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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Prepping two Aegean RPG adventures for Furnace, which mostly involves reading. I want to run a Dragonbane one shot for a friend, and have a bit more to do in on that. I'm winding up to get a short campaign up and running, but I'm in the options phase, so haven't fully committed for prep.

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NotASnark @notasnark.net · 04/10/2026

Released MgT2e 0.23.1 for Mongoose Traveller 2e on FoundryVTT. Bug fixes around effects for dodges and parries, support for fractional cargo amounts and updates to the NPC generator. #TravellerRPG #TTRPG Also, a new Dev Diary video talking about the NPC Generator: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCG5...

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Mgt2e - NPC Generation - Dev Diary #24

YouTube video by Samuel Penn

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd be delighted to join you for a chat about Garricons sometimes. 😃

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Strong numbers! My GM % is lower and I'd like to up it.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join us for the last ever #AireCon, where we will once again be presenting 18 tables of #ttrpg action over 8 sessions, 11-14 March in Harrogate, UK. The schedule is starting to fill, and I'd love to see you run a game or five there. www.airecon.co.uk/gms

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hiking by Loch Lochy today, arriving at Laggan Locks.

A shoreline view of Loch Lochy in the Scottish Highlands.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stage 1 of the Great Glen Way. A walk along the Caledonian Canal to Gairlochy. Lots of water! Sorted out global geopolitics on the way. Something less taxing tomorrow I think...

Walking by the Caledonian Canal on the Great Glen Way. Lush trees and grey sky.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm on an Ember electric bus for the 109 miles of the West Highlands from Glasgow to Fort William. The bus has more than 350 miles range and is a dream to drive (so the driver tells me)! The service is subsidised to a total cost of £4. Epic journey ahead!

A new Ember electric bus, parked in its bay at Buchanan Bus Station in Glasgow.

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I did the proofreading on Masks of Nyarlathotep, many moons ago. Good stuff. If you want help with a ttrpg project I have space for proofreading or editing this autumn. Ideally shorter than 666 pages though...

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thank you so much @ianlovescomix.bsky.social. I must get up to Tabletop Scotland and see you there!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Many thanks to @asako-soh.bsky.social for putting on the much beloved annual Owlbear and Wizard's Staff #ttrpg event! Played in @icooper.bsky.social Legend in the Mist and @burnafterrunning.bsky.social TOR2e. Great games. I ran a fun session of Zweihander Reforged. Looking forward to next year.

A group playing Zweihander at Owlbear and the Wizard's Staff event in Leamington Spa.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The 5e Rulebook will be released as a PDF and the hardcopy available for pre-order during Summer 2026. Er, wait... Not long.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh, is 5e to be a Kickstarter? I assume it was just going to be a release? Either way, I'll be all over it. I like 4e, but it needs a Maledictumesque refresh. I've been enjoying running Zweihander Reforged a great deal.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yep, to fill a 55 litre diesel Qashqai in Sheffield would be about £99 (I think).

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Demoing @montecookgames.com Cypher #ttrpg today and Sunday at Patriot Games in Sheffield, UK. Fun to get back into the new edition of the game, still with the core highly playable premise and choc full of ready to play ideas.

A table at Patriot Games in Sheffield, UK, setup for a demo of Cypher RPG.

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Cubicle 7 Games @cubicle7games.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We have been reading your feedback since announcing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Fifth Edition, and today we are answering some of the questions we have seen most often. Read the full blog and let us know what questions you would like us to answer next: bit.ly/4zpzWmM

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Message me on here, or on the contact page on the Furnace website: furnace.org.uk/contact/

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Contact

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We've paused registration at #FurnaceCon this year while we find more GMs! If your about and want to pitch in, then let me know. The convention is a lovely small gathering of about 80-100 folks, welcoming, and good #ttrpg gaming. Furnace, October 10-11, Garrison Hotel, Sheffield UK. furnace.org.uk

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Furnace RPG Convention

Furnace Games Convention XXI, 10th & 11th October 2026 Furnace is an annual tabletop roleplaying game convention that takes place in Sheffield UK, held at the Garrison Hotel. If you love tabletop RPG...

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🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃 @agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Impressive. Most impressive. 😃

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I wpuld take my fastest polestar, charged by Zeus hinself, and travel the labyrinth of A roads to find a copy and recover it to my polis.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I got a copy, the one on the right and Contingency, coffee soaked just prior to sale, giving it extra tanning to the colour palette. The one on the left was an unexpected addition to my GMS order.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I took the PDFs with me to Crete, for a holiday two years ago, but now at last have the full range of @stoogoff.com masterpiece the Aegean RPG. Great game. Some play at #FurnaceCON?

