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Tabletop and video game designer, currently working on Spindlewheel Forever. See my previous work at https://22to22.itch.io and get the Spindlewheel deck at https://plusoneexp.com/products/spindlewheel-30

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Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · Aug 25

Curious about Spindlewheel, but haven't got a cent? This thread is for you 👀🛞🪡

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 10h

at last, a @seaexcursion.itch.io review with the answer to "What is Spindlewheel?"

Spindlewheel is Dixit by way of Oulipo. Spindlewheel is Oblique Strategies if Brian Eno got wrung through the ATU folklore index. Spindlewheel is tarot for the queers who think that Rorschach tests should have more verse poetry, and Grapefruit for the aesthetes who like it when their solitaire bullies them. Spindlewheel is as much a tool as it is a lens, as it is an engine, as it is a game.

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 15d

find the full decks and expanded campaign system in Spindlewheel Forever:

Spindlewheel Forever by Sasha Reneau

a companion for tarot campaigns

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 15d

Wizard: your research is never complete.

DOUSING ROD

Some myths are fireside tales at best
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Leading the lost further away from rescue

OLEANDER LAKE

Dense ice all summer long, winter dragonflies buzzing
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Algae swirling around mangrove roots, sinking into soft mud

SPIRE

Built with the master’s tools
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Loadbearing stones straining against their own destruction

TRANSCRIBE

The fine art of translation
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It’s science when you write it down

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 15d

Warlock: you struck a deal.

AUNTIE L.

A nosy meddler with the best intentions
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Fabulously wealthy, morally indistinct, hauntingly unfamiliar

CURSE

Mincing an oath, all bark and no bite
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Hate with
nowhere to go

HOUSEHOLD GOD

Little tyrant,
Hoarder of treats and petty blessings
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Grandfather’s religion, an altar crowded with dust

PERSONAL DEMON

For intimate gatherings, serious inquiries only
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Widespread calamity traceable to a single vendetta

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Sorceror: for you, there is no distance between feeling and acting.

CRYSTAL

Bent light shattered into color, speaking kaleidoscopic
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Platonic formations of happenstance

ECSTASY

Sickly-sweet desires curling hot and hollow
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Satisfaction brought it back

SORROWS

Wading through flooded streets, gently pushing floaters
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Agony without end, sublimating into an ocean

THUNDER

Electric hum above skin, harrowing roar
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Lightning’s applause, footfalls rolling across the plain

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Seer: you watch the possibilities bloom endlessly.

CASSANDRA

Lucky liar thwarted at every turn
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Omniscient and ineffectual, discredited and ignored

FUGUE

Forever waking in freefall, vibrant details slipping past
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Time unmarked by memory, autonomous movement

PSYCHOSOMATIC

The mind’s
death grip
on the body
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The fantastical made concrete

VEIL

A permeable boundary, concealing without protecting
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A delicate but unmistakable refusal

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Rogue: you know what you want, and you take what you need.

BLUE BLOOD

Gagging on a silver spoon,
life is so hard
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Loan after loan against the reputation of a name

DOG EAT DOG

Chewed up young and spat out rough
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No one is coming to save you

LEGITIMATE OPERATOR

The lion’s share for the pleasure of doing business
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Nice work if you can get it

TABULA RASA

Springing fully formed out of nowhereville
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Sweet summer child, won’t last long

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Ranger: stay focused on the reality you can touch.

GREEN FLASH

A glimpse of another world
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Primordial flinch, acting purely on instinct

HUNTING BLIND

A predator’s camouflage
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Waiting for the birds to sing

ROOT

A larger conversation beneath the surface
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Tangling soil, cracking open stone, stretching as above so below

TRADER

a stony gaze and a hard bargain,
Skinning knife at the hip
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Years of building trust, a slowly strengthening network

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 15d

Monastic: your vows make an open book of your heart, and a roadmap for those beyond it.

ALCOVE

Even here, nestled between stones, secrets still echo
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Not the highest place of honor,
But an altar nonetheless

BELLY BREATH

A balancing act, an anchor in the squall
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bellows for resounding laughter

HERMITAGE

A pause in the downpour, dry straw and dim candles
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An outdoor kennel for a pet sage

MASTER

What you have
to learn you already know
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Founding principles disappearing into effortless form

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 15d

Fortune Teller: the cards have a voice, for those who listen.

FAIRGROUND

Light and sound
in the dark, impossible spectacle
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An empty field in the light of day, like nothing ever happened

HARUSPEX

What does your gut tell you?
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Cut it open and
watch it writhe:
That’s where the little god lives

STAGE NAME

Elevated honesty, fully clothed in just a winning smile
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An alias for every occasion, no true name underneath

SWORD SWALLOWER

playfighting
with live steel
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Beats digging ditches

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Fighter: your reputation precedes you.

