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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finished The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson for my third time, and it is more and more of a masterpiece every time I read it. Now I have to rewatch The Haunting (1961).

The original cover of The Haunting of Hill House from 1959. The title in large, white san serif font, with "A novel by Shirley Jackson, author of The Lottery" below it.

The background is black, with green, blue and purple plants growing wild, nearly, but not,entirely, obscuring the house behind themselves.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A little rainy day game for Alfred! I stuff bags with paper and treats (the organs) and stuff those into a bag (the carcass) with more paper and treats. It gives his brains and instincts a nice workout.

Alfred the dog starts digging into a brown paper grocery sack.

Alfred the dog has pulled out a smaller bag from the larger bag and is inspecting it for treats. If the larger bag was a carcass, and the paper its flesh, the scene would be truly gory.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Inside you, there are two wolves. Inside each of those wolves, there are six more wolves! That's too many wolves.

The cover of a jigsaw puzzle. There's an outline of a wolf in front of a snowy treescape. Inside the outline, there's a mishmash of tacky, colorful wolf pictures.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

For every angry post/repost, one centering one. Here's Alfred keeping his snoot warm, ready for spring.

Alfred, a medium sized dapples dog is curled up on the couch, his face under a blanket with his ears exposed. Nothing could look cozier.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Dickens-era Gin Punch It was too warm on Xmas to make this, so I'm busting it out on NYE. Tiny Tim did NOT die, and he had a healthy serving of this concoction of GIN and SHERRY.

A pot of dark liquid, with spices, a lemon peel, and many apple slivers floating in it. If you could smell it, it would smell of cinnamon, nutmeg, anise, and clove. Plus a lot of booze.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Sometimes I feel like I did RPGs backwards. D&D is deeply fine, but it wasn't what I grew up with. So I've played and abandoned every edition since 2e like a bad pizza. I found storygames and thought, "Well, I never have to D&D again." And then I got drawn back in.

The "Pink" Box set of Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set by Tom Moldvay

In a yonic pink castle room, a dorky fighter and a rad wizard lady battle a green dragon.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I don't love vampires. I love Dracula. And it started here, and has lasted well past the 3 years that I ran this campaign. This campaign is like someone dropping several tons of mixed auto parts on your lawn and telling you to build a car. A mixed experience, but I'm tempted to do it again.

Night's Black Agents: The Dracula Dossier Director's Handbook by Kenneth Hite and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

A painting of a woman with a gun and a file folder is being leaped upon by a moustachioed man in a black suit. A London Underground sign is behind them.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Science fiction doesn't need to be hard - it needs to be plausible. I've carried this around since the 90s, and I'm just now realizing its full potential.

The Traveller Book. Traveller: Science-Fiction Adventure in the Far Future by Marc W. Miller

A perfectly black book with a red stripe and white text.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Never be afraid of a dumb idea. Time Cellist is by my friend Megan Pedersen and fellow JankCast alum Todd Nicholas. Time Cellist is a celebration of kids activities cootie catcher!) funneled through a propulsive Doctor Who style romp.

Time Cellist, A Roleplaying Game by Megan Pedersen and Todd Nicholas

The evil nemesis (whose name I forget) blasts Time Cellist, who has an energy bow to her cello.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Let's go back to the beginning. TMNT&OS was my first TTRPG and the one we played the most. If being a game designer has an origin, this is mine. It's SO fun to make characters in this, and there's some real mastery to be found. There's no nostalgia to go back, though. It's not very good. 😆

The cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness. Leonardo looms over a city scene with his arms crossed, swords raised. All 4 turtles are in a fighting pose below him, with Shredder, Splinter, and Casey Jones facing the viewer at the bottom.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The only licensed game I truly care about has just arrived from the mad minds of @amabel.bsky.social and @flintstonerocky.bsky.social!

A boardgame, Belinda's Big Bonus: A Belinda Blinked game. Based on the novels by Rocky Flintstone. Illustrations by Mouldy Wood. Designed by Amabel Holland.

Belinda, a raven haired buxom woman stands atop a pile of various characters from the Belinda Blinked series, holding a pot and plans (business.)

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I have the house to myself this morning, so it can only mean 3 things: - coffee - fusion jazz - an actual physical RPG book

A picture from the Judge's Guide to Newhon. A black and white illustration shows a bubbling clear goblet with sinister fumes rising up from the liquid. A bottle with several mushrooms floating inside of it sits behind the goblet.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Repost with your favorite actor that's not human but not AI.

Wishbone, an adorable Jack Rassell terrier

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In honor of the 30th anniversary of Hackers, here's how the Sword Opera power arts might work in a 90s cyber underworld: Adapt A quick edit to the school records places you in your crush's Adv. Literature class despite your lack of prereqs.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Sword Opera, and a sweet map of San Mercurio are now available as Print On Demand at DriveThruRPG! It is still BYO Sword and Flowers, however. ⚔️🥀

An end table with a vase of flowers, a framed map of San Mercurio, and a copy of Sword Opera on top of the player sheets.

