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Potatoes at the back, pork at the front. She/her. pebblesucker.com My default state is *desperate cackler*

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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Wouldn't mind seeing something on Old School Stylish. Really feel we're at the point of *Gaming Generations* where inter-generational connections between gaming styles, the OSR, storygames, etc. can be really played with by people still in touch with everything. #TTRPG
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
In my new place I'm gonna have a bigger desk so I can keep important things like notebooks and custard creams close to hand.🧠
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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I don't like D&D in any form and prefer other systems that suit my needs. However, my current group loves it; I've run 5e for the last 9 months because I'm feeding off of their enthusiasm. It's great fun. I'm a believer that it's *who* you play with that makes a good game, not so much the system.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Finally feeling better after my surgery, to the point medical elements are just annoying now. Hoping to get back to my VtM game by next weekend or the start of the week after that. Then it's my Traveller duet game. I want to start working out the political alliances in my subsectors this weekend.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Looking through MTrav 1e's Merchant Prince (privateers) There's a lot to get a handle on in Traveller before my campaign. And it's not mechanics, but mechanics indicating methods of interaction and opportunities for "game" all from small little asides buried over various books. There's *a lot!*
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Yeah, you could say I'm a bit of a TTRPG player... A dice roller... A Games Master! *waits for emails of bundles of PDFs I can buy*
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
My New Year's Resolution is to give up homework for Lent.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Gaming Resolution for 2025 (Abridged Edition): Finally move into my new place so I'll be within walking distance of "places" where people "socialise" then attempt to "socialise" via the medium of "games." EZPZ!
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Oisín Murphy-Lawless @bikesnbukes.eurosky.social · 31/12/2024
I cannot wait until it is the first of January 2025 all around the world AND I NEVER HAVE TO SEE THE FECKING TNG IRISH UNIFICATION 2024 SCREENSHOT. I am very over that meme.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I'm in my pyjamas eating cheese.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
RPG Year in Review: It started with me getting a house (this is important...) Pulling out 10yo boxes to arrange for when I finally move (actually move? haha...) This meant I saw my old RPG books in them. A few months later I'm now running a VTM game, planning a Traveller game And! more nerd stuff.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Remember! If you missed bin day other people didn't and their bins are out on the street and probably empty!
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This! So much this! And in real life space getting the small little trinket someone just made for laffs. And if you really are broke reviewing something, a genuine heartfelt review you share. The money can truly matter but it's the offering of real kindness that gets you.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Would love one of these in Cork! #TTRPG #Boardgames www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Kids now don’t want to drink’: Dublin’s dry(ish) pub, one year on
Board’s clientele come for its big array of drinks – no longer all alcohol-free – and even bigger array of games
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Debating if my current cheapo Aldi candle runs out tonight whether I'm bold enough to light the Soft Cashmere candle I got for Christmas. It's the standard pre new candle nerves. And this is a very real anxiety covered in all the best medical manuals.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This just makes natural business sense. If you want to sell to an entirety of a market you need people who have knowledge of the entire market, especially in actual experience. The issue, in general, is needing to move away from diversity box ticking and towards people with embedded understanding.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Them: Any plans for New Years? Me: Same as usual. Plan to avoid the Hootenanny and inevitably end up watching the Hootenanny.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I need to source a little, cuddly Godzilla outfit (decent quality but not too expensive) in the EU or maybe the UK in time for my niece's first birthday in April.🦎
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
An old theory in photography is amateurs are more "artists" then professional as they're not constrained by commercial appeal. (Also includes trust fund kids, to a degree.) People are *free.* It applies to any art. Just look at all the write-by-numbers fiction that's basic generic *genre* writing.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/12/2024
one thing I do not miss about when this place was much smaller is being forced to know about every blood feud against my will sometimes these days I run into two posters having a fight to the death and I don’t know who either of them are or why they hate each other and I think that’s wonderful
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Had surgery today (I'm fine.) What's weird is waking up from it I had a mini-dream/persistent thought last with me. In my mind I was being hella trans and hella into TTRPGs. Which is really fucking cool that my brain recognised the two important things to me atm while me guts were being cut open.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Vampire: Bloodlines canonically exists in my setting/city after the Prince met the coterie in a nightclub and made them all dance. They did the Vampire: Bloodlines dance.🤣
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two men playing guitars with the words " we are on smr " written on the bottom
Alt: two men playing guitars with the words " we are on smr " written on the bottom - Status Quo doing the backwards and forwards Quo dance step while they play guitar.
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AverageJer @averagejer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Marriage is mostly one person yelling something from the other room and the other person yelling back “I can’t hear you because you are in the other room”.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I just ordered this as my library trip/TTRPG/GMing bag. Should be fine for a few RPG books, some paper and some pens. And I can't wait until I'm in the new place and able to walk to the library!
A burgundy cross-body messenger back with white stars on it.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
All kitted out to be a roving GM; I've got the books and something to carry them in, the snacks, the earpods and the charging device for everything. As well of course as the voucher for getting the paints I need for the minis. Did I mention the snacks? There's also a candle in the tiny box.
