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We're headed to PAX Unplugged, bay-bee!!! Let's go!! I'll be running around with the HSC crew and causing general mischief. Come run amok with me in Philly!

If you didn’t know, now you know…

HSC IS GOING TO PAX UNPLUGGED!

Be sure to keep an eye on all of our socials to know where all we will be and what all we will be doing the whole weekend! We can’t wait to hang out and have all the ttrpg fun!

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Loving these dice - lots of work but worth jt

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Doodle by z--ed

z--ed is one of my favorite artists. I love all of their work. This “doodle” is just so beautiful.

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@nifkin is that you?

Time to make some traps!

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Wise Women - my Slavic folklore inspired ttrpg about witches

I am a pretty new game designer. Last year I ran a Kickstarter and released my first game. Wise Women is inspired by Slavic folklore. Specifically, I got the idea for the game when I was reading a book about plants in Polish folklore.

I thought I'd like to use the beliefs about properties of plants as bases for abilities in a ttrpg. I ruminated on the idea for several months and then one day I got inspired, and basically sketched the concept and key elements of the system of Wise Women in a day. Of course, it required refinement but I was quite amazed by how fast the ideas flew when they did!

In Wise Women players play witches living in a remote village, where life is difficult and people often fall prey to supernatural creatures. The witches can use plants to cast spells and protect their community, but their abilities are viewed with suspicion and prejudice. Drawing enough suspicion can result in being chased out of the village, into the wilderness, where nobody can survive on their own.

The game is inspired by PbtA but instead using playbooks, it has moves tied to plants that characters possess at any given moment. As such, what PCs can do changes over the course of the game. It also has mechanics for tracking Social Standing of characters.

It is a game about survival, prejudice and community. About having power to help own community but being marginalised by it. About the effect on social pressures and prejudices.

I am sharing it to share more about what I do. If it sounds like your thing, you can find it here: https://ksandra.itch.io/wise-women and https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/378490/Wise-Women

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A whole bunch of adorable veggie friends for you! Don’t worry about not being able to eat healthy anymore, my Grunlings aren’t actual food!

They are gentle spirits of nature and if someone is lucky enough to see or even befriend a Grunling, they can become incredibly supportive with gardening. ;) 🌱

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Go watch my friends play games!!!

Join us on Twitch Saturday (the 19th) night for some horror fun!!

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How do you do, fellow kids?

Well, I'm joining my friends over here now. I didn't use Tumblr when I was younger and only picked it up for Critical Roll, Campaign 1 gifs and fan art. Soooo now we're here for realsies.

(via High Shelf Collective Hsc GIF - High Shelf Collective HSC Livestream - Discover & Share GIFs)

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Tumblr Tips for the Twitter Migrant

Hey friends, as a long-time tumblr user who never left, allow me to offer a few tips to make your lives a little bit easier. This is targeted at the twitter community

1. Use your tags!

It’s gonna make your own life ultimately easier. Yes, tumblr’s search functions are questionable, but you can generally rely on being able to find stuff via tag on your blog.

Reblogs do not show up in site-wide searches. So, if you tag a reblog as “pokemon,” it doesn’t show up in the site-wide pokemon tag. Not even if you added something in your reblog. But it will show up on your /tagged/pokemon. This is basically the best way for both you and your followers to be able to find and sort through your own stuff. So if a follower wants to find a specific post of yours, they can go to YourBlog/tagged/my stuff. And followers browsing your blog is pretty normal here—it is a blog, after all. Don’t be weirded out if someone suddenly likes your post from 8 months ago.

And for that matter, most people here also use tags for commentary. It’s generally less obtrusive than adding commentary to a reblog, so you can add some thoughts without necessarily interjecting - the OP doesn’t get any special notification unlike they do with replies or reblogs with text additions. It’s a little spice just for your followers. (Just be aware that they are visible in the notes.)

As a general rule of thumb, you shouldn’t use dashes in your tags (links get confused), but spaces are safe.

2. Reblog (& Reply Culture).

So unlike with twitter, replying to something doesn’t put it on your followers feeds. (In fact, your followers can’t even see your replies unless they actively interact with the post itself.) Your likes aren’t necessarily public. (They are, by default, but only if your followers have certain settings enabled will they be able to see posts you like on their dashboard.) Basically, if you have a post you want someone to see: reblog it.

Replies are mainly for quick comments. It’s a pain to hold a discussion in the replies, so it’s mainly just for a quick “this is a neat take” kind of comment. Responding by reblogging + adding commentary in the post is how discussion actually happens. That’s the equivalent of actually replying on twitter. Tag commentary is for informal thoughts that aren’t necessarily inviting active discussion. It’s the spot for anecdotes or funny commentary that whoever posted it doesn’t necessarily need to have put directly in their activity feed.

3. Use the Readmore

Unlike Twitter where nuance goes to die, you may have noticed there’s no such thing as character limits here. Tumblr does automatically cut long posts unless you change your settings, but it’s generally still considered courteous to put a readmore. This little button here (also ctrl + shift + k).

It’ll prevent people browsing your blog from having to scroll through a huge wall of text unless they actively want to. It’s a good way to keep things organized. I’m breaking my own rule here for the sake of accessibility, but in most other cases, if you’re doing a long thread-type post, you should usually cut it to be courteous. Especially if it’s image-heavy.

4. Post Types (Photo vs. Text Post)

Most of us are probably gonna be using image posts and text posts. You can put images in text posts, yes, but generally speaking, you shouldn’t. At least not large images. If you have multiple large images (like covers, for example,) a good rule of thumb is to put them all in one image post. It’s also more eye-catching when the pretty picture is at the top. This isn’t a hard rule by any means, but generally speaking, it should usually be either that or one flashy image at the top and a readmore to spare your browser.