Theodore L. Rivera
@thoobn.bsky.social
I play TTRPGs and occasionally shitpost. "Gazing into the nexus and drawing out only the hottest bullshit." — @whomstbastank.bsky.social
32 // he/him // aro // ENG/SPA // Autistic // 🔞 to be safe
32 // he/him // aro // ENG/SPA // Autistic // 🔞 to be safe
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Theodore L. Rivera
@thoobn.bsky.social
· Jun 26
seth bravely default
comparing e33 to mario and luigi was not on my bingo card for 2026 but here we are
from what I've seen, e33 is about as turn based as the mario & luigi rpgs
January 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM
comparing e33 to mario and luigi was not on my bingo card for 2026 but here we are
brb, sending this skeet to everyone who thinks bd2 is atb
okay ill feed into the discourse, clair obscur IS turn based
you wanna hear a hot take?
e33's parry mechanics are more turn based than any ATB system
you wanna hear a hot take?
e33's parry mechanics are more turn based than any ATB system
January 22, 2026 at 8:18 PM
brb, sending this skeet to everyone who thinks bd2 is atb
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Little January update for Melsonia. Watch me do an amazing job of burying the lede. TLDR: January is killing us. Share it around, help a small TTRPG publisher out.
www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/w...
www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/w...
With a Little Help From Our Friends - January News
Phew, what a month! And it's not even over yet. Yikes! I'm sure you don't need to be reminded about tariffs but here we are anyway. New ones incoming next month, so if you are a USAian and you were lo...
www.melsonia.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Little January update for Melsonia. Watch me do an amazing job of burying the lede. TLDR: January is killing us. Share it around, help a small TTRPG publisher out.
www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/w...
www.melsonia.com/blogs/news/w...
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Do you produce an Actual Play?
Do you want it to be available to the public in 10+ years?
Upload to the Internet Archive! I made a checklist to walk you through it, and to help us coordinate.
Do you want it to be available to the public in 10+ years?
Upload to the Internet Archive! I made a checklist to walk you through it, and to help us coordinate.
OK I made a checklist to help y'all get started uploading your APs to the Internet Archive. It's a lot shorter than my general guide to digital preservation, I promise
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/iachecklist
I've had enough people reach out that I'm going to start coordinating next week💚
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/iachecklist
I've had enough people reach out that I'm going to start coordinating next week💚
Digital Preservation of Actual Play
All My Friends Are Stories is a project designed to help people tell collaborative stories through Table Top Roleplaying Games (TTRPG). There are so many ways to play TTRPGs: you can play them for the...
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org
January 13, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Do you produce an Actual Play?
Do you want it to be available to the public in 10+ years?
Upload to the Internet Archive! I made a checklist to walk you through it, and to help us coordinate.
Do you want it to be available to the public in 10+ years?
Upload to the Internet Archive! I made a checklist to walk you through it, and to help us coordinate.
fuck it, next time someone runs a flailsnails thing i'm rolling a vice and violence character
January 19, 2026 at 8:26 AM
fuck it, next time someone runs a flailsnails thing i'm rolling a vice and violence character
Apropos of absolutely nothing in particular /s here's a free troika background for y'all
Fast Blue Hedgehog
Possessions: Pair of Jordans
Advanced Skills: 4 Run, 2 Unarmed Fighting, 2 Appraise 2 Talking Shit
Fast Blue Hedgehog
Possessions: Pair of Jordans
Advanced Skills: 4 Run, 2 Unarmed Fighting, 2 Appraise 2 Talking Shit
January 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Apropos of absolutely nothing in particular /s here's a free troika background for y'all
Fast Blue Hedgehog
Possessions: Pair of Jordans
Advanced Skills: 4 Run, 2 Unarmed Fighting, 2 Appraise 2 Talking Shit
Fast Blue Hedgehog
Possessions: Pair of Jordans
Advanced Skills: 4 Run, 2 Unarmed Fighting, 2 Appraise 2 Talking Shit
@gromb.bsky.social's mandog review: absolute cinema
January 16, 2026 at 4:15 AM
@gromb.bsky.social's mandog review: absolute cinema
Reposted by Theodore L. Rivera
This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is embracing artificial intelligence to mark its 25th anniversary.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.
toss up between seth bravely default and the white woman
Question for y'all. Who is YOUR fictional character?
That one character you're all about, they're your thing.
That one character that everyone associates you with. You're their no.1 fan.
That one character you're all about, they're your thing.
That one character that everyone associates you with. You're their no.1 fan.
January 12, 2026 at 6:36 AM
toss up between seth bravely default and the white woman
Reposted by Theodore L. Rivera
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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January 10, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Reposted by Theodore L. Rivera
Jarrett Crader is absolutely one of the unsung heroes of the indie TTRPG space. That's the post.
January 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Jarrett Crader is absolutely one of the unsung heroes of the indie TTRPG space. That's the post.