Sitting on a yellow armchair with a yellow curtain behind it, all in bad/low lighting, are a selection of Christmas gifts. They include a multipack of Keogh's crisps, the Traveller Core Rulebook and Central Supply Catalogue, an envelope (which contains a gift voucher to a model chop,) a box which the envelope came in, a set of mint/turquoise bluetooth earphones (in their packaging,) a phone USB charger (in its packaging,) a pink and cream roll-top waterproof backpack, and a blue box for a blue candle (cosy cashmere scented.)
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Already looking forward to sandwiches and I haven't even had Christmas dinner yet.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Waiting for Sosig It's like the Beckett play but Christmassy.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
My sister informed me the baby's yearly review from Santa was on a pro-rata basis as the baby hasn't been around for a full year. Sensible manglement from Santa.
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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Last Christmas I bought you a pig You fed it each day To get it quite big. This year, I'm living in fear it grew to enormous Proportions.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I'm at that stage of having nothing else to do on Christmas Eve except think how I absolutely, 100% need more Traveller books to run my campaign.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Looking at the list of essential stuff I have to buy before I move into the new place and sitting conspicuously at the top of the list, for the sum of roughly €110, is the Traveller Starship Operator's Manual and the Alien Guide No. 1. Will I be removing such a sore thumb? I shall not.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
We're at that stage of there being a lot of food in the fridge but I'm not allowed eat any of it.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The past few nights I've been getting annoyed the temperature changes. The temperature changing is a normal thing. I know of the existence of weather. But that I can be feeling fine one hour and not fine the next hour should be controlled by things like my mental damage not the sun, rain and wind.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
'tis the season! #speirgorm
Star Trek DS9's very own Irish man, Miles O'Brien, wearing a nifty green casual outfit, eyes closed, head tilted, seemingly having enjoyed a few scoops with his pal Julian Bashir earlier in the evening.

The text on the image says, "is there anything to be said..." "...for a little midnight mass."
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This, but Traveller books. (My brother is getting me a voucher for the model shop. 😊)
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Jason Carl @vampiresnvino.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Vampire Storyteller Tips for the Anarchs - Make an example of a snitch - Threaten rival interests or holdings - Provoke an overreaction - Display an aggressive show of force - Make the best of a difficult situation - Claim territory from the weak and foolish
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Went through all my old stuff for painting minis last night (not much stuff.) Threw out 25 dried up pots of paint. And forget how small minis actually are.😂Seeing all the macro shots of them here makes me think, "Ah! Normal enough size! Should be no problem to paint." Then I look at them. "Nope!"
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I need to print out about 140 pages, presuming I don't double width, in an effort to find all (haha) the typos in the document despite being over this piece of text about ten times. Despite having a laser printer it's still a total, total pain in the ass and €€€
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
TTRPG idea which is all mine and which you cannot steal. Absolutely Fabulous: the Roleplaying Game! *Pass me the Bolly, darling!*
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a woman in a black dress is dancing in a living room with other women .
Alt: a woman in a black dress is dancing in a living room with other women . (from AbFab)
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I see a lot more alarm from visual artists—just on my feed—about AI than writers. Two thingies: 1. Writers mostly know we're worthless to 99.999999% of people anyway. Which is tied into; 2. People who can type feel they can write so AI is just a bonus to them, they were never looking for a writer.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I know Vampire the Masquerade is pretty much the tried and tested TTRPG for LGBTQ+ drama and adventure but I want to play a Traveller game with a bunch of middle age queermos gay-trucking around space, getting in starport punch ups and slurping whiskey-black-coffee from their ship's bridge. 🏳️‍🌈🚚😂
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 17/12/2024
Bond Villain Sharks.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I've seen a couple of the big (and some bigger than small) TTRPGs approaches to Christmas events, sales, etc. I'm biased but I think the Traveller one of, "Eh, here's a free mini-adventure/supplement done as well as the rest of our stuff," simply being added to your Mongoose account is pretty cool.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
There's an old folk in Ireland tale that if you don't dust the crumbs from the biscuits onto the floor when you next go to Aldi all the custard creams will be sold out.
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Mongoose Publishing @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
It is Christmas time, and we are giving away a free present to all Travellers - Bu and Embla do the Fifth Frontier War! www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/bu-... See what your favourite cosmic duo have been up to while conflict breaks out across the Spinward Marches! #ttrpg #TravellerRPG
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Rolled a Traveller character for fun with the player for my duet game and to get him used to the system. I don't think he realised how much "creativity" it involved. He got the vibe by the end I'm glad we did a "practice" chargen. Rolled a failed military drifter lunkhead working in a junkyard.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
My grandads old take was "Buy the entry-level piece from a high quality manufacturer." That way you got the quality and support from the established manufacturer but not an extreme price. Of course businesses copped onto this and started outsourcing their entry-level stuff to crappy manufacturers.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I have plans for today and it mainly involves buying and eating pre-sliced corned beef and trying to rope players into some just-for-funsies Traveller character generation!
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Talking in the official Traveller discord (lots of food talk in there) I realised I'd love to have a Guy Fieri style celebrity in My Traveller Universe. A sector celebrity doing Diners Drive-ins and Dives for various starports. Could even do a once-off of a support crew keeping the celeb in check.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Cigarettes, alcohol and drugs may be addictive, but have you ever had a custard cream?
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