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Another classic is Ars Magica! Troupe play! Language based magic! They recently released the Definitive edition but I still have me my fourth edition stuff.

A leather looking cover with gold foil Ars Magica Definitive edition at the top with a symbol of three serpents coiling around themselves with the tails forming a circle and the bodies forming a triangle.

The list, it keeps growing! Um ... two more to add. @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is still my most favourite super hero RPG because it was a game where it felt that you could have wildly different power level in the superheroes and still have them all be effective.

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Also picked up a physical copy of Trianglr agency at @breakoutcon.bsky.social. I had picked up the PDF during the kickstarter but had to get a physical copy because the book is beautiful. Also it just hits funnier when you are reading it like the corporate manual it claims to be!

A white cover with a person in red high heels and a blue pantsuit is walking holding a briefcase where this red energy is escaping out the back. There is a city that is upside down in the background. The words Triangle Agency: clock in. Save the world. Is in the bottom right corner.

Every have an idea for something and as you start to write it down someone who clearly had a similar idea years ago is bringing it to fruition and doing it much better so you put down the idea and just back the game. That was my experience with Hollows.

A dark city spewing smoke into an auburn sky whil three people stand in front of a blue orb with blood red magic spinning around it with the hints of a fanged skull appear at the top of the magic. One person holds a mace, one holds a lantern, and one holds a staff.

Picked this up at @breakoutcon.bsky.social through the @ipr.bsky.social booth. Adorable little game where you play reality TV but as llamas. The fact that the game asks you to make a llamaverse and fill it with Llama puns is perfect. No notes.

A purple coloured cover with four llamas on it acting like they are on a reality TV show. The title at the top reads Drama Llamas

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Fun fact, I do have my old "White Wolf" game but ... it was never any of the WoD stuff. I got into ... TRINITY! because of course I did. This is the Aeon timeline for Trinity, the update that Onyx Path did in 2019. Because goodness knows if I can't come sideways at something, would I be me?

The title Trinity Continuum: Aeon at the top in big red letters. The center has pictures of galaxies, spaceships, floating above earth. There are also people on the cover and some "super heroes" who are the villains of the game.

Will always rep Lonely Timbers by @genesisoflegend.bsky.social. There's a second edition coming and I can't give Jason my money fast enough. It's a game set in Northern Quebec in the logging camps in the 19th century. Talks a lot about isolation, masculinity, and is a very French Canadian game.

A black and white photo of 6 men standing around two large treets they are in the process of cutting down. The title says Lonely Timbers: a game of lumberjacks and masculinity by Jason Pitre.

You Will Die in This Place was something that intruiged me as a premise. Reading the book a little bit is has a bit of a Mork Borg meet the Princess Bride kind of vibe to it. That whole meta-narrative worked for Triangle Agency but I'm not sure about this yet but I'm willing to give it time.

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Old school @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social with TFOS … Teenagers from Outerspace! My print copy says 1997 and that is because if there was an anime game in the 90s chances are R. Tal was publishing it. You get all the goofy slapstick comedy you want. Even has an opening comic!

The cover of a book titled teenagers from Outer space the anime comedy role-play game. The cover has a series of characters, a young Japanese school boy in his outfit a Medusa with gray skin sporting workout gear. It looks like a banana in the bottom left corner an alien in fishnet, short shorts, gloves, and a top with green hair, planes, bombs, frisbees, tank things just generally silliness.

Velvet Glove by @scorchadoom.bsky.social is one of my favourite PbtAs that I don’t have the full version of. Girl gangs in the 70s! Lots of feelings, emotions and violence which I come to expect from Sarah’s games.

The cover of a book done as a notebook. A handwritten font in purple ink with pink filling with the words velvet glove. The notebook itself is decorated with lots of doodles and purple ink, including broken hearts, skull and crossbones, and some mushrooms.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 28/03/2026

Wolfspell! So metal that @epidiah.bsky.social did it as an album. Folds out and everything. Amazing art by @portablecity.bsky.social

An album cover with a white wolf howling at the moon with the words wolf spell on it and a human eye and a wolf eye. It is a winter scene behind with lots of snow on trees and a mountain and wolves in the distance frolicking in the snow.

