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Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Does not fit into a neat box or category. "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?” Grogsquad, MUP Professor, a Good Friend of J.E. and More

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · Feb 28

Вільна Україна!

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We need to tell the world to calm down (both on a family, social and government level) so I can find the time to play it! 😀

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · 1d

I put it on my preorder list when it first hit GMT's P500 based on the work by the designer. And "Ancients" (a broad term, I know) is one area I have relatively few games in.

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I suspect it is not a pub game!!! 😀

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · 1d

"Doorways" and "Lord" are probably my two favorites by him. I first read "Doorways" as a serial in Analog. "Roadmarks" bounced when I first read it, I've reread a few times since then and it's growing in appreciation. That will probably get reread this year as well.

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biomassart.bsky.social @biomassart.bsky.social · 1d

Spotted this Future Trooper in a very early 2000AD..
Looks rather familiar to Traveller RpG fans :)

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · 1d

Book 4. First illustration in a Traveller “core” book.

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𝐀𝐫𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 🎬 @arkhamattic.com · 1d

Excellent!

Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 1d

We have a big announcement coming soon about Cthulhu Eternal. And as a consequence we've decided to move forward the release of the full Convicts & Cthulhu rulebook, so it coincides with our soon-to-be-announced promo. We also have some pics to share of the core book in print, to whet your appetite.

The front cover of the hardcover Convicts & Cthulhu core rulebook. Text reads: "Convicts & Cthulhu. A Cthulhu Eternal Roleplaying Game of Cosmic Horror in the Early Penal Colonies of 18th Century Australia."

A two-page spread from the Convicts & Cthulhu core rulebook. Left hand page is a text box titled "The Colony Under Grose & Paterson (1792-1795)", the right hand side is a map of colonial New South Wales

A two-page spread from the Convicts & Cthulhu core rulebook. Left hand page is a full-page illustration of humanoid snake creature, right hand side has information about GM Resources.

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Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 1d

Day 1 #FallAssembly2025 went great
- Fading Glory (Borodino)
- BoAR (Savannah)
- Simple GBOH
- Traces of Hubris
- Combat Commander
- Great War Commander
- Off The Line
- Bell of Treason
- and a rollickin' 6-player game of World At War '85 w/ Bruce Maxwell & Mike Nagel as players

More fun today!

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 1d

St. Peter: So ... you claim you studied Applied Mathematics at university?

Me: [Starting to sweat] Sure.

St. Peter: So, remind me ... which one is Neumann boundary conditions, and which one is Dirichlet?

Me: I am so screwed.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

A quick post to say, while I'm currently booked up, I am looking to schedule projects for the end of the year and early next year. So if you're looking for spaceships / sci-fi illustrations for a ttrpg, card game, or rule book… give me a shout.

Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · Jan 17

I'm Rob, an illustrator, designer, and writer from the UK. With a background in graphic design, I now spend my time drawing spaceships, robots, and other strange stuff - either for myself or for indie games and publishers.

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A poster, built in Blender, showing the industrial Funicular from the Manga, Akira.

My illustration, Elk Island Light. An orange lighthouse floats on the ocean, at its base, tentacles extend in to the deep.

My illustration, Deep Space Fleet. A page of brightly coloured spaceship sketches.

My illustration, ISO Grid. 16 isometric illustrations of various little buildings. From a sci-fi noodle bar, to a Venetian palazzo.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 @fredkiesche.bsky.social · 1d

Or a cigar.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

what

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 2d

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Saint Terrificus @stterrificus.bsky.social · 1d

Original AntiFa member, Chesty Puller, USMC.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 4d

By the way, my first publication was a book on 4D, spacetime, and higher mind...about 50 years ago. Still in print! And you can read it for free as a web page. www.rudyrucker.com/geometryrela...

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 4d

Pynchon "Against the Day" fee.s endless in Zeno way, I'm always half done. Weirdly close to my thoughts, transreal, spooky, mirroring me, Gottingen, logic, infinity, Fourth Dimension, P. D. Ouspensky, Germans. No titled sections, we have to talk page numbers. In Gottingen now, p. 602, heaven.

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 1d

At the Boardwalk with Barb in Cruz.

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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 2d

ALIEN (1979).

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 2d

Agree 1000%. Love the show and the books have been fantastic. Mick Herron is on my must read list.

Norm @ogskydog.com · 3d

"if you ask anyone who’s ever watched Slow Horses, or read the Mick Herron novels upon which the show is based, they’ll be as effusive as I’m being right now"

drew may not have been effusive enough. this show is so good

Defector @defector.com · 3d

How ‘Slow Horses’ explains the world: defector.com/how-slow-hor...

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 2d

Ken and Robin talk peace deals in rpgs, Cosmere rpg project lead Lyla Fujiwara, late 80s fantasy films, and Cambridge ghosts and weirdness.

Episode 670: The Ghost of Cromwell’s Head « Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com

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Mongoose Publishing @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social · 2d

The Pioneer RPG launches with Kickstarter on Oct 30th!

Blast into space and explore the Solar System - be the first to build a base on the Moon, the first to walk on Mars, the first to mine an asteroid.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

#ttrpg #TravellerRPG

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Kenneth Hite @kennethhite.bsky.social · 2d

New KEN AND ROBIN TALK ABOUT STUFF podcast episode drops, feat. the peace paradox in play, @lyla.bsky.social of the COSMERE RPG, late 80s Fantasy Film Essentials, and eliptonic Cambridge!! www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ep...