Gizmo Widget
@gizmowidget.bsky.social
Social media presence, TTRPG aspect. He/Him/His.
Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter.
The following things suck: Blockchain, so-called AI, Capitalism.
https://gizmowidget.uk
Gear icon by Lorc https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/gears.html
Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter.
The following things suck: Blockchain, so-called AI, Capitalism.
https://gizmowidget.uk
Gear icon by Lorc https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/gears.html
This, but for books.
And video games.
And TTRPGs.
Oh god
And video games.
And TTRPGs.
Oh god
I have just learned the acronym STABLE (Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy) in reference to craft supplies, and it is so rude of the English language to call me out like that
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This, but for books.
And video games.
And TTRPGs.
Oh god
And video games.
And TTRPGs.
Oh god
I wrote a review of Lineage: Epoch Edition, a solo worldmaking game. Short version: it's good, and it provoked interesting game design thoughts. www.gizmowidget.uk/blog/lineage...
Gizmo Widget
www.gizmowidget.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I wrote a review of Lineage: Epoch Edition, a solo worldmaking game. Short version: it's good, and it provoked interesting game design thoughts. www.gizmowidget.uk/blog/lineage...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
I've been working my way through the @diceexploder.com podcast back catalogue and reading electric bastionland @bastionland.bsky.social so maybe this is just free associating what's top of my mind, but my hot take is that the failed careers are both playbooks and also a lyric game.
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I've been working my way through the @diceexploder.com podcast back catalogue and reading electric bastionland @bastionland.bsky.social so maybe this is just free associating what's top of my mind, but my hot take is that the failed careers are both playbooks and also a lyric game.
I love this meme. We don't use it often enough. Let's bring this one back.
It's over. There's no more games to make, no more worlds to conquer.
You think you're safe? No. A new phase begins. Playing Games.
You think you're safe? No. A new phase begins. Playing Games.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I love this meme. We don't use it often enough. Let's bring this one back.
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the people demand lego warhammer 40k
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
the people demand lego warhammer 40k
I wrote a thing. It's a game where you are scholars submitting papers to a journal. It's an asynchronous collaborative story telling game. gizmowidget.itch.io/proceedings
Proceedings by Gizmo Widget
gizmowidget.itch.io
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I wrote a thing. It's a game where you are scholars submitting papers to a journal. It's an asynchronous collaborative story telling game. gizmowidget.itch.io/proceedings
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Caligula's unorthodox style raises eyebrows among some liberal Romans.
-New York Times, 39 AD
-New York Times, 39 AD
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Caligula's unorthodox style raises eyebrows among some liberal Romans.
-New York Times, 39 AD
-New York Times, 39 AD
Turn this into a random table for your next RPG campaign.
recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
October 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Turn this into a random table for your next RPG campaign.
I'm going to make a character name generator but it's going to be very stupid and complex. Like, I'm planning at least five dice tables, probably more.
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm going to make a character name generator but it's going to be very stupid and complex. Like, I'm planning at least five dice tables, probably more.
The Tyrant Philosophers setting (by @aptshadow.bsky.social ) feels like it's crying out for a TTRPG adaptation.
October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Tyrant Philosophers setting (by @aptshadow.bsky.social ) feels like it's crying out for a TTRPG adaptation.
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As November approaches, never forget that the BBC pinned a poppy on Cookie Monster.
"YPRES MAKE COOKIE MONSTER SAD. NO COOKIES AT SOMME."
"YPRES MAKE COOKIE MONSTER SAD. NO COOKIES AT SOMME."
October 27, 2024 at 4:55 PM
As November approaches, never forget that the BBC pinned a poppy on Cookie Monster.
"YPRES MAKE COOKIE MONSTER SAD. NO COOKIES AT SOMME."
"YPRES MAKE COOKIE MONSTER SAD. NO COOKIES AT SOMME."
Moby Dick pic
Change the whole vibe of a book by adding a word to a title
ANIMAL FARM-AID
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE CRUSH
ANIMAL FARM-AID
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE CRUSH
Change the whole vibe of a book by adding a word to a title
The Cat Woman In The Hat
The Cat Woman In The Hat
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Moby Dick pic
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Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
I have adopted a pet bee in #OVER/UNDER. I love this game.
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I have adopted a pet bee in #OVER/UNDER. I love this game.
I am enjoying being tangentially involved in #OVER/UNDER but what I'm really looking forward to is the detailed postmortem of all the things that were happening that I wasn't even aware of.
October 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I am enjoying being tangentially involved in #OVER/UNDER but what I'm really looking forward to is the detailed postmortem of all the things that were happening that I wasn't even aware of.
Who is bankrolling the octonauts. We need answers.
Dear BBC/Netflix,
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond our crew of octoagents a fight the consequences of climate change.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond: After Dark, we follow Kwazii on his brutal and ethically challenging missions to assassinate the leaders responsible.
Yours, etc.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond our crew of octoagents a fight the consequences of climate change.
In Octonauts: Above & Beyond: After Dark, we follow Kwazii on his brutal and ethically challenging missions to assassinate the leaders responsible.
Yours, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Who is bankrolling the octonauts. We need answers.
Woo. Just submitted this stupid thing to a Game Jam. gizmowidget.itch.io/im-going-to-...
I'm Going To Tell My Kids Everything Is Tables by Gizmo Widget
A One Page, Seven Dice RPG
gizmowidget.itch.io
October 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Woo. Just submitted this stupid thing to a Game Jam. gizmowidget.itch.io/im-going-to-...
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We're setting up a grav ball league in #over/under The union is building a team. Go Union Strong!
October 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
We're setting up a grav ball league in #over/under The union is building a team. Go Union Strong!
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the US government has arrived on bluesky
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
the US government has arrived on bluesky
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Yay! Satanic Panic 2.0 lets gooooooo! It will be like I'm 15 again
D&D is satanic again let's go
October 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Yay! Satanic Panic 2.0 lets gooooooo! It will be like I'm 15 again
Wes Anderson's Resident Evil
Robert Eggers Freaky Friday
Gaspar Noe's Mean Girls
October 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Wes Anderson's Resident Evil
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a faction of #OVER/UNDER players (who at this time shall remain nameless) recently passed a referendum to self-impose, upon all faction members, a bedtime
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
a faction of #OVER/UNDER players (who at this time shall remain nameless) recently passed a referendum to self-impose, upon all faction members, a bedtime