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Mitchel Pigsley

@mitchelpigsley.art
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Cofounder of PixelQueue. Building online TTRPG tools and playing games with friends. Software artisan, bibliophile, and traditional artist.

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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 31/08/2026
Running a West Marches-style, multi-GM #ttrpg online is challenging. I think I've found a solution. realmsofshod.com/blog/how-to-...
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How to Run a West Marches Campaign With Multiple GMs | Realms of Shod Blog
A West Marches campaign is one of the harder formats to run well, and it gets even harder the moment more than one Gamelord is involved. The thing that makes…
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 14/08/2026
For what I consider an "AI-first" technology company, realmsofshod.com has a ridiculous amount of non-AI-related infrastructure and systems. I suspect most "AI-first" businesses can relate.
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Realms of Shod
Realms of Shod empowers tabletop gamers and storytellers to capture every moment of each adventure. Full-session recall provides automated transcripts and searchable archives, so you'll never scramble...
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 06/08/2026
There's a term for where AI software development is headed: the dark software factory. Like a lights-out warehouse, but the product is code. The path there already has five completed stages: Prompt → Context → Harness → Loop → Graph But lights-out isn't the only place this road goes. 🧵
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 06/08/2026
With AI agents these days, there's power in being an individual contributor (IC). Your leverage comes from knowing the underlying systems, standards, and best practices in your area of expertise.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 06/08/2026
I keep thinking about the last session of Brindlewood Bay. The concept of dynamically building up a mystery into a surprising conclusion was one of the best #ttrpg experiences I've had in recent memory.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 06/08/2026
Become a better #ttrpg player by exploring your character's backstory on realmsofshod.com. See your sessions, messages, and backstory explorations in the ongoing gamestream.
New gamestream with backstory exploration, sessions, and scenes mixed together.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 06/08/2026
#ttrpg campaigns die from scheduling conflicts and lost context. Stories become forgotten. At realmsofshod.com, group world-building, multiple game master support, character backstory exploration, and live chat help keep you involved between sessions. Sign up today to claim your free coins 💰
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Realms of Shod empowers tabletop gamers and storytellers to capture every moment of each adventure. Full-session recall provides automated transcripts and searchable archives, so you'll never scramble...
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 04/08/2026
Habitat engineering. Building spaces where agents and humans can coexist and collaborate effectively. What habitats are you building? #saas #startup #ai #agents
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 03/08/2026
Listen, agentic development is a wonder, but at the end of the day it’s a tool in the toolkit. It doesn’t mean you don’t get to pay attention to security, scalability, and codebase hygiene. We are engineers, let’s act like it.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 03/08/2026
Feeling some intense FOMO with all the Gen Con posts. Next year I’m making it happen.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 03/08/2026
Covid really changed the game for virtual tabletops. A lot of people started playing #ttrpgs digitally. Now it’s all they know.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 03/08/2026
One the roadblocks we’ve experienced building prosumer AI tools is group consent. If only one person in a group takes a hardline stance against the use of AI, then the group abandons the platform.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 03/08/2026
#saas distribution means something different for every business. For example… prosumer, low-ACV applications aren’t going to be hiring a SDR or performing outbound sales. These businesses must be self-serve and often need built-in distribution to survive.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 01/08/2026
Complexity overhead quietly kills #SaaS startups. We deliberately deferred ours to fight the dragons that actually matter: bad distribution, weak retention, building something nobody wants. Read the story: realmsofshod.com/blog/complex... #buildinpublic #indiehackers #startup #webdev
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Complexity, Deliberately Deferred | Realms of Shod Blog
Starting a technology company, and specifically a B2C SaaS company, has its fair share of challenges. I'm sure this comes as no surprise. The technology is one…
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 20/07/2026
I've always been interested in the history of #ttrpgs, which sent me down the Kriegsspiel rabbit hole. This essay traces that lineage from the earliest versions of Dungeons and Dragons to modern online play, and explains why we so often reach for VTTs. realmsofshod.com/blog/wargami...
