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Justin Alexander

@alexandrian.bsky.social
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Creator of the Alexandrian. Author of So You Want To Be a Game Master. ENnie Award Winner. USA TODAY Bestselling Author. thealexandrian.net

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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Numenera.
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Two red granite statues flank the entrance. One uses Stone Golem stats--" (okay, makes sense) "--the other uses Iron Golem stats." Go home, adventure, you're drunk.
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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Atlas Games @atlasgames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Definitive Edition RELEASES TODAY! #ArsMagica #DefinitiveEdition
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Definitive Edition RELEASES TODAY!
Salve sodales! Today is the OFFICIAL GENERAL RELEASE of Ars Magica Definitive Edition! That's right, you can jump on our website to order it for IMMEDIATE delivery, or look for it at your friendly local game store.  Get Definitive Edition NOW at atlas-games.com/definitive To celebrate Definitive Edition's release, we've ALSO set up a special deal on the ENTIRE Ars Magica 5th Edition line in PDF! You'll find digital bundles of the sourcebooks for 20% off. Buy all five …
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Wait a minute, I just woke up, 'digitized fruit fly brains,' what on Earth are they even talking about" #briefing #refresher www.404media.co/a-digital-fl...
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A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet
How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more.
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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#swordtember
A monochromatic watercolor painting of a woman in a long dress holding a heavy sword as she faces off against a large robot emerging from the mist.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ratatouille is not only a mecha movie, but arguably the best mecha movie of all time.
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Remy from Ratatouille Pulling Hair
Alt: Remy from Ratatouille pulling the hair of his bio-mecha, the Alfredo Mk. 1, to control its movements
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A space opera set amongst the million planets orbiting the black hole at the center of a galaxy. www.space.com/astronomy/ex...
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'We were astonished': Millions of exoplanets could be born near active supermassive black holes
"We were totally amazed when we noticed this mass and size range of planet formation."
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"She knew she was on another world because the clouds were too big. Looking up, she saw a cloud bigger than a two-storey building." Was this written by a space alien who'd never seen a cloud before? "She'd seen clouds before. Spent hours staring up at them." Hmm. Exactly what an alien would say.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"You're thinking about it! This media only sucks if you think about it!" People who say things like this really don't understand how much they're telling on themselves.
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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A spooky book a day keeps the ghosts away (because the ghosts are reading, too) ✌️👻 theghostkeeper.carrd.co
Lucy the ghost girl and Muffin the ghost cat lounge against a headstone in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh. She's reading THE GHOSTKEEPER, my graphic novel. (Fun fact, I took this photo during a 2022 research trip for this same book)
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Random GM Tips going live on Twitch now! See you there! twitch.tv/TheAlexandrian
https://twitch.tv/TheAlexandrian
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Last season Kirk/Spock do a mega-mind meld and learn all their intimate secrets so that we can shortcut the storytelling of their friendship growing over time. Now: Spock thinks Kirk is a hallucination so he... shares all his intimate secrets? So that we can shortcut..? WTF are we doing here?
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Spock: I Vulcan't Meme
Alt: Spock collapses. TEXT: I Vulcan't
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have a strong suspicion that S04E02 of Strange New Worlds - "The Griffin Incident" - is going to end up being the best episode of the season. This is not a good thing.
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Trapper Sean, M.D. @trapperseanmd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Drawing 789 / 2026 Artwork 87: Chief Engineer Wile E. Coyote is done with the Captain’s shit. #WileECoyote #CoyoteVsAcme #LooneyTunes #StarTrek #StarTrekArt
Chief Engineer Wile E. Coyote looks angrily at his off screen Captain with a sign that says, “I cannae change the laws of physics.”
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Started watching the first episode of Season 4 of STRANGE NEW WORLDS tonight. ... why is this so incredibly stupid? Give it a pass on the equivalent of cavemen and dinosaurs running around at the same time + "this is the Grand Canyon, a crater(!?!?!) created when a spaceship crashed." But....
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Tee - The Warrior of Smolness 🐾🧚FFXIV @teegan-adventurer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The whole Wile E Coyote AMA on Reddit thingy is hilarious. I’m quoting the OP’s images here with alt text.
Question from ArchDucky:
Have you ever tried ordering fresh roadrunner meat from Amazon?

