riley rethal
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i like ttrpgs & postmodern neomarxism. let the world we dream about be the one we live in now.
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hi, i’m riley! i’m a writer & ttrpg designer who enjoys greek myth, rebellion & overthinking.
🎲 ttrpgs:
📝 fic:
🎥 letterboxd:
🧿 tumblr:
☁️ bluesky:
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oh my god, scientists have found a new planet that we could probably inhabit; it's already got the right atmosphere, distance from its star, even infrastructure for humans! literally all we;d have to do is lower carbon emissions and it'd be totally habitable for humans
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biden seems fine but a lot of his supporters (fossil fuel companies, weapons manufacturers, insurance companies) have been pretty mean to me :/
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morbidly fascinated by the “under communism no one would make art” arguments….there is something so compelling about someone just straight-up admitting that they don’t understand, like, joy
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we joke a lot here on twitter dot com but we should all remember that the only REAL “hot take” was made by prometheus, and he was eternally punished for his crime
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the weirdest thing about adhd is constantly being told things like “if only you would use the motivation you put towards [hyperfixation] for [work thing] instead” as if motivation is this neutral resource that you can just “put” somewhere
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it’s so annoying that dnd players seem to only correlate charisma with seduction. i want less “lol our bard keeps sleeping with everyone” and more “lol our bard keeps giving impassioned speeches and starting revolutions”
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protip! making fun of shitty ppl’s looks isn’t bad bc it hurts their feelings, it’s bad bc it:
- implies that ‘ugliness’ is a factor in being shitty
- perpetuates the idea that beauty = good
- takes attention away from the actual bad thing
- makes ppl who look like that feel bad
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oh, and you wouldn't need any advanced space travel to get there, because everyone's already on it
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me as a DM: roll your bill of rights
new player: what?
old player: you can’t do this no one ever knows what you’re talking ab—
me: roll. your bill of rights.
new player: i heard you, i just don’t know what you m—
old player: [deep sigh] she means your constitution modifier
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cyberpunk rpg with two stats, tired & wired. tired represents ur disillusionment w the capitalist hellscape & wired represents ur cool cyberware
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adding an x to a word doesn’t make it suddenly progressive this isn’t kingdom hearts
@n1kk1m
Why we're using 'womxn'
No, that's not a typo: 'womxn' is a spelling of 'women' that's more inclusive and progressive. The term sheds light on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional barriers womxn have faced, and explicitly includes non-cisgender women.
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idk anything abt eurovision but ive been laughing for 10 years
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we talk a lot about dnd being a shitty racist game with bad mechanics that only is popular bc no one knows about any good alternatives but i think we need to set our sights on an even older, more racist game text: the us constitution
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my problem with the whole “if u don’t like the implications of killing masses of mindless, violent goblins or orcs, just change them to REAL bad guys, like slavers or fascists” thing is that it doesn’t really address the core problem of what the fantasy is
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full respect to people for whom this kinda thing works but this is a professional chef who went to cooking school being like “i don’t get the problem, all i need to cook is a stove” and also the stove is racist
brennan lee mulligan i owe u an apology i wasnt rlly familiar with ur game
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my ace attorney oc is an MRI technician who is framed for murder by his employers after distributing pro-union literature to his coworkers. his name is mark cyst.
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@alliewatchestv
we actually don’t see him say a word to anyone besides tashi & patrick the whole movie lol (the only exception being that tired interaction w a fan in atl). tashi talks to family & staff, and patrick is the only one we see conversing with strangers
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fun fact: RPGS were named after the Earl of Role, who wanted a story he could tell at the same time he was gambling
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[youth rabbi voice] you know who ELSE had trouble crossing a body of water in egypt?
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seeing people talk about “doing voices” as a fundamental part of playing a ttrpg (usually dnd, in this case) makes me so sad. u don’t have to do that i promise,,,,watch something other than critical role, pls,
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there are a lot of things that frustrate me about dnd as a game but the biggest one is definitely that it’s created a ttrpg culture where it feels like i’m asking too much to say that i don’t want to reference bioessentialist notions of race/culture in games i’m in
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i’m not going down some bullshit youtube rabbit hole bc i’ve placed 3 motivation tokens there, it’s bc that’s something that is holding my attention. if i tried to do schoolwork instead, i wouldn’t be able to focus. the activity creates the motivation, not the other way around.
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i don’t know who needs to hear this but there are roleplaying games other than dungeons & dragons
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a cool new alignment chart for expressing how u feel about characters
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hey if u liked this tweet, go check out the tabletop rpgs i write @ ! there’s a jewish rpg anthology for preorder & a cool introspective take on dnd. also a game about revolution in the underworld. good stuff,
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ok i’m muting bc the anticommunists have found this tweet and i just can’t think of any sadness or atrocities caused by capitalism to counter their bulletproof arguments. anyways incentivize me to keep making art by giving me profit for my ttrpgs @
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@Newtaloo
in FILMMAKING. an inherently collaborative art!!! “why would i work on ur thing when i can work on my thing?” bc u have vastly different skillsets & need to help each other or neither of ur projects will be finished!!!
