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WatcherDM (He/Him)
about 5 hours ago
Some wip art from my appendix n game jam entry. You should come join or follow along. It’s gonna be a banger (as always).
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Plus One Exp @ Between Two Cons
1 day ago
For those who don't know...
@robbiaburns.bsky.social
is a fucking sicko. So good thing we paired them up with fellow sicko
@quinnblackwell.bsky.social
for an upcoming release of a stand alone stand alone solo game created by Quinn for use with
@bastionland.bsky.social
's Mythic Bastionland.
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Mitchell Daily
1 day ago
A quiet coastal getaway where your troubles seem to slip away... along with your memories. Check out False Star, an antimemetic/false hydra pamphlet for Into the Oddish!
mitchelldaily.itch.io/falsestar
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False Star by Mitchell Daily
An antimemetic scenario for Into the Oddish
https://mitchelldaily.itch.io/falsestar
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HODAG RPG
2 days ago
AND THAT'S WHAT'S UP! STAY COOL WITH OLD SCHOOL JULY PRICES!
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Sandro AD 🎲🎲🎲
2 days ago
!! BLOG POST TIME !! Combat can be a central part of a lot of games! Some people prefer the precise and balanced "Combat as Sport" where others yearn for the tactical infinity of "Combat as War." For me though? I seek out "Combat as Art"...
www.failforward.moe/2026/06/comb...
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videogame history
3 days ago
illustration, creative computing, magazine (1979)
archive.org/details/crea...
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Magnolia Keep
4 days ago
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane review of Spectaculars! This might just be the best superhero roleplaying game I've ever had the pleasure of running, for so many reasons.
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/06/spec...
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Spectaculars: It's Spectacular
I mentioned in my Sentinel Comics Review that I should probably check out Spectaculars at some point. Well, I did, and let me tell yo...
https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/06/spectaculars-its-spectacular.html
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elmcat
4 days ago
The heatwave has made me combative and catty. Here's a rant.
elmc.at/cultures-not...
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Cultures, not Games
A rant.
https://elmc.at/cultures-not-games/
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5 days ago
Does your hexcrawl need pseudo-realistic fire ecology? Look no fur- What? Where are you going? I just want to talk!
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Wildfires in A Hexcrawl
This post on reddit, asks how to rule a forest fire started by player characters. My day job involves running long-term forest growth and wildfire simula...
https://idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev/wildfires-in-a-hexcrawl/
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Claytonian
5 days ago
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Generating Elevation in a Hexcrawl - Traveler's Rest
I grew-up, and currently live, in Southern Appalachia, it’s a big part of who I am. My childhood was spent on the sides of hills, up to my knees in
https://rest.blot.im/generating-elevation-in-a-hexcrawl
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Rise Up Comus - CASTLE AUTOMATIC Crowdfunding Now!
6 days ago
Honoring my promise to write more small, worse blog posts, I bring you a thought experiment where I think through—in real time—what it might look like to key a dungeon with extra details for specific classes.
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/06/keyi...
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Keying a Dungeon with Class-specific Descriptions (Microblog)
I bet you've seen notes in dungeon keys that say something like: The murals depict an ibis-headed god handing out the tools of writings to ...
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/06/keying-dungeon-with-class-specific.html
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Woefully Encysted Creature
6 days ago
If missed my random tables on goblin & halflings (& their dogs), catch them now in the Random Blogwagon Roundup, plus 78 other totally rando posts!
#TTRPG
#OSR
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Woefully Encysted Creature
6 days ago
I finished my reading of Dungeon Module B5: Horror on the Hill! I think this is the weakest of the B series modules so far, but there's a decent amount of good stuff here too. Peep the whole thread from the beginning here 👇
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the girl with Jean Seberg hair
6 days ago
In the third volume of "Tower Dungeon", Tsutomu Nihei shows us a unique vision of the basilisk. Yuva, Lilisen, and Enriqo realize their mission is a target for royals who prefer the princess remain un-rescued. The three begin to share more genuine emotions with each other. 💙📚🪐
#comics
#bookreview
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Tower Dungeon 3
Tower Dungeon 3 by Tustomu Nihei Kodansha 2025 The previous volume of Tower Dungeon ended on a cliffhanger, with a party of rival ad...
https://lunarflaneur.blogspot.com/2026/06/tower-dungeon-3.html
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Once again I'm in great company on the blogwagon
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Nathan Anderson
7 days ago
Chun the Unavoidable and his cape of eyeballs. Jack Vance's stuff is wild, haha.
