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Salamander
@sallywargaming.bsky.social
Amateur writer, amateur tabletop game designer, sci-fi and tabletop video essayist and host of the channel Salamander's Forge on YouTube, gender goblin (they/them)
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I've been getting new followers every day since the election so I figured I ought to do a bit of an introduction thread. Hiii, my name's Sally! I'm a queer and Jewish video essayist making videos about 40k and other tabletop games. You can find my work below!

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PLAY TRENCH CRUSADE, I AM NO LONGER ASKING
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Goth selfie thread

Take 2 so might as well post 2
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I've been writing a Trench Crusade video that I've needed to massively rewrite like three times in the last few months because of how quickly the release cadence of new patches has been recently. So I think I'm just gonna shelve it and make something sillier and more fun.
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I've been playing a lot of Vermintide 2 recently so of course my zoomer brainrotted ass had to make a tier list. The list is for all the different careers but I don't think a binary letter grade system is good enough because Vermintide 2 is a very nuanced game.
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I've been playing a lot of Vermintide 2 recently so of course my zoomer brainrotted ass had to make a tier list. The list is for all the different careers but I don't think a binary letter grade system is good enough because Vermintide 2 is a very nuanced game.
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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yeah
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I feel like I'm in that one scene in the Hellsing Ultimate Abridged series where a bunch of Jews pretended to be Catholic so that they could join in on killing the vampire nazis invading London.
"Ehhh, if we're killing ChatGPT, we'll worship a side of bacon."
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
a post-op trans guy gets stopped at the door of the men's bathroom because a federal agent needs to decide whether or not he's cis before he's allowed to piss
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
my parents showed me D&D when I was 4 years old and almost as soon as I had the brainpower to I was doing stuff like writing up my own races and classes. And as early as age 7 I was doing stuff like combining bits from different board games to make new games. I was basically doomed.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum

(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
You owe it to yourself to play this game holy shit PLAY IT NOW!!!!!!!
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is free to own on Steam (offer ends Nov 23) buff.ly/pjY24hk
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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I feel like the Herbert Estate is leaving a lot of money on the table by not having a licensed Dune 28mm wargame. Imagine how much money they'd make selling multipart plastic kits for a Dune miniatures game. I know CMON made a strategy board game that has miniatures, but it's not quite the same.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I feel like the Herbert Estate is leaving a lot of money on the table by not having a licensed Dune 28mm wargame. Imagine how much money they'd make selling multipart plastic kits for a Dune miniatures game. I know CMON made a strategy board game that has miniatures, but it's not quite the same.
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Trench Crusade 1.01 came out and seems to include mostly positive changes though I find it a little puzzling that they further buffed Assault weapons? Now you cannot fire after swinging and retreating from melee unless the gun is Assault. Which is... Like holy shit. Stop buffing Assault Weapons LMAO
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Hawks of Allah are my Iron Sultanate warband in the campaign I'm currently running at my two local game stores. We meet twice a week to play games of Trench Crusade. We're at the halfway checkpoint of the campaign so while I wait for people to catch up, I've been painting my soldiers up.
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Got some great work on Trench Crusade minis tonight. Currently playing Iron Sultanate in this campaign, and I've come up with a scheme I really like for them.

In the center is Djamila, my Alchemist with a machine gun who has been my MvP every game so far.
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Me whenever the AI topic comes up:
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I think this happens a lot more than people would think. Mainstream and even independent media coverage on culture war issues often cede to the framing of the right-wing weirdos and acts as though they are this kind of venerable vanguard party, when usually they're the new kids in town.
Valve understands that gay trans people buy video games and right-wing weirdos just watch Asmongold streams and dump their income on Kirsche’s Throne
Let me just say that Valve really knows their audience by picking these two as poster children for the Steam Machine:

store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Free Game: anyone running for Congress that has a plan for Nuremburg-ing the whole fucking lot of these monsters will win with *historic* margins
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I specifically waited until the 1.0 rules for Trench Crusade came out before I kept making videos about it and continuing my faction guide series but I'm gonna be so forreal even though they said 1.0 wasn't going to have major rebalances I now feel like my previous faction guide videos are outdated.
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Zohran Mamdani is the first politician I've seen in my life who's aware of the fact that campaigning and speaking to your constituents doesn't end on election night. I love that it seems like he's committed to talking to his people even after he won the election.
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM