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Michael Prescott (Trilemma)

@fuseboy.bsky.social
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RPG writer/illustrator of Ennie award-winning two-page dungeons. He/him.

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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As a new Infinity N5 player with mostly shoot 'em up experience, these tournament missions are pretty intimidating. Cook a three-course meal in the middle of the board while under fire. Oh, and the store is ringed by enemy mines and snipers, and you're all out of onions. You have 13 minutes.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cursed thought, midichlorians produce the spice melange.
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tor-in-the-mud @toothandshore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
what a wonderful and fascinating thread
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Please maintain physical distance, I'm not ready for the collapse of all reality into a single point.
Covid era signage to maintain physical distance
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Building an army in Infinity N5 is riddled with painful trade-offs. The way models can use each other's actions means that a primary attack piece can be multiplied in potential by a back row of cheap ones. Stuffing a list with all-stars is surprisingly inefficient!
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We're re-watching Heroes, and .. imagine a funnel, everybody gets four newbie supers each, and a masked/anonymous Sylar tears through them, getting them one by one. Whichever ones he gets determine his powers in the rest of the campaign as the survivors go up against him.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As soon as I read Infinity N5 I wanted to adapt Battletech to it, but now that I've played I think it would be a better fit for Transformers. Theming models in camo as transformed into vehicle mode seems such a natural fit.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The vault has split open once more: Trilemma Adventures compendium is the DriveThruRPG deal of the day!
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Something unexpectedly intimate about stripping paint from a second hand miniature. The daubs of color floating off like dead skin in the isopropyl alcohol, the apparently enamel primer turning to grease, staining my fingers as I visit each of their decisions in reverse, unraveling it, art melting.
Close up of murky water in a jar of paint thinner, a pile of unidentifiable miniature robot details.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Turns out battlemechs are good mostly because they're full of lost Star League-era automated EW suites. Tanks can't see straight near them, can't lock on, or can't see them at all. The mech jocks all think they're hot shit and have no idea.
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Indie Game Reading Club @indiegamereadingclub.com · 18/06/2026
Against my better judgement and on something of a dare, I ran a fantasy adventure 3-shot for visiting friends last week. Is fantasy adventure Good, Actually now? Read on! My new favorite frankengame from two of my favorite creators: @fuseboy.bsky.social and @gruefodder.bsky.social .
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Two Great Tastes etc: Lavender Hack + Trilemma Adventures
IGRC Global Operations had gamer visitors from California recently. We knew we’d be playing something while they were here, but we never quite nailed down what it’d be. So over beers, Phil Lewis’ L…
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Played my first game of Infinity miniatures today and it was every bit as cool as I hoped. The wallet saver here is that it is very difficult to shop for. I don't mean you can't find the products in stores, but the disconnect with the meta is wild. 🧵
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Oak & Iron ships of the line, beefing out my little Spanish squadron to nine boats in all. The OSL on these looks comical under the bright lights of my painting desk, but I'm very happy with how the photos came out.
Oak & Iron miniature ships of the line, painted to appear glowing from deck lanterns at night.Oak & Iron miniature ships of the line, painted to appear glowing from deck lanterns at night.Oak & Iron miniature ships of the line, painted to appear glowing from deck lanterns at night.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Carbon, under incredible heat and pressure, can form diamonds. What happens if you do the same for charisma?
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Bzaapp! The pile of shame shrinks by about half a pound. Man this thing is top heavy!
Games Workshop Slann mage priest painted with an OSL lightning effect.Games Workshop Slann mage priest painted with an OSL lightning effect.Games Workshop Slann mage priest painted with an OSL lightning effect.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
You are on a self-sustaining airship, last of its kind, circling the world on solar power. Systems are failing and the ship will ground itself in the collapsed, uninhabitable surface below in three years. Your childhood friend is aboard, their birthday is next week. What do you get them?
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I got some fluorescent paints to do OSL on miniatures, but I was struggling with blue. Why so dingy and flat? I'm laughing after watching a Vince Venturella video on fluo paints. "They're great," he says, "except blue," and he literally flicks it off his desk and doesn't mention it again.
Close-up of YouTube miniature painter Vince Venturella flicking a useless bottle of blue fluorescent paint off his desk.
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Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Our page appears frozen but *you can still pledge.* Please, please, please tell everyone you know that the Public Access campaign is still going, despite this catastrophic glitch. Please re-post. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
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Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG
From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We Bury The Dead was very well done, but I can see why it did poorly, I don't think zombie genre audiences are expecting films about grief and closure. It's not the heart-pounding horror-survival most of the genre is doing.
Movie poster for We Bury the Dead, a woman with an axe faces a running zombie.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
You didn't ask, but my favorite simple way to handle a PC attempting to persuade an NPC is to: 1. Hear what the PC says 2. Decide what the most and least favorable reactions the NPC might have to that 3. Let the PC's skill check decide between those.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My ENnie-award winning book of illustrated fantasy adventures is being released in German as a deluxe boxed set! Pre-orders have discounted shipping, and are available until April 5. After that I think you have to fight Unclideon to get a copy.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"Nearly done these ships, I should look up where the flags go." <twenty minutes later> "Okay, nevermind. How about 'the top'. That should be fine."
