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Zachary Olson Presents SAGAS OF THE SUNLESS REACH

@obfuscatingGod

he/him. writer wherever words are read, cast on @ftlcast, music at https://xitter.gq/t.co/z3aIZe4zPe

 Chicago, IL
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Joined June 2011
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Realized that I should probably keep an easily-accessible log of my published work, at least until I get a website up and running. Here's my debut, STEADY AND THE MOUNTAIN. 3500-ish words of mythic swords and sorcery. How do you turn back the end? beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/…
The first line of Steady and the Mountain. It reads: "It was the Spring Dominion's final days."

ALT The first line of Steady and the Mountain. It reads: "It was the Spring Dominion's final days."

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It's unseasonably warm in Chicago today, which means it's the perfect weather to read my story in THE OFF SEASON, out now from @dark_matter_ink and edited by the wonderful @Marissavu. Ask yourself: can you really call this living?
An excerpt from What Washes Up In Arizona. It reads: LORELEI DIDN’T ASK too many questions when I climbed back on the Treasure. She stayed quiet for a while as the sun kept on its climbing. For a minute, I really did forget she was there. Too focused on heading north toward Marble Canyon. Hoped to make it before noon. Otherwise, the shimmer’d get too close to see the shore. Couldn’t sail like that. Around eleven, Lorelei spoke up again. Asked if I’d heard those rumors. That things fell from the sky sometimes, full of toxic chemicals and cosmic radiation. That they leaked where they lay. Made the land around them fallow. I told her sure. I’d even come across a few. Those low-Earthorbit habitats couldn’t fling their runoff into space. Couldn’t slip our gravity. So, they dumped it onto us. She asked me if it bothered me. If I was scared of getting sick. I thought of Matt. Staring out into the haze. Stepping off the bow. I told her we were sick already.

ALT An excerpt from What Washes Up In Arizona. It reads: LORELEI DIDN’T ASK too many questions when I climbed back on the Treasure. She stayed quiet for a while as the sun kept on its climbing. For a minute, I really did forget she was there. Too focused on heading north toward Marble Canyon. Hoped to make it before noon. Otherwise, the shimmer’d get too close to see the shore. Couldn’t sail like that. Around eleven, Lorelei spoke up again. Asked if I’d heard those rumors. That things fell from the sky sometimes, full of toxic chemicals and cosmic radiation. That they leaked where they lay. Made the land around them fallow. I told her sure. I’d even come across a few. Those low-Earthorbit habitats couldn’t fling their runoff into space. Couldn’t slip our gravity. So, they dumped it onto us. She asked me if it bothered me. If I was scared of getting sick. I thought of Matt. Staring out into the haze. Stepping off the bow. I told her we were sick already.

The cover art for THE OFF-SEASON: an anthology of coastal new weird presented by Dark Matter and edited by Marissa Van Uden.

ALT The cover art for THE OFF-SEASON: an anthology of coastal new weird presented by Dark Matter and edited by Marissa Van Uden.

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Order here: darkmattermagazine.shop/prod…
The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird

The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird

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I'm chipping away at the GURPS 4e basic set and it's really starting to make sense. I can't imagine this would become my forever game, but I'm seeing more and more how it all fits together. Very intriguing.
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Grimly awaiting a future where I utter the words "GURPS isn't really *that* complicated"
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Other folks are talking about them so I will also heap praise on @Friends_Table, the first actual play I ever did blatantly ripped off their format in 2019 and that knocked over a set of dominoes that resulted in nearly every friendship I have today. No one does it like them.
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Critical worldbuilding. Smart characterization. Fun interaction between good friends. What more do you need? FatT showed me how cool it was to use games as tools to tell stories, to mix and match and weld things together in ways that nobody else had done before. Absolutely peak.
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I'm incredibly proud of my story in this one and am so excited for everything I've heard of the rest of the TOC. You're definitely gonna want to cop.
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No spoilers, but GUTTER is so much what I was missing. Nobody does mise en scene like @gannonreedy, and the whole crew's dedication to picking up and embodying character on a dime is exactly what made Neoscum so sublime.
GUTTER (@thatGUTTERshow) profile pictureGUTTER@thatGUTTERshow3 Sep 2024
Wowwww we are STOKED to see all the love and support today for GUTTER. we're already at 104 subs on the damn patreon! No spoilers on prequel EP 1 okay? ;-)
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Casey's mastery of authentic pathos, Mike's off-the-wall and always-swerving character beats, and Eleni's sincerity and enthusiasm is everything I loved about the old show and everything I'm ecstatic to experience in GUTTER.
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if nobody got me, i know gutter got me
GUTTER (@thatGUTTERshow) profile pictureGUTTER@thatGUTTERshow3 Sep 2024
Replying to @thatGUTTERshow
"listen now, patreon.com/thatguttershow"

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Gutter logo by Jimmy Knives

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.@StrangeScaffold hits it out of the park every single time. Absolutely incredible output, extremely excited for I AM YOUR BEAST's full release
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I am in my triple-digit-days rejection era
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there's still value in them needing to think for months before they say no thanks, you really had them conflicted, th
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Gotta thank @DrakeandDice and @NaviMusing for creating the foundation for what is quickly becoming one of my favorite campaigns we've ever run. #IlCovoNostro have left indelible marks on Ilrien and made plays more ambitious than I've seen in any other game.
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We're kind of twisting Ilren in our own image(it's a lot more haunted and sorcerous-intrigue-y than I think it might have been intended to be), but every time we end a session I feel spent and utterly triumphant.
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Hm.
Zachary Olson Presents SAGAS OF THE SUNLESS REACH (@obfuscatingGod) profile pictureZachary Olson Presents SAGAS OF THE SUNLESS REACH@obfuscatingGod22 Apr 2024
When playing a TTRPG, which do you prefer: adhering to a small set of dice and using variants within them(e.g., d10, d100, d5 for a d10 or d6, d3, and d66 for a d6), OR having a wide array of dice sizes for various situations?
50%Keep it lean
50%I want a pile of dice
18 votes • Final results
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When playing a TTRPG, which do you prefer: adhering to a small set of dice and using variants within them(e.g., d10, d100, d5 for a d10 or d6, d3, and d66 for a d6), OR having a wide array of dice sizes for various situations?
50%Keep it lean
50%I want a pile of dice
18 votes • Final results
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This is relevant to a game design project I'm working on.
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ez game
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🎲♥️
Jade R (@jadeoxfordrose) profile pictureJade R@jadeoxfordrose4 Mar 2024
It's #InternationalGMDay so I gotta give a shout out to @obfuscatingGod who's passion for TTRPGs and storytelling, infectious enthusiasm, and ability to 'yes, and' a deeply chaotic crew of players makes Thursday nights a highlight of nearly every week.
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I'm in this! My story about grief and picking up the pieces in a post-collapse Arizona coastline is one of my favorite stories I've written, and I'm certain all the other writers are bringing just as much heat. Keep this one on your radar!
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Listening through this and want to put myself down as a resounding "Hell Yeah" for potential future Shelved By Genre analysis of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Ranged Touch (@rangedtouch) profile pictureRanged Touch@rangedtouch2 Feb 2024
SHELVED BY GENRE has completed Ursula LeGuin's A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA, learning all sorts of important truths about the nature of personality, of dualism, of evil stones, and how disappointing people these days are to dragons. Next up: TOMBS OF ATUAN! rangedtouch.com/2024/02/02/a…
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Every saga starts somewhere.
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Some kind of impromptu art installation outside my building today
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Finally reinstalling protools these many months after moving cross-country. Starting to wish I hadn't left my MIDI controller in Arizona...
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