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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 6h

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6h

conscience is the wound, and there’s naught to staunch it

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 4h

Not sure how Bosch got this candid photo of me

BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 4h

Haywain - Open

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

here sleeps his meadow, and there sleep his cattle

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 17h

the cloister hotel, sea island, georgia, 1990

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

The Ferry - wood engraving by George Mackley, 1951

several boats, a boat house and a large impressive house higher up on the land

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 11d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 2d

Saturday night means it's time for wine and frivolous world building

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 2d

The first cruise arrow is tested.

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Casper | Friendly Ghost Games @friendly-ghost.bsky.social · 2d

If you played any of my children's games: Cat Quest, Ultimate Battle Warriors, or Scary Cave. Please share the word.

They're very trrpg-like but they're not 100% that - so they need some extra word of mouth to be seen.

friendly-ghost.itch.io

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tufted titmouse (taking tiny timeout) @titmou.se · Dec 29

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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 3d

Just posted on my Patreon: the full draft of HARDCASE 2e's Character Creation chapter! Come get a look at who you'll be in #HC2e 💛
www.patreon.com/posts/hardca...

HARDCASE 2e: Character Creation | Thursday Garreau

www.patreon.com

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3d

Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum is the earliest known public museum.[1] It dates to circa 530 BCE.[2][3][4][5] The curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.[6] It was in the state of Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, roughly 150 metres (490 ft) southeast of the famous Ziggurat of Ur.[7]

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 3d

and running it with the lightness of World of Dungeons just frees up a group inculcated into modern play styles to utilise their own creativity and problem solving in a more old-school fashion, it's a delight. If anyone I've played 5e with for instance wants me to run this for them, hit me up!

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 3d

the intricate and gradually-unveiling nature of the Caverns quickly outpacing the ability of the mapper to make sense of things and watching the group have to recalibrate their navigation on the fly as a result is a particular joy of running it this way

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 3d

last time I tried it with my home group we played it real old school, with one of them as the dedicated mapper and so on, and it rocked

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 3d

going through all kinds of phases of prepping potential games while not actively running any games and I think I've just circled all the way back around to wanting to take another crack at running Caverns of Thracia with World of Dungeons for Whoever Wants It

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah, BARBARIAN rocks

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 4d

Spooky Season Painting #1: Ripley

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 4d

anyway I'm deep into it now and the game is still utterly delightful and lovingly designed, I'm having such a good time with it

Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 4d

there's such care and specificity with how they've designed the game around being a first person experience, down to how being in first person makes you engage with the environment, exploration, etc.

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 4d

there was an announcement of a new update for the Indiana Jones game and predictably a bunch of the comments were about wanting a third person mode; having played the game a bunch now, these calls for third person come across as even more nonsensical

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 4d

it's properly October now and I'm firmly back living in my parents' place so that means tonight I'm watching BARBARIAN with my dad

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Calum Grace @calumgrace.bsky.social · 4d

brain at a truly impressive level of non-operational today, full zombie mode activated

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

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