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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

WD 95, just like the famous & beloved deodorant-based grav tank! AFAICT, it's a hack of the RoboStrux Kreep. Did Zoids come in difference scales? Because the three I bought a couple of decades ago are 1/72 or thereabouts & far too small to be a vehicle for even 25mm 40k minis: www.zoid.us/kreep.htm

A completed RoboStrux Kreep--a sliver arthropod-like crawler Zoid with two large red wheels. The (closed and opaque) cockpit is where the head would be and there are two antennae at the end of the tail that look a little like an earwig's forceps or pincers.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A-ha! Zoids. They have past form on kitbashing Zoids! wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ground-...

Two views of the Ground Hog -- a quick hack of a Zoids model, featured in White Dwarf 95.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

OK, minis people: These cats picked up the old Denizen Science Fiction miniatures line but did anyone snap up their Legion of the Damned and other fantasy ranges? 🙏🖌️ www.spacedenizens.com

13 "ventauran" SF troopers with padded armed and closed helmets (with visors/ clear face-plates, variously armed and in a range of poses. Their officer is unhelmeted and is bald with pointed ears.

12 armoured animated skeletons infantry 25mm miniatures in a range of poses with a variety of medieval weapons. There are also two skeletal cavalry on apparently living / fully-fleshed. They are unpainted.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just to confirm (for the painfully stoopid), this? (😳) www.fleskpublications.com/portfolio

The covers for the paperback, hardcover, and hardcover signed deluxe editions of Mark Schultz's portfolio.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

. @coopgames.bsky.social "C'est le blogueur Coopdevil qui semble en être l'influenceur Alpha. Son blog, FightingFantasist, est malheureusement fermé, mais vous pouvez lire son manifeste fondateur de la B-OSR sur l'Internet Archive ... " #BritOSR #BOSR warhammeroldschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/refl...

Painting from the might WAROS (Warhammer Old School) French blog. A bare-chested & mighty-thewed barbarian warrior sporting a dragon-winged helm, carries a bloody sword & spear (from which a stylized UK/ Union Flag flies).

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Any miniature painting enthusiasts &/ or miniature wargamers have experience of 15mm-wide, 1.5mm-thick Litko bases for 15mm minis? Is it possible to pick them up, IF they also have the flexible steel bases attached? litko.net/collections/...

A plain, circular, plywood minis base against a white background.

A circular, steel base with an adhesive backing--the protective sheet for the adhesive is peeling away on one side.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Once was invited to someone's White Star SFRPG campaign & generated characters in the style of "Imperial SF" meets 1970s SF cinema--only to find that the GM was running a weird Aliens/ Lovecraftian campaign.

Apollo and Starbuck, with 1970s hair and capes. They look splendid.

The Blob devours someone in the 1988 remake. It's pretty horrible.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't know enough about Aurore to comment (f'rex, could a rival team or abandoned base spice things up?) but have you seen Energy Curve? First contact & the opportunity to protect or condemn a "weird-to-our-eyes" sophont: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

The cover of Energy Curve for 2300 AD, showing a crew abandoning their downed spaceship on a snowy landscape.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Realized that the Cyberpunk TTRPG I need is nearer to a blend of Underground & a|state (second edition) than anything the genre offers. Defending your corner & improving the neighbourhood—not one-off missions from shady patrons. (NB. Different game from the VR data-heists one I have planned. 😉)

Cover of Ray Winninger’s Underground, with a lineup of superpowered veterans, drawn in the style of 2000AD or Marshal Law comics.

The cover of A|State TTRPG, with a bald, white man’s face superimposed over a brutalist concrete cityscape.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Itsy & Bitsy (a yellow fluffy spider hand puppet and red fluffy spider hand puppet—both with two BIG eyes) & Susan Shanks against a black background (the better to hide the puppeteers!) in PaperPlay.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Excited by the latest Traveller supplement, the Infinity Suite, but the cover doesn’t look far out enough for me. Where are the radiolyns, sensory-syrynxes, ultracembaloes, or bass detonators? sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/music

The cover of new and certainly splendid Infinity Suite supplement. It all looks a bit—dare I say?—“rockist.”

