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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, I'm not on Instagram because of a deep loathing for short-form video content, but I am glad to discover this has also protected me from cooties.

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thrilled to see this latest special issue of Eludamos out now! Pop open some champagne and read about Party Studies in Game Studies, guest edited and introduced by Leland Masek and @jaakkostenros.bsky.social!

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Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Given Wizards' abandonment of D&D fiction, it's great to see Hachette Partworks bringing back 100 classic D&D novels—even better, all in a gorgeous HARDCOVER format. If they were more easily available in the US, I suspect I'd be looking for shelving to fit 100 books. 🧵1

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UK Publisher Brings Back Over 100 Classic D&D Novels

UK-based publisher Hachette Partworks has just unveiled its new Dungeons & Dragons Novels Collection, which features over 100 classic books from D&D history.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am now apparently a #dragonlance influencer. I did a pronunciation guide for the Finnish Dragonlance Chronicles audiobooks and then the publisher, Saga Egmont, also wanted Instagram videos about it. www.instagram.com/p/DdoLMINoTBE/

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Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last night I finished reading the 64th and final book in the Warhammer 40,000 Horus Heresy series.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was in an awkward conversation today in which I had to think of a joke about liminal spaces. It took me a moment, but then I said "Let's not talk about liminal spaces, they're neither here nor there", and it may be one of my proudest achievements.

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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My favourite bit of game trivia is that 1st edition Warhammer is explicitly a role-playing game, while 1st edition D&D is explicitly a miniature wargame.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

can't not repost this every time

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 21/09/2026

friend

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Erika Ishii's inclusion is not a "controversial announcement". This is elevating weird gamergaters' boring whining as deserving of attention. There's no "sides" to this, there's no "issue": It's a talented performer who's done nothing wrong being hated for who they are.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NEW MOUSE JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!!

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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...

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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive

Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love to occasionally post stills of Fritz Leiber in silent films because it always delights fans of his lookalike author son, also Fritz Leiber. Fritz père with Theda Bara in CLEOPATRA

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20/09/2026

PSA

photograph of German philosopher and writer Arthur Schopenhauer, also known as the "Philosopher of Pessimism" captioned with the spurious quote

There are two kinds of people in this world. Avoid both of them.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (or don’t. I’m not a cop). Hunter: The Reckoning 5e Pathfinder 2e Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play 4e Mage: The Awakening

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"You thought you'd got yer hands on me true gold but AH HA HA HA matey you was fooled. Fooled!" (Talk Like a Pyrite Day)

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ready for Games Workshop Research and Play Convention! Exciting day ahead.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New cat dropped. There is some good in this world yet.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Issue Two is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS AND PITCHES Get them in, people playtestmaterial.org/submit/

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Playtest Material

publishing critical writing about roleplaying games

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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ssssssssss The Golden Cobra Challenge 2026 is OPEN for sssubmissions. Ssubmit by October 15th! www.goldencobra.org

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Golden Cobra Challenge

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My badly damaged Mitch McConnell animatronic has been stolen! Please let me know if you hear of any sightings!

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Where we reach the edge of the Top 40. Will I get all this done by my birthday? It's looking more actually possible. Where I write about a bunch of increasingly beloved games, including my longest campaign, my very first TTRPG, one where I really wish we had safety tools and a bunch more.

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My 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 59-41 - Old Men Running The World

Another rush through another 20 or so entries in my favourite 101 TTRPGs I played before I was 50. Not 20, I'm stopping at 19, so we actually have the iconic

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Writing the Other @writingtheother.com · 15/09/2026

Join us for a live worldbuilding workshop where Nisi Shawl & K. Tempest Bradford guide you through, & offer feedback on, writing exercises that dive into aspects of a world/culture that authors often overlook. 📅 October 17th + 18th 🪙 $100 - $150 Scholarships 👍🏾 writingtheother.com/w...

On the left a lush world growing out of a book floating in the air with clouds and birds. a waterfall cascades out of the setting. On the right, text identifying the class title.

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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’ll call that.

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[rings bell] theoryslop! theoryslop! come get yer theoryslop while it's still hot!

one page. header reads "RPG DESIGNER THEORYSLOP ALIGNMENT CHARTS & SHEET." gray text under the header reads "You have 20 points to assign to each stat array, Pendragon-style. For tri- or otherwise multi-polar arrays, express the stats as ranges, e.g. “Gamist 1–7 / Dramatist 8–9 / Simulationist 10–20.”
subheaders followed by lines for writing read: "Designer: / Project: / Link:"
subheader reads "Binary Traits," followed by a list of silly game studies paired descriptors and space to write stats: "Ludologist / Narratologist // Game-as-Activity / Game-as-Object // Proceduralist / Anti-Proceduralist // Diegetic / Endogenous // Suitsian / Non-Suitsian // Closed Lusory Goal / Open Lusory Goal // Toy-Game / Meta-Game // Character-Locked / Authorial // Problem-Solving / Story-Telling // Rulebooks / Adventures."
subheader reads "Special Twinned Binary Traits (the Bartle Zone)," followed by gray text reading "Assign 20 points to each axis, but make a single roll when testing the combined traits." following is a two-axis chart, north-south reading "Social / Non-Social" and west-east reading "Aggressive / Passive."
in the second column, a subheader reads "Multi-Polar Traits" followed by shapes with stats at their corners: triangle, "Dramatist / Gamist / Simulationist"; square, "Agon / Alea / Mimicry / Ilinx"; hexagon, "Classic / OSR / Trad / Nordic larp / Neotrad / Storygames"; square, "Gamer / Actor / Socialite / Immersive."
a subheader reads "Skills," followed by a big list of 32 skills, with space for stats next to each: Academia, Acting, Art Direction, Blog, Cartography, Copyediting, Credit Rating, Day Jon, Game Studies, Graphic Design, Illustration, Layout, Line Editing, Livestream, Marketing, Networking, Operations, Organizing, Podcast, Printing, Production, Proofreading, Shitpost, Shortform Video, Social Media, Thirst Trap, Video Essay, Web Dev, Writ. (Adventure), Writing (Lore), Writing (Rules), Other: "
gray text reads "Sam Sorensen, September 2026"

same theoryslop designer sheet as before, this time filled out in handwritten green, for me, Sam. I skew towards problem-solving, goal-driven play, as well as towards adventures, imaginary worlds, and simulationism. the notable inclusions in my skills lists are a +6 in game studies, a +4 in academic, blog, layout, line editing, and adventure-writing, and a +2 in "museum," my "other" skill

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Todd Alcott @toddalcott.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In other news, please look at this photo of a 16-year-old Willem Dafoe playing Charlie Brown in a production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 13/09/2026

I don’t normally do this: If you’re an archivist or metadata sicko who is doing working to preserve/collect/organize TTRPG materials and/or Actual Play & you’ll be at PAXU, let me know. If there’s already something brewing I don’t need to be involved unless it’s useful. But it needs to be there.

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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 13/09/2026

It kinda takes most of the video to *get* to the point about Hermione, but yeah, Hermione's meant to be a comic punching bag. Relatedly, that's why the worldbuilding is bad *as worldbuilding*--because it's actually satire that Rowling missed the entire satirical point of & wrote as straight escapism

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

People sometimes ask me "why do you, a middle-aged man, own multiple wizard staffs" as though the problem is that I'm too old for that sort of thing, when if anything the opposite is true. Show me the 22-year-old who can convincingly rock a length of gnarled oak.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Something we sadly have to internalize. We should be honest about this. Neil Gaiman's stuff was formative to me, but I reject him now. I read all of Harry Potter, but I reject Rowling now.

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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 10/09/2026

I didn't expect this to be quite so popular, but out of fairness, here are our cats! In order: Shrimp, Scamp, Tommen, and Jojen.

An orange tabby cat with a white chest tilts his head at the camera

A long-haired, gray and white cat lays looking at the camera with her front legs stretched out in front of her

A long-haired, grey and brown tabby cat lays sideways on a table in front of piles of books, her eyes tilted toward the ceiling

A short-haired, gray and brown tabby cat is curled up in the bowl of a pink cat tower, yawning with her canine teeth showing

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The Call is Coming From Ianside the House @ianfortey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not knowing what to do with the Muppet Show is kind of like not knowing what to do with water when you're stuck in the desert. Or maybe not knowing what to do with your partner's lips after a date. I'm sorry you're cripplingly stupid. Please don't make that my problem.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 07/09/2026

@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social is essential history of why “games” too often = “videogame” & the moral/intellectual hazards of continuing to do so: “it risks ignoring the fundamentals of game design & innovation in favor of a digital-screen-driven, myopic, “startup” cultural view of games history”

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Valeria Loves @valerialoves.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I surveyed 200 players and learned that most OSR games fall into two tiers of lethality - Meatgrinder and Picaresque. Table culture determines lethality more than system or campaign length. valerialoves.com/how-deadly-i...

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How Deadly is the OSR, Actually?

A survey on campaign length and lethality

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Olivia, Far Away Kingdom @secretaryolivia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just finished Zero Parades for Dead Spies and I am so mad how much I loved it. I know all the drama; I am so mad that this game felt so good to me. I loved the companions, I enjoyed the world, loved how spy it felt, I loved the art and visuals. I loved so much. But then there is the outside weight.

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The important questions of our age. Glad someone has their eyes on the ball.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Milo is a terrible human grift machine. And he didn't get the full ICE experience, he was shipped out the next day. When Quislings cease their usefulness and are thrown into the wood chipper with everyone else, their reactions vary. The Quisling is a member of the oppressed group, but lines up

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Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Zaslav has never had a better opportunity to shitcan something for a tax writeoff.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I saw a bunch of people on facebook accusing her of being a greedy biznatch for doing this when, hello? Do you know how laborious it is to translate something like the odyssey? If she makes some $$$ off it, more power to her.

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