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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Heaps of home grown Aussie #ttrpg goodness live now on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/arcanacon #rpgaus #migw

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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Folklore Jam 2025 has started! ✨

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Bad TTRPG Tip; If your character dies and you don't want that to happen, slide your GM a crisp 100 dollar bill and hope for the best.

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 28/09/2025

(I still need backers for my light novel about a guy surviving a badly-run RPG campaign, so if you like my work (or posts) I'd appreciate it if you spread the word! Tell your friends, your parents, your Discords, your subreddits, buy a haunted pizza joint and then tell the ghosts about it)

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CRINGE WIZARD: A TTRPG Isekai Light Novel

A light novel about a guy forced to live through the terrible TTRPG campaign he ran when he was a teenager.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I'll be at PAX Aus in two weeks time running #GrimoirePunk in the tabletop hall. Sign up for sessions at the RPG HQ and join me to make your own magic grimoire and use it to steal magic from powerful wizards. What to expect 👉🏻 mqsalmon.itch.io/grimoirepunk #TTRPG #PaxAus #PaxAtTheTable #PaxAus2025

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GrimoirePunk by Games by Mitch

Punch Wizards, Steal their Spells, Topple their Empires

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Nick Bate @ickbat.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I gotta say, I'm pretty proud of this table for helping players in Against Time and Death decide when to set their scenes. It was fun figuring out what sorts of things define each of the six eras I chose. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ick...

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When will the scene take place?
1. Prehistory. Geological processes, megafauna, early humans, mythmaking.
2. Ancient history. Empires, gods and heroes, foundations of art and science, monument building.
3. History. Holy war, monarchy, trade empires, exploration, colonialism, scientific and artistic flourishing.
4. Now. Nation states, world wars, mass protest, pop culture, evolution, computation, cyberspace, capitalism, tourism, terrorism, revolution.
5. The future. Catastrophic climate change, corporate states, the solar system, true AI, interplanetary warfare, transhumanity, pushing boundaries, the stars.
6. The mythic future. Infinite panhumanity, engineering on impossible scales, magictech, dreams made manifest, the darkness between stars, the things that reside there.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I think I've finally settled on a structure for playbooks and moves that I like for #ShootnLoot2e. Having a structure is not the same as having a playable game, but it's a step... 😅 #ttrpg #ShootnLoot

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL is my one hundredth one page game. YOU ARE A GOAT GIRL. It is always your birthday and God Himself could not stop you from doing exactly what you want. PDFs (including text-only) and design commentary here: www.patreon.com/posts/138800...

A roleplaying game called HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOAT GIRL. Text only version here https://www.patreon.com/posts/138800567

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

A clever marketer might also think about getting a draft expansion for his Frankenstein game ready for the release of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein movie...

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I've just finished reading The Power Fantasy volume 2, and now I'm furious that I don't have volume 3 sitting on my shelf waiting (on account of it does not exist yet) #books #comics #ThePowerFantasy

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A clever marketer would have got an alpha play test of the second edition of his Borderlands-inspired TTRPG ready for the release of the new Borderlands...

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The 'Ghosts Australia' trailers are giving 'Genie From Down Under'

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns?
The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times.
Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept.
There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.

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Reizor @uselrei1500.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Black Skies For Babylon, my pamphlet sized squad command, combat tragedy TTRPG. Each player controls their own fireteam of high tech spec ops soldiers. Your mission? Go on one last mission behind enemy lines to destroy a prototype mecha factory. Get it now, only on itch. itch.io/s/69856/bsfb...

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BSFB complete pack by Reizor

A bundle by Reizor, $5.99 for 4 games

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 26/08/2025

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I really do want to watch that movie sometime. It seems fun

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My younger siblings both made me navigate around any ReDead in Ocarina of Time for them because of the jump scare

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/08/2025

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Look all I’m saying is if you start moving churches in just 28 thousand years you end up with Imperator titans. Is that what you want?

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I do care, and I am excited, but it's so funny that I'm nominally "a sports guy" right now 😂😂

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"Sailor Moon overthrows the God-Emperor of Mankind and takes his throne" is exactly the shot in the arm 40k needs.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Now that I have my beautiful sketchbook, I'm going to try and draw more often. So I found a photo of the dog to reference. In quite pleased, considering I haven't drawn a thing in years, and was never very good.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The first time I tried this I completely botched the measurements (still not sure how), so I ended up making a second little sketchbook as a bonus

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

My recent adventure in #bookbinding has been finding this gorgeous leather slip case at an op shop. I took a pad of Kmart sketching paper, cut it to size and bound it, and made a replenishable sketchbook!

