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FriendlyFiend
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Telly writer, story editor and geek. This is my account for the geeky stuff, especially TTRPGs. You may know me from my other roleplaying accounts, @FriendlyFiend on Mastodon, GeorgeP on assorted Discords, or from telly things I write/story edit.
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evilgaz.bsky.social
This time on Unconventional GMs we have high pulp Star Wars action using Outgunned. WiIl my Daft Punk-inspired rewired Protocol Droid make it through to the end? Guest appearance from @thirdfloorwars.bsky.social Third Floor Wars too!

youtu.be/tqslZvviI-I?...

#TwoLittleMice #StarWard #TTRPGs #ttrpg
Outgunned : One Shot | Tatooine Manhunt | Star Wars | Actual Play
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January 17, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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rotatingwobblyhat.bsky.social
If anyone wants to sup a heady cocktail of ‘Wow, amazing what you can do when you have the skills’ and ‘Why the HELL would anyone do this?’ someone’s done Elite in Teletext Mode 7. And playable, although ‘with understandable limitations’.
January 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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carlmaxim.bsky.social
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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bonhomiegames.bsky.social
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d
This might well become a thread.

I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'
An intriguing door in a very posh but non-smug non-judgemental old wall. A door in an old wall leading to a garden where you can bet there is a fucking crazy party happening An old door in an old wall which is so arrogantly great, it’s almost disgusting. Some dickhead had better not try to paint this great messed up old door in an even older wall or I am going over there with some people I know, and I am not kidding.
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
it’s weird how the international conservative conspiracy is everywhere a traitor to its host country
January 16, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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handiworkgames.bsky.social
Wake up babe, a load of our PDFs are half price at @drivethrurpg.com now! a|state, Maskwitches…

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
The cover to a|state second edition showing an intense looking fellow staring out at us. In the background a group of tiny troublemakers look like they might cause some trouble. The cover to Strange Little Girl vs Cheesed Off for a|state showing telegraph poles on the mist. One is one fire. In the distance a strange little girl is running. The cover to Maskwitches, showing a dog skull headed Maskwitch. The cover to To The Ice Caves for Maskwitches showing a model set of a cliff edge with a cave entrance in the middle of it. Snow, pine trees.
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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nickharkaway.com
I am (in general) concerned that storytellers in my cluster are taking old, relatively idealistic stories and reframing them as tarnished and nasty under the impression that makes them more meaningful, when impossible dreams have never been more precious in my lifetime.
January 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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thegrognardfiles.bsky.social
A note for your diary. Virtual GROGMEET 17 - 19th April. Hey up! I must be gaming.
Poster for virtual GROGMEET 17th - 19th April
January 15, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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kierongillen.bsky.social
This is lovely, but I laughed that it crossed my dash today, when I had written this sentence earlier. It's one of the NPC profiles for DIE RPG.
If you follow the rules of having a good time, with sufficient precision and attention to detail, you can ensure that no-one has a good time.
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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alliereadsxsmut.com
to my friends who run/have discord servers, ban these AI bots immediately.

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TO ANYONE WHO USES DISCORD- FOUR AI SCRAPING BOTS HAVE BEEN SECRETLY ADDED TO YOUR SERVERS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT
Saw this going around and tested it myself, and I can confirm that this is unfortunately legit. Four hidden bots have been placed in any existing or newly created Discord server that are harvesting...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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gralefrit.bsky.social
“Oh. Look. All this stuff comes out of my phone. Look. That’s nice. No further questions.”

— Media Studies, 2026
January 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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standplaatskrk.pl
visenyaism on tumblr: "Honestly fuck A1 for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant"
January 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM
friendlyfiendish.bsky.social
New candidate for #Dungroggin? - Only £750K (plus, er, *£10 million refurb costs* !!! Right, well, maybe not, then).

www.onthemarket.com/details/1774...
Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, PH43 20 bed detached house for sale - £750,000
Savills - Edinburgh present this 20 bedroom detached house for sale in Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, PH43
www.onthemarket.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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jwmuk.bsky.social
A social experiment.

IF you have the John Carter of Mars #ttrpg please comment below if you played/ran it & what you thought of it.

I'll go first...

I got the core stuff for £15 in a sale, I played one game, which was a lot of fun, before deciding that the 2d20 isn't the system for me.
John Carter of Mars RPG, featuring a desert scene with a middle eastern styled city in the background and in the foreground the titular John Carter blasting green skinned, tusked aliens.
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Just sharing this Niels classic again:
January 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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drgonzo123.bsky.social
Since someone asked, here are some (hopefully) more Tolkien-y feeling #TTRPG rules I wrote which I've been using, avoiding the hyper-focus on combat. I dearly love #TheOneRing (we ran a game for years), and I wrote these rules to try and create tales more in line with Professor #Tolkien.

Cheers!
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January 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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ccsewell.bsky.social
@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best
Stephen Collins comic on Twitter addiction
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
“What the hell kind of Christian is this guy anyway?”

From the new Private Eye, out now.
January 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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fenrisgames.com
More relevant than ever, and by popular demand: another LIMITED run of our Antifa miniatures shirt courtesy of SlowDeath Games. Available in red or black and several sizes.

Only in the shop for a couple of weeks so nobody's waiting forever for these to arrive. Grab yours now, terrorists!
Red tee shirt with the antifa flag logo formed from black and red hands holding paintbrushes. the text surrounding the symbol says "Love Miniatures, Hate fascism".
January 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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indiegamereadingclub.com
And here's the ap, just an absolutely gorgeous run:
Actual Play: a|state (part 1 of 9)
I produce a lot of content almost every day at the Indie Game Reading Club Slack. This is a collection of my actual play reports from our big a|state campaign I ran earlier in the year. I’ve …
www.indiegamereadingclub.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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handiworkgames.bsky.social
If you want to take the Trouble Engine for a spin you can get the a|state second edition pdf here: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3935...
a|state Second Edition - Handiwork Games | A||state | DriveThruRPG
Step inside a baroque urban nightmare, the world of a|state. In The City you’ll fight off threats to your canalside home, trying to make this grim and haunted place safer and better, somehow. a|state...
www.drivethrurpg.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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kierongillen.bsky.social
The essay in this one is fun, I think. Meta advice on what advice does.
January 8, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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4ppress.bsky.social
Holy fuck. Well one thing is sure, no women will buy anything from @warlordgames.com. Asshole.
And before Bexit I did buy some models from them. Never again.
Did I mention 4P Press offers some lovely STL files of model ships and WWI planes, while providing a nice array of rules to cover such?😊
kitbashcat.bsky.social Kitbashcat @kitbashcat.bsky.social · 10d
For reference:
January 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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scarredforlife.bsky.social
Letraset's ACTION TRANSFERS are a perennial Scarred For Life favourite, allowing kids to recreate their favourite moments from films, TV shows, comics, and, erm, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906...
January 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM