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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Imagine running like The Haarlock Legacy with Fedora Noir where one person plays the Inquisitor's rosette

Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When I'm not doing a themed month, my goal for what four games get picked for OUAG follows this rough heuristic: 1) some game I am eager to run 2) a game voted for by the community 3) some queer heartbreaker RPG 4) a game someone else is keen to run Plenty of overlap between the 4 categories.

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Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sparrowhawk at the school of wizardry on Roke after his accident with the shadow.

A drawing of a young Sparrowhawk with his otak in his hood in front of a mural of a dragon.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tell Arn is getting an upgraded intro

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BOOyotomi HAUNTejoshi @theyfab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

YOOOOOO let's go i love microscope

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

new character idea: dwarf who only appreciates certain types of precious metals for their terroir

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Hazards of Love remains a top 3 album for me and it sure as hell ain't 3rd.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Next week will be the release of our one shot of TRESPASSER

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Argosa is the third game to make the Once Upon A Game showcase and it's a doozy! What a cool sword and sorcery dungeon crawler. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJaT...

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Tales of Argosa | Once Upon A Game

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Come watch me murder Spencers made up contacts in our Electrum Archives game using the incredible ose adventure the Lions of Tell Arn. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The Lions of Tell Arn - YouTube

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Spencer Moore @primarchspencer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@ericvulgaris.bsky.social does this in our Tel Arn campaign. It's great, though I have yet to succeed an "I know a guy" roll so there's a small trail of recently discovered corpses behind me.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Next week's OUAG video is none other than Tales of Argosa! The sword and sorcery adventure game. We plumb the depths of the Caverns of Shonnog and brave cyclopean horrors in recovery of holy relics.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Next month on Once Upon A Game is CAPSLOCKtober. Featuring games so cool they need uppercase lettering for their titles to contain their coolness. It'll also feature GMs that aren't myself! Signups for the games starts tomorrow on my discord. Games are played sundays 7pm ireland time

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

youtu.be/6T1Gm3XqIQo?... DURF is a spectacular little dungeon crawler. It reminds me a lot of OD&D. Both its light dice mechanics and its combat stuff plays as well as it reads. I can't wait for the rest of this book. Dare I say it, I like it more than cairn!

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DURF (Expanded) | Once Upon A Game

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Once Upon A Game's episode of DURF should be ready to roll out tomorrow!

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Making an OSR sandbox tickles the same neurons as the lost art of making a mixtape

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I still wanna do my battletech good society game. Pride and Extreme Prejudice

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Hayley G - Good Society 2E on Kickstarter now! @storybrewersroleplaying.com · 09/09/2026

🎩🍰Call for tea and biscuits as Good Society 2nd edition is live upon the Kickstarter! 🍰🎩 We're back with more romance, scandal, and drama than ever. Come visit upon us and take a look at this Jane Austen rpg 💌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...

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Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG – 2nd Edition

Navigate the pitfalls of romance, reputation, manners, and marriage in the sumptuous new edition of this award-winning regency rpg.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

youtu.be/wm-eAhyUXUk Once Upon A Game's first game is now up on youtube and podcast (open.spotify.com/episode/3Qzv...) We play MCDM's new game Crows!

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CROWS RPG | Once Upon A Game

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Last month I got an interest check from players for what games to play first and they've spoken! here's the lineup for this month.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Once Upon A Game is coming back! It's still a friendly one shot variety program but rather than livestreamed and exclusively GMless, we're playing everything and it'll be recorded and edited and released on YouTube.

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Work With Indies @workwithindies.com · 25/08/2026

3d6 Down the Line is hiring a Social Media Manager to help grow their TTRPG Actual Play channel and podcast! 📍 Remote, Part-time (ET ± 3 hours) 🧩 Familiarity with TTRPGs a must 🗣️ English proficiency Work with @3d6downtheline.com and apply:

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3d6 Down the Line is hiring a Social Media Manager

We are seeking a creative, highly organized Social Media Manager with intimate knowledge of the ttrpg ecosystem who can help expand our viewership and community engagement.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I dont know how else to put this about climate change but like we all lived through COVID right? There is no plan. No cooperation and no democracy will save the world once it's time for the Food Ration stamps. And that's coming a lot sooner than the real bad stuff like sea levels and extreme weather

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The world could always use more ttrpgs that ask you the trilemma of Family, Duty, and Honour.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Magic School Bus RPG let's friggin go.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Can't wait to finally play crows, draw steel, trespasser, and other games on Once Upon A Game so I can have a fully formed Take(tm).

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Couldn't agree more. My own corollary to it is that I really don't care for read through/theoretical reviews of products. Give me the review after you played it!

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Me: "why isn't there a durian tea? It'd be so good." Family: "Why would you or anyone want that? Gross." Me: "Because who wouldn't want a pitcher of Durian Grey?"

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's almost like there's a mass conspiratorial/willful blindness to not see the sociological end run of climate inaction. I suppose the answer is also just as obvious and it's easier to just pretend to not know better than to advocate for the biggest human change since the industrial revolution.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Pretty much the exact same in Ireland only more severely tilted. And can you believe we subsidize this madness too? Im a meat eater. But like come on. It just makes no sense to keep doing what we're doing.

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spectralidax.bsky.social @spectralidax.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A little one page RPG about tanks and witches

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

How shameless would it be if I started asking for review copies of games? If I deliver a high quality, produced actual play one shot of one's game. I'll disclose any copy I get in the video of course.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I know this is appalling but I admit this tingled my ttrpg senses.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Jianbings are just the best damn food. It's like eating a taco bell crunchwrap supreme for the first time but Chinese. Egg/millet pancake, bean paste, crunchy tofu skin, and other stuff. This one has a hot dog in it. Buck fifty for it and they make it on the spot in 3 minutes. It's perfect.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yup going in my Traveller/old school sci fi folder

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I always wished traveller RPG was the game that could navigate societal layers of culture in space between planets. Like I loved finding how here in Beijing there's a difference between the 你好 (hello) and the local 吃了吗？(Did ja eat yet?)

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are you interested in me being here because I'm making the bare minimum to learn beijinger slang and eat like a local and be polite and not like the hive of Italian tourists or cuz you need my 5 star rating?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Incredible thread on Sean's process and finding their perfect dungeon crawler game. I don't have that much to add other than I thought my pal Owen's game LOOTERS has some great tech in it and I'm looking forward to running that in the near future. Builds off both blades and torchbearer.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Me and my vacation to China right now. I hope things are ok when I land!

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just finished this and it's my favorite of the trilogy? Hard to say but it's so damn good. Just an absolutely brilliant mix of fantasy worldbuilding, a splendorous murder mystery, and sad queer characters.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Once upon a games coming back and I already have a list that's like 80+ game systems long.

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Sean Nittner @seannittner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

After many years of having it on my bucket list, I finally started the Great Pendragon Campaign. @stillisgaming.bsky.social is GMing and we started our first session doing character creation, being knighted, and going on our first excursion. seannittner.com/the-great-pe...

Cover of Pendragon featuring a knight mounted on a horse with riding in front of a city, holding a banner.

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This summer scheduling has been brutal, so no video this week! With my upcoming vacation to China, Lions of Tell Arn returns in early September. Also cooking up for my return some more GM advice videos and the return of Once Upon a Game for one shots. Stay tuned! And thanks for understanding

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Eric @ericvulgaris.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

the cozycore dark fairytale world is dying and the dadmetal world struggles to be born

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