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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 6d

The Dee Sanction
We have six winning entries from our Dee Comp plus a new scenario written and run by @paulbaldowski.bsky.social. Sign up for interest and we'll be drawing the lottery in the next week or so! Games run 10-16/Nov, mainly UK evenings.

forms.gle/55FtYcxMg9sK...

Dee perform magic in front of a ring of skulls, courtiers and Queen Elizabeth I

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 10h

What are the TTRPGs that bounce around constantly in your head looking for an excuse to get onto the table?

Fear Itself
Sanction
Trophy Dark
Pressure
Liminal Horror
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Oh Deer David @agentshades.bsky.social · 1d

What are the TTRPGs that bounce around constantly in your head looking for and excuse to get onto the table? I'll go first:

Dark Heresy/Imperium Maledictum
Shadowrun
Traveller
Cyberpunk
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
Twilight 2000 (but homebrewed into a STALKER rpg)

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 23h

And Happy Birthday for tomorrow!!! 🎂 🎉

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 23h

We ran a season of Dark games (Trophy, Cthulhu, Cosmic), all the games were written by the GMs and based on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, I wrote a Trophy Dark game based on the Colossus of Rhodes. So much fun was had by everyone that wrote, ran and played during those seven days. Thanks!

Me, the GM, describing the final scene using my limited drawing skills and a virtual whiteboard!

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Jesse Ross @jesseross.com · 23h

Tomorrow is my birthday, and this last year has been a rough one. If any of the games or other art I’ve made have had a positive impact on you, hearing your stories would bring me a lot of joy 💖

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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 1d

I was very lucky to playtest Cold City 2e and, oh boy, you are all on for a treat!

Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 1d

We're delighted to say that Cold City second edition, the roleplaying game of hidden Agendas, trust and monster hunting is 🅞🅤🅣 🅝🅞🅦 in PDF and pre-order. All pre-orders come with a free PDF.

The PDF is available exclusively @drivethrurpg.com

Pre-order: handiwork.games/product/pre-...

Cold City Second Edition - Handiwork Games | Cold City Hot War | DriveThruRPG

In the divided city of post-World War II Berlin, terrors hide in the darkness. The legacies of war, suffering, and fringe science lurk beneath the surface, feared and desired by former allies and defe...

www.drivethrurpg.com

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 1d

A spooky double at The Arcanist's tavern in Shoreditch on 29th Oct.

I'm running @savagespiel.bsky.social's The Reid Legacy for @thetweedmeister.bsky.social's Liminal

@12sideddice.bsky.social running Vaesen

Seems this is turning into a monthly occurrence, Discord link in bio if you're a Londoner!

Welcome to the Mythic North – northern Europe of the nineteenth century, but not as we know it today. A land where the myths are real. A cold reach covered by vast forests, its few cities lonely beacons of industry and enlightenment – a new civilization dawning. But in the countryside, the old ways still hold sway. There, people know what lurks in the dark. They know to fear it.

Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying is written by Nils Hintze and based on the work of Swedish illustrator and author Johan Egerkrans. Vaesen presents a dark Gothic setting steeped in Nordic folklore and the old myths of Scandinavia. The game mechanics utilize an adapted version of the awardwinning Year Zero Engine.

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 1d

Also spooky-season-adjacent - Moon Roads is my compact #ttrpg of magicians in the modern world. Simple rules, freeform magic system, just enough metaphysics to make things interesting.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Rectangle with a background of light and dark blue fibres, with white text - 'Moon Roads, a roleplaying game of modern magic'.

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Barns. The E isn't required @elevatedpachyderm.bsky.social · 1d

One free place in a run of @mjrrpg.bsky.social 's Lost in the Stacks tomorrow night, UK time.

From 9PM until fin, DM / comment if you would like to visit Coventry 1947

Staff & patrons of recently reopened small library have evening interrupted by a frantic visitor searching for a particular book.

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 1d

AI is rapidly turning complex tasks into longer complex tasks with all the flippin' checking I have to do 😅

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 2d

Meg and I just signed up to talk about underlying conceptual models at Metatopia. If you're in the neighborhood, come by!

tabletop.events/conventions/...

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Colin Le Sueur @byodinsbeardrpg.com · 2d

Midnight of the Century is the next TTRPG from By Odin's Beard RPG, following on from Runecairn.

If you're excited about recreating the feeling of watching your favourite occult serial killer movies and TV shows from the '90s, like Millennium, Twin Peaks, and Silence of the Lambs, read on!

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 2d

I don't *think* I've ever watched an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2002).

Up until Christmas of last year, I'd never seen Casablanca.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 2d

Can I have your 🤓 membership card please? It's been rescinded, although you'll remain an ex-member with good standing re:Titanic.

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 2d

echovore

A formless parasite that seeps in through sound. It starves in silence, but every scream feeds it, twisting space and time into a nightmare maze.

Submitting soon for itch.io/jam/liminal-...

Art: Kim Diaz Holm Design: @groewe.bsky.social

#LiminalHorror #TTRPG

A bloody red and dark demonic faces cries out from a sea of yellow pus. In the top left ECHO VORE in white horror font. In the bottom left, a white box saying FOR USE WITH LIMINAL HORROR.

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 3d

With my SO yesterday, exploring that London as part of their Birthday celebrations 🎂, Academy of Arts for a Van Gogh/Anselm Kiefer exhibition 🎨 and we also wandered around the other collections 🤯 until hunger struck and we headed to Kung Fu Noodle on Shaftesbury 🤤 home in time for a crappy movie! 📽️

The Last Load (1970) the painting is almost entirely monochrome (a palette of blacks, whites, greys) - very stark, bleak, with an austere contrast. The surface is marked by furrows, raked lines, striated textures - these appear as grooved furrows in a field. In the distance, the furrows recede toward a seam of “dying light” or a horizon under “night-darkened skies.” There are signs of the land being barren or burnt: straw in charred stooks (bundles or stacks), weeds, twisted growth, as though something was harvested and left or as though the land is scorched. The effect is one of a war-scarred, wounded landscape - void, but still with traces of life or past productivity.

Lanzhou Hand-Pulled Beef Noodle Soup, wide noodles, slices of beef, chopped spring onions, coriander in a clear broth.

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Becky Annison 🔜 Ex Tenebris is Kickstarting now! @beckyannison.bsky.social · 3d

We are 5 days into @dannyrobins.bsky.social Uncanny podcast Halloween countdown. A micro-ghost tale every day and a big episode on Halloween itself!

Fellow ghostlovers you should check it out :)

#spookyseason #ghoststory

BBC Sounds - Uncanny - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Uncanny on BBC Sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pelgrane Press @pelgranepress.bsky.social · 4d

How to Get Published as a Writer #writing #fantasy #gaming

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

Trawl through this thread to see all the wonderful games we are running on The Raspy Raven as part of Dee Season, a competition we held to write new scenarios for @paulbaldowski.bsky.social 's game.

Sign up here: bit.ly/4gXxlrw & link to Raspy Raven Discord is in my bio. Times are GMT/UK evening.

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

Dee Season
Mon 10/Nov 7.30pm

Where the Roads Unravel by me

Leics., May 1603. You are summoned to Mortlake. John Dee sick, a pale shadow of his past. As his agents, travel to the rural midlands, children missing, the plague rife, ley lines buckling. What evil dwells?

Sign up: bit.ly/4gXxlrw

Ernst Barlach, Berlin, 1922. Woodcut from a set of 20 entitled 'Goethe Walpurgisnacht'. Image consists of a figure, in a cloak blowing towards right. Small figure in basket seated at left; mountains in background.

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

A skeleton with a silver dagger plunged into its chest plate with a note that asked; “Do you Believe now?” Certainly, a trap. Which is why you are going and not him. [2/2]

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

Sun 16/Nov 7pm

Only a Fool by @jerodleupold.bsky.social

February 1580 Frombork Poland, last known location of Copernicus's final resting place. It has been one week since Copernicus’s coffin was delivered to John Dee in London. [1/2]

An architectural drawing of a mechanical item, called Perspective view of the improved orrery for mean motions (maybe, it's a bit blurred).

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

What is the cause of this sudden malady? Are there malicious forces at work? Even a curse, as Dee suspects? And - most importantly - can it be stopped? The answer seems to lie in the free royal city of Kežmarok... [3/3]

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

As the entourage reaches the edge of the Poprad River valley in the foothills of the High Tatra Mountains, the Count suddenly falls into a delirious sleep, as if his body has lost all strength to continue. He mutters from his sleep, repeating incoherent words. [2/3]

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

Sat 15/Nov 7.30pm

Mountain Echoes by @keaira.bsky.social

April 1584 John Dee and Edward Kelley accompany the Polish noble Count Albert Laski on a journey through Poland and Upper Hungary. [1/3]

A sepia drawing of a tranquil old European 17th century town set amongst the mountains and forests.

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

The Agents must ascertain that there is no threat to the strategically important port and put an end to any subversive elements they uncover. [2/2]

jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 5d

Fri 14/Nov 7.30pm

The Roots of Evil by @trebormills.bsky.social

Art by the author.

It is January 1587 and the Agents have been sent to Exeter to investigate a series of curious deaths. Dee suspects foul play of a magical nature. [1/2]

A black and white sketch of a pile of horrible unmentionables with screaming faces. The Roots of Evil. Curiousse Round Formes.

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