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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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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Legend of Gelda
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tor, mud skeleton @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 · 21/07/2026
Oh, quite right. I'm over here in Canada and muddled up A1 and A4!
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There.. is the big freaking map, but it isn't player side as it has loctions of adventures. There's a full-page player map in the compendium PDF, do you have access to that? blog.trilemma.com/2015/01/big-...
blog.trilemma.com
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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
"I just want to get to know you better"
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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
The techs had a superstitious respect for the EW blocks, which they don't understand. Connected only to power, the insides hidden by anti-salvage failsafes. But crack the block, lose your jock.
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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 · 25/05/2026
I am not yet digging into the lore. I love the idea of Ghost in the Shell-esque street combat, but there is a bit of a kitchen sinky vibe coming from a few factions that look designed to bring in fans from other genres, like the Pano military orders, the not-kroot and the.. space werewolves? Idk heh
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I think maybe the way you normally learn is you go to Infinity night at your FLGS and on turn one this guy Derek deploys a bunch of squirrel bots in your starting zone, kills your whole team before you get a turn and at the end he deadpans, "Why didn't you take any S. Carolinensis countermeasures?"
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"Guys how do I buy a Sciurus carolinensis and what the hell does it look like?!" (If you have to ask, you aren't ready for S. carolinensis.)
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Infinity's list building software and online/podcast discourse is all "Sciurus carolinensis in a haris with two Alouatta caraya is so OP if they take templates", meanwhile the boxed sets are all named stuff like, "Some More Mammals" ($89) and don't print the names of what's inside T_T
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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 · 09/05/2026
I think it's most crisp as a way of talking about how specific mechanic(s) are triggered. No large game is all fiction first.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"You remember baseball, don't you, Meg? You loved baseball as a girl. Try on your old mitt, there you go. Oh look! Here's your old cap. No? What about this soccer ball, give it a little kick!"
Junk lady from Labyrinth, movie still
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Smallest and biggest are craft wire from an art store. Skip the silver coating and save $$. The middle gauge is floral wire, good for the thicker bolts, but I don't recommend that because bending it chews up the plastic sheath.
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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 old dog, you. :)
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I bet it would smell amazing.
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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 · 04/04/2026
What makes us chuckle in that show is how any time something bad happens, while the characters are discussing it afterwards somebody brings up a statistic. "Did you know nearly 80% of nurses face an assault each year?"
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What I find interesting is how effectively the film telegraph that there is going to be an utterly terrifying climax, but all that tense buildup isn't put to use. What the film does instead is very moving, but the threat of danger just dissipates as the emotional arc takes the foreground.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The poster could be for a Walking Dead spinoff, but other than a few jump scares, all of the conflicts all come from people looking for closure in different ways. The whole first act is about the aftermath of a massive tragedy, not an apocalypse, and it's very poignant.
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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
I think one of the seasons of Slow Horses lampshades that some CIA folks work for the Orange Administration and it really takes the wind out of it. Oh yeah, you aren't all cool cloak and dagger folks, you work for Mr. Stupid.
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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 · 08/03/2026
Don't leave us hanging!
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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
Thanks! It was the sails on these that pushed me to finally get an airbrush. They sails are the most visible feature and there are tons of them, but there's zero texture or detail on them. They're either quite plain or need craploads of blending as washes and dry brushing have nothing to latch onto.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Everything about the arrangement is trying to get every newton of the wind's force along the ropes, into the masts, and down into the hull to slice the keel through the water. Either that or making it sturdy enough not to blow apart like match sticks, or to make the constant adjustments possible.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
But as the standing rigging on my tiny models starts to stiffen my delicate little masts, I'm realizing.. that's what they were for. This whole thing is a huge arrangement of kites and prayers, forces barely counterbalanced.
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Ships have a truly insane amount of rope on them, they look like they were rigged by funnel spiders. I bet you could just glue thread to every of corners it would look pretty good (to amateurs like me).
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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I'm used to arcade-level ship physics - the wind blows from somewhere, but the whole thing moves forward in whatever direction it's pointing like a slow motorboat. But the more I learn, the more I'm getting a visceral feel of the forces at play. This was very unexpected!
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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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Michael Prescott (Trilemma) @fuseboy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I legit laughed at this one.
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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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