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Shurebis [he/him]
7 days ago
writeodd.bearblog.dev/old-ideas/
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Branching out - new projects, old ideas
Time to brew the new and rekindle the old. For the moment, the thick of cramOS is done and typed. It is now time to let it simmer; allow it to breath, ...
https://writeodd.bearblog.dev/old-ideas/?token=537979b8d7
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Marsworms
8 days ago
new post over at my D&D blog! first one in way too long. some very OSR-ish D&D-able inspiration taken from the Seyahatname of 17th-century ottoman scholar Evliya Çelebi, wherein he goes on a real dungeon delve into the pyramids!
#OSR
#D&D
#DnD
savevsworm.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-re...
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A Real 17th-Century Dungeon Delve
Earlier this year, I read An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels by Evliya Çelebi , in part following a very exciting and...
https://savevsworm.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-real-17th-century-dungeon-delve.html
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This post was written for both the Randomness and Sex bandwagons, and it's somehow concluded that System Matters. (Kinda NSFW)
#osr
#ttrpg
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But is it random?
On dice, pigs, sex and Sartre.
https://bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/but-is-it-random
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𝖂.𝕯.
9 days ago
Custom dungeon postcards! Best Christmas card!:
gomezwritesgames.itch.io/chainmail-du...
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Chainmail Dungeon by GomezWritesGames
Customize a dungeon for a friend, and mail it to them!
https://gomezwritesgames.itch.io/chainmail-dungeon
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Woefully Encysted Creature
9 days ago
I wrote another post for the randomness blog bandwagon! This one focuses on AD&D halflings & their dogs. Halflings love their dogs, & you should too! This post gives each a personality quirk & pairs them with a fully fleshed out halfling adult or child.
#TTRPG
#D&D
#AD&D
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1d10 Halflings and their 1d4 Dogs
My goblin post was fun, and it gave me a hankering to do something similar with halflings. Why halflings? Well, mostly because I like that ...
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2026/06/1d10-halflings-and-their-1d4-dogs.html
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Zhu Industries
9 days ago
These charmingly daemonic snake weilding pyromaniac Wood Sprites from Skelt's
#toytheatre
of The Wood Daemon (1835) are fantastic. Some of the earliest
#fantasy
#paperminis
I know of, and a nice little ready-to-go set of
#skirmish
figures!
#osr
#ttrpg
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Sridhar Ramesh
10 days ago
I've made the biggest mistake of my life. I've also made the best decision of my life. I've also made all the other choices inbetween.
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Agreeable Chatter
10 days ago
Handful of thoughts about queens of the stone age and attacking the character sheet in
#osr
games!
tbr.bearblog.dev/vampyre-of-t...
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Vampyre of Time and Memory
This past weekend I was listening to the Queens of the Stone Age 2013 album ...Like Clockwork while I was choring around the house. I love this album but I h...
https://tbr.bearblog.dev/vampyre-of-time-and-memory/
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lumpley
10 days ago
#Origins
was a blast! The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design (AAGAD) inducted Apocalypse World into its Hall of Fame.
@megueyb.bsky.social
and I are beyond honored.
www.originsawards.net
Here's me accepting the award:
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Personable | Markus
10 days ago
Seems like I am posting more thoughts on
#BaselineDrift
personable.blog/wargame-with...
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A Wargame without War: The Role of Unused Rules
On not using the wargaming mechanics in Baseline Drift.
https://personable.blog/wargame-without-war
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𝖂.𝕯.
10 days ago
Dungeons are the zeitgeist 👻. Just look at the popular media in the last 10 years that features them. Far from an arthritic extention of “old” D&D, they are a fantasy touchstone encountered before D&D:
icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/06/appe...
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APPENDIX N(<i>EW DUNGEON CRAWL</i>): Modern Media For Delving Deep Down
Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu Nihei I was trying to get together some other new posts, but those are slow going so here is something that has bee...
https://icastlight.blogspot.com/2026/06/appendix-n-ew-dungeon-crawl-modern.html?m=1
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Rise Up Comus - CASTLE AUTOMATIC Crowdfunding Now!