There is also a cool sword.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

"Did you get that bear picture for the NWF calendar?" "Sure did, boss. Real sexy like you asked. "

A page from the National Wildlife Federation 2025 calendar. A bear reclines on its side, front paws down, face towards camera.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Sword Opera - not just swords, but definitely wet

A two axis grid running gun at the north to sword at the south, dry to the west and wet to the east.

A purple smear past wet running from gun to sword is on the right side of the graph.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Assuming no one is hurt, it's gotta be so embarrassing. Here's a similar thing that happened to a snowplow on a parking garage roof.

A snowplow on with an extendable shovel on a parking garage roof has overextended, tipping it over, with its shovel dangling over the edge.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

When I went to House on the Rock for my birthday, I was absolutely overcome by child-like wonder in this area. It's so big.

A picture taken at House on the Rock showing the open maw of gigantic whale, with a full sized canoe sitting on its tongue. A walkway is visible to the left, showing the massive scale of this display.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

One thing I love about Sword Opera is that, because I wrote it, it's built for how I run games. Here are my notes for tonight's session. This, plus proactive players will get me 3 hours of solid play.

Sword Opera Notes

Pick up the earnings
Organize the show at Lady Manzini's
Give Andre's Circle a name
Bring Fortunata and Nerissa together - run this into Kevin's "I know that dirtbag" training montage

Mixed result on Lady Salerio's Frumio fact finding

Enact violence - let them show off?

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Just me in my Voidsingles t-shirt finding @jordanshiveley.bsky.social's Hot Singles in Your Area at my local queer bookstore, A Room of One's Own. A kickass bookstore that happens to have the best RPG section in the bottom half of this state.

Me, an middle aged white man with shoulder length grey hair, stands holding a copy of Jordan Shiveley's book, "Hot Singles in Your Area."

I'm standing in front of a bookshelf at A Room on One's Own, an RPG shelf specifically. My winter coat is open showing my T-shirt which reads "Leave them in the grave they dug for you" which is also a Jordan Shiveley design.

An RPG bookshelf at A Room of One's Own, showing titles like Queerz, For the Queen, BFF!, Xenolanguage, An Altogether Different River, and Stewpot.

Another RPG shelf at A Room of One's Own containing: Big Baby Lich Lords, If I were a Lich Man, The Zone, My Brain is a Stick of Butter, Cloud Empress.

A pulled back look at the RPG shelves at A Room of One's Own. It's stuffed with indie titles.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

5️⃣ Star Wars: the Roleplaying Game 1e Having read multiple versions of SW RPGs over the years, the first is still my favorite. It's a little clunky, but it's still a graceful swan compared to later editions. And the GM advice! We didn't have to wait for the indie boom to learn to establish tone.

Star Wars the Roleplaying Game
The cover is based on the original film's poster, a beautifully painted montage with Luke in the center and all of the other characters radiating out in the background.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

4️⃣ Good Society I don't care if you're not a fan of Jane Austen (but seriously, go read some,) read Good Society. Oh my goodness, the writing is so good. Most RPG writing is fine, and there's often too much of it. Good Society infuses the witty charm of Austen into its text, and it's a delight.

A green book on a pink and white checkered tablecloth. There's a vase partially in frame on the left, and a few loose flowers on the table. A floral deck of cards in the bottom left.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

3️⃣ Invisible Sun This isn't my usual taste at all. Too much setting, based on a game engine that I'm only so-so on, and extremely expensive. But. It's just so indulgent. It's like eating frosting right from the tub. So many delicious proper nouns.

Orange swirly text reading "Invisible Sun" over an arcane glyph. All on a white background.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

2️⃣ Bunnies & Burrows, 1e I love looking at early RPGs, because it reminds me that our paradigm could be so different. B&B is stacked with ideas and they don't all work, and they don't all work together, but it's such a creative work in a brand new field. Endlessly inspiring.

Book cover with a white background and blue writing and illustration.

Bunnies and Burrows
The Fantasy World of Intelligent Rabbits
B. Dennis Sustare
Scott Robinson
Adventure Quests & Role Play
Fantasy Games Unlimited, Inc.

There's a bunny with a flag on top of a tower, overlooking maybe a farmer's field. The detail isn't great.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

1️⃣ Cairn 2e I'm always in deep flirt with the OSR, and I've been moon-eyed over Cairn lately. It's just so clever and well constructed. Seriously, Yochai picked apart every part of the OSR, streamlined it and polished it. Except hexcrawling, but there's an article about it. 😀

A hand holding a copy of Cairn 2e Player's Guide. You can see a messyish living room past the book. The book cover is in blues and greens, showing a 3 eyed beastie crawling up a tree towards some panicking adventurers.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Architects, BRING BACK THE PERVERT WINDOW 👀🪟 h/t to @flatvurm.bsky.social for the sickos image edit.

