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Caleb
@calebwimble.bsky.social
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Just some gay writing words in LA 🏳️‍🌈
Designer of games like ENNIE Award-winning Let Us Build a Tower (https://letusbuildatower.com)
@ Sojourn RPG Publishing (http://sojournrpg.com)
Insta: http://instagr.am/calebwimble/
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Druon has such a fun dry way of summing up late medieval politics.
e-reader text: secret aspirations. And now he would be required to take part in a war against his own country; and he had no choice in the matter. And so, if God so willed it, the French were going to make war in France against the French subjects of the King of England, with the support of a great English baron, and money furnished by the Pope for the freeing of Armenia from the Turks.
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Mastodon post: Dan Wineman @dwineman@xoxo.zone You're absolutely right - you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure. Nevertheless, comedy is a powerful healing force. My recommendation is to seek out live entertainment. For example. great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up. & Sponsored Reply (Great Clown Productions, Ltd.)
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The bricking-the-conclave-into-the-church chapter of The Royal Succession is so damned good. Maurice Druon doesn’t so much drip-feed you the most delicious parts of the era’s political intrigue as blast them at you out of a hydrant.
Book cover: DRUON LA LOI DES MÂLES [late-medieval manuscript style painting of cardinals and nobles crowning the French king in his blue and gold robe bearing the fleur-de-lis and holding the Oriflamme]
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Anyone who has ever attempted to write historical fiction knows this terror too well.
Preface page to The Poisoned Crown by Maurice Druon: ‘History is a novel that has been lived’ E. & J. DE GONCOURT ‘It is terrifying to think how much research is needed to determine the truth of even the most unimportant fact’ STENDHAL
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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People been out here doing “like and subscribe if you enjoyed this vid. I got a lot more of these things in my collection, so comment if you want to see me make more videos! We’ll see how it does with the algorithm” epilogues for literal centuries.
Book page screenshot: Such are, in brief, the contents of this book.  Sincerely trusting that the press and public may treat it as kindly as they did the “Etrusco-Roman Remains,” and “The Legends of Florence,” I await the verdict, which will probably determine whether I shall publish other Italian traditions, of which I have still a very large collection. Charles Godfrey Leland. Florence, 1899
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Gosh I missed the rain.
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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If you don’t have anything bad to say about a man who dedicated his life to hate and the persecution of vulnerable minorities, including advocacy of violence towards them, maybe don’t say anything at all. Your selective celebration speaks volumes, as do the lies about what he actually stood for.
Extra Klein opinion headline on the NYT front page: “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way” Governor Newsom’s statement praising the work of a far right hatemonger, anti-trans activist, and racist.
September 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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“TOOLS” movie poster parody of Weapons, featuring the silhouettes of anthropomorphic running cows instead of children
August 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
calebwimble.bsky.social
Yeah it’s been a pretty cool first Gen Con so far, I guess.
Handsome bearded blond in a Sojourn shirt smiling with his ENNIE Award medal
August 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Just finished Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, which I was checking out for the new @rangedtouch.bsky.social Shelved by Genre unit. Truly excellent. It’s a lightly sci-fi near-future story of post-collapse Toronto and a family tied to the Caribbean supernatural—Loa, duppies, and all.
The book’s cover
July 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Pizza night! Tried making a thicker fluffier dough this time, with garlic and herbs kneaded into the crust itself. Not half bad, even as a thin crust guy.
A margherita pizza fresh from the oven
July 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I get the sense that so many people dunking on the David Suzuki interview for “giving up” or “doomerism” on global warming did not actually read the interview or Suzuki’s admonitions. He’s expressing loss of faith in incremental changes to neoliberal systems, not loss of faith in humanity.
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July 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Holy shit!! 🤯 🤩 🥳
Ennie Awards 2025 Nominees: Judges’ Spotlight Winners including Let Us Build a Tower: A Mythic Bronze Age Adventure in Babel
July 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
calebwimble.bsky.social
Monster Train 2 fucks. It’s “just” another Monster Train with new cards and factions and features…which is to say it’s just about the best Slay the Spire x tower defense hybrid you could possibly ask for. Intensely compelling. “One more run” till every covenant is done.
