Aaron Marks
The 'Level One Wonk' of Cannibal Halfling Gaming: cannibalhalflinggaming.com
Writer, cyclist, energy analyst. Lead instigator of New Wonk Media (https://newwonkmedia.com/)
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- For this month's Tarot read, I'm taking a look at the 'Personality Spread' from Querent.
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- I like this framing! Things I have been paid for include: -Economic and regulatory analyst -Technical consultant -Author (non-fiction) -Car buyer -Dungeon Master
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- I was planning on writing more fiction this weekend, but then a cyberpunk game came to me in a dream and I just had to write it down.
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- This is the result of bike parts day. I upgraded my impulse-buy Univega Supra Sport to a flat bar, both to distinguish it from my Soma and because I wanted to. After test riding the bike in drop bar form I'm sure this version will fit me better, both with backswept bars and the correct height stem.
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- First time I can recall a TTRPG I've crowdfunded sent out a custom theme song, that was pretty cool. Check out Netcrawl: horsesharkgames.com/store/netcrawl
- It's been a very busy January, but today is a bike parts day. Bike parts days are good days.
- You can be a nerd about a whole lot of things; I'm a nerd about coffee and bicycles. Thanks to the mainstreaming of D&D by Hasbro, being a D&D nerd and being a TTRPG nerd are, now more than ever, two different things.
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- This seems like an apropos time to bring back up a post I wrote back in February about TTRPGs, games, and table dynamics, and why the social "system" may be the one that "matters" when looking at your gaming group: cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2025/02/27/g...
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- The new year means it's time to look towards what gaming we have in store, including what campaigns are ending. I've been thinking about a new fantasy world, but it may be more ambitious than what I usually do for campaign prep.
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- The first tarot read of 2026 is about being stuck in routines and anxieties for the future. Appropriate as we're coming out of 2025!
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- Based on when my own ttrpg Twitter account peaked, I chose either the right or incredibly wrong time to join Bluesky.
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- Reading walkthroughs of 'Sam and Max Hit the Road' and being utterly flabbergasted at how a human came up with this nonsense is a foundational memory for me.
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- Reposted by Aaron MarksThe Independents: Paint the Town Red “Something very bad happened to you a very long time ago: you died and it hurt. You’re cursed. You’re still here and you couldn’t just stay dead. You’re definitely not in heaven, but there’s a pretty good chance this could be hell. Your heart has basically…
- 2025 is almost over. My two month year-in-review is pretty short, but I can summarize by saying that I'm looking forward to a new year of more stories and more storytelling.
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- It may be self-indulgent, but I'm writing some fiction about my two most recent DIE characters meeting at their college orientation.
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- Tickles the Clown is one of my favorite RPG characters. He's also the only one I've retired from a game early. Why is that, and what does it say about the sorts of characters you can easily play in a trad TTRPG?
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- Thought-provoking thread; regardless of whether you agree with the conclusion about TTRPG design and the market Rob is providing really good prompts for you to stop and consider your own assumptions.
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- Like many men, I don't really read romance. I am into video game romance stories, though. Likely the first post of a few where I contemplate romantic media, writing romance, and my own weird relationship with both.,
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- Introduce yourself in five #TTRPG classes DIE: The Master Cyberpunk: Rockerboy Masks: The Beacon Cy_BORG: Orphaned Gearhead Electric Bastionland: Muddled Mixologist
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- The Tarot read for December provides a warning with its two reversed cards. I also share a fun experience using Tarot in recent RPG sessions.
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- After sharing some more DIE fiction, this week I felt compelled to write about what an awful lot of my RPG-based characters are or at least look like: Self-inserts.
- Really enjoyed my time at PAX Unplugged this weekend! Ran into @willjobst.bsky.social and got a chance to chat with a whole bunch of folks I didn't already know as well. Now though, I'm tired, and lugging my #ttrpg purchases back to Boston.
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- First day of #PAXUnplugged ! I knew this would be big, but I didn't really know how big...
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- Heading down to Philly for #PaxUnplugged ! Riding one of the new Acela trains which is pretty nifty.
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- This is the first post of fiction on New Wonk Media! A short story about DIE, the future, and an unfortunate time loop.
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- In talking about DIE on Cannibal Halfling, Seamus always said it 'hit me so hard that fiction falls out'. For today's post I'm reflecting on why it is and providing a bit of a preamble for my first piece of fiction on the site, which is based on a DIE character.
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