HOT TAKE: Dungeons & Comedians have the best show art of the entire #DnD actual play scene, globally.

the best solution to the continuity issue is for the new James Bond to look right down the camera and wink and say "this is all pretend"

just saw a guy drive past with a wooden pallet on the roof of his car. the pallet was secured by: his arm going out the driver's side window and holding it wild

New Zealand mentioned! Oh no, no that’s not a great way to be mentioned

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Somehow, Bond has returned

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I never do sales, but I'm doing a big Christmas sale this year! Shop #kikorangi local, support an artist, and give unique gifts that always hit with their recipient! Get in and snag bundle deals, marked down tees, and restocked items that were previously sold out: pepperraccoon.com/collections/...

Great summary of #FiveEvil Fiendish 5E Horror, with some nice jokes in there! And the pre-order has just now tipped over into actual-order! Get it right now from Handiwork Games!

Bendis back at Marvel Comics + Jessica Jones back in the MCU = new Alias series?

Incredibly Tim “the worst Davie” Davie has managed to make his resignation from BBC director general even more frustrating than all the shitty things he did in the role

Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...

Pretty sure like there’s a dungeon design lesson here for DnD folks

I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but.... Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

I've really enjoyed adding my own twists onto @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's setting and @fromthemorgue.bsky.social's mechanics. Cheers to Jon and the team for having me on board to do so. There's so much I want to say about hope & struggle in cities, and will do as soon as the project is done!

Dungeness & Dragons

The WAC is a hugely important resource for historians (I've made extensive use of it on multiple projects) and these hugely significant changes are an effective bar on access.

Awwww yeah!!

Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

The desire for Lore is how you get "the Space Jockey from Alien is part of a race called Engineers who made all life on Earth and they don't like humans any more because they killed Jesus who is half Engineer."

I finally found the time to have a deep read through of Cold City 2e from @handiworkgames.bsky.social (after a skim on release). One thing I am particularly loving about the new edition is the footnotes added by the now professional historian @malcolmcraig.bsky.social. 1/?

Yay!!

It's one of the great mysteries of life: why have 15-minute demos been forgotten/memory-holed/discarded as chaff unto the pitiless winds? They worked brilliantly on multiple levels: as intros to RPG/intros to new games/as a sales tool/etc.

I would go further than that. Back in the Collective Endeavour days we very successfully used 15-min demos that distilled games to their core experience. People loved them, as they very quickly got a feel for whether or not the game was for them. Taking that into the wider world would be a winner.

Fantastic news. The Green Party needs a strong, smart CoS to be at its best. Yay! #nzpol

Back in stock - it’s The Hermit’s Sanctuary print book. This one was double ENnie-nommed! Grab some form of 5e rules and this book gives you else everyone you need to play a BEOWULF adventure! The PDF version is absolutely free and there’s a link at our store: handiwork.games/product/beow...

It’s another really excellent run down of one of our games from Seyed! Well worth your time.

FAFO, cutie patootie version

A mayoral election in the US shouldn’t actually have any significance for our little nation on the far side of the world, But it materially does, so, fuck yes more please

some grand theory of the humours where you need to be 25% dead rats to be balanced

The Pantheon of Plastic, Shirley Henderson edition @fromthemorgue.bsky.social

ok to any Edinburgh publicans or anyone interested in a model of their house/business i want to big up a local artist that done amazing stuff for me for over 25yrs. He does painting as well but his latest thing is amazing model work

Psssttttt... ...yes, you! As of this evening I have completed the text for #HotWar 2nd edition. It's now off for editing, then layout, with the great team at @handiworkgames.bsky.social. Just wait until your see it!

The govt’s plan to push the Treaty of Waitangi to the edges of our education system has facebook comments jumping. Lots of “The Māori language is pointless, you’d never use it for anything” Right alongside “I can’t understand half of what is said in this country because it’s all in Māori!” 🤔🤨🧐

"Kiwi" x.com/tttttt0303p/...

Added another hardcopy to my ever expanding research library of post-apocalyptic RPGs from the Cold War era. It's GURPS Autoduel! Only very slightly Mad-Max-y.

Stay safe. Follow all advice from your local Maskwitches, and help them whenever you can. No one wants a manifestation of a ten thousand year old spirit made from pine tar and dog teeth from the ice. handiwork.games/home/the-sil... #ttrpg #maskwitches

FiveEvil – A Quick Review, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Fear 5E Again blog.monkeyx.games/2025/11/02/f...

Hahaha it’s me

"Person who dressed to the nines for the first date in a long time with her long-distance boyfriend, but then got lost in the maze of constant construction at Shibuya Station" x.com/dailyportalz...

"That janitor who cleans the escalator handrail by holding a cloth in place as the escalator moves" x.com/dailyportalz...

I look forward to this thread by Nick every year!

Sitting here in New Zealand, learning about baseball

My Halloween film was The First Omen (2024) which, as a prequel to a classic horror potboiler, was surprisingly good?! Arkasha Stevenson directed the hell (!) out of it. Please I’ve finally seen 50% of the Nun Horror films cinematically released in 2024.

Lot of people dunking on this as an incorrect explanation of the tweet All of whom failed to read this post properly, it’s claiming a new common usage of torment nexus exists, And whether that’s right or not, so very many people are eager to be the torment nexus he describes Deep sigh

BBC archive at it again, more inspiration for #FiveEvil and your horror games and stories - a case of black magic in Norfolk, from 1964 youtu.be/QWTw3xoGhg4?...