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Gizmo Widget

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Social media presence, TTRPG aspect. He/Him/His. Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter. The following things suck: Blockchain, so-called AI, Capitalism. https://gizmowidget.uk Gear icon by Lorc https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/gears.html

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 13h

Crusader Kings subreddit is also good for sprinkling your feed with problematic sounding titles.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 1d

It's as much a Halloween song as die hard is a Christmas movie

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 1d

They also have a great long running inprov comedy TV show called Ooze Line Is It Anyway.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone recommended Writing Month? writingmonth.org it was spun up specifically in response to nanowrimo shenanigans.

Writing Month

writingmonth.org

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 1d

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Bollocks

Canberra Tragic @emoneconomist.bsky.social · 1d

Big Bollocks in Little China

Hanno/Ronin/Donut @roninsama.bsky.social · 1d

The Secret Bollocks of Walter Mitty

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 1d

Eve online ttrpg which is literally just spreadsheets.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 1d

I rolled a d100 to get an age (61). Privileged youth, death of a lover, build a strong home surrounded by family (I interpreted this as a found family, because they were exiled from home), stern cold guardian against the night.

Sounds like a troubled soul whose life could have gone a lot worse...

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 4d

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only KATAMARI DAMACY

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 4d

what's your ideal 40k game play like

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 2d

I need this to hit the stretch goal for solo rules, because I have no friends.

Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 5d

DURF Expanded is now live on Kickstarter! 🔥

www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

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The Welsh DM - Wondrous Environments Kickstarter @thewelshdm.bsky.social · 4d

If you love worldbuilding, What's My Foundation is the greatest creative guide book I've come across.

It's not a source book. It's not random tables. It's genuine advice, prompts, and direction to guide you to making your own world

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bab...

What's My Foundation? - Build Your World in TTRPGs

A worldbuilding system for tabletop games, novels, and other fictional settings. For D&D, Pathfinder, Daggerheart, and more!

www.kickstarter.com

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 3d

Woo. I'm the first person to purchase this.

Screenshot of receipt saying that the bundle has so far raised 15 dollars (ie my purchase is the only one so far)

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 4d

Time to play Amazing Tales with my son. (It's mostly drawing maps)

A map. Parts are drawn by a five year old, parts are drawn by an adult with the drawing skills of a five year old. There are dice visible.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 4d

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only KATAMARI DAMACY

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 4d

what's your ideal 40k game play like

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 4d

No! We do not use modern vernaculat at this table. Chaucerian English only.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 4d

It's curious that historical accuracy is much more important when it comes to excluding women, or denying the existence of people of colour, as compared to when it's about potatoes existing in a medieval world, or just how much money one gold coin is...

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 6d

Here is my occasional note: if you are black TTRPG designer and can use help with anything - design advice, brainstorming, connections - please feel free to reach out and I will do what I can to help or find someone who can help.

We need more black TTRPG designers.

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 6d

Tempted to get someone to create custom dice. Icosahedral D4, D10. Dodecahedral D4, D6.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 14d

With a d12 and a d20 you can get results for d4, d6 and d10 by dividing (or modular arithmetic, if you're cool like me). You can also get d2,d3,d5. With a bit of fiddling you can get d8, d9, d15, d16, d18.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 6d

I am going to buy Mythic Bastionland on the strength of this table alone.

Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 9d

Shoutout to Mythic Bastionland’s Infuriating Children table. @bastionland.bsky.social

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 7d

It's time for tobertober: every day, do a prompt from a different *tober challenge.

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 9d

Kickstarter United has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work week, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Our Seattle members are organizing a rally alongside OPEIU 8. Join us on Thursday in Cal Anderson Park! forms.gle/udwphKvnZDVG...

Kickstarter United Seattle Strike Rally
Our union has voted to STRIKE! We are fighting for a 32 hour work, livable wage for all workers, and protections against AI. Join us! Thursday, 10/2 @ 6

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 8d

This was posted on the MÖRK BORG subreddit and it made me very happy. About how MB, some metal tapes and monopoly dice helped a guy get clean. Another commenter mentioned running JAIL BORG from memory. Things like this make me all warm inside.

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Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to Hexperiencing this.

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 8d

Is this a game I'm writing or is it a way of working through a decade of resentment about a previous career? (IT'S BOTH)

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 8d

Outer Wilds, Papers Please, Return of the Obra Dinn.

Also, Outer Wilds.

And did I mention Outer Wilds?

Gizmo Widget @gizmowidget.bsky.social · 9d

I've decided this is a terrible idea.

I'm definitely going to do it.