Rebecca Strang

@bexagons.bsky.social

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she/they. Gaming & academic librarian. TTRPG design dabbler. Cat lover. Play, storytelling, books, tea, crafts, snail mail, zines. President Emeritus @alagamert.bsky.social. 🏳️‍🌈🎲📚 https://linktr.ee/toplayishuman

Partial list of board games played over a weekend, this snippet includes the last three games: two plays of Quacks and one of Harmonies
A hand holding a copy of TUMULUS and its accompanying Blood Chapter bookmark in front of a bookshelf
Four bookmarks, three with the fronts showing and one with the back showing. The fronts feature tarot-inspired genre designs for The Romantic, The Filmster, and The Haunted. Each scene shows the college mascot, Chippy the Cardinal, in a thematic illustration. The backs have a grid where book titles and ratings can be logged.
Seven zines laid out in a grid on a table
Cover for a zine called 2025 List of Gratitude. The background uses washi tape on a dictionary page. The word gratitude is circled on the dictionary page.
A zine cover with a photo showing an indoor cat watching out a window as a raccoon grabs food from a deck at night.
Colorful cover of a zine titled "Just use your art supplies" that features a rainbow of washi tape as the background. The title is written on cut up file labels. There is a sticker of a forest gnome painting colorful mushrooms.
An orange cat sitting on a Gloomhaven game box. There is a speech bubble for the cat that says, "Play games, heal kids!"
A TTRPG book lying flat on a desk mat. The book is Down We Go, and has a skull on the cover.
Gaming books wrapped in brown paper packaging. The paper is sealed with a green wax stamp and has a hand written message that says, "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ORDER! ENJOY THE HAVE! -E.P." alongside a skull drawing. To the left of the package is a white piece of paper with a "Quest Complete" stamp, and a clear bag with stickers inside.
A stack of board games, including: Tapple, Flip7, Tacta, Hues and Cues, Blank Slate, and Telestrations
Moon Rings game book on a table in the background with empty playing card case. Playing cards held in a hand in the foreground showing off shiny red foil edges.
Moon Rings game book on a table. Empty playing card case above the book and playing cards spread out below the book.
A VHS copy of Gargoyles: The Movie - The Heroes Within, which includes an interactive VCR board game
A gray tabby cat sitting in the box lid of a board game on a table. The game is Cellulose, a game about plant biology.
A small pile of button pins on a desk. The pins say "North Central Supportive Gaming Community"
Unboxing an order of TTRPGs from Indie Press Revolution. The box has info about IPR's library support program written on it (info also available on their website). Time is sped up in the video as a hand pulls game books from the box.
A game called Necromancer Heretic, in a plastic tote
A bookshelf in an academic library. The top four shelves are filled with TTRPGs. The bottom shelf is empty
Inside cover of a TTRPG to show book tape connecting the cover to the inside pages.
Two TTRPGs laying on a table, side by side, front cover up. Goblin Errands and Death Cap Saute.
The game Moon Rings in a plastic bin with cards, dice, and a character standee
Two plastic bins sitting side by side. They are approximately 12 in x 8 in and 2 to 3 inches deep. Each bin holds a TTRPG with its pieces needed for play (dice, coins, etc.)
Gamegenic "Holder Cave" - a plastic case that holds smaller cases
TTRPGs on a shelf at an academic library
TTRPGs on a shelf at an academic library
The foreground features a scanned zine cover. The cover has three banners that say "Stuff Carved by Bex" and the zine is made with a dictionary page. The background is a photo of stamp carving tools and materials on a table.
A lap desk covered with stamped images on white paper that have been cut out. There are also scissors on the desk and a pile of tiny cuts of paper. The stamped images include some cats, a raccoon face, a flower, a leaf, a ghost, and some small banners.
A gray cat lies on top of a TTRPG game map in the center of a dining table. The map is surrounded by rulebooks and other maps for Dragonbane.
