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Ludovic Chabant

@ludovic.chabant.com
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Gamedev, ex Epic/UE5 & EA/Frostbite (cinematics, cameras). TTRPG nerd and occasional writer/illustrator. Even more occasional open source dev. Lives near Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 ludovic.chabant.com on the web @ludovic@chabant.social on Mastodon

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h
Everyone in politics and media does spooky voice about high corporate taxes and high top marginal rates, and then you look up the period of history where we had that and it's called ~the golden age of capitalism~
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 4h
On point B, the NASA Exoplanet Archive typically serves ~10-20TB of data per month. In July it jumped to 70TB. In August it jumped to 600TB. So either our user base organically grew *30x* in two months (... unlikely), OR the bots have taken over already.
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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 3h
Y'all know there's just 3 days left on the PREMIERE #TTRPG of sinners racing in Hell, right? www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre... If you could have been one of the first 200 people to get #UnknownArmies... would you have done that?
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THOMAS JEFFERSON'S SPEEDWAY HELL: Dangerous Playtest Edition
It's a tabletop RPG where sinners race through Hell to win brief moments of peace. It's handled with tremendous silliness.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 3h
My Blendercon Lightning talk "OpenUSD: Don't Worry About It!" is now also available in text if you prefer reading: rystorm.com/blog/openusd... And with a fixed video, without Google Slide glitches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Kp... Huge thanks to the Blender folks for allowing me to fix the video!
Me on stage, with my fist up, and a slide saying "Don't worry about it!" with me putting a thumbs up
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 4h
I’m looking into Ghost for a new website I’m working on… It’s annoying that it doesn’t support password authentication or footnotes, but a big blocker is no asset/media management to re-use images and not get duplicates. People have been asking for it for the past 7 years. Ugh.
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Reusing images and avoiding multiple uploads of the same file
Hello, I was wondering how it’s possible to reuse existing (uploaded) images in other posts and, more importantly, as og:image (Facebook) and as “post image”. Actually, when you go to these settings, it just lets you upload an image from computer, making you upload the same file twice (once inside the post and then as post image). Also, if you click on the recycle bin and remove the image, the only way to put it again is… to reupload it. I don’t know if there are solutions, but the actual syst...
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 22h
Gods. To write something like that. To live it.
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 22h
Hahahah my wife has gone back to university for a career change, and is in a Discord server with other students from her classes. She has to ask our kids to translate some of the posts from GenZ-speak to English 🤣😅
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 29/09/2026
“Bad art is better than AI art! Draw something fun!” (seen at KamCon)
A bunch of white-board drawings from convention attendees
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 29/09/2026
My 9 video games. But ask me again another time and half of these games would be different!
My 9 games:
- Frontier: Elite II
- Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe
- Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
- Ultima VII: The Black Gate
- Half Life: Counter-Strike
- Lemmings
- Portal
- Day of the Tentacle
- Split Fiction
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 29/09/2026
KamCon last week-end isn’t just TTRPGs: there’s also a big chunk of board games, wargames, video games, cosplay, and other nerdy stuff. But this time there was also a pinball tournament! I didn’t enter, but I played the D&D pinball which is crazy, it has a branching storyline!
Pinball machines at KamCon: Avengers, Foo Fighters, and D&D. The D&D one off course has a dragon, but also a gelatinous cube, a kobold mine, and a bunch of fun things.
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 29/09/2026
Before KamCon started last Friday, I went on a little hike above Kamloops with Francis, writer of “Horror in the Nunnery” (for Call of Cthulhu). We got some nice views of the town!
View from the Tom Moore / Billy Miner trails. This one overlooks the Peterson Creek bridge and Kamloops behind it.View from the Tom Moore / Billy Miner trails. These hills look like northern California or something.View from the Tom Moore / Billy Miner trails. Francis is enjoying the fresh air.View from the Tom Moore / Billy Miner trails. Going back down towards the bridge.
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Stoo Goff @stoogoff.com · 29/09/2026
There are a couple of quotes in this which have blown me away! "The whole system has been put together and very obviously playtested thoroughly, if only all rule books were so well written!" "As a historical based TTRPG this is one of the best out there and deserves to be played at more tables."
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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
jesus christ
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 28/09/2026
There was a problem with some PDFs missing from my scenario “The King’s Daughters” on DriveThruRPG. It should now be fixed, sorry about that, and thanks to everyone who reported it. Stupid of me to release something and then spend the next two days gaming at a convention…
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 28/09/2026
I’m coming back online after a weekend at KamCon in Kamloops, BC, where I GM’ed Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu for 12 hours straight 😅 I’m catching up with messages and sleep now but in the meantime, enjoy some pictures from the convention!
