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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 7h

Rockwell Kent, "Moonlight in the Adirondacks", 1960, Oil on canvas, 24" x 36"

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 8h

Y'know, when people have asked me about my dream game, I've always said a runaway slave + Underground Railroad project or something set in or around the Haitian Revolution.

Someone somewhere is already taking this on and infusing the work with all the courage that the subject matter deserves.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..."

Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?"

Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!"

Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !"

Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!"

Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!"

Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!"

Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 1d

I desperately need to hear politicians saying this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0o...

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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Chris Schilling @schillingc.bsky.social · 2d

Played Consume Me. Loved Consume Me. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Consume Me review - anything but empty calories

A teenage slice-of-life tale, an energy-management challenge and a satire of diet culture – this indie award-winner is a flavoursome treat

www.theguardian.com

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Here's one of the locations you will likely visit in GOLD TEETH, at a rather larger resolution than permitted by our newsletter. Unless you're on your phone, in which case Bsky has probably fucked it.

A map of Great New Plymouth. It's a port town - though the waterline has receded greatly, leaving an expanse of silt scattered with the wrecks of ships. Above looms an ugly grey fort and, beyond, the land rises towards a volcanic mountain range.

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Superb thread about a sad pumpkin man.

Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 2d

So today's Halloween newsletter from @lauraehall.bsky.social features this Japanese pumpkin monster and two intruiging tidbits about it - it's the only known image of this creature and it's from a *board game*.

So of course, I had to know more, which lead me down a really fun rabbit hole

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! I'm honoured! Big fan of what you've done with Mappa Mundi.

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P. Puck @peapuck.bsky.social · Jul 23

A witch opening a can of Fancy Bastard 🥫😋

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 2d

This is so in my wheelhouse it might be the wheel itself.

Three Sails Studios @threesailsstudios.bsky.social · 2d

Gallows Corner is the next game from Three Sails Studios after the success of Mappa Mundi, our debut release.

But what IS Gallows Corner? What is a Peasants' Revolt RPG? This week, you'll find out. Today, we're talking setting!

The front cover of Gallows Corner - A Peasants' Revolt RPG.

A gallows and noose are silhouetted against a full moon. An ornate border of thorns and brambles extends around the edge of the cover.

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 2d

A very sensible place to stop by. The Punchbowl's premier supplier of the things you most desperately need at prices you'll hate.

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Also in the newsletter at a questionably useful resolution: this table to generate sea monsters. It even comes with serving suggestions!

A large table that you roll on multiple times to assemble the characteristics of your sea monster. The last column suggests how you might prepare it for dinner, e.g. "Lungs grated over a bed of fried chicken livers." Mmm! Finger-licking good!

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Here's one of the locations you will likely visit in GOLD TEETH, at a rather larger resolution than permitted by our newsletter. Unless you're on your phone, in which case Bsky has probably fucked it.

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 4d

♥️ An extra serving of lobscouse for this one, and don't spare the weevils!

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Jamie Brittain @matronboy.bsky.social · 4d

The beta for this is out now for backers, and it's as weird & wonderful as I expected: Master & Commander as reimagined by Jeff Vandermeer with the meticulously researched arcane historical details of Annie Proulx. Wonderful stuff from @rossignol.bsky.social and @marshdavies.bsky.social

Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · Sep 18

Our roleplaying game:
- squirms with aquatic awfulness
- invites revenge upon King George III
- has diagrams explaining how wind works
- is now funded
- still won't pay my bills (but YOU could change that, maybe)

Please ameliorate my financial terror by backing:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

An advert for GOLD TEETH: "A grotesquely comic tabletop roleplaying game about piracy and occult horror in a cursed corner of the Caribbean." The picture of the book looks nice. Desirable, even.

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Beidak @beidak.bsky.social · 16d

bothered. soggy. unforunate. not really in my lane. apathetic. rotting.

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Caitlin Yarrrrrsky @caitlinyarsky.bsky.social · 7d

Character concept art from last year 🐌 #conceptart

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Sam @moonskinned.bsky.social · 7d

Just uploaded my first RPG to Itch. It's a one-shot survival horror game based on TEETH and FITD: waitsingraves.itch.io/they-made-a-...

Title image with text reading 'They Made a Tomb'

A mockup of the RPG setup on a table in a rundown house.

One of the apparitions included in the game. A huge head atop a cluster of horse legs crashes through a wall.

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Bad Viking Games (Rob & John). Strange Antiquities OUT NOW! @badvikinggames.bsky.social · 8d

🍂 The Steam Autumn Sale is here!

These are the perfect games for the season - cosy but with a touch of the occult 🍂

🌿 Strange Horticulture: 60% off
🛎️ Strange Antiquities: Last chance to get 10% launch discount (ends in 24 hrs!)

Time to visit Undermere...

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 10d

Fresh at Old Men Running The World is a new The Skim, which is a nepotism special, due to me getting all excited over TEETH: FALSE KINGDOM by @rossignol.bsky.social and @marshdavies.bsky.social. In short: this may be the best paranoia game I've ever read.

#ttrpg #indiettrpg

The Skim: Teeth: False Kingdom - Old Men Running The World

It is this organ’s firm and unyielding belief that one cannot review an RPG from reading it. You can review a manual, certainly, but you’re not reviewing the

oldmenrunningtheworld.com

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Stieven @stievenvdp.bsky.social · 11d

Microraptor repost time!

Microraptor, inspired by inspired by old Chinese an Japanese art.

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Sophia ⭐️ ➜ Indy Gay Halloween @smdefelice.bsky.social · 12d

self sabotage 🩸🩸🩸

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Yitanran @yitanran.bsky.social · 13d

The Will of the Many
It is changing its mask. #oc

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 13d

In 2015, reporter @saulelbein.bsky.social joined a crew of Peruvian river guides on a trip down the treacherous Marañón. What happened there has taken many years for him to tell — and it's one of the most beautiful and moving stories he's ever written.

It's Heat Death. Don't miss this one.

The River Kills When Angry

Three days down the canyon it began to feel like we were working our way down through the gullet of a great beast.

heat-death.ghost.io

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Marsh Davies @marshdavies.bsky.social · 13d

This was a tremendous bit of writing about a part of the world I do not know at all. Riveting and devastating. Thank you!

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