Casper | Friendly Ghost Games
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Hot Circle: 24pp Multi-genre Burning Wheel Deepest Valley: Wargame in a zine Hive of the Crawling Creeps: Fleshy insect dungeon Cat Quest/Ultimate Battle Warriors/Scary Cave: Kids solo ttrpg-likes https://friendly-ghost.itch.io | he/him | rural ireland
SCARY CAVE Your friend Suzie is in deep deep trouble. Only you can get her back out. Designed for replayability, imagination, and challenge. With scares, traps, and monsters for nine themes and easy instructions for dungeon drawing - the cave changes every time. friendly-ghost.itch.io/scary-cave
NEW: Sherwood is a game of outlaws and arcana, inspired by modern Robin Hood fantasies, the Robin of Sherwood television series, and medieval outlaw ballads and romances. Sherwood is set in a fantastical version of 13th-century England. From @rrookstudio.bsky.social @plusoneexp.bsky.social
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
gravity is the simulation defragging
the cultural imperialism boomerang is a term I coined for how Korean media is just stunting all over US stuff right now
A time travelling pal just introduced me to the medieval Glimmingehus in Sweden and I'm obsessed. It looks like a superb building but there are also some fascinating and peculiar details. I'd like to know what you think. Let's take a look. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glimmin...
If you have backlog sitting up on twitch it could be good to take it down.
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
LASAGNE ALTAR FOR THE LASAGNE GOD
Paolo of Lost Pages 🔜 Sequential Scotland@lostpages.co.uk · last mo.Once again, the most important lasagne-forward RPG convention of the world is back! Grab your games and hunger and come to LASAGNACON IX, August 1st & 2nd, Gorbals, Glasgow. I cook 80 portions of lasagne for this.
Why is everything so transparently evil now?
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404. "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools."
Once focused on helping libraries, distributors, and book shops find and sell books, ISBNdb now helps Al companies bulk-buy anywhere between 1,000 to one million books per order, according to 404.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pxunhtt4zdl4rkkjub54m5ia/bafkreic7burhqtyy3mrqnzzf5gwr3pokwr6gznvg7p5htr4gz3mghh4hny)
Oooh your chatbot is becoming sentient and may pose a threat to humanity? Should we throw a party? Should we invite all your most gullible investors?
We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.Why is everything so transparently evil now?
You can now convert any Pokemon into an enemy for Cairn, Mythic Bastionland or, most importantly, Into the Oddish #osr #ttrpg #pokemon
Convert Any Pokémon to Into the Oddish Stats — Prismatic Wasteland
Convert any Pokémon into stats for Into the Oddish and any other Oddlike like Carin or Into the Odd. Also 22 enemy Pokémon for your games or Into the Oddish adventures.
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Ep 40: Interview with Eric Vulgaris A chat with @ericvulgaris.bsky.social on his deep experience running Torchbearer online and open table open.spotify.com/episode/6JLB...
Interview with Eric (online play, open tables)
Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG Podcast · Episode
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I think cringedark is a well enough defined ttrpg genre at this stage that someone could make a really good parody game. Where you're also playing the Gen X divorcee playing the underlying game.
Friendly reminder that I'm in need of cash and this sale is going on until Friday! itch.io/s/196585/thi...
Things Are Looking Dangerously Cheesy Sale by Age of Age Games
A bundle by Age of Age Games, $11.00 for Suburbia: The Envy of A Million Spheres!, Tender Hatchlings
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So here's our new newsletter, Hooks & Rumours. Basically the best of the Gazetteer & hopefully a load of stuff to interest, entertain and inform you This week you'll find links to everything from peasant metal to a haunted English county, crass & sublime art & Game Workshop's origin story. enjoy!
Hooks & Rumours #1
What we've been reading, watching, listening to and buying this weekend and think you should check out too....
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This seems like exactly the kind of reddit post on r/rpg my friends here might want to support: www.reddit.com/r/rpg/s/gWrr...
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How much gaming doesnt get done because of expectations of quality, doing the system justice, or doing something new and exciting with it? When i dont have the brainpower for a classy movie i watch trash tv. Is there something beyond a beer and pretzels game thats truly trashy gauche and braindead?
What is the analogue of "zero production value" for an rpg session? What is the lowest energy requirement a game can ask of you to engage? What ttrpg could you play lying on the couch after a 12h shift?
