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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These are the current policies of the major tabletop gaming conventions.
Table listing TTRPG conventions and their AI policies. 4 of 7 have banned AI on the trade floor.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How do you know when somebody doesn’t use social media? Its easy. They will Never. Stop. Telling. You.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Going underground! youtube.com/shorts/AZTud...
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CERN, Geneva, going underground to see the Large Hadron Collider!
YouTube video by EN World Live | D&D & TTRPG News
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I did a thing last week. youtube.com/shorts/LQqUJ...
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Morrus runs a game at CERN, Switzerland.
YouTube video by EN World Live | D&D & TTRPG News
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In better news, we're working hard on our CERN piece, and it's coming along really well. Here's a shot from the video, where I'm interviewing the very clever James about particle accelerators and tabletop RPGs!
Russ in a studio on a chair talking to James who is also on a chair and there's a CERN pipe behind them but it's just a backdrop, they;'e not actually sitting in a particle accelerator.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yeah, yeah, haven’t we all.
Article preview of Duke of Edinburgh visiting CERNPicture of Morrus visiting CERN
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CERN sent me a survey to give feedback on my experience there. That’s mildly surreal.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What we're dealing with AI bots scraping the site to volume equating to DDoS attack. Normally we expect a couple hundred members and a few thousand guests at one time. AI scrapers have slowed the site so only 28 members online because there's 91000(!) "guests" making the site unusable.
Stats showing 91,000 AI scrapers online
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
First day back from Switzerland. It's not even lunchtime and I've already written 5 articles. Got a podcast to prep for later. I was worried there was no news on the running order, but it turns out stuff did happen while I was away! No rest time for me!
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Back home! i haven’t had a cup of tea in 4 days. This is now being rectified. In my nice new mug.
A cup of tea in a CERN mug
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Gavin Winters @gavinwinters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“We thought that smashing subatomic particles together at high-speed would create new particles out of nothing in an imitation of the Big Bang, but honestly, we were as surprised as you to discover that it just created… Toblerones. Nothing but Toblerones…”
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So we saw a large hadron collider 100m underground and an antimatter factory (not underground). We did interviews at CERN, ran a game at the CERN games club, and I got murdered by a Frankenstein. All in all an amazing few days in Geneva!
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CERN sells its own Toblerone!
CERN branded Toblerone
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You know you’re in Geneva when the clocks are made by Rolex!
Airport clock with Rolex logo
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, CERNday.... yes, today is CERNday! Leaving for Switzerland in T minus 30 minutes! (Tomorrow is also CERNday, and Saturday is Genevaday).
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tomorrow I leave for Switzerland. CERN, here we come!
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why do people call other countries “international” countries? Countries are literally the definition of “national”. It’s what the word means. An international country would be a country that’s, like, two countries.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Things I get multiples of every single day: - ad companies promising to double my ad revenue - requests for paid guest posts on EN World - pitches for coverage of AI-powered game transcription platforms - requests for coverage of stuff we covered weeks ago - offers to SEO our site/podcast/youtubes
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you say ‘so without further ado’ more than once you didn’t without further ado you with further ado’d.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you're wondering about EN World's site performance recently, the issues are due to thousands of AI scrapers crawling the site, stealing content then serving it to their users without giving us traffic, simultanously inflicting what amounts to a DDoS attack. We block 'em, they generate new ones.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When are you NOT experiencing higher than usual customer demand?
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's just two weeks until we go to CERN! In addition to the Friday evening at the CERN games club, we have tours of the facility, and a day in Geneva (including a paddle steamer on Lake Geneca--not not THAT Lake Geneva). We're staying at CERN's on-site campus hotel. Can't wait!
Poster for the CERN Games Club social event with EN World!Poster for the CERN Games Club social event with EN World!
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
From a brief recent dalliance with eBay I had no idea how bad the non-paying auction winner problem was there. Two thirds of the auctions I put on there went unpaid, and the winning bidder just ghosted. And there's no comeback on buyers, only on sellers. Ah well, lesson learned.
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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You know how sometimes you make a cup of tea, and for whatever reason - an alignment of the planets, intervention of the Fates, sunspots(?) - it turns out *just right*? That. 🙂
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’m assuming it‘s quite easy to make an AI platform which transcribes D&D sessions because I get a news pitch for a different one pretty much every day. I’m pretty sure they’re not all aware of all the others.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Attempt #3 at a new intro sequence for our TTRPG news show. Less spinning and wooshing. canva.link/sw4b6arfx1os...
