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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

So: this is quite nice when served with a wrist shot of amaretto. It's a cross between tiramisu and cheesecake. I'm told Japanese in origin but IDK. It takes 5 minutes to make and keeps in the fridge for up to 3 days.

A round bowl with yoghurt and biscoff biscuits placed in edgeways but not touching. Some biscuits are snapped to fit into the spaces at the edges.

The same bowl topped and smoothed with more yoghurt and then sprinkled with options hot chocolate powder (I didn't mean to do that) and then cocoa (I meant go do that)

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Always bringing you the important information. #funny

The venn diagram of venn diagrams.

3 circles red, black and blue

Red circles
Black information
Blue things that overlap
Red-black pie charts
Red-blue eclipses
Black-blue redundancy
All 3 venn diagrams

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

Another one for #books I guess. I would say it's also #fantasy and #milFantasy (to contrast with #milSF as well.

The March North by Graydon Saunders

The first couple of pages were rough and fairly
incomprehensible, but once | realised that | was
listening to professionals talking in jargon and that |
wouldn't understand then it flowed much better.
Once through that it becomes an interesting
allegory for the US empire as imagined in its self-
mythos, whilst keeping up the thoroughly good
story. | feel it is intended to be a sequel to Cook's
Black Company but set in the far future of that
world. A world by the way that plausibly COULD be
hundreds of thousands of years old.

#booksky #blackCompany #commonweal

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Honestly if you haven't put yourself down to do postal voting you're a bit of a mug. Aren't you busy? What if you don't recognise the name. Go on, get on it! Save yourself the walk to the polling station and back and worrying about ID. #UKpol

QR code for https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

Mead is doing well. I had some honey that had turned into a solid block. Keep it somewhere dark and warm, and give it a swirl every now and again to release the carbon dioxide and control the acidity.

A glass demijohn filled with an opaque orange liquid.

Lots of bubbles on top.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

Made some baked beans. 😀 Passatta, fried onion, black pepper, chilli pepper, ancho chillies, Chipotle chillies, pinch of salt. If you soak the beans overnight and then sloooooooow cook them in stock they are really good.

A saucepan of borlotti beans glows a deep malevolent red

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025

Very satisfying morning. Taught someone how to play Magic. Hooked up 2 people with games Working to get a new game system up and running And organised 95% of a Xmas Social. The Tabletop Industry Network working as intended. 😀 #ttrpg #Southampton #TIN #TINsouth #SouthamptonGuild

A bunch of people around a table. They seem cheerful!

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

This is the place for nerd stuff right? I've downloaded the phyphox app made by Aachen University. It let's you use the individual sensors in your phone to conduct all sorts of experiments. For reasons I am on the 45th floor and my lift moves at ~5m/s, hitting […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

Aminocetaphen or Paracetamol aka Tylenol is not connected to autism. And if it was, so what? There are worse things than being autistic. Fascists and anti-vaxxers (but I repeat myself) spring to mind.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

I dumped #Duolingo when they started using #AI to solve the problem of paying their staff wages. Lingodeer is not subtle about using real people for audio and video lessons. And my Mandarin is notably improved. So there we go. #Lingodeer

A cartoon bear in a hat holds a flame

Streak hero

I reached a 125 fay streak!

Lingodeer

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

[Food] Made vegan chilli today. Because I'd made beans from dried and they needed some spicing up. I was feeling fancy so I used brown sugar for some treacle notes and my secret ingredient remains MSG. Happy spouse, happy house indeed. 😀

A pot full of delicious looking chilli with many brown lumps

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

My name's PJ Coffey and I endorse this message. #funny

A car window sticker that says

Tell your cat I said pspsps

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

Generative AI, not the good machine learning. Obviously.

The XKCD cartoon showing all modern digital infrastructure as haphazardly and precariously piled on top of each other with a very small, thin support at the bottom, but:

Angry birds are being launched from a catapult marked AI

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

256 GB. Capable of moving a full length movie in under 30 seconds. Why do I have one? To download wikipedia, with pictures. howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/ Why? The Online Safety Act. And me living in the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A flash USB drive slightly wider than a finger.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2025

This Sunday, 10am-12pm. Small and friendly meetup! Come talk about games! Say hi! Break the ice! Chat to me about things... maybe even stuff... learn about tabletop rpgs! Dice and Dumplings in #Southampton 150 Above Bar 10am-12pm (Boosts and tags for people who […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Southampton GUILD OF ROLEPLAYERS

ASK ME ABOUT:
- MAKING A D&D CHARACTER
- MAKING A TTRPG CHARACTER
- WHAT TTRPG IS RIGHT FOR YOU
- HOW TO PLAY TTRPGS
- HOW TO RUN TTRPGS
- TTRPG DESIGN AND PUBLICATION
- RUNNING A KICKSTARTER
-THE TABLETOP INDUSTRY NETWORK

Dice and Dumplings in Southampton, a high street shop with red ropes outside and a glass frontage

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

An excellent antidote to AI goons. Prove it. Demonstrate your claim.

