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Judd Karlman (he/him)

@juddthelibrarian.bsky.social

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Librarian, Grappler, ADHD, TTRPG'S Podcast: Daydreaming about Dragons https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daydreaming-about-dragons Blog: Githyanki Diaspora https://githyankidiaspora.com/

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sunday. Sunday! SUNDAY!

Mythic Bastionland with Rascal, @newmadras.bsky.social and Fearless, @madjay.bsky.social

Seers will be honored!
Myths will be sought!
Realm, protected!

Playlist for this series:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

TEXT: Once upon a time the Vulture Knight and the Horde Knight ventured into the Realm seeking Glory...

PIC: Castle Bridge sketch, Toledo, Spain

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 19h

Impossible Landscapes, Night Floors, Sesssion 2: “We’re in a play and I’m re-writing it…”

Cell Sigil 6 investigate a missing person's case, seeking any paranatural influence.

Impossible Landscapes, Night Floors, Sesssion 2: “We’re in a play and I’m re-writing it…”

Cell Sigil 6 investigate a missing person's case, seeking any paranatural influence.

githyankidiaspora.com

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 1d

Reshare: Even as TSR and D&D’s early periods receive the gold-standard treatment, there’s much more to the hobby than one game and one company. But are those histories actually important? What is at stake if we forget them?

www.rascal.news/we-cant-let-...

We can’t let the market decide what we remember and forget

Emily Friedman and Evan Torner on why gaming histories matter.

www.rascal.news

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Will try to get my notes on death houserules into a one-page handout, maybe making death less likely but really, just trying to make death more arcane and weird.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, this worked really well last time! I need someone from Brazil who knows about the RPG scene (specifically Vampire/White Wolf) in the early 2000s. Anybody here who could answer a couple quick questions?

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

That first question sucked and isn't what I wanted to ask at all.

Sorry about that.

Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

No, that question sucked. That isn't what I wanted to ask.

I wanted to ask about your take on BLM's use of questions.

Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

Curious on your perception of the fandom's reaction of BLM's technique of asking players questions and asking them to describe things.

Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

Running Cairn this coming Monday.

Fascinated by the game's take on how characters grow by interacting with the strangeness of the world in fun ways.

cairnrpg.com/second-editi...

Growth

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 2d

It was a real pleasure to chat with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social about his upcoming new set of books.

"Appelcline: I was delighted to write about the original edition of Palace of the Silver Princess. This is one of the most legendary products ever published by TSR because the first edition of it was destroyed. They printed it, they gave out copies to the people at TSR, they got some out to distributors, and then — this is all hearsay, but that's part of what made it exciting, trying to figure out what happened — management, apparently, got a look at it and said, oh, this is terrible, we can't send it out. They went around, they collected the copies from everyone at TSR, they tried to get whatever copies that they'd sent out back. And then they had one person in charge of bringing them out to the landfill and watch as they were bulldozed under, so that no one else got copies of them."

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 5d

Classic Traveller: Training and Experience

In the Classic Traveller books there are a few pages about improving one's character on pages 42 and 43 of Book 2: Starships.

Classic Traveller: Training and Experience

In the Classic Traveller books there are a few pages about improving one's character on pages 42 and 43 of Book 2: Starships.

githyankidiaspora.com

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 3d

Day one of @kickstarterunited.org's ongoing strike saw elected officials and union leaders show up in the streets of NYC to support workers.

Kickstarter United strikes in New York City for fairer contract

The workers were joined on day one by elected officials and various union leaders.

www.rascal.news

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 4d

PODCAST: Tighten that half-Windsor and double-check the spreadsheets: it's serious business on the latest episode of the Rascal Radio Hour.

Nah, just kidding. It's degenerate stuff like information design, oracles, and Thomas' One Piece fandom.

Trickle-down Gamenomics

Draft dodgers in the console wars.

www.rascal.news

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 5d

Wolfspell is a brilliant game and a beautiful object.

Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like old Eppy is going to need a new computer monitor.

In unrelated news, have you heard about Wolfspell? www.worldswithoutmaster.com/bazaar/wolfs... 🐺✨

You know! I bet if I sold five of these puppies, I could easily get that new monitor. 🤔

That's an interesting coincidence.

Wolfspell on a Trifold Album Jacket — Worlds Without Master

A prophecy told in your youth dictates that only fang and claw will rend your destiny, so you must be reborn as beast. The tabletop roleplaying game of adventurers who turn to wolf flesh to fulfill ...

www.worldswithoutmaster.com

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 5d

Classic Traveller: Training and Experience

In the Classic Traveller books there are a few pages about improving one's character on pages 42 and 43 of Book 2: Starships.

Classic Traveller: Training and Experience

In the Classic Traveller books there are a few pages about improving one's character on pages 42 and 43 of Book 2: Starships.

githyankidiaspora.com

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 5d

I wish the last five minutes of this movie had been the first five minutes.

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 5d

Every now and again, the universe drops an event that feels tailor-made for TTRPGs.
Meet 3I/ATLAS — an interstellar visitor with weird outgassing, a Sun-side blackout, and a trail of mysteries.

Read it before the invasion starts.

open.substack.com/pub/playfear...
#ttrpg #astronomy

Monday Musings #120 🤬

Musings on 3I/ATLAS

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 6d

Hi, is there anybody here who is in/from Spain who could help me answer some questions about RPGs in the 90s?

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

I've never heard of Trespasser. I'll have to check that out.

I didn't think it would be hard to give something shared in an osr game a character sheet.

Players could invest XP in it.

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Rafael Ferreira 🎲⚔💖 @vanishingpoint.bsky.social · 6d

Indie RPG Newsletter: Shadowrundown
ttrpg.in/2025/10/05/s... by @newmadras.bsky.social

Shadowrundown

I. Dear Reader, Last Monday, I published a 4000+ word half-report, half-essay about Shadowrun on Rascal News. The big thing that the article does is talk about how there’s a lot of negativity…

ttrpg.in

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Alexander (Artist) ⚔️ @okaydrawboy.bsky.social · 8d

𝐀𝐱𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝐫𝐝
"Longaxe" or "Dane" axe

#axe #drawing #art #axetober #history

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

Check out World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged by Nathan D. Paoletta on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

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Check out World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged by Nathan D. Paoletta on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

shopofjudd.threadless.com/designs/moos...

shopofjudd.threadless.com/designs/moos...

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

Inspired by @pseudo310.bsky.social's character from @ndpdesign.com's amazing RPG, World Wide Wrestling.

Links to these shirts and WWWRPG's kickstarter below

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Shirts that say:

Moose Johnson is my friend
and
No, really, I am Moose Johnson

TEXT:

100%
of artist's proceeds donated to
Fair Fight,
An organization that combats voter suppression in the United States.

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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

The Ballad of the Knights Errant ended as it began:

With a bloody duel and a crass yo-mama joke.