Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)
@owenkcstephens.bsky.social
28+ year veteran of writing, developing, and publishing ttRPGs.
Co-Author of Starfinder and Star Wars Saga Edition, worked on D&D, Pathfinder, Fantasy AGE, Everyday Heroes and more.
Freelance writer/consultant
https://www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephens
He/Him
Co-Author of Starfinder and Star Wars Saga Edition, worked on D&D, Pathfinder, Fantasy AGE, Everyday Heroes and more.
Freelance writer/consultant
https://www.patreon.com/OwenKCStephens
He/Him
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"Pathfinder 1e Rules, Old Skool Concepts"
I bring my 26 years of professional work with the d20 engine that drives Pathfinder 1e to create a single-class reboot of the Fighter/Magic-Use/Thief concept from older editions.
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I bring my 26 years of professional work with the d20 engine that drives Pathfinder 1e to create a single-class reboot of the Fighter/Magic-Use/Thief concept from older editions.
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This week's "Still Not Done WIth PF1" article is a new base class, the CHanneler, for Pathfinder 1st edition.
Master of the channel energy ability, a channeler can heal, or harm, and embrace a wide range of channeling-specific featsand variants.
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Master of the channel energy ability, a channeler can heal, or harm, and embrace a wide range of channeling-specific featsand variants.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This week's "Still Not Done WIth PF1" article is a new base class, the CHanneler, for Pathfinder 1st edition.
Master of the channel energy ability, a channeler can heal, or harm, and embrace a wide range of channeling-specific featsand variants.
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Master of the channel energy ability, a channeler can heal, or harm, and embrace a wide range of channeling-specific featsand variants.
www.patreon.com/posts/still-...
#gammafinders by Owen K.C Stephens
A project moving towards next steps.
A project moving towards next steps.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
#gammafinders by Owen K.C Stephens
A project moving towards next steps.
A project moving towards next steps.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
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I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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Sad news. Rebecca Heineman, game designer and wife of the late Jennell Jaquays, has passed away from cancer.
Rebecca obviously struggled with grief as its only been a year, I think, since Jennell passed so in that way, her sorrow ends.
Rest well, Rebecca. You were loved x
Rebecca obviously struggled with grief as its only been a year, I think, since Jennell passed so in that way, her sorrow ends.
Rest well, Rebecca. You were loved x
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Sad news. Rebecca Heineman, game designer and wife of the late Jennell Jaquays, has passed away from cancer.
Rebecca obviously struggled with grief as its only been a year, I think, since Jennell passed so in that way, her sorrow ends.
Rest well, Rebecca. You were loved x
Rebecca obviously struggled with grief as its only been a year, I think, since Jennell passed so in that way, her sorrow ends.
Rest well, Rebecca. You were loved x
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Scheduling mifepristone largely invalidates the point of the schedule.
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
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Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
Louisiana restricts access to abortion pills by classifying them as a controlled substance
A bill that would restrict access to abortion pills has been signed into law in Louisiana. The law reclassifies the drugs as a controlled substance, grouping them with Xanax and Valium. Possession wit...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Scheduling mifepristone largely invalidates the point of the schedule.
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*.
This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons.
www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...
#Gamenightquote: "Well they're polite, but they aren't *Canadian* polite."
"Oh, no. They only apologized in one language!"
"Oh, no. They only apologized in one language!"
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#Gamenightquote: "Well they're polite, but they aren't *Canadian* polite."
"Oh, no. They only apologized in one language!"
"Oh, no. They only apologized in one language!"
#MoviePitch (From 2016)
"I want to write a horror movie called THAW, where something once frozen in the far north thaws for the first time in thousands of years.
Maybe go the lazy route and make it a neolithic zombie."
"I want to write a horror movie called THAW, where something once frozen in the far north thaws for the first time in thousands of years.
Maybe go the lazy route and make it a neolithic zombie."
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
#MoviePitch (From 2016)
"I want to write a horror movie called THAW, where something once frozen in the far north thaws for the first time in thousands of years.
Maybe go the lazy route and make it a neolithic zombie."
"I want to write a horror movie called THAW, where something once frozen in the far north thaws for the first time in thousands of years.
Maybe go the lazy route and make it a neolithic zombie."
We live on, but our childhoods die.
It's okay if that drives you to tears, now and again.
It's okay if that drives you to tears, now and again.
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We live on, but our childhoods die.
It's okay if that drives you to tears, now and again.
It's okay if that drives you to tears, now and again.
