Matt Forbeck
NYT bestselling, award-winning author/game designer. He/him. Current projects: Marvel Multiverse RPG, Minecraft Legends novel, and Shotguns & Sorcery 5E.
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- Great news from @dianajonesaward.org! Congrats to all the people in this year's Emerging Designer Program!
- Reposted by Matt Forbeck3 headlines of Trump’s brazen, unprecedented corruption that would end any other presidency, all just from today. (Imagine what we don’t even know about) If you don’t see what he’s doing it’s because you don’t want to.
- My pals at Zombie Orpheus Entertainment only have 52 hours left for their crowdfunding campaign for their latest GAMERS movie, and they need some love! Go check it out! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/z...
- Reposted by Matt Forbeck🔥 @aoc.bsky.social on Republican Medicaid cuts: “It is a crime happening in front of the American public.”
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckMy daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckI've launched the Kickstarter for Cosmic Dark, my game of weird space horror! There are special rewards for backing in the first 48 hours. Please go and back it! And please share this post. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckI'm going to be helping out with one of the stretch goals on this. Get involved with Cosmic Dark - Star Trek meets Cthulhu (kind of) by the excellent @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckFolks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org
- Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckThese people are *following the rules*.
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- Reposted by Matt ForbeckOK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
- So, the tariffs on Chinese goods were just lowered from 145% to 30% for 90 days. That's great! Just watch the people who sent ships filled with their overtaxed goods back to China over the past few months calling to see if those ships can turn right back around.
- One way or another, this administration is going to kill us all.
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckSo let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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- Reposted by Matt ForbeckAs a former AUSA and federal criminal trial lawyer, I’m here to tell you that no prior Administration would have publicly announced a criminal investigation of an individual before there was an indictment. www.cbsnews.com/news/letitia...
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckBREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckWhatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckConclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
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- Reposted by Matt ForbeckCBP quietly revoked protections for at-risk people in custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and those with serious medical conditions—calling them “misaligned” with enforcement priorities. The rules required basics like diapers, formula, and water. www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...
- The folks at Random House Worlds have released some pictures of MINECRAFT: ROLL FOR ADVENTURE: THE TEMPLE OF THE CHARGED CREEPER, a game book that my son Marty and I wrote and designed. It comes complete with dice, a character sheet, and a map.
- I have one of these from the 3rd edition days, and it's pretty sweet. The central toward are actually dice towers, with one that drops the dice toward the DM and the other toward the players.
- • limited edition D&D Castle Dungeon Master Screen www.ebay.com/itm/32656786...
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckMonte Cook and I decided to trim down our personal gaming libraries. We donated about twenty boxes of RPGs and miniatures to some local schools and organizations. Some particularly choice items are on eBay right now, including:
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckBlessed be Chicago.
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- The next great schism in the Catholic Church will happen when the Pope insists that deep-dish pizza is best.
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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- Reposted by Matt ForbeckNEWS Attorneys seek an emergency order blocking a class of certain immigrants "from being removed to Libya," amid "alarming" reports that the country is next destination. They also want to block removals to other third party countries. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckLinda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.
- I'm sad to see that the fine folks at @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social aren't coming to Gen Con this year, although I entirely understand and support their choice. rowanrookanddecard.com/were-not-com...
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckThe SECOND Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction is now live through June 7th, proceeds this time to Gender Intelligence UK and Gender DynamiX in SA. bit.ly/genrefortrans. We've got some very special things incoming, and if you'd like to donate, get in touch with me or @ngjeannette.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matt Forbeck"Know your rights" = workers' rights www.huffpost.com/entry/workpl...
- Gamers! My friends at Raybox Games have just two days left for ESCAPE FROM STALINGRAD Z — RELOADED on Gamefound. Go check it out! gamefound.com/en/projects/...
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckThe Wandering Blades Kickstarter campaign is LIVE! Help @plusoneexp.bsky.social and I bring my vision of a gritty, violent, and dramatic wuxia TTRPG to life! My goal with this project is to create the martial arts action game of my dreams! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ton...
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- Ironically, it's the ones that the Post wouldn't publish that word her the award.
- The Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post. This is her third Pulitzer recognition.
- How are the tariffs affecting the board game industry? "The message from the Trump administration, Johnson said, is that his company should plan for layoffs. “That’s what the White House is telling me, ‘We don’t want you employing people.’ ” " www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
- And jury duty is over already. They had 32 people ready for a 12-person jury, and I was toward the end of the line. Back to work!
- Reporting for jury duty this morning!
- Reposted by Matt ForbeckHey, they’re having a sale on my D&D comic run (thanks Mike!). we had a lot of fun on this, and I think it’s a nice bit of work from all involved. “Working class heroes in a D&D world.”
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- Reposted by Matt ForbeckMay the fourth be with you, Illinois.
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- Reposted by Matt ForbeckOur colleagues in the Vox Media Union have put together a Go Fund Me. Please, if you've enjoyed what we do... If I've ever helped you in some way... If you've ever loved something more because of what we've written... Please give what you can. The next few weeks and months are going to be hard.
- Thunderbolts was pretty damn great.
- Gamers! I just backed this sharp-looking minis game — Zeo Genesis — from my pal Daniel Block's new company, designed by Andy Chambers with a background by Gav Thorpe. Go check it out! gamefound.com/en/projects/...
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- Three of my kids!
