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he/they ✦ game writer & producer daggerheart, confluence rpg, kids on bikes 2e editorial project manager @ springernature prev: ✦ editor @ hunters ent ✦ td @ pixel circus ✦ jr. games producer @ darrington 🔗: alexteplitz.com 📧: [email protected]

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · Sep 19

Hello Bluesky, I'm Alex! I'm a writer, game designer & editor working in TTRPGs with a passion for horror and queer storytelling.

✏️ Editor at Hunters Entertainment
⚙️ Writer and Project Assistant for Confluence: The Living Archive
🎥 Tech Director for It's Too Early
💜 Available for freelance work!

Alex wearing a white sweater and jean overalls, wearing glasses, taking a selfie. Camera and studio equipment is visible behind him.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 12h

this is super neat!!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 18h

can't wait to cry

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 19h

obscenely great day for tabletop gamers, obscenely bad day for my wallet

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sam “over and under” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 5d

on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen

Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for

samsorensen.blot.im

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Ripley 👽💖 @skullingway.bsky.social · 21h

#portfolioday and the public release date of The Time We Have on the same day is wild (/positive)

I’m Ripley, an illustrator in NYC who loves horror movies, dark themes & colors + contrast. TTWH was one of my favorite all time projects to work on, & I’m so happy it’s out now 💕

www.skullingway.com

Ttwh box covers (standard and special edition) in print

Tragic Zombie Storytelling for Any Apocalypse

Illustrated by Ripley Ash

Extra door card, a ship sunk in the arctic. Dark ice is overtaking the environment

Ttwh promo of of the box with cards flying everywhere. 2 players, 1-2 hours

Illustration is the cover for the game ‘the time we have’. The top is a strange cluster of flower growths that also look like fungi. There’s a for separating down the middle with two boys sitting on either side. The one on the left is glowing and has similar growths on him. The one on the right is holding a flashlight

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satah @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 1d

been thinking a lot abt cool ttrpg coverage i can do & facilitate & i think i'm just gonna.... try one.......?

please write ~250-500 words about A SPECIFIC DEATH MECHANIC IN A TTRPG for me to compile into a little webzine! you have until november 13th! that's in a month!

unnamed ttrpg zine project volume one - DEATH MECHANICS

tell me about death mechanics for volume one of an as-of-yet-unnamed ttrpg zine project i'm looking for: 250-500 words (feel free to go under but please don't go over) about a single mechanic or syst...

docs.google.com

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 20h

this cover is sick

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 20h

-1 vein +1 sensuality

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 20h

this is your favorite game designer's next favorite game and i told yanni he can quote me on that.

accidentally loved a game so much i somehow found myself as a stretch goal on it?? please check out ambition, it's so god damn beautiful

gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Ambition by The Press Betwixt - Gamefound

Ambition is a tales & tactics TTRPG for 2-4 Ambitious and a River by Yanni Panagiotopoulos. Reach for Heaven from underneath, Strive for whats beyond it, and Shape the continents into the image of you...

gamefound.com

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Elliot Davis | TTWH Out NOW @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 21h

The Time We Have: A Conversation Between Brothers is NOW AVAILABLE

A tragic two-player zombie roleplaying game played on opposite sides of a closed door. A game about what it means to be a brother.

Want to learn more about the game? It's time for a megathread ⬇️

A mockup of The Time We Have packaging surrounded by floating door cards. The cover features two brothers sitting on opposite sides of a door with a purple flower motif

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 20h

the game that changed my brain chemistry is now out. get into it

Elizabeth Little @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social · 1d

gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Oh, right, this goes live today. I should probably say something.

You Will Die In This Place by Shrike Studio - Gamefound

You Will Die In This Place is a nihilistic survival-horror dungeon crawl TTRPG about exile, decay, and the inevitability of death.

gamefound.com

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 1d

somehow help me manage my calendar. i'm spending... two to five hours a day thinking about silksong, what can i get rid of to make room?

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 26d

a sketch with digital color of a woman resting her head on her arms on top of a open book. Tangled branches envelope her, and a goblin pokes its head over the table.

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arnaerr 🦈๋࣭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 1d

Host of the Nightmare
#Bloodborne

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 1d

okay but come say hi to me

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 1d

i've got a fun announcement coming soon related to this 🤫

Yanni 🧿 AMBITION HAS LAUNCHED @theurbanavian.bsky.social · 1d

AMBITION'S CROWDFUNDING LAUNCHES TOMORROW

DAWN OF THE FINAL DAY, WITH WAX WINGS

LETS REACH FOR HEAVEN FROM UNDERNEATH

ttrpg.link/Ambition

#AmbitionTTRPG #indiedev #TTRPG #TTRPGs #TTRPGSky
#Tabletop #Crowdfunding

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

suchhh a good fit

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 2d

happy birthday to one of the sweetest and smartest people i have the pleasure to know. listening to vidi talk about games changes your brain chemistry. and also he's one handsome motherfucker!!

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 3d

i'd love to!

alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 3d

okay adding it to the list 🫡

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Kate Sanders @katekatydid.bsky.social · 3d

kate at rest. ty @aldermancy.bsky.social for capturing🙏

Kate reclining on a white couch reading a book, wearing a blue crop top and red pants

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 3d

one of my fave photos everrr

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this is so so so cool

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Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 4d

COMING OCTOBER 20th!

Tune in for a TWO HOUR discussion about teaching games through actual play featuring an absolute POWERHOUSE panel.

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@friede.bsky.social
@itsquinns.bsky.social
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

Subscribe to Talk of the Table wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk of the Table Patreon w/ Dr. Emily Friedman, Quinns, & Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Roundtable: Teaching Games Through Actual Play

Pictures of each guest are in circles on a yellow background. To each side are anthropomorphized dice, one with a mouth and one with an ear.

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alex ⚔️ @aldermancy.bsky.social · 4d

watched silence of the lambs for the first time and it's making me evil (i want to go to grad school for queer film studies suddenly)

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