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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium

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Author & tabletop role-playing game designer, perhaps known for Dread, Swords Without Master, Vast & Starlit, or Wolfspell. (he/him) https://unwrittenearths.com https://dig1000holes.com 💀🪏

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · Apr 1

Hello Stranger,

I'm Epidiah Ravachol. You may have heard of my #ttrpg work, like Dread, the horror game that uses Jenga; or Swords Without Master, which can be found in Worlds Without Master, issue 3.

I've been at this indie truly-true role-playing game publishing gig for about a quarter century.

a stack of jenga blocks on a table

Alt: Some folks playing Jenga, right at the moment of the tower collapsing. Someone in the background cowers away from the tragedy.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 1h

I've run 5 Kickstarter campaigns (!) in the last calendar year and I support @kickstarterunited.org! Here's a form for creators to add their signatures to a petition in support of their strike action towards a fair contract.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Creator Petition In Support of Kickstarter United Workers on Strike

If you are a creator on the Kickstarter platform - you are probably aware that we, Kickstarter United (OPEIU Local 153), are on strike. For more information about us and why we are striking, please vi...

docs.google.com

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 4h

I very much enjoy watching this number go up, too.

Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 4h

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 4h

Ettore Boiardi

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 7h

Rob Wieland's first email to me was on Sat, Oct 21, 2006, asking to get the PDF of Spirit of the Century to go with his physical-copy purchase.

There since the beginning.

Wish he could've been there until the end.

Cover of Fate Worlds Volume 2: Worlds in Shadow, featuring cover art taken from Rob Wieland's contribution to this book, the amazing King-Arthur-in-Mech-Suits CAMELOT Trigger setting. Armored mech-knights suit up to face the robotic horde led by the giant-floating-head MerGN-A!

In this interior image from CAMELOT Trigger, we get a closer look at the giant floating head MerGN-A as her mouth opens to disgorge endless flying robots.

Writing credit:

CAMELOT TRIGGER
by Rob Wieland
editing by Tom Cadorette, Mike Olson, and Brian Engard
art by Brett Barkley

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 4h

I very much enjoy watching this number go up, too.

Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 4h

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 4h

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 5h

It’s a real blow to see the news of Rob Wieland’s passing. A true original who has supported small indie designers for years, including me and my games. Love and peace to his family and everyone else grieving today.

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 6h

THE IRON BARGE ⚔️✨is a talking animal adventure comic set in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, following a duty bound otter travelling with a pirate across the different Casino kingdoms to hide a deadly secret.

Read from the beginning here
ironbargecomic.com?pg=1#showComic

Cover for chapter 2 of THE IRON BARGE. An otter in a green cloak carrying a large flashlight stands with an aye-aye lemur pirate, alarmed and defensive. Behind them is an old brick wall covered with posters of escaped animal convicts. There's a yellow spotlight on the otter and lemur.
THE IRON BARGE. HARPER CARTER

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 16h

why bother with contracts?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 21h

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 20h

A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.

A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.

So many people on the wrong side of history.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 21h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 21h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

Document damaged. Try recovery?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 23h

I think people are more open to them today, but I suspect they were less open in the decade prior to Dread.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

But without the rest, I'm not confident the design would've even mattered.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, and I guess the design deserves a bit of the credit.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

But that timing was so vital.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

Which is not to discount all the hard work we put in during those early days!

I must've personally hosted Dread for more than a thousand strangers in the years leading up to the release.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

There's a lineage of recommendations trailing all the way back to those early days.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

Not saying Dread would be ignored today, folks discover it all the time; but that discovery is predicated on someone else already knowing about it and talking about it.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

Had some conversations recently that has me thinking about how lucky Dread was to hit when it did. When audiences were smaller, attention was focused into narrower channels, and people were open to something odd.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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