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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

Jul 29, 2022 • 10 tweets • 12 min read • Read on X

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@WyrmwoodGaming

Okay, today, for a little #TabletopGails thread on my birthday, here are some of the games we can’t stop playing lately.

Woot! Let’s go! And feel free to list games you are currently jamming with!

Please list publishers if you can!

Table is by @WyrmwoodGaming!

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@RestorationGame

First, holy cow, what a luxurious game experience this is…we were hooked after the very first play! RETURN TO DARK TOWER, a full-on remake of the classic, by @RestorationGame. Plays like a board game, feels like an rpg. Outstanding all around!

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@Asmodee_USA

Next, this very simple game plays a bit like Tetris, you try to make a patchwork quilt and collect buttons. Simple to learn but addictive as heck, we can’t stop playing it. Just finished a game, in fact! PATCHWORK by @Asmodee_USA. You will enjoy this a lot!

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@FunkoGames

Next, this is our favorite so far of the @FunkoGames Disney park games. All are fun but some are a bit more for kids…this one manages to grab the vibe of the ride incredibly well, and has real strategy. The art and design are top-notch!
HAUNTED MANSION-CALL OF THE SPIRITS!
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@RestorationGame

Next, the incredible UNMATCHED by @RestorationGame and @MondoNews! Two player arena combat, with characters from myth, literature, and pop culture, all combinable, one of the FUNNEST games ever. Can’t stop!

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@TheOpGames

Then, we love this, arena fighting with Disney characters, DISNEY SORCERER’S ARENA, EPIC ALLIANCES. This game has astounding balance, suspense and replay value. Fight Gaston with Mickey, Stitch with Ariel, and it plays like a dream! From @TheOpGames!

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@CalliopeGames

Next is Tsuro, by @CalliopeGames, just a gorgeous, simple abstract game, but with deep strategy and replayability. This is the fancy new collector’s edition, but there are lots of versions to try!

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@DiceThrone

And finally, for board games, we just got @DiceThrone and Marvel Dice Throne, from the nice people at @roxleygames and @TheOpGames, and I have to say, after just one game, we are totally hooked. It might be a new top five game! Gorgeous and fun as heck!

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@FreeLeaguePub

And finally, for the rpg crowd, we cannot recommend THE ONE RING by @FreeLeaguePub enough. It feels like playing the actual Tolkien books…magnificent design, mechanics, and story. Just get it!

@RocketSpouse

So, that’s it for today because @RocketSpouse is taking me out for birthday seafood. :)

All of these games are highest recommendation, you can’t go wrong with any of them. As always, these are my real opinions, not paid by anyone!

Have a great day, everyone!

#tabletopgails

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Gail Simone 💙💛

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Dec 7

I have read a lot of first comic scripts by new writers lately.

A lot of them have very good ideas, but make basic mistakes in execution.

Here are a few bits of advice if you are just starting out writing comics, things to avoid.

Other pros welcome to add to this thread.
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NAME YOUR CHARACTERS.

This is annoying, and even pros do it. If you have a character we are supposed to know, you have to name them ON PANEL, not just in script.

I read a major publisher book recently where the main characters were never called by name.

A huge mistake.

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TOO MUCH DIALOGUE

Almost all writers do this at times.

But it is wearying, it is exhausting to read, and mostly it shows a lack of awareness of how to use a comics page. There are people who do this well and a LOT who do it badly.

It's alienating. Don't do it.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

Oct 12

https://twitter.com/georgepresnell/status/1977408792741691887

Okay, this is a fun story, s o I am going to retell it quickly.

We live in the boonies, don’t really have neighbors, on a very secluded lake in Oregon. As we live in the woods with lots of water, we get bears sometimes. One decided to live in a tree attached to our house.

https://twitter.com/georgepresnell/status/1977408792741691887

But the thing is, I am not afraid of bears. I should be, but I am not. My husband and son yell at me for chasing them off with a broom.

We called animal control, they said all they could do is shoot them, we didn’t want to do that.

But these bears are not afraid of people, which is not good. They were getting into our garbage a lot, which only brings more bears.

We finally got a bear proof can. The bear turned it upside down in our driveway, and what on our welcome mat.

Like, hell with YOU, humans!

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

Aug 17

The Joys of Being a Hairdresser, part one.

Many of you already know I used to be a hairdresser. I had a salon of my own, in a nice area of my little town, right near the waterfront. It was lovely. Instead of fashion magazines, I had graphic novels. My clients were great.

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Most of my clients were well-off, quite a few were retired, and I never felt unsafe in my salon, even when I was alone.

I had a lot of male clients, they would pick up the graphic novels because there wasn't anything else to read, and they'd scoff a bit, then get hooked.

2/

I loved my clients, I was damn good as a hairdresser (to the point that, even years and years later, former clients were always hoping my writing career would crash and I'd start doing hair again).

Anyway, it was lovely and I was happy.

One day, it got weird.

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

Apr 23

I have a short little story of a thing that happened yesterday. I don't know what the message is, but it gave me a lot of feelings.

As many of you know, we live in a small town on the Oregon coast. There are a couple grocery stores and one variety store called Bi-Mart.

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So we went to Bi-Mart, which is a local chain that is very casual and friendly and less corporate than a lot of national chains. We went to buy key fob batteries and some planters for my garden.

While shopping, there was this older couple there, in their seventies, I'd say.
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The man was oldschool in all ways, crew cut, quite fit with big muscles and a tan from working outside. Wife was pretty and petite and soft-spoken.

He was NOT soft-spoken.

He was quite loud, and got mildly annoyed at seemingly everything.

3/

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

Jan 16

I feel like people, even some comics pros and publishers, are learning the wrong lessons from the currently most successful comics.

They look at ULTIMATE and ABOSOLUTE and think, 'Oh, people want alternate versions of iconic characters.'

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They look at almost all of the hit indie books and think, 'Oh, people want nostalgia.'

I don't think either one of those is the correct conclusion.

People aren't buying Ultimate and Absolute for some version of the Multiverse.

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They aren't buying SPACE GHOST and TRANSFORMERS because of they want to relive some okay cartoons of a million years ago.

I think it's simpler than that.

I think it's accessibility.

3/

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Gail Simone 💙💛

@GailSimone

Jan 13

Every year on his birthday (which is today), I write a little letter to @JoeQuesada, wishing him health and happiness for him and his family. We have not spoken in person in years.

In that note, every time, I thank him for asking me, out of nowhere, to pitch for Deadpool.

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Because I had a comics comedy column on CBR and I made him laugh. He used to read the column on the phone to friends. Garth Ennis didn't have email, so he called him long distance to read one about Garth TO Garth.

Even when I made fun of JOE HIMSELF, he would laugh about it.

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So every year, I say something to the effect of, "Thank you for taking a chance on me, and for opening the door that had made my life's dream come true over and over."

And he always says something humble and sweet, that I make it happen myself.

But without Joe...

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