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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne
@natewarren.bsky.social
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Broadcast node for Breakup Gaming Society, a podcast about board games, booze and hip hop with an autobiographical, comedic and melancholic bent
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natewarren.bsky.social
Let's say you've got a Thanksgiving-week email campaign going out for a pretty good-size CPG. Here's how you message and segment that:

SUBJECT LINE: hows it goin

BODY: im drunk as hell

LISTS: All
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Congrats to @notinventedhere.bsky.social for generating the winning name — The Icebox — for @skrrtvonnegut.bsky.social's cocktail. You're getting some neat stuff in the mail.

Recipe and official announcement — including a few clever runners-up who made it a tough call — with link in comments 👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
I interviewed @liberludorum.com about the grisly near future of Lichoma, the visual triumph of the artifact itself, and what you can expect as a resident of The Wen.
#ttrpg #dystopia #interview #tabletop

Listen to Walt talk this thing with me👇
Elements of the indie tabletop roleplaying game Lichoma: a box with game title and a giant cleaver graphic; a standing brochure with red/black/white art and the headline, "failure."
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
When somebody supports the show, sometimes a gem will pop up outta that '80s comics box. Bet you can guess which one this donor picked.

#comicbooks #giveaway #podcast #boardgames
A picture of three bagged comic books in a row — The New Defenders, Scout and Marvel Secret Wars — beneath a number of six-sided dice in several colors, some loose and some in rectangular plastic cases.
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Excited to once again be working with @printinkling.bsky.social on developing a boffo new wearable for Breakup Gaming Society. It won't be for sale, but it will be part of the — if I may say so — inspired small gift package I send to people who follow through on the Donate page. Stay tuned.
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Your stocking stuffer and problem is solved. Give Midnight Market a look and shop some small game makers.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Started a living post at Breakup Gaming Society where capsules and links for all my #indie #ttrpg interviews with @liberludorum.com will live. Episode 104, dropping in six days, will feature a chat about the soul-flensing and stunning Lichoma.
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
I'd never seen anything like Cave Evil when it hit my radar in 2011. An utter commitment by three friends who simply had to design the dungeon wargame they wanted to play.

I interviewed co-designer and fellow Coloradan Nate Hayden about the decision to reprint it in 2024. Interview's down there 👇
B/W illustration of a Skeletal Monstrosity creature from the Cave Evil dungeon wargame, depicting a four-legged skeletal being with immense horns rising from its raised hindquarters. It is surrounded by stat numbers and card effect description.
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
"Once your eyes map a face in the night boughs, you’ll start searching it out whether you want to see it or not; mine is a giant or golem with a steam shovel jaw."

- From Session 5 of my ongoing work with Dwelling, a solo RPG for ghosts from @goodluckpress.co

Listen or read: link in comments 👇
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Alula, a hidden land that reveals itself to travelers in the Faraway card game, is coming to grips with an influx of wiry fintech people in Mercedes-Benz sprinter vans, bringing with them what might be the modern analog to blankets infected with smallpox: podcasts.

I reviewed 8 of them 👇
October 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
natewarren.bsky.social
My man @skrrtvonnegut.bsky.social puts his homemade plum liqueur over an ice cube 1:1 with rye or blended whiskey and a preserved cherry garnish.

Help name this cocktail. Submit your name ideas in the comments. At end of Nov. Skrrt and I pick a winner, who gets some Breakup Gaming Society swag.
A big bowl of plums in clear infusion liquid. Pieces of lemon are visible.
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
I wrote down some of my favorite sentences from J.G. Ballard's debut novel, The Drowned World (1962).

Hit the link below if you want to hear me read my Drowned World simile collection (and hear plot spoilers) 👇

#sciencefiction #jgballard
A black pen, an open notebook and a paperback copy of J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World. The notebook is filled with paragraphs of hand block print, which are favorite sentences culled from the book.
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Use a maqui's most powerful action and they may end up tied to a chair somewhere, coughing up teeth and secrets.

I contend with the evocative mechanical dilemma at the heart of Resist! from @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social in Episode 101 of Breakup Gaming Society.

👇Listen with link in comments
Scenario Book and Rulebook for the solitaire war game, Resist! Booklets depict Spanish maquis poised for action and peering out of the cover of woods. Above, rectangular mission cards and cards with satchel icons.
October 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne
amanpossessed.bsky.social
Well... this is what I get for devoting my energy to a dying industry. My department has been made redundant and I'm out of a job.