LOOT

Trading boots
with the dead, measuring
sole to sole
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The finest prize, proof of valor

RUST

A blunt instrument, a sore left to fester
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Inevitable decline, debts coming due

SPIT

Defiance
till the end
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Close enough to catch the scent of their last meal

TRENCH

Kicking in the dirt like an animal
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Pinned down in a temporary shelter

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Druid: all things have names.

BLADE OF GRASS

One of many, missing the trees for the forest
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Trampled, buffeted, burned, and yet unfazed

CARYATID

The weight of the firmament rests on her crown
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Choosing humanity over home

GRAFT

I will bet my life
on your survival
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A quilt of mannerisms, their blood in your veins

HARVEST

The sweep of scythe and sickle, rhythm’s reward
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Take only what you can carry;
let others do the same

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Cleric: the chef always eats last.

APRON

Flour-streaked and tear-blotted, names embroidered on the hem
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Stiff with bleached stains, weary of all the red

BLACK DIRT

Gathered under fingernails clawing up from the broken coffin
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Fertile ground, clay packed around the poultice

UNDERTAKER

Psychopomp’s understudy, preparing each for their big day
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tailor’s tape,
stylist’s powder, carpenter’s nails

WEEPING HONEY

A divine distress,
A sweet sorrow
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Signs of infection, a tacky yellow ooze

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Bard: the power is in the telling.

EMBOUCHURE

Taking the shape an instrument requires
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Absolute control, though it may look a little funny

GUTSTRING

Reach deep and strum well, let it hum in the ribs
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Transform horror into beauty, plant flowers in the gore

HOLLOW BODY

A warm round resonance, a voice lifting high
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Peer down the mouth and find there’s nothing inside

JESTER

Aiming right between the eyes
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Makes a funny noise when kicked

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Barbarian: you never do anything in halves.

GODKING

Seizing legacy bare handed,
uncontested in battle,
a living legend
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Inhuman brutality
over mortal weakness

HOPLITE

Fighting for your conqueror in a foreign land, no memory of home
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Better to be the boot than the snake

LEATHERWORK

Hide tanned in strips, scars soft against skin
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May it serve you better than its last owner

RIVERBEND

A blind corner,
a hairpin turn
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A wandering cartography, the bane of empires

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 15d

A preview thread of cards in the new Spindlewheel Forever playbook expansions: ☸️♾️🧵

A photo of the 200+ card print and play deck next to the spindlewheel box.

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 18d

if you saw the Oracles After Hours stream and thought "pff, I could do that," do it. I triple dog dare you 😈

Oracles After Hours by Sasha Reneau

a poker tarot reading for 3 and an audience

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 18d

thank you everyone who came by!! my wallet is a few coins heavier >:) (and a few png's lighter, listen, it all balances out)

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 18d

it's todayyy!!!! come through <3 <3 <3

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 25d

Oracles After Hours will debut next Friday, Sept 26th starting at 12:30pm EST on QGCon's Discord Stage! Come ask your questions to @22to22.bsky.social @mariabumby.bsky.social and @temporalhiccup.bsky.social and help one of them win tarot poker by rewarding your favorite answer! discord.gg/m7ZCath623

Oracles After Hours Featuring: Rae Nedjadi, Sasha Reneau, Maria Mison, Produced by: Paddington @QGCON2025

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Rae (he/they) @temporalhiccup.bsky.social · 23d

Sooooooo excited for this!!!

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 25d

Oracles After Hours will debut next Friday, Sept 26th starting at 12:30pm EST on QGCon's Discord Stage! Come ask your questions to @22to22.bsky.social @mariabumby.bsky.social and @temporalhiccup.bsky.social and help one of them win tarot poker by rewarding your favorite answer! discord.gg/m7ZCath623

Oracles After Hours Featuring: Rae Nedjadi, Sasha Reneau, Maria Mison, Produced by: Paddington @QGCON2025

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 20d

solving my math problems by writing a massive amount of poetry:

September September September | Sasha Reneau

Get more from Sasha Reneau on Patreon

www.patreon.com

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 21d

kind of an absurd update for Spindlewheel Forever coming up. >:)

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · 25d

Oracles After Hours will debut next Friday, Sept 26th starting at 12:30pm EST on QGCon's Discord Stage! Come ask your questions to @22to22.bsky.social @mariabumby.bsky.social and @temporalhiccup.bsky.social and help one of them win tarot poker by rewarding your favorite answer! discord.gg/m7ZCath623

Oracles After Hours Featuring: Rae Nedjadi, Sasha Reneau, Maria Mison, Produced by: Paddington @QGCON2025

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · Sep 6

i love you hand limits. i love you irreplicable miracles. i love you sub-optimal moves. i love you end of the rope actions. i love you imperfect tools. i love you bad cards. i love you characterization arising from doing the best you can with what you have

Teacabbage is working... @teacabbage.bsky.social · Sep 6

this game. goddamn.