Matthew Rossi

@MatthewWRossi

Writer I wrote and a lot more, they/them pronouns

Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Joined September 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    16 Jun 2018

    Meet Bry. She’s a teenager, a wizard, a survivor, a healer, and she’s trans. Art by and I’m super happy with it.

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  2. 13 hours ago

    I have no meme to justify this

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  3. 17 hours ago

    The West End Star Wars game, Torg, Champions, Dark*Matter/Alternity, Exalted, Mage, Mutants and Masterminds, GURPS, WOTC Star Wars D20, and Rifts at least. Maybe more.

    I'm curious twitter. Besides the dragon game, what systems have you played a long (ok, like more than 5 or 6 sessions) campaign in?
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  4. 17 hours ago

    Okay, so far I'm really enjoying Cyberpunk 2077, and moreover, it feels a LOT like the way Cyberpunk 2020 felt to play back in the day. It's intensely "What if D&D but William Gibson wrote it" and I'm here for it.

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  5. 18 hours ago

    I mean, okay, Godzilla vs Kong, but I was really more interested in Pacific Rim vs Godzilla

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  6. 20 hours ago

    I do

    Who likes Diablo 3???
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    23 hours ago

    My coworker, 35 yrs old, athletic, no pre-existing conditions, just died of COVID after 10 wks in the ICU. Stop pretending it can’t happen to you. It can. Wear your damn mask, wash your hands and get vaccinated.

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  8. Retweeted
    Feb 28

    magic, bisexuals, monsters and mayhem

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  9. Retweeted
    16 Jun 2018

    Meet Bry. She’s a teenager, a wizard, a survivor, a healer, and she’s trans. Art by and I’m super happy with it.

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  10. Feb 28

    Watch someone get absolutely bodied

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  11. Feb 28

    My chihuahua weighs 14 pounds. And it’s not fat, she’s just like a giant super dog chihuahua.

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  12. Feb 28

    Seriously, this was bullshit

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  13. Feb 28

    It's really weird to play Cyberpunk 2077 months later and realize it's actually really good. It's a shame it launched with so many game breaking bugs on last gen consoles because it's a lot of fun and I have enjoyed the past six hours of it.

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  14. Feb 28

    Player deaths can and do happen, depending on the game, and they aren't always bad. But the idea that the person running the game should be deliberately using them to create an inflated sense of danger seems lazy to me. It's "Fuck it, rocks fall" and it feels cheap to me.

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  15. Feb 28

    If your party loses a fight with the big bad, they don't have to kill them for them to have failed. Did they get away with the MacGuffin? Will the party now have to try and figure out a way to stop their plan? What about the collateral damage?

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  16. Feb 28

    This goes for TTRPG spaces as well. If you are running a game, it isn't your job to kill players. If anything, you'll have to work very hard NOT to kill them. It's your job to give them potential failure states that may INCLUDE player death, but do not stop there.

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  17. Feb 28

    One BlizzCon I got to see talk about her work designing encounters for World of Warcraft, and she made a point that's stuck with me. Paraphrasing, she argued that it wasn't her job to kill players, but to give them a plausible feeling of that.

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  18. Feb 28

    On the subject of 'danger' in spaces, I think killing the party is lazy DMing. It's easy to kill the players. You always have the home field advantage. In fact, I'd go so far to say that, in many cases, a player death means you've failed as a game master.

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    Feb 28

    “We now have a growing body of evidence that tips the scale in favor of the proponents, bolstered by several decades of research on the subject.”

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    Feb 27

    Hey folks, just a quick reminder that my create-your-own-comic-book-universe roleplaying game, Spectaculars, is on sale for 40% off...but tomorrow is the last day of the sale!

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    Feb 28

    And then there was that time Alfred made Tim Drake go undercover as a female med student.

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