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Rob Schamberger @schambergerart.com · 12/06/2025

Calvin & Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic strips of all time and I feel like we STILL underrate it.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Old message from my friend Simon: “Promised you a list of names of poisonous British mushrooms. I realise now that it reads like a list of rejected Cocteau Twins song titles.”

Ashen Knight
B e a r d e d S e a m i n e
Bonfire Cauliflower
Cellar Cup
Common Eyelash
Conifer Disco
Dead Moll's Fingers
Deadly Dapperling
Destroying Angel
The Dogend
Egghead Mottlegill
F o e t i d P a r a c h u t e
G a r l a n d R o u n d h e a d
Hairy Curtain
Old Man of the Woods
Satan's Bolete
Smoky Spindles
Snaketongue Truffleclub
Stinking Earthstar
Trompette d e s Morts
Twisted D e c e i v e r

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

History for beginners! "Focusing on whos and hows, rather than straightforward facts and dates, this invaluable guide invites 8 or 9+ readers to consider what history is and how it’s created, weighing evidence and developing habits of critical thinking" Thanks Imogen. I'm so proud of this book!

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Jeff Parrott @artofjeffp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Great time to remind everyone to check out Arne's PSG art tutorial. It covers a lot of topics quickly and applies to all art, including #gameart. Especially good for #handpainted texturing too! buff.ly/3UUmo0b

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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🔥 This week's Arsenal long-read is up. Some scattered rants to start. Then, drawing on @carloncarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant research, I talk about Kai's deployment and argue for one way to improve in open play: increased presence, volume of runners, and lower-percentage risk-taking in the box.

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What's in the box

Assorted thoughts on the current moment's aggravations, tactics, and lessons. Then: Kai Havertz and one area that can boost open-play chances: more presence, runners, and risk-taking in the box

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I feel this is more true every day. It's very cool. You are the stories you tell yourself

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Rob Donoghue @rdonoghue.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

One well known challenge in writing RPGs is that the rulebook needs to serve multiple purposes. It needs to convey information about the game fiction/setting, instruct the reader how to play AND serve as a reference for the rules once play begins. That's a tall order.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Someone once defined “charm” in art as successful ends achieved by seemingly inadequate means. Here's Alex Toth depicting a rogue pilot's last hurrah as he gives up trying to land his burning biplane, and instead roars into the air, loops, & smashes into the ground.

5 panel b&w comic sequence from Bravo for Adventure. Brain-breakingly great page by Alex Toth. I’ve made lots of the mentees at Helioscope look at this book, and raved about it so hard I probably turned them off his work.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Really excited about this game, the first was my fave RPG for years.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Designing a big cutaway spread for the moon comic. These are always the best.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I love this spread from History for Beginners. (Available now! A must read for all truth-seekers!) Meaning, message and form marry pleasingly. Like all good ideas, the design came to me, fully-formed, while in the shower.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Had anyone got some suggestions for good comics for a thirteen year old boy? He prefers adventure to drama, I'd say.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Have invented a new low gravity sport. MOONBALL will be the most popular game in the solar system in forty years.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Really excited about the rough design of this picture puzzle. Can't wait to see what the artist does with it.

Draft picture of a puzzle for a book showing a sky whale temple.

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Imogen Negomi @im-negomi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

These are one of my favourite book series! Very excited for this History one to arrive at my library!! ✨️📚🖤

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

One of my favorite parts of working in the game industry is finding ways to share our files with anyone whose ever wanted to try there hand at making something. Today, I'm delighted to be able to share with you the official development kit for Arcs. Have fun! boardgamegeek.com/thread/34126...

An Arcs card featuring art from Commander Keen

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Colin Le Sueur | By Odin’s Beard RPG @byodinsbeardrpg.com · 26/11/2024

New Quinn's Quest video! Hopefully Quinns kickflips through a portal onto Bluesky soon. youtu.be/kHIcXnfdv94?...

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Quinns Quest Reviews: There's a Skating RPG, and it's a Masterpiece

YouTube video by Quinns Quest

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My new book HISTORY FOR BEGINNERS is now available in all bookshops! I'm really proud of it because it's trying to do something different: to show how history is made and why it is a story. It's also an incredibly beautiful book. Paul Boston, the illustrator did a fantastic job.

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Zhu Industries @zhuindustries.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

On the subject of adults reading kids books, Aimed at top of KS2, Goblins Revenge by @andy-p.bsky.social swipes off Tolkien, a downtrodden goblin makes good with evocative imagery, cool escape room picture puzzles, tactical combat, impactful decision making.

The Goblins Revenge by Andy Prentice, illustrated by Tom Knight, a dice and a pencil.

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Negustak @negustak.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

A simplified overview of brain functions #neuroscience

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Scott Vanden Bosch @scottvb.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Space citizens

various space types and a transport animal

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Here's an NPC that will fit in almost any RPG... MR PICKLE Has anyone in the history of the universe loved pickles this purely? Is it good to always be cheerful? Does he ever take off his suit? Or is Mr Pickle hiding something?

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Day 8: rotte - 2m high lice with explosive pop. Thank you random tables.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Day 5: SAP: (aka sticky, hotjam, the old murder-juice) a dangerous substance commonly found in upper reaches of Tor where veins of the Great Tree are less encrusted by countless millennia's crufty accumulation of tortured brick and stone. Some fools will smoke it. Powerfully addictive mutagen.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Jewel tats / by Kritoo Yam Day 4: #dungeon24 a new item and maker. Inside a rotting cistern a tiny hominid crafts exquisite designs with skin and needle and glowing gem inks.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

just got my hands on the Epstein list and I’m shook

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

My Death Star is operational.

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

TIME DIAMONDS - clusters of sentient crystals that are growing backwards in time. Can be used to learn about future but visions are not reliable. #ttrpg #thetor #dungeon24

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Day 2: a new faction for the Tor megadungeon. Metallic, circular robo-owls. Known as BOWLS. Linked to terrorist acts. Riven by internal faction. Persecuted. #osr #dungeon24 #megadungeon #ttrpg

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Andy Prentice @andy-p.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Getting a start early on worldbuilding. Building off of dungeon23 work, I'm going to use the generators I made last year to make something for my megadungeon every day this year. Today, a post office staffed by the indefatigable duck Lobeer. "We'll deliver anywhere, chum. Yes even level 6, no fret."

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