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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

I think I'm going to need to see your internal lore bible

Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, first off, it was an honour to be included on this podcast. Second, I've just noticed the tiny mouth and tiny ear on the Talk of the Table logo and they're just disgusting 😨

Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 1d

COMING OCTOBER 20th!

Tune in for a TWO HOUR discussion about teaching games through actual play featuring an absolute POWERHOUSE panel.

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@friede.bsky.social
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Subscribe to Talk of the Table wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk of the Table Patreon w/ Dr. Emily Friedman, Quinns, & Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Roundtable: Teaching Games Through Actual Play

Pictures of each guest are in circles on a yellow background. To each side are anthropomorphized dice, one with a mouth and one with an ear.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

Surprising no-one, the Wyrd Science weekly roundup article is just as good as the magazine

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 1d

Put your feet up & skive your way through what remains of the working week with the Wyrd Science Gazetteer!

This week @emielboven.itch.io's DURF puts on some weight + loads of interesting stuff to check out, from Warhammer themed model railways through to a look at AD&D's horrific baby beaver trade

Slay To Find Out

In this week's Gazetteer, one of our favourite post-OSR games, DURF, gets expanded, Frogs cast a spell on you and what is better than Warhammer? Warhammer and model railways, obviously.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 2d

Shit this looks so pretty

Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social · 2d

checked out Carimara on a whim, got maybe the most gorgeous and heartbreaking game I've played all year by surprise www.inverse.com/gaming/carim...

Steam Just Quietly Added A Stunning Horror Mystery With A Surprising Twist

A stunning new mystery game is the perfect game to play this Halloween, even if you're not a typical horror fan.

www.inverse.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 2d

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 3d

This looks great

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 4d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 4d

I sure did Steve

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

Lovely, thank you!

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

Literally anywhere you love, I'm renting a car for the next few days

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

Tell me where to goooo

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

This reminds me of Brexit shit where I got a new passport and the design was SO MUCH WORSE

Defector @defector.com · 5d

Treasury Department has plans to mint dollar coin featuring Donald Trump’s likeness: defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the…

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

One of those things

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

In Iceland for some solo travelling. I just spent an entire evening in a place called - wait for it - Bingo Drinkery

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

Best book I've read in ages, it's not even close

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

Original Lonrot art is peak imho

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 6d

Huh, I think that's my old apartment from when I was like, 23

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 7d

I love this podcast. Also I read this game! I was interested in how 🌶️ the subject matter is but stayed reading because of the sheer quality of the thing

Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social · 7d

RTFM, the RPG book club podcast, is back! @snaxwell.bsky.social and I talk about Praise the Hawkmoth King, a PbtA game of teenagers, demons, and messed up sex. open.spotify.com/episode/15yn...

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 8d

Gorgeous covers

Mikey Hamm @wilkiescandylab.com · 8d

The brilliant new twinned game project by illustrator/designer Em Acosta.

Crescent is about kids who go to the dream world. Then Exile is about them as teenagers in the nightmare world. So rad lol

Pre-order here www.myth.works/pages/cresce...

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Charles Williams @nicander.bsky.social · 8d

Love the thumbnail of you looking happy rolling dice when presumably neither of those things happen in this one.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 8d

I did not. I got my friend to do it, here's a real "computer whiz"! It's amazing what home computers can do these days

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 8d

The new season of my actual play show where we play old rpgs from history BEGINS!

Here at the start of the season I mostly hold it together as the GM. Later, you can practically hear the steam coming out of my ears. Podcast links are in the video description!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLB...