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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 4d

Heaps of home grown Aussie #ttrpg goodness live now on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/arcanacon

#rpgaus #migw

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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social · 8d

Folklore Jam 2025 has started! ✨

W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social · 11d

Can't believe October is coming in a few days, which means it's time for #FolkloreJam 2025! 🎃
Join us in making TTRPGs, LARPs or boardgames inspired by folklore (including myths, urban legends, etc.) from your own culture or a place you belong! 🎲
itch.io/jam/folklore...

Cover image for Folklore Jam 2025 depicting a house next to a leafless tree with a foggy background.

Analogue game jam on folklore from your own culture or a place you belong.
Runs from 1st-31st of October
Join us on itch.io/jam/folklorejam25

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 8d

Bad TTRPG Tip;

If your character dies and you don't want that to happen, slide your GM a crisp 100 dollar bill and hope for the best.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Aaron!

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 11d

(I still need backers for my light novel about a guy surviving a badly-run RPG campaign, so if you like my work (or posts) I'd appreciate it if you spread the word! Tell your friends, your parents, your Discords, your subreddits, buy a haunted pizza joint and then tell the ghosts about it)

CRINGE WIZARD: A TTRPG Isekai Light Novel

A light novel about a guy forced to live through the terrible TTRPG campaign he ran when he was a teenager.

www.kickstarter.com

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 11d

I'll be at PAX Aus in two weeks time running #GrimoirePunk in the tabletop hall. Sign up for sessions at the RPG HQ and join me to make your own magic grimoire and use it to steal magic from powerful wizards.

What to expect 👉🏻 mqsalmon.itch.io/grimoirepunk

#TTRPG #PaxAus #PaxAtTheTable #PaxAus2025

GrimoirePunk by Games by Mitch

Punch Wizards, Steal their Spells, Topple their Empires

mqsalmon.itch.io

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Nick Bate @ickbat.bsky.social · 15d

I gotta say, I'm pretty proud of this table for helping players in Against Time and Death decide when to set their scenes. It was fun figuring out what sorts of things define each of the six eras I chose.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ick...

Era
When will the scene take place?
1. Prehistory. Geological processes, megafauna, early humans, mythmaking.
2. Ancient history. Empires, gods and heroes, foundations of art and science, monument building.
3. History. Holy war, monarchy, trade empires, exploration, colonialism, scientific and artistic flourishing.
4. Now. Nation states, world wars, mass protest, pop culture, evolution, computation, cyberspace, capitalism, tourism, terrorism, revolution.
5. The future. Catastrophic climate change, corporate states, the solar system, true AI, interplanetary warfare, transhumanity, pushing boundaries, the stars.
6. The mythic future. Infinite panhumanity, engineering on impossible scales, magictech, dreams made manifest, the darkness between stars, the things that reside there.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 15d

I think I've finally settled on a structure for playbooks and moves that I like for #ShootnLoot2e. Having a structure is not the same as having a playable game, but it's a step... 😅

#ttrpg #ShootnLoot

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 16d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL is my one hundredth one page game.

YOU ARE A GOAT GIRL. It is always your birthday and God Himself could not stop you from doing exactly what you want.

PDFs (including text-only) and design commentary here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

A roleplaying game called HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL. Text only version here https://www.patreon.com/posts/138800567

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 19d

A clever marketer might also think about getting a draft expansion for his Frankenstein game ready for the release of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein movie...

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 19d

Exquisite

a cartoon character from the emperor 's new groove is giving the ok sign .

ALT: a cartoon character from the emperor 's new groove is giving the ok sign .

media.tenor.com

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 21d

I've just finished reading The Power Fantasy volume 2, and now I'm furious that I don't have volume 3 sitting on my shelf waiting (on account of it does not exist yet)

#books #comics #ThePowerFantasy

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 23d

A clever marketer would have got an alpha play test of the second edition of his Borderlands-inspired TTRPG ready for the release of the new Borderlands...

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · Sep 7

youtu.be/_10FilVsD0Y?...

Genie From Down Under Theme Song

YouTube video by Twisted Lunchbox - Australia’s Best Kids TV

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · Sep 7

The 'Ghosts Australia' trailers are giving 'Genie From Down Under'

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 28

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:

“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns?
The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times.
Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept.
There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.

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Reizor @uselrei1500.bsky.social · Aug 25

Black Skies For Babylon, my pamphlet sized squad command, combat tragedy TTRPG.

Each player controls their own fireteam of high tech spec ops soldiers.

Your mission? Go on one last mission behind enemy lines to destroy a prototype mecha factory.

Get it now, only on itch.
itch.io/s/69856/bsfb...

BSFB complete pack by Reizor

A bundle by Reizor, $5.99 for 4 games

itch.io

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · Aug 26

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · Aug 25

I really do want to watch that movie sometime. It seems fun

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · Aug 24

My younger siblings both made me navigate around any ReDead in Ocarina of Time for them because of the jump scare

Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · Aug 23

What was the first video game that scared you?

It doesn't have to be a horror game. Maybe you didn't even play it -- plenty of ads freaked me out as a kid.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Aug 18

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’

You don’t ‘run the gambit.’

gamut = entire range or series

gauntlet = severe trial

Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

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Andy Claaaaaarrrghhhhk, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · Aug 19

Look all I’m saying is if you start moving churches in just 28 thousand years you end up with Imperator titans. Is that what you want?

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 19

omg omg omg it's happening right now:

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · Aug 18

I do care, and I am excited, but it's so funny that I'm nominally "a sports guy" right now 😂😂

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Sailor Moon overthrows the God-Emperor of Mankind and takes his throne" is exactly the shot in the arm 40k needs.

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