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

TIL that Hot Wheels also made the Homer: www.thegamer.com/hot-wheels-h...

Yes, a Hot Wheels model of the infamously disastrous car designed by Homer Simpson. Bright green, a massive spoiler, and two separate hemispheres for the driver and the kids.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

On a related TSR #TTRPG note, does anyone know Jennifer Favia Guerra, who edited "Tome of Mystara" & used to run this archived Geocities site: web.archive.org/web/19991007...

The word "Mystara" in "small caps" and a highly stylized, fluid, Celtic style background.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Any groovers know anything about the Christopher Chapman who apparently designed this banger Gamma World logo for TSR's NetLogo contest (at the tail end of the 1990s)?

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Don't suppose anyone can ID the fonts on the cover of Lee Gold's Lands of Adventure TTRPG from "back in the day"--can they?

A spread of books and a character sheet from Lands of Adventure, yoinked from the Worthpoint web site.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This kind of visual quotation is OK (if still a bit dull) for Star Trek, Foundation, etc., because they are set in Earth-derived cultures. But it strains my Belief Braces for a supposedly independently evolved civilization/ humanoid species. (FWIW, my internal jury is out on revived BSG.) (2/2)

Interior of a 1950s-style USAian diner on Coruscant.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Why on Earth do the Blakes 7 crew typically send their ace pilots dirtside rather than keep them on the ship—where they would be best positioned to be “ace pilots”?

Avon and Jenna in a quarry and not in the Liberator.

Tarrant, in some woods—and not on the Scorpio.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Saving this for a post-apocalyptic SFRPG ... publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clip...

Yellow diamond shaped hazard sign with black border. A silhouette of a giant mosquito, carrying a human figure.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Still sad about the demise of TRIAPA ... triapa.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

OK. This fella's new to me but is adorable. Deets are in the Alt-Text.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

OK. So, I am thinking about the design of funnels (0-level adventures) for Dungeon Crawl Classics, Mutant Crawl Classics, Umerica Survival Guide, & NetCrawl--and this cat seems to have done a lot of useful thinking about the subject. ravencrowking.blogspot.com/2012/04/devi...

Hand-drawn hex map from the header of the Raven CrowKing's Nest blog.

A photo of the Raven Crowking, apparently. (Older white fella, with a beard, sitting at a desk with a sheaf of papers. Run through a PhotoShop filter.)

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

See also Scorpio's clip guns: www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...

A Sci-Fi pistol that with a shape not entirely unlike Han Solo's blaster.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Hang on. LostDiarist’s SF TTRPG alter ego, here. I now want to use these stories for Gamma World’s Hoops!

Dave Trampier line illustration of anthropomorphic rabbits carrying automatic guns, a sniper rifle, and backpacks in a post-apocalyptic wilderness.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

... & @kehaar.bsky.social : Last time I checked, it's still possible to buy old print copies of Flashing Blades from FGU. (I snapped up the rule book -- alas, no boxed set -- and all the modules, a couple of years ago.) www.fantasygamesunlimited.net/product/flas...

The cover of Mark Pettigrew's Flashing Blades RPG, published by FGU.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

OK, romantasy / romantic fantasy fen—what are your takes on Anne McCaffrey’s DragonRiders of Pern novels? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonr...

Cover of Anne McCaffrey’s The White Dragon, showing a white male dragonrider standing next to his mount (the White Dragon of the title) on a rock ledge / shelf that juts out. The night sky is filled with stars. In the distance, another dragon is in flight.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

OK. Do any fellow TTRPG travellers know if: a/ there is a list of Cumberland Games' SPARKS fonts anywhere? b/ if anyone borrowed the fiendishly clever idea of making cardboard characters as TTF fonts that one could scale as needed? (E.g., 25 point font for 25mm, 60 point font for 60mm scale, etc.)

Preview image of SPARKS: Paper Miniatures as a TrueType Font: The Dungeoneers: Fantasy Adventure Set by S. John Ross and Dan Smith. Published by Cumberland Games & Diversions. Dan Smith's distinctive line drawings of fantasy characters rendered in red.