The Colour Out of Space Dragon is of indescribable hue, with a breath weapon of globules of similar incandescent mystery, which poison the earth and turn things into timeless gray dust. Those who witness it are driven mad.
It's freaky.
--Gene-Eric Guy's Oddapedia
#GEGO
It's freaky.
--Gene-Eric Guy's Oddapedia
#GEGO
November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The Colour Out of Space Dragon is of indescribable hue, with a breath weapon of globules of similar incandescent mystery, which poison the earth and turn things into timeless gray dust. Those who witness it are driven mad.
It's freaky.
--Gene-Eric Guy's Oddapedia
#GEGO
It's freaky.
--Gene-Eric Guy's Oddapedia
#GEGO
The Scorpbunny is a rabbit with scorpion legs and tail.
But the tail ends in a cotton poofball rather than a stinger.
But the poofball is still poisonous, because fuck the patriarchy.
--Gene-Eric Guy's Oddapedia
#GEGO
But the tail ends in a cotton poofball rather than a stinger.
But the poofball is still poisonous, because fuck the patriarchy.
--Gene-Eric Guy's Oddapedia
#GEGO
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Scorpbunny is a rabbit with scorpion legs and tail.
But the tail ends in a cotton poofball rather than a stinger.
But the poofball is still poisonous, because fuck the patriarchy.
--Gene-Eric Guy's Oddapedia
#GEGO
But the tail ends in a cotton poofball rather than a stinger.
But the poofball is still poisonous, because fuck the patriarchy.
--Gene-Eric Guy's Oddapedia
#GEGO
It's a game!
On Bluesky!
The comment that has the most sub-comments from people OTHER than the original poster, wins!
(There is no prize for winning. Just bragging rights... such as they are.)
On Bluesky!
The comment that has the most sub-comments from people OTHER than the original poster, wins!
(There is no prize for winning. Just bragging rights... such as they are.)
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It's a game!
On Bluesky!
The comment that has the most sub-comments from people OTHER than the original poster, wins!
(There is no prize for winning. Just bragging rights... such as they are.)
On Bluesky!
The comment that has the most sub-comments from people OTHER than the original poster, wins!
(There is no prize for winning. Just bragging rights... such as they are.)
Don't be an idiot.
That's a Skullicane, not a Skullnado.
(And if you were going with tornado, why not the much-better "Seletornado?")
That's a Skullicane, not a Skullnado.
(And if you were going with tornado, why not the much-better "Seletornado?")
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Don't be an idiot.
That's a Skullicane, not a Skullnado.
(And if you were going with tornado, why not the much-better "Seletornado?")
That's a Skullicane, not a Skullnado.
(And if you were going with tornado, why not the much-better "Seletornado?")
"Didja call the Musician?"
"For this problem? I ordered a whole string quartet."
"A quarter string what, Boss?"
"That's your problem, Bruno. No class."
#JazzisMagic
"For this problem? I ordered a whole string quartet."
"A quarter string what, Boss?"
"That's your problem, Bruno. No class."
#JazzisMagic
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"Didja call the Musician?"
"For this problem? I ordered a whole string quartet."
"A quarter string what, Boss?"
"That's your problem, Bruno. No class."
#JazzisMagic
"For this problem? I ordered a whole string quartet."
"A quarter string what, Boss?"
"That's your problem, Bruno. No class."
#JazzisMagic
"As reward for being the most faithful of shieldmen, did Beowuld grant to Wiglaf his sword, and the title of Pen Draig, 'chief of the dragon.'
"Wiglaf's daughter, Mazadâ, took the name Pendragon, ruling over Britt-Saxony for 60 years. She gave life to 5 sons and 5 daughters, of which one was Uther."
"Wiglaf's daughter, Mazadâ, took the name Pendragon, ruling over Britt-Saxony for 60 years. She gave life to 5 sons and 5 daughters, of which one was Uther."
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"As reward for being the most faithful of shieldmen, did Beowuld grant to Wiglaf his sword, and the title of Pen Draig, 'chief of the dragon.'
"Wiglaf's daughter, Mazadâ, took the name Pendragon, ruling over Britt-Saxony for 60 years. She gave life to 5 sons and 5 daughters, of which one was Uther."
"Wiglaf's daughter, Mazadâ, took the name Pendragon, ruling over Britt-Saxony for 60 years. She gave life to 5 sons and 5 daughters, of which one was Uther."
Reverter was a Popular Front supporter during the Spanish Civil War. He was captured by Nationalists, trained by an elderly swordsman in jail, then saved many during a fire at the prison. He was banished, retrieved is trainer's Toledo blade, and joined the Resistors.