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there is still literally no reason to support wotc is the thing
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i just published VENTURE, a belonging outside belonging game of introspective heroic fantasy. it's inspired by
@AMFC_Podcast
and
#friendsatthetable
, two podcasts that take traditional fantasy archetypes and turn them into something new.
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[playing ace attorney investigations and being like “damn i miss phoenix wright”] omg this is such powerful immersion, it’s like i AM the main character
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@MeredithGould
cool! maybe they're so vitriolic because they want healthcare and are mildly upset that you are against it
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@jessfromonline
i mean i think he means like. when u need a new car bc u can’t use ur old one anymore. right. not like, in addition to the car u already have. unless i’m missing smth
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Alright, listen up. We need to talk about the dissolution of the Imperial Senate and what it means for the future of the Empire (and yes, it’s worse than you think). THREAD.
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so i spent the last few hours making a one-page rpg, it's called post-popcorn and it's a game where u create a movie by discussing it like you just watched it
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it’s so easy to make a game/world that isn’t as blatantly racist as dnd and it’s very funny when people act like it would be hard
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“a vampire is anything that extends its own life by consuming the life force of others” you’re describing eating
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especially considering how common it is to dehumanize people like the nazis in order to distance them from current fascism. not that i think cathartic violence has no place at all! but! if it’s just the same motions with a different coat of paint, idk. i think we can do better
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my dad just told me that in high school he created his own pantheon of gods for a school assignment and it included “brent, the god of planning and fish over 3 feet long”
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isn’t luke already a sympathetic enough antagonist
A message from the messenger god himself:
@Lin_Manuel
Miranda is Hermes in
#PercyJackson
and the Olympians, an Original series coming to
@DisneyPlus
!
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GALACTIC 2E is a tabletop roleplaying game about relationships and rebellion in space, inspired by
#StarWars
!
buy it here, on sale until tomorrow to celebrate its
#starwarsday
release:
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NO MORE CANON
❌
SOCIETY HAS PROGRESSED
PAST THE NEED FOR CANON
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executive dysfunction is literally insane like imagine u know u should do a thing, and there’s no real reason u can’t do the thing right now, except ur body’s just like “no. don’t do the thing”. what the hell
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“but if we abolish the police, what will we replace them with?”
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if u watch hamilton backwards its abt a girl telling a story abt a guy who fucked up so bad he started a war then got deported
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ok,
@More_Civilized
Iconic Moments:
- mace window
- mon mothra
- Y’ALL DON’T HAVE A ROB ZACNY
- natalie thinking she’s reading hutt baby spoilers when it’s the clone wars movie
- We Should Watch Solo
- always finding a way to bring up nuvo vindi and/or mortis
- hondo
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if you rted that "gay dnd is different than straight dnd" tweet you're morally obligated to back wanderhome & in general support queer indie rpg designers bc this is the shit that happens when the only popular rpgs are colonialist monstrosities that people project queerness onto
Hey just a pro-tip to my (wonderful, lovely, I'm sure) cishet followers - don't do this. Just, don't fucking do this. Not on Twitter, not in email, and certainly not in Kickstarter DMs.
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[steve rogers voice] thanks buck, but i can get bi on my own
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psa society holding the idea of an individual being a “hero” over everything else and using it to glorify the idea of dying for your country is literally an element of fascism
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THE DOIKAYT PDF IS UP ON ITCH!!! you can now download doikayt: a jewish ttrpg anthology, and if you can't afford the cost, you can claim one of the many community copies donated by our generous kickstarter backers!!! link in next tweet ✨✡️
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death of the author is not enough we need the birth of the reader
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i can 110% assure u that more people have been pushed away from ttrpgs bc they felt intimidated/uncomfortable/unwelcome by dnd for one reason or another and didn’t know of any alternatives than from people saying that dnd is bad and u should play something else
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this thread is an example of how wotc/dnd has a stranglehold on the ttrpg industry. people like this asshole who make money off dmsguild make threads that convince u that every rpg is just as problematic as a racist, colonial rpg spearheaded by an abuse apologist
if you finally convince me D&D is awful and horrible and irredeemable without convincing me that what you have to offer instead is better then fuck it I'm off to play video games lol
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he’s speaking about his personal experience, not attacking indie ttrpgs or anything, i just wouldn’t wanna bake a cake with him is all i’m saying
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if u think the only way to make ur world interesting is to have cultures that are formed by ‘fundamental’ differences, do fucking better. anyways stop calling me “boring” for only playing humans. there’s a reason i don’t wanna engage w that eugenics nonsense
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“there aren’t any ttrpgs about romance” what are we doing here. what are we fucking doing here
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most people say shit like “fuck dnd, play better games” don’t do it bc they think people who play dnd are bad or lesser; it’s bc a huge corporation is the one completely controlling the conversation on ttrpgs and that’s the only game ever talked about. it’s frustrating
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kylo ren's last words will be "so much for the tolerant left"
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looking for another way to make your
#spidersona
? wanna be part of a spider-gang yourself? here’s EVEN MORE SPIDERS, a spider-verse hack of lasers & feelings by
@john_harper
i’ve been working on!