View from the Thomson River University campus where the convention is held The main atrium at the centre of the convention Some of the vendor boothsA vendor booth for the Society of Creative Anachronism
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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 26/09/2026
“McDonalds says Big Macs decided to grow E. coli in latest example of rogue burger activity”
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 👏 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/things-to-do-32419113
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Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dampscot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The world's Greatest Detective meets Batman
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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The RuneQuest book I curated, Jonstown Voices, has reached Silver Best Seller status (>100 copies sold) in its first week, and raised over US$800 for the charity Médecins Sans Frontières. On their behalf, I'm really grateful to everyone who has bought a copy! tiny.cc/jc-jv
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 25/09/2026
The first volume of the Canadian Chronicles is out on DriveThruRPG! Three scenarios of historical colonial horror for Call of Cthulhu, made and set in Canada 🇨🇦, written by Francis Acquarone, Patrick Chandler, and myself. Grab the bundle now!
Poster for Canadian Chronicles Vol 1: Nouvelle France, featuring the three covers of the scenarios included in it.
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 25/09/2026
The Canadian Chronicles have been unleashed! Our three Call of Cthulhu scenarios of historical colonial horror, made and set in Canada, are now available on DriveThruRPG! Links in the article below. ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2026/09/25…
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The gorgeous art in our newly-released Credo board game is by talented Bulgarian artist Kalin Kadiev, wonderfully evoking the Roman world of Late Antiquity. Credo: The Game of Duelling Dogmas is out now: bit.ly/4y6VdRa
The gorgeous art in our newly-released Credo board game is by talented Bulgarian artist Kalin Kadiev, wonderfully evoking the Roman world of Late Antiquity.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Out now for patrons, my first look at @chaosium.bsky.social 's Age of Vikings Companion - do you need it? Wait, playable ravens? Out to patrons now - a week later on the public blog. Can't wait? It's only a couple of quids www.patreon.com/burnafterrun...
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Gone Viking! - First Look: Age of Vikings Companion | Burn After Running
If you’ve read any of my blogs about game lines before, you’ll know I have a lot of affection (nostalgia, even) for a good old fashioned sup
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Brian Ashford @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the stupidest apocalypse I have ever seen. And I read 2000ad!
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 24/09/2026
“I just chose words carefully.”: a short amazing tale about Super Metroid and monospace text justification.
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of the Super Metroid manual.
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Kaye Elling @k000.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Things I learnt today, writing this lecture: Moh's Scale of Sci-Fi hardness. LOL! kelthavenpress.com/2021/04/26/t...
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The Mohs Scale of SF Hardness
I’ve seen yet another argument break out about what counts as “hard” SF. Some people think “hardness” is a yes or no property and are indignant if some work is excluded. So it’s time to go ov…
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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 24/09/2026
this is the future we were promised (alt: four pics of a gorgeous bright red Messerschmitt bubble car)
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Paul Baldowski 🔜 Furnace, Sheffield (Oct. 10–11) @paulbaldowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In the Midst of Shades is a game about Victorian ghost hunters. No one else believes in ghosts. But, you can see them and know they're a threat. Trouble is, the ghosts know you're a threat, too. #Sanction www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Black-and-white illustrated cover for In the Midst of Shades: A Genre Setup for SANCTION. Three Victorian-era figures occupy a shadowy staircase: a stern woman standing above, a bearded man holding a heavy cane-like weapon, and a sinister figure in a tall hat and goggles in the foreground.
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Shane Ivey of the delta-green.com Iveys @shaneivey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
YOU LOVE DINOSAURS. Now be one! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tha... New from our buddy Chris Gunning and friends.
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Herd of Horns
An Original TTRPG Celebrating Dinosaurs for Being Dinosaurs!
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Viscount Jonkeer @viscountjonkeer.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
I picked this up based on this post. It is brilliant! Traveller Referees running sandboxes should pick this up. Referees running linear campaigns - this is still useful. Just the section on the 'port profile' justifies the price.
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 23/09/2026
Just learned about the efghij programming language, which, I guess, is “literally object oriented” in that programs are “written” by stacking everyday objects on top of each other. For example, this is a factorial function:
(excerpt from the linked Wikipedia article)

This example demonstrates the BelMandel (Bigness Exactly Like Multiplying All Naturals Deemed Equal or Less than) function (otherwise known as factorial). This demonstrates a single-parameter function declaration in which the parameter is identified by sauces. 