#WWIISupers
#WWIISupers
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Reverter was a Popular Front supporter during the Spanish Civil War. He was captured by Nationalists, trained by an elderly swordsman in jail, then saved many during a fire at the prison. He was banished, retrieved is trainer's Toledo blade, and joined the Resistors.
#WWIISupers
#WWIISupers
Kris Kringle vs. Dracula
When Dracula moves to the arctic to enjoy monthlong nights, he discovers there is an entire region near the North Pole he cannot enter, as it is Santa's home.
Now Dracula wants Santa's powers, but the Coallump Guard are ready to fight.
#GeekyMoviePitches
When Dracula moves to the arctic to enjoy monthlong nights, he discovers there is an entire region near the North Pole he cannot enter, as it is Santa's home.
Now Dracula wants Santa's powers, but the Coallump Guard are ready to fight.
#GeekyMoviePitches
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Kris Kringle vs. Dracula
When Dracula moves to the arctic to enjoy monthlong nights, he discovers there is an entire region near the North Pole he cannot enter, as it is Santa's home.
Now Dracula wants Santa's powers, but the Coallump Guard are ready to fight.
#GeekyMoviePitches
When Dracula moves to the arctic to enjoy monthlong nights, he discovers there is an entire region near the North Pole he cannot enter, as it is Santa's home.
Now Dracula wants Santa's powers, but the Coallump Guard are ready to fight.
#GeekyMoviePitches
How Annie Okaley Shot Jack the Ripper
In 1888 Annie Oakley, touring Europe to promote women's self-defense while on leave from the Wild West Show, tracks down the Leather Apron killer who has fled England to prey on victims across national borders.
#GeekyMoviePitches
In 1888 Annie Oakley, touring Europe to promote women's self-defense while on leave from the Wild West Show, tracks down the Leather Apron killer who has fled England to prey on victims across national borders.
#GeekyMoviePitches
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
How Annie Okaley Shot Jack the Ripper
In 1888 Annie Oakley, touring Europe to promote women's self-defense while on leave from the Wild West Show, tracks down the Leather Apron killer who has fled England to prey on victims across national borders.
#GeekyMoviePitches
In 1888 Annie Oakley, touring Europe to promote women's self-defense while on leave from the Wild West Show, tracks down the Leather Apron killer who has fled England to prey on victims across national borders.
#GeekyMoviePitches
Working on Project Wafflestorm while my wife paints a griffin miniature and my housemate organizes the game room (all dragons are now on top of or inside one drawer of one piece of furniture).
Also, yesterday was fun in ways that involve aircraft-grade aluminum...
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Also, yesterday was fun in ways that involve aircraft-grade aluminum...
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Two Birthday Gifts Enter. One Birthday Gift Leaves. | Owen K.C. Stephens
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November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Working on Project Wafflestorm while my wife paints a griffin miniature and my housemate organizes the game room (all dragons are now on top of or inside one drawer of one piece of furniture).
Also, yesterday was fun in ways that involve aircraft-grade aluminum...
www.patreon.com/posts/two-bi...
Also, yesterday was fun in ways that involve aircraft-grade aluminum...
www.patreon.com/posts/two-bi...
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Reposted by Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)
Part 57 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
Dragonfly-woman ornament made France, Gold, enamel, chrysoprase, chalcedony, diamonds and moonstones
Dragonfly-woman ornament made France, Gold, enamel, chrysoprase, chalcedony, diamonds and moonstones
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Part 57 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
Dragonfly-woman ornament made France, Gold, enamel, chrysoprase, chalcedony, diamonds and moonstones
Dragonfly-woman ornament made France, Gold, enamel, chrysoprase, chalcedony, diamonds and moonstones
Reposted by Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)
Part 56 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A pair of gold earrings from the Akhalgori hoard. 5th century BC
A pair of gold earrings from the Akhalgori hoard. 5th century BC
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Part 56 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A pair of gold earrings from the Akhalgori hoard. 5th century BC
A pair of gold earrings from the Akhalgori hoard. 5th century BC
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Part 80 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains
2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Part 80 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains
2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains
Reposted by Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him)
Part 78 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A glass ointment bottle with gold figurehead, 1st century Rome.
A glass ointment bottle with gold figurehead, 1st century Rome.
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Part 78 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A glass ointment bottle with gold figurehead, 1st century Rome.
A glass ointment bottle with gold figurehead, 1st century Rome.