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".

Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

Those UK age restrictions hitting hard today...

A yellow gate on a concrete path. There is no fence to either side making it trivial to bypass

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

[Ukrainian military secrets revealed!] The new Ukrainian aircraft carrier. Ready to topple a nation state.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025

I am having a lot of people tell me LLMs are "inevitable" and I'll be "left behind" if I don't use them. It feels... somehow... familiar... #AI

Clippy the annoying talking paperclip says "I am inevitable"

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

Sometimes you read something and it just brings a little smile to your lips and joy to your heart. Sucks to suck, vulture capitalists. 😀 pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-…

Venture capital is moribund except AI.
AI is moribund except OpenAI.
OpenAI is a weird scam that wants to burn money so fast it summons AI God.
Nobody can cash out.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

[Yummy food.] Home made pizza pockets. 😀 Tortilla 1/4d or 1/2d. This set are quartered. Add cheese, tomato paste, seasoning, other fillings as needed. Air fry @160 until brown.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025

Boycotts and divestments: Well, I've let my Disney+ sub expire. I will be sad not to see Andor Season 2 but I have picked up Plex which has apps! so I'm looking forwards to creating my own media server and getting my old DVDs out and backed up (also moving from […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Boycott these companies now for their complicity in Israel's occupation, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians.

Priority boycott targets of the BDS movement:
Chevron
(intel) (DELL
hp
CALTEX TEXACO
Carrefour
AXA Disney+

SIEMENS RE/MAX
sodastream

Pressure targets of the BDS movement:
Google amazon
Expedia teva

Organic boycotts supported
by the BDS movement:
M Coca-Cola
PIZZA
BURGER
airbnb
Booking.com
BDS
PAPA JOHN'S
KING
Pizza
WIX

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025

@salvaterra is the artist, colouring done by Louie. As noted by @ninjafingers lt is "utterly adorable". For context when I saw the set of images that this belonged to, I knew I had to have them for my book. 😀

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025

The Fediverse is inimicable to creatives. Such a big brain take with widespread support and zero pushback. How are creatives supposed to pay for their websites? Charge a subscription? Nuance? Empathy? What are the point of those? Vexing.

Security writer says

A website guiding users to disable their adblocker is no different than a phishing email asking users to disable their security software

235 boosts

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025

Here's a review from the first edition of my book. I really like it because it's doing exactly what I wanted it to do. Design that just works and let's people play, friction-free.😀 The old one was good, but the new edition is substantially better. 😀 […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

DTRPG review

Really useful book. I just met a new player. She had six characters sketched out - personality, portrait, behaviour, et cetera... but no crunch. The one we randomly chose turned out to be a tree person. This book let us just do that. I didn't have to say "there are no rules for that", or cludge something together that would turn out broken, or spend hours researching. We just did it with no dampening of enthusiasm.

The PDF itself is well organised, laid out, and edited. Easy to read, understand, and use. Good stuff.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025

Some TTRPG professionals seem to be liking the samples I've sent out for my book. Sadly can't get the laid out stuff yet, just manuscripts. Random culture generation has 3 sections, 29 subsections and about 180 options. So yes, thorough is right. 😀 Want to […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Discord screenshot
Wow, that was an amazing read

So thorough!!!

Can't wait to make my own culture with that. I loved the random tables l, they really help you if you are stuck. I especially like the list of ideals/taboos.

Excellent work!

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

I'm delivering this book as a PDF on Monday at 8pm GMT. You can still back it. It has everything you need to make heritages, cultures, backgrounds, and feats for your own homebrew games. Thanks to Herculean efforts by: @CITIZEN_OCHOA @ninjafingers […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Text from the blurb
This book is for Narrators, GMs and game designers. It will assist you in creating heritages, cultures, backgrounds and feats which meet the needs of your lore, whilst maintaining compatibility with “official” versions.

Here's reviews of 1st edition!
"This is nice! I think I prefer this to having heritages at all." - Paul Hughes, Monstrous Menagerie, Flee, Mortals! Battlezoo Bestiary

“I have only used this for the Arboreal heritage, so my review reflects that. I …had a player that wanted to play a treant… he played a morose Arboreal (a weeping willow).