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Wile looks alarmed at a sign he is holding up which reads:
Road Runners do not live in the AmazonQuestion by CapedCrusador:
Will you return for Avengers Doomsday?

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Wile points at a sign he is holding up which reads:
Will Road Runner be there?Question by NominalPerson:
Have you ever thought of switching over to a digital sign?

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Wile looks annoyed and is holding a sign which reads:
They keep blowing upQuestion by Comicspedia:
Hello! How many stunt coyotes were used in the making of this film?

Reply:
Wile looks annoyed and is holding up a sign which reads:
I am the stunt coyote
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Misbehave's line of solo RPGs has just launched on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hex...
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Misbehave Solo RPG
A fantasy adventures where you are the monster (sort of).
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Random GM Tips stream is starting now on Twitch! twitch.tv/TheAlexandrian
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Uh oh. My players remember more about the last session than I do.
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you are one of those fools who has yet to acquire a copy of THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN in its resplendent third edition, then be advised that for the next few hours it is the Deal of the Day at DriveThruRPG, a half-priced bargain! legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/3272...
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, third edition - Magnum Opus Press | DriveThruRPG.com
Baron Munchausen's tales of his extraordinary adventures are legendary: riding cannonballs through the sky, sailing to t
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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of my all-time favorite rules, from Pea Ridge (1980). The designer's great-great-grandfather fought in the battle, and if his unit takes damage you roll a die to see if he survives. If he dies, the designer is never born, and the game doesn't exist, and so automatically ends in a draw.
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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here
Panel 1: Ami Mizuno saying to her friends, "I need you all to swear..."

Panel 2: All rhe girls saying, "FUCJ." with varying keels of enthusias.

