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He/Him| Artist for hire (DM for commissions)| Creator of the Gunmetal TTRPG system.| Player of all things tabletop. Check out my other socials at https://linktr.ee/dicedeeds
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Oct 30
Hello! Time I did a reintroduction for the peeps coming over from the bird app.

I'm Shiraz, an artist and game designer from India. You can usually find me yapping a combination of the following:

- Artwork (commission slots are ready)
- Game design ideas
- Random puns or quips based on what i see
A self-portait of the artist standing on a green cliff side looking towards a bright blue sky and roiling ocean. they are wearing a backpack stuffed with paper and an iPad and they are holding a walking stick-sized apple pencil in their hand while the other shields them from the light. In the distance there's a glowing icon of bluesky.
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 3h
Can't really comment if your have your head stuck up facism's ahole
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 3h
The flowers give +1 bleed
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 3d
The fuck is this runny dogshit?
kthorjensen.bsky.social K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 3d
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 3d
About time
a robot with the number 12 on its chest is holding a spear
ALT: a robot with the number 12 on its chest is holding a spear
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 5d
Pizza
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 5d
I think it's bold to assume that they don't know what they are doing.

It's very clear that incompetence and tilting at windmills is the strategy.

The madness is the point. We exchanged inbred royals for vapid Lords of industry
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Inanko @inank0.bsky.social · 7d
Werewolf
#Halloween2025 #art #monster #werewolf #monster_boy
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 6d
Fine.
cheflubu.bsky.social EGADS, It's LÜ BOOOOO!!!!! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 7d
I am demanding anyone that ever tried to throw a hadouken or kamehameha in real life repost this.
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 6d
Cheers buddy! Happy to help out
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 17d
Realised I never posted #fuckerberg playing with AI.

#noai #fuckzuck #art
Mark Zuckerberg as a confused baby trying to push a sphere with A on it into a triangular hole on a cube with I on it.
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · 17d
Realised I never posted #fuckerberg playing with AI.

#noai #fuckzuck #art
Mark Zuckerberg as a confused baby trying to push a sphere with A on it into a triangular hole on a cube with I on it.
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Óskar Ghoti @oskarghoti.bsky.social · 22d
Hey, guess what's coming!
#TTRPG #Dwarfs
ko-fi.com/post/Expedit...
Expeditioners is COMING!
Oskar GHOTI published a post on Ko-fi
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 25
Maybe it's my training as a journalist about objective standards over wholesale subjectivity.

I've seen backlash in the wider the community at what seems to be a reasonable take on a system. Defenders of the peace spring forth and all for the same old discourse.

I guess I'm a little wary of that
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 25
There should be critique and reviews of games, but it is highly subjective as an artform

Is game bad design or is review biased?

Is there an established standard for good design?

Or are we just going by consensus? personal feels?

Yes more reviewers, but review standards need to be maintained
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 25
The initial crux of this discussion is that you would like people who normally don't like your kind of play to review your game and offer critique.

I get that during playtesting. Some of it is brutal and humbling. That's how I learn about design that chafes vs play that works.
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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · Sep 24
Fun fact;
So far, I have made 277 illustrations this year

And sometimes I stare into space
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
I'm sure there are folks out there that will claim the opposite so that might be true for them.

But ultimately, if you break someone's rice bowl, it's more painful for them.
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
Depends on how you deliver said critique and on what platform. A long form essay about the flaws in a system's design can be painful to hear as a designer but you can come out with a better game at launch.

A negative review/critique after a completed work can be devastating for morale/sales
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
I suppose you can say that. To me a critique is a deep dive into the material and a review is a surface level analysis.
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
In my perspective they do. Explaining the game is more like an overview designed to get more people playing. It's targeted towards consumers/players to get them to get the thing.

Analysing the game is more of a hobbyist/designer focus to decipher what works and doesn't in a game.
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
A critique would be someone doing a long form breakdown of mechanics and more in-depth look into design language we all share as designers I.e for peers.

There are YouTubers that blur the line. Quinn’s Quest feels like a product review vs Dave Thaumovore feels like more critique than review
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
To me a game review is more a rundown of how a game plays at a table, what dice it uses, what is the cool feature/style of play it encourages. I.e made for consumers.

I’m looking at something that piques my interest so that I can buy it and figure out the why and wherefores of how it ticks
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
On a more positive note, I largely agree with the sentiment of we need more people who talk about TTRPGs in general

I’m trying to as well.

But in any creative field, you need less driven by clicks/cliques and more seen by peers
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
I think we may be conflating academic discussion and a review of a product.

I welcome anyone to look at the guts of my games and question the reasons I did something. That is something I do on the regular during any project.

But it would be harder to stomach someone who said the same in a review
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DiceDeeds @dicedeeds.bsky.social · Sep 24
The issue also crops up where the only ‘credentials’ you need to be a critic in the ttrpg space are also nebulous and/or decided by audiences/consumers.

As someone who loves indie ttrpgs, my own biases get in the way of my own perception of stuff. I would find it difficult to critique 5e clones.