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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 11h

Time to see my favorite band, The Sword!
A band I feared was broke up for good!

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yes, the blog gets very little action these days. Especially since I can't sneak in new posts at work any more
😅

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 4d

Silhouette and Morag are actively evil (though Morag is more sociopathic).
Thorne is an emotionally toxic opportunist.
Mojo is just an ill-behaved force of nature.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 4d

A group image of my favorite fantasy characters I've played.
It occurs to me that most of them are pretty awful people. 😄

Silhouette Do'Strang (OSE)
Morag Bas Dhub (Hyperborea)
Mojo Tookins (OSE)
Thorne of Vancia (Million Colored Sun

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 11d

Monthly Old School Essentials game.
Let's zerg-rush the Observer!
(Only one death!)

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 14d

"I wonder if my RPG projects are unique enough" I think to myself as I purchase my sixth game that's "like old school D&D but dark and brutal!"
😅

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 15d

Escape from New York Borg.
Is that a thing?
Should I make it a thing?

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 16d

I have two copies of DCC because they consistently sell the paperback at conventions for $5

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · Jun 21

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 20d

I am proud of Disposable Future, but I will be happy when it's done and I can move onto projects that don't revolve around dystopias.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 21d

Disposable Future is my cyberpunk game, but it occurs to me that it's also heavily influenced by 1980s "Mid-Apocalypse" movies like Escape From New York and a hundred minor imitators (Bronx Warriors, City Limits, etc.)

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 22d

If I recall, Boneshaker had a pretty solid "capitalism is bad" vibe. Also zombies.
But I agree, a lot of the genre is more "Victorian Romanticism" than *Punk.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 23d

More art for Disposable Future.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 25d

It's coming together, yo.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 28d

I very much wanted Disposable Future to be a "serious, straight-faced" game.
But my basic nature got the better of me in some places.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 28d

The headline really made me think this was going to be about Chaos Magick.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 28d

anyway

C’mon, Everybody, There’s Too Many Of Us For Them To Stop Us From Jerking Off All At Once!

Gather ’round, friends, and lend me your ears! Today, I bring to you a marvelous proposition, one that can become a reality with everyone’s help. It may seem far-fetched at first—the ravings of yet an...

theonion.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 29d

Oh no, don't celebrate the imminent death of a fascist agitator! That might drive the Trump administration to continue doing whatever it wants!!!!! The only thing that was holding the US back from total disaster was the continued life of Charlie Kirk!!!!!!!!!

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks, Possum!

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 29d

But I'm finally starting to process. I'm moving closer to fine. I've been able to pick up the pen again, and that's danged progress.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 29d

I knew I was close to total burnout this past summer. But with some distance, I now realize how VERY burnt out I was in August. And while it didn't ruin Gencon/vacation for me, it certainly affected my ability to engage and enjoy.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 29d

The gods are unknowable and might not even exist (though clerics are clearly getting their power somewhere). Most are personifications of pseudo-jungian archetypes or cosmic forces.
A rare few are supposedly deified folk heroes.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · 29d

Making big strides on the art for Disposable Future.
I see no reason I shouldn't be able to get this book done by my October deadline.

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · Aug 23

Game day! Old-School Essentials time!
In what promises to be an exciting session, our main PCs and our back-up PCs team up to defeat the Observer/Beholder/Big-Eyed Chungus!
#ttrpg

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Josh Burnett @bernietheflumph.bsky.social · Aug 22

Lo, Beowulf!
This is a fun adventure, and I'm danged happy with the art I did for it.

Million-Colored Sun RPG @millioncoloredsun.bsky.social · Aug 20

NEW ADVENTURE OUT, OMG. Beowulf Vs. Grendel is written by @leightonc.bsky.social with art by @bernietheflumph.bsky.social, for the Million-Colored Sun RPG by those two guys and @kingyak.bsky.social. It's bone-crushing epic adventure!

Beowulf Vs. Grendel - Hex Games | DriveThruRPG.com

Grendel, that unholy wight, wrathful and reckless, has rained ceaseless slaughter onto King Hrothgar’s land. Now Beowu

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