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Graham Kane

@irishthump.bsky.social
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TTRPG DM and player, drummer, Sci-Fi and Fantasy fan. Based in Ireland.

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We're very happy that our 2026 venue map has been designed by @jogbrogzin.bsky.social! We'll have some B&W prints available for members attending in Cork. If you prefer a 2D version, we'll have those too & you can find it on our website on the Venue page. octocon.com/venue/ #Octocon2026
A 3D map of Octocon's venue in the Clayton Hotel Cork City, hand-drawn with stone dungeon walls and labelled with rooms and their uses. The map also include the green Octocon logo, our dates and venues, pictures of the Guests of Honour, and the logo of our charity partner Cork Penny Dinners.
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Dylan and Dragons @dylananddragons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm taking part in the @d8dungeon.bsky.social Dungeon drive this year by hosting their deathmatch preliminaries! I'm super excited to help support a great cause!
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The Emerald Collective @emeraldcollective.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Dice Sized Tales C2 continues tonight at 7:30PM GMT. Russell, fighting for his life against a grotesquely mutated human in an antique spacesuit is alone on the USCSS Montero while the rest of the crew have their own problems over on the USCSS Cronus. www.twitch.tv/emerald_coll...
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Graham Kane @irishthump.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Had a blast at @athventurecon.bsky.social last weekend, playing games and with and running games for some wonderful people. Even got a cool mug!
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Graham Kane @irishthump.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
@athventurecon.bsky.social Car packed for the annual pilgrimage to Loughrea for #athcon4
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Ah the calm before the storm. I know a lot of folks will be travelling down to #AthCon4 from early tomorrow. No matter what part of the world you're coming from, make it down safely folks. We look forward to seeing y'all!! #AthCon4
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We are still looking for big mini donations in the regular sized mini bucket at the check in desk. Clear?
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
WARNING WARNING WE ARE ABOUT TO TALK LARPS THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
GM Gus throws out The Dragons Hymbook using the Draw Steel system. In the aftermath of a battle the Princess has gone missing along with the legendary Dragons Humbook! Can you rescue the Princess, recover the tomb and save the world?? Draw Steel at the very end of #AthCon4 to find out!!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
GM Declan, he of D8 Dungeon fame, invites us all to his Session 4 game (that's Sunday 10am) In Memoriam using the We Have Lost game system. The Empress is dead. Her closest friends and confidants have gathered to remember her. Tales are told of the past but the Empire must look to the future.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Not all ghosts are friendly. And very few of them dance. In GM Emmett's CAIN system game we get a ghost that does neither. In CAIN you play part of an elite team tasked with hunting down supernatural beings that have gone bad. This one is the spirit of a gambler, dragging others down with him!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Victor Frankenstein's wife to be is worried about his recent behaviour. On top of that there are rumours of a strange creature haunting the city, a city that is struggling to contain a cholera plague. Yeah things are just going swimmingly! Frankenstein is GM Graham's Deathbringer game for session6
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Sunday 6pm is sadly the last session of #AthCon4 but GM Neil rounds of his own marathon of gaming, panels and workshops with Shadowy Scoundrels, a Fey Earth games! Various premises have been broken into and their owners have grown tired waiting for the law to find the culprits! So they hired you!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I'm not sure what is in the box in GM Paul's Daggerheart game, The Whitefire Arcanist, but when someone does look please make sure you tell me! This will be a fun game suitable for all and a great way to round off the last session of #AthCon4 Be sure to grab a seat... what's in the box!?
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Some games describe themselves and GM Tomas's game is a prefect example! First off the system used is the brilliantly titled F.I.ST. (Freelance Infantry Strike Team). And secondly the game is called Operation BUZZKILL. My feeling is that this is very much what it says on the tin! ;-)
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Captured by slavers and taken in chains to the colosseum where you are forced to fight beside your fellow captives for the amusement of the baying public! Welcome to The Arena, GM Mary Elizabeth's 3rd level D&D 5e game set to take place in the baking sand at first light Sunday at #AthCon4
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Kittens!!! Well Magical Kittens to be more precise. GM Mike takes a break from pirating on the high seas to run a game the party take on the role of Kittens trying to manage those ridiculous hoomans and their ridiculous hooman problems! Now the hoomans seem to have gone missing! Typical hoomans.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
So the Bone Gang, a gang of rats, have ventured deep into the sewers and it looks like that they may have fallen foul of a legendary sewer beast! Every cloud and all that means that this is an opportunity for some brave miceses to get themselves some treasure. Snakes and miceses get on right??
