Co-founder StartPlaying.com, D&D nerd for @ttlprtychll and lover of 🏐, 🍕 and 📚. #BlackLivesMatter
Joined September 2011
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Devon retweeted
Apr 1
Hi all. We messed up and we're sorry.
Today (4/1/26) at 5am, one of our Product Managers shipped a feature by accident. The team was supposed to build dark mode, but due to a typo, they ended up building "Shadowdark Mode".
Now when you go to the site on desktop and activate "dark mode" you get Shadowdark Mode, where your cursor is a torch and you must find other torches using the clues provided. If you don't find enough torches in time, the darkness will consume you.
We promise to do better.
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5 Dec 2025
If you want original movies to be made, you need to go see original movies in the theater instead of at home on a streamer.
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4 Dec 2025
San Francisco is getting a women’s baseball team. Any guesses to what the team is going to be called?
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28 Oct 2024
We're hiring! @startplaying is looking for a senior product designer to join our party!
Join our mission to build communities through play.
Apply here--> jobs.ashbyhq.com/startplayin…
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1 Oct 2024
When you get on a 15 hour flight and your seat is in the middle of the aisle, only to end up with no one next to you.
1 Oct 2024
What gives off the same energy as a nat 20?
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Devon retweeted
23 Sep 2024
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Devon retweeted
4 Sep 2024
🎉 Big news! The official calendar of events for #SFTechWeek and #LATechWeek is now LIVE!
And thrilled to announce that this is officially our BIGGEST Tech Week, ever!
- 850 events 🤯
- San Francisco: Oct 7-13 🌉
- Los Angeles: Oct 14-20 🌴
Link to register below to see all events👇
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31 Aug 2024
There are a ton of professional dungeon masters on StartPlaying.
Which means I get to see what makes the top ones so successful.
If I had to boil their success down to one thing, it'd be ideology. The best DMs make it incredibly clear what they value and how they play.
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She was a vegan and animal rights activist. She literally wore her ideology on her sleeve.
After doing this, her matches improved!
People who didn’t match her ideological values self opted out.
It was clear what she valued, and those who disagreed, often just swiped away.
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31 Aug 2024
She was able to curate better matches because those who weren't a match self-selected out.
This is exactly what we see on StartPlaying, too.
The most successful DMs make their ideology, vibes, and play style clear, and that attracts the audience they'll succeed with.
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29 Aug 2024
I started a mini podcast about tabletop gaming news.
If you're thinking about starting a podcast, let me explain my thought process for why I started 10 minute tabletop news.
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29 Aug 2024
And turns out, others wanted it, too!
While it only gets a modest 700-100 listens a week, it's the right 500-700 people.
Over the first few months, I learned a number of other founders and industry folk loved it. They reached out to me thanking me for something that was digestible.
It's also a ton of fun. (huge thanks to our content editor @ActionSergDM)
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29 Aug 2024
So if you're finding yourself looking for content that doesn't exist, and you have the right background...do it!
And check us out here:
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Devon retweeted
26 Aug 2024
This is what Poké Balls look like to wild Pokemon.
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