Gavin
@gavin-the-grey.itch.io
Librarian, tabletop roleplayer, various other creative endeavors.
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We are an MLIS capstone team working with the GAMER Group at the University of Washington seeking input on how TTRPG players find games, or want to find games. If you are a TTRPG player, designer, or both, please consider taking our research survey: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
TTRPG Cataloging and Metadata Survey
This survey is a part of an MLIS Capstone project aiming to improve the ways we can catalog and search for Tabletop Role-Playing Games (TTRPGs). Results from this survey will be used to improve the pr...
uwashington.qualtrics.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We are an MLIS capstone team working with the GAMER Group at the University of Washington seeking input on how TTRPG players find games, or want to find games. If you are a TTRPG player, designer, or both, please consider taking our research survey: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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one hope is have for 2026 is that more folks join Paper Cult Club, an indie tabletop-focused forum i truly adore papercult.club
papercult.club
January 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
one hope is have for 2026 is that more folks join Paper Cult Club, an indie tabletop-focused forum i truly adore papercult.club
One of my favorite podcasts is talking about Tolkien! Guess it's time for another reread.
With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...
January 2, 2026 at 10:11 PM
One of my favorite podcasts is talking about Tolkien! Guess it's time for another reread.
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2025 art summary
I got more done than I thought despite various medical woes 💪
The bright blue in June was for a local music festival poster haha
I got more done than I thought despite various medical woes 💪
The bright blue in June was for a local music festival poster haha
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
2025 art summary
I got more done than I thought despite various medical woes 💪
The bright blue in June was for a local music festival poster haha
I got more done than I thought despite various medical woes 💪
The bright blue in June was for a local music festival poster haha
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I need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again
Not enough shitpost games though
December 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again
The Quiet Apartment: play The Quiet Year but the map is the layout of your apartment. The Frost Shepherds are your landlord.
I need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again
Not enough shitpost games though
December 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Quiet Apartment: play The Quiet Year but the map is the layout of your apartment. The Frost Shepherds are your landlord.
Celebrating a very important occasion today: I finally won Whammageddon!
December 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Celebrating a very important occasion today: I finally won Whammageddon!
I will not buy a game made with AI. There is no amount of anticipation I could have that will not immediately sour if I found out the game was made using AI.
December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I will not buy a game made with AI. There is no amount of anticipation I could have that will not immediately sour if I found out the game was made using AI.
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this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Here's my dragon game hot take of the day: put classes before ancestries in your books. It's the thing that most significantly defines your character mechanically, and in my experience it's what everyone decides on first.
December 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Here's my dragon game hot take of the day: put classes before ancestries in your books. It's the thing that most significantly defines your character mechanically, and in my experience it's what everyone decides on first.
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Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!
Here it is. The final 24 hours. You've helped coax banked embers into a steady flame. Tell me, what is one thing you'll bring with you into What-Comes-Next? Seeds? Thread? A good kitchen knife? What will you make of what's left? Together, let's light up the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!
This. When people talk about art that altered your brain chemistry, I think of this concept art from Morrowind.
December 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This. When people talk about art that altered your brain chemistry, I think of this concept art from Morrowind.
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Home for the holidays
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Home for the holidays
The Sopranos is a masterpiece.
December 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Sopranos is a masterpiece.
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This Thursday at 6pm GMT I'm giving a lecture with the wonderful @archaeoplays.bsky.social about how to conceive and build living images of the past. All the in-person tickets have been snapped up, but you can still watch online for free (I think via Zoom)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carved-in-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carved-in-...
Carved in Stone: Bringing the Picts to Life
This hybrid discussion panel will feature Stout Stoat’s Brian Tyrell and ArchaeoPlays’ Dr Heather Christie FSAScot.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This Thursday at 6pm GMT I'm giving a lecture with the wonderful @archaeoplays.bsky.social about how to conceive and build living images of the past. All the in-person tickets have been snapped up, but you can still watch online for free (I think via Zoom)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carved-in-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carved-in-...
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listen. listen to me. libraries are getting indie TTRPGs in circulation. high school teachers are bringing weird stuff to the teenz TTRPG club. we continue to be in a beautiful moment for showing more people the full breadth of what games can be. nurture it by playing & loving games!!! a gift!!!!!
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
listen. listen to me. libraries are getting indie TTRPGs in circulation. high school teachers are bringing weird stuff to the teenz TTRPG club. we continue to be in a beautiful moment for showing more people the full breadth of what games can be. nurture it by playing & loving games!!! a gift!!!!!
"So what do you do, just read books all day?"
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"So what do you do, just read books all day?"
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Carved in Stone: Columba of Iona, Oswald of Northumbria and their relics.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Carved in Stone: Columba of Iona, Oswald of Northumbria and their relics.
What if big fantasy adventure rgp but instead of large hardcover book it's a pile of zines?
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
What if big fantasy adventure rgp but instead of large hardcover book it's a pile of zines?
Finally stumbled into seeing the AI coke christmas ad, and I feel like it's not a good idea for a beverage company to make commercials that make you feel nauseous. Just a little advice for all my marketing exec followers.
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Finally stumbled into seeing the AI coke christmas ad, and I feel like it's not a good idea for a beverage company to make commercials that make you feel nauseous. Just a little advice for all my marketing exec followers.
Prepping for the next adventure of the playtest campaign < Developing an elaborate metanarrative in which the game is written by a character in the setting based on pseudo-historical events.
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Prepping for the next adventure of the playtest campaign < Developing an elaborate metanarrative in which the game is written by a character in the setting based on pseudo-historical events.
Last repost: This is genuinely looks like a really cool way to make dungeon maps! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tab...
Tabletop Stamps: Dungeons - Create Endless Maps for RPGs
A game changer in creating maps for your favourite fantasy RPGs. Small storage, affordable prices and endless possibilities!
www.kickstarter.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Last repost: This is genuinely looks like a really cool way to make dungeon maps! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tab...
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From dungeon master to D&D entrepreneur:
How a game-changing D&D invention got its start in White Rock - Langley Advance Times
‘Tabletop Stamps’ brainchild catches fire on Kickstarter
langleyadvancetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
From dungeon master to D&D entrepreneur:
I've worked in libraries for years now, but it's still wild to me that if my local library doesn't have a book I want to read, I can ask and they will find and mail a copy to my local branch, at no cost to me. I'm reading a comic right now that had to get on a boat to get to me.
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I've worked in libraries for years now, but it's still wild to me that if my local library doesn't have a book I want to read, I can ask and they will find and mail a copy to my local branch, at no cost to me. I'm reading a comic right now that had to get on a boat to get to me.
This is such a cool idea, and the book looks great! Very excited to pick up a copy when I have the money to spare.
Carved in Stone is officially out!
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is such a cool idea, and the book looks great! Very excited to pick up a copy when I have the money to spare.