11 days ago
I've written about my inspirations for my 100+ room, Metroidvania dungeon, The Castle Automatic
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The Secret History of The Castle Automatic
When Sean McCoy proposed the Dungeon23 project , I couldn't help but join in. I wrote two dungeons--one for His Majesty the Worm and one f...
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-secret-history-of-castle-automatic.html
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This game looks amazing, Evlyn’s art is on fire
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Nael Fox -> Extortin' and Gamin'
11 days ago
Wrote a post about my experiences playing
@evlynmoreau.bsky.social
's Orbital Megastructure.
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Your Favorite Game (You Haven't Played Yet)
It's very likely you've never played my favorite RPG. Probably you haven't even heard of it yet because it's still in development. It's called Orbital Megast...
https://billhook.bearblog.dev/your-favorite-game-you-havent-played-yet/
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Hitchhiker Dave
12 days ago
Despite being sick for most of June, I've made a very normal post for
@prismaticwasteland.com
's Random Blogwagon:
wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com/2026/06/anti...
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The Anti-Randomness Taskforce
https://wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com/2026/06/anti-randomness.html
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Nael Fox -> Extortin' and Gamin'
13 days ago
For
@prismaticwasteland.com
's Random Blogwagon I decided to use Shadowdark's random tables to draft an adventure. I avoided using any other resources except for my noggin and came up with a pretty decent little adventure. This is my biggest post in terms of time, effort, and words. Pretty happy.
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Randomizing a Shadowdark Dungeon
I claim somewhere on this blog to be an adventure writer, but I don't have any adventures I've written on the blog. I've been running a lot of Shadowdark thi...
https://billhook.bearblog.dev/randomizing-a-shadowdark-dungeon/
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Hexagnome
14 days ago
The House under the Moondial is DTRPG's Deal of the Day! 🎉 Get yours now, for a fraction of its value! (60% off) Tell all your friends about it! I'm so proud of this mystery D&D adventure, and today is the perfect day for everyone to find out why! ;)
www.drivethrurpg.com//product/474...
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The House under the Moondial - Hexagnome | DriveThruRPG
There is a witch in the wilds, a goddess unremembered, and a madman.There is a circle of stone - who knows what lies beneath?The villagers are distraught: their children! replaced by fae!The villagers...
https://www.drivethrurpg.com//product/474868/the-house-under-the-moondial?affiliate_id=3184947
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Wayspell
14 days ago
Back on my shit with something no one other than me wanted: a way of leveling up hirelings and excuses for plot outside of being hired for jobs "Part" of the random bandwagon
wayspell.blogspot.com/2026/06/sws-...
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[SWS] Mercenaries
There's another bandwagon going around, something about Randomness. There're rules, though I didn't actually read 'em, just sort of looked...
https://wayspell.blogspot.com/2026/06/sws-mercenaries.html
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Asymptotes.
15 days ago
Announcing... Asymptotes. Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection. On Saturday July 18th, we're running a showcase of abandoned games, with talks and panels on non-commercial and difficult to commercialise game-making. 👉
asymptotes.au
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Woefully Encysted Creature
16 days ago
On the topic of randomness, I demonstrated how to breathe life into individual goblins by naming them, changing their alignments, using reaction rolls, & rolling 2d6 to vary up their "standard" stats.
#TTRPG
#D&D
#AD&D
#OSR
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1d10 Randomized Goblins
If you've been following along with the play reports for my B1 campaign , you probably know all about the goblins of Quasqueton with which t...
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2026/06/1d10-randomized-goblins.html
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John Bilodeau Illustrations
16 days ago
new filler art!
#OSR
#OSRart
#DND
#indiecreator
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop
16 days ago
Here it is. The final interview in my design series for Violent Delights: a chess-based RPG about Romeo and Juliet. I interview David Harris, artist and six-time winner of the Public Domain Game Jam. I ask him about his innovative projects, design process, and perspective on adaptation in games.
