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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

zero percent of people want to summarize a Chiles column we are here for the man himself, pure & uncut

the Adrian Chiles headline Johnny Cans just shared, but with a "summarize this page using AI" option

Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#nzpol Does anyone know the source of Simeon’s data here? It’s not the Stuff reader poll which asked “who won the first leaders debate” and only has two options (Hipkins clearly ahead)… Is it the Herald?

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

wtf this outfit just randomly subscribed my email and i have to unsubscribe out of it? gmail didn't sort into spam... seems to be a legit company Anything i can do to punish this behaviour other than telling gmail it's spam? (i'm VERY not their target audience, but that's not the point)

email footer including the line "you're receiving this email because you've shown interest in conservative, 2A & Tactical News - if you'd prefer not to receive updates, you can unsubscribe"

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And as standalones: Theseus Protocol by @mytholder.bsky.social makes a science-fiction bug hunt truly unsettling Glasshouse by @malcolmcraig.bsky.social drops a family-run asbestos removal crew into a horrible London secret. handiwork.games/fiveevil/fiv...

Cover of FiveEvil Theseus Protocol, showing some maggoty things alongside a retro cartridge.

Cover of FiveEvil Glasshouse, showing a tunnel into a distorted underground environment.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

10. More great scenarios to pick! Also in the corebook: old friends in a holiday house learn something lurks outside... members of a Hollywood cult race to find a runaway... an appointment in a run-down building gets very bloody... a rock band gathers to play a demon song for a tech billionaire...

A grimacing person whose face is wrapped in tape and with metal implements emerging from their head

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

9. Improv is on the table! Horror is unpredictable, especially when you add players. #FiveEvil will not let you down. When you need to improvise, use the built-in oracle check that links to the core systems of desperation and intensity. Sometimes it even creates a happy outcome... sometimes.

I’VE GOT NO SIGNAL!
Isolation is a powerful way to create a situation of horror.
However, in the era of the mobile phone, isolation is
much harder to achieve. Here are some ideas for how to
manage mobile phones in your games.
• The setting is so remote there is no signal.
• The premise deprives characters of their phones.
(‘This is an exclusive preview event, hand in your
phones at the desk then get in the bus…’)
• Bad weather or foreign hackers take down the cell
network.
• The supernatural force you are facing can disrupt
or control mobile phones. (They call emergency
services, but the voice at the other end says he’s
the devil.)
• Mobile phones become a hindrance and the
characters have to dump them. (The murder wasps
are attracted to the radiation emitted by your
phones!)
• Whoopsy, you dropped your phone in the river.
(This one’s a great Evil…)

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

8. Scenario design is dead simple! The guidance in FiveEvil makes it easy to assemble your own perfect scenario, your way. It walks you through every step for you to trap the player characters in a terrifying challenge created just for them. It will be a highlight of their year.

Scott Purdy art! A montage illustration of a hideous multi armed creature with a massive mouth, roaring or screaming. Behind it two scenes - an exterior of a gothic house on a hill, with lighting illuminating the scene, and an interior showing a nasty looking sculpture made of sticks hung from a rafter.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

7. There's no combat system! FiveEvil views tactical calculations, initiative ordering, and attack actions as the opposite of horror. Instead, when monsters get close, we enter Terror Rounds, where you struggle to retain control of yourself and every time you move, the horror responds.

Terror
encounters
An encounter with the horrors depicted in this game is never neat
and tidy. True horror rips apart the normal order of things, leaving
death and destruction in its wake.
Beginning a terror
encounter
A terror encounter begins when the characters are faced with a
dangerous and terrifying situation. As soon as that happens, start
the encounter as follows, then proceed to the first terror round.
1. Introduce the situation
First, the GM describes the terrifying intrusion that begins the
terror encounter. Asking questions as needed, they also:
• establish who is part of the encounter and roughly where
they are
• establish if anyone is surprised or prepared
• if needed, update the Intensity score to at least 4.
2. Terror saves
Every character makes a Terror saving throw to deal with
this sudden onset of terror without freezing up. Make either a
Dexterity save or a Wisdom save (player choice).
• Those who succeed are able to react to the threat. Those who
fail are frozen or slow and get no reaction, and any action they
were engaged in is stalled until their turn in the terror round.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