In this example, the tray and the cutting board constitute code blocks. The oblong plate, however, has a clothes peg on it, which expresses a for loop. The fork is a local variable.

The fork variable is initialized to 1 within the for loop’s initial-value expression. The sauce with the rubber band indicates that the number of iterations is equal to the function’s argument. The stuff on the cutting board is the loop body. Using a stapler, the fork is multiplied by the sauce and the result assigned to the fork using a drinking glass. A hammer decrements the sauce, which demonstrates that the function’s parameter can be used as a local variable too.

Finally, the toilet roll indicates that the return value is the final value of the fork.
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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 23/09/2026
Same! When mundane operations feel like you’re launching EVA-02 against the latest Angel attack, everything is just better
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 23/09/2026
i love this and post it every fall
caption: humpty dumpty had a great fall

four pictures of humpty dumpty enjoying fall activities
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
UX system designers: "We have successfully integrated all controls on this device into a smooth, featureless plastic touch-sensitive screen" Meanwhile, humans:
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Kalum 🔜 GrogLaw 2027 @rolistespod.itch.io · 23/09/2026
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Indiana Jones: That Belongs In A Museum!
Alt: Indiana Jones: That Belongs In A Museum!
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
baking bread and making cheese in a cool way and not in a i refuse to vaccinate my kids way, i swear
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Ardwulf the Traveller @ardwulf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Traveller is the greatest of sci-fi RPGs. It has maintained its enduring legacy for almost 50 years. Elite, EVE Online, and Starfield were influenced by Traveller.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Gauthier 'Gautoz' Andres // Origami-ami @gautoz.cool · 22/09/2026
Un grand virage, hyper violent à regarder malgré son caractère téléphoné, d'une vision centrée sur les équipes à une vision centrée sur les licences, qu'importe qui s'en occupe. Juste un autre Embracer.
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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/f...
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The One Ring™ RPG: Bestiary, Gondor Campaign & Updated Rules
The award-winning The One Ring tabletop RPG enters a new age with this triple offering – the epic campaign expansion The White Tower and the Hall of Gold, the bestiary Creatures Strange and Foul, and ...
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Orlanth Vex (He/Him) @orlanth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.patreon.com/orlanthvex/p...
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Episode 53: Talking Tools (5) - Manic Mechanics | Orlanth Rex's Gaming Vexes
Episode 53: Talking Tools (5) - Manic Mechanics by Orlanth Rex's Gaming Vexes on Patreon. Join Orlanth Rex's Gaming Vexes's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Scott M | Chocopro 🍫 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't know if this is useful, but I wanted to talk about how I go about running my freelancing studio working full time in TRPGs. 🧵
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I love the fundamental misunderstanding of tension and the importance of uncertain outcomes at the #TTRPG game table meta currency represents. Every time I use one, no matter how clever, it makes the excitement LESS. "What if we cut through the tension about the outcome and just begin with yes?"
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 21/09/2026
Do you prefer reading instead of watching? My video about why your tool UI should be customizable, and how "sensible defaults" and "best practices" do not exist, is now available in text format! rystorm.com/blog/sensible-defaults-best-practices-tool-ui-customisation Let me know what you think!
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Sensible Defaults do not exist, and neither do Best Practices: Tool UI should be easily customizable — Robin-Yann Storm, Tool Design Director
What is wrong with ‘Sensible Defaults’? And why do they make our user experience design worse?
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Kat Clay @katclay.com · 21/09/2026
I've been working hard behind the scenes doing a lot of pre-press work on Credo. But it's coming out next week and I got to be in front of the camera explaining how to play the game! 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Bs...
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How to play Credo: The Game of Dueling Dogmas!
YouTube video by Chaosium
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 19/09/2026
Okay, my media-illiterate people with tiny baby brains: Understand that when people mistreat sentient robots and computers in fiction it's a commentary on how we treat other people, usually marginalized groups. It is not and has never been about the possibility machines are or could be people.
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Dirk the Dice @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There's a new Dirk's Dossier available for Patreons. Featuring Nick Edwards talking about zines, the book club covering historical detectives and Dirk discussing RPG music with Blythy. www.patreon.com/theGROGNARDf...
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Dirk's Dossier - More 'zines, historical detective work and music in RPGs | Dirk the Dice
Dirk's Dossier - More 'zines, historical detective work and music in RPGs by Dirk the Dice on Patreon. Join Dirk the Dice's community for exclusive content and updates.
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