Fraser
@swordsedgepublishing.ca
AKA accidentalfrase Canadian TTRPG designer of Sword Noir, Centurion, Nefertiti Overdrive, Sword’s Edge & others
Headcrushers has few situational bonuses or penalties. For example, Range is measured in Zones, which are abstract and have no specific size. So cooperation between the GM and the PCs is kind of important. “Can I hit it with my bow?” “Sure, I guess. Makes sense.” fraserronald.itch.io/headcrushers
Headcrushers by Fraser Ronald
Fast and simple fantasy action
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5 August 1944 | During the Warsaw Uprising, the 'Zośka' battalion of the Home Army freed some 350 Jews from KL Warschau (so-called Gesiowka camp). The majority of them took part in the uprising, many of them dying during the fighting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_concentration_camp
My new job is securing funding for First Nations housing, and holy shit, Mark Carney has done so much damage to these programs, which were already utterly inadequate. Carney is pure evil and a colonialist to his core.
But the Canadian prime minister says we can't afford to try to mitigate climate change.
The Darkest Timeline - Community
Alt: Troy enters the apartment to find it burning with chaos everywhere in Community's The Darkest Timeline
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️@obialik.bsky.social · 11h agoA sentence I would rather never hear, yet here we are: "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly". #ClimateChange 🧪 Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118804
Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.
Peter Cushing in the TV version of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Rudolph Cartier, 1954
If you’re in Vancouver, go play a game with Alex on August 12 - sure to be a blast!
Alex V@alexvalente.fyi · 6h agomy jets? lagged my sleeps? deprived my slugs? blasted, next week at @raincity.games !
Current management is very hand's off and project-oriented--are you meeting expectations? Then we don't care where or how you work. A change is on the horizon and I'm worried that this freedom is at risk. I hope I'm stressing for nothing. Too many managers care more for optics than outcomes.
Judged is the second in the Nefertiti Overdrive 2.0 adventure series "The Fall of the House of Kashta." The greatest heroes of 25th dynasty Egypt hunt down a nihilist cult of assassins just as the military superpower of the age— the Assyrians— invades. fraserronald.itch.io/judged-a-nef...
Judged: A Nefertiti Overdrive Adventure by Fraser Ronald
The greatest heroes of Ancient Egypt hunt down a deadly cult threatening the royal house
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Porting The Kheufer Scrolls to a different setting and to D&D (group request) has let me have fun playing with the villains. Now one crime boss is a gnoll, the other's a half-elf with evil halfling minions, and the latest is tiefling. It felt apt. He hangs out at a coffee house.
Yeah, I will not be supporting your Substack, even if I want to.
Schmutzie.@schmutzie.com · 3d agoIf you're still on Substack, you're helping platform fascists and their enthusiastic minions, such as Bari Weiss, whom they actively partnered with just before her move to CBS. Go check out @buttondown.com and @ghost.org instead. You can even migrate yours subscribers and subscriptions!
If you're still on Substack, you're helping platform fascists and their enthusiastic minions, such as Bari Weiss, whom they actively partnered with just before her move to CBS. Go check out @buttondown.com and @ghost.org instead. You can even migrate yours subscribers and subscriptions!
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3d agoWhat if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.
As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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The challenges PCs will face in The Wall are the factions of the city they occupy. That includes the other Occupiers, the Elite, and the Dispossessed. In different cities, these will be rated differently, but usually it’s the Dispossessed who are the biggest problem.
sorry for the lack of wombats recently. had some technical issues but should be back to normal now. - the management
one of my favorite KIM moments is when Eleanor tells us how Aoi convinced her to stay so I made a lil comic about it (also my hc is that they started dating after that 😌💜) #warframe #warframecaptura #tennocreate
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w agoA friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?
This Nefertiti Overdrive 2.0 adventure is the first in "The Fall of the House of Kashta" series, which depicts the end of the 25th dynasty of Ancient Egypt as an action-adventure tale. In this, assassins seek the life of Pharaoh's key advisor--his niece. fraserronald.itch.io/proof-of-death
Proof of Death: A Nefertiti Overdrive Adventure by Fraser Ronald
Heroes of Ancient Egypt face a cult of assassins aligned with the invading Assyrians
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I tell you what, though, I've GMed every game I've ever run without AI, and my experience is that the more you do it, the better you get at it, so maybe don't foist off the creative endeavor onto the slurm faucet.
In the Centurion TTRPG, you don’t need to beat the enemy’s defences right away. You can apply Conditions—narrative descriptors that impose penalties. Put enough Conditions on the toughest enemy and they aren’t so tough any longer.
That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
It’s a cult. It’s seeking the end of the world. It's dangerous. You know what's more dangerous? Murder hobos. The Abyss and the Cult provides a series of “dungeon crawl” adventures in which the characters chase down the Cult of the Black Cloud. fraserronald.itch.io/the-abyss-an...
The Abyss and the Cult: An Adventure Series by Fraser Ronald
A connected series of three adventures for both Head Crushers and Sword's Edge
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The greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/
The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.
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Challenges—the things on which the PCs beat in the Headcrushers TTRPG—are made of Difficulty and Threat, and some will have an added Element thrown in. Each is rated by a die type. They’re categorized as Physical, Mental, or Social—just like the PCs’ Traits. fraserronald.itch.io/headcrushers
Headcrushers by Fraser Ronald
Fast and simple fantasy action
fraserronald.itch.io
