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Nick Brooke

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Community Ambassador & Associate Editor, Chaosium Inc. (he/him)

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404 Media @404media.co · 11h
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 12h
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 13h
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Impossible! He popped like a balloon. There’s video footage of the incident.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”
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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
WELL. If you wondered why I had zero things to say about the NYT piece on the HR AI fic situation last month...I had zero things to say publicly then. 🥲 Thank you to everyone who discussed this situation with me and read a draft of this. I tried my best to illustrate these longstanding dynamics:
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Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry
How we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account.
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Under the Jonstown Compendium community content license, fans of #RuneQuest and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha sell and share their own #ttrpg material @drivethrurpg.com. We invite you to check it out—it's an amazing resource of imagination and creativity! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
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Chaosium | DriveThruRPG
Browse titles from Chaosium on DriveThruRPG.
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
MORE METAL MILESTONES: Celebrating some significant sales by our community creators @drivethrurpg.com. These are all recent RuneQuest #ttrpg titles in the Jonstown Compendium that are ELECTRUM Best Sellers, 250 copies sold. Thank you for supporting independent creators of our games!
Jonstown Compendium logo, Chaosium's independent creator program for RuneQuest at DriveThruRPG
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Knowledge is power, France is bacon.
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Following on from their hit show in Istanbul’s ancient Cistern of Theodosius, join the A Viking in the Sun project as they bring a cast of professional gamers to Stirling Castle's Great Hall! Sat 17 Oct 2026, 7:30PM, Stirling Castle, Scotland. 10% discount for @historicscotland.bsky.social Members
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A Viking in the Sun presents The King's Call - Cthulhu in Medieval Scotland | Historic Environment Scotland
Call of Cthulhu actual play in Stirling Castle's Great Hall. Watch a cast of professional gamers solve an intriguing mystery set in the castle
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
if I had "Orinoco Flow" money I too would disappear to a castle and you'd never see me on the internet again
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Following Boris until he disappears into a fridge. Occupational hazard.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(I’m kidding. If they exist, they look awesome. Because Mark and Neil were involved. Unless they weren’t.)
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And they may or may not look awesome. Just saying.
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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But I enjoyed the current Govts comms dept response 😂
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Shit, I fluffed the alt text. Here it is: Nick Brooke (on the left, looking smug) absolutely *hammers* Susan O’Brien at a playtest game of the new edition of White Bear & Red Moon in July 2025, demonstrating the overwhelming tactical, strategic and moral superiority of the Lunar College of Magic.
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Playtest photo from July 2025. That’s me absolutely *hammering* Susan O’Brien with the Lunar College of Magic. (She had the worst dice-luck ever.)
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
GOOD FREAKING MORNING! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“How did you get into TTRPGs?” My primary school teacher mentioned what “his hobbit” had been getting up to at the weekend. I had questions. (Thanks for everything, Brian!)
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Brian Duguid @brianduguid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm marking 60 years since Greg Stafford's discovery of Glorantha by celebrating the setting's first true hero, Prince Snodal. gloranthology.org/2026/10/02/6...
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60 years of Glorantha: Celebrating Snodal
I have been to the very edge of the world, far beyond the most northern lands of men, beyond even the endless lands of the eternal winter. I was driven from the battlefield where I had fought along…
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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Uh, okay.
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s not unreasonable to use Session Zero to block out any aspects of the modern world that you don’t want intruding into your gaming.
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This edition is of a different substance but shares the same nature as the 1993 release. (It’s just as much fun!)
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nix the Crime Cat is superb, I will feed that beloved little critter everything I can lay my hands on! 😻
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Henk Langeveld @hlangeveld.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Forgot to include a picture of the original. Since reshuffled into a collection of new ziplocks. #credoboardgame #chaosium
A collection of roughly A5 sized ziplocks with a couple of smaller bags with thin, yellow and blue, paper cards.

Main focus is on the left large bag with a gray and red printed and stapled booklet.

On top are large, red slightly jumbled letters saying CREDO!
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I notice he’s not offering to fight traitors or nazis.
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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey everyone! I'm so excited to announce this! If you like the D&D 'walkthrough maps' I've done over the years, I'm proud to present my new book... DUNGEONS! ILLUSTRATED MAPS OF CLASSIC DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ADVENTURES, coming from Ten Speed Press on April 27, 2027! (1/4) #dnd #ttrpg
"Dungeons!" book cover showing the exterior of the Tomb of Horrors, in a nighttime swamp, surrounded by red-eyed monsters. A group of stick-figure adventurers stands with a lantern preparing to enter the tomb
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Henk Langeveld @hlangeveld.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
33y in the making... boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/479868 A new 2026 edition Credo The Game of Dueling Dogmas By Chris Gidlow (and Chaosium). The original was from 1993.
Rules and box cover for the board game Credo on top.

Below are two decks of cards with a couple of cards flipped over.

Below that are two player boards with the Creed Display in the middle. Each player has four church father tokens in matching colours.

Below that all are four stacks of small action cards and six stacks of Articles of Faith.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With @markmwrites.bsky.social in the GM's chair, we did some final playtesting for the new #RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Revised rulebook last night: specifically, the ease of looking up stuff on the fly.
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
See: sinister vegan scones from National Trust kitchens.
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our resplendent new edition of Credo: The Game of Duelling Dogmas is on @boardgamegeek.com. If you like the game, please do give it a rating there, or even a review!
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Credo: The Game of Duelling Dogmas
Shape the foundations of early Christian doctrine
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Data centers promise jobs but hire few people That's why I propose a law that every data center must hire 1,000 Priests of Data to worship the computers, pray to the servers, light candles, etc. The priests will boost the local economy and fill the air with the sweet sound of their Gregorian chants
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I enjoyed reading qntm’s “There Is No Antimemetics Division,” and if you enjoy reading the kind of things I enjoy reading then you might also enjoy reading qntm’s “There Is No Antimemetics Division.” uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ther...
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There Is No Antimemetics Division
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD'Astonishing' M. R. Carey, author of Infinity Gate'Mind-bendingly brilliant' The Guardian'Compulsively readable, breathtakingly inventive.' SFX---------------...
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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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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*pricks up ears* (Stop sniggering, Effy. It’s a perfectly normal expression.)
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well, I am *now*.
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here Kat tells you all about our new board game, Credo: The Game of Duelling Dogmas. Out now!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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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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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, and introducing the crew of the Cant in episode 1 creates an obvious issue…
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
RQ Starter Set. This one: www.chaosium.com/runequest-st...
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RuneQuest Starter Set
The home of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, and Questworlds. Your gateway to mythic adventure.
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Those three plot arcs: Shohreh Aghdashloo dressed gorgeously and saying “Fuck” a lot (UN Earthers vs. Martians); Thomas Jane in a hat acting everyone else off screen (noir Belter mystery); the crew of the Rocinante bouncing around the Belt to arrive at every flashpoint (with mere moments to spare).
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Nick Brooke @moonbroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And yes, that’s a problem with the way the show was constructed. Once you know it gets much better (as in easier to follow), you can soldier through the initial setup. And everyone who tells you that it gets much better is your friend, and they want you to be happy and watching a superb TV show.
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