David Larkins
@sirlarkins.bsky.social
Pendragon RPG line editor. A seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming.
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
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David Larkins
@sirlarkins.bsky.social
· Jun 20
Vale Edie the Wondermutt (2011-2025). Many a Pendragon session did you season (read: interrupt) with your watchful barks. 💔
If you see this, QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If you see this, QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood
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You don't see a lot of wry wit on Wikipedia so chef's kiss to "Mrs Buchan died of natural causes in 1791, disproving her claim to immortality."
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
You don't see a lot of wry wit on Wikipedia so chef's kiss to "Mrs Buchan died of natural causes in 1791, disproving her claim to immortality."
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Camera movement has existed longer than we might think, with pans becoming common in the 1900s.
Early filmmakers also simulated movement. This 1908 fairy tale THE GRATEFUL LITTLE MICE gives the illusion of a zoom by pulling the performers and prop book toward the camera. It's nearly seamless.
Early filmmakers also simulated movement. This 1908 fairy tale THE GRATEFUL LITTLE MICE gives the illusion of a zoom by pulling the performers and prop book toward the camera. It's nearly seamless.
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Camera movement has existed longer than we might think, with pans becoming common in the 1900s.
Early filmmakers also simulated movement. This 1908 fairy tale THE GRATEFUL LITTLE MICE gives the illusion of a zoom by pulling the performers and prop book toward the camera. It's nearly seamless.
Early filmmakers also simulated movement. This 1908 fairy tale THE GRATEFUL LITTLE MICE gives the illusion of a zoom by pulling the performers and prop book toward the camera. It's nearly seamless.
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Returning to Ann Arbor April 16-19 2026 - join us for a weekend of eldritch horror, chivalrous questions, and essential runes!
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Event reg opens Nov 28th!
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Event reg opens Nov 28th!
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Returning to Ann Arbor April 16-19 2026 - join us for a weekend of eldritch horror, chivalrous questions, and essential runes!
Volunteer Sign-Up: tabletop.events/conventions/...
Hotel Block: book.passkey.com/event/511043...
Badges: tabletop.events/conventions/...
Event reg opens Nov 28th!
Volunteer Sign-Up: tabletop.events/conventions/...
Hotel Block: book.passkey.com/event/511043...
Badges: tabletop.events/conventions/...
Event reg opens Nov 28th!
Giant, screaming marionette? Why yes, we had that. youtu.be/iFAISCllmhU?...
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Giant, screaming marionette? Why yes, we had that. youtu.be/iFAISCllmhU?...
Okay, this one got me
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Okay, this one got me
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We all deserve a little Conrad Veidt today
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We all deserve a little Conrad Veidt today
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#CompanionChronicles #11: Heirs & Spares
A review of the supplement for Pendragon, Sixth Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc. on The Companions of Arthur community content programme.
rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/03/comp...
#reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #rpg #Chaosium #Pendragon
A review of the supplement for Pendragon, Sixth Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc. on The Companions of Arthur community content programme.
rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/03/comp...
#reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #rpg #Chaosium #Pendragon
Companion Chronicles #11: Heirs & Spares
Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition and the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Gloran...
rlyehreviews.blogspot.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#CompanionChronicles #11: Heirs & Spares
A review of the supplement for Pendragon, Sixth Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc. on The Companions of Arthur community content programme.
rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/03/comp...
#reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #rpg #Chaosium #Pendragon
A review of the supplement for Pendragon, Sixth Edition, published by Chaosium, Inc. on The Companions of Arthur community content programme.
rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/03/comp...
#reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #rpg #Chaosium #Pendragon
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I think the first edition of Pendragon remains the most beautiful box set in the history of the roleplaying game art form. Gorgeous cover by Jody Lee, innovative but clean layout by Yurek Chodak, wonderful full colour map by Charlie Krank and above all the romantic interior art by Lisa Free.
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I think the first edition of Pendragon remains the most beautiful box set in the history of the roleplaying game art form. Gorgeous cover by Jody Lee, innovative but clean layout by Yurek Chodak, wonderful full colour map by Charlie Krank and above all the romantic interior art by Lisa Free.
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We are in the final days of our Pendragon Classic Kickstarter and multiple stretch goals have been unlocked!
Back now, while you can, and don't miss out!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
Back now, while you can, and don't miss out!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
We are in the final days of our Pendragon Classic Kickstarter and multiple stretch goals have been unlocked!
Back now, while you can, and don't miss out!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
Back now, while you can, and don't miss out!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
Sounds like a great campaign setup for ACTION INTERNATIONAL!
Political experts paint an increasingly dire picture. They expect that by 2035 the US will turn into a lawless wasteland called the Battlerealm. Their analysis predicts everyone will fight to obtain Skaxx, a street drug that makes you good at karate
October 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sounds like a great campaign setup for ACTION INTERNATIONAL!
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Like movies? Like sci-fi? Then check out Ghost Show Press's "Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution" on Kickstarter! Part of a series of entertaining essays on cinema genres. If you email them, they'll send you a free sample of a previous book in the series to check it out!
Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution
More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules
www.kickstarter.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Like movies? Like sci-fi? Then check out Ghost Show Press's "Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution" on Kickstarter! Part of a series of entertaining essays on cinema genres. If you email them, they'll send you a free sample of a previous book in the series to check it out!
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Our Pendragon Classic Kickstarter has five days to go! Having passed the first two Stretch Goals, Double the Dice and GM Screen, we're pleased to announce new Stretch Goals to carry us through to the end of the campaign...
#pendragon #ttrpg #kickstarter
#pendragon #ttrpg #kickstarter
Pendragon Classic Kickstarter: new stretch goals announced!
Our Pendragon Classic Kickstarter has another five days to go! Having passed the first two Stretch Goals, Double the Dice and GM Screen, we're pleased to announce new Stretch Goals to carry us through...
www.chaosium.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Our Pendragon Classic Kickstarter has five days to go! Having passed the first two Stretch Goals, Double the Dice and GM Screen, we're pleased to announce new Stretch Goals to carry us through to the end of the campaign...
#pendragon #ttrpg #kickstarter
#pendragon #ttrpg #kickstarter
Realizing ELO predicted ChatGPT psychosis back in 1981...
I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much 'til then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfj...
I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much 'til then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfj...
Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly, 2095 (Audio)
YouTube video by ELOVEVO
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October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Realizing ELO predicted ChatGPT psychosis back in 1981...
I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much 'til then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfj...
I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much 'til then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfj...
Heading out
Plating!
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Heading out
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One week left!
Subversive Sci-Fi -- essays by some of gaming's luminaries on futuristic films that broke the rules!
Please check out the campaign and consider chipping in!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
Just check out this line-up:
1/?
Please check out the campaign and consider chipping in!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
Just check out this line-up:
1/?
Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution
More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules
www.kickstarter.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
One week left!
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Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (1985) is out the cinemas for its 40th anniversary. As a martial arts blaxploitation film, complete with a hermit master, that celebrates Motown, it's got a lot going for it. It's the kind of work I'll be writing about in one part of my new book on wuxia storytelling.
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (1985) is out the cinemas for its 40th anniversary. As a martial arts blaxploitation film, complete with a hermit master, that celebrates Motown, it's got a lot going for it. It's the kind of work I'll be writing about in one part of my new book on wuxia storytelling.
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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The new Knights of the Round Table pledge level for the #Pendragon Classic Kickstarter includes a limited edition numbered print of the legendary box cover painting by Jody Lee!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
October 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The new Knights of the Round Table pledge level for the #Pendragon Classic Kickstarter includes a limited edition numbered print of the legendary box cover painting by Jody Lee!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
From the jump, I've wanted my actual-play to be, well, actual play, whether gathered at a table or playing through Zoom, with minimal edits, warts and all. The term I've coined for this approach is "actual-play verité". Maybe it'll catch on? 🤔 www.eorpodcast.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
From the jump, I've wanted my actual-play to be, well, actual play, whether gathered at a table or playing through Zoom, with minimal edits, warts and all. The term I've coined for this approach is "actual-play verité". Maybe it'll catch on? 🤔 www.eorpodcast.com
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Is that the Silver Shamrock ad? Fuckin turn that shit up!!
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Is that the Silver Shamrock ad? Fuckin turn that shit up!!
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800 backers for Pendragon Classic, so far!
You can read RPG historian Shannon Appelcline's @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's full essay about Pendragon from Hobby Games: The 100 Best (2007) here:
chaosium.com/100-best-gam...
#pendragon #rpg #ttrpg
You can read RPG historian Shannon Appelcline's @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's full essay about Pendragon from Hobby Games: The 100 Best (2007) here:
chaosium.com/100-best-gam...
#pendragon #rpg #ttrpg
October 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
800 backers for Pendragon Classic, so far!
You can read RPG historian Shannon Appelcline's @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's full essay about Pendragon from Hobby Games: The 100 Best (2007) here:
chaosium.com/100-best-gam...
#pendragon #rpg #ttrpg
You can read RPG historian Shannon Appelcline's @shannonappelcline.bsky.social's full essay about Pendragon from Hobby Games: The 100 Best (2007) here:
chaosium.com/100-best-gam...
#pendragon #rpg #ttrpg
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Portraits of Death, the Devil and the Harlot come to life and take over a bookshop to enjoy some creepy reading in the German smash hit horror anthology EERIE TALES (1919)
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Portraits of Death, the Devil and the Harlot come to life and take over a bookshop to enjoy some creepy reading in the German smash hit horror anthology EERIE TALES (1919)
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Pendragon Classic is live on Kickstarter!
40 years after its original publication, we are proud to recreate the original edition of this classic RPG, as pure and raw as it was back then, with bonus content from the archives.
Back now -> www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
40 years after its original publication, we are proud to recreate the original edition of this classic RPG, as pure and raw as it was back then, with bonus content from the archives.
Back now -> www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
October 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Pendragon Classic is live on Kickstarter!
40 years after its original publication, we are proud to recreate the original edition of this classic RPG, as pure and raw as it was back then, with bonus content from the archives.
Back now -> www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
40 years after its original publication, we are proud to recreate the original edition of this classic RPG, as pure and raw as it was back then, with bonus content from the archives.
Back now -> www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
I’m in this, writing about Vegas in Space!
Subversive Sci-Fi -- essays by some of gaming's luminaries on futuristic films that broke the rules!
Please check out the campaign and consider chipping in!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
Just check out this line-up:
1/?
Please check out the campaign and consider chipping in!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
Just check out this line-up:
1/?
Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution
More Reflections on Futuristic Films That Broke the Rules
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I’m in this, writing about Vegas in Space!