The completed bridge in action during a Silver Bayonet/ English Civil War skirmish. #Wargaming #TheSilverBayonet #EnglishCivilWars #WarreOfTheThreeKingdoms

I've come into a bit of money and North Star have announced they're increasing prices soon. Considering buying some cavalry

I had this strange dream. I went to this channel awesome fan convention as part of an anarchist volunteer group running some kind of stand. I ended up yelling at several people for different things and feeling disruptive even though the people i yelled at were way more disruptive. Really odd.

Happy Rabbie Burns night 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

One thing I've never quite understood is how superhero comics have multiple titles for a single character. I read reprinted panini comics, which compiled several issues into one. So, I don't fully get what having multiple versions does in terms of continuity or why there are different comics.

Damn. A new edition of Oathmark is getting released, and I've not even played the first edition yet

I was kinda looking forward to my Monday D&D group fighting a Nothic. It was a decent fight, and it got to show off its powers, but I was hoping to RP with it a bit more. It got taken out by a series of vicious critical hits by the paladin and barbarian.

-Podcasts: a bit, I have videos on in the background -APs: used to much less so now -Playing online: occasionally - weekly: Yup - domestic: not recently -figure collecting & painting: yup - reading/collecting: a bit, my collection is pretty small, and mostly one system

Base colours on the first unit of Orcs. Details next. #DragonRampant2

It is pretty interesting to see how different social media sites talk about D&D. I think Bluesky has a lot more designers, so the patter tends towards a slightly anti-5e bent. X is for toxic sludge people who hate 5e for culture war BS. FB is just every 5e normie who think it can homebrew everything

I bought some grey fabric for a kind of city based battle mat. It looks great, but I bought way too much, only realised at the till. I guess I can try to make tea cosys out of the excess.

I think I've kicked this sickness, just got a bad dry cough tearing up my throat.

Watching the 2000s reboot of Randal and Hopkirk Deceased, I am realising just how absolutely tiny the British television industry is. I'm pretty sure you could play three degrees of Broadchurch with any British actor.

Dear 20-somethings making D&D youtube content. I have two requests. 1) cover different games 2) stop shouting so much. Not even really shouting, just angry raised voices.

Things are slowing down with my meatspace responsibilities, so I am looking for ILLUSTRATION GIGS! ALL OSR/NSR like- DCC OSE HMTW DND ADND SHADOWDARK MORK BÖRG MOTHERSHIP TRAVELLER MECHS DON'T SEE IT? JUST ASK! PRICES THAT WILL MAKE YOU SAY "WOW, ARE THESE FROM 10 YEARS AGO?!"

Well, I couldn't go to the interview because I had a wretched illness. I spent most of today tossing and turning in bed with fever dreams. It seems to have subsided for now.

Honestly I'm glad to see & hear more and more folks actively taking the stance to not engage with or support users/makers that use generative ai I've often been told, not only in this but of other things, that I'm limiting my audience with my stances & GOOD! My work is not for thieves and con men

I'm getting gross nose feelings I swear if I get a cold I'm gonna be so pissed

Hmm, honestly, Babylon 5 has two terrific endings. They're the first that come to mind, but I'm not sure I think they're the best.

I'm really trying to vibe with Runequest, but it's just not really hitting for me. The setting feels a bit overwhelming, and I'm not really sure what the gameplay is supposed to resemble. Chaosium used to have adventures bundled in their books, but they've stopped doing this in recent years.

I'm making stew. It was pretty small so I grabbed some frozen veg and sprouts. Hopefully, the sprouts aren't too bitter or undercooked given their late addition. May have thrown in bay leaves too late as well, so I'm leaving it to simmer for a while.

A few of the fun things I worked on in 2025 #warhammercommunity #warhammer40000

Rummaging into the "playing humans" discourse. Honestly, the rationales seem kinda dull. "Oh I am a human. Why play a human?" Sorry, do you slay monsters on the regular, do you? Can you cast spells? I mean each to their own, but I think people are a bit needlessly dismissive here.

Whenever someone says they don't like pastel "cosy" aesthetics in rpgs, you always get someone saying, "You just hate fun. No one is stopping you from being boring." It's so tedious.

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I normally don't mind Christmas shopping, I'm one of those people who kind of likes trying to think presents. But I'm lowballing it this year. It has been a really tough year for me; hosting my poorly friend and losing my job has been tough, and my bf has had a really shit time, too.

Has anyone had #TTRPG campaigns that weren't bad but weren't really great either, like just really mid. That sorta describes my fortnightly Tomb Of Annihilation game. We've been playing a while and basically everything hits at like 5/10 for me.

Sorta depends. The group I'm GMing atm I let them pick whatever species they fancied. But if we were in my BRP homebrew setting, it's humans only. There are elves and goblins, but they're outcasts from human society that make up like 95% of the population on the continent. They'd be unplayable.

Played Bloc by Bloc instead of D&D, it looked really hairy as riot vans evicted two starting positions early on.

I've had an absolutely lousy morning despite finishing my course. Monday night D&D is on hold, we're playing board games instead. I really hope we get to play bloc by bloc

I got bitten by a duck as a child trying to feed them. I then had a vivid dream of mallards with pointy vampire teeth crowding me.

I'm a bit troubled by the notion that I'll never get to play some of my game books. I've had Mythic Iceland for ages, and I've just never had anyone really interested in it. One major factor is having to teach people new systems. Especially for lore heavy games where the "buy in" is more esoteric.

Some undead for Oathmark

Undead for oathmark

Undead for Oathmark

When I went to see Godzilla 2014, there was a scene near the finale of the film where there is all this cool monster stuff happening, and the action cuts to the boring family for like the third time. I yelled out in the cinema "OH COME ON!"

What are Dark type pokemon supposed to be? Like, what does that represent? Is it somehow tied to darkness as a platonic concept? Why does Bite get to be a dark attack? What sense does that make?

Here's a question for DMs running boat encounters: Why would the sahuagin ever jump on deck? I remember a DM running a sahuagin encounter, and we pretty soundly trounced them, but I couldn't help thinking what they were supposed to be achieving.

Puddock has seen better days 😞

Went to a little independent shop in Aberdeen for some minis. Guys asks me what I play and I said "5e atm", he says "I'm sorry to hear that". Lol good patter.

Do people on Game of Thrones/ASOIAF meme pages even watch the show or read the books? Half the people talking on these groups are just plainly incorrect about everything they bring up.

I really don't get why Tarantino is doing this. Seems needlessly aggy.

Day 121 of #hobbystreak More scenery with the Away Dug Outs… I’m kinda over this now and want to get back to painting actual Blood Bowl models 🤣🤣🤣 Almost there now though #bloodbowl

My Monday D&D session was a bit nerve-wracking. I'd forgotten my mats, and I had prepped about 2/3s of the dungeon I thought they'd go for. Then the party got interested in a different dungeon, which I hadn't prepped, and I am sure they're underlevelled for.

I think a fair bit of RPG discourse mistakes "most players don't care about RPG theory" (true) with "most players don't care about the things that theory is about" (false). It is fair to say that I have known very few players who actually care about stance theory in the abstract.

#warhammer40000 #imperialguard #astramilitarum #warhammercommunity

Is it weird that my first thought was "If you had blood in your stool, you'd never know"

I've not been doing a whole lot of painting recently, so this is a bit wonky, but I'm OK with how she turned out.