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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX

@firstage.bsky.social

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I usually have my head in the clouds. Hubby, Dad, Papa, Brother, Gamer, Geek, Replicant. Also available in Supermarionation. ISFJ. I did a lot of FGU in the 80s. Bloggage: https://farhavens.blogspot.com/

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 23h

That moment when you decide to sell a game line (FAITH RPG) because you simply aren't going to run it, and for necessary shelf space, but then you find all the extra sets of cards you bought for it, and realise you can't face not using them, so have to run the game instead. 😩

#NorthStarCon #ttrpg

Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 2d

It's a good service. Sometimes you want to make an ethical stance and I'm not comfortable with Peter Thiel's politics. Ah well.

Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 2d

Wads of cash mate! 😆

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 2d

Some may wish to, and I acknowledge that for some, cash is a straightforward way of managing expenditure. We should make it as easy as possible, despite my PayPal misgivings.

Personally, I never now use cash. Setting up a payee is a two minute process on my app. It's hard to break away.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 2d

It's interesting having to swim against the PayPal-Thiel tide. There is a reason that service is popular and, apparently, ubiquitous. Having historically offered a PayPal route (for convention payments), it is very hard to disengage. Direct bank transfers are too dfficult for many or unwelcome.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 2d

CU has so much going for it in an all in one package.

Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 2d

Zozer Games' Cepheus Universal #ttrpg running at #TravConUK this weekend.

I like the ruleset a great deal. Everything is recognisably close to Mongoose, but stripped back and honed from the Cepheus main document. Currently weighing up whether to revert to MgT2e or stay with this cunning version...

A picture of me running a Traveller session at TravCon UK last weekend.

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John Ossoway @ottomancer.bsky.social · 9d

A section of Northern Britannia. Sneak peak of the map for the next bit @fenrisgames.com @huwbowen.bsky.social @clownf1st.bsky.social @andyhemming.bsky.social @dozy139.bsky.social @k000.bsky.social

A photograph of my computer screen with an art package open. On screen is part of a map. The map is a portion of Northern Britannia, AD 168. The lands between Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall.

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Becky Annison 🔜 Ex Tenebris is Kickstarting now! @beckyannison.bsky.social · 10d

And the crowd funder for the campaign is still live and kicking over here, closing in on £30k!!

You can back it here:

Ex Tenebris: A star-spanning gothic investigation TTRPG

Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars

www.kickstarter.com

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 11d

coming soon! more from our Otherworld acquisitions, just four of the expanding range of rubble adventurers...

three different views of four different femme adventurers - a ranger, paladin, mage and monk.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 11d

Treasure hunters have returned from the haunted ruins of the Helux Dynasty, carrying portentous lore that could shake the very fabric of fantasy roleplaying for ever.

Dug Up Trivia is a short PDF of optional rules for the Heroic Fantasy #ttrpg (In the works).

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Cover for the Dug Up Trivia supplement for the Heroic Fantasy RPG, showing a treasure hunter with a torch peering into a huge portal.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 13d

Never a truer word spoken!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 13d

We have a slow build of GMs between now and February of next year. I will periodically send round the schedule, both to see what is being offered and to see how many tables are left in each slot.

So, you can relax for now!

I'll be offering a couple of games on top of my organising.

Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 13d

#ttrpg game submissions are underway for next year's AireCon in Harrogate. We have 21 tables over 8 slots from Friday to Sunday 13-15 March 2026.

Join me for some RPG action! Run some amazing games there. 😄

www.airecon.co.uk/gms

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 18d

- Heroic Fantasy 2e
- MERP
- The One Ring 2e
- Warhammer Fantasy 4e
- Star Trek Adentures 2D20

I try and spread it around a bit.

A doughnut graph of the ttrpg systems I have played so far in 2025.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 19d

The plot will inevitably thicken! 😀

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 23d

We were there and thereabouts
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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 23d

Open Rolls baby!

Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 23d

Don't push me...

The Player Bookcover for Space Master RPG

Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 23d

Great game, thanks for running it, top GMing!

Made me look at Against the Darkmaster. 😉

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 25d

Dave handed out the crit tables to the players so it distributed the load. Good call!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 26d

Oh dear and yes we are in the crits!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 26d

Forty years on and a fine #ttrpg game of MERP at #OBaWS

A gaming table full of MERP goodness, including character sheets dice and maps.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 26d

I'm heading down to #OBaWS #ttrpg convention in Leamington Spa this afternoon. Hoping the car behaves and the traffic is kind. A procession of curry, MERP, TOR and my Warhammer Fantasy 4e to round off on Sunday. Good company throughout.

See some of you there!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · Aug 31

Are you jumping into the new @montecookgames.com Cypher #ttrpg system funding campaign? If you already have Cypher, what were the feature changes that brought you in?

I'd like to get Cypher back out onto the table next year, and think it'll be the new one.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Cypher: Faster. Easier. And Even Better!

The award-winning TTRPG perfect for forging the stories YOU want to play. Lightning-quick character generation. Super easy to GM. Unique and imaginative campaigns. And all the flexibility, story focus...

www.backerkit.com

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