The full range of Aegean RPG books ina proud table display.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I believe it is just as you describe. So, a bit of a tidy and refresh. I'm happy to have another sumptuous table copy.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Been there a few times and love it. What a posting that was!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hey there, thank you, yes I do have access to that. I don't think anything I have quite expands to A1 without some blurring, so I will look to print something more in the A3ish territory. The world setting is a tremendous boon in addition to the marvellous adventures.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Looking at Trilemma Adventures for #Grogmeet convention. Check it out at trilemma.com, really good stuff. Is there a hi res of the world map @fuseboy.bsky.social? I'm looking to print a crisp A1(ish) of the Players Map?

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Trilemma Adventures

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What omen is this? Zeus has struck IKEA and it is closed. It will be a homecoming, if the gods will it. I will stop thinking like this in a few weeks.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Odyssey. I defied Poseidon to the end. I now sail my fastest polestar to the Isle of IKEA, where there are said to be feasts and supplies.

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Stoo Goff @stoogoff.com · 19/07/2026

Now may be the best time to say, if you've just got back from watching the Odyssey and you're looking for an RPG for an epic Greek mythology campaign (with added management of your party's polis), look no further than Aegean: www.aegeanrpg.com

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Aegean — Mythic Roleplaying in ancient Greece

AEGEAN is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mythic heroes building a new, free city on the shores of the Aegean Sea. There are neighbouring cities to trade or war with, monsters to kill, go...

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm off to Sheffield's IMAX on Tuesday, can't wait!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My favourite version of the rulebook. I can't find mine, but I hold out it will return.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Run it at North Star convention, so that I don't have to!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Inspiration is key for me too, and it emerges in surprising places. I had a big desire to 'fill an old gap' and ran some SPI DragonQuest. For all its flaws I'd go back. My problem is that I inspire easily and flit.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Most of my play is online. A good Foundry VTT, or my own hack, makes any #ttrpg more likely to transfer to the 'table'. Many purchases are extensions to an existing core game. So a lot of my languids are setting and adventures. Time... (and I have played 97 sessions in 6 months). I buy too many.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's an excellent SF game, maybe it will be your 'one'. It's on the crunchy end of 2D20, but that might be a boon for you. I've done convention one shots (🤪) but not an extended run. I sometimes think of lightening and running, but it works fine as is.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

May your scanners alight on the paradise garden world of SF #ttrpgs!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hard work and great talent, I reckon. Congrats mate.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I look forward to your stream of consciousness on an RPG topic. I have just added a 10d6 shiny set to my 'Eater of Worlds' Coriolis RPG backing, largely on the back of this thread. Shakes fist! 😅. "I don't need the dice, but they looked nice." Might see them at next year's #Longcon!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Marvellous. My favourite format for a great in depth RPG experience. I may be thinking about my shortlist for next year! Thanks again for running at #Longcon!

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It would be hypocritical of me to suggest such a thing. 😉

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Game submissions can happen right up to a few weeks before the convention. You can put a TBC onto a table and time slot of your choice, while you agonise over your submission! Communications will flow on all our channels at each transition step towards the gaming fun. 😃

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Registration for Furnace XXI, to be held at The Garrison Hotel, Sheffield UK, on the weekend of October 10th & 11th 2026, is now open! We hope to fill the place with laughter and adventure, just as last year! Register here: furnace.org.uk/registration/ Submit games here: furnace.org.uk/games/

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yes, we don't usually have AppleTV, it's just another expense. However, such was the buzz about the show (and Lee Pace), I used a brief family subscription when I could. Is this all part of the expensive media fragmentation?

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I came to 4e very late, well into the 5e era, and loved it. I ran a 'keep me going over COVID' campaign that will forever sit high in my memories. Were I to return to level and hit point heroics, it would probably be via Nimble, but you never know!

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Paul Mitchener @thetweedmeister.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Fate isn't dead. For sound reasons, it's no longer something @evilhat.bsky.social are continuing to produce products for. That's okay - they opened the door long ago with the SRD, and a very good thing they did too. In particular, @firstage.bsky.social and I have something coming soon.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace Convention @firstage.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A favourite. I've watched it almost as many times as Kelly's Heroes.

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