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Trying to get some good weather early. Is sunny and not deathly cold so away I go.

Silver stainless steel BBQ with a plate and a flipper on it

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 17/01/2026

Jasper mind control holding hands tower reporting in to Jinx chore removal mind control tower come in.

A brindled cat laying on a couch licking the hand of a man with an Apple Watch on. They are holding hands because that is what the cat likes.

Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 31/08/2025

Because it is fun for the first few questions! #gtkm #ttrpg

A list of questions that I will answer based on if you like the post.

I know best practice would be to list them all but that is a lot of text and if you like the post you will get to hear them!

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Oops! All Draculas is a What We Do In The Shadows but as an RPG. Met the author at breakout and 100% got the game. Haven’t really had time to get into it but is in the list!

An alive looking dead person (a vampire) in a coffin in black and white while the red flowers all around her are the only coloured. In a cursive font the words Oops, all is written and in a gothic red font the word Draculas appears

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I love the idea behind “You have one skill … the ability to fuck this up!” Because it is based around the tension of failure. You roll two dice and that’s the success number. You want to roll under in order to succeed. But that becomes the new success number. Want to steal it for a horror game.

A book cover with a yellowed paper background and a cute cat line drawing in the bottom left corner. In a bigger explosion like orange bubble in the middle are the words “the ability to fuck this up!”

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Moonlight on Roseville Beach. Picked this up @breakoutcon.bsky.social because the aesthetic kept drawing me in. You take three looks at a book you should probably buy it. Mechanic is some kind of any kind dice where you assign what you roll to different effects. Setting is very romance pulpy.

The cover of Moonlight on Roseville beach is a queer disco cosmic horror game. There are two women staring longingly at each other, undressed for the heat.

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Boldly Go! Is my favourite “Star Trek” game out there. The whole game mechanic runs on the idea that if you work together you can solve problems. Ran 10 sessions of it and after a mid season break we are going to go back to it. Honestly all heart and more people should be playing it.

The cover of Boldly Go which has a group of people from the Stellar Alliance in the middle surrounded by menacing figures of enemies and a ship on the right

Marvel Heroic Roleplaying. I stand by that this is my most favourite use of Cortex and my most favourite Marvel RPG ever. Character creation was so easy and fluid that people missed it because there wasn’t a huge set by step guide. Beyond that it made it easy to play Marvel characters too.

Cover of Marvel Heroic Roleplaying. There is Captain America, Spiderman, Wolverine, Spider Woman, Iron Man, and Ms Marvel on the cover.

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Dragon Quest second edition. 1980 printing. My friend Pierie introduced me to this game in my 20s and I have fond memories of playing it. Magic system was my introduction to a backlash mechanic to magic. I was playing an earth mage who kept losing my ability to speak because I was bad at rolling.

Cover of Dragon Quest second edition. There is a large muscular warrior clad in a loin cloth and a chest plate holding a large sword and the head of a dragon.

Blowback. 2009 published date. Basically Burn notice the RPG but you played two characters, one spy and one normal person in their lives. Couple of interesting things was the replanning of the bad guys defences and the push pyramid.

A page in the game Blowback. A bullet having gone through a window. The window is just off frame to the left so you only see the shattered shards of glass following the bullet. Blowback on the bottom right corner of the image.

Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 11/05/2025

Without downloading any new pictures, what is your mental state?

A red crossstitch and a tan background. The word is this is fine but it is made up of tiny small fucks

Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 15/03/2025

Forgot to post last night be we did have a game of Behind You! Which went incredibly well. We had three deaths almost out the gate.

A set of tent cards with a bunch of characters name on them waiting to get killed. In the bottom right corner there is a mess made by the game designers with pencils, index cards, and gold coins.

Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 14/03/2025

Getting ready to officially run my first game of Fighting Words at @breakoutcon.bsky.social!

Cards on a black table cloth. One deck is blue backed with the words Fighting Words on the back with a bunch of cool actions lines that are so cool they look good with the glare on them.

There are a row of face up cards with vowels on them and various attack buttons on them.

The two character cards on the side are art by Ben Rittman.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 23/02/2025

I mean… still on brand for me.

Album cover of BNL born in a pirate ship. There is a young white boy with a finger on both side of his mouth pulling out spat with his tongue out. He is wearing a paper hat and has freckles.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 11/02/2025

Excited that I got the proofs for the real time card fighting game I made with @cchunggames.bsky.social!

A set of cards and their box. The box is blue with the title, fighting words on it. There is a lightning boltish effect with action minds across the middle. There are two decks of cards, one with a blue back that matches the deck box and one with a red back that matches the deck box. There are two character cards with moves on them and a set of cards with rules. It’s a fun game you should play.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 21/12/2024

I have this card in my Arcades deck and the first time it hit the table I got looks.

The magic the gathering card titled Noetic Scales. There is a picture of a little pewter dragon guy holding a set of scales on a desk. There is a large ledger to one side on top of a piece of paper with three lot candles in the background. There is a symbol from Urza’s Saga on the right side with the text Artifact in the middle. The text box says: “During each player’s upkeep, return to owner’s hand each creature that player controls with power greater than the number of cards in his or her hand.” At the bottom you get that the illustration was by Andrew Robinson.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 03/12/2024

9/9 Lonely Timbers by @genesisoflegend.bsky.social which is a game about lumberjacks working in logging camps in the northern Canadian woods. It's historical, it's touching, it's harsh, it's just generally fantastic.

A black and white picture of 6 men standing in front of two giant trees. The lumberjack on the far right is standing on a ledge wearing a white button up shirt with suspenders and black pants. He has a cap on with a well trimmed beard. He's leaning against a double bladed axe. Underneath him is a man with a dark shirt kneeling while leaning against an axe. There's a man standing wtih an open dark shirt with a light shirt underneath. His hands are on his hips and he has a full bear. Two mean are wearing light shirts and pants leaning against a the tree. There is a man on the far left standing above everyone with a working hat, a jacket and set of pants and he's touching the tree where there is a big wedge cut out of it. The title Lonely Timbers with A game of lumberjacks and masculinity by Jason Pitre below it.

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ECH0 is a game about children who live in peace after a historical war who are playing around the rusting war mechs of a previous era when they come across a dead pilot who has been uploaded into an echo and you're going to bring them back to their mech to put them to rest.

A view from the top of a rusting ship with trees growing out of it on a blue water background.

The Droog Family Songbook. A contest from 1km1kt.net where you took two movies and mashed them together. This is the Sound of Music and A Clockwork Orange. You play a member of the Von Droogs who are trying to keep their favourite things safe from the Nazis in Austria sometimes using ultraviolence.

A paper background with the text The Droog Family Songbook in a gothic brown font.

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Headspace which is Silver Ennie Winning @slavetothehat.bsky.social's cyberpunk #pbta game where you have a shared consciousness in a cyberpunk setting and you can use each other skills but your feelings that get triggered spill out just as much. It's a fantastic game, and a great cyberpunk game.

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Puppetland. I saw this originally in the 90s on the internet. This is the "new" illustrated version in 2016 was an instant back for me because it was one of those games I remember saying was awesome and all my friends looking at me like I had two heads. I did, one was a puppet head.

The cover of the book Puppetland with Punch the Maker Killer on the cover. It's a puppet with a cracked face, a long nose, bulging eyes, and red lips. There is whispy black hair flowing out the back and a gold crown on his head with a couple of soldier looking puppets behind him.