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Another attempt at the show intro. canva.link/b6djrhi9eg65...
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is very much a work in progress. Not my skill set really, but I'm working on a new intro sequence for our show. It still needs a lot of work, and feels kinda clunky, but I'll keep tinkering at it. (Constructive) thoughts/opinions welcome! canva.link/e85vb3ejzia6...
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I haven't had this happen to me in my anti-LLM-slop output, but if it did it would be pretty annoying. It's similar to "climate change isn't happening because it rained once" and "if we evolved from monkeys why are there monkeys?" It's just *boring*. At least try to be interesting in your nonsense.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Wrote a little article the other day on how million dollar Kickstarters work... www.enworld.org/threads/on-t...
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On TTRPG Kickstarters, merchandise, and 600% markups
It's pretty well known at this point that to have a million dollar TTRPG crowdfunder, you need a lot of merchandise along with the actual core game product you're selling. Sometimes this takes the for...
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"It's impossible to make games without AI, you're just gatekeepimg" People were making games... a whole 2 years ago. It is, apparently, not impossible. Games weren't invented last August. You're not 'entitled' to be a writer or an artist; you have to write or draw.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Does anybody know who did the standard (not alt) cover art for the D&D WOW book? I can't find that info.
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EN World | D&D/TTRPG News & Reviews @enworldrpg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Giving creators their due credit: better practices for publishers, awards, and media #ttrpg #dnd
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Giving creators their due credit: better practices for publishers, awards, and media
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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you can't contribute (and I get it, I do), I beg you to share and boost and spread this post so maybe it can reach more people, who would want to help if they just knew one of ours was in trouble.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A logo and a concept wins an award. Is this like the FIFA Peace Prize?
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
When most of the internet is AI content and most of the traffic reading that content is AI bots, there doesn’t leave much room for actual humans online… www.fastcompany.com/91579817/dea...
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The ‘dead internet theory’ is real. And it’s killing the web as we know it
If you can't monetize human attention, what do you monetize?
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So, those of you at Gen Con--what's the temperature like? Hope the exhibit hall has good aircon!
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So WotC shared most of the keynote stuff with press beforehand (which is why we've all got articles and stuff up so quick) but they kept the Star Wars stuff back! That was a surprise!
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
So looking forward to this. We’re invited to CERN to meet with the RPG club (scientists love nerdy games—who knew?), a tour of ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider, the antimatter factory, and more! And playing games with people way cleverer than us! Plus a day hanging out in Geneva because why not?
Email invitation header from CERN
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's always funny when outlets 'break' news while using our screenshots (yes, to the pixel--at least change the filename, dudes!) without mentioning us. Then again, I guess that's not worse than those youtube channels who just read out our articles, word for word.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
There's speculation that the D&D book which appeared on Barnes & Noble codenamed "GOLLY" might be the World of Warcraft D&D book--World of Warcraft is often abbreviated to "WoW", and 'wow' is a synonym for 'golly'. Just speculation though.
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EN World | D&D/TTRPG News & Reviews @enworldrpg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dungeons & Dragons’ next major product announcement leaks--and it's WORLD OF WARCRAFT
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www.enworld.org
www.enworld.org
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I saw new Star Trek and it was good. Plus La'an punched a dinosaur, which was not on my Bingo card.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Closed a thread as people were shouting at each other & I have better things to do than moderate arguments at 2am. Deathbringer fans say that makes me "such a fag" and an "irrelevant iron-fisted East Berlin". Yet they're all reading my irrelevant site. And we'd been supportive of Deathbringer.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I've decided that my new least favourite phrase on the internet is "you do realise....?" It's worst on Facebook. Within 3 posts, every conversation devolves into somebody snidely saying "You do realise...?"
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Make your mind up, Mirror! These two identical yet opposite articles, both today? Is this like A/B testing reality itself?
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ugh. Trying to get stock art off Shutterstock and it makes it so hard to avoid the AI slop. Doesn't help that uploaders don't always label it. My current trick is to only use art uploaded before 2021, but that feels like it screws genuine artists uploading new stuff.
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Do I know anybody who is a massive fan of James Bond and a great 5E game designer?
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"You sound like AI" -> "No, AI sounds like me because it scraped my work"
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Morrus @morrus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Day 17 of Purgatory.
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