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RyRy 🎲 🎲
@youngking45.bsky.social
TTRPG writer/enthusiast (After\\Burner) | Cleveland | Former Theatre Person | Miniatures Games/Painting | Marketing by Day — He/Cis/Het/Married/Parent
https://theyoungking45.itch.io
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📌 Pinning this intro: Hello! I’m Ryan and I dabble as a #ttrpg writer, when I’m not being a dad/painting miniatures / enjoying a tabletop Wargame / doing a bit of improv in Cleveland / stretching my creativity as a Marketing professional.

All my games are here: theyoungking45.itch.io
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theyoungking45.itch.io
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December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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If you're planning on playing Voidlight, I made a free character keeper using Google Sheets which should make playing the game a lot easier.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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These are the Fortune 500 companies that have active contracts with ICE
www.yahoo.com/news/fortune...
These are the Fortune 500 companies that have active contracts with ICE
From AT&T to FedEx, these are the organizations contracting with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.yahoo.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
For the duration of Black Friday...s many days, until like December 4 - I've got the majority of my games at 50% off. I'd love it if you grabbed one (for cheaper!) and dropped it on to your table!

itch.io/s/170987/bla...
Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by The Cargo Bay
A bundle by The Cargo Bay, $7.00 for 4 games
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
ME, an unhinged parent of young kids: “Mass Effect tonies when?????”
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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New Quinns Quest review is a boxed RPG special! 📦✨

I dunno folks, I think running RPGs out of 400 page hardback books might be dumb and bad
Quinns Quest Reviews: The Boxed RPG Special!
YouTube video by Quinns Quest
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I've been banging the drum about this Solo TTRPG bundle I'm in for selfish reasons. But as we get into the final days I wanted to spotlight a few games from some of my Bundlemates (is...that a thing?) to share the love.

You can find them all here. Let's ride! 🧵
itch.io/b/3361/sprin...
Sprinting Owl Solo Tabletop Bundle by kumada1 and 25 others
Sprinting Owl Solo Tabletop Bundle: 39 items for $12.00
itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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This is a sobering read that starts from a straightforward premise: look at how the poverty threshold is calculated in the US and see how well it holds up as an actual measure.

I expected it to be bad. It’s much worse, in ways it’s hard not to see.
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.

farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Do you want more detail as to how it was made? Great! I just uploaded my 2nd devlog about it.

First detailing the basics: binary-star-games.itch.io/void-shift/d...
Second getting into the weeds on job/deck design: binary-star-games.itch.io/void-shift/d...

(And the digital version is there too!)
Devlog 2: Jobs, Decks, and Difficulty
Hi there! Up front, VOID_SHIFT physicals are out! It’s a cassette case with a (nicely printed) deck, five dice, a J-card in the case with instructions, and a lovely O-card that slips over the case...
binary-star-games.itch.io
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If your bullshit LLM “AI” Is such a good artist, why can’t it finish all my unpainted miniatures?
a man with a magnifying glass is making silver pants blue
ALT: a man with a magnifying glass is making silver pants blue
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November 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
MY 1.5 YEAR OLD: “Hi, Dada!”

ME, STILL FULL OF 90’s/2000’s RTS POISON: “En Taro Adun, Executor!”
a close up of a monster with orange eyes
ALT: a close up of a monster with orange eyes
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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All these "but Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft let you download your old purchases" people forget about already existing failures like OnLive or Stadia.

I'm not expecting the big 3 companies to go under but it could happen and their legacies will just be purely physical games and illegal preservation.
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE

A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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One of our solo journalling games (Corporate Onboarding) is currently available in this bundle of 39 titles from different creators around the world. Grabbing the bundle will net you months of solo entertainment for just $12: itch.io/b/3361/sprin...

#TTRPG
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Boundless Space: Making the scary monsters of the Eridani Belt today. I'm thinking that space combat will be much like normal conflict in Boundless, but with the addition of vast space ranges, multiple actions for a crewed ship, and of course, torpedoes and boarding!
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Laying out some NPCs for that Boundless Space game today. I can draw little space guys all day long, but really wish I could outsource the writing. The pain of staring at the names I come up with, willing something better to emerge.
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.

Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.

@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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39 games for $12!

Solo tabletop from across the indie, with cozy journaling, little narrative gamebooks, survival horror, high fantasy, ecology, and more!

itch.io/b/3361/sprin...
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Boundless Space art for you all today, as I can't share commission work, just yet.

I'm thinking about putting some bright holographic billboards around the asteroid belt's little boomtown station. What kind of far future amenities do you all think that Railhead should have on offer?
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM