sev @sev@tabletop.social

Hi! I'm @sev. My favorite #TTRPG is #Monsterhearts but I don't have a favorite skin - I mostly MC. I also love #cooperative #boardgames.

I'm a #parent to a tween and we have two anxious rescue #cats. I'm a #queer #polyamorous ciswoman living in the #PNW region of the US, on unceded Duwamish territory. Sometimes I practice #circus arts like aerials and juggling. In the past I've been a system administrator and a software developer.

I can also be found at @sev at weirder.earth.

#introduction

I am having unreasonable amounts of fun here at #OrcaCon teaching people how to play Microscope.

Hey #Seattle friends! I'm running Microscope today at 3pm at #OrcaCon in Chelan, with Northwest Narrative Games. Sign-ups are open now - come play with us!

Chelan is on the floor where panels are held and the hotel registration desk is, upstairs from the big gaming rooms.

Yay I'm excited about story games at #OrcaCon! We'll be in the Chelan room all weekend facilitating games like Fiasco, Quiet Year, Microscope, Fall of Magic, Firebrands, & more.

If you're in the #Seattle area, OrcaCon is happening in Bellevue this weekend. Northwest Narrative Games is running Games on Demand, so that's where I'll be! Come play with us!

Eeeee #Monsterhearts tonight! I'm so excited to find out what happens.

My players agreed that I actually cackled during the session.

The title for our current season of #monsterhearts seems to be "Oops, I Accidentally A Fae War"?

I think I need to make a bot that posts quotes of PbtA MC advice. (which I would make on botsin.space and mention here, of course, because here is not an appropriate place for a bot account). Even just starting with my big three - AW, MH, & DW - would provide a bunch of great text. What others should I look at, though?

Eee it's #Monsterhearts night! Time to see how many NPCs I can remember to drive like stolen cars.

(I did not understand that MC advice until I played Watch Dogs 2, a video game where one of the fastest ways to get somewhere is to steal the nearest vehicle. Once you get to where you're going, why care about what happens to the car you stole to get there?)

My pet peeves: things that annoy me, but not in my capacity as moderator

* assuming or implying that d&d is the only tabletop game (or the only one that matters)

* spelling sun-dried without the hyphen

...I'm sure there's more, but I'm having trouble coming up with ones that wouldn't make me put on my mod hat.

If y'all really think "guys" is gender-neutral language, spend some time asking men how many guys they've made out with lately.

Or just support people who say we don't feel included by words like "guys" and "dudes" instead of trying to 'splain at us about how your use of the male-as-default is supposed to be value-neutral. Because it's not, and we can tell it's not, and your holding that above people's comfort says something about you.

Welcome new users! It's great to see all of you here.

I see some of you are artists importing your work from Tumblr. If you're doing this all in an immediate series of posts, please consider doing so in a reply-thread, with the first post public & subsequent posts unlisted. This has the benefit of each piece of art providing a boost to the others, while also not overwhelming the local timeline with a bunch of posts at once.

And: if you put #hashtags in your art posts, they'll be searchable!

Declaring masto bankruptcy and starting fresh! That said, I have another week of map-painting so I'm almost guaranteed to fall behind again.

I think in general I prefer games where the world gets discovered during play with a lot of player input. But it's fun to take somebody's fantasy heartbreaker setting and make art for it, too.