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WOLFSPELL! @epidiah.bsky.social's most METAL game ever. Basically you have been turned into wolves for a reason and it's your job to travel across a frozen wasteland and try to fix your curse. It's so metal it's printed on an album cover. I haven't looked at it in a while I need to fix that.

A dark starlit sky with snow covered mountains and trees in the background while in the foreground a white wolf is howling to the sky while their companions are frolicking in the background. The words Wolfspell is on the fron with two eyes next to the bottom of the f and p to make it look extra cool.

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Dragon Quest is a very, very, very old RPG originally published in 1980. It's got a place in my heart because I remember playing this as one of my first fantasy games with friends. Percentile based. Experience required you to use the skill. Magic has a "miscast" chart.

The cover of DragonQuest second edition. There is a warrior in a leather armor and a metal helmet with horns holding a sword in one hand and a dragon's head in the other. The text reads:

An Experience in Heroic Adventure. DragonQuest. New 2nd Edition. The Award-Winning Fantasy Role-Playing Game System. Character Generation. Magic. Combat. Skills. Monsters. Adventure.

Boldly go by @geoffquest.bsky.social! I talk about it a lot but honestly I love this game to pieces. It's such a good "Star Trek" game that someone once went up to Geoff and told him that the game was broken because if everyone worked together then they could overcome any obstacle ...

A book cover with the title boldly go at the top with a ship and planets in space on the right side, a menacing metal being on the upper left, a yellow spiky menacing alien below that, a furry buff angry alien below that and a snake like alien below that. In the middle are the heroes: a human, a cat alien, an android, a squid like being a sloth creature, and a green alien with pointed ears.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 27/11/2024

44: A Game of Automatic Fear by Matt Snyder is a 2009 game where you play people who are discovering that there are robots that are taking over the world in the 50s. Sometimes the characters survive, sometimes they're replaced but you as the player will have a good time.

A blue background with a schematic with a humanoid robot with a borg like eye and a very real eye staring directly at you with a black hat on and a black turtleneck covering everything else. The text reads 44 a game of automatic fear by Matt Snyder.

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Because she has been snuggly I feel like sharing pictures.

A person wearing a green sweater with their hair tied back and a more gray than black beard with a small grey cat in his lap looking down and away from the camera.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 23/11/2024

As per @clarkvalentine.bsky.social I reserve the right to interpret playlist very broadly.

White background with red text that says "Like this and I'll post a random song from my playlist."

Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 15/11/2024

Honestly so glad to have it working and a physical copy to show for it. I will probably turn on the book later on @drivethrurpg.com! #ttrpg #pbta #rpg

The inside of We Used To Be Friends with a stock photography picture of students sitting around a table having lunch.

The cover of We Used To Be Friends which is a front half of a rooster filled in with the text of We Used To Be Friends in different colours in a white background.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 27/10/2024

Got the best Warehouse games jersey for my birthday!

Selfie of a long haired bearded male presenting person wearing a dark blue and light blue jersey from the We Got Ice team from Jomboy media’s warehouse games

Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 20/10/2024

Jumping to video games I love Tekken so much. I am not as good as I used to be when I was younger but I would put myself as a C+, B- player.

Two men standing back to back in fighting poses with a chain being broken and the words Tekken 8 in the middle

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 20/10/2024

Switching to board games this is one I love because of the memories of with friends late into the night. It is also one I love bringing up because people don’t expect this one from me.

Cover of the board game empire builder. There is a train with steam coming out of it and various American landmarks nearby. The Statue of Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Six Grandfathers mountain that was colonially defaced with the carvings of dead presidents heads.

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Jo'lal to some @firestorm-ink.com · 20/10/2024

Starting off with RPG stuff I think one of the things I love is tied to my last RPG session. It was an amazing Bladed in the Dark campaign that ran on Sunday Mornings and it was so good. It was the Cult of the Want with their triumvirate.

Cover of Blades in the Dark by John Harper. There is a shadowy figure holding a knife sideways as if to strike.