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I just submitted a game to this bundle; I encourage you to do the same!

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/08/2025

The @ametsoc.org State of the Climate Report for 2024 is now published: doi.org/10.1175/2025... I am happy to have contributed again to this year's issue - see our section in 'The Arctic' chapter: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS... Another historic year for Earth's climate... 🚨

Figure from the report of the geographical distribution of selected notable climate anomalies and events in 2024 around the world. This graphic is from NOAA.

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

RIP the legendary David Stratton who not only was monitored by ASIO for suspected communist sympathies but also once gave a film - 'The Replacements' - zero stars because "It is a film which celebrates strike-breakers and scabs". Read the transcript here: letterboxd.com/margaret_dav...

A screenshot from the transcript of the Movie Show review of 'The Replacements' from 2000

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My free tip for streaming platforms: add a Frinkiac style meme/gif generator. Chuck your logo on everything it generates. Limit it to content more than a year old or whatever if you want. It'll print publicity, and I'll be able to get my random gifs from old movies.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

After the inoffensive flop of CIV 7 I'm in the market for a 4X that can get its hooks into me...

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Played a little of the Endless Legend 2 demo today. I have such a great appreciation for Amplitude's Endless games, and their approach to story and world building in 4X games, but I haven't ever clicked with the mechanics. This one is feeling good, though! It might be the one!

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My wife and I have a deal that when I make a Simpsons reference she doesn't get, we have to watch the episode it's from. Well tonight's episode of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel had the characters go to a lesbian bar, so...

An animated screenshot from The Simpsons of Homer in a bar surrounded by women, with the caption, "Wait a minute. There's something bothering me about this place..."

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 11/08/2025

Okay, and who is going to guarantee the security of this new Palestinian state if it isn't allowed a military? Will Australia be part of a UN peacekeeping force in the West Bank? Is the IDF keen for it? What happens when Netanyahu decides to "mow the lawn" again, Operation Cast Lead II?

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The dog destroyed the baby's favourite toy...

A white plastic doorstop with the narrow tip chewed off.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Currently on book 52. Please do this so I don't have to.

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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Treat yourself, read this thread

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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

These kinds of casual heresies are only going to become more frequent. Christianity for Christian nationalists isn’t about theology, orthodoxy, or relationship to the divine. It’s strictly a demarcation line for in- vs out-group, and — like whiteness — is malleable to suit the preservation of power

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

They seriously did! Loved it! Excited to keep listening to more games on your pod!

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This actual play is so good, y'all! Check it out! #AModernPrometheus🫀

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I finished it today. You did such a good job! It was so gripping and creative. I loved that your creation was a returned/reconstructed person, that was such a good addition. And the ending... 😙👌🏻 I loved listening in!

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Brains are so unhelpful. "Someone's playing your game. In PUBLIC. What if you turn it on and they say they hate it and it's bad in the first 5 minutes?" Then they wouldn't have POSTED the audio file probably. Chill, brain.

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Mitch Salmon @mqsalmon.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Finally had the guts to start listening to this, and it's fantastic. Cory and Koda are great storytellers. "Victor, you didn't finish medical school" was a big-laugh-in-the-shopping-centre moment, so thanks for that. #AModernPrometheus🫀 #ttrpg #ActualPlay

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

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Follow the Leader (2026 CRIT Awards Finalist!) @ftlcast.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Join Cory and Koda/Jade as we conclude A Modern Prometheus by @mqsalmon.bsky.social A scientist and his creation weave a delicate dance as they balance hate and fear, humanity and monstrosity. Will they choose to live, or will they destroy each other? ftlcast.podbean.com/e/episode-10...

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Episode 105.3 - Say My Name | Follow the Leader

Join Cory and Koda/Jade as we play A Modern Prometheus by Mitch Salmon. A scientist and his creation weave a delicate dance as they balance hate and fear, humanity and monstrosity. Will they choose to...

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Reizor @uselrei1500.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Have you taken a look at Assault Fleet Centauri yet? It combines modern tactical rpg mechanics with the narrativist school of rpg design to make some I think is pretty unique! It's also a bit of a love letter BSG, The Expanse, and Star Trek. If you're looking for a new hard sci fi rpg, this be it!

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