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Lysa Penrose (fae/faer)
@lysapenrose.bsky.social
❀ i make board games happen ❀ nonprofit board member: rpg creator relief fund ❀ chinese american

likes: games, crafts ‘n’ diy, animals, stationary, flowies ❀ ❀ ❀
Thanks for all the shenanigans, @robowieland.bsky.social. 🕯️
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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When Dan heard that two of his favorite things were getting smashed together in Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons, he had to find out more. Luckily, @lysapenrose.bsky.social and Mark Mulvihill were happy to chat. Check out the interview now!

www.thefandomentals.com/horrified-du...
More d20 Is Better: How The Ravensburger Team Got Their Chocolate In Their Peanut Butter With Horrified Dungeons & Dragons - The Fandomentals
Dan chats with Lysa Penrose and Mike Mulivihill about the latest addition to the Horrified family
www.thefandomentals.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6)
🎲✂️
September 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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#KPopDemonHunters really proves that every time this industry underestimates teenage girls, it leaves a billion dollars on the table.
a blue cartoon cat with sharp teeth is laying on a ledge
Alt: a blue cartoon cat with sharp teeth is laying on a ledge
media.tenor.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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10 days until Protospiel Online August 2025! 🎲✂️

Get your badge and add your prototype to the listing to get featured in the Prototype Showcase livestream Aug 21 @ 8:30pm EDT!

Online convention doors open Friday Aug 22 at noon US Eastern for 60 solid hours of playtesting on the virtual tabletop.
August 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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これは貸しです。

Introducing Kashi 貸し, a guide to why "Ghibli-inspired" media without Japanese creatives is harmful. It includes links to learn more about Orientalism, Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki, and Japanese culture.

Learn. Share. Change.

kashi-info.carrd.co
August 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...
August 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.
May 17, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Badge sales for Protospiel Online August 22-24 2025 are open! 3 days of digital playtesting with 24 hour moderator support.

Early bird pricing is available through Mon Aug 11, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 🎲✂️

protospiel.online/badges/
Badges - Protospiel Online
3 days of playtesting on Discord + virtual tabletop. 10% of total badge sales go to charities supporting human rights.
protospiel.online
August 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Today is International Owl Awareness Day and I had a hoot putting together this thread of international owl phrases, starting with this one…

A colloquial way of telling someone to mind their own business in Punjabi is apna ooloo sidha rukh. It means “keep your own owl straight.”
August 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“i bet a solo play of this TIME TO PANIC game would be a nice cozy way to wind down”

😖
August 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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[Today 3:19PM] You can share this link as long as you remind them not to click it until 12:01am PDT: mcdm.gg/rpg
July 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
i luv my gloomiemie so much
labubu who is she?
smize game stronger than tyra

yes this is a gen con gwp special
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Hey all. We have never, ever done this ever (it makes Matt (yes I’m speaking in 3rd person) super uncomfortable and we are not judging if you have needed to) but we have an ask/favor of folks, as it seems our recent outspokenness has caught the attention of some legit trolls.
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
takin the red eye.
flyin around while ur asleep.
makin toys.
basically santa.
July 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What games are peeps super duper excited to check out at Gen Con? 🤓📝
July 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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It's almost here folks!
I sat down with @hellomcdm.bsky.social and Draw Steel Lead Designer @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social to talk about the BIG changes coming to Draw Steel in their July Update this week! Modular racial abilities? Big Class Buffs? AIRSHIP BUILDING? It's all here! youtu.be/fcXJbTu24Vs
Draw Steel HUGE Updates! TTRPG Combat Has NEVER Been More FUN!
YouTube video by The Character Sheet on ComicBook.com
youtu.be
July 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Not to be dramatic but I passed 500 signs announcing bubble tea next to my gate and I got here and it is closed and I am lying I am VERY DRAMATIC ABOUT IT. Tender baby weeping all the first way to Indy.
July 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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BFF is back and better with age,
Follow us on Kickstarter! 💅
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ros...
Coming soon: BFF! The Golden Years
A heartwarming tabletop rpg of elder lady friendship.
www.kickstarter.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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There are only 4 tickets left to my producer panel at #GenCon. Get in on it. www.gencon.com/events/288278
July 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I am headed to Gen Con - mostly in meetings with publishers - and def playing new games! 🎲 If you’re a pub, I still have time Sunday if you wanna chat possible local or global partnerships with Ravensburger 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🍔 or even just meet n greet or lie prone on the exhibit hall floor together.
a woman in a black top is standing in front of a blue frame
Alt: a woman in a black top is standing in front of a blue frame
media.tenor.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
an act of rebellion
Wiggle from its grasp!!
July 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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“Famous chefs” love GAMES
Games!
July 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM