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RJ Lackie

@rjlackie.com

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Writer @ Epic Games. Screenwriter. Tabletop RPG design neophyte. Gay as hell, broken in a fundamental but amusing way, and trying his best to make you laugh and/or cry. He/him.

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · Sep 4

Heyo! I’m RJ, a game writer, screenwriter and burgeoning self-taught TTRPG designer who’s three years into a grand adventure at Epic Games. I’m gay as fuck, very friendly, and a barely-functioning human being with a general addiction to yearning.

You can find my TTRPG ramblings at Into the Portal.

RJ Lackie's Into the Portal

Thoughts, stories and ideas from a budding TTRPG designer.

www.rjlackie.com

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Dr. Nic, Namer of the Universe @quakefultales.bsky.social · 1d

Hey narrative folks my team is looking for a narrative designer to come work with me in Iceland! If you have solid storytelling fundamentals, some technical experience, and live ops or adjacent experience, we are looking for someone like you!

careers.ccpgames.com/en/postings/...

Narrative Designer

Job Opening: Narrative Designer at CCP Games in Reykjavík.

careers.ccpgames.com

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 2d

everyone here: *audible reactions*

me: wait what’s happening all i see is a farm

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 2d

i have already overheard at least one conversation in intermission discussing this very thing, tho they estimated it at Year 5

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satah @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 3d

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...

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 3d

Doing a little working vacation away from home, and the last few days in the city have been… fucking transcendent. I know why I don’t live here, but I needed this visit; the joy-per-hour ratio has been very high, in a very heart-refilling sort of way.

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 3d

I was a faithful Critical Role watcher during the pandemic, and their Monsterhearts oneshot blew my mind. A TTRPG could be *this*??

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 4d

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 4d

Putting out a call: if you were part of WOTC’s late-2010s live events (Stream of Many Eyes, D&D Live, The Descent), I would love to talk to you as part of the Actual Play book.

[email protected] will reach me, either to schedule a chat or to share your memories.

Please feel free to share.

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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 3d

Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG

A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system! Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 5d

I am so excited for this fucking bookkkkkk

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 5d

We don’t know each other beyond a couple Bluesky interactions, but I adore your art and am rooting for you in this bleak time 💙 I hope things get better.

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 5d

gentle saturday morning

a copy of Poetry Foundation Magazine (Oct ‘24) open face-down on a table, showing the cover.

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 8d

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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SeanMcCann @seanmccann.bsky.social · 8d

Just out of curiosity, has anyone else published something through DriveThruRPG?

I'm wondering what the general experience is like regarding approval times.

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Gravity Well @gravitywell.games · 10d

Gravity Well is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join our team! 🎮👾

If you've got sharp testing skills, a passion for video games, and experience with QA efforts, we want to hear from you!

Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/...

Senior QA Analyst

Remote

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 10d

if not person why have tote bag

Megan MacKay @mmmegan.bsky.social · 10d

I think @rjlackie.com believes all kangaroos are actually people in costumes

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 11d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 11d

If I've seen Jurassic Park, it was too young to remember anything from it; all of my memories of it are from the SNES tie-in game.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 12d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 11d

Epic D&D session coming up today, as my players -- simultaneously existing on two planes, due to strange magic -- face off with a dangerous warlock attempting to corrupt a dragon, and witness (and possibly intervene in) a fight between two gods.

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Deck of Many Aces @deckofmanyaces.bsky.social · 12d

Calling all #TTRPG creators! We've got mid-roll ad slots up for grabs 🎧

If you've got a podcast, video, stream or product the world has to see, shoot us a DM or email [email protected]. No charge, but advertising us in kind is appreciated!

Let us shout from the rooftops with you 📣

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 12d

i need to gather this summery feeling and put it into a little glass bottle inside my heart to access once winter drives away my desire to get out of bed, it's coming sooner than i think

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 12d

i love my job but i also daydream about being able to lounge about all day, eating grapes and jotting ttrpg mechanics onto post-its on a lil miro, one of seven thousand lil miros

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 12d

made a miro for these projects today 🥹 gods i love an excuse to make a miro

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 15d

It's October 1st, and the Hundred One Page Game Jam has opened!

I knew I wasn't supposed to start til today, and that once I read the games, I'd be itching to dive in. So, while I rolled the games I'm planning to use *days* ago, I have banned myself from opening any of them til this morning.

One Hundred One Page Games Jam

A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by gshowitt. HELLO MY NAME IS GRANT HOWITT AND I HAVE WRITTEN ONE HUNDRED OF GAME. Below is a list of my one hundred one-page games. Some of them are lo...

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Magic: The Gathering @magic.wizards.com · 15d

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community.

Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

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RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 12d

Having to choose between ‘have a free blog/newsletter w privacy options but pay through the nose’ vs ‘have a semiprivate blog but have to charge every subscriber’… jeez, this system seems kinda broken.

RJ Lackie @rjlackie.com · 12d

Oof! Extremely fair. I’m privileged by my own obscurity here; I imagine in your position I’d make the same call.

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