Kienna

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Kienna Shaw · nbi she/they · game writer/designer · formerly @ Larian Studios · co-curator of ENnie winning TTRPG Safety Toolkit @ttrpgsafetytoolkit.com · [email protected]

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Good morning. Please pitch me your favorite Descended From the Queen games. I remembered how excellent a fit they are for Party of One, especially for potential guests who are unfamiliar with TTRPGs, and I want to keep a few more in my back pocket. Self-promo is extremely welcome.

Wild to be sitting in the hospital's oncology center and only half of the people are masking 😵‍💫 (the hospital's policy is good about masking in patient-only spaces, but you'd think people would be better about it *in the cancer ward*)

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my biggest creative passion in life is ‘the project I’m not supposed to be working on right now’

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Adobe is getting so much flack for their AI features that in sponsored social media posts they’ve stopped using the term ‘AI’ & now call it ‘text to vector art’ 🙄 Don’t let them dodge pushback because of this rebrand attempt & imo they can still fuck ‘emselves for stealing work from their customers

Consequences? For our actions? Never

RPG is off tonight, but @kiennas.bsky.social and I are back with more diminutive shenanigans in Lil' Guardsman! twitch.tv/anarisis

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RPG is off tonight, but @kiennas.bsky.social and I are back with more diminutive shenanigans in Lil' Guardsman! twitch.tv/anarisis

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Reminder that telling a designer a story of what happened when you ran their adventure is better than almost anything else you can do for them (apart from recommending the adventure to a friend). Just got a story in the comments on Itch for an adventure and it absolutely made my day. #ttrpg

I've gotten pretty used to the weird looks I get from strangers being an Asian person who wears a mask, but holy shit I've experienced an uptick in straight up hostile weirdo behaviour ever since I dyed my hair green and now have my tattoos visible during the summer 😬

Aquarium day! 💖🐠🦈

Duel thread so I can stop clogging people's feeds with separate posts lol

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @anarisis.dylangrinder.com 5

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I’m serious when I say everyone needs to get on board in pushing back HARD against mask bans and fighting for the right to wear masks. It is ridiculous it has come to this. An easy step you could take is wearing a mask yourself to help normalize it & show solidarity with those of us who have to.

This is really worrying. There's a bill in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, that has a good chance of passing due to GOP majority, that would fine people $1,000 for wearing a mask.

Long Island bill could mean jail time, $1,000 fines for face masks that hide identitywww.nbcnewyork.com A county on Long Island could become one of the first legislative bodies in the tri-state to ban face masks that conceal the wearer’s identity — with violators facing potential fines and even jail tim...

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An apt meme making rounds

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ENNIE Award Voting is open now! Vote Pathfinder Player Core for Best Rules and Pathfinder Lost Omens: Tian Xia World Guide for Best Setting! Best of luck to all nominees—see you at Gen Con! paizo.me/2024ENNIES

Water is out in the entire building, this entire week just wants to fucking end me 😭

Heal me, chips and guac and video games, heal me

been the kind of week where I'm constantly on the verge of tears and have cried several times, but on Saturday I get to take my nephew to the aquarium so I'm holding onto the prospect of seeing cool fish to keep myself sane

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lol happy ten years to dashcon !!!!

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A book I’m narrative lead for is up on backerkit! Check it out now and get ready to inject a whole suite of romance into your game along with great essays and advice from some incredible writers on how to use romance in games! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

How to GM Romancewww.backerkit.com Set your hearts ablaze. Learn to make romance in your tabletop games accessible, fun, and easy for everyone at the table. Including 🔧mechanics,🖋️how-to essays,🎲tables, &🎨art created by leading designe...

Nothing more frustratingly dehumanizing than being treated like A Problem instead of someone who needs help finding a solution for a problem

Well it's no longer Uptown Girl, but now the mental soundtrack is switching between Pink Pony Club and No Children so 😅

I've had Uptown Girl inexplicably on loop, chorus only, for days now and I am mentally clawing at the walls

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Game suggestion time: - TTRPGs (as always) - 2-player or 2-player friendly (as always) - About music, bands, concerts, or songs; anything in that area What hits that vibe? Recommend me your favorite. Self-promo extremely encouraged.

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To be clear, it is overall good news that hospitalization rates are down! But if you're trying to get a handle on your chances or someone else's chances of getting infected/re-infected, it is not a realistic or accurate metric by which to measure that risk assessment.

"Hospitalizations are low" is not a useful measure of how rampant COVID infection rates are for three reasons:

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For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬

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Making some various bumper stickers for posts on here

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2025 www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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i regret to inform you all that this website has the juice

I've had Uptown Girl inexplicably on loop, chorus only, for days now and I am mentally clawing at the walls

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"Again" is... Not the word we should be using here. It hasn't gone away. It hasn't become endemic/a 'normal' severity cold/flu. It still sucks to get, and it's picking up steam again. Keep getting boosters. Keep wearing masks in public spaces. Idk why folks... Stopped (barring mask bans 🫠)

A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.