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Ajit George
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Director of Operations for @shantibhavan. Featured in @Netflix's Daughters of Destiny. // Creator & Project Lead for D&D's #RadiantCitadel & #Ravenloft writer.
Jul 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
How To Find the Radiant Citadel:

I've seen this question pop up, and the obvious answer to linking it is to use one of the missing Concord Jewels--for the PCs to discover it buried, or hidden in a giant statue or tower, etc.

But another way has to do with...Ravenloft.🦇 There is a bit of text in the Radiant Citadel about how the Auroral Diamond acts as a beacon for those lost and hopeless and being able to find the Citadel by following it's light. The text assumes you're on the Ethereal Plane, but that doesn't have to be the case.
Jun 29, 2022 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
With the first chapter of @Wizards_DnD's Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel out on @DnDBeyond, I'd love to talk about why I made some design choices and the idea of a "fragile utopia" in this thread!

#RadiantCitadel #dnd #solarpunk Image The Radiant Citadel is solarpunk inspired city, a response to the grimdark we've seen in a lot of media, including other D&D cities. On the surface, it seems like a positive and relatively safe place to live.

Let's get into why I made those choices.
Jun 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Seeing some WEIRD takes about how this is the Democrats' fault.

Know who loves it when liberals eat their own? When progressives don't vote? REPUBLICANS.

That's the way they win.

Here is a quick lesson on how we got here. In 2010 and 2014, Dems didn't show up in enough numbers to ensure the House and Senate remained in their hands, and we lost both. This radically changed our trajectory, including blocking Merrick Garland from an empty Supreme Court seat for ONE YEAR.
Jun 24, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
We've now entered a period where a black-robed theocratic council of 5 men and 1 woman of near unlimited power to change the laws of the land and no accountability rules us. Rules our lives. Rules our bodies. Rules our natural surroundings.

Things are grim, but we can change it. First: We need to ditch purity politics. IMMEDIATELY. We are imperfect, and we need to work with other imperfect people for imperfect compromises. The Republicans learned this decades ago--look who they elected to Congress!

We need to be strategic or we will continue to lose.
Apr 13, 2022 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
The Shieldbearers of the #RadiantCitadel are the ‘best of the best. Think ‘D&D special forces’. But they’ve got an intentional twist that asks some tough questions and poses added complexities that DMs can utilize and players can build stories from.

#dnd #ttrpg #desidnd The Shieldbearers are deployed to hot zones, dropped into the worst situations. Their mission is to find & rescue people in danger. Their casualty rates are high; they’re true heroes of the Citadel.

The twist: The rules of engagement state they can only defend if attacked first.
Apr 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Fun throwback to concept pieces for the #RadiantCitadel!

The first is the very first sketch ever drawn of the Radiant Citadel, done by @the_strix while I rambled at her after inspiration hit me while I was in bed reading. We jammed for hours on it.

#dnd #ttrpg #desidnd I have lots of notes from that first conversation--here is a small taste: "This is the central location of [redacted], and it is a place of trade, diplomacy, learning, and mystery. The current occupants don't know where it came from but have occupied it and learned to use it."
Apr 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
More seriously, why would a journalist put any effort into reporting at this pay rate? Spending more than 1 hour on the piece (including the initial research/interview/whatever + writing + editing/drafts) makes no sense at this rate. This incentivizes zero work and bad stories. The only thing even vaguely worth trying at this pay rate would be an off-the-cuff single-draft opinion piece. And god knows, we have ENOUGH zero researched opinion pieces in the ether.
Mar 30, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
I'd like to share some thoughts I had on storytelling in Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel and how it might differ a little from other books. This thread should also give some insights into the process of how we made the book.

#RadiantCitadel #DesiDnD On one side, we have great adventure paths that take you through an entire storyline to a final culmination and Big Bad. There are a lot of great ones and a favorite of mine for 5E is Curse of Strahd. These usually have a tight throughline—they’re like a movie or novel.
Mar 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Throwback to the 80s. Mom, Dad, my little brother Vivek, my uncle Rajan who passed away last year and who I miss dearly, another uncle from India who I didn't know well, and me and my huge moppy head of curls. Image I THINK I was wearing the soccer jersey of the team I played on back then. Wow, I totally forgot the team's name until I saw this photo. But it looks like I was either coming back or about to go to a soccer game/practice. My Dad was the coach. And we had an undefeated season.
Dec 8, 2021 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
I am going to briefly weigh in on the controversy around a missing credit in Strixhaven, but also talk about missing credits in general and attacking devs in bad faith. Credits are missed in work for both big & small companies & products on a regular basis. It happens regularly & in most cases, it’s not a bad faith action. It’s a genuine mistake, often a product of harried processes & tight deadlines.

