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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady

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Eddy Webb (with a “y”) is a writer, designer, and consultant for video games and RPGs. He’s worked on Pugmire, Transformers, Futurama, Red Dwarf, Sherlock Holmes, and much more. When not talking in the third person, he can be found at pugsteady.com.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 7d

Curseborne Player's Guide, Pokemon-themed wrestling, and the need for absurdity in our lives. It's my latest newsletter! buttondown.com/pugsteady/ar...

Love What's Weird

The Curseborne Player's Guide, the Green Hornet, and the need for absurdity in our lives.

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rabbitsmom.bsky.social @rabbitsmom.bsky.social · 1h

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Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 15h

Quick shout out to @jameswallis.bsky.social and their column in the latest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social. Nice to see people continue to not only talk up the major contributions trans folks have made to RPGs, but also highlighting the real dangers they're facing right now.

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 17h

Exactly! And that's way more interesting than "oh it uses 2d6".

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MJ 🪣 @wrassletrash.is.goblin.fyi · 1d

Worth repeating but AEW aren’t responsible for the ice ads, direct your ire towards WBD. I think some of the shots tonight (as well as brody/hanger etc) have shown where AEW themselves stand on it even if they can’t outright say it as a company 🤼

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 18h

Of course, as more gaming moves online, I think the fetishization of dice is actually going to get worse, because that's the easiest part of the gaming experience to digitise.

Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 18h

Weirdly, I'm moderate on this. I think the aesthetics of dice are important to game design, but not over any other elements of game design (like character sheets and book layout). Dice get too much emphasis, but I think there's more to it than just "math rocks make number."

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 18h

Oh no, this is totally old bigotry. I'm just hilariously annoyed the fucking KEEP ON THE BORDELANDS is the metric for historical accuracy. They just barely pretending this is somehow about anything other than ableism.

Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 18h

Abra ca fucking dabra

Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 18h

Apparently the late 1800s!

Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 18h

I was wondering when the bigots in gaming would get around to disabled people. Apparently having a wheelchair is "anachronistic" in a D&D module that features *checks notes* a fucking spaceship

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 23h

Dwayne Johnson, best known for his role as the Pendari champion on the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tsunkatse."

Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 1d

On the one hand, cool that this is getting larger media attention.

On the other hand, lumping wargames, tabletop RPGs, and board games together as "dice and toy soldier games" is fucking weird.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spalding Wargames Club putting mental health on the front line

Members of a wargaming club say the support they have been getting from the sessions are 'crucial'.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 1d

I love when people buy my books from @bookshop.org!

bookshop.org/lists/the-av...

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Will Kunkel @whatwilliplay.bsky.social · 1d

Oy! You there! With the face and the brain full of seasonal depression! Your brain is lying to you! You are a sparkly wonderful gift to the world and a joy to the people who love you. The lumpy lightning bacon is confused by the seasons changing. Be kind to yourself, you're worth it.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 1d

As a fan of cyberpunk fiction, I scoffed at programmers naively claiming stray bits of code in virtual reality were "ghosts."

Now people are not only claiming AI is sapient, but also that people arguing against them are racists, and yeah, guess I was wrong. Smart people can be very stupid.

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MX Publishing @mxpublishing.bsky.social · 1d

Out this week - the second in the Queen and Country series - 'A Necessary End' mxpublishing.com/collections/...

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Travis | AEW Women’s Division Blog @aew.one · 2d

All Elite Moves is one of the greatest websites ever. Go there. Choose any wrestler. And scroll, scroll, scroll!

allelitemoves.com/index.html#w...

All Elite Moves

A compendium of wrestling moves from the stars of All Elite Wrestling. Video catalogue of finishers, signature moves, submissions, and tag team moves featuring AEW wrestlers.

allelitemoves.com

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MASON メーソン @greatblackotaku.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve also purchased the rights to @bowensofficial.bsky.social Happy Jacksonville Pride!

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2d

"You're being racist against AI" ah yes more proof almost nobody who needed to learn the lessons of the BLM era actually did so

Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 2d

HAHAHA I was added to a list for "AI Racists" and buddy, my buddy, you can not be racist to a non-living machine. Not how the word works. Stop fucking worshipping a theft engine dictionary predictive text brick layer, ya wierdos (derogatory).

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Chris Spivey (Author) ➡️ Gamehole Con @darkerhue.bsky.social · 10d

👻 We’re just days away from Horror Month! 🎃

Do you have your copy of #HauntedWest yet? Don’t miss out on bringing this tome of #WeirdWest goodness to shake your players to their core.

⚒️ History.
💀 Horror.
🔥 High Jinks.

Saddle up, the West has never been this haunting.
#TTRPG #HorrorGames

Haunted West (Hardback + Digital) — Darker Hue Studios

(The digital version is delivered via email from DriveThruRPG. ) You can also buy Haunted West from R.Talsorian Games or at your Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS). 2022 Silver ENnie...

www.darkerhuestudios.com

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 2d

Places you can find me and my stuff:

Classes, monthly meditation, various #paranormal shenanigans

www.patreon.com/haunted

creating resources for personal & psychic development

www.patreon.com

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Eddy Webb - Pugsteady @pugsteady.com · 2d

Holy hell, this is awesome.

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

www.rte.ie

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Nick Roche @nickroche.bsky.social · 2d

You ready for my GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE Hallowe'en pop-up store?

Head to nickrocheart.bigcartel.com for 22 all-new portraits of horror moments from across ALL of Transformers! Finished off in black, white and pumpkin orange! Prices range from €40 to €45 before shipping, so order noooWWooOOOOooo...

Black and white ink drawing of Undead Cliffjumper from Transformers Prime

Black and white ink drawing of the Decepticon Bludgeon, a skeleton samurai

Black and white ink drawing of the unholy Predacon RAMPAGE from Beast Wars

Black and white ink drawing of the reanimated Starscream following his destruction by the Underbase

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