scene_four
@scenefour.bsky.social
Pro GM, game designer, writer, creator. Tabletop RPGs are my vice. He/him
The ratio of joke comments that are funny enough to justify their existence to joke comments that are annoying and contribute nothing is rather dismal
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The ratio of joke comments that are funny enough to justify their existence to joke comments that are annoying and contribute nothing is rather dismal
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life at least twice. What an artist.
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia changed my life at least twice. What an artist.
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wrote a little blog post about proceduralism, osr design, and extrapolating to gmless play
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Reflections on Procedure | Jay Dragon (& Friends)
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November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
wrote a little blog post about proceduralism, osr design, and extrapolating to gmless play
www.patreon.com/posts/reflec...
www.patreon.com/posts/reflec...
The Clay that Woke (Czege, 2014)
I feel like a big part of solving the male loneliness epidemic is bringing back the Minotaur and a maze to put him in
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Clay that Woke (Czege, 2014)
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November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
What you call it, in descending order of esteem:
-world’s greatest RPG
-world’s most popular RPG
-world’s biggest RPG
-world’s largest RPG
-world’s most apparent RPG
-world’s alleged RPG
-world’s greatest RPG
-world’s most popular RPG
-world’s biggest RPG
-world’s largest RPG
-world’s most apparent RPG
-world’s alleged RPG
I get so confused whenever that company uses, “The world’s greatest RPG” in marketing because D&D 5e is a lot of things, but it’s certainly not that.
Heck, it’s not even the greatest D&D.
Heck, it’s not even the greatest D&D.
The best science-fiction role-playing game ever, adapted at last to the world's most popular rules!
Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran Timothy Brown, Traveller 5E is coming from World's Largest RPGs, with crowdfunding in March 2026...
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran Timothy Brown, Traveller 5E is coming from World's Largest RPGs, with crowdfunding in March 2026...
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
What you call it, in descending order of esteem:
-world’s greatest RPG
-world’s most popular RPG
-world’s biggest RPG
-world’s largest RPG
-world’s most apparent RPG
-world’s alleged RPG
-world’s greatest RPG
-world’s most popular RPG
-world’s biggest RPG
-world’s largest RPG
-world’s most apparent RPG
-world’s alleged RPG
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What's the flavour of the current era of TTRPG design? Social Media Refragmentation? Is it a consolidation cycle? What are the new upcoming designers struggling with and against now?
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
What's the flavour of the current era of TTRPG design? Social Media Refragmentation? Is it a consolidation cycle? What are the new upcoming designers struggling with and against now?
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My game was on the local news!
Perils & Princesses from @outridercreative.bsky.social got a great call out on WGN gift list segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eTH...
Find your copy of this "gritty & pretty" tabletop roleplaying game in our shop today, and get the complete P&P bundle tabletopbookshelf.com/products/per...
Find your copy of this "gritty & pretty" tabletop roleplaying game in our shop today, and get the complete P&P bundle tabletopbookshelf.com/products/per...
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
My game was on the local news!
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Already tested negative for covid for my first test and no symptoms of anything else. Wearing a mask helps prevents more than just Covid.
Don’t want Con Crud? Wear a mask.
Don’t want Con Crud? Wear a mask.
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Already tested negative for covid for my first test and no symptoms of anything else. Wearing a mask helps prevents more than just Covid.
Don’t want Con Crud? Wear a mask.
Don’t want Con Crud? Wear a mask.
“How did you get into ttrpgs?”
Same as anyone: jumped in by a gang of satanists
Same as anyone: jumped in by a gang of satanists
"How did you get into ttrpgs?"
My father wrapped me in a blanket and we watched Batman: The Animated Series and Jackie Chan Adventures
My father wrapped me in a blanket and we watched Batman: The Animated Series and Jackie Chan Adventures
“How did you get into ttrpgs?”
Using a pair of tiny silver scissors, I unpicked the hem and climbed inside, where I proceeded to refashion the various pieces until they became a comfortable nest for my own dreams, then I cut star-shaped holes to let my dreams fly. Sometimes there’s a flamethrower.
Using a pair of tiny silver scissors, I unpicked the hem and climbed inside, where I proceeded to refashion the various pieces until they became a comfortable nest for my own dreams, then I cut star-shaped holes to let my dreams fly. Sometimes there’s a flamethrower.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“How did you get into ttrpgs?”
Same as anyone: jumped in by a gang of satanists
Same as anyone: jumped in by a gang of satanists
This was so fun to play on the floor at PAX! I would love to see more “all play” games like this at cons! My official score was 52
The Guess The TTRPG challenge I brought to PAX Unplugged is now available online! Can you identify one hundred tabletop RPGs featured on @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social?
There's also a link to a spreadsheet with links to every featured game! Have fun :D
www.sporcle.com/games/Wintry...
There's also a link to a spreadsheet with links to every featured game! Have fun :D
www.sporcle.com/games/Wintry...
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This was so fun to play on the floor at PAX! I would love to see more “all play” games like this at cons! My official score was 52
For all of the wonders of virtual tabletops, I’m afraid nothing still beats hitting ‘em with the mini reveal when they walk in the boss room
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
For all of the wonders of virtual tabletops, I’m afraid nothing still beats hitting ‘em with the mini reveal when they walk in the boss room
tonight in my elfgame (IN PERSON EDITION): aeon-spanning cold open, dove in the hole, split the party(!), undid the source of a lotta trouble, sent a lich AND a dragon home, got cubed, slew six ways a character who was mostly an extended bit, and made a demon lord an offer he couldn't refuse!
