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Peter Amthor

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Father, husband, #ttrpg gamer, book/game store employee, wanna be writer, Covid/ventilator survivor, atheist and fan of bad jokes. Always down to talk #cyberpunk. I blog at: https://trulyrural.blogspot.com visit my KoFi page: https://ko-fi.com/peteramthor

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 14d

Here's my link on where to find me on Mastodon. I'm not leaving here or anything but I am going to start posting over there a bit more often. dice.camp/@peteramthor

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52 Posts, 292 Following, 416 Followers · Just another gamer with no time to play. Working at a book/game shop so I finally have a job I don't hate and coworkers I don't want to strangle. You can find ...

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 8m

One of the songs going into my ear as I work on writing for a few projects. None will ever be done, but it's always fun to try.
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BlackDragonCan @blackdragoncan.bsky.social · 22h

This is a red line issue for me. You should be able to game on the cheap, accessories are strictly optional.

I gamed for years with only the core books and occasional module.

It shouldn’t be expensive

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 1d

Back when I was part of the Abyss group he tried sending us his stuff. It was so laughably bad and he was such a wanna be edgelord. Nothing much has changed.

Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 1d

That guy is such a dork. He constantly tries to edgelord one up everybody and looks pathetic doing so.

Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 1d

That guy always has been, and always will be, nothing but a wanna be edgelord dork. We laughed at him when he tried to become part of the Abyss back in the day and I'm still laughing at him now.

Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 1d

I've also seen folks run a 'horror' game just like any other dungeon crawl or whatever. Expecting the inserted mechanic to do the job of creating the horror and tension. That rarely ever works.

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 1d

I think I'll participate in #Sprawlvember this next month. Usually I don't do well at keeping up with these prompt type of things but I'll give this one a proper shot. More about it over on the blog of the person behind it. #ttrpg #cyberpunk neuralarchive.blogspot.com/2025/10/spra...

SPRAWLVEMBER PROMPTS

The # SPRAWLVEMBER prompts are here! Each day in November, make something for the SPRAWL GOONS: UPGRADED roleplaying game inspired by the...

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PVincent (Table Cat Games) @tablecatgames.com · 2d

I would discourage small ttrpg publishers from making premium Foundry content.

A. There's a quarterly fee if you don't sell a minimum number of copies.

B. It takes a lot of time and effort which is better spent on making games.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 3d

As a game dev going through the process of getting his game put on Foundry: please don’t guilt trip designers for not having the funds to make it happen. It’s upwards of $15,000 to do it, and it feels like shit to hear “No Foundry? PASS.” Grow up, you dipshits.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 4d

Don't get me wrong. Under the First Amendment, you have the right to say you love Hitler. You have the right to call Black people by a word we all know.

And the rest of us have the right to think you're a Nazi piece of shit. And we will. And we'll fire your sorry ass, too, fuckface.

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 4d

I've enjoyed Vaesen and Alien so far with that system. And have looked at it for a homebrew setting at some point. It's really well done.

Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 4d

That or they got some really good dirt on the Chicken Taco and are blackmailing him.

Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 4d

Another reason I really don't like #PbtA games from the mouth of a PbtA fan.

"It does, it's definitely an acquired taste. You have to really shift your way of thinking away from binary success and failure and embrace that your character likely screws up 70% of the time in a way."

#ttrpg

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Kate Draws 🌈✨️ @tacticiankate.bsky.social · 5d

HOWDY AND HELLO #PortfolioDay I'm Kate, a freelance character artist who loves drawing fantasy, women, and especially fantasy women!!!!
I'll be open for work at the start of November!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

A color illustration of a dragonkin/tiefling woman with deep blue skin, closed eyes, tall curved horns with a glowing crescent moon between them, and long wavy hair going from indigo at the top to pale gold at the ends. She is dressed in an indigo gown with lots of gold trim and accessories and sheer blue accent cloth. She is holding a large golden greatsword with blue roses and purple thorns around the guard. The background is an art nouveau-style circular graphic of gold celestial motifs on a black to maroon gradient.