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Wargaming and the Proliferation of VTTs | Realms of Shod Blog
Picture it. It’s your very first time hosting an online TTRPG game night for friends. You’re confused over how to run a game online, so you turn to the…
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 15/07/2026
Just backed Seven-Part Pact. Can’t wait to dive into this ambitious #ttrpg! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
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Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 08/07/2026
As NPCs get mentioned in a #ttrpg story, the richer they become. They change, but do your notes ever get updated? At realmsofshod.com, we’ve been working on a quick action that auto-syncs those entity descriptions in the compendium. Try it for yourself, now!
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Realms of Shod empowers tabletop gamers and storytellers to capture every moment of each adventure. Full-session recall provides automated transcripts and searchable archives, so you'll never scramble...
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 05/07/2026
Wherever and however you play #ttrpgs with friends, realmsofshod.com has you covered. Transcriptions, scene-splitting, and compendium extraction are now available.
Host your sessions on Realms of Shod, play on Discord by inviting a bot to your voice channels, or upload audio from a phone recording, Zoom, or anything. Realms of Shod extracts your scenes and automatically builds your compendium.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 05/07/2026
#ai offers a poor facsimile of intelligence. Do I think #agi is right around the corner? No. A poor facsimile can still be useful, though.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 05/07/2026
I've given my players access to such powerful Mörk Börg equipment that I have to throw enemy numbers at them now to make a dent. Even the largest and most difficult of written enemies can't compete. Anyone else dealt with higher-level #morkborg characters?
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 01/07/2026
#AI has a marketing problem. Anthropic and OpenAI have evangelized LLMs as a tool to replace human labor. In addition to the resources these data centers consume, it's no wonder they are widely hated. When the hype cycle dies down, I hope we can clearly see the potential of these tools.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 16/06/2026
I can't wait to continue my first playthrough of Disco Elysium.
Disco Elysium Art
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 16/06/2026
A #storytelling MCP that fits right into your #ttrpg live play. Use agentic AI to generate or transfer your collected notes into a coherent compendium which links itself to your ongoing session transcripts. Find out more: realmsofshod.com/docs/integra...
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MCP Integration | Docs
Connect your AI assistant to Realms of Shod using the Model Context Protocol. Once connected, your assistant can read and manage your realms, sessions, and compendium directly. No copy-pasting needed.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 11/05/2026
I'll go ahead and say it. I really like using #agentic #ai to help me flesh out and build campaigns for #ttrpgs. Claude Code running within an Obsidian Vault is actually so helpful. And if you're using tools like realmsofshod.com to transcribe your sessions, it becomes even more powerful.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 11/05/2026
As humans move up the intelligence stack, more delegation to #agents must occur. Agents that spawn agents that spawn agents. But I have yet to see this work in practice. I'm waiting for the watershed moment I experienced with #ClaudeCode, but at the level of multi-agent orchestration.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 11/05/2026
I'm still finding that #multi-agent orchestration suffers from imprecision and small mistakes that compound negatively over time. When it comes to writing scalable, production-grade software, human intuition is still king... for now.
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Realms of Shod @realmsofshod.com · 07/05/2026
A new onboarding experience for Realms of Shod just dropped. This spring we've been rebuilding our world graph infrastructure. What's coming is worth the wait. Stay tuned. #worldbuilding #TTRPG
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 03/03/2026
Claude code is taking over. I walk through coffee shops, and it’s open on every other computer.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 24/02/2026
I'd love to connect with readers on #storygraph. I read sci-fi/fantasy, TTRPGs, and non-fiction as well. “mpigsley” is the username. Let's connect!
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 17/02/2026
Your #TTRPG world builds itself while you play. Realms of Shod now auto-links characters, places & things in your live transcript, and tracks their relationships. That nasty little witch will always live in that strange little cottage. Try for free @ realmsofshod.com
Aut-linked entities in a live transcript on Realms of ShodYour realm's compendium assembles itself as you play.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 02/02/2026
I'm late to the game, but Claude Code with GitHub and Linear MCP is a cheat code. I also recently found github.com/kbwo/ccmanager, which helps with multi-agent workflows. I'm also not saying this is the endgame. It still feels like wrangling a bunch of junior developers.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 02/02/2026
The Coin Machine is live at realmsofshod.com. Live sessions, transcription, and summaries now run on coins; no subscription required. Get coins via Basic or Pro, or just grab a pack when you need. To say thanks for an incredible 2025, we dropped 500 coins into every account. Happy storytelling!