A photograph of a Renaissance painting. Only a portion can be seen. In the foreground, a barber-surgeon operates on the back of a man. Women sit by watching. There's a shelf on the wall filled with bottles and jars and one human skull.

Opening a weird window above the scene is a man peering out, observing the whole process. A voice bubble has been added to reference the Sickos meme: "YES... HAHAHA YES!"

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Leh'Gahn Ridge is funded! Next up: Children of the Night, for the Hot Town underworld 🧛‍♀️🧛 Next next up: Heart's Haven, Fae Austenian Romantasy! By @dreamstobecome.bsky.social and @worldstoforge.bsky.social! www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

Text at the top "Ending soon! Kickstarter" and "Funded!" in big friendly letters.

A trio of folks in Renaissance clothing have a fraught embrace. The woman in the middle has her back to the audience, and each arm wrapped around a prospective lover. There is a halo of magical energy over her head, along with some sparkles. The femme presenting person on the right is not sure whether to kiss this person or not. They are also holding a sword, which is gripped by the man on the left. He has his head laying on the bosom of the woman in the middle.

A swoosh of paint covers the lower quarter, with text on top that reads: "Sword Opera: An RPG of melodrama and violence!"

Art by Jack Taylor

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hot Town is our John Wick minus John Wick set in an alternate 1970s New Orleans. What if we made it even cooler? What if we added vampires? Our second stretch goal is Children of the Night, an expansion to Hot Town, which adds vampiric Paragons and Circles! 🧛🧛‍♀️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In Hot Town, a Sword Opera Underworld, it's the funky 1970s in an alternate New Orleans and baby, there's gonna be trouble. No sword? No problem! UNLEASH a perfect hail of bullets! FLEX the raw power of a muscle car! DASH from the roof to that helicopter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

What if we kissed by the seaside? 💋 Or, what if we fought with swords instead? ⚔️ Check out Sword Opera, the #ttrpg of melodramatic action! Featuring the art of @nightjargames.bsky.social (featured below) and @cesious.blue - so you know the drip is incredible. www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Don't let Mom tell you that we have Sword Opera at home. www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

A cat, dressed as a lounging human on a Sunday morning, is reading the paper and having a mug of tea. It looks thoughtfully into the middle distance.

The meme text at the bottom reads, "I should buy a sword" and then hastily scrawled after it is the word "Opera"

It's very dumb.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

INCONCEIVABLE I wanna watch The Princess Bride. You wanna watch The Princess Bride. Let's get this to 500 so we can have a fun movie watch-along and watch it together! www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

A screenshot from Kickstarter. It reads "413 Project followers."

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If anyone's got 700 clams just lying around, you could make my day NICE NICE. www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

Kickstarter progress bar reading $6269 of $10,000

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The Sword Opera TTRPG is live on Kickstarter! What if you smashed Ladyhawke and John Wick together? What if Romeo + Juliet and Crouch Tiger Hidden Dragon kissed? That's Sword Opera! Featuring art by the awesome @cesious.blue! www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

A trio of folks in Renaissance clothing have a fraught embrace. The woman in the middle has her back to the audience, and each arm wrapped around a prospective lover. There is a halo of magical energy over her head, along with some sparkles. The femme presenting person on the right is not sure whether to kiss this person or not. They are also holding a sword, which is gripped by the man on the left. He has his head laying on the bosom of the woman in the middle.

Art by Jack Taylor

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We even made it about more than sex stuff because we’re mature adults

Arouse
When you inspire someone to action or passion, you arouse. To give someone a sense of drive and passion requires an intrinsic connection and consent. It’s a versatile and powerful method, capable of great intimacy and great manipulation. Some ways to arouse:
Inflame the passions of your paramour for mutual enjoyment (and maybe to delay a difficult conversation).
Rekindle the desire for a sports victory in your teammates after a grueling first half.
Galvanize your lieutenants into a fighting force as street conflicts escalate into war.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Are we already at 80 backers by this morning? Yes, yes we are. Could we resist preserving the funny sex milestone? No!! One of the basic actions of the game is Arouse ffs! www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

The Sword Opera RPG Kickstarter preview page with "69 followers" highlighted with colorful fireworks.

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

And since 1997 was at least 10 years ago, I can assure you that we've improved since then.

George Carlis as Rufus in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure ruefully saying "They do get better."

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Eric Farmer's Sassy Homunculus @ericfarmer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

John McClane (Bruce Willis), Holly McClane nee Gennaro (Bonnie Bedelia), and Sgt Al Powell (Reginal Veljohnson) from Die Hard.

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