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[walks up to a straight couple] so which one of u approaches with the dinner and invite and which one responds with virginian insight?
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normalize doing only character creation for a game n then never scheduling another session
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don't 👏 call 👏 yourself 👏 a 👏 hamilton 👏 fan 👏 unless 👏 you 👏 established 👏 the 👏 first 👏 private 👏 orphanage 👏 in 👏 new 👏 york 👏 city 👏
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the kickstarter campaign for DOIKAYT: A JEWISH TTRPG ANTHOLOGY has begun! support a book of 10+ tabletop games written by jews about judaism, organized by myself and
@wrestlingbubble
.
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austin walker, about to read a passage from the communist manifesto: i have to go austin mode
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anyways, u know what’s good? games that have endings. when something in a game’s engine is like “and now ur story is done” and u can sit back w ur friends n be like “damn. that was a good story”???? that’s the good shit
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throwback to my cell phys professor last semester being like “it’s funny bc in our society, we’re told to always compete & take everything we can, but in the body the cells that do that are bad” and i was just like ah thank u for confirming that billionaires are literally cancer
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[whispers] the reason our culture is obsessed with realism in art is bc capitalism necessitates a hierarchy of ‘merit’ in artistic expression to justify its false scarcity
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the fucked up thing about capitalism is that it shows you a world where work is suffering and then convinces you that it’s the only system that can function bc why would anyone do work if they weren’t forced to do it
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[wearing my sticker that says “ask me about how neurodivergence is a categorization for very common human traits that are simply not compatible with the unrealistic expectations of capitalism”]
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cancelling plans is ok. killing a nice skeleton man is ok. forgetting your god’s name is ok. putting your son in a bubble is ok. disappearing for 10 years into a magic sword is ok. do what you need to do to cope
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tbh i think part of the problem w people trying to jump off dnd is that dnd has created a culture based around the idea that there should just be One Game that you play. that’s why people are jumping to quest: it’s similar enough & feels more devoid of context than most indies
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hey if you liked this tweet, check out the ttrpgs i write! there's one about doing an anticapitalist revolution in hell, one about star wars, one about being doomed mech pilots in a losing war... cool stuff i promise
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VENTURE & DUNGEON is a book of two roleplaying games by myself &
@jdragsky
that reimagine the high fantasy genre, and the final pdf is finally out! buy it here:
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the indie ttrpg scene is the only place where people namedrop people no one has ever heard of
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when u roll exactly ur number, ur "inspired" to tear down the system and build a community in its place
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i just published איכה (ayekah), a two-player rpg about a jewish relationship with god, inspired by firebrands by
@lumpleygames
&
@NightSkyGames
and the tower by
@austin_walker
&
@notquitereal
. writing this has meant a lot to me, so i'd appreciate a click:
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seeing leftists debate about ableism is wild to me bc like. imho it feels like ableism is the easiest thing to point to and be like “oh yeah that’s a fucking capitalism thing”
like there’s a lot of capitalism things but. this one is just, like, the most. to me
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it’s so fucked up that the stimulus bill has a tacked on stipulation that achilles can’t ever visit elysium
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this is extremely real, a few hours ago i learned that a relative who works for the FBI warned my aunt to have food & gas stocked before election day and to not send her kids to any jewish institutions.
Yesterday as Trump refused to condemn far-right violence, the FBI quietly issued a warning about the threat of far-right extremists, per intel report leaked to me.
It identifies the period between presidential election and inauguration as a "flashpoint"
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i am so goddamn tired of dnd discourse but seriously play a better game. play a game that doesn’t fucking hate u for playing it.
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maybe instead of chastising icarus for his “”personal responsibility””, we should build a society where kids don’t have to fly across the sea on wax wings to escape the underground maze a power-hungry king kept him and his father in. that’s just me
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@jeeyonshim
it’s so funny bc when i went off adderall for the first time (which i did on purpose, tbc) it took me like 4 days to realize that the reason i felt like utter shit was bc i was going thru withdrawal
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it’s fucking wild that we’re like “hey if you’re making art about heavy stuff you have a responsibility to do it in a way that doesn’t romanticize horrible things” and people interpret it as “wow i can’t believe you’re making creators disclose their traumas”
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sometimes that “tarot dnd” tumblr post creeps into my brain and makes me so sad. “it’s not a terrible idea, it’s a great one,” i shout into the void. “using tarot cards instead of dice rolls is a thing you can do!”
i receive no answer. there is nothing i can do.
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it’s so weird to me that with all the constant discourse about how Kids These Days want their stories to be purely morality tales, i’ve never really seen anyone consider WHY someone growing up In This Day And Age might possibly be desperate for some kind of moral guidance
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chirrut: [does the 'pretends to yawn to put his arm around baze' thing]
baze: we've been married 30 years
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for the record, i don’t think u should kill the part of u that cringes. i think u should cringe at more cringeworthy stuff, like the concept of “hopepunk”
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ttrpg idea: write in a bunch of things u want to see ur character do on a bingo card, and whenever they do one u mark it off. when u get a bingo, u level up
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Why we’re using ‘womxn’
ok so like, there are nobodies and heartless, right? and
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