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Thats fair, and I don't expect session 1 to be a perfect reflection of a typical game especially while we're all getting familiar with the rules. Really enjoyed the game and your gming, this was the lightest of criticisms 😊

choice to avoid elves and perhaps dwarves dominating. It might be more obvious at the next session, which i am looking forward to!

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The combat tracker was also innovative, you quickly grasp the situation without having to meticulously mark out who is where. It was a great aid to visualising the battle. If I had any criticism it was perhaps that there wasn't a lot of difference between the races. That may have been a design

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Really enjoyed that session. You can't help but be inspired to be more high-minded and less "murder hobbit" with the menacing darkness and the depth of history you are playing in. I liked the rules, they have a light crunch - enough to add structure but not table heavy.

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Is this just clickbait, massive self-delusion, or an accommodation with fascists? Or all three? bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/01/30/p...

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Their website is copyrighted 2024, no surprise they're behind the times. Perhaps 1934 would be more appropriate

Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

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And from this day in 2014.

A two panel image. The top panel shows the scene from 'The Wicker Man ' (1973) where Sgt. Howie first glimpses what's waiting for him as he crests the ridge of the hill he's being led up, but Howie is now the red-headed kid from 'The Snowman' (1982). The bottom panel shows the islanders standing around the wicker man, but there's snow on the ground, they're all wearing bobble hats and scarves and the wicker man is now the snowman from 'The Snowman'.

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Substantial is being unfair on yourself - this was a wax and polish, not an engine rebuild 😉

RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

You're far too hard on yourself first time any of us played it, and we rattled through chargen, wee bit of goblin slaughter and then a quick bit of NPC wrangling. All fine by me 👍

Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 14/12/2025

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Daily Mail tragedy in 3 acts 22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe. 24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home 13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone? All the signs were there!

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Sign and share if you're a UK citizen or UK resident! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 20/11/2025

For fucks sake, no part of a cow or pig is called a burger or sausage, it's a shape. Desperate attempts from animal farmers to damage vegetarian food sales. What's next Cadbury's not being able to sell chocolate fingers because that's what Captain Birdseye sells fish as?

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Disappointed you missed 'That's Fife' 😉

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Friend of mine momentarily forgot what Bonfire Night is called and renamed it "terrorism party"

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

www.wargamer.com/warhammer-fa... This is a good sign

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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New print in my shop for the philosophically inclined! (Shop link in bio)

Print of a cartoon by Stephen Collins. Script as follows:

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Don't like this version of WFRP? No worries,there will be another along in a minute

C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Kult is strictly over 18s... mind you most of them seem to watch 18 cert films

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I saw some rumours on this. I'll approach with some caution but will deffo pick up a copy. Played WFRP2 with my daughter and her pals, it's much simpler; less onerous on the admin

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.” Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

"Automated BIOS patch corruption"

🏰meg⚔️ @impavid.us · 09/10/2025

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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 10/10/2025

Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, candidate for SNP leader in 2023 and subsequently Alba leader in 2025, has now quit Alba citing it's "direction". She becomes an Independent and is re-standing as one next year. Alba's - never earned, only defected - parliamentary representation is ended.

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Ronnie Blakey @ronnieblakey.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Grand Theft Fitba #SCOGRE

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#SCOGRE we gave the Greeks a right Thracian. The biggest theft in their history since the Elgin Marbles

William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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' I’m beginning to wonder if Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is a sleeper agent for Nigel Farage, because at every turn he’s making Starmer look like a complete and utter fool.' @weegingerdug.bsky.social, via The National archive.is/iMU0G

Some people walking into the newly-renamed George Orwell pub in Wirral. The external sign says 'established 1984' and there's an A-board outside with a picture of Keir Starmer and the slogan 'Big Brother is Watching You. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength'.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 01/10/2025

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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James Morton @glesga-grognard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

One step beyond

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

You should check out @cultureshipnames.bsky.social Keeping the flame alive 😉

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

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M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Once again watching England with an archly raised brow from Scotland; we've had 15 years of scorn heaped on Independence supporters up here for being narrow, flag-obsessed nationalists, and now the whole UK Cabinet is lying about having loads of flags they shag all the time, mortifying behaviour

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

UK online safety law in practice.

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Mount Alvernia; Nuns who would not leave Liberton in life or in death tinyurl.com/threadinburgh1 I assumed at the outset that this story would be a historical one, but much of it is relevant now. I'm a devout atheist but I do have admiration for people who devote their lives to 'good works'

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The thread about Mount Alvernia; the “Princesses of Poverty” who would not leave Liberton in life or in death

Every so often houses come up in the Edinburgh property listings in Liberton for a charming-sounding place called Mount Alvernia. You don’t have to look twice to guess that this development h…

tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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BREAKING NEWS Sunny Dunny 2025 #bloodbowl tournament is proud to announce a MAJOR new sponsor: Umbrage Sports, manufacturers of the finest bloodbowl equipment this side of Altdorf! Each team gets one 'special' match ball: The Umbrage Punt! Full details: talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtopic.ph...

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C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Yep, it shows how bad we were when "Cleric does job" is seen as a mighty victory 😁

C Shepherd @embraboffin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Adrian should of course get a mention for his clever use of soft furnishings to thwart a deadly trap.