I'm Amber and I used to be known as either senatorkhaleesi or imnotamisandristbut on these parts. Now, about 8 years later, I'm excited to return home to this blue hell site focused on building community, amplifying diverse voices in TTRPGs, and doing absolutely cool-as-hell-shit in whatever space this ends up being (hopefully with 500% less Doctor Who and Sherlock).
Here's what I've been up to in the TTRPG Space over the last little while:
I currently stream on Twitch, usually hosting TTRPG Study Hall, tarot reading nights, cozy games, and, of course, regular TTRPG one shots.
I appear in a ton of TTRPG actual plays, most recently at Lost Caravan RPG, Girls Run These Worlds, the Initiative Order, Weave the Tale, Going Critical RPG, Homie and the Dude, and more. I'll also be running TTRPG series regularly in 2023 -- more to come!
I'm on Tiktok, too! I'm currently getting my feet wet on that app, but I'm excited to see how that platform grows.
I'm a TTRPG writer, editor, and content strategist! I've edited books like Necrobiotic and Flabbergasted, performed content strategy for Fat Magic and Roll Together, and have written for groups like BeNeverending and Eldritch Osiris Games.
I've also written a few games including Fabulous Folkish Baking Programme (where you, too, can live out your fears of having a soggy bottom), Fire Sauce Fever Dream (if you want to journal about existing in Taco Bell), and more. Check out my games at my itch.io here!
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Elon Musk finds out about mut aid and posts a GoFundMe for his $40 billion in debt post saying "Hi my name is Elon Musk and I'm the guy that all the SJWs have been bullying off Twitter. Their cyberbullying has harmed my mental health and I NEED to get out of this toxic situation. I've already sold my stocks in Tesla but I only have $4 billion, leaving me in need of $40 billion. If each of you donate $2 billion I would only need 20 donors to make it out of this. 🙏"
Bad thoughts can’t touch me . I know so many Pokémon facts to replace any possible bad thoughts with.
“I’m a loser” —> the gen 2 moon ball was supposed to work better on Pokémon that evolved with the moon stone but the item ID was programmed wrong and so it only works better on Pokémon who evolve with a burn heal. Which is none. So it’s a normal pokeball, functionally
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Animal companions, archetypes, items, creatures, and more in this wildlife-themed supplement for Pathfinder 2e.
have you ever looked at your pathfinder characters and thought, "hey, they COULD be more bestial? I DO want to friend more beast-like characters..."
look no further than eldrich osiris games' kickstarter for monstrous beasts: a guide to friend them! closing in JUST UNDER 3 DAYS (from today, 11/28/22), this book is packed with animal companion options, new feats, archetype expansions, subclasses, and more!
a pledge of $25 or more gets you:
PDF of Monstrous Beasts: A Guide to Friend Them
Backer Credit
Bonus PDF of Cut Material
a pledge of $75 or more gets you:
Foundry VTT
Physical Copy of Monstrous Beasts: A Guide to Friend Them
(Disclaimer: This is a reworking of an old Twitter thread of mine)
What are your favourite games that only exist as a set of tweets or a screenshot of the notes app?
Or just a PDF download of a Google Doc in your "rpgs" folder with no identifying information that you have no idea how you got in the first place?
Or two long messages in Discord and you have no idea what the designer is up to now since they left all social media?
Or a friend showed you in their notebook once but they said it wasn't ready even though it seemed amazing and now they don't play games much anymore and just give an embarrassed chuckle when you tentatively inquire about the game they were working on?
What's your favourite deleted itch game?
Favourite dead blogs that you still have some pages of rules and game bits saved to your bookmarks?
I've been thinking about the ephemeral nature of games and game texts. Back in August 2021, I was asking around about a game PDF I had saved of a Google Doc I probably found on Reddit or some other forum (I still haven't found out where I got it from!). More than I year ago now, I went to share a link to an itch game page and discovered it was gone.
I think about how a bunch of lyric games that hit me aren't on any kind of "stable" platform like itch.io and are kinda hard to find now. I think about threads of "old treasures" from the early days of tabletop RPG zines, games that weren't digitized, one-off convention games, games that were put online but not in any way that's captured by our current platforms. I think of all the games from early eras that didn't get preserved because they weren't "notable" or made by "notable" people or quoted as inspirations by other "notable" games. I think of how archaeology can only see that which was "valued" to preserve.
I think of how many games that I and my current cohort of designers have made, entries for numerous game jams, that will be thought of in 1, 2, 5, 10 years time.
I was also thinking about game design and the act of playing games as necromancy. Since you can't get other people to re-play or re-experience a game session you had exactly, all you can do is give them some tools to maybe try and re-conjure, resurrect, a similar game.
Games die all the time.
I don't think my answer to this ephemeral nature of games and art productions is just to push for more archiving and permanence (lol sorry archivists and historians), though yeah let's try to do that too. I'm kinda okay that some things get to die and be lost. Their body gone, but their memory and mark on us persevering.
