Steins_Kake (she/her)
@katiewickens.bsky.social
🖋️ Freelance tech/game writer & editor (digital/tabletop).
🔗 Words at PCG, GamesRadar, TRG, Dicebreaker, T3, IGN, Senet
🎲 Facilitator of board game workshops
🏳️🌈 Queer, pan, poly
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🔗 Words at PCG, GamesRadar, TRG, Dicebreaker, T3, IGN, Senet
🎲 Facilitator of board game workshops
🏳️🌈 Queer, pan, poly
muckrack.com/katie-wickens/portfolio
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I'm Katie 👐 I write about board games, TTRPGs, and solo RPGs. If you're working on anything tabletop related, add me to your press list:
katiewickensfreelance {at} the bigge G mails {dot} com
Currently trying to line up some fun interviews so hit me up if you fancy a chat over email/discord :)
katiewickensfreelance {at} the bigge G mails {dot} com
Currently trying to line up some fun interviews so hit me up if you fancy a chat over email/discord :)
Really enjoyed speaking with Kevin M. Rodrigo about how prog and jazz mirror the fail-forward design philosophy in his free-to-download Disco Elysium inspired TTRPG, Jamais Vu
Designer of Disco Elysium spiritual successor TTRPG reveals "key design tenet" mirrored in jazz and progressive metal: "Every misstep, every dead end [makes] the eventual release more beautiful"
Kevin M. Rodrigo talks about how his design philosophies for Jamais Vu tie in with his taste in experimental music.
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April 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Really enjoyed speaking with Kevin M. Rodrigo about how prog and jazz mirror the fail-forward design philosophy in his free-to-download Disco Elysium inspired TTRPG, Jamais Vu
Would love to hear about more games with nebulous, unbiased moral alignment systems, if anyone has suggestions?
Break!! TRPG's moral alignment system is far more relaxed than D&D and reminds me why I love tabletop all over again
Speaking to the Break!! designers about the gold standard for handling moral alignment tabletop RPGs
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January 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Would love to hear about more games with nebulous, unbiased moral alignment systems, if anyone has suggestions?
Anyone feel like punching some Nazis?
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January 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Anyone feel like punching some Nazis?
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This makes me very happy
Very much here for the staff of IKEA inventing fake board games for their room display
January 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This makes me very happy
Think I managed to navigate this well with the help of the Gamesradar team, elevating voices with important things to say about Musk and his Nazi salute.
D&D subreddit moderator says the Twitter link ban has "done a great job pulling all the shitheads out of the woodwork"
Moderators have been making their thoughts about the controversy very clear
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January 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Think I managed to navigate this well with the help of the Gamesradar team, elevating voices with important things to say about Musk and his Nazi salute.
Ahh, that's better
January 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Ahh, that's better
I'm Katie 👐 I write about board games, TTRPGs, and solo RPGs. If you're working on anything tabletop related, add me to your press list:
katiewickensfreelance {at} the bigge G mails {dot} com
Currently trying to line up some fun interviews so hit me up if you fancy a chat over email/discord :)
katiewickensfreelance {at} the bigge G mails {dot} com
Currently trying to line up some fun interviews so hit me up if you fancy a chat over email/discord :)
January 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I'm Katie 👐 I write about board games, TTRPGs, and solo RPGs. If you're working on anything tabletop related, add me to your press list:
katiewickensfreelance {at} the bigge G mails {dot} com
Currently trying to line up some fun interviews so hit me up if you fancy a chat over email/discord :)
katiewickensfreelance {at} the bigge G mails {dot} com
Currently trying to line up some fun interviews so hit me up if you fancy a chat over email/discord :)