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Jonathan Newell
@edweirdian.bsky.social
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Weird fiction, fantasy cartography, monsters, roleplaying games. Academic credits include A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937. Games credits include Genial Jack, work on Dolmenwood. He/him. patreon.com/c/beardeddevil https://bearded-devil.com/
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 18d
I have big news! I've launched a Patreon for the Hex setting, including monthly maps, fully-illustrated installments of the Hex Guidebook, a playtest version of The Hex Hack system, and an archive of older high-resolution maps. Subscribe here: www.patreon.com/c/beardeddevil
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Fantasy roleplaying games and maximalist maps.
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 2d
New Monstrous Monday free post: www.patreon.com/posts/monstr...
Monstrous Monday 3: Leechbear | Bearded Devil
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 2d
Everyone's heard of owlbears. But what about leechbears?
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 9d
Free post here: www.patreon.com/posts/monstr...
Monstrous Monday 2: Ideologeist | Bearded Devil
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 9d
For today's Monstrous Monday: the ideologeist, a ghost with unfinished political business, haunting the body politic.
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ரமணன் @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca · 20d
A great review by Tim for Wargamer about The Grim and the Dark, a documentary about the #Inq28 scene, Blacheitsu, etc. Looking forward to watching it. It also sounds like a great introduction to the scene.
Napoleon Dynamite's Warhammer documentary is a glorious guide to grimdark gaming
In 'The Grim and The Dark', Napoleon Dynamite actor Jon Heder journeys into the grimdark indie scene beyond the border of regular Warhammer 40,000
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ரமணன் @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca · 16d
Queue the Pacific Rim soundtrack: MAC ATTACK is out. (As a PDF, anyway.)
The faction spread in MAC Attack!
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 16d
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Monstrous Monday 1: The Earwight | Bearded Devil
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 16d
I have a new free post up on my blog and the Bearded Devil Patreon, the first in a series of Monstrous Mondays. This entry describes the clever little necromantic assassin-bugs known as earwights. My plan is to eventually build up posts like this for a bestiary book.
A creepy-looking earwig eyes you through the screen. It has a skull-pattern on its wing casing.
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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 22d
My hundredth one-page roleplaying game is HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL.

You are a goat girl, most beautiful and dangerous creature, and it is always your birthday.

Patrons get it a week early here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...
GREAT NEWS. You are a GOAT GIRL and it is ALWAYS YOUR BIRTHDAY. You are having a joint birthday/war party with the other goat girls and no-one is going to stop you. drawing of a goat girl what I did. she is bursting out of a multi-tiered birthday cake (it is unclear whether it is the type of cake you are suppose to burst out of) and she is holding a small hammer VIOLENT DELIGHTS Goat girls cannot die, nor suffer serious harm. (It is their birthday.) Goat girls can be captured and/or confined, but this state of affairs rarely lasts for long. Any death or injury they inflict (a frequent occurrence) happens slightly off-screen, or out-of-focus in the background of a different scene. a small goat girl carrying a club what I drew
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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · 18d
The best RPG has been made, we can all go home and rest now.
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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 22d
My hundredth one-page roleplaying game is HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL.

You are a goat girl, most beautiful and dangerous creature, and it is always your birthday.

Patrons get it a week early here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...
GREAT NEWS. You are a GOAT GIRL and it is ALWAYS YOUR BIRTHDAY. You are having a joint birthday/war party with the other goat girls and no-one is going to stop you. drawing of a goat girl what I did. she is bursting out of a multi-tiered birthday cake (it is unclear whether it is the type of cake you are suppose to burst out of) and she is holding a small hammer VIOLENT DELIGHTS Goat girls cannot die, nor suffer serious harm. (It is their birthday.) Goat girls can be captured and/or confined, but this state of affairs rarely lasts for long. Any death or injury they inflict (a frequent occurrence) happens slightly off-screen, or out-of-focus in the background of a different scene. a small goat girl carrying a club what I drew
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 18d
A deranged goose eyes the viewer with depraved malice in its eye.
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · 18d
I have big news! I've launched a Patreon for the Hex setting, including monthly maps, fully-illustrated installments of the Hex Guidebook, a playtest version of The Hex Hack system, and an archive of older high-resolution maps. Subscribe here: www.patreon.com/c/beardeddevil
Bearded Devil | Patreon
Fantasy roleplaying games and maximalist maps.
www.patreon.com
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Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social · Sep 6
We need to stop calling the four humors thing "pseudoscience." There's too much evidence for it in culture, it's real.
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · Sep 2
Single-payer, paintball, potty-mouthed, emoticon,
Palmtop, kiss-and-cry, physician-assisted suicide.
Scripting language, tentpole, technopreneur, paintball,
Point-of-service, FAQ, in silico, degenderize!
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · Sep 2
Minitower, wake and bake, acid-washed, contact trace,
Patient zero, thirtysomething, beta-amyloid.
Yuppie flu, guanciale, steampunk punditocracy,
Pravastatin, lovastatin, off-label lipo.
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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · Sep 1
MW's Words First Used In Print in your birth year is your personal We Didn't Start The Fire:

commoditize compact disc
core inflation de-stress
closed-captioned
first world problem
female genital mutiliation
laser disc laser printer
hip-hop space elevator
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www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words from 1979
See which words were first recorded in 1979. Or search for other words by the year when they were first used.
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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · Aug 15
I made a couple of little videos for the Pergamino Barocco kickstarter. Have a look at the Red Prototype as it... unfolds?

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Pergamino Barocco - the Red Prototype
YouTube video by Lost Pages Books
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · Aug 25
Aliens was pretty good.
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Paolo of Lost Pages @lostpages.co.uk · Aug 8
"Wings of Talent, Stone of Necessity" is one of the strange spells in our next strange spellbook, Pergamino Barocco.

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A spell: Wings of Talent, Stone of Necessity. Those who have chosen a life of scholarship, with few ex­cep­tions, lack martial talent, when are not outright puny. For them — for us, dear initiate — the usefulness of a certain "other" cannot be understated. Hire them from the streets, summon them from thin air, or grant the office to an other­wise undistinguished in-law. Call them champion, bodyguard, grog, in some climes kagemusha (when dressed and masked as your double); perhaps porter or valet, but one of uncommon loyalty, able to interpose a comforting bulk between your esoteric talents and the forces birthed of dull matter which threaten them. It is for such loved ones that Zacquetoon, choirmistress and quartermaster of the Serpentine Scholia, formed a potent allegory out of the purest Yellow words of Transmutation. Some will call vulgar the artist's reliance on gross sympathetic principles, but then, consider what the effect can do, and what kind of person it enhances. You must prepare materials, namely: a stone of unitary com­position (that is, not a conglomerate) to be held in your hand sinister, and a pair of birds' wings from a flitting species such as swift or martlet to be bound by a spangled cord to your wrist dexter. Your muscular comrade must be visible, within thirty feet, bipedal, and facing the same direction. That is to say, your eyes must be upon their back. You and them must perform the same arm movements requred by this incantation, while you croon synchronic cadences in the tongue of spells. At the end of this lesson, for ten full minutes by the sand-clock the enchanted champion will strike twice as rapidly with their right hand, and twice as forcefully (that is, doing double damage) with their left, so long as you keep a tight grip on the stone, and keep the wings at your wrist. There is a period woodcut depicting a buff wizard with stone and wings.
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merritt @merrittk.com · Aug 23
socialist vampires. that's it, that's the pitch. that's what my book is about merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene
Vampirocene by merritt k
A climate horror novella
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · Jul 16
Bill's game Restore the Warp has a very cool loose setting with a lot of great quirks, like a plethora of terraformed planets dating back so far no one is quite sure which of them is Earth and a planet that got cut in half. Lots of procedural mechanics for generating worlds and scenarios on the fly.
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Bill (he/him) @billtherad.bsky.social · Jul 16
The earliest drafts were a lot wider open, influenced by open campaign settings like Starfinder's Pact Worlds or @edweirdian.bsky.social's Hex.

But I was also trying to do zero-prep and collaborative world building. It was slow and messy, as we spent a lot of time discussing what existed.
Map of Starfinder's Pact Worlds Map of Bearded Devil's Hex
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Bill (he/him) @billtherad.bsky.social · Jul 14
The ashcan for my science fantasy ttrpg is public! Fight an interstellar invasion and heal the god of the stars in Restore the Warp: Ashcan Edition!

billtherad.itch.io/restore-the-...
Restore the Warp: Ashcan Edition by billtherad
cosmic drama, personal struggles
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · Jul 10
That's awesome, cannot wait to read knowing your work.
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · Jul 10
Sadly this describes many liberal parties.
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · Jun 14
Omne Vivum Ex Ovo. A dungeon I'm working on for students at my college. A few of its levels pictured here.
A gigantic egg-like structure suspended above an abyss in a cavernous underground chamber, four bridges leading to it, a strange base-camp of tents to one side, a fungal infestation to the other. Doorways pierce its biomechanoid shell, part of which has been corrupted by some seething organic growth writhing with tendrils and fanged mouths. It's all very Lovecraftian but in a sort of whimsical way, like if Shel Silverstein was illustrating The Shadow Out of Time.
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Jonathan Newell @edweirdian.bsky.social · Feb 24
Oh totally a Machenesque image.
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