Image of a model ship Linus Napoleonic Shipyard's absolutely festooned with flags. I think there's like 24 on there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4-6rtA6rH8
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
My friend Kit has introduced me to Oak & Iron, 1/600 scale 'age of sail' sea battles. I'm trying to really go big on my first squadron, so now I'm at the step of adding rigging to these tiny ships. When I started, I had no idea how rigging worked at all!
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Did you miss this the first time? Only $9 for a precious few more hours.
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PondertheGoose @wondergoose.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
10 The Cuirass of the Forlorn protects against a wounded heart
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The Amanda Lee Mystery House @amandalee.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
05: a piece of paper appears to all as a sack of gold
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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
06: a horse that can do math by stamping his hoof so long as his owner is standing right next to him.
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HanDandler @handandler.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
07: A pair of small lenses that, when affixed to the nose, transform blurry, unreadable glyphs into perfectly legible writing
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Red Dude @r3ddude.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
08 a shrill flute that that repels nearby mice, other rodents, and small children when played, instead of summoning them
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Rise Up Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
03: The emperor's clothes are BEAUTIFUL but are visible only to those with pure hearts.
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Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
04: The fancy boots are just that. The cat’s a shapeshifter. (Am I doing it right?)
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
d100 Actually Non-Magical Items 01-02 The King's sword is reputed to only do harm to those with evil in their hearts
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Splurged on an airbrush and now it's glowing heat sinks for everyone! This lance is lit up like a Christmas tree!
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Slightly diminish a game: Blame in the Dark
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The audiobook of 'We are Legion (We are Bob)' really leans into the 'comic store guy' vibe of the narrator, highlighting the unintentional comedy that all you need to sort out humanity's problems is to put one former programmer (with some project management experience, let me tell you) in charge.
Cover of 'We Are Legion (We Are Bob)' by Dennis E. Taylor, showing a science fiction battle in an asteroid belt. pew pew
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Toronto folks looking for some zany live theatre featuring Chinese fables, head to Pu Songling at the Crow's Theatre. Minimal set brilliantly used, very physical performances. Tons of inspiring, weird tales. Cuddle up with a hopping corpse and get a facelift from one of the Ten Kings of Hell!
Two cast members pose for a promotional poster for Pu Songling.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Dice where some numbers are blurred out or redacted. The Security Die.
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Justine Jones🔜Magic Con Atlanta @teanwitch.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hi, I'm Justine! I like to draw beautiful and scary things, weird/ dark fantasy stuff, mostly in gaming. I've done work for Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Kobold Press, Old School Essentials and many others. #portfolioday 🐲insta: tean_witch 🐲web: JustineJonesIllustration.com
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We watched the old Interview with the Vampire, then Prime decided to auto-play the TV show as a chaser. That's a hell of a contrast. Seeing TV Lestat made it all make sense, that guy totally kills that role. I thought we were going to get some Murdoch Mysteries villain, then he speaks.. jesus.
Sam Reid as the vampire Lestat
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My gosh this is entertaining, right up my alley. Insane amounts of gaming fodder. Also kind of depressing, because the stakes to those involved are rendered so well. Bracing myself for a dismal ending.
Cover of the book, 'There is no antimimetics division' by 'qntm'.
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Indie Game Reading Club @indiegamereadingclub.com · 05/01/2026
Just read that they're now making two 600 page books (!) of my favorite-favorite fantasy game of all time. We ran a gorgeous campaign of Stonetop here a couple years back and it was some of the best gaming of my life. How much of that is the game? Read my 10 part AP and decide for yourself:
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Stonetop AP! Episode 1
I take lots of notes during play and turn them into, hopefully, fun AP writeups for our Slack. This is the result of the Stonetop game I ran while working on last month’s deep dive. After I&#…
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Could you build a 2D computer out of the minute gravitational interaction between photons, then send it out into space to wonder why you did that to it?
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Hey, East Toronto folks in need of a last-minute gift, I stumbled on a whole display of @portablecity.bsky.social treasures at 'Arts Market' on Danforth. By Crom is amazing of course, but also zines galore and these beautifully soft illustrated maps to snuggle while daydreaming about elves.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The inspiration to write a good holiday-themed adventure often arrives mere days from the holiday itself, which by my reckoning is about nine months too late given that you have to actually write it and then schedule a group to play it.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Musing on the 'back rooms' as a manifestation of the collective unconscious. When we're asleep, we're psychically alert for potential threats around us. For most of human history, we've been surrounded by wilderness, so in our dreams we prowl a night-black forest, lush and threatening. 🧵
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
There's a neat thing in Dark that I won't spoil, but a certain sound starts out much like mood-building for thr audience, but becomes a diegetic thing that gives a information to everyone In The Know when it happens. This is underused in RPGs! 🧵
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Judd Karlman (he/him) @juddthelibrarian.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I've gotten many hours of gaming out of this book and I've barely scratched the surface.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Watched Krull (1983) last night, and it's interesting to treat its rather odd worldbuilding as ~incompletely revealed~ rather than slapdash. There are some really interesting things about it.
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Skerples @skerples.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I reviewed every adventure in the book back in 2020 coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2020/01/osr-... They're well worth using. And $9! An absolute steal.
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OSR: Trilemma Adventures Vol. 1 Review
This review covers all the adventures in Michael Prescott 's Trilemma Vol. 1 Compendium ( print , PDF ). All but two of the adventures are...
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