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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Keep doing what you’re doing. Gnomes, ducks, it’s all completely normal.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’ve caught a few but haven’t engaged in ages

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes, much better, still gaming. I’m occasionally dipping back into the community podcasts, but it’s still very sporadic.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Session 20 of the AD&D Saltmarsh campaign resulted in a diminished party successfully achieving their objectives. We’re down to 3 players due to life intervening. What to do next…?

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Very tough! The players have shown incredible ingenuity, and have avoided direct confrontation after U1. Their low hit points have worked as an interesting break on casual aggression. That might have helped them!

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Session 18 of our Saltmarsh campaign. Player schedule (numbers reduced as a result) aside, the campaign is solid. If we can solve the scheduling issues, then perfect. Otherwise, we may have to recalibrate things after this module has been completed.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I experimented with oil-paint washes on some miniatures that felt a bit flat. I don’t think I got the process quite right, but the effect wasn’t bad at all.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The typhoon passed, and we got a game in!

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Typhoon permitting, I’ll be heading down to Osaka to do some wargaming (English Civil War), having taken the day off for that purpose, but…typhoon…

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Ooh, I like myself some heavy metal…

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Still trundling along, but very informal. I need to write stuff down again as one effort of formalising play.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

2/First lead minis in 32(?) years. Primed. Bugbears, and 1992 Alternative Army hobgoblins from Scotland.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I’m still hobbying despite everything. Painting minis in particular has become quite relaxing for me. 1/ My goblin (or deep gnome) grenadier…

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hope you don’t get angry comments about actual colours of dinosaurs, Henchman…

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YUMDM @yumdm.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You don’t need fancy minis and terrain to play #DnD - in a group or solo. Coloured D6s are mercs (6 hp each), D3 & grey D6 are the PCs. The gold & red bits are giant rats. The D12 is the fire. Took seconds to set up. Use what you have + imagination. #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We finally got in a session after 6 weeks break, but have sadly lost a player (trials of life get in the way of our dreams and play😢). For the most part, I’ve been painting minis of dungeon adversaries and would-be heroes. Here’s a small selection…

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I haven’t done any solo RPGing for a while due to intense mini painting. Experimenting with the One Page Solo Engine app, I charted our goblin villain’s progress… The text is mine. Since there are no explanations to the prompts, this won’t make much srnse😅

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It’s still early here and I was wracking my brains until I reread the word “last”! I was thinking this year, and we haven’t had a great deal of variety. I wanted to write “Call of Cthulhu” to look cooler, but that was over a year ago already…

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (if you like): Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st edition) Warhammer: The Old World Rolemaster (Classic) Sword World 2.5

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Tempted. Sounded silly at first, but tempted. Muppets + Discworld?

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Scott, I’ve always assumed those insisting “RPG communities” don’t exist are the same that say the entire concept not to mention “society” are also non-existent, because such atomisation of coexistence is essential to their ideology.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

We’re getting old-school funky in 35 minutes here in Japan (plus UK & Aus) #AD&D

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

No, thank you. I first got into solo in the early/mid 80s with FF gamebooks. I still like multiple systems, but no one has time more than one or two campaigns at a time, so solo methods championed by people such as yourself allow me to explore different systems/types of play as the mood takes me!

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

2/The ruin is rumoured to be a goblin settlement. After 10 days, some foraging and occasional bad directions, he finally arrives! Will he find potential friends, or even greater danger? I used a simple oracle, OSE travel and pursuit rules, and Outdoor Survival (1974 style). Short session, but fun!

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

1/Taking some advice from the @thegrouchcouch.bsky.social I decided to not worry about overthinking system and story and set a goal for my unlikely hero Smeg the goblin. Betrayed to the local town by his centaur neighbours, he flees into the wilderness searching for a ruin to the south…

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Breakfast in the Ruins Podcast @breakfastruins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Exciting times for Rolling in the Ruins 2026, our first ever Moorcockian RPG mini (micro?) con in Bradford in June. We so far have 10 games lined up for the 6th and 6 for the 20th, and plans for an evening or two in some of Bradford's quality ale and pie joints. Registrations are open now.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’d heard rumblings - good luck!

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

My solo character died, so I’m taking a break from Sword World to do some mini painting. Finishing off (bases) of some I started a couple of years back (intervention of English Civil War army etc.). There’s a load more that have yet to be painted. Except for that gargoyle, they just a need varnish.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

As you can see, I’ve been on a bit of a binge this month. My latest purchases are the solo innkeeper game The Broken Cask, Nobinobi TRPG: Magic (a card-based narrative RPG), and Ryugaikenjintan. The last is a Japanese-style fantasy supplement for Sword World 2.5 RPG.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’ve prepped for scenario 2 of my Sword World 2.5 solo game, this time opting for a single character to speed up play (the adventures are scalable to party size). S2 is an urban investigation, and I hope to get fully into the action tomorrow or on Friday.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Osaka Adventurers Union (online) have finished their first session of U3, and it ended on a real nautical cliffhanger. I can’t believe we started this group almost exactly 7 years ago, in Japan, and still have three of the founding members! And we keep coming back to AD&D…

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

2/I’m not a fan of the anime art, but production values are even higher than the usual high level. I’ve learnt a lot about the SW via these play throughs, but am getting a hankering for some real tailor-made solo RPG, so think I’ll run the 1st scenario then take a break!

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

1/After finishing the second Sword World starter set (the first is set in a dungeon, the second in a city), I’m about to begin the Adventurers Guild set: an intermediate level adventure that interestingly builds on the other box sets. None of these require the full rules and can be ran by novices.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Finished scenario 2 of the SW2.5 starter set (well one of the many…) A nice mystery and step up from scenario 1. Actually makes me want to run an urban adventure. And this came: I backed it on Kickstarter 2 years back (so my name’s in it), but didn’t have a physical copy until now.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Sword World starter set solo play through session 2. Running all 4 pregens. Completed the first proper scenario. Simple & fairly linear, but a good tutorial, unusual in that it’s a city/mystery adventure.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I finished off the last of my English Civil War Roundheads (it’s only taken 2+ years!), so expect some wargaming posts in the coming months. Taking a break from painting, I cleaned up my work corner and set it up for a return to my Sword World starter set solo play through that’s been on hiatus.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Self-contained. You use it to develop and run “adventures”, pilot other “adventures”, etc, but also there seem to be genre specific modules and adventures available.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Lone roleplaying. It’s a solo system/emulator like Mythic. The back says this…

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

3/The very fact that nobody I know has more than passing interest in RM is reason enough to run it solo! Likewise Mythras and RQ - except in the case of the latter, it’s not for wont of a group, but rather time for a regular game.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

2/A fumbled leather working roll leads to unforeseen complications - in my game, the attempt at curing a hide draws a griffin. The (lesser orc) character is able to hide in his lodge, fortunately, and the griffin flies away leaving a feather. What might that be used for? Decoration is a good start!

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

1/One PC is all I can handle! CharGen was a bit of a slog as I’ve forgotten a lot of the rules, but RM lends itself well to solo IMO, not least due to the action resolution and combat systems.

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

We enjoyed a fun game of Warhammer The Old World RPG session 2 yesterday. No dice were rolled, but we climbed into the skin our characters. Meanwhile I’ve adopted Rolemaster classic for a solo game I’ve been playing - using Mythic, but temporarily Old-School Solo, plus various tables. Fun!

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Menion AKA Rob @menion.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Perhaps it’s considered that the ideas rests in the palms and their being weighed against each other?

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