If you know anybody who's looking for an emotionally dysfunctional super-genius, tell 'em you know a guy.
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Coming up in just a few days: Episode 101, featuring my first plays of Resist! from @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social and a retrospective of David Thompson designs that conquered my table this year.
#cardgames #podcast #soloboardgames #wargames
Cards from the Resist! game showing cartoon illustrations of four Spanish maquis — Manuel, Anastasio, Ricardo, and Sagrario — and a Spy at the back. Visible on the table beneath: A grid of cards showing available missions and the hidden military/police forces the maquis will face if they attack a given target.
September 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
"I have some of the ingredients and none of the touch. But those wouldn’t be enough, either. I don’t have the infrastructure: The bower of Saturdays and people who would just appear in them, or me in theirs, while I was mistaken for sweet and bankable."
Dwelling Solo RPG Session 4: One Plate of Sugar After Another — Breakup Gaming Society
I think I was being fattened up for nuptials. Until love arrives, bet on calories.
www.breakupgamingsociety.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
natewarren.bsky.social
Episode 100 features:

• Review of the brisk and charming Fireworks 2p card game from @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social

• Interview with @liberludorum.com about two wild #indie #ttrpgs from @sandroad.moe: Burnout Reaper and Digital Angel

Hear it all with link in comments 👇
Photo of components from the two-player card game, Fireworks. Rules and reference booklets at top, fireworks cards in middle, ringed by piles of cardboard Spark tokens in primary colors.
September 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Got a touch of orange and a fistful of ice for my second sit with Kansas City Whiskey.

Jumped into the recording room with @liberludorum.com and talked two TTRPGs that were too wild for the wusses at Itch.io — Burnout Reaper and Digital Angel.

Hit the link in comments to hear our chat 👇
Rocks glass with orange twist on the rim and large ice cube is looped by a microphone cable. In the middle of the white table, a pile of green, red and yellow dice. At back of table, more dice and a bottle of West Bottoms Whiskey Co.'s Kansas City Whiskey.
September 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
A very happy one to @whovian223.bsky.social: Voracious player, voluminous blogger, con junkie and all-around swell pal and fun opponent.

Cheers, brother. 🫡
September 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Now that a solitaire wargame (Thunderbolt Apache Leader) has claimed #1 on my favorites list, these kinds of posts are catnip.
September 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Outmatched Commonwealth forces in Malaya about to get bulldozed off the Eastern Road by an overwhelming Japanese push in Battle Card from @postmarkgames.bsky.social

Link's down there if you want to hear me talk this one up 👇

#ww2 #sologames #printandplay #boardgames
A black and white map of WW2 Malaya showing a string of B/W six sided, two-value dice, representing Allied/Commonwealth troop positions and strength from the Battle Card print-and-play solo wargame series.
September 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne
postmarkgames.bsky.social
A great listen all round

www.breakupgamingsociety.com/episodes/bat...
Battle Card Review + The Charming "Suicide by Hobby" of War With a Mate — Breakup Gaming Society
Postmark Games' Battle Card is accessible, beautiful, and a huge solo print-and-play value. The War for North Africa is fun if Andy and James are talking about it.
www.breakupgamingsociety.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
When I saw @zillablitz.bsky.social mention the new Combat Commander anniversary box, I should have known @whovian223.bsky.social was already on it.

Anyway, here's a big roundup of upcoming wargames from one of the nicest guys in the hex-and-counter ecosystem:
Upcoming Wargames + Giveaway | September 2025 | New Releases | Board Games
YouTube video by Zilla Blitz
www.youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
natewarren.bsky.social
Check it out @printinkling.bsky.social, one of your frogs hopped the pond and now adorns the laptop of James from the War with a Mate podcast.

James and Andy let me be on their show because of Defiant Frog's unyielding diplomatic stance.
Open black laptop with red backlighting. To the right of the trackpad stands a green Defiant Frog sticker, hands on hips, chin up, not having any of it.
August 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
natewarren.bsky.social
Pyrotechnics from @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social leads off a small-creator parade of things I'm going to play this fall, also including work from @bullypulpithq.bsky.social @postmarkgames.bsky.social @bogfolk.com and @partymeeple.bsky.social down in Perth.

Peep the preview. Link in comments. 👇
Hand holds Twilight Flare card from Seahorse and Hummingbird's new Pyrotechnics two-player game. Center: A red, blue and purple starburst on an evening sky. Upper left and bottom: Icons key to exchanges of Spark tokens (visible in soft focus on white tabletop below) that occur if you play the card.
August 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM