Talen Lee

@Talen_Lee@kind.social
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Hi, I'm Talen Lee (he/him). I make things on the internet for people. I believe in radically inclusive game making, and that games and pop culture are worth respecting and engaging with. I grew up in a cult! Cis, bi, male, Australian.
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Nations of Cobrin’Seil: Fuszaint

Bidestra is a cradle and grave both of empires. Some are completely collapsed, gone beyond all signs or showing, like the Urd, or the First Elves, or the Tieflings. They stood tall and proud and asserted themselves rulers of the whole continent — but now, they are nothing but ancient statues in lost glades and the broken histories of deranged libraries. Only one Empire, in the history of Bidestra, has conquered the continent, and then, with wisdom and care, chose to withdraw, to become just another nation, and to maintain its place as first amongst equals, after bringing language, roads, medicine and currency to all corners of the continent, and only that Empire, the mighty Fuszainti Empire, can thank their current king for his choices two centuries past that led to this current glory.

Glory, glory, glory, to Fuszaint, and its ever-living, eternal Knights and King!

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https://press.invincible.ink/nations-of-cobrinseil-fuszaint/ #CobrinSeil #DnD4e #Worldbuilding
And that's kinda it, for now, I guess. I like designing these, and I love giving them flavour, just no space to do it.
Something I try to design around is searching and shuffling (I think the game is better with more variance), so Hurtilid might never have made it into a proper file.
Cards like this are made entirely to get the idea out, and they're pretty simple, with temporary names and names and any flavour is 100% necessary part of the card's identity.

When I was doing daily #CustomMagic posts on Reddit and everywhere else (until Reddit and Twitter both became hostile to my presence), I would keep a file on hand of 'working' for the year. Any ideas I had for individual cards I'd put there and then implement them into the next year's set of 365 cards.

I did stop that when last year, I decided to give up on contributing to those communities, so I wound up with a much smaller file.

Might as well share it, right?

Estrogen made me a blue player
#MagicTheGathering
'sensitivity reading by chagpt'

"Start a blog. Start one because the practice of writing at length, for an audience you respect, about things that matter to you, is itself valuable. Start one because owning your own platform is a form of independence that becomes more important as centralized platforms become less trustworthy. Start one because the format shapes the thought & this format is good for thinking.

The blog won't save us. But it's one of the tools we'll need if we're going to save ourselves"
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

Being Herded To Bed

Hey, here’s a random story about living with my dog.

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https://press.invincible.ink/being-herded-to-bed/
Being Herded To Bed – press.exe

Fifteen thousand words is just the worst size for a 'blog post'