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Oh No!! Something is off in the town of Ashbridge. There is an energy sapping aura hanging around, conversations stalls mid sentence, memories seem to be fading even as faces start to blur around the edges. Suspicion seems to be focused on Greywarden Books and those that frequent it!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
We're on the home stretch this week and down to the last few handfuls of games to preview for #AthCon4 GM Aaron first ever game at the Con is a Cy_Borg offering! Karaoke Night finds the players deep in this cyberpunk world surrounded by Nanomsncers, Corp Killers, Cyber Slashers & Gang Goons!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The money on offer is more then decent. Like so much more that one might suspect this is something more than a pack of wolves at play! But seriously, with the promises of such riches along with all the wool you can carry how could you possibly turn it down!?
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Now normally I'd read this as a possible good news story, you know "ship sinks but passengers find refuge on lighthouse island before being rescued" kinda thing. But two things give me pause. 1 - it's Call of Cthulhu 2 - GM Caitlin, The Dreaded DM It's an over 18s game. So actually three things!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Let's be honest with ourselves, deep down we all want to be pirates! And in the mid session on the Sunday of #AthCon4 you have a chance to fulfill your dream! GM Dave sails into town with A Rum-Ble In The Jungle! A 4th level D&D 5e game suitable only for pirates with 18 years or more of sailing!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
There is a potential cloud in sunny world of the Tyrell Corporation! CEO Janice Brannock has been cutting corners (a corrupt leader of a mega-corp! I know, I'm as shocked as you) and older Janice has been smuggling in Nexus-6 replicants and using them as cheap labour. This could impact share prices
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
So when a very wealthy and quite elderly collector contacts you with an offer of three days work for a decent payout it sounds like easy money. Three days work; three simple tasks and a healthy paycheck, sounds too good to be true. And as this is Call of Cthulhu it probably is..
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Urgh dead people. Never get anything done in this world, sitting around in the land of the living thinking they'll never run out of time, with not a hurry in the world. Then boom! As soon as they die everything becomes urgent and they nag and nag and nag. And that's exactly what's happened here.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Plan for World Peace Step 1 - get the humans and dwarfs together to agee terms. Step 2 - have a big fry up to celebrate. Step 1 we're good! Step 2.....ehhh.... Turns out both sets of diplomats have gone missing. So the fry is at risk of remaining uneaten and the peace treaty unsigned!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The game at hand is a foot!! A McGuffin, a work of art beyond value, has gone missing from Manner Manor. With only days before it was due to ship to the Agatean Empire this leaves both the buyer and seller with egg on their face and anger in their hearts! The police just need to figure it out.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The ship is taking on water, the mast has snapped and the keel has cracked! On top of that thunder rolls as lightning forks across the sky! Abondon ship!! GMs and 3rd level D&D 5e characters first!! Welcome to The Lost Shore, GM Aidan's game offering to kick off day two of #AthCon4
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The score has been sourced. The joint has been cased The crew has been assembled. Now you just have to go out and do the job. But the job is recovering a rare artifact that some looney cultist have become quite attached to. Urrgh always with the crazy cultists. Trading is hardly an option?
