sev @sev@octodon.social

I am *super* lucky in that my partner goes out of his way to make sure I've got the time and space to have a gaming community. This is unusual for women, and doubly so for moms: I'm usually the oldest woman in the room, and often the only mom.

The story gaming I've done at cons lately has relied heavily on me leveraging my social network to recruit players, and that was disappointing - shouldn't the fact that I'm at a convention mean that I have other tools for finding people to play with?

What works for y'all, when it comes to running heavily narrative-driven games at conventions? I like the idea of Big Bad Con's Games on Demand but that seems like a lot of infrastructure. What else works?

Script Change has been updated, as it is a living document. If you've used it in a text, check out and reference the current version of Script Change with your products. Contact me with any questions!

http://www.briecs.com/p/script-change-rpg-tool.html

Downloadable, formatted: http://briecs.itch.io/script-change

remember:

the plural of index is indices
the plural of matrix is matrices
the plural of dominatrix is dominatrices
the plural of box is bices
the plural of ox is ices
the plural of ax is also ices

meanwhile the plural of ice is "fascist pigs"

@sen posted this zine from 1990. it's called Queers Read This & it's angry and powerful and amazing.

"Being queer means leading a different sort of life. It's not about the mainstream, profit-margins, patriotism, patriarchy or being assimilated. It's not about executive directors, privilege and elitism. It's about being on the margins, defining ourselves; it's about gender-fuck and secrets, what's below the belt and deep inside the heart; it's about the night."

http://nonzerochance.org/QueersReadThis.pdf

Hey artists! I'm gathering freelancers to do the interior illustrations for my new RPG, Journey Away, whose Kickstarter is wrapping up. Let me know if you're interested, and also please boost! Women, POC, and members of other marginalized communities encouraged to apply.
Have a look at the game here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537872810/journey-away-a-non-challenge-based-fantasy-rpg

Hello Fediverse,

We are a small, new, specialised mastodon instance.
We hope to be another safe and welcoming place for both new comers and existing mastodon users.

This is our #introduction thread.

Hey everyone! As you might know already, a.weirder.earth suffered a catastrophic hardware failure, taking us down for about 2 weeks and forcing us to move to a completely new instance.

A lot of us (myself included) didn't back up our follows either. So we're very much on square one.

How you can help:

- Contribute to #ff (follow friday) tomorrow. Everyone could do with the follow suggestions.
- Check your follows. If anyone is from 'a.weirder.earth', refollow them on 'weirder.earth'.

Thanks!

*wireless suddenly stops being flaky*

*two hours of mostly-missing toots fill in*

ooookay, I thought we were just having a very quiet morning. I can't even blame this on new-server-itis; I'm pretty sure that was client-side. Now perhaps I will go back and read what I missed...

Okay, I think we're federating with awoo.space now! Thanks Awoo!

I was @somethingfeline on a.w.e so if you followed me there, just the same old same old here!

Just to let everyone know, if you're having trouble following mastodon.social users, it's because the instance is actually down atm. 🙃

Thanks to @nightpool for this #mastoadmin tip:

When witches.town goes down in the next few days, you may notice Mastodon running more slowly, as Sidekiq workers try to contact it and have to wait for the request to time out before they can move on to the next job.

To handle this, AFTER w.t goes down, log into your server on the back end, run `redis-cli`, and enter:

sadd unavailable_inboxes https://witches.town/inbox

This tells Mastodon not to bother trying to talk to witches.town.