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Interview 3: David Harris on Adaptation and the Public Domain Game Jam
Six-time winner of the Public Domain game jam
https://www.backwardstabletop.com/p/e14a3d3f-7bd7-4991-b1d8-1ff3a183dd55/
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein
18 days ago
Something different this week, but still
#ttrpg
related. A weird take on writing consistently
murkdice.substack.com/p/how-i-write
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How I write
Subjective advice on wordsmithing
https://murkdice.substack.com/p/how-i-write
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William Gillis 🏴
19 days ago
For two decades I've been too lazy to code and deploy this tool, but here: this takes a sequential pdf and returns an imposed zine version:
humaniterations.net/imposedonline/
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Zine Imposer
https://humaniterations.net/imposedonline/
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Prismatic Wasteland
19 days ago
Into the Oddish (Pokémon ttrpg) adventure!
mitchelldaily.itch.io/mimehouse
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Mime House by Mitchell Daily
Horror pamphlet for Into the Oddish
https://mitchelldaily.itch.io/mimehouse
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teuthida // Octopus Ink Games
20 days ago
Have some Friday Violence
octopusink.blot.im/changelings
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Changelings - Octopus Ink Games
An 17th century scenario for Violence. A firearm may be fired once in a violent altercation, only able to be reloaded when there is a moment of
https://octopusink.blot.im/changelings
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Martin Orchard
20 days ago
BLACKOUT is my first module for Mothership, taking your crew underground to restore a colony power supply, and finding some unexpected things... Featuring art by
@emo-sludge.com
pointlessmonument.itch.io/blackout
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Errant Thinking
20 days ago
I wrote up my wip ttrpg mechanic on hit locations for Small Souls. Using hit graphs and traversing them given successes in your dice pool, you can get tactical and target specific locations!
errantthinking.com/hit-graphs/
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Hit Graphs: From Stick Figures to Hit Locations
Pin point precision in your TTRPGs with stick figures and graphs.
https://errantthinking.com/hit-graphs/
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Jon Davis
20 days ago
You should join
#FlimflamJam
!
#gamejam
#osr
#ttrpg
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Flimflam Jam
A game jam from 2026-08-01 to 2026-09-01 hosted by Sivad's Sanctum. WHAT IS CRIME WAVE? Crime Wave is a rules-lite tabletop roleplaying game of 1920's crime and mystery. A mish-mash of Nate Treme's Tu...
https://itch.io/jam/flimflam-jam
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Brendan Keogh
21 days ago
I don't want to pretend this *isn't* shocking or ghastly but, like, when digital media experts are expressing concern generally about the data a game like Pokemon Go is collecting from day one, this is precisely the kind of end game they are thinking about.
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Bastionland Press
22 days ago
www.bastionland.com/2026/06/fact...
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Beneath Foreign Planets
23 days ago
A novel worldbuilding method for generating interesting religions by focusing on the behaviour of the believer first. Inspired by the writing of
@mindstorm.bsky.social
and for
@prismaticwasteland.com
's Random blogwagon.
foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/06/deus...
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#ttrpg
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Deus Ex Verbum: Interesting Religions, Dogmas, Sects and Philosophies via Wiktionary
If a religion is what its followers do, then start with a single verb and extrapolate. Religions, Dogmas and Sects generated via Wiktionary.
https://foreignplanets.blogspot.com/2026/06/deus-ex-verbum-interesting-religions.html
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Woefully Encysted Creature
23 days ago
Continuing my series on developing the sandbox. This time, monster lairs! They can be home to one leprechaun, a clan of ogres, an entire community of elves, or anywhere in between. A "monster" is anything that isn't you, & a "lair" is anywhere it lives!
#TTRPG
#D&D
#AD&D
#OSR
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Developing the Sandbox: Monster Lairs
This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here . The series will, when necessary, go ...
https://forlornencystment.blogspot.com/2026/06/developing-sandbox-monster-lairs.html
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop
23 days ago
I've just published the third and final essay in the design series for Violent Delights (with one more interview on the way). It's about adaptation in games and the baggage that can come with it. In particular, it's about my attempt to design with and around chess's baggage.
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Essay 3: Chess has Baggage
Designing with and around "baggage"
https://www.backwardstabletop.com/p/9cfc01cb-5012-4b61-8e68-37d528538924/
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