Ennie-nominated RPG writer and designer | she/her | queer poly trans lesbian | available for work. @aethercrayons' gal pal.

Toronto, ON
Joined February 2012
Welcome, new folks! I'm a game designer, writer, and editor specializing in mechanics design, with a focus on player experience. I've worked with ENWorld, MCDM, and numerous other RPG developers. Here's a sampling of my work (links to works and portfolio in replies)
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Cassandra ~ theicequeer.bsky.social retweeted
Spine of Eternity: Everybody Wants to be a Star is a Powered by the Apocalypse Tabletop RPG. In a modern fantasy setting where fame is power you play as an adventurer traveling the land to earn the strength to reach the Stars. Coming out November 16. tinyurl.com/spineofeternity
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Hey, what do a frog and a joke have in common they both die when you dissect them
I want to defend this tweet. It's a silly little vignette where everything is a little bit wrong. 1) You can't just come back early from a moon mission. Getting to Earth from the moon is a huge ordeal. 2) If you did come back early from a moon mission, NASA would know, because they monitor space missions intently. 3) If you somehow managed to come back early from a moon mission, the NASA guys would be shocked and confused, not casual. 4) Ghosts don't exist. 5) A gun can't shoot a ghost. 6) You can't go back to your rocketship after taking it to the moon (at least before SpaceX figured out how to do that). 7) You can't just hop on a rocket and go back to the moon. These things take a ton of prep. So with just four short lines of dialogue and one action (loading the gun) you get a scene with many strange and absurd implications. It's funny because it overwhelms the reader with questions.
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So uhhh... who would be interested in a little community server for folks working on stuff with this and future Draw Steel licenses? I'd love to connect and share work and plan collabs, so reply if you're interested.
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Okay, okay, so I've got a server put together. However, I'd like to stress test it a little before throwing open the gates. So for now, I'm just gonna let in folks I know, and see if they notice anything that immediately breaks. If you've replied and want in, just be patient.
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So just an update on this, the server is live, and I have been gradually inviting people to it. I have closed replies on this for now as I figure out how to moderate the space as it grows. +sending out the links caused my account to be temporarily locked for suspected spam lmao
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People really gotta remember when working in these open-concept horror spaces that they might have post-secondary education in media literacy and be sharing space with teens and preteens lmao
I feel like this is a good summary of what happens to literally every mainstream horror concept online
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Cassandra ~ theicequeer.bsky.social retweeted
Canadian Miku~ 🤍❤️🎵
Brazilian Hatsune Miku sketch
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I continue to be irresponsible with this power.
My GM made the mistake of giving me a token I could modify and drop on the map at will.
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Deeply confused by today's TTRPG discourse. Using all your dungeon crawling money to build a waystation/stronghold/town and become a political entity has always been an option my players could choose. Almost always, they take this as an opportunity to try and build a utopia.
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And it's *hard* for them. It leads to a deeply interesting campaign in which players have to compromise, negotiate, and play politics to get what they want. It's so weird to see people treat that as though it's a departure from D&D when, for much of my life, that *was* D&D.
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Phase 1 of the game is being upstart adventurers. Phase 2 is established heroes. Phase 3 is becoming political figures. 5e doesn't really support this, so maybe that's the disconnect, but make no mistake: it's not new.
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Honestly I think we should put an embargo on all GMing advice until we have a solid, extensive network of advice on How To Be A Better Player GMs are asked to do more and more to make their worlds more inviting, but a lot of players won't even take their shoes off at the door.
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"There's a GM shortage!" No shit, y'all learned your etiquette from r/dnd and now think the objective of the game is to frustrate the GM. Of course we've all withdrawn into our groups with the same 3-4 friends we've been running for for 10 years lmao
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Late to get to this, but this video goes a long way to summarize some of the things that help with being a better player. Thanks to @GrimmRayne for this! The simple template of Engagement, Consideration, Flexibility, and Communication is excellent. youtu.be/d6B2ouRlwF0
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Ahhh, lovely. Today is the day I find out my name is on a Kickstarter that just...disappeared without delivering. I love having a permanent black eye over something I had no part in.
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I am interested in exactly one thing and one thing only from the new D&D core books, and it is an updated wild magic chart. Everything else I could take or leave.
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My GM made the mistake of giving me a token I could modify and drop on the map at will.
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Cassandra ~ theicequeer.bsky.social retweeted
So you're not entertaining this, right? You're going to stick to 5e or another edition if you want to play dnd, right? You not going to let them play in your face like this, right?
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Cassandra ~ theicequeer.bsky.social retweeted
New D&D character idea! A dragon princess, or a princess dragon? #dungeonsanddragons #dragonborn #kobold
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