6. There's a free quickstart! A nightmarish closing shift at a rec centre begins a journey of unfolding horror... Splinters is a free collection of preview one-shots scenarios that form a complete mini-campaign while introducing the rules in steps. handiwork.games/fiveevil-spl...

the covers of the first four Splinters for FiveEvil, showing a sinister community centre, a creepy silhouette in a cellphone, a grniing suited figure, and a disturbing shape in an alcove.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spooky season has begun... so here are FIVE MORE REASONS why your Halloween game night #TTRPG should be FiveEvil: Fiendish 5E Horror from @handiworkgames.bsky.social with INCREDIBLE art by Jon and @purdyart.bsky.social

A photo of FiveEvil and its supplements.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you Unity Books voucher! Dream of the Jet Black City by @awakedreamer.bsky.social The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau HOT STUFF

Two books:
Dream of the Jet Black City by Pablo Valcárcel Castro, and The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Still following my rules of engagement to add some normality to Facebook, the frontline of electoral disinformation. I find that making a comment like this, then dipping, feels pretty good.

RNZ screenshot on facebook
The Green Party is pledging to restore city centre vibrancy.

Election 2026
Greens announce reforms to lower commercial rents, fill empty shops

Morgan Davie • Just now
This sounds like a very targeted change, so small businesses actually get freedom to negotiate fairly.
From the article: "Current commercial leasing rules let rents rise when the market goes up and hold them up when it goes down. Small businesses end up paying more than the market rate when consumer spending slows down."
Sounds like a really smart change to help small business owners and communities, nice one.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wakefield House is ready to run, with pregenerated characters, just the right level of drama, and some truly scary twists and turns. It's all those 1980s horror flicks with teenagers, and also all those 2020s horror flicks with teenagers, and you get to make it your own.

Wakefield House: a scary house at night, and a collection of teenagers ready to get themselves into enormous trouble

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

5. 'Wakefield House' is in the FiveEvil corebook. Messed-up teens get a sudden message from their friend who disappeared a year ago: *Meet me in Wakefield House at midnight. Don’t tell anyone else. Miss you guys.* Of course they go. And it gets scary, fast. Wish them luck.

Section of a page from the FiveEvil book.
Chapter Three
Scenario: Wakefield House
You thought Kyle was dead. Everyone did, he’s been missing a year, what else could have happened? But now
he’s back in the group chat, asking to meet in an old empty house. Yeah, you’ll be there at midnight. You
gotta find out if it’s really him. And if it is, maybe you’ll finally get to say sorry.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

2. For GMs, FiveEvil is easy to learn and really simple to run. You control the Intensity (like deciding when the music gets scary). Players track their own Desperation (grabbing it like a lifeline). Tension and terror take care of themselves while you focus on the story.

A painting of a many limbed spikey monster from FiveEvil by Scott Purdy.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1. This is a horror game that's actually like horror movies. It's not dark fantasy, not an action adventure with horror elements, not a parody of horror movies. All those things are great! But that's not this. FiveEvil is razor-focused on making a true horror story for your group to love.

Art by Jon Hodgson from FiveEvil showing hikers heading up a hill which has Catherine wheels on posts. In the sky is overlaid a white line design of a horse skull.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey #DnD and other #TTRPG GMs! Spooky season is right around the corner. Let me explain why your Halloween special game this year should be #FiveEvil Fiendish 5E Horror, from @handiworkgames.bsky.social , and specifically the scenario "Wakefield House" Five reasons, starting with:

Jon Hodgson's photo of two FiveEvil books on the Handiwork Games stand at UK Games Expo.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Feel like I’m gonna be using this screenshot a lot in the coming weeks

Screenshot of bluesky post from me, yesterday: Shocking to discover the majority of NZ is trapped in the tiny bluesky bubble

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did a guest lecture for @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social undergrad design & storytelling class. Made them listen to a detailed history of falling damage in Dungeons & Dragons. Sorry undergrads but I am a slave to my passions.

