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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/10/2026

Thinking Engines are at least 10% organic!

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/10/2026

OH accidental perfect metaphor: you could be wrong in accusing the child, in which case it's just shit. HEYO!

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/10/2026

Putting AI in something and expecting it not to be spotted is like when a toddler tells you they didn't eat the cake while clearly covered in chocolate.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/10/2026

I have to bump all the clause numbers up by one. MANUALLY. You can support my GoFundMe at...

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/10/2026

Thanks AI, now I have to add a "No AI" clause to all our freelancer contracts. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 03/10/2026

I suspect it convert the USD to match the change in value, then something happens that drags the GBP up. Which ends in an infinite price explosion. Or I broke something. WHO KNOWS

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 03/10/2026

Unrelated DTRPG bug complaint: I am British and set prices in british money, it converts it to USD and bodges the difference. All good. But over time (especially if there's SOMETHING tanking the USD) the converted price raises, and then the GBP follows. Like now, Stay Frosty is $28. Wut?

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 03/10/2026

Petition to make Advanced Fighting Fantasy a top level category on DTRPG so I can save a click when finding us. Someone contact Sir Ian Livingstone, get him to make some calls.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 03/10/2026

Gonna put up a sign reading "We do not tolerate Protestant ethics in this house", so i can tap it whenever someone starts talking about how someone else should work better

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 03/10/2026

I'm always super polite in emails, cos OBVIOUSLY anyone reading me throwing a wobbly would automatically go "no thankyou" and go do something else with the time they have left on this planet

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 03/10/2026

You know how creators start out super accesible and chatty but eventually develop a thousand yard stare and become very hard to contact directly? I get it now!

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👻 ⛧ Victor J. Frankenstein ⛧ SCARY SEASON ⛧👻 @victor-el-dm.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

Look, if the campaign reaches 250.000£ they will secure the rights for a COLUMBO #TTRPG I don't know what else would you need!

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 21/09/2026

Things can be both funny AND deadly serious at the same time

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 21/09/2026

Don't forget: only £220,735 away from securing the TTRPG rights for Columbo

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 21/09/2026

It changes daily now as well! Like Germany are just silently tossing everything that doesnt have a phone number on the label in the bin lately. The US might want everyones lunch money (duly applied to the postage cost) but at least they arrive

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 21/09/2026

The trick is ordering more than a couple of copies of a couple of books and also stocking them in a way people can find them.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 21/09/2026

If the number of complaints i receive about how expensive USA postage is is anything to go by, a USA shop that maintained a reliable stock of Troika would clean up.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 20/09/2026

There's a day left. And we've finally reached the often threatened stretch goal of giving away every PDF we've ever made to everyone pledging. Which also means it's not happening again. If you snooze you loose! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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A Bit O Troika

A street-by-street, door-by-door gazetteer of the Troikan borough of Ripplegate with spider banks, fire cults, population adjusters, and hundreds of other small businesses all mapped and packed with s...

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Strzyga, Flesh Enjoyer @evilgoblin.wedding · 19/09/2026

When I was explaining troika to people when I was selling zines for it at a local convention I just told people it was like a muppet Christmas carol with more fistfights.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 19/09/2026

Everywhere contains multitudes, just like real life

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 19/09/2026

When people ask we say: Troika is a city of rootbound humanity, politely self involved, baroque like a Sunday dinner set in aspic.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 19/09/2026

Love them, but i dont have a copy of the pre-print on demand version. All POD books are bound so tight they snap shut like a bear trap!

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 19/09/2026

I know for absolute certain you did it on purpose though, so you get a pass!

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 19/09/2026

Ttrpg book design challenge! Design a book that isn't a massive pain in the arse at the table. Bonus points if it lays flat without me leaving an elbow on it and it isnt printes on shiny/black paper i cant write on.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 18/09/2026

I just want to get a bunch of us to wear little pinnys with scouts badges like what the masons get. "She bears the Star of Valefar. Oh, it just means she agreed to let one of those weird z-list hollywood producers rent her ip... and has passed the 3rd gate! IA, IA!"

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 18/09/2026

Take a note from history! If your industry is, like, 100 people, then a conspiracy of 10 is a power block.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 18/09/2026

I don't think i even dislike him! Which is appropriate cos i worry that lot serve as an ecological trap and we'll all end up like those australian jewel flies

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 18/09/2026

No need to be sorry, hearing it from someone else makes me feel less crazy! And reminds me of another problem in ttrpgs: we have no one to learn from on the inside (except occasional grifters) and so keep making avoidable mistakes. I would *love* to speed up the growing pains period of the scene

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 18/09/2026

In conclusion, that Brennan comedian guy seems very nice but I must trust my gut which says "behold the wyrm that will consume the sun"

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 18/09/2026

Call back to me saying its easy to push people onto non 5e who come into a FLGS. Because OF COURSE IT IS, these are people who went out of their way to enter a specialist shop to look for something. "Likes unusually human contact... and ttrpgs"

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 18/09/2026

It's also a metaphor for 5e! It helps me if i think in terms of pinball machines: We are both playing the star wars pinball table, i think we share a hobby. I am wrong. You like pinball, i like disney films. We have almost nothing in common.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 18/09/2026

Ok, so, back when social media ads were worth anything you'd target them based on what people were into. The funny thing is, for a crowdfunder, you target FIRST by "likes crowdfunding" and THEN refine by "... and also ttrpgs". But mainly crowdfunding. I think about that horrifying fact every day

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pookie 🏳‍🌈 @pookie-uk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Other OSR: Eye of the Aeons A review of the third ‘1:5 Troika Adventures’ for Troika!, the weird Science Fantasy RPG from the Melsonian Arts Council. rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #reviewsfromrlyeh #rpgreview #rpgreviews #UKrpg #OSR #Troika

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The Other OSR: Eye of the Aeons

Troika! is both a setting and a roleplaying game. As the latter, it provides simple, clear mechanics inspired by the Fighting Fantasy seri...

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 17/09/2026

Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised by Mythmere Games

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 17/09/2026

We're close to the stretch goal where backers get every pdf we ever made. That's a suprisingly large number

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/09/2026

Right?? GMs have a monopoly on what game they run and some people who come in don't even realise it.

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/09/2026

*Obviously some exist. Like some spix's macaws exist. **A real FLGS is a hobby shop run by people with opinions and experience, not something that lives or dies by pokemon cards. That's like fishing shops surviving 'cos a food influencer put everyone on to eating worms

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/09/2026

In conclusion, I am confident it is not a coincidence that the dnd monopoly coincides with the death* of real** FLGSs. With no one other than reddit nerds and youtube improv troupes to advise anyone, where else could it possibly end up?

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/09/2026

"But what about world of darkness?" Especially world of darkness

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/09/2026

AND ANOTHER THING! You know who else walks out the shop with Swords & wizardry? Parents looking for a game they can play with their 7 year old. Calling something a kids ttrpg is a category error (or marketing)

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/09/2026

"Its so hard to get people to play anything but 5e". Wrong, it's a piece o' piss

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 15/09/2026

Funnest thing about helping out in a FLGS is when someone comes in fresh looking start playing 5e. "You could do that, or you could play this version of DnD thats got 40 years of play and players behind it and is half the price and a third the size" and then they walk out with Swords & Wizardry

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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 09/09/2026

The next time I'll have writing time to make things other than current obligations is February, so enjoy! If you need me I'll be in the screaming hole

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