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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wish games workshop would publish their space ork balance updates and point changes in a newspaper so I could gesture with it while I drink my coffee.

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World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dude @itsquinns.bsky.social and gang are playing my game Necronautilus on the Play To Find Out podcast rn. Their first mission they go to the planet Cavity, an enormous space shark turned inside out into mountain ranges of teeth and rivers of blood. Sick as hell. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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S5E1 - Necronautilus

Podcast Episode · Play to Find Out · S5 E1 · 1h 26m

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love a horror game as much as the next library school graduate but I have serious ethical concerns about a game where you make people use the Dewey Decimal system.

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good webcomics I am reading right now: Barbarous Swan Boy Worm in a Rock God Please tell me about more good webcomics so that I can read them with my eyes

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now available at worldchamp.io/store: 🔫 I AM A GUILLOTINE: a solo game of enacting political violence against a fascist figurehead. 📝 MANIFESTO: a solo journaling game of political extremism and news biases after the violence. 💀 HORROR GAMES: a compilation of 15 new terrifying tabletop games

three books propped up against a metal garage door. Left to right, the titles are Horror Games (an orange screaming face on white background), I Am A Guillotine (a dynamic drawing of a politician in crosshairs with a masked assassin on black background), and Manifesto (a wolf in black ink atop a photo of a person in a balaclava).

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Juice detected, I repeat, high levels of Juice have been detected, this is not a drill, report to battle stations

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hail Mary full of grace, everything's fucked and you're in space

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wargame but instead of point costs each unit has a Tetris piece you have to fit on a board

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Gem Room Games @gemroomgames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're gonna be there hanging out with Tim Hutchings! (You can tell because our art from 9 Lives to Valhalla is on the poster.) (If you come by 12-3 Dan will be running 9 Lives. You could play a cat from the poster.)

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You need to write for yourself because some day years later you'll have a chance to show it to new people and you'll need to rediscover what you love about it even though you're very tired. I am running a con game of 9 Lives to Valhalla tomorrow at Guardian Games, come say hi if you're in Portland

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Please use the correct chart format going forward.

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Gem Room Games @gemroomgames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

THIS WEEKEND! We were hoping to have a fun new thing to release in connection to 9 Lives to Valhalla in time for this weekend, but Kali took a bad fall & got all busted up so that's delayed. Come by & sign her crutch instead! (Wait, no, it's borrowed, just say hi)

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Getting to the stage in Warhammer army building where I'm tracking the relationships between individual orks (the wartrakk driver and gunner are fighting and split up to drive a trukk and pilot a dakkarig :( )

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 09/09/2026

SAVE THE DATE for our Trans Lifeline HELLWHALERS Charity Stream on Sept 23 AND 24! 👀 With @helpactionneeded.bsky.social @dmsteve.bsky.social @thecandacemarie.bsky.social and @ameliasom.com Sept 23 & 24 🐋 5:30 PT

trans lifeline charity stream - hellwhalers - sept 23 and 24 @ 5:30 PT
photos of each of the tagged cast members

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Double feature: Whiplash (2014) Pygmalion (1938)

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think i might have designed most of a wargame if I can only find a way to find it again in the little journal I take with me to my day job

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I spent way too long painting this axe tonight

An ork holding some manner of techno axe, red at the core and yellow at the edges

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh my God the firebelles come from behind victory on a grand slam!?

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Gem Room Games @gemroomgames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hey hey here's some fun news: our FLGS Guardian Games is hosting their first ever Indie RPG Fest on September 19, and we're gonna be there! Dan's gonna run 9 Lives to Valhalla, and there will be more games and cool people than fit in this first post

Promo image for Indie RPG Fest, showing icons for Geek Week PDX and Guardian Games above art of warrior cats from 9 Lives to Valhalla and text reading INDIE RPG FEST, September 19, 12PM-8PM.

A list of featured parties at Indie RPG Fest:
Kali Lawrie & Dan Phipps of Gem Room Games, Goblin Archives, Gravy Press, Karla Adder, Matt Gomez of Gomez Writes Games, Tim Hutchings, Twogether Studios, and Tyler Welch.

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When you're noodling on a game mechanic and someone says "oh, like in Pokemon?" That's when you know you've got the juice

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today in rpg design: looking up words that are slightly wrong for what they describe, but in an evocative way

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hana willow 🐯🔮🖤✨ @hanawillow.kim · 25/08/2026

hello? we're back department? yeah, i'd like to file a claim

mariners winning against the phillies 9-2 as the video screen says "CAL HIT 3 HOME RUNS SO WE ARE OUT OF FIREWORKS (NOT SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE)"

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hourlong outlook calendar block titled "name 120 space orks", manager invited as optional

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is Cereal Airpurifier and he gets all the grenades because he was a point guard on his high school basketball game.

Ork boy with a red skull belt buckle and a grenade primed to throw

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Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In lieu of the Mariners' historic loss, the subreddit has shifted to small m mariners content

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I tried to type "it'll be fun to play in the trad design space" and autocorrect decided I wanted to say "it'll be fun to play in traffic"

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You're in Space and Everything's Fucked on the One Night a Year When it's Legal for Unmarried People to Have Sex

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have yet another job interview today which means yet another chance to gloss over my experience parallel parking school busses and mopping the ceiling in an operating room

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hey, VOID fans! Got one for you tonight, going under the covers (or cover songs) with tracks from Guitar Wolf, Lily Allen, the Ink Spots, the Chainsmokers and more. See you in the chat in 30: bannerless.games/void-wtmh2

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VOID 1680 AM // WTMH_08.05.26

The world is chaos, so why not slip under the covers and stay where the magic happens? Kyndurr returns with caller requests and a little bit of magic from ar...

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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

surely nobody asked this before :o)

"How the fuck do i make new friends in my 30's" written in a style reminiscent of the 90's encarta software, featuring brush strokes, markers, ball points and splatters of color on top of a grid paper

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

anime alternative pop latte drag-and-drop N-word 85 is kinda OP

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Long walk for a short drink of water" is my favorite idiom for "lot of work for little payoff." This is a long walk for, i don't know, a gallon of delicious and mercilessly cold milk

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Gem Room Games @gemroomgames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

well this is a lovely account of what it's like to run 9 Lives to Valhalla as a newish GM. What a nice thing to have started our days with.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My friend @marieanello.bsky.social recently ran 9 LIVES TO VALHALLA by @gemroomgames.bsky.social for me! Viking cats in a post-human world. You only roll dice when something (ANYTHING) needs to be killed; failure is always death. But you have 9 lives, so… gemroomgames.itch.io/9-lives-to-v...

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9 Lives to Valhalla by Gem Room Games

The Age of Man is over, now dawns the Age of Beasts!

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've started giving myself a strict time limit of no more than one hour per ork boy, purely to keep myself from thinking about things like whether or not a checkered pattern axe makes sense. I'm making a lot more mistakes but having a lot more fun with it.

An ork boy with red and black checkered axe and armor

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Rogue Trader had rules for what if your ork gets depression and I think that's great

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So, I got into tabletop games by hanging out at a friend's game shop. (I'd met him while clubbing.) This was a fairly typical FLGS. 40K, Friday Night Magic, a coupla V:TM tables. The core group of dudes where old uni mates. These were true-blue grognards. They used to play Napoleonics. 1/

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