Powerpoint slide: I think “falling” in games is kind of interesting and I want to talk about it for a while - morgan davie

Powerpoint slide: a bunch of screenshots of various attempts to "fix falling damage"

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Made a friend on the hill (Pūriri moth exhausted on the footpath, relocated away from dogs and feet and cycles)

Giant green winged moth now on a dirt bank

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Visited the library end of Wellington with a Unity voucher in hand and some comics waiting for me at Graphic. Now i have some reading material that brings joy. Thank you @mytholder.bsky.social @pipadam.bsky.social @paulchadwick.bsky.social @jamesthefourth.bsky.social

The Dungeon Book by Gar Hanrahan, kluge by pip adam, and comics Nice House By The Sea and Concrete

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spotted this weirdness in the comments - looks like an AI bot copying and slightly changing another comment in order to… to what? The goal of this manipulation is opaque to me

Comment on Carrie from @hankhil|2889 • 9 hr ago (edited)
All I'm asking for is one faithful adaptation of the novel. Carrie isn't a hero guys, a vigilante telling the bullies what's ehat. She's a cornered animal that has known nothing but abuse her entire life, unrelenting, unwavering abuse. When she finally snaps it isnt some heroic moment. It's the boiling point of one woman's trauma, leading to her own demise.
A nuclear bomb self destructing

Comment on Carrie from @niyanano • 4 hr ago
All I ask for is a faithful adaptation of the novel. Carrie is not a hero, but rather a vigilante who tells the bullies what they are doing. She's a cornered animal who has lived her entire life in constant, unwavering abuse.
When she finally snaps, it's not a heroic moment. It's the culmination of one woman's trauma, which led to her own death. A nuclear bomb self-destructs
3 610

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well if it isn’t the second editions of @malcolmcraig.bsky.social ‘s Cold City and Hot War from @handiworkgames.bsky.social !! (I don’t actually get new games in hard copy very often any more, because the shelves are crazy. But there was no going past this one.)

Cold City and Hot War slipcase and little reports book and two brown envelopes labeled “play packs”

Two gorgeous game books for Cold City and Hot War

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Note how Stuff picked this up as a story: they received a few emails. That's it, that's all it took. By making a story and doing a poll they validate the trolling: "this is indeed a concern sensible people might have!" and so, a RW troll's abusive and ignorant hate is laundered into 'news'.

Russell’s act of knitting prompted some feedback into Stuff’s inbox. One of them said “I’m outraged at the footage of a Labour MP knitting in Question Time. These people!!! Knitting!!!!”.

Poll: Is it ok for MPs to knit in the house? - 31,921 votes, 54% yes

585 comments
Rom
She seriously can't see anything wrong with sitting there literally knitting, when she's supposed to be working? Perfect example of a politician not being in the real world. On tax payer money ($200k plus). If I sat in a meeting at work on my phone, let alone knitting, it wouldn't go well. somehow these people think they are above us all. Stupid, lazy and entitled.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stuff making sure it covers both sides of the "knitting in Parliament" story. One side: the speaker of the house, MPs from across the political spectrum, science, history, common sense Other side: a far right racist who calls Deb a "piglet" Excellent journalisming there Stuff.

X screenshot: Commander DC
@nzpoliticsgroup
·
2h
Alert: SACK HER !! - Deborah Russell (LABOUR)🚨🚨🚨

A useless, self-entitled radical left wing piglet who has dragged Labour through the mud with her open contempt for the public and every scrap of parliamentary dignity.

Hey I couldn’t care less. Hipkins will.
This thing has already got traction in the media, and he knows it.

How dare taxpayers get slugged $186,000 a year so she can sit there knitting and chewing gum like Parliament is her bloody living room.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

great to know our mainstream media can be pulled along by a string, by this creature "battling the globalists". Fucking useless.