The heritage played well in the game, no balance issues or any concerns with it from the DM or player.” 5 stars Joseph 2024

“I'm not a mathematical genius or game designer by any means, so having the work done for me lets me have fun making up characters and putting that mechanical crunch to ideas I have floating around.” - 5* Daniel 2023

“Really useful book. I just met a new player. She had six characters sketched out - personality, portrait, behaviour, et cetera... but no crunch. The one we randomly chose turned out to be a tree person. This book let us just do that. I didn't have to say "there are no rules for that", or cludge something together that would turn out broken, or spend hours researching. We just did it with no dampening of enthusiasm..” 5* Jacob P 2023

Traits By Type

Chapter Contents:

Anatomy
Essential Heritage Traits
Type
Change Creature Type
Size Category
Senses
Speed
General Heritage Traits
Death Proofing
Diseases and Poisons
Fortitudes
Movement modes
Natural Defenses
Natural Weapons
Other Traits
Resistances
Respiration
General Traits
Ability Checks
General Advantages, Expertises, and Proficiencies
Skills
Dice Manipulation
Downtime
Magical
Movement

Combat Traits
Buffs
Defensive
Offensive
Skill
Economy
Actions
Bonus Action
Reactions
Extra Resources
Initiative
Limited use abilities

Exploration
Exploration Enhancements
Journeys
Survival
Vehicles, Technology, and Mounts

Social
Conflict
Defenses
Languages
Upbringing

Science Fiction

Weaknesses
Liabilities
Limits

—
Traits are laid out in the following format.
Name [Tag1] [Tag2]
X point(s)
Flavour text.
Mechanics.

Budgeting for compatible games
A level 1 character has their points distributed in the following fashion. An Ability Score Increase (ASI) of +2 is considered to be worth 8 points and an ASI of +1 is considered to be worth 4 points.
System Heritage Cost Culture Cost Background Cost Total
A5e Heritage 14 Culture 12 Background 13 39
2014 Race and Subrace 27 - - Background 5 32
2024 Species and Lineage 16 - - Background 23 39
Free 5e Ancestry 22 Culture 12 Background 5 39
Kobold Lineage 14 Heritage 6 Background and Talent* 15 35

*Kobold Press Talents are approximately 10-12 points.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2025

An effective boycott. Clear communication. Obvious conditionality. Plausible response.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

The character rou 肉 meaning meat, is meant to look like a pair of sides of beef hanging from hooks. But my FIL has terrible writing.

A pack of dumplings. It has a line in a box with an upside down Y

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2025

#uspol #Bluesky #mastodaoine Ahh... does the heart good to see such patriotic celebration of the President, especially after the acclamation of the national library system! Being able to take your books back to anywhere in the country! So civilised!

Bluesky Thread

Jen Keane
@zenbuffy.bsky.social
◆ Reply to Darach Ó Séaghdha
Genuinely will be so sad when this term is up, I wish he could stay for a third. He's been a stellar representative for us, and seems like such a gent. It'll be a lifelong regret that I never did anything noteworthy enough to get an invite to one of his legendary parties.

Daniel Kennedy
you can probably pick up one of his books in the library (and then return it to any branch nationwide)

Trishasp
Irish Wasp @irishwasp.bsky.social Reply to Darach Ó Séaghdha
It's not everyone who can claim such a learned and poetic gentleman as president! Long may he have good health!

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

OK! Here's the preview. I'm very excited for when this goes live. Again, reposts and shares are very welcome. As is your backing […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The cover of Crafting Heritages, Cultures and More Worldbuilding it has compatibility with 5e 14 and 24 and A5e and features a brownscale market scene of a melting pot of diverse fantasy creatures chilling, talking and living their lives.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

Welp, here we go. Got the cover. It is still a work in progress! Need to sort the colours! If you boost the post, that would be nice, if you click through and follow the project it will let you know at about 6pm on Wednesday that we've launched […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Crafting Heritages, Cultures and More: Worldbuilding by PJ Coffey

It features a brownscale depiction of a thriving market place full of diverse creatures getting into all manner of interactions.

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2024

And _this_ is how you do some world-building. You don't Sanderson away at me at tedious length, you just chuck in a sentence that does all the heavy lifting. Tchaikovsky's Days of Shattered Faith Which has made me realise it's the French Republic.

“Demons scare people around here shitless,” Drathel said, and Gil choked on her drink. “More than normal. Because you don’t know them, except in all those stories where they’re the worst thing in the world. Which is only because, when the old Empire first rose, it was up against the Despotate which had demons up the wazoo. Hence demons are the Enemy in the earliest Moru scripture. Hence all this burying skulls business. But the thing about really scary things out of the stories you tell to get kids to crap themselves and not go to sleep, the thing about those things is, Your Tranquillity, that it’s a real different deal when they’re on your side.”

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PJ Coffey @homebrewandhacking.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2024

Here's the teaser page for my project on Backerkit and here's a snippet from the introduction. I have engaged some amazing artists to work with and I will be talking more about them in days to come […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

So, my goals for Crafting Heritages, Cultures and More: Worldbuilding are:
Defeat the scourge which is Darkvision for PCs once and for all
Help readers create beautiful, weird, strange new worlds and peoples never seen before.
Help readers create beautiful, weird, strange new worlds and peoples never seen before.
Help readers create new people to fill these worlds and help players explore with them.
Encourage the nervous to take their first steps into game design with kindness and safety rails
Sell my prettiest book to date.

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