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title: Roll20 Blog | Luke
description: <span>SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER</span> Luke W is a writer and social media manager living in the Midwest. His writing has appeared in Vice, Paste, Game Informer, and The Hard Drive. He tweets at @urzashottub, mostly about his lunch.
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Safety tools have been a major part of the tabletop scene the past few years. It has been wonderful to see the rise of “Session zero,” when the players and facilitators can discuss their expectations and what safety tools they prefer to use. To name just a few, we have the X card, red green yellow lights, X N and O, script change with pause,.

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SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER Luke W is a writer and social media manager living in the Midwest. His writing has appeared in Vice, Paste, Game Informer, and The Hard Drive. He tweets at @urzashottub, mostly about his lunch.

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I love sci-fi horror, and I love a good flow chart, so you can imagine that Mothership is right up my alley.

[BY Luke](https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/author/luke),

 June 17, 2021

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[BY Luke](https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/author/luke),

 May 11, 2021

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My first D&D books were hand-me-downs. A friend's older cousin passed them down to me after I showed an interest in fantasy novels. They must have been hand-me-downs to him,...

[BY Luke](https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/author/luke),

 April 28, 2021

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*Emerging from the trap door, you come into a closed space with a wheel-and-spoke layout. Surrounding the octagonal room there are 8 mini-chambers, each set off with a sort of...*

[BY Luke](https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/author/luke),

 April 21, 2021

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Whenever a friend or colleague planning to GM for the first time asks me for advice, I always come back to the same idea: Pacing.

[BY Luke](https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/author/luke),

 March 24, 2021

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 February 16, 2021

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[BY Luke](https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/author/luke),

 February 9, 2021

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 January 25, 2021

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