I think it might be a more effective artistic statement if your "Art RPG" was a fully playable game that could sustain play over a period of time. Otherwise, all you're doing is taking the game part out in which case you're probably better off working in a format where that's not integral.

Vince Russo made WWE more interesting than its been before or since.

Oh, man, this looks right up my street. www.gmtgames.com/p-1229-foxes...

The probability of me doing a full Rivers of London campaign continues to grow. (In a bit though, we've not a lot of investigationy stuff recently).

Framing opposition to trans people as "protecting women's rights" is the same trick the NF used to pull when they hold marches against "muggers". Like yes, no sensible person would suggest muggers are good thing but it's the unspoken slurs screaming in the background that give the game away.

This is fantastic news. AwesomeLies' Blog is already one of *the* places to go to for Warhammer history.

I genuinely think we need *another* actual Old School revival, one that focuses on not D&D, especially the less well known systems. Hell, I don't even mind if they're TSR published like Gangbusters. Criticism of old games is fine.

I find American activists trying to fit analysis of the UK into an American theoretical framework annoying and misguided, but understandable at least. There's less excuse for UK activists doing the same and at worst it feels like exoticism.

"What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after" - A Sivanandan This gets and always has got to the heart of the actual issue with the UK.

I actually think that one of the things that allows the fight against transphobia to get more localised wins in the US is their federal structure. And yeah, I'm fully aware why this point might be dangerously close to "nullification" for an American reader.

We need to stop reacting to this shit with "a big boy did it and then ran away". Yes, there is US funding of transphobia here. But this is the UK doing UK transphobia and we need to fight it in the UK.

Everyone, make sure to tag @coreyatad.com in next time time RPG Bluesky is having an argument about "system matters" or PBTA again. Apparently he wants more people shouting at each other about shit.

It's interesting how two people in a household can have two completely different relationships with their cat. My partner's relationship with Kismet is based on cuddling up at night and petting.

Currently working on an entirely unoffical second edition of La Révolution française: La patrie en danger 1791-1795. Somewhere between a set of house rules and a full new game. I think the three other people who want to play a simulation of French Revolution political developments will like it.

Reading the old 90s anarchist comic book Breaking Free (where Tintin becomes an anarchist activist) and honestly, it's a bit preachy but pretty good. Of particular note is that it rejects class reductionism despite being from the class war tradition. Here, Tintin gets a lesson about homophobia.

Going to open a complaints department for my games, but no matter what they complaint is I will just email this back: "I don't care, I don't care I don't care if he comes 'round here I got my beer in the sideboard here Let mother sort it out if he comes 'round here"

Scrapping the concept of "selling out" was a mistake tbh. Thankfully, I'm starting to see signs that Gen Z may be rediscovering it.

This is increasingly my position on gaming in general. We shouldn't compete directly with the mainstream, we should treat them with amused contempt and interact with them no more than that. Anyone whose primary hobby is consumerism is a prick and I'm bored of pretending otherwise.

The current state of affairs in Scotland is politicians and press exasperatedly saying to each other: How could we have lost again, when we spent five years screaming at the public about The Trans Menace? And the answer is: the public find that shit weird and unsettling, and don’t much want it.

My other favourite centrist platitude is when they tell you that you should vote and "put pressure" on your elected representative and then get upset and rule out any form of pressure that isn't "writing a letter". "We didn't mean you could occupy constituency offices."

I am a single issue voter. I will vote for anyone who promises to bring Bluesky invites back and make anyone who joined after that period have to retroactively get one.

Here is a list of bus companies in the USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

The funniest thing about this dumbfuck meme is that if you take it as written it's an endorsement of third party voting. You don't get to use it and then scream "not that bus" when the reality sinks in.

I'm not convinced that the turkey balti I used to get every Christmas in Brum is in fact a traditional dish.

There is something quite spectacular about the way people will come onto "The World of British Comics" page on Facebook, post shitty AI of a classic character and then be surprised that a group full of artists and people celebrating their work might react negatively to this.

I hope you'll all come to my defense as passionately next time someone's being mean about Rifts.

I want to get in on this "get attention by hating on popular games" thing, but nobody on here cares about any of the games I have strong opinions about. I find COIN games too abstracted to the point I think that they move away from being consims and turn into Eurogames. TAKE THAT GMT!

