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Tim Clare

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(he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · Oct 12

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I'm an author & podcaster. I've written 2 gothic Fantasy novels, The Honours & The Ice House, a book on the science of anxiety & panic called Coward, & a book on how boardgames make us human, The Game Changers.

I make a podcast for writers called Death of 1000 Cuts.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 20h

Just a reminder if you'd like to hear me & the British Museum's Irving Finkel talk about the history of boardgames, we're on in Canterbury this Saturday at 5:30pm. I'd love to see you there. I can't wait.
canterburyfestival.co.uk/whats-on/tim...

Tim Clare & Irving Finkel: The History of Board Games - Canterbury Festival

Global expert on cuneiform tablet games, Dr Irving Finkel speaks to author Tim Clare about our fascination with a good board game.

canterburyfestival.co.uk

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 4h

Fingers crossed you find yourself pulled into solving a mystery with secret passages etc

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 18h

They might enjoy the Quiet Year, but I'm worried the themes might make my daughter a bit anxious. She worries a lot about plagues, earthquakes, volcanoes. She's like a seer tortured by visions

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 18h

Is Mausritter too young for 9 year olds do you think or ok?

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 20h

Tim Clare & Irving Finkel: The History of Board Games - Canterbury Festival

Global expert on cuneiform tablet games, Dr Irving Finkel speaks to author Tim Clare about our fascination with a good board game.

canterburyfestival.co.uk

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 22h

What do you need to jump in with Mausritter?

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 22h

What's a great ttrpg for 8-9 year olds? I'd love to run some sessions for my daughter & her friends, all of whom have little to no ttrpg experience. I normally run Pathfinder 1e which I expect they could handle (as long as I handled the rules burden) but other options with other themes would be cool

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 1d

Nose!

Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 1d

It had been a long week

Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 1d

Then she attempted a really tricky coin bit all on her own & I was so proud of how far she's come I cried

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 1d

Playing the Bowser's Castle level of Mario Odyssey with my daughter yesterday we read on the map screen that the main industry is hanafuda cards & I got so excited I subjected her to a ten minute monologue on Nintendo history & cards & why the tengus are part of it & the supposed 鼻 / 花 pun.

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