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“Heaven forbid, a Jew.” (He/him)
Jul 26, 2022 21 tweets 5 min read
Okay so I spent most of the last 5 years as a 90% improv story gamer, and this year I set out to run a prep-heavy, old school game using #DCCRPG.

How I do it is: one piece at a time.

🧵 I had >10 modules I wanted to run. The very first thing I did was look at all the region maps from those modules and find a way to smush them together. That gave me a world map.

Some of the remaining modules I plunked into specific hexes, others I left freefloating.
Dec 25, 2020 26 tweets 5 min read
Hi men with female partners 👋 It’s XMas morning. Did you mess up and forget to fill her stocking or get her a present? Bad news. You should have done better.

This is a practical thread of some things you can do at this point to be a better adult and partner going forward. First, start with a private apology (away from the crowd). This has a few parts:
- Acknowledge that you made a mistake
- Say you know this hurt her
- Don’t rationalize, excuse or explain yourself
- Say that you want to do better
- Say that you love her, but didn’t live up to that
Dec 23, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Y’all can’t go without industrial processed meat for like two weeks?!? I don’t normally spew my vegetarian politics on main, but like, a single industrial meat facility is not an essential service. There are lots of kinds of food.
May 6, 2020 29 tweets 12 min read
I’ve been running and playing #MasksRPG for a few years now, and wanted to make this list of habits and best practices I’ve learned for players and GMs. This is focused on tablecraft and genre, rather than rules, and is stuff that’s not (I think) in the book.

21 POINT THREAD 🧵 This thread is divided into 4 sections:

1) Genre Conventions

2) Dialogue & Captions

3) Player Tips

4) Game Master Tips

First, genre convention tablecraft for both GMs and players:
Jan 18, 2019 79 tweets 28 min read
Hey if we all do this with #MasksOC we’ll have a public hashtag collection of Masks: A New Generation character inspo for anyone to use! #MasksRPG This one's for you, @StacyHD :)