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Role-player, husband, parent. Woke PoS. He/him. Staff at Ancient Robot Games in Edinburgh. ominosity.wordpress.com Why you are rolling the dice is far more important than which dice you are rolling.

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looking up some Rockin' Jelly Bean art. Turns out he is a bassist in a band too.

10.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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BAKTO'S TERRIFYING CUISINE by Roll 4 Tarrasque A Deliciously Dangerous Culinary Adventure For Starving Level Adventurers

The adventure Bakto's terrifying Cuisine!

A reality TV cooking contest dungeon. It shouldn't work, it absolutely does!

roll4tarrasque.itch.io/baktos-terri...

10.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can we PLEASE skip the part where the UK experiments with fascism/faragism/trumpism and go straight to, say, a national Green New Deal and a huge arts revival?

10.03.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Embers of Humanity - John Hedge | DriveThruRPG Embers of Humanity is a community-funded hope-filled TTRPG about the end of the world. Designed to provides players and GM's with a clear and easy to use rules system, Embers should feel familiar to e...

Embers of Humanity, our post-apocalypse community-focused RPG is in the GMs Sale over on Drivethru just now. It includes survivor and settlement generation, and a sample adventure and uses a cut down version of BRP.

#rpg #ttrpg

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

09.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

I have played a session of this run by Brian’s co-author @johnthehedge.bsky.social - it manages to do weird and post-apocalyptic and ominous without making people into (complete) gobshites. Recommended!

09.03.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

09.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 8959 πŸ” 2488 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 175

"Somehow the Cassian returned!"

thedirect.com/article/star...

09.03.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We have manage to find some nice tricks to track details without too much hassle though so you might find some interesting bits.

09.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most we handle these things with a light touch mechanically to leave groups with the latitude to handle the fiction how they like.

09.03.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Watch this space though, we have almost finished work on Embers version 1.3 which will be coming to KickStarter later this year!

09.03.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Embers of Humanity Quickstart Rules - John Hedge | DriveThruRPG Embers of Humanity is a community-funded hope-filled TTRPG about the end of the world. This is the free quickstart. You can buy the full version here Designed to provides players and GM's with a clea...

Or there's a PWYW Quickstart if you want to have a look before you buy!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

09.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Angelic West - John Hedge | DriveThruRPG Ride out into the ruins of civilisation and try to survive in the Colorado Desert! This setting guide includes: An overview of the setting. A list of angels & demons to incorporate into the settin...

The Angelic West is a religious themed setting for Embers www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

09.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Water & Rust - A scenario for Embers of Humanity - John Hedge | DriveThruRPG Not every danger in the wasteland is another survivor. The ruins of the old world sit, rusting and decaying. It’s only a matter of time before the past comes back to haunt us. Some miles upriver from ...

Some of the Embers adventures we community-funded last year are in the sale too.

Water & Rust is a trip upstream to find out what had gone wrong with your water supply. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

09.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Embers of Humanity - John Hedge | DriveThruRPG Embers of Humanity is a community-funded hope-filled TTRPG about the end of the world. Designed to provides players and GM's with a clear and easy to use rules system, Embers should feel familiar to e...

Embers of Humanity, our post-apocalypse community-focused RPG is in the GMs Sale over on Drivethru just now. It includes survivor and settlement generation, and a sample adventure and uses a cut down version of BRP.

#rpg #ttrpg

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

09.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Here's a draft manuscript of the Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game from 1996, and I've giving it away as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, with permission from the authors. Not sure how much to ask for. Vanishingly rare. $1,872 raised so far. #mtg #ttrpg

09.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 228 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 9

the weasel word here is β€œgood quality”. you can’t do a double-blind study if the people who get the placebo drop out because they can tell they’re obviously not getting HRT. they rely on obfuscating this

09.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 367 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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When Wales generates green energy, the profits go straight to London πŸ’Έ

In Scotland, Crown Estate profits are reinvested into local communities. Just imagine what Wales could achieve if we had the same powers!

It's time to devolve the #CrownEstate to #Wales ✊🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

09.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4
Photo of drawing of a sphinx with blood dripping out of its mouth saying with a scared giant centipede at its feet. The drawing is numbered 29.

Photo of drawing of a sphinx with blood dripping out of its mouth saying with a scared giant centipede at its feet. The drawing is numbered 29.

A very cool drawing by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social arrived in Norway.

09.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's something I generally dislike in RPGs and especially in something like MotherShip.

09.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Humble Comics Bundle: Love and Rockets and More: The Collected Hernandez Bros. by Fantagraphics Love and Rockets, Maggie the Mechanic, Psychodrama Illustrated, and more! You choose what you pay for the full Hernandez brothers library and support the ACLU!

OK now THIS is a humble bundle

www.humblebundle.com/books/love-a...

09.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Instant follow.

09.03.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Quick sketch of my Traveller character. In the future, cigarettes will make the smoke rings for you.

08.03.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Nine.
In Nomine, a massively flawed game from SJG / Derek Pearcy that I love so much.
The setting is *chef's kiss* mix of serious and silly that allows you to play Good Omens without giving Gaiman a fucking penny.

Got this 2nd hand reduced because some essential rules had been highlighted. Bargain

09.03.2026 10:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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4k orbit around the terminator of Mars This 90 second video vlies around the Martian terminator showing the variety of terrains on the planet. I'm available for hire, and can make cuversions of the…

vimeo.com/1171681367?s...

4k orbit over the terminator of Mars, by me.

09.03.2026 08:18 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

No of straight clients with trauma from discovering gay people exist.

Zero.

No of LGBTQ clients dealing with the trauma of not having words for who they are, or rep of who they are, or parents that "accepted them" but waited till they came out.

Much greater than zero.

Stop giving me work Pixar.

09.03.2026 09:12 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people.

09.03.2026 07:08 πŸ‘ 519 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 21
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They wanted freedom of speech.
They got freedom of speech.

🧡

08.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 9

i’ve watched this three times. VERY satisfying.

09.03.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 718 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 4

You joke but that's how Death In Space works. When you fail a roll you get a little token which you can spend for advantage on another roll.

09.03.2026 07:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It started in a vape shop, so I guess a cheap battery set itself alight.

08.03.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0