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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖

@booksoflaw.bsky.social

Early #medieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries. Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project #ludonarratologist studying medieval-set TTRPGs & creating one based on the #Lombard laws: #LangobardRPG he/him

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Dot Porter@leoba.bsky.social · 6d ago

Do you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...

Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences

A brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro...

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · 6d ago

Thought I'd slid through the door at the last second for this year's #MAMG - then saw there's still the weekend! I'll (hopefully) talk about "From 'Docufictions' to 'Lawplay': On Speculative Engagement with Early Medieval Law". Because, of course, what else?...😉 🎲📜⚖️ #TTRPG #LangobardRPG #Medieval

The Middle Ages in Modern Games@midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The CfP for the upcoming #MAMG26 is now live! The event will take place on 5-7 Oct, assynchronously and online. Come join us from anywhere in the world to discuss medievalisms in games and alternative approaches to the ludic past.

In a time of growing political and environmental anxieties, the Middle Ages are often sought as a source of inspiration for alternative futures. Ecologically-minded games like Of Life and Land look to the medieval past to explore alternative, non-exploitative engagements with nature. Medievalist RPGs have long served as possibility spaces for players to interrogate and experiment with notions of sexuality, gender, and identity more broadly. Games like Scriptorium and Traveller’s Rest imagine medieval pasts divorced from the logics of violence often associated with the period. Medievalist fantasy games like Metaphor: ReFantazio openly engage with utopian thinking and our capacities to imagine possible worlds. We invite analytical ‘papers’ (comprising 400-500 words of text or 5-minute videos) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones. We encourage submissions from medievalists, games scholars and developers at any point in their career— especially those from Postgraduate Students, Early Career Researchers and members of any groups under-represented within the academy and industry. We welcome pieces addressing any region globally, and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’ and ‘medievalism’. We are able to accept papers in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to midagesmodgames@gmail.com by Sunday 3 August.
Samuel Rowe@samdrowe.bsky.social · 2w ago

The first post inaugurating my new blog is up, asking: was Aistulf crowned on 3 or 4 July 749 in Milan? This blog will host some of my research output that cannot fit into my thesis + more informal musings on medievalism in general. #medievalsky mundusbarbarorum.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/w...

Was Aistulf crowned on 3 or 4 July 749 in Milan?

© Giuseppe Rava “ego, in Dei omnipotentis auxilio Ahistulf, praecellentissimus rex Catholicaegentis Langobardorum” While doing my research on Lombard Italy, I happened upon several hist…

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · 4w ago

Just realised while I have run 4 sessions of this #LangobardRPG scenario over the last two weeks - all incredibly enjoyable! - I didn't take a single selfie of the respective groups... Oops! Also, we only got into the very start of part .II. twice, but hey. Most importantly, there were shenanigans!

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · last mo.

For those interested in the #LangobardRPG session, here's a snippit of introductory text that I'm preparing for the scenario-as-written. It's written to be a bit 'GM facing' -but maybe that's just good for managing expectations (session -1 ? 😉) 🎲🦅⚖️ #TTRPG

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · 4w ago

Waiting for my flight back, so a quick update - had a lovely time 😍 🌊 Swam in sea. Also went to King Arthur's Hall, Kastel Dore 💀 Had fun graverobbing. Recruited more speakers for workshop in Sept 🎲 Ran 4 games of #LangobardRPG, chatted about #TTRPG and Historical Game Studies 🦅 Held a red kite

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · last mo.

On my way to the UK for two weeks. Holiday in Cornwall first, then off to the #IMC. To do: 🌊 see the sea! swim in it! 📜 present paper on grave re-opening, #643 - Esther Simpson, 2.07, 11:15 🎲 playtest(s) of my #LangobardRPG - 🦅 hawking scenario (Old Bar. Tuesday evening?)

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · last mo.

For those interested in the #LangobardRPG session, here's a snippit of introductory text that I'm preparing for the scenario-as-written. It's written to be a bit 'GM facing' -but maybe that's just good for managing expectations (session -1 ? 😉) 🎲🦅⚖️ #TTRPG

Hawking and Lawplay Motivation To be able to hunt with a raptor, you must first have one. While there are numerous permitted means of acquiring a hunting bird in the early middle ages, there are likewise many illicit ways. And these means can surely result in accusations and the pursuit of justice through the emnity of the faida [feud] and recourse to the law. For this one to two session scenario, each player character should be suitably motivated towards the acquisition and ownership of a raptor—typically a goshawk, else a sparrowhawk or peregrine falcon—whether they want it to hunt with themselves (for prestige or to fill the cooking pot), to gift it to another in the hopes of gaining favour, or else to maliciously prevent another from owning it and deprive them of the benefits it would have bestowed! Scenario The scenario should typically be split into two main parts, with the referee making at least one or two significant opportunities throughout, in which the player characters get to fly their birds. The first part focuses on the .I. Acquisition of raptors by the player characters, and growing Suspicison as to who perpetrators likely are when illicit means have been employed. And with the referee (and ruleset) facilitating the onset and escalation of legal troubles, there should hopefully be many grounds for pointing blame and levelling accusations with relevant legal officials. By the end of this section, at least one of the characters (hopefully more, if not all) should be directly embroiled in one or more .II. Causae [law suits]. In the second part of the scenario, then, the player characters develop their role as the accusers, or the accused—depending on the nature of the shenanigans that occured previously. But, if all goes well (from the perspective of the troupe!), the dispute will have erupted between the collected characters, and the players will end up portraying both sides as the events unfurl. If the acquisition scenario somehow passes witho…
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · last mo.

On my way to the UK for two weeks. Holiday in Cornwall first, then off to the #IMC. To do: 🌊 see the sea! swim in it! 📜 present paper on grave re-opening, #643 - Esther Simpson, 2.07, 11:15 🎲 playtest(s) of my #LangobardRPG - 🦅 hawking scenario (Old Bar. Tuesday evening?)

Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Answering emails, and also getting some drafts out of my to-do list. First up: a FAQ about TTRPGs in Education, a broad umbrella! Some of it I do directly, other parts I can help be a connection with, and some I am totally incapable of.

FAQ: TTRPGs in Education: What I do & don't do (and who DOES) | Dr. Em Friedman

FAQ: TTRPGs in Education: What I do & don't do (and who DOES) by Dr. Em Friedman on Patreon. Join Dr. Em Friedman's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Extended deadline is tomorrow (Friday 12 June) I've had a small but promising collection of proposals come through - but would welcome any more #medievalsky

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hello #MedievalSky and #Antiquity from the #PresentDead! Here's my #cfp for a hybrid conference on "interacting with the Dead in Antiquity & the Middle Ages", to be held in Graz, Austria on 2-4 Sept., 2026 presentdead.uni-graz.at/en/news/blog... Please do circulate it to interested parties :)

Sarah Cole@irny.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My unconference for tabletop game-makers is happening soon! If you make tabletop games, come along to meet folks, swap ideas, and solve problems together. Sat 20th June Near St Pancras, London Tickets are £1+ ti.to/tabletop-unc... The vibe is 'post-it notes & packed lunches in a village hall'.

Tabletop Unconference 2026

An unconference-style gathering for tabletop game-makers to meet and chat with each other about projects, problems, and ideas. See further down the page for more information!

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Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Forgot to say on this, we've extended the deadline to the 31 May!

Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖@booksoflaw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hello #MedievalSky and #Antiquity from the #PresentDead! Here's my #cfp for a hybrid conference on "interacting with the Dead in Antiquity & the Middle Ages", to be held in Graz, Austria on 2-4 Sept., 2026 presentdead.uni-graz.at/en/news/blog... Please do circulate it to interested parties :)