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while bsky shits itself over incentives, i'll simply remember the time i omnislash'd an acid fascist bitch at 1hp and survived
December 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
while bsky shits itself over incentives, i'll simply remember the time i omnislash'd an acid fascist bitch at 1hp and survived
"are you ok with neopronouns?" as a native spanish speaker i am legally obligated to use them if i want to acknowledge non-binary people, yeah
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"are you ok with neopronouns?" as a native spanish speaker i am legally obligated to use them if i want to acknowledge non-binary people, yeah
Reposted by Theodore L. Rivera
Isn’t it a little sad that the dominant way of thinking in indie rpgs is “my friends are all too dumb and incompetent to replicate the experience I want them to have, I need rules to nudge them like children to the golden path”
December 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Isn’t it a little sad that the dominant way of thinking in indie rpgs is “my friends are all too dumb and incompetent to replicate the experience I want them to have, I need rules to nudge them like children to the golden path”
Reposted by Theodore L. Rivera
Remember that ZA/UM gets money from Epic for these, and the creators of the game made their work available on @archive.org because they've been removed from earning from it
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free on Epic Games Store for the next 24 hours. Another mystery freebie tomorrow buff.ly/aadJJDg
December 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Remember that ZA/UM gets money from Epic for these, and the creators of the game made their work available on @archive.org because they've been removed from earning from it
Reposted by Theodore L. Rivera
Total normal and not animated at all art for @thoobn.bsky.social for the bravely default gift exchange (BDII spoilers)
December 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Total normal and not animated at all art for @thoobn.bsky.social for the bravely default gift exchange (BDII spoilers)
i pretended to be a white woman for @cielostres.bsky.social's amusement and also for the @bravelysanta.bsky.social thing and here's the result
archiveofourown.org/works/76066026
archiveofourown.org/works/76066026
Heartbreak - Thoobn - Bravely Default II (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
i pretended to be a white woman for @cielostres.bsky.social's amusement and also for the @bravelysanta.bsky.social thing and here's the result
archiveofourown.org/works/76066026
archiveofourown.org/works/76066026
"I will never be able to explain the distinction between a white woman and a White Woman to anyone ever I am the bearer of the curse"
— @tempostunes.bsky.social
— @tempostunes.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"I will never be able to explain the distinction between a white woman and a White Woman to anyone ever I am the bearer of the curse"
— @tempostunes.bsky.social
— @tempostunes.bsky.social
my heart goes to the hollow knight fandom tonight for waiting almost a decade for the sequel and then get so scornfully snubbed at the game awards with a disrespectful comment to boot
December 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
my heart goes to the hollow knight fandom tonight for waiting almost a decade for the sequel and then get so scornfully snubbed at the game awards with a disrespectful comment to boot
bravely second discourse is what happens when you make stranger of paradise about 30 years too early
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
bravely second discourse is what happens when you make stranger of paradise about 30 years too early
inb4 team asano makes bravely default 3 but doesn't localize it because obviously no one in the west wants a bravely game anymore
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
inb4 team asano makes bravely default 3 but doesn't localize it because obviously no one in the west wants a bravely game anymore
introduce yourself in five #ttrpg classes
- Thaumaturge (Pathfinder 2e)
- Seraph (Daggerheart)
- Tactician (Draw Steel)
- Paladin (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)
- Darkblade (Fabula Ultima)
- Thaumaturge (Pathfinder 2e)
- Seraph (Daggerheart)
- Tactician (Draw Steel)
- Paladin (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)
- Darkblade (Fabula Ultima)
Introduce yourself in five #ttrpg classes (sorta)!
- Psychic (Pathfinder 2E)
- No Moon (Exalted)
- Rigger (Shadowrun)
- The Gumshoe (MoTW)
- Transhuman (Otherscape)
- Psychic (Pathfinder 2E)
- No Moon (Exalted)
- Rigger (Shadowrun)
- The Gumshoe (MoTW)
- Transhuman (Otherscape)
Introduce yourself in five #ttrpg classes!
- Ranger (Pathfinder)
- The Alchemist (The Wildsea)
- The Outsider (Girl by Moonlight)
- The Witch (Songs for the Dusk)
- Cleaver (Heart: The City Beneath)
- Ranger (Pathfinder)
- The Alchemist (The Wildsea)
- The Outsider (Girl by Moonlight)
- The Witch (Songs for the Dusk)
- Cleaver (Heart: The City Beneath)
December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
introduce yourself in five #ttrpg classes
- Thaumaturge (Pathfinder 2e)
- Seraph (Daggerheart)
- Tactician (Draw Steel)
- Paladin (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)
- Darkblade (Fabula Ultima)
- Thaumaturge (Pathfinder 2e)
- Seraph (Daggerheart)
- Tactician (Draw Steel)
- Paladin (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)
- Darkblade (Fabula Ultima)
I'm doing this event, and as an added thing, if you send me proof of a $5 donation to either the fundraiser or the charity, I will roll up a character for the game according to your specifications.
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'm doing this event, and as an added thing, if you send me proof of a $5 donation to either the fundraiser or the charity, I will roll up a character for the game according to your specifications.