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@paulbaldowski.bsky.social wins the Internet today. Remember to use it responsibly 😀

A glimpse of the future at Manchester Airport earlier today 🤣

This sums up my current befuddled state, courtesy of sleep deprivation + 101 things to pack before more sleep deprivation and early o'clock flight 🤣

Northern and Western areas, that would be the North West right? Good job I'm off to sunnier climes 🤣

Warhammers coming!!!! 😍

Awesome afternoon out at #MorpCon yesterday in Manchester. Ran 13th Age 2nd ed, and it's smoother and more fun than ever. A game in my Mythic Cotsworlds setting, featuring a Knight's Tournament, Intelligent Monkeys, Tea parties, and a sorcerer missing on the Nightmare plane. Great silly stuff 😍

That's it, the rough layout of Fantastic Odyssey's Issue 1 for #OpenQuestRPG and Basic Roleplaying is done. Time to let it rest, walk the dog, print it off and polish it. Should be with backers this weekend/early next week 😍

Bright sunlight is sending me a bit giddy. No longer wet and cold. Energised, BOING! BOING! SPRING HAS SPRUNG MELON FARMERS AND ITS FULL OF AWESOME AND WIN 😍

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I'm thinking of going, its only 40mins on the train! Local con! Also I'm a bit of Moorcook fan :)

This wins the Internet today. No way @ludovic.chabant.com will use it responsibly 🤣

a|state second edition is on sale at our webstore for a limited time. Check out the source of The Trouble Engine, and the faction rules used in Blades '68. handiwork.games/product/asta... #astaterpg

Sorry if I disappoint anyone on this, turns out I'm out. Much more fun to convert the stuff I've written for Glorantha. Better to look forward with excitement, and redevelop the work in creatively fun directions. Besides, my old 90s RQ campaign was the root of OpenQuest 😜

Spring is here in Sunny Oldham, Rainy Royton. I'm a bit giddy. Need to calm down and stop bouncing off the walls 🤣

I thought I was done with Glorantha, but once again I have plans for Mega Gaming Fun race around my head, which I will keep to myself for a while. But one thing this year is I'm going to run the RQ game that was my first convention game back in 1996! Thirty years as a con gm! (Crikey)

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New T-shirt day! A random freebie that came with an order of a Cat/Chemistry pun T-shirt for H ("Purriodic Table of the Kittens"). Obviously, from the COVID times, but I look forward to people coming up in horror, squinting at the gothic font and recoiling in horror once they've worked it out!

After the longest time finally popped into the #mitchchesterArms last night - and proved beyond a doubt that its clientele are never more than one metre away from a Cthulhu book of some sort. 🐙

Finally got some time to work on D101 stuff, with my Publisher head firmly on! Its interesting looking at the drafts in publisher mode, which is all about "how can I get this out". I'm trying not have it be critical too much, because my inner creative team is feeling a bit sore at the moment 🤣

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Today I'm magically transforming, through the power of Awesome and Win, a number of can'ts into cans, while distracted by cats 🤣#winning

For a long time, I felt like I was struggling to keep up with all the little D101 releases in the pipeline. This morning I realised that I'm so achingly close with a lot of things, and that I now have the focus to actually finish them. 1/

Its wonderful excentrics like Bob, that made the 70s a thrilling time to grow up 😍

no new pictures. where are you at mentally.

Today's D101 job is to write a quick "State of D101 Games" newsletter. It's been something I've not done for a couple of years, because I've been overwhelmed with family stuff. But the headline story of this newsletter is me emerging from being overwhelmed, and how I'm getting back on track 😍

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Bit of fun tinkering on #StarPlunderInc this morning, my looter shooter RPG, D20 lite system with setting inspired by Borderlands with bits of Fallout and Doom. And of course there are 'Bots, none of them useful and most of them slightly annoying. Like one based on a famous North West Comedian🤣

Strangely dreamt that I was forming a Very Heavy Alt-Metal band to support System of a Down on a proper comeback tour (with new album!), wandering around a maze like brutalist shopping centre with @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social wondering if he's in the band, or even likes the genre. 🤣

I just backed Moonblins by Marcello Rizza on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/200... // Couldn't resist it, I love a good goblin me 🤣

Egads its that time again, probably so they can better clone me when the AI takeover comes... Quote with five jobs you've had: Existential Wombat Herder Sheriff of Nottingham Rock City Kwisatz Haderach (understudy) Godzilla's PR Assistant. Wizard of Awesome and Win. 😍

Warning! The Sun is out and shining, and the temperature is rising above the seasonal average. Another day of False Spring and the Mirth Goblins are rampaging 🤣

Apparently Dungeon World 2 is coming. Powered by the Apocalyse D&D, that I had great fun with when it first came out. There's a sign up for updates on the game's website. #ttrpg #pbta www.dungeon-world.com

After a month off my weekly playtest of Wyrd Sword, it took a while to get back into the flow of the slightly (but not irritating) crunchy combat system. This meant that we didn't quite get to the end of the adventure as planned, but we have an epic fight, leading up to next time's climax. 🤩#brp

Andy Burnham? I'm with Harry Hill on this one 🤣

Slight Update: I took @paulbaldowski.bsky.social's advice, and realised my 40+ skill list was doing the job (this is BRP and I had rationalised it after all). I calmed the F down and trashed a couple of hours of work, rolling back changes. Draft now under feature freeze 🤣

Repeat after me. "I am not my diagnosis. I'm not my unconfirmed condition. I am not a victim of my biography. I am made of Awesome and Win!" 😍 #GoodMorningWorld

For @clownf1st.bsky.social 's #stoolreport (and any one who needs cheering up) 🤣

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I woke up this morning and realised that I'm the only person in BRPdom that thinks that long skill lists are a good thing in modern BRP games. So Wryd Sword now has 20 or so skills, compared with its inital 40+. Also a new twist on specialisms #BasicRoleplaying #TTRPG

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I'm currently finishing off the Characters chapter for the Savage North for OpenQuest. Amongst all the sword-wielding concepts of one of the barbarian cultures, there's a career called "Sword Shy" who "deliberately avoid the Rule of Steel (i.e., violence), using words instead to resolve conflict."

Conversation I had with myself earlier (which I still can't believe I did). Newt "Wouldn't it be nice, if we had a Swords and Sorcery version of D&D, with some modern streamlining, that took its tone from British 80s like White Dwarf and Fighting Fantasy?" Newtoo, "We do, Crypts and Things" 1/

I think the biggest thing I've worked out from designing D100 systems over nearly 20 years, is that slow and steady steps win the day. That there's no point designing something so radical, and ground breaking that its not recognisable as a D100, roll under skill, game. #d100 #ttrpg

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One for people who grew up on UK children's TV in the 70s-90s. Cosgrove Hall now has a permanent exhibition of items from their archive at Sale Library in Manchester. For fans of Dangermouse, Count Ducklua and my favourite Chorlton and the Wheeles 🤣 watersidearts.org/visit/cosgro...

In the words of Brian Ferry: Now the party's over, I'm rewiring the garage Then back to work Wednesday Avalon

Ok this one is for #D101Games fans. I'm officially back at work on it today. I'm painfully aware I'm behind on a number of things. So I'll be prioritising and getting my head down. I'll do a big update at the end of the month, at where I'm up to, as well as a start of year State of D101 Games. 1/

I think my festive period is over. Christmas, New Year and finally Gamemas (celebrated at #Grogmeet on Saturday and #Morpcon on Sunday). A calm walk with the dog, in post-storm conditions (wet and clear) and then back to work! 😍