Matthew Taber-Hanson
@matthewtaberhanson.bsky.social
Dad, game designer (as Matthew J. Hanson), unpublished fiction author. He/him
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Literally every time I've needed customer service help and it's a company that starts you off with a chatbot, I end up needing a human being. Every time.
Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷♀️
Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷♀️
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Literally every time I've needed customer service help and it's a company that starts you off with a chatbot, I end up needing a human being. Every time.
Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷♀️
Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷♀️
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"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.
Coming soon to Kickstarter!
Twenty new curses for you friends and enemies.
Plus plot hooks and new rules to make breaking the curses more compelling.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...
#dnd #ttrpg #pathfinder #kickstarter
Twenty new curses for you friends and enemies.
Plus plot hooks and new rules to make breaking the curses more compelling.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...
#dnd #ttrpg #pathfinder #kickstarter
Coming soon: 20 Cruel Curses – For D&D and Pathfinder
Twenty curses for people, places, and treasure, plus optional rules for breaking curses. Each curse is adventure hook.
www.kickstarter.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Coming soon to Kickstarter!
Twenty new curses for you friends and enemies.
Plus plot hooks and new rules to make breaking the curses more compelling.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...
#dnd #ttrpg #pathfinder #kickstarter
Twenty new curses for you friends and enemies.
Plus plot hooks and new rules to make breaking the curses more compelling.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...
#dnd #ttrpg #pathfinder #kickstarter
Reposted by Matthew Taber-Hanson
Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
To be clear, MOST democratic senators voted AGAINST reopening the government in exchange for nothing.
Only 8 voted for it (that's 17%). Those individuals are: Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen and Sen. Angus King.
Only 8 voted for it (that's 17%). Those individuals are: Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen and Sen. Angus King.
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
To be clear, MOST democratic senators voted AGAINST reopening the government in exchange for nothing.
Only 8 voted for it (that's 17%). Those individuals are: Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen and Sen. Angus King.
Only 8 voted for it (that's 17%). Those individuals are: Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen and Sen. Angus King.
All right Minneapolis voters, please say filled out your 2nd and 3rd choices properly with ranked choice voting.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Live results: Key elections in Minnesota
From Minneapolis and St. Paul mayoral races to special elections for two crucial Minnesota Senate seats, if you’re looking for the results of the 2025 general election, we’ve got them here.
www.mprnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
All right Minneapolis voters, please say filled out your 2nd and 3rd choices properly with ranked choice voting.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.
Reposted by Matthew Taber-Hanson
I grew up on food stamps--not SNAP, physical paper stamps that came in a little book that Mom kept in her purse.
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I grew up on food stamps--not SNAP, physical paper stamps that came in a little book that Mom kept in her purse.
Happy Halloween!
Reminder that we've got spooky adventures and post-apocalyptic settings on sale for 31% off!
#Dnd #Pathfinder #SavageWorlds
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Reminder that we've got spooky adventures and post-apocalyptic settings on sale for 31% off!
#Dnd #Pathfinder #SavageWorlds
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
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Good Little Children Never Grow Up (5e) - Sneak Attack Press | DriveThruRPG
Everybody in Hedgebird knows that the old DeMay orphanage is haunted, but that did not stop the Perseville family from moving to town and buying the place. Nor did it stop the Tarnak boys from venturi...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Happy Halloween!
Reminder that we've got spooky adventures and post-apocalyptic settings on sale for 31% off!
#Dnd #Pathfinder #SavageWorlds
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
Reminder that we've got spooky adventures and post-apocalyptic settings on sale for 31% off!
#Dnd #Pathfinder #SavageWorlds
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Reposted by Matthew Taber-Hanson
Shall we talk about ebooks?
It might be a bit of a weird thing for a physical bookshop to do, but bear with me. There's a reason.
Take a seat for a short thread. 1/?
It might be a bit of a weird thing for a physical bookshop to do, but bear with me. There's a reason.
Take a seat for a short thread. 1/?
a woman in a suit and tie is smiling with #schitts creek written on the bottom
Alt: a woman in a suit and tie is smiling with #schitts creek written on the bottom
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October 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Shall we talk about ebooks?
It might be a bit of a weird thing for a physical bookshop to do, but bear with me. There's a reason.
Take a seat for a short thread. 1/?
It might be a bit of a weird thing for a physical bookshop to do, but bear with me. There's a reason.
Take a seat for a short thread. 1/?
For RPG fans out there. For a dedicated monster book, what's the minimum number of new monsters you want to see in it?
#dnd #Pathfinder #SavageWorlds
#dnd #Pathfinder #SavageWorlds
October 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
For RPG fans out there. For a dedicated monster book, what's the minimum number of new monsters you want to see in it?
#dnd #Pathfinder #SavageWorlds
#dnd #Pathfinder #SavageWorlds
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Apparently it needs to be said: The best (and possibly only) living conditions for humanity are on Earth.
Space wants to kill you all the fucking time. You can visit, but not for significant portions of your lifespan.
Seriously, look it up.
Fix, cherish, and live on Earth. Visit space.
Space wants to kill you all the fucking time. You can visit, but not for significant portions of your lifespan.
Seriously, look it up.
Fix, cherish, and live on Earth. Visit space.
a black and white photo of a man in a suit standing in front of a white background .
Alt: a black and white photo of a man in a suit standing in front of a white background .
Prince slides across the scene, pitying you
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Apparently it needs to be said: The best (and possibly only) living conditions for humanity are on Earth.
Space wants to kill you all the fucking time. You can visit, but not for significant portions of your lifespan.
Seriously, look it up.
Fix, cherish, and live on Earth. Visit space.
Space wants to kill you all the fucking time. You can visit, but not for significant portions of your lifespan.
Seriously, look it up.
Fix, cherish, and live on Earth. Visit space.
I am not a good songwriter, but for some reason, I keep including songs that are integral to the plot of my novels.
Which means I have to keep writing lyrics for the songs.
#AmWriting
Which means I have to keep writing lyrics for the songs.
#AmWriting
October 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I am not a good songwriter, but for some reason, I keep including songs that are integral to the plot of my novels.
Which means I have to keep writing lyrics for the songs.
#AmWriting
Which means I have to keep writing lyrics for the songs.
#AmWriting
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I'm an ENnie- and Origins-award-winning veteran ttRPG designer with 28 years of experience, who co-created the Saga Edition Star Wars RPG and Starfinder 1st ed. I'm creating a new ttRPG in weekly Patreon posts, step-by-step, and answering questions.
www.patreon.com/posts/writin...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I'm an ENnie- and Origins-award-winning veteran ttRPG designer with 28 years of experience, who co-created the Saga Edition Star Wars RPG and Starfinder 1st ed. I'm creating a new ttRPG in weekly Patreon posts, step-by-step, and answering questions.
www.patreon.com/posts/writin...
www.patreon.com/posts/writin...
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🎲 Role (or roll!) Announcement! 🎲
I'm ecstatic to be returning to Dawnsbury Days in the newest expansion as Lenka, Saya, Kaylee & Orphan Girls 💛
Play now on Steam 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/3808170/...
#voiceactor #indiegame #voiceacting #roleannouncement
I'm ecstatic to be returning to Dawnsbury Days in the newest expansion as Lenka, Saya, Kaylee & Orphan Girls 💛
Play now on Steam 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/3808170/...
#voiceactor #indiegame #voiceacting #roleannouncement
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🎲 Role (or roll!) Announcement! 🎲
I'm ecstatic to be returning to Dawnsbury Days in the newest expansion as Lenka, Saya, Kaylee & Orphan Girls 💛
Play now on Steam 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/3808170/...
#voiceactor #indiegame #voiceacting #roleannouncement
I'm ecstatic to be returning to Dawnsbury Days in the newest expansion as Lenka, Saya, Kaylee & Orphan Girls 💛
Play now on Steam 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/3808170/...
#voiceactor #indiegame #voiceacting #roleannouncement
October 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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If you can, get out and protest today.
You don't have to be up front, you don't have to be the loudest, you don't have to have a sign.
Showing up matters.
Just go. And if nothing else, enjoy the feeling that solidarity gives you.