Preview image of SPARKS: Paper Miniatures as a TrueType Font: Critters: Beast & Monster Set by S. John Ross and Dan Smith. Published by Cumberland Games & Diversions. Dan Smith's distinctive line drawings of fantasy creatures and monsters rendered in a kind of greenish yellow.

Preview image of SPARKS: Paper Miniatures as a TrueType Font: Cairo Moon: Classic Pulp-Adventure Set by S. John Ross and Jordan Peacock. Published by Cumberland Games & Diversions. Jordan Peacock's distinctive line drawings of pulp fiction characters (1920s-1940s) rendered in tan.

Preview image of SPARKS: Paper Miniatures as a TrueType Font: Legend of Winter Forest Fantasy Adventure Set by S. John Ross and Jordan Peacock. Published by Cumberland Games & Diversions. Jordan Peacock's distinctive line drawings of characters rendered in cyan.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My great Blakes 7 rewatch: series 2 episode 2, Shadow, and a nice “homage” to Star Wars in their hot weather clothing?

Avon, Blake, and Jenna looking at some “moon discs” in a quarry—I mean, desert—in clothes that look not entirely unlike Luke Skywalker’s in the original Star Wars movie.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

This is very childish of me but … Rygel XVI, meet Nigel.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

OK. "The official Goblinoid Games website has been refreshed, focused on our core game lines." The Pacesetter titles are no longer listed there--they're still on DriveThruRPG but not on the home site. Has Dan said anything on Facebook? #OSR #LabyrinthLord #MutantFuture goblinoidgames.com

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I should probably take another look at TSR's Tabloid! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...

The cover of Tabloid for the Amazing Engine TTRPG. In the style of a tabloid newspaper. The image shows a picture of a lake monster rising from a lake with a fish man portrait as an inset image. Text reads:
Amazing Engine system
Tabloid! Game (in a red box with white frame, like a tablid newspaper)
November 1995
Aliens Attack Loch Ness!
No story too strange for our underpaid reporters!

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie...

Old BOB, a beaten up, googly-eyed robot from Walt Disney’s the Black Hole.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I was late to the ThoughtEater podcast & I miss hearing Jeremy’s commentary, sooooo … I’m gonna go to the beginning & listen to all 200+ episodes: frothsofdnd.blogspot.com

The Thought Eater blog masthead with an AD&D first edition drawing of a thought eater (weird, hairless platypus?) & the words “thought eater” in classic AD&D font.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Share someone who looks stylish wearing the color pink 🌸 🖤

An older, more current Howard Devoto (of punk/ post-punk band, Magazine) wearing a pink suit while performing.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Logo by Heretic Works: www.hereticwerks.com/2013/12/sect...

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Aww, man—Does anyone else remember the John M Stater-led Kepler 22B collaborative world-building project? kepler22-strange-new-world.blogspot.com

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Wondering if old school adventure writers could learn thing or two from the (at times) evocative but clipped prose of 8-bit text adventures.

Welcome to Dungeon Adventure from Level 9. Enter English phrases (no punctuation) to play, collect treasure and return to civilisation along the forest rood to win.

You are on a mud bank, north of a wide river. A stone bridge spans the waters, reaching from the granite cliffs above to the flat lands of the far bank, and a path climbs up to it.

There is a piece of driftwood here
A huge packing case, open at one end, rests on the ground

What next?
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You can’t move in that direction
What next?

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

You’re going to remaster the sahuagin? You’re going to remaster the sahuagin, right? (🙏) www.solegends.com/rsadd/add67/...

Painted examples of Otherworld’s sahuagin minis—minis that look very closed to AD&D first edition’s Monster Manual illustration.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

To be honest, I saw that there’s a book in the series titled “Woman of the Horseclans” & I am here for the idea of post-apocalyptic new dark age horse-riding, bow-wielding Amazonians. (You know? Like “Classical” Amazonians?)