One thing that I keep coming back to is (I think) Brendan Keogh's thoughts on if we want to treat games as art rather than just products, we have to allow for games to be the equivalent of a drawing stuck on a fridge, or a poem written in a greeting card. That feels true to me. That some games can just be for a certain person, time, place.
I want more people to see gamemaking as a practice and art that they can engage with on whatever terms they choose, not just whatever terms "the market dictates". To make games with no thought whether they would be "notable" or remembered. To make games for the sake of having this thing exist, bursting and fading like a firework.
If that comes with the cost of ghosts of games littering our spaces, then so be it.
Animal companions, archetypes, items, creatures, and more in this wildlife-themed supplement for Pathfinder 2e.
have you ever looked at your pathfinder characters and thought, "hey, they COULD be more bestial? I DO want to friend more beast-like characters..."
look no further than eldrich osiris games' kickstarter for monstrous beasts: a guide to friend them! closing in JUST UNDER 3 DAYS (from today, 11/28/22), this book is packed with animal companion options, new feats, archetype expansions, subclasses, and more!
a pledge of $25 or more gets you:
PDF of Monstrous Beasts: A Guide to Friend Them
Backer Credit
Bonus PDF of Cut Material
a pledge of $75 or more gets you:
Foundry VTT
Physical Copy of Monstrous Beasts: A Guide to Friend Them
Ask not for whom the Taco Bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
Originally designed for submission in Taco Bell Quarterly, Fire Sauce Fever Dream is a love letter to the home of "food I know is bad but tastes so good," to the inventors of Fourthmeal, to the origin point of some of my weirdly core childhood memories (why did I try to hide my excitement for the Digimon toys for so long?). Taco Bell is a fast food institution and cultural touchstone; this game is my way of simply saying thank you for all the late-night quesaritos.
Based on the feeling of being That One Guy™ enjoying themselves in Taco Bell in the year 2000, Fire Sauce Fever Dream guides players through creating and journaling their own Bell-inspired memories over four courses of play with a Cootie Catcher in place of dice. Players can choose to extend their fever dream as long or as short as they like -- after all, who's to say how long we should savor those flavors?
Buy this game for the low, low price of what it cost to get a Quesadilla around the turn of the millennium.
Fire Sauce Fever Dream is built on the Folds SRD by Fleet Detrik. The FOLDS SRD is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This game is intended as a solo journaling TTRPG, but can also easily be used by GMs to create scenarios for their larger campaigns.
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It's not much, but it's honest work. But also, I think I've made some super cool, unique games over the last few years! Most of them are free! Let me tell you about them bc some are pretty unhinged:
Biscuits and Porn - a Lasers & Feelings hack about a liminal space gas station in the Outer Banks of North Carolina where weird shit happens. Also they sell biscuits and porn.
Fabulous Folkish Baking Programme - a very rules-light game where you, too, can experience the thrill of maybe making a pie with a soggy bottom & live out your cozy baking show dreams.
Fire Sauce Fever Dream - a solo journaling game about the experience of dining inside a Taco Bell in the year 2000. uses a cootie catcher as opposed to dice!
Low Spell Slots - a 1d6 game designed to aid players through bouts of executive dysfunction. feeling stuck? roll a die and do what it tells you. instant serotonin.
Never Rise Again - a Caltrop Core game for players who definitely need a space that isn't Minecraft or Roblox where they can truly rage against the machine -- and just fascism in general.
hey Tumblr we need to have a conversation about you notifying me to my phone about the person I have an actual IRL crush on making a post and I Know It's Based On Algorithm but
from personal expirence, i am begging yall to completely avoid betterhelp. they specifically push christian therapists onto patients who ask for non-christian help. they did it to me and theyve done it to others. the therapists will consistently pressure you into using a camera or doing audio calls, even if you request against it. the therapists are actively homophobic and transphobic and will spread that rhetoric during your sessions.
do not use betterhelp. do not even give them the time of day.
I have colleagues who have found public-facing profiles FOR THEMSELVES that are being run by Better Help despite being completely unaffiliated with the company. In at least one case, the profile was riddled with inaccuracies and bad info and the way my colleague FOUND OUT IT EXISTED was by being issued an initial warning by their fucking licensing board about it. You are reading that correctly, she was sanctioned by her licensing board for a public facing profofessional profile page she hadNO PART IN CREATING AND DID NOT KNOW EXISTED because A COMPANY SHE DID NOT WORK FOR decided to make shit up for it.
Better Help is incredibly unethical and should not be allowed to continue existing given its current business practices.
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These are suggested for serving to recovering alcoholics, but I think they’re just fun and cool anyway? I like a fancy beverage, it doesn’t have to have booze. That cucumber Collins sounds refreshing AF
dr heinz doofenshmirtz one of the characters of all time. he's a mad scientist. he got his degree on the internet but everything he invents works. he puts on big musical numbers and his backup dancers are canonically unionized. he's a dorky dad. he has trauma. he changed his name to professor time for branding purposes. he's an immigrant. he's an ocelot. he's even divorced
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