X account: Commander DC

@nzpoliticsgroup
Battling the Socialists & Globalists 24/7 as well as those in positions of power & influence who abuse their privilege. Commander of nzpoliticsgroup on Gab.✝️

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Same account tried the same thing back in July. It didn't make it out of the troll hole that time so he just kept at it. This is how these people operate and Stuff has walked right into their trap. The correct response to this story is to ignore it because **IT IS NOT A STORY**

X screenshot:
Commander DC
@nzpoliticsgroup
·
Jul 1
ALERT: Labour Opposition MP caught KNITTING in Parliament🧶🚨🚨

While NZ on its knees, this is what this Labour MP is doing on the taxpayers’ clock ? Knitting. During the session.

Unbelievable !! SACK HER !!

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

yeah i thought as much. 30 seconds on X (bleah) revealed this from yesterday... but wait for it:

X screenshot: Commander DC
@nzpoliticsgroup
·
Sep 2
Knitting & Chewing Gum Alert – Parliament🚨🚨🚨

A Labour MP has been caught knitting and “chewing gum” in the House.

Taxpayers are paying these people big salaries to sit there knitting & chewing gum on the job.

Labour MPs clearly don’t give a damn about kiwis. Disgrace ‼️

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yogi was looking thoughtful in this daycare photo so I added my best guess at his thoughts

Black and white dog (border collie/springer mix) looking thoughtful.
Caption:
If a treat falls in the forest
where there is no dog to sniff it
does it make a smell

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Met a very chatty tūī by the river this morning. Phone microphone not good enough to hear all the weird sonics layered in its vocalisations but you get the idea. (I decided it was make because it was so sure about what it was telling me.)

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is like when Deep Impact and Armageddon

BBC headline "Wicker Man director's sons complete their late father's fillm trilogy"

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Don’t know about “mostly an online thing where”, but certain about “online is mostly a thing where”

morgue, on bsky: fromthemorgue
@mr_orgue
May 7, 2021

Iron law of Twitter: no one cares what you are actually trying to say.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I recommend this playbook to anyone who wants to add a bit of reality-based community to the ongoing shitshow that is Facebook in 2026.

Hand holding a phone. On the screen, under a "Facebook Playbook" header:
#5
When you get
disrespectful replies
Ignore them like the buzzing flies they are.
They desperately want to start an argument.
Sucks to be them.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Over the past few weeks, these are the tips I've found most useful and most effective on Facebook.

Hand holding a phone. On the screen, under a "Facebook Playbook" header:
#3
When you see posts
from the other side:
Keep on scrolling.
If you interact,
their post will spread.
That’s what they want!

Hand holding a phone. On the screen, under a "Facebook Playbook" header:
#4
In a group for your
local community
When you see toxic comments, appeal to community values:
“Hey! Here in Springfield, we show kindness and respect.”
Everyone wants to have pride in their home.
Calm conversation wins.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's election time in NZ and Facebook is where lots of voters hang out. So, here's my Facebook Playbook.

Hand holding a phone. On the screen, under a "Facebook Playbook" header:
#1
Under a news post by mainstream media:
Comment with a direct quote from the article:
“Here’s the most important bit...”
Most people don’t click.
Bad actors rely on that.

Hand holding a phone. On the screen, under a "Facebook Playbook" header:
#2
Under a good post from
a friendly source:
Echo the key message
in your own words:“Yeah! I agree, the biggest priority is...”
Repeating the message makes it normal.
Casual readers will notice.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The article name "Time Space Voyager" was an homage to legendary Doctor Who fanzine from Aotearoa, TSV (Time/Space Visualiser) - Where my first ever roleplaying writing was published by @paulscoones.bsky.social ! And every issue of TSV is online to enjoy at doctorwho.org.nz/archive/

Cover of TSV 27, featuring a superb illustration by Warwick Gray of the Seventh Doctor Who and his friend Ace surrounded by clowns and other figures from the story "Greatest Show in the Galaxy"

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I was most interested in playing with balancing the Doctor and companions in D20. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer TTRPG had managed it, but D20 was a much crunchier recipe.) My solve was a narrative currency that reduced as you went up levels, and eventually flipped into a source of problems.