Panel 2: Ami, flustered, saying, "Nghh!! Like, a promise??" And an offscreen voice saying, "ooh"
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/08/2026
JK Rowling has engaged in Holocaust denial. She denies the fact that nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld institute and burned all their books which contained the first research on trans people.
Screenshot of a post on X by J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) quote-tweeting another user.
​Rowling's caption reads: "I just... how? How did you type this out and press send without thinking ‘I should maybe check my source for this, because it might’ve been a fever dream’?"
​The quoted post states: "The Nazis burnt books on trans healthcare and research, why are you so desperate to uphold their ideology around gender?"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Will Doyle @beholderpie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Can’t wait for Greyhawk fans to get their claws into this adventure! Stacey and I penned this one with Justice, and also provided many of the maps. dungeonsanddragonsfan.com/greyhawk-cro...
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D&D Reveals New Greyhawk: Crown of the Witch Queen Campaign
We head out in search of the "Crown of the Witch Queen," a new official D&D campaign set in the world of Greyhawk that’s coming in late 2027.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For when you need an NPC and you need 'em fast. thealexandrian.net/wordpress/50...
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Quick NPC Roleplaying Template
A few years back I shared the Universal NPC Roleplaying Template that I’d developed for recording NPCs in my campaign in a way that both (a) focused prep on the essential elements for running a gr
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There was a time when I owned every Star Trek novel ever published (except, apparently, MIssion to Horatius, which never showed up in lists back then). I spent my first newspaper route money getting all the older books & then I bought every new book as it came out. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Star Trek Books in Publication Order
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The next James Bond really needs to level up his gadgets. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy
Ordinary WiFi networks could quietly become powerful surveillance tools, allowing people to be identified without cameras, special sensors, or even carrying a connected device. Researchers showed that...
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Ishmael, The Transition will be Live @comrade-ishmael.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Used @alexandrian.bsky.social's blog post about Mothership combat to help me structure it and found it super useful thealexandrian.net/wordpress/51...
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Mothership: Thinking About Combat
If you asked me to describe the combat system of Mothership in one word, it would be a toss-up between “strange” and “missing.”What seems to have happened is that Mothership 0e had a tur
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What can we learn from King Strongbow? thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53...
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Random Worldbuilding – The Use Beyond Use
This is the tomb of Strongbow, aka Earl Richard de Clare, in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. Richard was an English nobleman who, through a complicated series of treaties, wars, and arranged marr
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
DCC vs. DCC is the biggest confusion in the RPG sector since John Wick vs. John Wick.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A player comes to you and says, "I want to play Dungeon Crawler Carl!" ... do you know what that actually means? thealexandrian.net?p=53789
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What Does It Mean to Play Dungeon Crawler Carl?
I recently finished listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks written by Matt Dinniman and performed by Jeff Hays. I then immediately went back to the beginning of Book 1 and began reading th
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I want this to exist. Let's all help Brad make it exist.
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Brad Kerr @bradkerr.net · 11/08/2026
I launched a Patreon! I'm building a weird fantasy sandbox OSR campaign setting. Dungeons! Hex crawls! New dungeons every month. It features some original art by @munkao.bsky.social. Please take a look! www.patreon.com/cw/BradKerr
Heroes point at big bugs and distant mountains.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
What would you put on the Mount Rushmore of all time Tweets?
"Twitter is the only place where well-articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say 'I like pancakes' and somebody will say 'So you hate waffles?' No, that's a whole new sentence."On October 29th, 2018, Twitter[1] user @Dustinkcouch tweeted, "nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early
astronaut: moon's haunted
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted." The post received more than 364,000 likes and 105,000 retweets in less than one year (shown below).me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you
miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!Our scariest president was probably Rushmore, because he had four heads
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Have you checked out Fantastic Four Vol. 1? It's great! Not to be confused with Fantastic Four Vol. 1, Fantastic Four Vol. 1, Fantastic Four Vol. 1, Fantastic Four Vol. 1, or Fantastic Four Vol. 1. thealexandrian.net/wordpress/53...
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Why Can’t Marvel or DC Sell Graphic Novels?
It’s pretty well understood that over the last forty years, the sales of comic books in America have shifted inexorably from “floppy” pamphlets to graphic novel collections.To understand t
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
All these techbros suffer from functional illiteracy. By 2030 these guys will be telling us how they're going to solve world hunger by perfecting human centipedes.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There's a semi-new genre of Youtube clickbait which apparently consists of IN DEFENSE OF UNIVERSALLY BELOVED MOVIE Ugh.
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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 25/07/2026
The Stygian Library is a point-crawl adventure set in an infinite extradimensional library. Each expedition randomly generates a new route as it explores, making each venture inside different from the last. soulmuppet-store.co.uk/pages/cavegi...
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Finally made it to Disclosure Day. It's a pretty good movie. The problem, of course, is you expect better than "pretty good" from Spielberg. There's a curiously antiseptic quality to Spielberg's fantastical films in the last twenty years.
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Looking Up Emily Blunt
ALT: Looking Up Emily Blunt
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Psi*Run 2nd Edition is entering its final day on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/117...
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PsiRun Second Edition
Whoever was holding you captive, you're free, for now. You have superpowers & amnesia. You know they're after you. What could go wrong?
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yes, my eyes are getting old, but recent RPG books I've read include: dark grey text on a black background pink text on a slightly different pink background dark red text on a dark green background (barely readable for me, and FU if you're color blind) This is inexplicably hostile to the reader.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Carrie: Can I be addicted to death sticks? George: You don't want to be addicted to death sticks. Carrie: I don't want to be addicted to death sticks. George: Nobody in space takes drugs or drinks. Carrie: Nobody in space takes drugs or drinks.
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Justin Alexander @alexandrian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just discovered this banger from @cavegirl.bsky.social. Method for prepping and running masquerade-breaches in Vampire the Masquerade. Has my brain churning for how this might be applied to other settings/dynamics. cavegirlgames.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-...
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The Masquerade Grid, for VtM
A little subsystem for tracking the state of the masquerade in your vampire games. I wanted a minigame that tracked masquerade breaches and...
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Seth Skorkowsky @sskorkowsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Nine years later, I'm still protecting Alpha Complex (and still haven't gotten a promotion)
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jane beswick-wright @martiancrossbow.itch.io · 16/04/2026
The Black Box is a multi-session Mothership adventure that sends players to a storage compound for supernatural items, and then into a warped, nightmarish version of reality. Give it a follow to know when the campaign page goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...
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Coming soon: The Black Box: A Mothership RPG Adventure
Once the body enters the mind, all bets are off.
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