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
tonight in my elfgame (IN PERSON EDITION): aeon-spanning cold open, dove in the hole, split the party(!), undid the source of a lotta trouble, sent a lich AND a dragon home, got cubed, slew six ways a character who was mostly an extended bit, and made a demon lord an offer he couldn't refuse!
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I made a little name tag with my usual profile pictures for just this reason.
August 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I made a little name tag with my usual profile pictures for just this reason.
I forget from whom, but I got the advice to make a badge of my pfp and it is phenomenally effective!
Next year at #PAXU I’m wearing and bringing some “Hi, my @ is…” stickers to share because I was pants at recognizing people’s faces, but their usernames clicked!
Apologies if I didn’t recognize you to your face and asked who you are. Especially if we’re mutuals here. ☺️
Apologies if I didn’t recognize you to your face and asked who you are. Especially if we’re mutuals here. ☺️
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I forget from whom, but I got the advice to make a badge of my pfp and it is phenomenally effective!
Dandan: great magic format, or greatest magic format?
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Dandan: great magic format, or greatest magic format?
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These four games were by far the hardest to identify during the #PAXU Guess the Game Challenge, with #60 and #90 going completely unsolved!
Can you recognize them? (no cheating! 😇)
Can you recognize them? (no cheating! 😇)
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
These four games were by far the hardest to identify during the #PAXU Guess the Game Challenge, with #60 and #90 going completely unsolved!
Can you recognize them? (no cheating! 😇)
Can you recognize them? (no cheating! 😇)
new strong bad email in the big 25, what a time
youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc
youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc
Strong Bad Email #210 - Robots
YouTube video by homestarrunnerdotcom
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
new strong bad email in the big 25, what a time
youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc
youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc
I have determined that Pax U is for consorting with the absolute freakshow (/pos) that is the Philly rpg scene
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I have determined that Pax U is for consorting with the absolute freakshow (/pos) that is the Philly rpg scene
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Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
today in my elfgame: sacrificed a snowman for science, dueled with a sad but somewhat friendly demon, earned their boon, dropped wizard and druid in a slime pit in a makeshift submarine, evaded a crystal hand, captured a mutant monster also for science, learned its secrets, and immolated it
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
today in my elfgame: sacrificed a snowman for science, dueled with a sad but somewhat friendly demon, earned their boon, dropped wizard and druid in a slime pit in a makeshift submarine, evaded a crystal hand, captured a mutant monster also for science, learned its secrets, and immolated it
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Playtested A Season Chang’d from the 5th episode of Gamestorm last night.
The bingo board felt revolutionary. Both in the ways it let players frame the arc they wanted for their knight and how it shaped play.
@scenefour.bsky.social and @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social were calling it new tech hahaha
The bingo board felt revolutionary. Both in the ways it let players frame the arc they wanted for their knight and how it shaped play.
@scenefour.bsky.social and @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social were calling it new tech hahaha
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Playtested A Season Chang’d from the 5th episode of Gamestorm last night.
The bingo board felt revolutionary. Both in the ways it let players frame the arc they wanted for their knight and how it shaped play.
@scenefour.bsky.social and @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social were calling it new tech hahaha
The bingo board felt revolutionary. Both in the ways it let players frame the arc they wanted for their knight and how it shaped play.
@scenefour.bsky.social and @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social were calling it new tech hahaha
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THAC0 famously stands for Trans Homosexual Anarcho Communist 0
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
THAC0 famously stands for Trans Homosexual Anarcho Communist 0
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In 2016, the Apocalypse World 2nd Ed campaign ended at $149,681. We'd like to beat that!
At $149,682, we'll get with the original authors and update three classic playbooks:
• The Faceless by Bret Gillan
• The News by Josh Savoie
• The Show by Elliot Baker
At $149,682, we'll get with the original authors and update three classic playbooks:
• The Faceless by Bret Gillan
• The News by Josh Savoie
• The Show by Elliot Baker
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In 2016, the Apocalypse World 2nd Ed campaign ended at $149,681. We'd like to beat that!
At $149,682, we'll get with the original authors and update three classic playbooks:
• The Faceless by Bret Gillan
• The News by Josh Savoie
• The Show by Elliot Baker
At $149,682, we'll get with the original authors and update three classic playbooks:
• The Faceless by Bret Gillan
• The News by Josh Savoie
• The Show by Elliot Baker
tonight in my forbidden lands FINALE: torched a hallway of demon flesh, met a weird elfin monkey baby, ganking a wizard, dunked a magic crown into a demon portal, got aged 30 years, got scared, cut off the demon-sorcerer's daughter fused to his body, got her to blow up her dad, and saved the realm
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
tonight in my forbidden lands FINALE: torched a hallway of demon flesh, met a weird elfin monkey baby, ganking a wizard, dunked a magic crown into a demon portal, got aged 30 years, got scared, cut off the demon-sorcerer's daughter fused to his body, got her to blow up her dad, and saved the realm