Mark Caldwell
@impworks.bsky.social
I'll mostly be posting about table top RPGs, CGI, photography and writing but also probably whatever random thought crosses my mind Liverpool (the place not the FC) I do back end website development and accessibility for a living
Did you know I stream lunchtime game design chats with my clever friends @beckyannison.bsky.social and @armadajosh.bsky.social? Lunchtime is Dicetime is on again, 12:30 BST today. We're going to talk about games that are heavy on creative constraints. It'll be fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWww...
Lunchtime is Dicetime! Episode 5
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Minions and Monsters 2 should see the creative minions at BBC where they're involved in Quatermass and Doctor Who while a splinter group gets involved with Hammer films
I need a style guide for writing RPG rules Like should it be a player rolls or make a roll for a PC or whatever is best and clearest
I had a brief moment of being over 50 when a temu advert popped up on Facebook for a skirt and my thought was - thats not a skirt thats a belt.
Midnight Moments - a cosy building game looks like it could be quite fun for making mini maps for a cyberpunk RPG store.steampowered.com/app/4666090/...
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A small, cyberpunk diorama-building game where you create cozy rain-soaked backstreets, glowing apartment blocks, or quiet neighbourhood corners. Decorate your designs with props and place citizens, c...
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Continuing adventures in repairing patio This episode making a sand and cement mix because the underside of this slab has disintegrated
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Went looking for a public domain picture of a jet and found an entire US government archive of pictures I'd never come across before Not really looked through it yet but all sorts of aircraft pictures, lighthouse plans, ships, D-Day and more nara.getarchive.net
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Would you like to hang out with some nerds at a gentle and largely unstructured retreat this October? Play board games (so many board games) and TTRPGs, paint minis, read books, do crafts, go for little walks and outings, and other relaxed stuff. Trick or Retreat 21–26 Oct 2026 trickorretreat.uk
2026 - Trick or Retreat
Wednesday 21st October – Monday 26th October 2026 Moira, Derbyshire What’s this? A few days of hanging out with gamesy folks doing things like playing board games, going for little walks, doing crafts, and generally having a nice time! Dates Ticket types Location Scroll down for more information about Trick or Retreat 2026! Click here […]
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Random find of the day - looking for one deck plan of a trawler for an RPG adventure idea and I find a nice little collection of trawler deck plan scans trawlingthroughtime.org/galleries/ve...
Vessels
Our volunteers have been doing an amazing job of digitally stitching images of the original technical drawings in our Cook, Welton & Gemmell archive (some of which are almost 1m in length!). S…
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This my boss Frodo Baggins he’s quite a guy. This is his best friend Samwise Gamgee, he knows how to take care of himself and when they met it was Mordor.
Merryshire Detective Agency: After Dark It's still hobbits but it's 90s adult thrillers - it's hot in the Shire
If you put together the season posters for Reacher they tell the story of a large man who can't remember where he put his keys.
Stumbled from one bit of the NLS digital collection to these illustrations of Edinburgh characters 1799-1805 and feels like there is an entire RPGs worth of NPCs just waiting to be remixed digital.nls.uk/edinburgh-ch...
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Looking for something else just found the National Library of Scotland has digitised copies of Britain: An official handbook released under Open Government licence from 1954 to 1999. Handy source of very dry info about Britain for a particular year. digital.nls.uk/britain-and-...
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We put this one up last Monday :(
CEEFAUX@ceefaux.bsky.social · 2w agoNew week, new CEEFAUX, old story
Simultaneously not able to sleep and too tired to be awake
I'm going to use American terminology to get this across: The England & Wales Court of Appeal released a decision yesterday, less than three weeks after a three-day oral argument. And that was FAR from the most extraordinary thing about the case.
Making sure you're not a bot!
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Stupid thought while continuing with the re-grouting of my patio... I could put a load of collapsible Gazebos out here and have Gazebo Con in my back garden I won't be but I could
Liverpool & environs. I'm doing an event in Waterstones Liverpool on the 12th, again with Dr @thomasdlee.bsky.social , but also joined by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Once again, attendance is mandatory. Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.waterstones.com/events/garet...
through the woods 2026 #digitalart #rpg #D&D - a bit less subtle than yesterday’s piece, but I like it :)
