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Cathriona Tobin

@catthm.bsky.social
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Managing Director and co-owner at #TTRPG publisher pelgranepress.com. I mostly post about analog games, Irish things, books, and feminism. Proud Childless Cat Lady. She/her, sí/í

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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I SWEAR this is just what came up!
A screenshot of a Merriam-Webster pinned post inviting ppl to screenshot a GIF, and saying whichever word you land on is your word of 2026. My screenshot shows the word "potato", which is class because I love an aul' potato.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's the last day to get Merryshire Detective Club, the cozy TTRPG of 🔎halflings solving murder mysteries🔎. A bit different from the usual @pelgranepress.bsky.social HORROR and DOOM and MOAR HORROR offering, but all the more welcome for that. Jump on the backer train here: bit.ly/4xaY8aY 🔎
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Merryshire Detective Club
You play amateur detectives in a cozy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It really does. 😊
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I've known @mytholder.bsky.social a long time, and I challenge anyone to find a pic where he looks as contented and at home as he does in this cozy cottage garden. (if you're wondering about the image, it's from Gareth's upcoming cozy halfling murder mystery TTPRG: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
A photo of author Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan in his grandad cardigan, pottering around an illustration of a small rockery-style garden, in front of a well-stocked shed full of planted pots. He looks contented, and his bio full of books about HORROR and DEATH seems oddly incongruous.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I know nothing about the Cowboys, but there's something very endearing about this mass Dutch bounce.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I had a really great #UKGE2026 this year. I could definitely feel the show's size increase on the @pelgranepress.bsky.social booth; as I've said to a few people, it's Gen Con-sized now, which is a fantastic achievement for the @ukge.bsky.social team. 👏👏👏
A post from the UK Games Expo team showing 2026 attendance figures of 87837 total attendees, and 51196 unique ticket holders.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Irish passports now joint fifth in "most countries you can access without a visa". (Curious* to know what one country will let in Luxembourg, Spain, Germany and Italian passports in visa-free, but not us). www.economist.com/graphic-deta... *but not curious enough to, y'know, look it up.
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The world’s most—and least—powerful passports
Americans’ travel documents aren’t as muscular as they used to be
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This sounds so cool!
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Saw this, thought of @handiworkgames.bsky.social. Is CliveEvil seeing anyone...?
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
If you'd like a break from the world and all its nonsense today, I found this 5-10 minute essay to be the reading equivalent of some deep breaths of pure mountain air. Beautiful. 💓 thehtml.review/05/tell-umma...
A screenshot of the title page of "Tell umma I'm walking to Baekdusan", by Anne Lee Steele for The HTML review. Elemental green mountain peaks soar towards stylised clouds drifting slowly across the screen.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
53 PWYW titles on @drivethrurpg.com is SO generous. You have literally nothing to lose by checking these out - and, potentially, your new favourite game to win..!
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"Originally known as shrews, the small African mammals are more closely related to elephants, manatees and aardvarks..." 😍You go, tiny tiny elephant cousin!
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I'm also excited for this! Ballad Hunters is so fun, and @moltensulfur.bsky.social is a very entertaining GM.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Hey #SpéirGhorm, only two days left to get those submissions in! An Taisce's post below has all the details about the government's proposed changes to costs involved for ppl challenging unlawful planning or policy. #environmentaljustice
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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We are here to help each other get through this thing...whatever it is. - Kurt Vonnegut
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This is a LOT of shiny shinyness. Thanks for sharing, @waderockett.bsky.social! 🤩
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Tav @tavernaut.tv · 29/11/2025
@pelgranepress.bsky.social at O20-22 is always a great visit too. They asked me to call your attention to Page Turners which I think I saw being signed? So if you want that, be sure to pop over, maybe you're in luck!
Two people standing behind the pelgrane press standA picture of some of the books pelgrane is sellingA man putting new books on the Page Turners stack.
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Rookery Publications @rookeryp.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ca-caw! This Saturday @tabletopscot.bsky.social we'll be talking with, deep breath: @catthm.bsky.social @lostpages.co.uk @peregrinecoast.press and @elainelithgow.bsky.social about the future of roleplaying games! Join us live, in person, or online in the usual places at 2030 UK / 1530 ET / 1230 PT
Inside the Rookery logo and tabletop logo. 

