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Ben Torell

@bentorell.com

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Tabletop enthusiast and general giga-nerd. Also known as "dodgepong" around the internets. TTRPG blog: gordianblade.com Itch Store: gordianblade.itch.io

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 09/06/2026

Yep! You can split revenue for individual products: support.rpg-trader.com/t/collaborat...

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 11/01/2026

My beautiful wife got me a variety pack of pens from JetPens for Christmas and I'm having fun playing with them today, drawing a familiar-looking map from memory. Pretty happy with how this turned out! Using a gray highlighter for shading is really fun.

A D&D-style dungeon map drawn on dot-grid paper surrounded by three different Japanese pens used to draw it.

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 20/06/2025

Absolute cinema this morning with Telegram spammers

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 01/03/2025

Ok, doodling on a tablet is very fun...

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 28/02/2025

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 28/01/2025

My tests of the 14b Qwen distill of Deepseek R1 are going great, nothing to see here

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 27/01/2025

(Spoilers for Tomb of Golden Ghosts from His Majesty the Worm) Having fun playing with a new IRL GM setup, getting ready to run His Majesty the Worm. I'm tickled by the idea of using a three-ring binder as a GM screen of sorts, without creating too large of a barrier between myself and the players.

A three-ring binder on a book stand with ttrpg adventure notes, a map, tarot cards, and notepad

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 07/01/2025

#Lancer #TTRPG GM Tip: If you're playing in person and suddenly need a map for a combat, break out 15-20 d6's and roll them on a blank hex map, and draw terrain based on their results: 1-3: Size 1 4-5: Size 2 6: Size 3 (Examples featuring terrain from The Upgrade Factory on Etsy)

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 06/01/2025

Looking at some doodles I did for my module, I actually really kind of like this one overlooking the gulch from Porthull. It uses an older version of the map, but I think I was onto something here. Might clean it up into some sharpie lineart and put it in the module somewhere, if I have time.

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 02/01/2025

Had a great time running my playtest of #Lancer #TTRPG at @levelupgames.bsky.social last night!

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 28/12/2024

Update

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 28/12/2024

Fun arts and crafts for #Lancer #ttrpg today

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 21/11/2024

Here's the PDF spread, as displayed by SumatraPDF. Just a bit of a toy example for now that I've been experimenting with

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 16/11/2024

Seeing shockingly few people discussing using an Elgato Stream Deck for uptime monitoring (using the Uptime Kuma Stream Deck plugin) github.com/MarlBurroW/S... #homelab

An Elgato Steam Deck appliance with a 3x5 grid of transparent buttons that each have a small display behind them. Each button shows the uptime status of a different network service that is being monitored. The appliance is placed on a desk underneath a monitor.

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 14/11/2024

My little #homelab, such as it is. Aoostar GEM12 for Docker/Portainer, 3x RPi4 for Pihole, secondary Pihole, and dedicated uptime monitoring (Uptime Kuma + ntfy.sh), and a UGREEN DXP4800 Plus running TrueNAS Scale. Not pictured: RPi4 running Home Assistant, next to my router across the room

An Aoostar mini PC with a label that says "Docker", three Raspberry Pi mini PCs labeled "DNS1", "DNS2", and "Uptime", and a four-bay network attached storage appliance, all sitting next to each other on top of a desk.

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Ben Torell @bentorell.com · 06/11/2024

Reminder

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