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One you read _Three Hearts and Three Lions_ you'll wonder where everything else in D&D was stolen from. This one book has so much of what we now associate with D&D.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 3h

Kumon, for children who have already given up at age 8

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 6h

Yes officer, this is my circus, but I've never seen these monkeys in my life

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 22h

But this multi millionaire would be sleeping in the street if we repealed it

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy birthday on behalf of all the other Ethans! It's your day, do what thou wilst

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Canadians of a certain age will understand.

Barnett Newman
Voice of Fire, 1967
As displayed in the National Gallery of Canada

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That is her vibe and she's [in]famous for it.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

on my mac every directory that has a file called crash.log also has a file called pbcopy and iykyk

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

16! Poor old guy. Our guy made it to 17 and was so slow at the end. So. Slow.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Never get involved in a hex crawl in Asia.

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janie @angels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

battletech is the greatest tabletop game ever made

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, honestly, more people should quote En Garde

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wired is out there doing the real work

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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our large-scale study of memorization of books in open-weight LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen) will appear at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling as an oral. We made a website for exploring our results on 200 books and 14 models: books-memorization.github.io

books-memorization.github.io

How much do open-weight LLMs memorize specific books?

Open-weight LLMs memorize books far more than previously believed. Memorization varies by model family, model size, and book. In extreme cases, entire books are memorized, and we can generate them eff...

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I fear that the people who claim PbtA is bad, or confusing, or whatever are basing that on third-hand knowledge gleaned from Reddit and not doing something like, say, reading Apocalypse World

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ah the old "if I get 1% of the market" strategy

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ha, I mean, I get it but there are other academic books similar that might legit have readers like that, but not this one.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The book has "D&D" in the title and on the cover

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's the hobby everyone has heard of but that apparently no one has ever actually done

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm currently reading an academic book about D&D, which I won't name, but even it has an introductory paragraph about what role-playing games are. Like, if you're buying academic press books about games you can probably skip that paragraph.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this does not bode well for my shipment

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like there's a new ttrpg based on a book series announced every month yet still none of them are based on the Virga/Sun of Suns series by Karl Schroeder. Seems so perfect for a sky pirate setting.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so this post is getting a lot of hot takes, all mostly right, but the post is just bait. rage bait works. it generates clicks. it's working right now! but don't try to make sense of it. the baffling, unhinged element is the essence of bait.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is CMOS safe? Asking for a friend

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's absolutely fine to be someone who enjoys playing Dungeons and Dragons while also being critical of Hasbro's corporate practices.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of hot non-nuanced takes in the replies & quotes here, but mine is that ttrpg metacurrencies are good actually but some people don't like them, so they're not so much controversial as a very specific taste.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That sucks LaTia. Undeserved. Good luck landing your next amazing job.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It took me a while to realize this is not the Onion and this is not a gag

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"So, the Zhodani battle plan always centered on Efate. The strategic position of Efate would give the Zhodani a salient into the Regina subsector, even as the Imperials have a salient into the Jewell subsector."

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's a bad take but geez people get mean and personal about it

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar Project

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly probably not even true given Tokyo's immense size. Also I assume Fremont was #11

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of these things is not like the others

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Only mentioning Canadian politicians whenever asked who I'd vote for

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Improv Comedy? And honestly they have good reasons.

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The Finished Book @tomedunn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New post analyzing how monsters are used in official D&D 5e adventures. Turns out the average monster the PCs face is weaker than you'd think. tomedunn.github.io/the-finished...

tomedunn.github.io

Adventure Encounter Monsters

An analysis of how monsters are used in encounters in official 5e adventures.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's so much GM advice out there but rarely player advice. This is great.

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