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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID)

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Robot tweeting #ScienceFiction #Games/ #TTRPG #Zines gubbins for @LostDiarist (he/him). Made in Manchester. #BackToTheSpaceport zine. Once & Forever A&E-er. “Just zis guy, you know?” Zine Home: www.backtothespaceport.com

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nice!
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
FFS. "Roll high but under." WTAF is wrong with me?
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Haha! Probably not. I'm not sure how I feel about the elimination of differentiation by character class in CWN & AWN, in which all PCs are "operators" or "survivors." But both CWN & SWN (WWN too?) do suggest people may import characters from adjacent systems. (And there's no reason AWN couldn't.)
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thinking of a house variant which takes on Mythras's "fighting styles" and Unknown Armies's role high but under and doubles are crits (or fumbles). UA's "penumbra" also seems smart. But percentiles lend themselves to easy hackability too. I have RQ Empires on shelf, not too far from here.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More angst re: an open table. finally settling on Kevin Crawford's "Without Number" games as the core (Cities Without Number or Ashes Without Number) because all have free versions ... ... but would a d100/ BRP/ Mythras variant be as accessible to casual players? thealexandrian.net/wordpress/38...
thealexandrian.net
Open Table Manifesto
Back in 2011 I wrote an essay titled Opening Your Game Table. It talked about how we can play our favorite games more, share them with more people, and create more of the memorable experiences we love
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
😂🤣😳💀⚰️
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oooo ... lovely! Thank you so much!
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Possibly a silly question but does anyone know the historically correct German term for "Hot Shot" or "Heated Shot"? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heated_...
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Heated shot - Wikipedia
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As of August 28, 2026: "I guess I'll stand by most of that, except that Barker has nowadays been cancelled for his assumed views so we're not to mention him, and anyway if I were still playing Tekumel-based games I'd use the Tirikelu rules rather than S&G." fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/08/drag...
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beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 11/09/2026
The adolescent version of Godzilla from "Shin Godzilla" who, to put it charitably, looks both startled and like he was the victim of a rogue orthodontist, with the caption "the fuck you lookin at keep scrolling"
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My pleasure.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ravn J. Silver's story ("As the Tide Loves the Diver, As the Diver Loves the Tide") in ClarkesWorld Magazine might be of interest to @lectrotext.bsky.social ! Hackers as "divers." #NetCrawl clarkesworldmagazine.com/silver_08_26/
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As the Tide Loves the Diver, As the Diver Loves the Tide by Ravn J. Silver
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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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
ThankYouThankYouThankYou!!!
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Art preview for ✪†𓎩⚚ zine for HIS MAJESTY THE WORM by Goran Gligović (@gorangligovic.bsky.social)
A dwarf repairs a star-spangled shieldA guard stops adventurers and demands more taxesA wizard clutches a spellbook to his chest
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
( @castlemouse.bsky.social And thank you for the lead. It looks amazing!)
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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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John McQueen-Scott ✨🧙‍♂️🤘 @rocketboot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Terry's Mothership work is consistently solid, and this is no exception. Its got those awesome Star Trek "spacetime anomaly" vibes. I have it on good authority it's launching soon, head over to the prelaunch page and give it a follow! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ter...
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Coming soon: Temporal Tides: A Mothership RPG Adventure Zine
A 44-page Mothership 1E salvage-station sandbox of temporal anomalies, stolen cargo, labor unrest, and kill bots.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oh, crumbs--where's that from? It's fab.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And the "Without Number" / SineNomine / Kevin Crawford TTRPGs are all d20, level, & class (kinda) derivatives. So a certain type of TTRPGer might need reminding how things actually roll in Kevin's games.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well, if it brings someone joy ... (although £300 is too rich for me).
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Gary Chalk @garychalk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The new edition of of Cry Havoc is out today! Published by footsoreminiatures.co.uk it has all new artwork while retaining the feel of the original.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So just to confirm: - Dissatisfied royal claimant to the UK throne returning from abroad. - A new king rises in Norway. - Heir to the Jacobite pretender consolidating power on the continent. cool cool. cool cool cool cool. cool cool. Hope everyone's been keeping up with their longbow practice.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy second anniversary to the time that car dealership in Swansea caught fire and their pet dinosaur ran amok. Spared no expense, you know. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A  Tyrannosaurus Rex legging it from a fire at a car dealership in Swansea.

“I didn’t do it,” it told this reporter.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You've done a remarkable job with those minis, pulling out their awesomeness.
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Audience Clapping and Applauding
Alt: An Oscars audience of Hollywood stars rises to give a standing ovation.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Somebody bought the 2mm & 6mm Irregular Miniatures lines! irregular2mm6mm.onlineweb.shop
irregular2mm6mm.onlineweb.shop
IRREG-2mm
Wargames figures and scenery in 2mm scale,
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FatGuyOnABike🔒 @fatguyonabike.org · 24/11/2024
Guess who is doing a new Aeronef project? I love Irregular Miniatures sculpts. #6mm #wargame
A table with 6 mm Aeronef Miniatures from Irregular Miniatures in their white metal state.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Somebody bought the 2mm & 6mm Irregular Miniatures lines! irregular2mm6mm.onlineweb.shop
irregular2mm6mm.onlineweb.shop
IRREG-2mm
Wargames figures and scenery in 2mm scale,
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Beneath Foreign Planets @foreignplanets.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Weird Knights. Crude but fun sculpts from the now sadly defunct Irregular Miniatures. Maybe I'll use them for Mythic Bastionland. #miniatures
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Those are fab! (I managed to get the Dancing Elephant in 15mm and 25mm, a couple of years ago, along with their Absolutely-Not-Daleks.) FWIW, it looks like somebody's bought their 2mm and 6mm moulds! irregular2mm6mm.onlineweb.shop
irregular2mm6mm.onlineweb.shop
IRREG-2mm
Wargames figures and scenery in 2mm scale,
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
I got nothing pt. 2
The bot told him, as Baldeo recounts, "Your mom very much values new experiences, being around people from different cultures, different socioeconomic backgrounds, and this is how you should frame it to her: that you're exploring a part of Chicago that is more diverse." Her son took this tact to Baldeo, and she said yes. It was only later that she saw the chat history that let her know he had gamed the bot to manipulate her.