You don't have to be up front, you don't have to be the loudest, you don't have to have a sign.
Showing up matters.
Just go. And if nothing else, enjoy the feeling that solidarity gives you.
October 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you can, get out and protest today.
You don't have to be up front, you don't have to be the loudest, you don't have to have a sign.
Showing up matters.
Just go. And if nothing else, enjoy the feeling that solidarity gives you.
You don't have to be up front, you don't have to be the loudest, you don't have to have a sign.
Showing up matters.
Just go. And if nothing else, enjoy the feeling that solidarity gives you.
An adventure I wrote has been adapted to a video game!
Explore a haunted orphanage and save the spirits within!
On sale now!
#Pathfinder
Explore a haunted orphanage and save the spirits within!
On sale now!
#Pathfinder
The second Dawnsbury Days expansion, which increases the level cap to 9 and takes place in a haunted house, is now released!
Thank you everyone who contributed to this project, and good luck to players in exorcising the ancient evils within!
store.steampowered.com/app/3808170/...
Thank you everyone who contributed to this project, and good luck to players in exorcising the ancient evils within!
store.steampowered.com/app/3808170/...
Save 10% on Dawnsbury Days - Good Little Children Never Grow Up on Steam
In this haunted house adventure for level 9 characters, our heroes must confront terrible ghosts from an orphanage's past to rescue a farmer's children who have ventured inside — and perhaps stop an e...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
An adventure I wrote has been adapted to a video game!
Explore a haunted orphanage and save the spirits within!
On sale now!
#Pathfinder
Explore a haunted orphanage and save the spirits within!
On sale now!
#Pathfinder
DriveThruRPG's Halloween sale is on!
In addition to spooky adventures like Good Little Children Never Grow Up and Bonedigger, they're also including post-apocalyptic stuff in the sale, such as our Broken Earth setting.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
In addition to spooky adventures like Good Little Children Never Grow Up and Bonedigger, they're also including post-apocalyptic stuff in the sale, such as our Broken Earth setting.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
Good Little Children Never Grow Up (5e) - Sneak Attack Press | DriveThruRPG
Everybody in Hedgebird knows that the old DeMay orphanage is haunted, but that did not stop the Perseville family from moving to town and buying the place. Nor did it stop the Tarnak boys from venturi...
www.drivethrurpg.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:15 AM
DriveThruRPG's Halloween sale is on!
In addition to spooky adventures like Good Little Children Never Grow Up and Bonedigger, they're also including post-apocalyptic stuff in the sale, such as our Broken Earth setting.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
In addition to spooky adventures like Good Little Children Never Grow Up and Bonedigger, they're also including post-apocalyptic stuff in the sale, such as our Broken Earth setting.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
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My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
I have finished revising my novel's second draft!
#amwriting #amrevising
Me: Now what should I do?
Costco: There's still five more packet of brownie mix.
Me: You win another round Costco.
#amwriting #amrevising
Me: Now what should I do?
Costco: There's still five more packet of brownie mix.
Me: You win another round Costco.
October 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I have finished revising my novel's second draft!
#amwriting #amrevising
Me: Now what should I do?
Costco: There's still five more packet of brownie mix.
Me: You win another round Costco.
#amwriting #amrevising
Me: Now what should I do?
Costco: There's still five more packet of brownie mix.
Me: You win another round Costco.
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Dawnsbury Days, a turn-based tactics video game, has a level 9 expansion coming out in one week, on October 17th! If you're a content creator, journalist, or are otherwise interested in covering the game, let me know — I'll be happy to send you a key and answer questions!
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Dawnsbury Days, a turn-based tactics video game, has a level 9 expansion coming out in one week, on October 17th! If you're a content creator, journalist, or are otherwise interested in covering the game, let me know — I'll be happy to send you a key and answer questions!
I've decided that the fact that none the characters in my book have last names is part of the world building.
It's not because I'm too lazy to come up with last names.
It's not because I'm too lazy to come up with last names.
October 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I've decided that the fact that none the characters in my book have last names is part of the world building.
It's not because I'm too lazy to come up with last names.
It's not because I'm too lazy to come up with last names.