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Dan Phipps
@itsdanphipps.bsky.social
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Ttrpg making guy with a flowchart brain. I make lists of things. Half of Gem Room Games. He/him.
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hello new blue sky friends, I make games with Kali and you can buy them at shop.gemroomgames.com
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 1d
Nettle and Bone is some good dungeon fantasy. It's good other types of fantasy too, but when they're in the dungeon for a bit it's some damn fine dungeon fantasy.
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The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 1d
NO-TELL MOTEL is so back.

The Employee Bundle is BACK in stock, and now includes the Door Hanger for when you wanna tell people to slink away or slink inside.

Keychains, door hangers, "Dice Trays" still available a la carte. Matchbooks with every order.

Check in: bannerless.games/shop
The No-Tell Motel bundle on a wood grain desktop. It features a copy of No-Tell Motel, two keychains with the logo on one side and "7" inside a star on the other, the door hanger with Stella the cover model saying "Shhh...." and the Dice Tray, which is clearly an ash tray. The No-Tell Motel "Dice Tray," which has the logo in the bottom and "sleep among the stars at the Stellar Motel!" on the rim. Two sides of the Room 7 Keychain, which is royal blue with gold embossing and a gold ring. One side is the No-Tell Motel key logo, the other is "7" in the No-Tell Motel star, for room 7. The No-Tell Motel door hanger. On one side Stella the cover model says "Shhh...." and the other side says "Please clean! It looks like someone died in here!"
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah, you get it
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
I feel like they could skip a lot of drama and go straight to making Tron soundtracks.
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
F!
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Okay.
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niko oneshot but they’re duen @riolu.gay · 2d
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
Baker's Go
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
He's in the take a face/leave a face jar
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
Glorious skulls, ever so eager to try them
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
Be sure to wash your hands afterwards, they're real gross
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
They're a bit goopy, but you can't beat the price
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 2d
WHATTYA BUYIN
Painted miniature skeleton with a cage around his skull and a red cloak full of faces and skulls suspended in green goo
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 3d
50 dollars for final fantasy tactics? The game on my phone??
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 5d
Maybe the con is a place instead of a time?
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 6d
If we try to boil the ocean again I'm going to unalive someone
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 6d
Character sheet with languages like brainrot, haxxor, corpo, and normie
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 7d
A game that doesn't "support the story" would use a slow, methodical system to represent frenetic action or leave me on my own to create interesting problems and opportunities OR be so prescriptive that there's only one choice which means there are no choices.
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 7d
Game mechanics DO a good job, I should go to bed.
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 7d
If I'm saying it I probably mean the game mechanics does a good job evoking a feeling that matches the fictional moment it represents and/or it's creating situations that drive action/reaction at the table.
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 7d
The Last Judge felt really good, really felt like I was learning The Deal a little better each time
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 8d
Huge if true
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 9d
Breaking news from Portland, today we saw a muskrat in the creek near the park I'm pretty sure
A muskrat, probably, in the creek by the park
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 9d
Surprised at how few Portland Marathon runners are following the 4:20 pace flag
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 10d
Reporting from the front lines, Portland appears to be calling an emergency nude bike ride.
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 10d
1974 is still new, just cut off any moldy bits and it's fine to eat
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 10d
New "what is an rpg" section just dropped
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 10d
When people I don't like ask me about the process of game design, I send them this diagram from Richard Duke's 1974 book Gaming: the Future’s Language
An enormously complicated diagram, the child of several pie-charts that have undergone a process of nuclear fission, largely illegible. A caption at the bottom reads 'Figure 19. The Game Design Process'
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