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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 1h

"Congratulations on your new role and welcome to Extracsa"

Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 2h

I've just written this horrible sentence: "Human terraforming is a growth area for Extracsa, which has both medical and cosmetic applications". Yes, I'm proud of myself.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 8h

This is how I play Strange Antiquities in short bursts: pick up a few things. Weigh them. Inspect them. Look them up in books. Read the books for a while. Forget what I was trying to do. Start again.

I love it. Maybe I'm deliberately playing slowly to prolong the game.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 2d

Last call for Ex Tenebris.

Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ex Tenebris is LIVE on Kickstarter! Back now to help us get a strong start.

Play a ragtag team of investigators, walking the stars and hunting indescribable horrors with few resources and no backup.

The Republic Of Stars needs you. Will you answer the call?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Ex Tenebris: A gothic space TTRPG

Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars

www.kickstarter.com

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 2d

I've always struggled with Godot. It's wonderful to act in and study. For me, I think it's one of those plays that's more interesting historically than engaging to watch, like Entertaining Mr Sloane.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 3d

I'm playing Strange Antiquities, which I love, but then I loved the predecessor game so it's not surprising

Plus Outer Wilds, which I love parts of, but also find really hard.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 5d

This is an amazing deal from Chris, don't miss it.

(I once did a "Pay What I Want" sale and got several complaints that everything was at its normal price.)

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 5d

Spooky Season is upon us, so I am charging FULL PRICE for my spookiest game!

potatocubed.itch.io/bleak-spirit

Bleak Spirit by potatocubed

A tabletop RPG of a lone wanderer in a strange, melancholy place.

potatocubed.itch.io

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 5d

Spooky Season is upon us, so I am charging FULL PRICE for my spookiest game!

potatocubed.itch.io/bleak-spirit

Bleak Spirit by potatocubed

A tabletop RPG of a lone wanderer in a strange, melancholy place.

potatocubed.itch.io

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 6d

Oh that's you! Thanks so much for playing.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 6d

I'm at Concrete Cow, a friendly RPG convention in Milton Keynes. Alien Archaeology went well and surprisingly smoothly

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 7d

I've just made a note in Google Keep to write a game called "Urinal" and I hope your evening is going well too.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 7d

This went beneath my radar, but my goodness, it's a crowdfunder for a reprint of some of the most respected and seminal indie games. Please repost, please back it.

Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 7d

We have some AMAZING news! In less than 48 hours, YOU helped us meet our crowdfunding goal! Check in at our BackerKit page for a forthcoming announcement about stretch goals! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Most of all, THANK YOU so much for your support!

Golden text reads WE DID IT over a transparent red collage of covers from The Mountain Witch%2C Princess with a Cursed Sword%2C and Dog Eat Dog.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, yeah, Lady Blackbird and to some extent Blades in the Dark. Lady Blackbird takes Keys from Shadow of Yesterday, tags from Fate and elsewhere, etc etc

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 10d

You know, the language-deciphering mechanics of Alien Archaeology are both incredibly hard and one of the most fascinating design challenges I've ever had.

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 10d

Folks, I'm closing late pledges on the TERMINUS Kickstarter tomorrow evening!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...

Post-Kickstarter copies will cost a little more and probably not be available before Dragonmeet (end of Nov).

This Blighted Isle: TERMINUS

Missing people, a new train line, and buried secrets combine in this system-flexible TTRPG horror scenario set in modern London.

www.kickstarter.com

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 11d

And, while I'm posting music, I watched this this morning and it made me happy.

www.youtube.com/results?sear...

YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

www.youtube.com

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 11d

I've been singing the theme tune to There Are No Ghosts At The Grand for days.

store.steampowered.com/app/3725190/...

There Are No Ghosts at the Grand on Steam

Inherit a crumbling English hotel and restore it by day—while battling ghosts by night. With a sardonic cat, a talking power tool, and a twisting supernatural plot, this is a musical mystery unlike an...

store.steampowered.com

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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 11d

And here we are! The latest, greatest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social, incorporating an article on the Cold War and RPGs by...me!

@ljmuimpact.bsky.social
@ljmuhistory.bsky.social

The cover of Wyrd Science magazine issue 7, with the magazine opened to show the first pages of my article titled 'Playing Games in the Bomb's Shadow'.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 12d

That's beautiful! I want one.

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 12d

This is interesting to read - most of this stems from Apocalypse World, I think.

Ronan@Thedicepool @thedicepool.bsky.social · 12d

New post on the dice pool dot com! I’m still looking at the GM advice in Blades in the Dark by @johnharper.bsky.social . Today’s post is about GM goals, actions and principles. #rpg #ttrpg #bladesinthedark

thedicepool.com/2025/09/28/b...

Blades in the Dark GM Tools

I’ll be honest, I don’t usually think about the games I run in terms of goals, beyond a vague desire to do my best to GM competently, engage the players and make them entertaining.

thedicepool.com

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 16d

What on earth brain it's 11:59 on the countdown clock and you're rewriting basic moves?

ARE YOU TRYING TO FUCK WITH ME, BRAIN?

I WILL DENY YOU CAFFEINE DO NOT TEST ME

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Coming soon: Apocalypse World: Burned Over

The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.

www.kickstarter.com

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 13d

I love Pasión de las Pasiones! I *sort of* like that, but even so, the mechanical success/failure penalities aren't my thing. I like it when having a Condition/Wound/etc makes fun things more likely to happen, in some way (which I think is what Mothership does).

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 13d

Oh interesting, have you got an example?

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 13d

They both do reverse death spirals, yeah

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Graham Walmsley @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 13d

Oh yeah, I love that kind of thing. You don't see it much these days.

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