Most features in Realms of Shod are free and fit into the Squire's Way. Sessions, transcriptions, and summaries all cost coins, and you can get them through two subscription levels (Basic and Pro) or with pay-as-you-go coin packs.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 24/01/2026
It feels damn good to pull out the brushes and paint. Working on an oil painting from our trip to Cabo last year. Painting as rememberance.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 01/01/2026
For those who have played spellcasters in a #ttrpg campaign at sea, what resources did you use? Looking for inspiration for spells or character archetypes around naval combat and adventure.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 23/12/2025
Just purchased and read through the fantastic Death in Space #ttrpg. You really can't go wrong with Stockholm Kartell these days.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 13/12/2025
"We're what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - summarized from Aristotle by Will Durant. What are your habits?
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 03/12/2025
Invite the realmsofshod.com Bot to your Discord channel and transcribe your #ttrpg sessions seamlessly. As you play, scenes are generated, and when your session is done, a summary is generated. We handle the memory; you just need to play.
Realms of Shod + Discord
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 02/12/2025
realmsofshod.com + Discord coming soon.
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Realms of Shod
Realms of Shod empowers tabletop gamers and storytellers to capture every moment of each adventure. Full-session recall provides automated transcripts and searchable archives, so you'll never scramble...
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 02/12/2025
Been on a deep dive with #dungeon-crawl-classics and have been really enjoying it. Definitely lives nearby #shadowdark, but with a lot more depth. What're your favorite DCC adventures?
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 19/10/2025
The old TSR dragon magazines are troves of arcane #ttrpg knowledge. This #220 has incredible articles on Sea Magic with new AD&D spells, Elven magical items, and non-combat dangerous situations.
Dragon magazine #220
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 19/10/2025
I love #ttrpg worldbuilding. It's maybe my favorite part of being a lifelong game master. Now, I can build my worlds right inside of Realms of Shod. I'm excited to share this new product notes video with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndtx...
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The Worldbuilding Episode - Product Notes #2
YouTube video by Realms of Shod
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 12/10/2025
Design a memorable #ttrpg encounter by making the scene as terrifying as the adversaries. Players must feel that their characters have survived great peril.
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Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 07/10/2025
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Work in progress cover of an upcoming boxed set for Mothership RPG entitled Prospero's Dream. There's a cyberpunk crime lord named Yandee on the cover, along with various other NPCs from the award winning adventure, A Pound of Flesh.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 06/10/2025
Had an awesome first #ttrpg session of Mörk Borg! I was able to get through the Goblin Grinder adventure in four and a half hours. Also had a first time table-topper and the game was so easy to learn. All I needed was to print off the one page rules for the table.
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 28/09/2025
At realmsofshod.com, we recognize that #ttrpg worldbuilding in the compendium can be quite a chore. Today, we are releasing a set of tools to help you speed up your compendium creation. 🧵👇
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Realms of Shod empowers tabletop gamers and storytellers to capture every moment of each adventure. Full-session recall provides automated transcripts and searchable archives, so you'll never scramble...
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 23/09/2025
Let's talk Mörk Borg. Who's played it? The rules are minimal, and the enemies are super limited. Are we hacking the system and building our own bestiaries?
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 20/09/2025
Next #ttrpg read is Scum and Villainy. This is my first experience with the Forged in the Dark ruleset. What can I expect?
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 20/09/2025
Just finished reading the fantastic #shadowdark #ttrpg by Kelsey Dionne. I especially like the time pressure created by torch/inventory management, as well as the pages and pages of random tables to help you quickly scaffold story elements, even as you play live at your table. Can't wait to play!
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 20/09/2025
One of the pillars of #ttrpg gameplay is adventure, but what is an adventure without wizard keeps, pirates, cataclysms, and magic loot!? With the latest release of realmsofshod.com, we've added a "Compendium" mode, which allows you to manage entities and their relationships. 🧵👇 More details below
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Realms of Shod empowers tabletop gamers and storytellers to capture every moment of each adventure. Full-session recall provides automated transcripts and searchable archives, so you'll never scramble...
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Mitchel Pigsley @mitchelpigsley.art · 15/07/2025
Told some #ttrpg stories with friends around a campfire in the woods. It was magical. Highly recommended!
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