thank you so much, Sydney Web Fest, for naming Small Gods Scatter BEST ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST 2025!

@emilygreymoore.bsky.social, @ddungeondiving.bsky.social, and @oakleafinsignia.games burned the HOUSE DOWN in our story of love and loss.

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Sadie is 🎲 Laying It All on the Line 🎲 @oakleafinsignia.games · 1d

Oh my goodness, nobody's gonna be able to tell me anything today
(I say through tears)

Thanks Sydney Web Fest, this story means so much to me 🥹

Unbalanced Encounters @uepodca.st · 1d

Thank you so much, Sydney Web Fest, for naming Small Gods Scatter BEST ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST 2025!

@emilygreymoore.bsky.social, @ddungeondiving.bsky.social, and @oakleafinsignia.games burned the HOUSE DOWN in our story of love and loss.

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 1d

We made a little 3-ep show about:
the advent of fascism in the early adulthood - of the grandmother - of a character from Rally

An EXTREMELY niche undertaking steeped in ethnoreligious diaspora. It was really for us.

Anyway, it just won best podcast at the Sydney Web Festival.

Unbalanced Encounters @uepodca.st · 1d

Thank you so much, Sydney Web Fest, for naming Small Gods Scatter BEST ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST 2025!

@emilygreymoore.bsky.social, @ddungeondiving.bsky.social, and @oakleafinsignia.games burned the HOUSE DOWN in our story of love and loss.

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Unbalanced Encounters @uepodca.st · 1d

Thank you so much, Sydney Web Fest, for naming Small Gods Scatter BEST ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST 2025!

@emilygreymoore.bsky.social, @ddungeondiving.bsky.social, and @oakleafinsignia.games burned the HOUSE DOWN in our story of love and loss.

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 1d

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Patrick Perini 🔜 PAXU @pcperini.com · 2d

The list is so long 😭