Ludovic Chabant
@ludovic.chabant.com
Gamedev, ex Epic/UE5 & EA/Frostbite (cinematics, cameras). TTRPG nerd and occasional writer/illustrator. Even more occasional open source dev. Lives near Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 ludovic.chabant.com on the web @ludovic@chabant.social on Mastodon
Last time I talked about #RuneQuest #Glorantha and how it has too much lore and not enough playable content, I heard that we need a "baseline" for the setting. Let's address this.... with random tables! #TTRPG https://ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2026/08/05/runic-rants-gloranthas-lore-baseline/
My Dragonbane players finally beat Dead Eyes Cave! One of them was one roll away from death, but the other two made judicious use of their heroic abilities and spells. Getting to the monster’s last 2 HP was quite dramatic!Quote of the game: “did you blindfold the chicken?”
Good morning! You may be happy to know that the good fluffy boy is, as usual, good and fluffy.
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)
Adding some context to this: Rascal's membership peaked in January this year at around 2500 subscribers. This was due to our 1$ sale in December where around 300 people signed up. But ever since then, it's been a steady decline... (1/x) bsky.app/profile/rasc...
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State of the Rascal: August 2026 https://www.rascal.news/state-of-the-rascal-august-2026/
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Children of the Flame is now available on DrivetThruRPG The campaign Les Enfants de la Flamme is finally available in English. Children of the Flame is a heroic epic that plunges the adventures right into the heart of the Hero Wars! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #runequest #glorantha
At last! Our epic #RuneQuest camapign set in southeastern Sartar after the Dragonrise is available on DriveThruRPG, both as a PDF and as dead tree.
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
Chaosium Inc Basic Roleplaying Collection Arrives in New Humble Bundle Supporting World Wildlife Fund - @chaosium.bsky.social @humblebundle.com #BRPG #RiversofLondonRPG #AgeofVikings #TTRPGs thegaminggang.com/save-money-o...
Chaosium Inc Basic Roleplaying Collection Arrives in New Humble Bundle Supporting World Wildlife Fund - The Gaming Gang
If you've ever been curious about the Basic Roleplaying system you can now pick up a wide selection of Chaosium Inc titles through a new Humble Bundle.
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This is a great bundle and supports a worthy cause (World Wildlife Fund).
Jeff McAleer from The Gaming Gang 🔜 Gen Con 2026@thegaminggang.bsky.social · 2d agoChaosium Inc Basic Roleplaying Collection Arrives in New Humble Bundle Supporting World Wildlife Fund - @chaosium.bsky.social @humblebundle.com #BRPG #RiversofLondonRPG #AgeofVikings #TTRPGs thegaminggang.com/save-money-o...
"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoEvery now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take
A new bit of history out today, a complete index and history of Dagon magazine, the very first, legendary Call of Cthulhu fanzine published by Carl T. Ford in the '80s. zinedex.designers-and-dragons.com/chaosium/dag...
erotic thriller is such a great genre concept. like youre naked but you have to save the president
yeah like, epic's engine licensing business has always been insanely successful, plus fortnite, and i keep reading people explaining it like "you might think so but that doesn't make enough money". of course it does. you are just insane
ari velazquez 🌯@arivelazquez.com · 3d agosacrificing engine licensees across games and film at the altar of the metaverse, genuine mad king hearing voices type shit
Somewhere there is a guy complaining his wife won't let him have a skull toilet
Gen Con 2026...Exhibit Hall...Studio 2 Publishing...Delta Green
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Everything I Learned About GMing Was With Call Of Cthulhu: Automatic Clues! A story about how Chaosium's special brand of investigative horror allowed young-me to develop some good referee technique. #TTRPG ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2026/07...
Everything I Learned About GMing Was With Call Of Cthulhu: Automatic Clues
Everything I Learned About GMing Was With Call Of Cthulhu: Automatic Clues! A story about how Chaosium's special brand of investigative horror allowed young-me to develop some good referee technique....
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