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
GM Mike rocks up at #AthCon4 with his Beatle pun-heavy Battle Born game; Yesterday (A Day in the Life). Kids, The Beatles are a band from many moons ago. Not bad. Had a few hits. I couldn't possible compete with GM Mike's puns, honestly be needs Help. Plus I'd only end up bugging him.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
GM Neil's Saturday evening offering involves a Leprechaun. Now these little guys aren't always the easiest folk to deal with, tending more to the belligerent and cantankerous side of things than the happy go lucky here's my pot of gold side that we often see portrayed!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
GM Amy came along to the Con last year and had such a laugh that is coming back to #AthCon4 to run a game! In The Curse of the Necropolis, (an 8th Level 5e game), the players are tasked with returning an artifact to the temple of The Order of Everlasting Life. But Necropolis hides dark secrets
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
So us it wise to go a raidin to the temple cultists of the Emperor? Do the potential rewards outweigh the risk? Is the Emperor a forgiving man? Can you ration with Cultists? Are you better off just staying at home?? We've checked in the book and the answer to all the above questions is a firm "NO"
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
So someone (GM Declan to be accurate), has gone and gathered a group of people together in a lovely old Manor home. But just as happy hour is about to start the lights flicker, a scream breaks the silence and a body lies, lifeless, on the ground! All the guests now look suspiciously at each other!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Welcome to Irrogal, an underground city built across multiple levels allowing mortals to live, if you could call it living, in the Post Abyss world. And eight levels down sits the city's prison, home to all of mankind's scum and villainy! Fancy a quick down deep into the welcoming underdark
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Graham Kane @irishthump.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Remember when this was a lethal 1st level encounter? #ttrpg #d&d
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
By Grathar's Hammer we're only a week out from the greatest Con this side of Thermia, #AthCon4 And we've still so many games to be a tweetin about!! And we haven't even told y'all about the Never Ending Gory table! Oh my! We've a busy few days ahead!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Urrgh it's all just so typical!! You and the rest of the USS Gorgon manage to swing some must needed shore leave. You get invited to a swanky reception at the Starfleet Academy. And get a chance to meet up with you old professor while downing the little cocktail sausages and glasses of champagnee.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Good news about the future (bar the funky shiny purple hair that we'll all have) is that there are plenty of dead space ships out there. Multi-billion dollar assets simply abondoned and waiting for someone to come along and claim treasures within. Cut thru that CONDEMNED tape and you'll be fine.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It's Spacedogs!! GM Rob's Mongoose Traveller 2e Spacedogs to be precise. And the dogs in question are actually more wolf like. Except they are called Vargr. And they walk about on two legs. And they talk. And they have guns So not that dog like. Maybe best not to mention the whole dog thing.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Growing up in the 90s we all knew of an old, abondoned and no doubt haunted sanitarium that we were warned never to go near right? Well.... Turns out some kids went there and ain't showed up since leaving behind a trusty camcorder with some rather disturbing footage on it! So naturally you explore!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Now this game is a real blast from the past!! Back when D&D was just young and 5e (or any e for that matter) was no more than a pipe dream we have the 1974 version of Dungeons & Dragons. And GM Gus is giving y'all (well 4 or 5 of you anyways) the chance to play the first ever published scenario!!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
GM Wayne from the Sorcery & Shenanigans fame will be hosting the game which is suitable for those of 18 years and older... Along with all the S&S stuff, youtube.com/@irishpubcas... Wayne also produces some pretty cool comics www.roguecomicsireland.com/roguestore/n... Man, I hate talented people.
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Welcome to Sorcery & Shenanigans Our YouTube channel is your gateway to an enthralling TTRPG Actual Play where adventurers traverse the cosmos in a search for answers to a dreadful curse. Set against...
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Deep in the West of Ireland the folk speak of a long lost temple filled with all manner of devious traps! Traps that have taken the lives of all who have ventured into the temple ruins before. Will the next party fair any better or are they probably screwed as well?? Find out at #AthCon4!!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The Devils Well is a Candela Obscura game from GM Ciaran, or Horse as he he known by some making up the other half of the Happy & Horse duo from Dopes And Dragons! The party receiving the last mayday message from the caption, turns out airship are not that safe afterall. Who woulda thunked it?
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The crew of the USS Challenger are back at #AthCon4 with GM Matthias at the helm! This Star Trek Adventures ehh adventure sees the crew of the Challenger coming across a planet that is headed for destruction but with inhabitants that all seem remarkably chillaxed. Like seriously man, chill.
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Our next game is probably more towards the TPK end of the scale when it comes to player survival. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. No harm in thinning out the hero gene pool every so often! GM Cormac is new to us here at #AthCon4 and we're very happy to have him and his Carin game onboard!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
And thus the Oakenbend Book Club was formed! And now Emery Honeycot, the renowned author, is in town and is the guest of honour at the next book club meeting! Stuff to organise between now and then and someone is gonna have to keep an eye on the GoH who seems more interested in local ruins!
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AthVentureCon @athventurecon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Let's kick off Saturday with a Discworld game!! Assassins, even if they mostly work alone, do need a bit of team building every so often. Now this being Discworld no Health & Safety review took place so no one raised concerns about getting a gaggle of killers together on the boat.
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