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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here are 5 covers I liked this month. One of them doesn't even look like an rpg cover. It looks like junk mail. www.explorersdesign.com/covers-sept-...

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Great Covers: September '26

Great covers from across the tabletop rpg industry.

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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will never forget TPU's Wealth Tax Facebook poll and them having to delete it, because taxing wealth is more popular than taxing work #nzpol

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24-... Turns out the "tax bad" rhetoric isn't selling so well this year #tax #nzpol

A graph of Ipsos poll results, showing results for the question "Do you support the introduction of a wealth tax", with 64% yes, 26% no, 10% don't know

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This was such a great talk! Some deep thinking on how RPG systems work and how they break and what to do about it.

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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re so excited to share the trailer for BLACK SHEEPS with the world! This film was handmade with love and care (and many litres of fake blood) and I can’t wait for people to see it.

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Black Sheeps | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Even if you don't play games, Variations on Your Body is a breathtaking piece of lyrical writing - one of my favourite books in years. (If you *do* game, buy them all!)

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Great interview with one of Aotearoa’s finest exports, Roger Langridge! Some great stories in here. And @scott1gray.bsky.social and @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social get mentions

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

That's a blast from the past. Have always enjoyed chatting with @mikedawson.bsky.social!

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A very lovely, thoughtful (and generous!) discussion of a (very wordy!) page from Hicksville by the great Craig Thompson. Craig's absolutely right that Kópen is talking about comics here.... youtu.be/S__NBZmHRyM?...

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Page I Love with Craig Thompson

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good news! PARANORMAL WELLINGTON is on sale now as part of Xmas in July! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... It plays fast and easy, and the rules do a great job of setting up natural comedic moments during play. Watch PARANORMAL CHRISTCHURCH and see!

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Can anyone identify the model/inspiration for the typography and design of the cover and contents page of this issue?

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New zine (for those who like that sort of thing): hicksvillepress.com/secret-door-2/

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛ @ninjakitty.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just found out today that Volume 2 of Folk Remedy written by my exceptionally talented niece @jemyoshioka.bsky.social is available for pre-purchase. If you read the first one, you’ll definitely want the second one!! www.simonandschuster.com.au/books/Folk-R...

The cover of Folk Remedy, the
hidden World of the Yokai Book 1, by Jem Yoshioka

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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In just over an hour, I'm going to be hosting the TTRPGs in academia panel. Come join me and actual smart people like @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social to find out what science may be already happening at your table! m.twitch.tv/kemuwhakatau... #kiwirpg #ttrpg #science

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KemuWhakatauoAotearoa - Twitch

Tabletop RPGs, Kiwi Style. This is Aotearoa (New Zealand), the land of the long white cloud, a nation of islands located deep in the southern Pacific Ocean. We make games, we play games. Through #Kiwi...

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Once again, my fab dad Roger Horrocks has a new book coming out! It's about Len Lye's early years, from childhood to becoming an artist. There's a launch event at Unity Books in Wellington on Sunday 19th July, at 5pm. Come celebrate Len's 125th birthday with great words & happy moments!

BOOK LAUNCH
The Len Lye Foundation and Roger Horrocks are pleased to invite you, together with friends, family etc. to the launch of Happy Moments by Len Lye (edited by Roger Horrocks): Len Lye’s memories of his childhood and adolescence, and how he became an artist. In celebration of the 125th anniversary of Lye’s birthday.
Unity Books — 57 Willis Street, Wellington Central
5pm — Sunday 19 July
Introduction and Refreshments
ALL WELCOME

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This book is a total heartbreaker. So beautiful, so sad... 💔 @fantagraphics.bsky.social

The cover of the graphic novel Return to Eden by Paco Roca.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 27/05/2026

Big let down, to be honest

ijbol adjani ✅
@onbeinganangel

loved her work but this is really disappointing. i
hope she can clear this up

Benji @WrnrWrites [redacted]

To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the
opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein

Your Text is AI/GPT Generated

100%
AI GPT*

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that
almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of
being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered
dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-
extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 29/05/2026

When Australia did this it cost the federal government millions, ruined untold lives, and drove multiple people to suicide; but sure, let's learn nothing and do Robodebt here too

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The Sapling @thesaplingnz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Any Terry Teo fans around here? Legendary comic creator Bob Kerr has shared 'A Day in His Life' on The Sapling: www.thesapling.co.nz/a-day-in-the...

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This is sad news. I'll be spending tomorrow peer reviewing a new book by him - and was looking forward to letting him know how great it is. A prolific supporter of comics from all over the world, he'll be greatly missed. 💔

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Did I just see a moment of actual sunshine coming through the windows?!!! It's gone now, but I appreciated that brief preview of this storm being over... #wgtn

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Awkward news feed juxtaposition of the day

Screengrab of RNZ news feed. At the top: LIVE: AUCKLAND HOUSE SET ALIIGHT BY LIGHTNING STRIKE. Next headline: 'Electrify everything we can': Greens isdue warning in State of the Planet' address

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tohorā @tohora.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

WING CHUN is a kinetic, adrenalin-filled, animated, kung-fu short film from acclaimed visual storyteller, Ant Sang. $10,606.00 of $15,000 Raised 8 Days Left 71% www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

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Wing Chun - an animated short film

Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...

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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

About 48 hours left on the 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Gay' Kickstarter; be the first to get ebook and print copies of a brand new play! You can read the first few pages below, if you like what you see, give us a pledge or a share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lot...

Act 1
A prison cell in England, middle ages. In the centre of the back wall, a wooden plank is hung as a bed. On the left is a door. A scuffle and shouting can be heard from outside the door.
Rosencrantz: From offstage, getting closer. ‘—your hands off me!’
Guildenstern: Also from offstage. ‘I demand to speak with your liege at—’ Cut off, sound of a blow.
The door opens, enter Rosencrantz, hurled by an unseen person into the middle of the cell. He catches his balance, runs back toward the door. Halfway, he tries to stop. He braces just as

Guildenstern is thrown into him. Before either of them can catch their balance the door shuts.
The lock clanks. Rosencrantz tries the door, kicking it at discovering it’s locked. Footsteps are heard, receding. Guildenstern, holding his side, sits on the bed and lets out a pained breath.
Rosencrantz paces, in a rage but also in thought. Moments pass, during which Guilden-stern draws himself up in his seat, wincing. Guildenstern examines himself. After a minute of this, suddenly:
Rosencrantz: On what charge! Louder, at the door. On what charge!
Guildenstern: Pause. Disturbing the peace? Pause. It must have to do with the letter. Everyone was unwaveringly polite ‘til we presented that letter to the king.
Rosencrantz: That means nothing, the English are always polite! Although… this country has been strange of late. Inhospitable.
Guildenstern: England’s the same as it ever was. ’Tis the English who have changed. Rosencrantz scoffs. Poor hosts, that’s what they are

now. I’ve heard that is the worst thing you can be in England.
Rosencrantz: I’d say the worst thing you can be in England is ‘imprisoned’.
Guildenstern returns to inspecting his side. He gives himself a firm poke then sucks air through his teeth.
Rosencrantz: Do you want me to examine that?
Guildenstern: Why Doctor Rosencrantz, I had no idea you were so learned. No, thank you. Pause. I do believe it is broken.
Rosencrantz: Which one?
Guildenstern: Pokes himself up and down his side. All of them, I think.
Rosencrantz: All of them?
Silence as Guildenstern pokes himself up and down the side again, more deliberately.
Guildenstern: All of them, aye.

Cover, text reads 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Gay' at the top and 'a play by Kelly Whyte' at the bottom. To the right there's a torso of a man in a loose flowing shirt, he's tied in thick rope that resembles bondage but also forms a noose around the neck.

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Can anyone recommend game shops for Tabletop Role-Playing Games (new or used) in Sydney?

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Can anyone recommend comic shops in Sydney? Especially for graphic novels, obscure alternative stuff, local comics, imports from Europe...

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

If you're in Wellington tonight, come see what our MFA in Visual Narrative students made! Comics, animation, concept art, hybrid literature, visual novels, games! THISTLE HALL (upstairs) 293 Cuba St Friday 13 March, 5pm-10pm (tonight only!) www.visualnarrativelab.com/.../the-ever...

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I Inexpertly Photoshop the 1983 Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Toy The Raging Roper into a classical painting until I forget: Day 2 look, we warned you about this, one thing you can never say... that you haven't been told. hope you're happy now

Leonardo Da Vinci's La Gioconda or Mona Lisa, a painting believed to be of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo and one of the most famous and beloved paintings in the world

It depicts a woman, sitting serene and upright, looking straight at the viewer.

Unfortunately Leonardo's painting has been inexpertly altered here so that instead of a young woman looking at us the painting now features the 1983 Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons toy, The Raging Roper, who is looking bashfully away from the viewer, somewhat lessening the impact of Da Vinci's masterpiece

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Dark & Golden Books @darkandgolden.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

2 x Carol Swain is a perfect intro to the elusive, intriguing work of Carol Swain. A road trip reveals troubling truths, and the spectre of war hangs uneasily over a small town. With new introductions and an interview with the artist. Available to order here: darkandgolden.bigcartel.com

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A reminder that Minneapolis-St Paul is where modern RPGs were born, via David Wesely's Braunstein & Dave Arneson's Blackmoor (which became D&D). This month, MN-based @atlasgames.bsky.social is raising money to help Minnesotans affected by ICE's campaign of terror. www.atlas-games.com/news/post?s=...