Maxine Juniper Newman

Maxine Juniper Newman

@feonix.bsky.social

Lead Game Designer & Earthborne Games, co-designer of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, author of Darkdrifters: The Key and the Crescent. opinions expressed are mine alone and very cool https://linktr.ee/bewaretheblackcat 🏳️‍⚧️ she/her

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As I'm sure yall already know, employees at FFG get artwork of themselves made when they reach 5 years. I had old artwork that was made after I hit 5 years, but that artwork no longer represents who I am. FFG very generously offered to get me new art once I was ready. Here it finally is! 😍😍😍

so JD Vance and Ted Cruz and countless other imbeciles in the Republican party can change their name and it's totally fine and we should respect their new name but if a Democrat legally changes theirs, it's fraud and they're a terrorist. not even getting into their insane views on trans women. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Want to know more about those new Rangers expansions we just announced? Head on over to our newscast!!

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New Newscast is up! We have a ton of news to share, an upcoming Gamefound full of new Earthborne Rangers expansions to discuss, and a couple listener questions to respond to, so let's get to it! youtu.be/9oxypNv2kqo

God dammit, there goes Bioware. Another incredible group of creators decimated by EA / big corporate interests / executives who don't know what the fuck they're doing. All of my condolences to the 400+ stellar professionals whose lives just got blown up because EA can't manage boiling water

Something stirs in the Etherweave... ECHOES OF THE ETHERWEAVE episode ONE premieres TONIGHT!! At 7 PM Central time, join Duke, Ryan, Josh, Justin, Andy and myself as they embark on an epic science-fantasy space opera cyberpunk Daggerheart adventure! BE THERE! www.twitch.tv/natsunoyoru/

twitch.tvnatsunoyoru - TwitchWriter / Lead Game Designer at Earthborne Games, co-creator of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, and author of Darkdrifters: The Key and The Crescent. Opinions expressed are mine alone, and very cool. — n...

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So uh I still have $800 of rent from Last Month to pay, and there's... $23 on my account I really need help and I don't think I can realistically take on enough work (and finish it) to get over this hump ;-;

I'm $75 in the negative, Taking toned sketches for $30 Taking flat chibis for $45 (+5 for an open mouth frame, good for fugi react) Trying to make it to about $50 in the positive to avoid further overdraft fees (each charge while negative adds an Additional $30 overdraft)

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“I play games to relax” “I play games to be challenged” “I play games to socialise” “I play games to flex” “I play games to study” “I play games to test boundaries” ALL VALID

There is a zip-loc bag of prototype tokens in my car from a game I designed that never got made. It's a design I still believe in whole-heartedly. Even though now it's relegated to the confines of my car's trunk, I'm still so, so proud of what I created. I get both sad and happy whenever I see it.

Maybe sometime it'll see the light of day, but until then it'll just remain a little secret known to only myself and the couple dozen or so other people who got to play it or work on it. A bit of a tragedy, but I'm lucky to have gotten the chance to work on it, even if now it's just a box in my car.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for episode 0! I forgot to mention this on stream, but if you're interested in learning more about Echoes of the Etherweave, please join my discord server! You can even sign up to playtest the sourcebook! 😁

Maxine Juniper Newman@feonix.bsky.social

It is time---Episode 0 of Echoes of the Etherweave starts NOW! Join us as we stumble through how to livestream a Daggerheart game, as we've never done it before. It'll be fun though, I promise. I think. Whatever. JOIN US!! www.twitch.tv/natsunoyoru/

Tonight's the night! Join us sometime between 8 and 9 pm Central time for episode zero of "Echoes of the Etherweave!" Tonight we will introduce ourselves, talk about the campaign, the party, the world, and mostly just test things out and make sure everything looks and sounds good. Be there!!

Hey everyone! So!! Remember when I said I was working on a Daggerheart sourcebook? Well...it's called Echoes of the Etherweave, and I'll be livestreaming a campaign set in the Etherweave starting soon! Episode ZERO will be Monday, October 5th, live on my twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/natsunoyoru/!

twitch.tvnatsunoyoru - TwitchEsquire / Writer / Lead Game Designer at Earthborne Games, co-creator of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, and author of Darkdrifters: The Key and The Crescent. Opinions expressed are mine alone, and very...
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So, even though this episode will probably be pretty simple and boring, I really hope you'll join us and help me troubleshoot the stream a bit so that our first actual episode runs smoothly! Thanks everyone and hope to see you in chat Monday night!

Hey everyone! So!! Remember when I said I was working on a Daggerheart sourcebook? Well...it's called Echoes of the Etherweave, and I'll be livestreaming a campaign set in the Etherweave starting soon! Episode ZERO will be Monday, October 5th, live on my twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/natsunoyoru/!

twitch.tvnatsunoyoru - TwitchEsquire / Writer / Lead Game Designer at Earthborne Games, co-creator of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, and author of Darkdrifters: The Key and The Crescent. Opinions expressed are mine alone, and very...

It should be a short one; mostly, it'll just be me troubleshooting stuff because I've never really done this before. We'll be wrapping up the final touches on characters before we go live, then we'll troubleshoot, talk a bit about the setting, and then head off until Episode ONE on October 19th.

I forgot to take a picture of the setup, but tonight's epic Daggerheart encounter consisted of: 4 PCs 12 allied knights an allied knight captain an allied NPC 14 soldiers 3 riflemen a war priest an archmage a boss guy a giant monstrosity 4 little ranged monsters and approximately 180 tiny beetles

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and to Daggerheart's credit—while this was definitely the upper limit of what I think I'm capable of keeping track of by myself—it was actually manageable and moved quite fast, thanks to many countdown timers, the game's very clever initiative system, and the incredibly useful freshcutgrass app 😍

in D&D I'm sure this encounter would have taken twice or three times as long lol. I suppose one could say it would be more "realistic" or whatever, but I'm not sure realism has any place in a story where a wizard college dean made a deal with an evil dictator to absorb the soul of a big monster and—

I forgot to take a picture of the setup, but tonight's epic Daggerheart encounter consisted of: 4 PCs 12 allied knights an allied knight captain an allied NPC 14 soldiers 3 riflemen a war priest an archmage a boss guy a giant monstrosity 4 little ranged monsters and approximately 180 tiny beetles

it was absolute chaos. the PCs and the allied knights & NPC were up against the soldiers, riflemen, priest, archmage, & their big beserker boss. all the rest of the monsters were just indiscriminately attacking everybody on both sides. and everyone's objectives were all over the place, too. wild.

okay that was legitimately good. there's a few things I wish were different and I really don't understand why they didn't do a better job of letting the movie actually fit into RE canon, but overall I enjoyed it a lot.

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why don't I just strip away all of the enjoyment I get out of anything I could ever do or create so I can just live as an empty husk Consuming Content and Scrolling Through Ads all day long? sounds great, love big tech corps 🙄

don't get me wrong, I'm actually quite happy with the recent Bungie/Marathon news regarding season 3 being pushed to December with a slew of new, highly requested features... ...and if Marathon dies before now and then because of a bunch of impatient, loudmouthed "influencers", I'm going to RIOT.

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You cannot design away bad players in a tabletop rpg. You cannot build enough guard rails to stop bad faith play. The only rule that helps is, "Play With Better People." Because those guard rails suck for every good faith player that has to bump into them, design for the people who WANT to PLAY.