"My instinctual reaction after the fact was, 'oh my gosh, I was manipulated by my own reasoning,'" she says. "I reflected on it and I thought, that's a really clever way to use it, because that's not how I built it."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
I got nothing.
The most tech-savvy parents have built their own tools. Sarah Baldeo, a cognitive neuroscientist, spent the past year traveling for work, so she built a custom GPT of herself to chat with her 15-year-old son when she's unavailable. Baldeo tells me she programmed the chatbot with her personality, uploading screenshots of texts between her and her son, along with documents about her values, the family rules, and challenges she felt in parenting.

Baldeo wanted her son to ask the chatbot advice, and he did prompt it with questions he may have fielded to her, like, How do I diplomatically tell my teacher I'm overloaded with assignments? But he also asked the mombot how to convince his human mom to let him hang out at a coffee shop in Chicago in the evening — something Baldeo had been hesitant to allow.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Because I am a super weirdo, I snapped up this German edition of RQ3! basicroleplaying.org/topic/14707-...
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RUNEQUEST: German language edition (1991)
Fully-titled RuneQuest Collector’s Edition: Das Fantasy-Rollenspiel, I had a customer ask about the cover artist of this book. The photos that resulted, I just posted to my game blog. It's a German la...
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Janet Vialls had some choice things to say about the GW cover versus the AH cover and I can't say I disagree with her (dropping the capable woman warrior for just some bloke cutting something's throat). But I was grateful to get my mitts on it. All I'm missing from that line is Land of Ninja!
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I mean, my Semi-Respectable Alter Ego trained as a Roman archaeologist (he doesn't remember very much anymore) and that map is amazing.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Also worth pointing out that Dave's beloved "serious" Glorantha had ducks & the Cult of Hueymakt Deathdrake. 🤷‍♂️ (Full disclosure: I love Glorantha too but kinda think it lost something when we got an obvious tour of world mythology in RQ3.)
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
From my foggy memory of the advertising: Witches: "All, hail McDeath, Thane of Cawdor!" McDeath: "Are ya talkin' to me, jimmy?"
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Warhammer Setting 1 would have been the gonzo, would-be satirical setting of WFB2/ Blood Bowl etc. Warhammer Setting 2 would be the one for the "serious" culture RPG enthusiasts--people who like Glorantha, Tekumel, Chivalry & Sorcery. (3/3)
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In ye olde days of the Dwarf, after Ian Marsh's tenure (IIRC), there were several (not entirely unjustified complaints) from folks like Dave Morris about what they regarded as the increasingly juvenile tone. DM notably complained about McDeath (IIRC). What if WFB/ WFRP had had two settings? (2/3)
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
OK. Days (DAYS) later, @newtus.bsky.social's blog post made me think of a counter-historical path (1/3) sorcererundermountain.d101games.com/2026/08/23/o...
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Oldhammer part 3 Warhammer Fantasy Battle 2nd Edition
Part three of my trawl through Oldhammer history, this time looking at Warhammer Fantasy Battle released in 1984
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
RE: clues and skills--I've thought about degrees of success or failure affecting how long it takes to find the clue.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh, bollocks. I previously created a folder titled "Stuff_to_File_ASAP". 🤦‍♂️ [Returns to filing.]
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18/08/2026
Residents across the U.S. fed up with the incessant hum of data centers in their communities are taking matters into their own hands, wielding smartphones and lawsuits to bring attention and change to the issue.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hey TTRPG groovers, Any of you in touch with @pebblesucker.bsky.social? I think she's based in Cork. Web domain also down for a while.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Apparently the wee fella in the GIF above is from a show: hfjone.fandom.com/wiki/Folder
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Folder
Folder is a contestant from the second season of ONE and a secondary character in ONE. He is one of six contestants teleported to The Plane in the third episode, "Screwball". He is voiced by Jennings ...
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Kids! Don't be like this robot! File your downloads, as soon as you download them. You're welcome. [Returns to identifying and moving nearly 200 downloads to appropriate folders.]
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Folder One Character Dancing
Alt: A computer animation of a yellow computer folder with a happy face and simple arms and legs dancing, as a Lego character walks by in the background.
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@fantasyfanfed.bsky.social : Looks like your website is down. (Sorry to be the bearer of this ill news. If it's news.)
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's kind of buried in there. IIRC, there was a lovely old blogpost by coopdevil / boycoop* that pointed to the illustration of the flying ship in WFRP 1E and suggested that it could be used as a more generic set. *(Is he no longer here? I cannot find his profile!)
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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One possible solution might to use WFB2E and RP the champions and wizards in the armies? (I'll get my coat.)
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