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Marvel Multiverse RPG
I chipped in a few chapters for the Avengers expansion to the Marvel Multiverse RPG — a fun change of pace from the kind of stuff I usually do. Thanks to old pal Matt Forbeck for bringing me aboard. I’ve been playing RPGs my whole life, but this is the first one I ever contributed…
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Two New Stories at Reactor and Bourbon Penn
“Shorted,” at Reactor. This one started as a thought experiment: “What if people got royalties for corporate use of their data, and that became a Universal Basic Income?” Great idea, right? Unless it results in the further commodification of human beings, which, well, read the story. (And how about that art by Erin Jia?) “Employee…
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Interview at The Fourth Curtain
The excellent Alex Seropian and Aaron Marroquin of The Fourth Curtain podcast provoked me to say all kinds of things about storytelling, games, D&D, Marvel Rivals, and so forth. Check it out!
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GDC
I’m headed to GDC (that’s Game Developers Conference for those of you who don’t spend all your time thinking about video games) for the first time on Sunday. Exciting! But I will only be there for Monday and Tuesday before heading to Orlando for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the conference…
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Language Is Power
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.” — Philip K. Dick These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration — New York Times