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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne
@natewarren.bsky.social
Broadcast node for Breakup Gaming Society, a podcast about board games, booze and hip hop with an autobiographical, comedic and melancholic bent
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

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November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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
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👇
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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
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
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
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 👇
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"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
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
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.
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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
October 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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
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
September 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"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.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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 👇
September 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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 👇
September 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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
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
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
September 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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
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.
August 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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. 👇
August 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM