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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 5h

Was I there when he closed down Imagine? Yes. Have I read the court documents between him and Arneson? Yes. Everything I've put is verifiable fact, regardless of whether he was nice to a sycophant or not. Fuck Hasbro and fuck Gary. Both greedy corporate scum.

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Up & Away Games🎈 @upandawaygames.bsky.social · 6h

Funny, thought-provoking article on Politics in war games by @flintlock.bsky.social at @armchairdragoons.bsky.social armchairdragoons.com/columns-poli...

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 9h

Look everyone! I did an article thingy!

Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 14h

Politics In Wargames https://armchairdragoons.com/columns-politicsinwargames/

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 10h

With hindsight, I wish that Palladium had bankrupted WotC with that frivolous lawsuit thing.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 10h

This is why I run all my board game groups as benevolent dictatorships. I will let you know what we are playing ahead of time.

Semi Co-op @semicoop.bsky.social · 10d

New comic! Bringing loads of games to game night and only ending up playing one or two small ones... Who else does this? 😂

👀 You can read this week's blog post (it's a long one!) at
semicoop.com/comic/beast-of-burden/ #gamenight #boardgames

Two panels. Above the left, it says: "Games I brought to game night". We see Heinze carrying a very big and heavy backpack holding at least 15 games (it shows the outlines of the boxes through the bag). Above the right panel it says: "Games we played at game night". We see the same image of Heinze carrying the back pack with only one small game highlighted in the entire backpack.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 14h

Gary tried to chat his co-creator out of royalties and shut down Imagine Magazne because the writers wouldn't shill for poor quality T$R products. He'd have loved this corporate shit, because it was all over it when he was alive. He'd have promoted AI GMs.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I once advertised a LRP to drama students by calling it "interactive theatre" so I absolutely don't have an issue with this. (I see the quoted below claim to differentiation, but I haven't seen them claiming novelty or even innovation. I don't think they claiming to have invented GMless).

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

As someone that has been arguing the minority view that a) "roleplaying game" should be a intensional definition not an extensional one and b) that storytelling and roleplaying are separate but compatible activities, I welcome the arrival of my new storytelling comrades

Hunters Entertainment @huntersent.bsky.social · 1d

The Kickstarter for Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees Storytelling Game is now LIVE!

This Hundred Acre Woods meets Dexter cozy horror game is coming soon to a gaming table near you. Check out our Kickstarter for more information.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hun...

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

The only vaguely redeemable part of it is that they've left the historical eras/genres alone so it's still not as bad as Drivethrurpg. (I to enjoy the four historical eras, pulp, historical fantasy, pirates and western)

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

iHunt might appeal. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...

#iHunt: The RPG - Machine Age Productions | #iHunt | DriveThruRPG

Be a hero. You pick the hours. #iHunt is a story telling game about killing monsters in the gig economy. In it, you play millennials scraping by paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet. A gig app calle...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, joy, Drivethru have finally got round to "improving" the Wargame Vault UI. But this time they have the bright idea of not letting us access the legacy site at all. Apart from everything else, maybe sort out how bad your search is first?

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not even convinced that today's students would get away with some of the official SU groups we had when I was a student, let alone get them funded; specifically the Anti Fascist Group, the Hunt Saboteurs and Troops Out. The Sabs got a van paid for to go sabbing.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

I've also never seen a convincing explanation of how universities are supposed to reconcile their free speech duties with their Prevent Duties, especially surrounding "non violent extremism".

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo, can we get a Rojava veteran to speak there? Or maybe a member of the Animal Liberation Front?

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

It's one of the reasons I'm going completely with historical art for my current project.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

As a near completely non visual writer, the quick answer is that I can only tell if it's truly egregious. And I both want to avoid AI and the current cavalier attitude to false accusations of AI. For stuff like stock art, I'm entirely reliant on the honesty of the artist.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

What Pat Mills thinks you've gone too far, you probably went too far.

Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 1d

While we did have our own moral panics (video nasties) it's illustrative to compare TSR's reaction to the satanic panic with Games Workshop.

Mind, what did for the cited Action Comic wasn't fantasy violence, it was real life violence (looking pro football hooliganism!)

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 2d

I try and keep up with politics that isn't UK/US and stuff like who the Prime Minister is elsewhere in Europe. Have to say France, you aren't making it easy.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 2d

Also, ESOL funding has been cut massively over the past 20 years, which one would think was a more effective way of tackling this supposed issue.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite bits from Palladium are when they try to sound like hip goth kids in 90s products.

"Sit back and strap in, because there ain't no red pill/blue pill crap on this adventure. You are already down the rabbit-hole, kid,and Kansas got nuked when you weren't looking."

Groove it, Daddio.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 2d

Do I repeat myself? Well then, so doth the discourse.

Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · Jun 12

1/ Thoughts on book recommendations and books being from previous eras. Especially kid's books. Partly inspired by the complaint that recommendations of different magical world books don't work because people are recommending older books. #booksky

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 2d

I find it outrageous that every RPG publisher apart from Palladium promotes the occult, the practice of magic, the
use of drugs, or violence.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 2d

Shout out to the person defending Ayn Rand's prose style though. That's the kind of off the wall wtfuckery I was hoping for.

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck, I posted this than checked the quotes and everyone else is posting "unhinged opinions" like "Comics are really good" and "if you buy a book you aren't morally obliged to read it".

Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 3d

Calling 14 year olds "young adults" has strong "libertarian who's memorised the age of consent laws in every country" vibes.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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