B. Free Franklin Post Office storefront. Brick building with an arch tunnel. On the left is the post office with a street lamp in front.
Two stacks of bookmarks, each stack shows one side of the bookmark. The art is a college of torn Nat Geo pages featuring a variety of natural landscapes. From to bottom, the scene includes space, blue skies, mountains, grass, water, and rock. Each side has a different word in magazine clipped letters: explore, protect.
A cat plays with a plush pink octopus inside a game box
Acrylic gel print, dark teal with gold textured rings stamped throughout
Three gaming librarians standing at a table with a projector screen behind them
Two stamp impressions on a mini notebook page. The top impression is in orange ink and says HOPE, but the O is in the shape of a cat head. The bottom impression is in purple and says I 💙 CATS.
Two pink post-it notes stuck side by side on a table. Each post-it shows teal impressions of two stamps each. A star and a spiral; some geometric mess of lines and PLAY!
Two impressions of a rubber stamp in teal ink. The design is a rectangular outline and inside the outline it says RNG GAMING with each word on a separate line. RNG also has a start on either side.
A white index card with three impressions of a rubber stamp in dark teal ink. The stamp design is a minimalist shape of a ghost saying Ooo.
Promotional event graphic with marble buddy statue popping out of a painting frame
A red poster with black text that says "KEEP CALM AND BE THE VERY BEST". The H in "the" on the poster is an Unown Pokémon. There is a Poké Ball center above the text.
A black and tan tabby cat sitting in a cat tree bowl with his arm outstretched, as if he's waving. A speech bubble on the lower left says "hello" and a speech bubble on the lower right says "an introduction thread".
A chainmail weave in the form of a Byzantine chain with pastel green, purple, and blue rings. The chain is sitting on a light blue cloth.
A black and tan tabby cat laying on his back in my lap, with his head resting in the crook of my elbow on my arm.
Five TTRPGs published by Exeunt Press are spread out on a table in two rows: Tollund and Caveat Emptor in the first row, then Eleventh Beast, Exclusion Zone Botanist, and You Are a Muffin in the second row.
A black and tan tabby cat sleeping on a person's chest. The cat's head is resting on the person's arm.
The front and back of the Meer card are shown against a wooden tabletop background. The back of the card is blurred. The front shows the face of a mouse with antlers. "Tiny" is circled under "Size".
Summer sale banner with logos for games: Forage Teller, MOST, Trash Companion, Quest Giver, and An Urgent Memo
Paid RPG Day banner with logos for my game designs
Screenshot of https://toplayishuman.itch.io/
Two logos: one for To Play Is Human that features an open book with a d20 popping out of it and a fantasy character silhouette on either side of the d20; and the second logo is a personal icon that features an open book with a d12 popping out of it and a druid silhouette on the main face of the d12.
Image of spiral bound book flat open, showing the two page game
A Star Wars Little Golden Book has a bit taken out of a page. The part that's missing is the "Chew" portion of Chewbacca's name!
A tabletop with a dice tray, translucent teak box holding dice and a pencil, and a clipboard with the rules for Rodents with Guitars.
Orange cat sitting on a dining chair in front of a window. My hand is on the left side of the photo, pointer finger outstretched, and the cat is licking my finger.
Two boys sitting on the floor, huddled over a pile of LEGO. They are working together to build a LEGO bot design.
My lap is visible at my desk. On the desk is a keyboard that has backlit keys in rainbow colors. On my lap is a cat looking up at me, but with her head upside-down.
My left hand is holding a copy of the book (Crash, Splash, or Moo). The book cover is yellow and orange and features a monkey, a clam, and a cow with a rocket pack.
Games & Gaming Round Table logo
Six TTRPG games/zines lays out on a table in a 3x2 grid. Pigeon's Eleven, Beneath Hallowed Halls, Stargems The Merchant, A Butterfly Dies, Rolling with the Youth