Five head shots of RPG writers and designers, and an image of a mysterious hag witch.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
⚔️I've known and admired Chrys for a long time, and I'm so excited to see the progress she's made through this Kickstarter. If you're into queer fantasy #TTRPGs, or swords & sorcery, you've only got 48 hours left to back this! ⚔️
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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Here is my fruit: Because of social dynamics, how fun a TTRPG isn't that good of a metric of the quality of a game; you can have fun with the right people and *any* game. A better way to determine a game's quality: How consistently does it honor what it promises?
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Nick Sheridan @thenicksheridan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Hey everyone, I just came in, why is "Thank Fuck" trending? #Eurovision
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Yeah, same.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I'd swear that's a U2 song Lithuania are singing. #Eurovision
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is the only explanation that makes sense.
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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
"Surely, the same Micheál Martin who was just a few weeks ago japing about Ireland’s housing crisis in the Oval Office with a bona fide fascist should have some empathy for statements made during a performance." This week's Surrealing in the Years.
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Surrealing in the Years: Kneecap are NOT the story. And yet.
It’s easier for powerful people to talk about Kneecap than it is for them to talk about Israel.
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Indie Game Developers Network (IGDN) @igdn-official.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
If you are a game designer with a marginalized identity, please apply for our diversity sponsorship! We provide cash grants and mentorships to marginalized designers to support their growth the industry. You can apply using the form below. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgfamily docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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2025 IGDN Diversity Sponsorship Application
What is the Diversity Sponsorship Program? This year will mark our twelfth Sponsorship expanding the scope of voices in the indie analog game community. Traditionally we would be bringing marginalize...
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My traditional Warpcon Saturday afternoon game with @gregorhutton.bsky.social and @donogh.bsky.social (and this year's guest star @angelonikolaou.bsky.social) is The Big Store. We've got a great team so far - Billy Two Brains, Woody the Bolt, and Vivienne LeClair.
An overhead shot of The Big Store: A TTRPG Con game, including the character sheet and core book.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Another day, another moment of gratitude to that Gmail designer who thought of adding a pop-up to say "You say you've attached something, but you haven't; are you sure you wanna send this?" 🙏
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is such a well-argued and thorough rebuttal to the reflexive assumption that only liberals and feminists have agency in the discourse about masculinity. I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire. www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
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Swiping Left on MAGA
The thing about a ‘no girls allowed’ treehouse is it doesn’t have any girls in it.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
There are always interesting articles on art site Colossal, but I just discovered they have a tag which helpfully collates all of their articles listing public domain resources 🙌 www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/public-...
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public domain Archives
Creative materials, such as film, music, or art, are considered in the public domain when they are no longer protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patents. In the U....
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Pelgrane Press @pelgranepress.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
13th Age 2E has been named the 8th most anticipated game of 2025 on EnWorld! 🏆 With updated class powers, revamped icon connections, and fearsome new monster abilities, this edition builds on the best of d20 fantasy and story-focused gameplay. #TTRPG #13thAge #EnWorld
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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Have you been asking yourself lately "Why doesn't someone write an essay about [X topic]?" Have you considered that YOU are the one to write that essay? Are you up for it? We are! Pitch your ideas and your working drafts to Analog Game Studies! analoggamestudiesjournal@gmail.com
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Happy Friday, all! Hope you've had a productive first work week of the year. Over the break, friends were shocked to learn I only know/use three PC keyboard shortcuts - CTRL+X, CTRL+V, and CTRL+Z. What am I missing, Bsky? What are your favourite or go-to shortcuts?
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Choking to death with a post-Dragonmeet lurgy, and trying rapidly to teach myself what the new GPSR regulations coming in next week will mean for my small business. The glamorous life of #TTRPG professionals! 😒
A screenshot of the European Commission's page on the new General Product Safety regulation guidelines available at https://commission.europa.eu/business-economy-euro/doing-business-eu/eu-product-safety-and-labelling/product-safety/general-product-safety-regulation_en.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Most important prep for #Dragonmeet - sending off my postal vote for #GE24. It wasn't easy to set up, but totally worth it.
A photo of a sealed ballot envelope for a postal vote in the Cork South West constituency in the Irish general election.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 15/11/2024
Tá Intern TG4 inár measc
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I'm pacing the room while chewing my fingernails, and understanding the relativity of time. There are few clearer ways of experiencing time expanding towards infinity than going through the last 7 hours of an important crowdfunding campaign! 😰 (this one, ICYMI: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...)
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Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition
TRAIL OF CTHULHU: A ROLEPLAYING GAME OF HORROR AND MYSTERY Investigate Lovecraftian horrors in the dark decade of the 1930s!
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Hamish @peregrinekiwi.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
A Kickstarter for a TRPG based in Te Ao Māori and made by a Māori team: Tipua: The Wrath of Ngārara - A Māori TTRPG www.kickstarter.com/projects/4ph...
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Tipua: The Wrath of Ngārara - A Māori TTRPG
Embark on an adventure to confront the cursed beast, Ngārara before it destroys the lands of Karito.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Sure, Lords of Waterdeep, everyone's a winner - but _some_ of us are more winners than others...
A screenshot of the end of a Lords of Waterdeep game with five AI opponents and one player, where everyone has been declared the winner despite the player clearly having the highest score :D
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Thanks Freddie! 😊 I'm still very proud of the Dracula Dossier. I think it's a fantastic campaign.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Welcome, new followers and mutuals, and a céad míle fáilte to Single Letter Site migrants. It's so much friendlier over here!
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
This was a lovely, hopeful story to read on this cloudy autumn day: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #540,649!
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
For @robheinsoo.bsky.social...
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Rosalind Lyons @roslyonsart.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
A detail from a larger painting. I often include cats in my paintings - sometimes my own - and frequently in a ruff.
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Cathriona Tobin @catthm.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Undisputed queens of all they survey.
A photo taken from behind of two cats sitting in a window, looking out at a garden.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
A Russian way of expressing the idea that love is precious or not easily discarded is любовь не картошка не выбросишь в окошко. It means “love is not a potato – you cannot throw it out the window” Read on for more potato phrases from around the world (a short thread to mark National Potato Day)...
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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
Hey man have you heard our skeletons are cartilaginous that’s right some of us have five gill slits personally I have seven hey let’s go chomp on some bluefins have I mentioned I’m the winner of an embryonic battle let’s go let’s go let’s go
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Sharks off Brazil coast test positive for cocaine
Sharks taken from the shores near Rio de Janeiro have tested for high levels of cocaine.
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