Patrick Crowe, boardgame designer 🎲✂️

21 June

This is where my daughter, wife, and i work on boardgames together. This will hopefully someday be our first published game.🤞

Murder of Crowes@moc.boardgameplayer.net

This is our current project, "Here be Dragons". We're taking it to protospiel '26 July 10-12 at the Reno, NV Ragecon event (Reno Area Gaming Expo). www.ragecon.com is an amazing local event in its 11th year! If you happen to be in the area, come by and meet us!

Although a rarity, I think i agree with our current president that AI should henceforth be deemed Super Intelligence. In fact, I would go one farther and suggest that it be referred to exclusively as "Super High Intelligence Technology."

23 Aug

We love you #canada. I'm sorry.

19 July

I'm at a Vindys concert tonight and if you don't know this band - you should.

13 July

I had a chance to sit down with Alan Ernstein at RAGECon this weekend (in addition to playing a couple of his games, too!) And I've got to say it was a wonderful experience. He gave us some advice about game development as a set of skills that require individual practice.

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Murder of Crowes

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12 July

Third live playtest with the new streamlined card draw. I was concerned not having a card market would limit player choice on dragon evolution, and i suppose it does, but the players don't see it. They draw four and keep two each round. Small choices, still lots of variation.

12 July

✂️🎲 more from RAGECon

Murder of Crowes@moc.boardgameplayer.net

Tweaked the rules for our game based on yesterday's feedback and some advice from a pro designer. If you compare days, you'll notice the card market is gone. It's been replaced with a streamlined deck-to-hand mechanism that literally saved minutes per round!

fancons.comRAGECon 2026 Information | FanCons.comRAGECon 2026 convention at Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, NV on July 10-12, 2026. Learn more at FanCons.com.

11 July

I met @mmmmmmmercury.bsky.social at @ragecon.bsky.social and she is awesome - thank you for talking with us about our Here Be Dragons game and helping us distill the experience!

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Murder of Crowes

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11 July

Live at @ragecon.bsky.social five player game of Here Be Dragons!

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30 June

New convention added: RAGECon 2026 @ragecon.bsky.social July 10-12, 2026 A gaming convention in Sparks, Nevada, USA

10 July

@mattleacock.bsky.social I hope i get a chance to meet you in person at @ragecon.bsky.social and thank you for the many many hours of forbidden island, desert, and pandemic we have played. Alas, I could not find a slot to play your games there, as I was already full.

30 June

@rf-seattle.bsky.social thank you for guest speaking at our board game class today, Mr Flynn! I appreciated the insights you brought to our session.

kickstarter.comChronicles: Kendra | A comicSet in a high-fantasy world, this short story follows a young knight keen to uncover the source behind a series of sudden mutilations.

2 June

I just backed Chronicles: Kendra | A comic on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...

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3 Dec 2025

Replying to @jacksonpope.bsky.social

It's #CraftWednesday update time! How are your projects going? Started anything new? @benny275.bsky.social @atikingames.bsky.social @witchwaygames.bsky.social @jamieragwort.bsky.social @bexagons.bsky.social @junkfoodgames.bsky.social @patcrowe.boardgameplayer.net @puzzlekindcreative.com

10 Nov 2025

Weak-kneed, rancid-jello spine, surrender-monkeys: 24 million people needed you to have their back. 4 million desperately so. What did you do all this for? They didn't budge because they knew you'd give up.

10 Nov 2025

The senate's "Aimless Eight" democrats need to get primaried. They should also get kicked off their health insurance.

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5 Nov 2025

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kickstarter.comGarage RockGet your music aired from Johnny Law’s pirate radio station treehouse then prepare for the Battle of the Bands!

21 Oct 2025

I've played Garage Rock three times at protospiel events and it's a wonderful game. You all play packs of teenagers in the Big Hair era trying to break into the big time. It's a blast. Really looking forward to this one!

18 Oct 2025

Youtube: ads Me: skip Youtube: fad videos Me: where are my subscriptions? Youtube: -- Me: you should rebrand spamtube. It would be more accurate Youtube: were not interested in accuracy Me: clearly

11 Oct 2025

Gloomhaven tonight

12 Oct 2025

Slowly making our way through the ancient cistern under gloomhaven. Stupid oozes. My kingdom for a wet/dry shop vac.

12 Oct 2025

Eight imps, one inox, no problem.

9 Oct 2025

I really dislike the orange taterdic

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8 Oct 2025

Replying to @jacksonpope.bsky.social

1 Oct 2025

Only morons believe this. That party-line republican budget has loaded our economic pipeline with a payload of middle and low income pain. Minimally, I expect democrats not to approve a CR for this smoking pile of fecal matter. All GOP is doing is moving up the timeline on these mass firings.

25 Sept 2025

I'm not sure how anyone thinks this is ok. I'm not sure why dems aren't pushing this message to the hilt. Stupidity, I think. If the tables were turned ...

25 Sept 2025

I'm already deeply disillusioned with the democratic party. But if they fold on this shutdown because the admin threatens to fire people they already aim to fire ... I'm done with them. We need a new party.

24 Sept 2025

Apparently, with headlines, too.

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17 Sept 2025

Replying to @jacksonpope.bsky.social

14 Sept 2025

Playing Vantage for the first time today. This is an AMAZING game. Wish Mr Stegmeiyer was on here so I could thank him directly.

12 Sept 2025

I had to ask the online DMV for a verification code today. It took 20 minutes to get the code. And I'm thinking: why? How? 1. Reads request for code on computer and fills out code request form 1287b-4 2. Form hand-delivered to code generation dept 1/3

12 Sept 2025

3. Employee rolls eight, 10 sided dice to generate code and then cross checks against all other codes rolled today. 4. Code added to code request form, form placed in outbox. 5. Mail person picks up forms, sorts, and walks to building next door 2/3

12 Sept 2025

6. Employee photocopies form to digitize it and then copy-pastes it into an email 7. Clicks send 3/3

8 Sept 2025

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Of course the US economy is stumbling, the guy running it is an idiot.

But ultimately, I don't wish that on these people, or any other. Maybe that's the difference, in this day and age, between liberals and conservatives.

Liberals, when they win, may take care of someone you don't like. Conservatives, when they win, may hurt someone they don't like.

Of course the US economy is stumbling, the guy running it is an idiot.

I told my wife the other day I sometimes fantasize there were demons or monsters, so these pathetic ice bastards could get the surprise of their (short) lives when they corner a victim.

If these weaklings had to actually endanger their lives to do this "job" - if they could get eaten by a monster - they wouldn't. They'd be back on the couch.

Of course the US economy is stumbling, the guy running it is an idiot.

These are the same people who will spend time and energy hurting people they don't know, whose lives can't affect them, because they're gay, or queer, or trans ...

... because if you can't make your life better, at least you can make someone else's worse.

Of course the US economy is stumbling, the guy running it is an idiot.

After all, these are the same people that you can't convince that a tariff is a tax paid by local businesses who import goods.

These are the same people who watch their unvaxxed kids die of *measles*. Measles! And they say: "it couldn't be avoided"

Of course the US economy is stumbling, the guy running it is an idiot.

And I am absolutely flabbergasted that they eat it up as long as s somebody they don't like gets hurt in the process.

I suppose I'm not surprised that these numb-nutz fail to realize that university grants form the very seeds of our economic growth and that their dear leader is dooming their grand kids to poverty.

Of course the US economy is stumbling, the guy running it is an idiot.

I'm not surprised that he's retaliating against states (and cities) that voted against him because he's a petty, vindictive, tiny little man.

I am surprised by his propensity to kick his own constituents squarely in the crotch

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