There's something quite poignant about reading the Wiki list of "British comics" and then noticing how few of them are still being published.

One thing I think we (especially cis people, especially those of us who are comfortable handling ourselves physically) can do in the here and now is make sure that the social cost for toilet policing is *incredibly* high. Don't just step in. Humilate the person doing it as much as possible.

My actual issue with Apocalypse World is that if I buy a book by that name by the "Bakers" I expect it to have survivalist recipes in it. Then I got it and opened it and it was just this nerd RPG.

I have noticed that most RPG people who block me are either 5e fans (which fair I think, I can see why me saying meen fings about your brand loyalty upsets you) or cozy fantasy fans. I assume the latter call me a "cockwomble" under the breath while pressing the button.

My best block is still the time a FBPE guy blocked me for asking him if "FBPE" stood for "Follow Back Pro EBM" and asking what his favourite Front 242 song is. (I assume it was Body to Body and he was too embarrassed to say anything other than Headhunter).

Anyway, there are too many OSR games, too many PbtA games, too many d100 games, too many Savage Worlds games and too many BitD games. But there are not enough ORE games so more pls.

The actual narrativist people never block me though. I might make a t shirt with "your favourite storygamer's favourite grognard" on it to wear to conventions.

Looks like the person who kicked off PbtA discourse already blocked me. I'm not saying that liking me is a sure sign of whether someone's hot takes are good or not, but I'm not not saying that.

It tells you pretty much everything you need to know about British courts that transphobia is a "protected belief" and Trotskyism isn't because of a belief in "revolution and a willingness to participate in unlawful strikes".

The Scottish Government should formally announced that it will not in any way be consulting or otherwise working with the EHRC. There's no legal requirement to do so.

It's also worth noting (relevant to the RPG and other writing sectors) that AI has absolutely fucked the boring but ok paid basic bread and butter copywriting that used to keep people going. I still get the musician bios. But stuff like press releases or corp blog posts that I was reliant on? Gone.

Note that this is also true of the *vast majority* of musicians unless you're talking about Taylor Swift or someone. That band with a Mercury Prize and music press headlines? They're still sleeping the van when they tour to try and break even.

Seeing a massive upsurge in 0 follower 1 Following accounts trying to get people to believe that legal challenges to the EHRC ruling are impossible. Which, in itself, suggests the transphobes are more worried about how unworkable this is than they're letting on.

Genuine legal question. If people can discriminate against trans people (still a protected characteristic) because of being "uncomfortable", am I allowed to ban those with transphobic beliefs from my LRP events because that's also a protected characteristic that makes my group uncomfortable?

Obviously, absolute solidarity with non disabled trans people being pushed into using disabled toilets. But fuck the EHRC for seeing disabled provision as something that can be used to help them implement bigotry, when it's not like we have anywhere near the provision we need anyway.

It's especially weird when liberals are doing this about stuff you were involved with. I'm increasingly seeing Anti Fascist Action talked about in the way people talk about Cable Street.

Adrian Chiles fans on the other hand are a subculture. In this essay I shall...

Community always reminds me of workplaces that call themselves "family" and I am suitably suspicious of it for this reason. I prefer hobby because I think it demystifies it; we aren't necessarily mates, just people who share a leisure pursuit.

I pity the fool brave/stupid enough to tell @kenzius.bsky.social she isn't allowed to read Conan books any more because she's of the wrong generation.

I've never been a film person, but I loved loads of books released in the 1950s when I was ten; Narnia, Lord of the Flies. Day of the Triffids, The Jennings Series, Enid Blyton etc. These arguments always feel really patronising to kids.

I think a lot of the outrage is that Labour party apologists have started to realise that when we say we want to destroy the Labour Party, this isn't a factional trick or rhetoric, we want to destroy the Labour Party.

When your party disdains nationalism (this is the opening chapter in Taken As Red, by Anushka Asthana, then of ITV News)

I've seen someone claim that supporting a party other than Labour is Corbynism, despite the fact that Corbyn was a member of the LP for decades, has never been involved with a rival electoral left project and would almost certainly rejoin if they let him. The man is Labourite to his core.