Seyed P. Razavi (aka Syd)
@monkeyx.bsky.social
This is my rocket 🚀
This is my gun 🔫
I use this site 🦋
Mostly for fun 😜
https://blog.srazavi.com/
https://poems.prazavi.com/
https://blog.monkeyx.games/
This is my gun 🔫
I use this site 🦋
Mostly for fun 😜
https://blog.srazavi.com/
https://poems.prazavi.com/
https://blog.monkeyx.games/
And we're done! Another successful event.. and our first using Square Based Comp.
Overall Winner - Adam
Best General - Malik
1st Runner Up - Alex
2nd Runner Up - Reece
Coolest Army - Adam
Best Sport - Lewis
Better Dice Next Time - Jonathan
Overall Winner - Adam
Best General - Malik
1st Runner Up - Alex
2nd Runner Up - Reece
Coolest Army - Adam
Best Sport - Lewis
Better Dice Next Time - Jonathan
January 10, 2026 at 8:12 PM
And we're done! Another successful event.. and our first using Square Based Comp.
Overall Winner - Adam
Best General - Malik
1st Runner Up - Alex
2nd Runner Up - Reece
Coolest Army - Adam
Best Sport - Lewis
Better Dice Next Time - Jonathan
Overall Winner - Adam
Best General - Malik
1st Runner Up - Alex
2nd Runner Up - Reece
Coolest Army - Adam
Best Sport - Lewis
Better Dice Next Time - Jonathan
More pics from round 3
January 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
More pics from round 3
Final round - A Chance Encounter. Current placings and top tables.
January 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Final round - A Chance Encounter. Current placings and top tables.
Round 2 - Encirclement
January 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Round 2 - Encirclement
More cool armies on display! 2/2
January 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
More cool armies on display! 2/2
Some cool armies on display 1/2
January 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Some cool armies on display 1/2
It's the ninth War in the Old World @badmooncafe.bsky.social - the one day tournament I've had the pleasure to organise for the past 2 years.
Lovely full house of happy Old Worlders
Lovely full house of happy Old Worlders
January 10, 2026 at 11:46 AM
It's the ninth War in the Old World @badmooncafe.bsky.social - the one day tournament I've had the pleasure to organise for the past 2 years.
Lovely full house of happy Old Worlders
Lovely full house of happy Old Worlders
January is off to a decent start TTRPG wise.
Yesterday = Session Zero for the Children of Fear campaign that I've been planning for a few months.
Today = GMing Delta Green A Victim of the Art (first of two sessions)
Tomorrow = Back to playing in Mythic Bastionland
Yesterday = Session Zero for the Children of Fear campaign that I've been planning for a few months.
Today = GMing Delta Green A Victim of the Art (first of two sessions)
Tomorrow = Back to playing in Mythic Bastionland
January 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
January is off to a decent start TTRPG wise.
Yesterday = Session Zero for the Children of Fear campaign that I've been planning for a few months.
Today = GMing Delta Green A Victim of the Art (first of two sessions)
Tomorrow = Back to playing in Mythic Bastionland
Yesterday = Session Zero for the Children of Fear campaign that I've been planning for a few months.
Today = GMing Delta Green A Victim of the Art (first of two sessions)
Tomorrow = Back to playing in Mythic Bastionland
Watched the last Stranger Things.. I felt emotionally satisfied to bring it to a close.
Campaign endings are hard. Now I don't need to read the discourse to know it will skew towards negativity immediately but I think this will age well.
Campaign endings are hard. Now I don't need to read the discourse to know it will skew towards negativity immediately but I think this will age well.
January 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Watched the last Stranger Things.. I felt emotionally satisfied to bring it to a close.
Campaign endings are hard. Now I don't need to read the discourse to know it will skew towards negativity immediately but I think this will age well.
Campaign endings are hard. Now I don't need to read the discourse to know it will skew towards negativity immediately but I think this will age well.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
December 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
It's been a relaxing year of reading. The days of reading on average 2-3 books a week are gone as I relax from the philosophy and into leisurely reading.
Top categories were science fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction. I don't track TTRPG books on Goodreads otherwise reckon that'd be win.
Top categories were science fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction. I don't track TTRPG books on Goodreads otherwise reckon that'd be win.
December 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's been a relaxing year of reading. The days of reading on average 2-3 books a week are gone as I relax from the philosophy and into leisurely reading.
Top categories were science fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction. I don't track TTRPG books on Goodreads otherwise reckon that'd be win.
Top categories were science fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction. I don't track TTRPG books on Goodreads otherwise reckon that'd be win.
Excited to read this from @ickbat.bsky.social
Layout + art are hitting the spot. The theme is derived from one of the best novellas I've read in recent years.
Never played an epistolary RPG before (although no stranger to pbp) so going to be interesting finding a collaborator to dive into this.
Layout + art are hitting the spot. The theme is derived from one of the best novellas I've read in recent years.
Never played an epistolary RPG before (although no stranger to pbp) so going to be interesting finding a collaborator to dive into this.
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Excited to read this from @ickbat.bsky.social
Layout + art are hitting the spot. The theme is derived from one of the best novellas I've read in recent years.
Never played an epistolary RPG before (although no stranger to pbp) so going to be interesting finding a collaborator to dive into this.
Layout + art are hitting the spot. The theme is derived from one of the best novellas I've read in recent years.