It also happens everywhere, not just games.
Nov 1, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Also, it's not just the fact that Swordsfall had directed dogpiling on a whim or made accusations of you being anti-Black if you disagreed with them (as if they were somehow the beacon of all things Black), it's that pocs usually hate getting into it with each other in public. Everything about them screamed narcissist, cult of personality, con artist, and bad actor. There was also a cruelty about them--how they spoke of others with such ugliness, even folks who'd been allies and uplifted them into the public light.
Oct 25, 2021 • 35 tweets • 7 min read
Okay, here are some thoughts on Dune. I am not sure if anything I'll talk about is actually a spoiler, or if that matters since the book and various incarnations have been out forever. But proceed at your own discretion. Also, I don't want to go deeply into Dune 2021 vs Dune 1984, though I'll talk about the two in relation. Mostly, because they're two very different things. I love Dune 2021 and I do really like Dune 1984. One does not take away from the other. It's okay to like them both. Really.
Feb 23, 2021 • 15 tweets • 9 min read
I am deeply proud to announce that I wrote for @Wizards_DnD in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft! 

It feels incredible to be seen. To be the first Indian to write Indian-inspired setting & character material in the 47 years of D&D's epic history! #DesiDnD #DnD #TTRPG If you follow my work with @ShantiBhavan or have seen me on @netflix, you may not know that I also write fiction & games.

D&D was my first rpg. D&D has been a constant through the hardest and happiest times. I have so much gratitude for contributing to something so many love.
Nov 11, 2020 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Some random thoughts on a recent controversy in the ttrpg space.

When a well-known white figure in streaming agrees to play a game or join a stream of a PoC creator, they aren't taking a spot away from a PoC who could have played in that seat. The reason you ask that celeb to join is because you're trying to raise the profile for the PoC creator's game or stream. That's the priority. That's the goal. The white celeb isn't doing it for themselves--they are trying to be a good ally and elevate/raise attention for PoCs.
Nov 9, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
For all my social media manager friends, this is an important read.

Actually, this is also a super important read for anyone who HIRES social media managers.

This one quote that sticks out: "Social media managers are making important — and very public — decisions all the time. "They need to respond to news and conversations quickly to be effective. The public voice and image of companies, media outlets, public figures, and institutions are in their hands at a very delicate time..."
Nov 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Pretty much this. @the_strix and I have been watching it and we keep going, "...I'm sure we're going to get to those great episodes soon!"

We finished S2 Ep1.

(So we just rewatched Rogue One, which both of us love for so many reasons) It's not terrible. It's just....okay? Like, decent enough to keep watching? But super safe and kind of just plodding along.

Honestly, the best part of The Mandolarion for me is the concept art at the end.
Sep 19, 2020 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
I try hard to keep an optimistic outlook, but this is incredibly dire. On a level that we probably haven't seen in decades. It will ensure a Conservative Court that will remain for generations.

In practical terms, what does this mean? Well, first: Roe v Wade will be overturned.
Marriage equality will be overturned.
Obamacare will be overturned.
ICE will be protected.
Corporate power will grow unchecked because lawsuits will be ruled in their favor.
A contested 2020 election will be ruled in Trump's favor (ie Bush v Gore).
Nov 9, 2019 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Most of my political contributions have been to women (@ewarren, @PramilaJayapal, @AOC, @LindseyBoylan, @SaraGideon, @JCisnerosTX, @AmyMcGrathKY) running for office and I have some thoughts on why.

Women in politics (and elsewhere) a thread. The first and most obvious reason for why I put my energies in supporting women in politics are the enormous historic discrepancies.

@LindseyBoylan tweeted about the New York's 10th Congressional seat today and how only 1 women has ever held it.

That's just the start.
Oct 3, 2019 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
With @bigbadcon around the corner, I've had a lot of folks ask about the PoC Meet & Greet: what it's about, what we hope to accomplish, why it's needed, etc. So let me try and explain.

A thread. #BBC19 Researchers have been studying networking (connecting with others for social or business relationships) for awhile now and most data has it that 70% to 85% of all jobs are acquired through networking/networks.