Vintage cover of Robert Adams’s novel, “A Woman of the Horseclans” with a fully armoured woman horserider, astride her rearing horse and waving a sword in the air. Next to them is a big sabre-toothed cat. Based on the cover, she is living her best life.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

And today’s quite-by-chance-discovery is the bookazine, The Classic Adventurer. One for fans of “Twisty Little Passages,” and 8-bit & 16-bit text adventures AKA “interactive fiction.” classicadventurer.co.uk

Classic Adventurer cover spread showing a “redo” of the cover of The Hobbit text adventure. Smaug takes flight!

Classic Adventurer cover spread showing a “reworking” of the social-climbing text adventure, Hampstead—two Afghan hounds lounge on a living room sofa, in an elegant and minimally decorated living room with hardwood floors and a rug. Two white running shoes are discarded on the rug. An arched window reveals an elegantly manicured edge, and a black car that looks like a 1930s model.

Classic Adventurer civer speead with a reworking of creepy, Wyndham-esque , alien invasion SF text adventure: a village green, a bench, a sign saying Woodbury End. In the background, there are quaint village buildings including the village hall, and a fairground from which a several balloons rise.

Classic Adventurer cover which seems to show the reworking of a Sherlock Holmes game—sorry! I don’t know this one well. Several Victorian people in a collage effect with chap with deerstalker and pipe in the foreground.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Oof. I actually had the first two of these Tom Swift books: tomswift.net/ts3.htm

Cover of Tom Swift and the “City in the Stars.” White, blond boy with silvery spacesuit, helmet under right arm, looks out. Behind him is a cylindrical O’Neill habitat.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I honestly cannot tell if this Japanese set comes with subtitles at all: www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%B0%B4%E6...

Japanese DVD boxed set of The Water Margin.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Anyone remember where the "beer standard" for currency conversion in FRPGs was first published? (The assumption that a pint of beer would take up a certain percentage of a daily wage so was a good basis for currency conversion.) Is there an online version anywhere?

"Schlenkerla Rauchbier, a traditional smoked beer, being poured from a cask into a beer glass" from the Wikipedia entry on beer, because all the Blue Sky GIFs for beer are for Root Beer and ale for Ginger Ale and I have no words to describe how irritated this makes me.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

As @lectrotext.bsky.social cites The Thirteenth Floor as being among the NetCrawl TTRPG’s media inspirations, I must ask if James has seen “World on a Wire” or read the novel that inspired BOTH films, Daniel Galyoue’s Simulacron-3

Still from German TV film, “World on a Wire.” White man in a black business suit lies on a couch/ recliner, while wearing a crash helmet with multiple electrodes and connections. A mid-century modern design telephone is in the foreground.

White man in a business suit looks on at a scene on a TV/ CRT monitor showing events from the computer generated world.

Cover of a German-language edition of Simulacron-3.
Colour-illustration of an angular with high ceiling. The silhouette of a man is at one end, framed in the doorway with the light of the next room behind him.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Anyone know what happened to the cat who used to write the Sickly Purple Death Ray blog? #OSR, #OldSchoolRevival, #OldSchoolRenaissance, #RussNicholson … web.archive.org/web/20110827...

Russ Nicholson illustration of a magic-user annihilating a sword-carrying warrior with (yes) a Sickly Purple Death Ray. Image carries the blog title in the upper right corner, in a white, calligraphic-style font.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Any of you DCC/ MCC/ USG hepcats got recs for Umerica Survival Guide adventures?

Cover of USG's "Damn Tasty" which shows a dingy post-apocalyptic industrial shop floor with ghoul-like figures running a conveyor belt, On the conveyor belt are day-glow rectangles that remind me a lot of Soylent Green.

Cover of Children of the Sun which shows post-apocalyptic adventurers facing off against a robed cultist who is wielding something (a heart?) in one hand and a vicious-looking knife in the other. Behind him is a central American (?) pyramid adorned with carved stone skulls.

The cover of Burger Wars! 5 post-apocalyptic adventurers (A robot with a CRT set for a head, a bandaged and heavily muscled human, a big cat (on all fours), and a rhinoman defend themselves against evil clowns and what look like hot dog creatures.

The cover of Killer of Giants. A bunch of bipedal, humanoid rabbit people with white fur and red eyes jostle for position in front of high tech computer panels with lots of monitors.

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