Never played an epistolary RPG before (although no stranger to pbp) so going to be interesting finding a collaborator to dive into this.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Sometimes VTTs feel like they’ve taken us backwards. Gorgeous maps, animated tokens, chunky automation… and somehow I’m less in the scene than when we used badly drawn dungeon maps on scrap paper. 1/10
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Sometimes VTTs feel like they’ve taken us backwards. Gorgeous maps, animated tokens, chunky automation… and somehow I’m less in the scene than when we used badly drawn dungeon maps on scrap paper. 1/10
On this gray Saturday afternoon, with the kids and misses otherwise occupied, I'm having an enjoyable re-read through @wyrdscience.bsky.social mack catalogue before I get to the latest issue that arrived the other day.
November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
On this gray Saturday afternoon, with the kids and misses otherwise occupied, I'm having an enjoyable re-read through @wyrdscience.bsky.social mack catalogue before I get to the latest issue that arrived the other day.
What does it say about RPGs that a 2011 game still owns my spare time? Maybe tech moved on, budgets exploded… but design got anxious. Until someone makes “Skyrim but unhinged,” I’ll keep telling myself I’m done… then reinstall. 10/10
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What does it say about RPGs that a 2011 game still owns my spare time? Maybe tech moved on, budgets exploded… but design got anxious. Until someone makes “Skyrim but unhinged,” I’ll keep telling myself I’m done… then reinstall. 10/10
Skyrim’s real secret sauce is jank + mods. It shipped as a meme generator, then the modders turned it into six different games, including “Ultra Hardcore Survival” and “I Live In Riften And Just Fish.” That’s replayability. 8/10
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Skyrim’s real secret sauce is jank + mods. It shipped as a meme generator, then the modders turned it into six different games, including “Ultra Hardcore Survival” and “I Live In Riften And Just Fish.” That’s replayability. 8/10
Other games got close. Witcher 3 nails story but Geralt is Geralt. Elden Ring nails exploration but hates pause menus. Dragon’s Dogma has brilliant combat but a tiny theatre. None quite say: “Live here, break things, it’s fine.” 5/10
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Other games got close. Witcher 3 nails story but Geralt is Geralt. Elden Ring nails exploration but hates pause menus. Dragon’s Dogma has brilliant combat but a tiny theatre. None quite say: “Live here, break things, it’s fine.” 5/10
The tragedy: Skyrim’s freedom eventually runs into Skyrim’s combat scaling. At hour 20 I’m a demigod, but every bandit is too. Power fantasy slowly becomes foam-sword LARP where everything is spongy and nothing is scary. 3/10
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The tragedy: Skyrim’s freedom eventually runs into Skyrim’s combat scaling. At hour 20 I’m a demigod, but every bandit is too. Power fantasy slowly becomes foam-sword LARP where everything is spongy and nothing is scary. 3/10
Fourteen years after Skyrim launched and there’s still nothing quite like spending 300+ hours in it, finishing every guild, the DLCs, and sixteen cheese collection side-quests… but somehow never the main quest or the civil war. 1/10
November 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Fourteen years after Skyrim launched and there’s still nothing quite like spending 300+ hours in it, finishing every guild, the DLCs, and sixteen cheese collection side-quests… but somehow never the main quest or the civil war. 1/10
I've gone on a TTRPG reading splurge. Come to the conclusion: TTRPG hobby in 2025: we don’t have “a game,” we have a backlog. Steam, but for feelings. We run a campaign, think seriously about a second, & own PDFs for about forty-seven more we “might” play when time and friends stop being finite. 1/8
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I've gone on a TTRPG reading splurge. Come to the conclusion: TTRPG hobby in 2025: we don’t have “a game,” we have a backlog. Steam, but for feelings. We run a campaign, think seriously about a second, & own PDFs for about forty-seven more we “might” play when time and friends stop being finite. 1/8
Early autumn is the most beautiful time of the year
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Early autumn is the most beautiful time of the year
Cold City (2e): first impressions after a quick read.
Rules-light chassis with a GM dice economy for pacing:
d10 opposed pools, 1950 Berlin pressure cooker, Trust & Hidden Agendas fuel classy spy-betrayal, and fallout is tracked as Consequences.
Here’s what jumped out at me: (1/14)
Rules-light chassis with a GM dice economy for pacing:
d10 opposed pools, 1950 Berlin pressure cooker, Trust & Hidden Agendas fuel classy spy-betrayal, and fallout is tracked as Consequences.
Here’s what jumped out at me: (1/14)
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Cold City (2e): first impressions after a quick read.
Rules-light chassis with a GM dice economy for pacing:
d10 opposed pools, 1950 Berlin pressure cooker, Trust & Hidden Agendas fuel classy spy-betrayal, and fallout is tracked as Consequences.
Here’s what jumped out at me: (1/14)
Rules-light chassis with a GM dice economy for pacing:
d10 opposed pools, 1950 Berlin pressure cooker, Trust & Hidden Agendas fuel classy spy-betrayal, and fallout is tracked as Consequences.
Here’s what jumped out at me: (1/14)
A quick read of the Invincible quick start and keen to get a group together to play the scenario included. Superhero throw-downs that feel like comic panels getting ripped off the page mid-punch. 1/
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A quick read of the Invincible quick start and keen to get a group together to play the scenario included. Superhero throw-downs that feel like comic panels getting ripped off the page mid-punch. 1/