A color illustration of a dragonkin/tiefling woman with teal skin, darker turquoise hair in a braid, closed eyes, and a long tail. She is dressed in layers of red, gold, green, and turquoise, and she is holding a wooden staff with a golden lantern hanging from the top. The background is an art nouveau-style panel of stylized grass, lotuses, and clouds on a sunset gradient.

A color illustration of a gorgon woman with light and darker green skin/scales, long dark green cobra hair separated by narrow horns, and a long tapered tail. She is dressed in a dark green bustier with gold trim and lots of accessories, and she is holding two crossed swords behind her head. The background is an art nouveau-style panel of thorns and ivy on a black to yellow gradient.

A color illustration of my changing moon Lunar oc, Emerald, from an exalted game. She is a middle-aged woman with fair skin, emerald-green eyes with striking red eyeshadow, and long iridescent black hair partly held up by a golden comb with the rest pulled over one shoulder. She is dressed in an elegant green gown with puffy sleeves and a boob window, lots of gold and green jewelry, and a translucent green and gold floaty scarf thingy. The background is a simple green gradient with a crescent moon behind her head.

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 5d

That is pretty damned amazing right there.

Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 5d

New book out from Keith Ammann continuing his look at monsters in roleplaying games. Everything this guy does is gold. I'm sure his newest book continues this trend. #ttrpg amzn.to/4n6GorI

Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games (The Monsters Know What They’re Doing)

In , the essential tactics guide for Dungeon Masters, and its sequel, , Keith Ammann reverse-engineered hundreds of fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons monsters to help DMs prepare battle plans for c...

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 6d

Quinton Tarantino's The Great Muppet Caper

Craig aka Tezrak ➡️ GameHole Con @tezrak.bsky.social · 6d

Stanley Kubrick's Death to Smoochy

Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 6d

Guillermo Del Toro's Forrest Gump.

Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 6d

Please tell me I'm not the only one who remembers the 90's being full of some the most cringeworthy and edgelordy Gamemaster advice ever. That stuff was everywhere and they all thought they what they were suggesting was absolute gold. #ttrpg

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 6d

This game called Vampire the Masquerade made by this scrappy little company that put out a gaming magazine. Pulled me away from my Game Designers Workshop addiction (it was still a great company) and got me looking at a lot of other games.

Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 7d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Yeah, buckle up:

1. Sisters of Mercy
2. George Clinton
3. ELO
4. White Zombie
5. Parliament-Funkadelic
6. Prodigy
7. The Ramones
8. Earth, Wind and Fire

Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 7d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

I listen to a lot of different artists, I think I can do this:

1. VNV Nation
2. The Cure
3. New Order
4. KMFDM
5. Metric
6. CHVRCHES
7. Bad Religion
8. Lush

Unruly Arcana @unrulyarcana.bsky.social · 7d

Define your music taste in 8 artists:

Impossible... But I'll give it a shot, lol.

1. Sublime
2. Tom Petty
3. Godsmack
4. Jesse Wells
5. James Taylor
6. Chris Stapleton
7. The Goo Goo Dolls
8. Cross Canadian Ragweed

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 7d

Okay, #KPopDemonHunters is a good movie, I'll admit it. Not exactly in my wheelhouse of what I usually like but it was really fun to watch. Which a lot of time fun is better than good in my taste of films.

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Peter Amthor @peteramthor.bsky.social · 7d

I do outlines and make notes now. Used to I ran everything off the cuff. But after Covid and my stint on a ventilator, my brain doesn't work like it used to.

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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 8d

Epic Handshake meme. "Jared Leto" + "Black Holes" = "Negative Star Power"

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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 10d

Hunting through RPG Moral Panic materiel online and found my new favorite Anti-D&D pamphlet.

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