Monster Train 2 poster
July 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Show me your…

🎮 Current Game: Lies of P: Overture
⏭️ Next Game: Monster Train 2
🔥 Best Game You’ve Played This Year: Claire Obscur: Expedition 33
🤔 Most Anticipated Game: Europa Universalis V
Lies of P Overture Monster Train 2 Clair Obscur Europa Universalis V
July 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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These two are gold medalist synchronized pissers.
Two corgis peeing on a tree
July 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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We get some billboards around here.
3D billboard for Together displaying Dave Franco and Alison Brie’s tongues merging
July 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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A few other other criminally underwatched faves:
A Chinese Ghost Story Henry V (1988) Storytelling (2001) Inu-Oh (2022)
June 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Turns out most of my favorite wuxia films would qualify.
Red Cliff movie poster
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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“Roleplaying Game Games due to your your recent playtime in other other Roleplaying Game games”
Steam store screenshot featuring “RPG Games” recommendations
June 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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This LA billboard for Elden Ring Nightreign I saw last night is almost as extra as the Evanescence trailer.
May 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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All right, evil corpos, you got me.
Colorful two-panel comic. Tower of Babel explodes. A crowd below watches in awe and terror as the cloaked Duolingo Owl smirks in their midst.
May 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Ironically I have, in fact, run LUBAT for tables of 12+ players on several occasions 😅. It's been a riot! Player characters are able to achieve incredible things at parties of that scale.
More review excerpts: The book claims that it’s intended for 2-12 players, a quaint if unreasonable claim. 2 people could maybe make it through if they each play 3-4 characters with followers, but 12 would be outright unmanageable. It’s not a substantial issue, and should not distract from the fact that this book is a DREAM to read and use at the table. Where the hell has Caleb Wimble been all these years?
May 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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And having just found his socials, you can follow more of John's work over at @johnofhearts.bsky.social.
Review closing summary text: Great Let us Build a Tower is a rare gift from the world of indie RPG design. There’s so much potential in this book my review barely scratches the surface of what you could find inside. Mythic encounters, adventures to keep you entertained for years, and an overwhelming feeling of palpable, intense dread. Whether climbing the Tower or exploring the lands around it, you have options for tons of creative, unique adventures, all informed by the lost cities of Mesopotamia. Pros Full of evocative resources and ideas Immaculate layout and presentation Extreme variety of adventures, encounters, and magic Cons The system could use some more options Some rare odd details like player count Higher floors and shifting construction makes this EXTREMELY lethal
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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A well-deserved shout-out in John's review as well to @samsorensen.bsky.social's thorough and tireless editing work.
More text excerpted from the review: The black and white art is almost universally exceptional. Its variety in design never strays from a consistent art style which communicates the vibe of an ancient, mysterious land. Caleb clearly did his research or worked with a series magnificent artists. It’s familiar yet distant. The lack of color enhances its feel of a distant, lost epoch. The Babylonian influences are felt in the naming conventions and mythology as well as some consistently vivid, fascinating enemy designs. All of this is integrated seamlessly into the overall layout. More text excerpted from the review: That layout, by the way, is outstanding. It’s so clear what’s going on the way this is organized and presented. In the introduction and throughout the text, important concepts contain page references. You might think these details are basic, but as I’ve talked about time and time again, attention to those details makes navigating this book truly exceptional, whether you’re learning it for the first time or referencing it in the middle of an adventure. Major props are due to editor Sam Sorenson. I know too well how crucial a difference editing makes in the end product. Well done. This book is exactly what I’m talking about every single time I complain about layout. With settings and rules as dense as RPG texts, you need to not waste time presenting the information. This book is how you do it. Look at the two page spread below. Just two pages and you get a major rundown of the setting, its history and conflicts, the rules and classes, your player’s goals, and major mechanics. All of that information is presented, along with references to where you can get more information, without sacrificing atmosphere. This is how you write and present information in an RPG. More text excerpted from the review: Let us Build a Tower is a rare gift from the world of indie RPG design. There’s so much potential in this book my review barely scratches the surface of what you could find inside. Mythic encounters, adventures to keep you entertained for years, and an overwhelming feeling of palpable, intense dread. Whether climbing the Tower or exploring the lands around it, you have options for tons of creative, unique adventures, all informed by the lost cities of Mesopotamia.
May 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM