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Insomniac GM

@insomniacgm.bsky.social

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Tabletop Gamer. Game/Dungeon Master. Maker of Things. Worlds Okayest Pagan. Occasionally clever. Dad. He/Him/Dude. No AI ever.

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · Nov 18

Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚 - The Hobbit
One movie 🎥 - Conan The Barbarian (1982)
One album 💿 - Paranoid - Black Sabbath
One TV Show 📺- Babylon 5

Dan - Errant Wilds ➡️ PAXU @errantdan.bsky.social · Nov 18

Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚 - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
One movie 🎥 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
One album 💿 - Oh, Inverted World. THE SHINS.
One TV Show 📺- Cowboy Bebop

amber @sobg0blin.bsky.social · Nov 18

Introduce yourself with:

One book 📚- Gideon the Ninth
One movie 🎥 — Annihilation
One album 💿 — absolute madness QUEEF JERKY
One TV show 📺 — DS9

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 31m

Looks like I'm getting sent to the crappy department at work.

On the upside I can use headphones and no one bothers.

I could use some audiobook recommendations. My current library feels a little stale.

a man with a mustache is standing in front of a door with the number 120 on it

Alt: a man with a mustache is standing in front of a door with the number 120 on it putting on headphones

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 35m

Predictable outcome is in fact, Predictable... Who knew?

a man in a white shirt and tie is eating a piece of food

Alt: a man in a white shirt and tie is eating a piece of food

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 1h

Have you met Tabernis?

youtu.be/it0M4gcqkNU?...

Tabernis - Carmen Reginarum (Live in the Forest)

YouTube video by Tabernis

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Archarzel @archarzel.bsky.social · 4h

There are remote control dongs and yet there's still no way to slap an idiot from across the Internet? Where's the justice?

Headline: It's Finally Time to Give Johnny Cash His Due
Subhead: Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took years for me to appreciate his profound,
plainspoken strength.

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 1h

Straight up Jon Snow territory.

a woman says " you know nothing jon snow " next to a man

Alt: a woman says " you know nothing jon snow " next to a man

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 1h

Insomnia and lack of appetite isn't usually a good combination. If it lasts more than a week, two tops, you might want to talk to a doctor.

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 5h

Upper image: a night vision picture of a man sitting in the dark.
Caption reads: I spent a week in darkness, here's what I saw.
Lower image: Tony Iommi sitting in a bathtub playing a sitar, bombed out of his gord.

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out the answer is, yes!

Evertale - The Great Brotherwar
The Contradiction - Legion: The Rise & Legion: The Fall.

There's probably more but I fell into a 40k music rabbit hole.
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Did you know there is an entire series of 12" vinyl albums of officially licensed 40k techo?! I sure didn't!

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 1d

Random thought, is there any music that specifically references #Warhammer or #40k (or any #GamesWorkshop) lore?
Other than Bolt Thrower or D-ROK.

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 1d

Random thought, is there any music that specifically references #Warhammer or #40k (or any #GamesWorkshop) lore?
Other than Bolt Thrower or D-ROK.

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 1d

What are the TTRPGs that bounce around constantly in your head looking for an excuse to get onto the table?

TROIKA
Mörk Borg
Old School Essentials
WFRP
Mothership
Dungeon Crawl Classics
Vampire the Masquerade
Nightbane

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 1d

What are the TTRPGs that bounce around constantly in your head looking for an excuse to get onto the table?

Fear Itself
Sanction
Trophy Dark
Pressure
Liminal Horror
Public Access

Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 2d

What are the TTRPGs that bounce around constantly in your head looking for and excuse to get onto the table? I'll go first:

Dark Heresy/Imperium Maledictum
Shadowrun
Traveller
Cyberpunk
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Twilight 2000 (but homebrewed into a STALKER rpg)

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 1d

Added my new Dolmenwood patch to my work backpack.

My work backpack with RPG related patches

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 2d

Blood Bowl!!

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 2d

Correction: circa 1993

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 2d

Geez! I remember when this dropped in White Dwarf circa 1990. This diorama was probably the coolest thing I had seen from GW up to that point.
Sadly, today's scale creep is making the Emperor and Horus look like grots.

White Dwarf article featuring images of a diorama depicting the battle between The Emperor of Mankind and his son the Primarch Horus Lupercal

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 2d

My rewards for the Dolmenwood Kickstarter campaign finally arrived!

It's been a long wait. So long in fact, I forgot why I ordered an extra dice bag.😅

Just sorta flipping through the books I believe this was worth the time.

Kickstarter rewards for Dolmenwood rpg.
Including books, a map, dice, a patch, and a box of miniatures.

Two green dice bags with mushroom embroidery

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 3d

The packing thing, the hauling of the stuff, and the unpacking thing. Yeah, it's a lot of work.

Hopefully, this will be a new chapter with new adventures.

a man in a captain america costume is standing in the snow and says good luck .

Alt: a man in a captain america costume is standing in the snow and says good luck .

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 4d

Now, this is dedication to one's craft!

Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · Oct 5

Wanna see a really tiny damp cardboard box of grot mags? Course you do.

A box of jazz mags in front of a skip 1/24th scale.

It’s all about the research. The skip is from 1991, (don’t ask), so the mags had to be 70s vintage to have been in a shed for long enough… anyway, it’s how my mind works. Linen tester for scale and cheap laughs.

Grot mags in box. For US/RoW viewers, RAZZLE has a sort of comedy element about the title in the UK, oft quoted.

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Old Hollywood @theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 4d

Claudette Colbert in a publicity still for Cleopatra (1934)

Actress Claudette Colbert — dressed in Egyptian-style period costume: a shimmery black halterneck gown, ornate neckpiece, bracelets and a gold headdress — captured facing the camera while seated on an extravagant throne, holding a gold staff which rests on her lap, in a medium-length black-and-white shot for the film Cleopatra (1934)

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, the "face" that launched a thousand conspiracy theories.

Original 'Face on Mars' image taken by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter, in grey scale, on 25 July 1976. Image shows a remnant massif located in the Cydonia region.

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 4d

snoopy is sitting at a table with his eyes closed and his hand in his mouth .

Alt: snoopy is sitting at a table with his eyes closed and his hand in his mouth .

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 4d

How mean vibes in a pinch, a peck, or a dollop?

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 4d

Americans will use anything except the metric system.

Image of a sign that reads:

20 PERSONS OR 1500 KG

ALTERNATIVE

1 VOLSKWAGEN PASSAT

1 HIPPO

6 GRIZZLY BEARS

65 LUGGAGE BAGS

454 CHIHUAHUAS

3061 SEAGULLS

12712 BANANAS

30000 SNICKERS BARS

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Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 4d

If it works, it works.

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 4d

GOAT of black culture music above an image of Eminem

GOAT of white culture music above an image of Jimi Hendrix

SUCK IT, RACISTS

Insomniac GM @insomniacgm.bsky.social · 4d

I've heard a few times now that people don't listen to entire albums these days. I feel like I need to help change that.

So, here's 4 albums I enjoyed straight through.

1. Fimbulvinter - Bjørn Riis
2. Olld Morning Dawn - Summoning
3. Verminateur - Animalize
4. The Beastuary - Castle Rat

Olld Morning Dawn by Summoning album cover