Time-Space Voyager
Morgan Davie takes us on a trip beyond the borders of history with this oddly familiar campaign setting for OGL Horror, including new rules, vehicles and creatures with a time travelling flavour.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Oh cool! Just spotted that @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social has added to @drivethrurpg.com issue 22 of their much-loved mag Signs & Portents! This one contains TIME SPACE VOYAGER, which was my go at "let's make an unofficial Doctor Who RPG using OGL Horror!" www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Cover of Signs & Portents 22, which features some freaky fantasy monsters and mentions of articles for Lone Wolf, Judge Dredd, and OGL Horror

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Trying to turn the best bits of the blog post into something more shareable. As you can see, infographic design is my passion.

image of a cellphone screen with this text:
How to change conversations on Facebook
When comments under a news story get weird:

Comment with a direct quote from the article.

Call it out: ”Here’s the most important bit:...”

Ignore negative replies.

Most people don’t click.
Bad actors rely on that.
This is the counter move.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Remembered to apply my own advice under this RNZ news story about the lastest IPSOS poll #nzpol Felt good to have a playbook instead of just despair at all the nonsense! m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Facebook comment by me:

For me, this is the most important bit: “The economy (34 percent) held at third place, but Labour overtook National as the party best placed to manage it.”

Even regular National voters have lost faith in the current lot. And rightly so, Luxon/Willis era has been a shambles.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

30% OFF for @drivethrurpg.com XMAS IN JULY! The City Adventure Handbook is where I share secrets from my home game that make #DnD city adventuring easy & fun! Includes guidance for loads of specific city activities, making them incredibly easy to DM. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Cover of the City Adventure Handbook, 5E compatible game supplement

Stirring up trouble
If you aim to transform a neighbourhood into a
seething mess of anger, recrimination, and
vengeance, then you’ll need to step carefully and
whisper the right words into the right ears.
Use Persuasion if you’re making use of offenses
and misdeeds that really happened, and Deception
if your trouble-making strays into invention.
Describe exactly how you go about this, because
the details might come back to bite you...

Difficulty
Easy (10) The neighbourhood is already simmering with
disputes and suspicions.
Medium (15) The neighbourhood has notable rivalries and
frustrations that sometimes boil over.
Hard (20) The neighbourhood is settled and, by and large,
presents a united front to the world.
Very Hard (25) The neighbourhood is notably fair-minded and
supportive of each other.
Nearly
Impossible (30)
The neighbourhood’s residents are enthusiastically
loyal to each other and will always give each other
the benefit of the doubt.

Result
Success You cause trouble in the neighbourhood, bringing
disputes into the open and building suspicion and
dislike on all sides.
Just missed The DM selects a stumble for you, but also, you cause
plenty of trouble just as you intended.
Failure The neighbourhood seems immune to your
manipulations.
Big failure The neighbourhood remains untroubled by your
efforts, and you stumble.

Stumbles
Pulled in You get dragged into the trouble you’re making. One
side (or both) decides you are allied with their
opponents, giving you a new set of enemies.
Figured out Someone figures out that you are deliberately
setting the neighbourhood up for trouble. The DM
decides who works it out, and what they do about it.
Lesson time You whisper the wrong thing into the wrong ear,
earning a nasty and sudden lesson in keeping your
mouth shut. (Roll an encounter.)
Out of control The trouble you were anticipating spreads in
unexpected directions, affecting people you never
thought would be hurt and escalating to problematic
heights of disruption.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

30% OFF AT @drivethrurpg.com XMAS IN JULY! KILL YOUR GRANDAD is a #TTRPG raucous pitch-black existentialist comedy one-shot! Be teen nihilists who don't really know what nihilism is but too late, you're gonna kill your ancestor and paradox reality to oblivion! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Cover of KILL YOUR GRANDAD: a one-shot RPG for 3-6 comedy nihilists + GM

page spread from Kill Your Grandad. One page is titled "WHATEVER I DON'T CARE" and explains you're a teenage nihilist in nihilist club and you want to kill your own ancestor to create a paradox that will probably end all of reality, because that's the sort of thing nihilists do. Right??

page spread from KILL YOUR GRANDAD.
One is "First: welcome to Nihilist Club" it outlines the rules: don't be mean, except where being mean is Nihilism; no fakes or posers; everyone has a codename.
The other page is "Second: create the grandad" which explains how to collaboratively invent the shared ancestor who is your target.

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