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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 · 06/01/2025
I've wanted one for ages for photography reasons, this is just bumping it up the list (again.) I DIYed stuff before. Big sheet of card, a flash or the same colour temp bulbs you then colour balance in your editor. I'm thinking of getting some lamps with daylight bulbs for painting anyway.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It's funny how Ireland's brand of transphobia involves the most annoying prick in the country. Even the people I know who don't talk much about trans issues immediately say, "It's that fucken gobshite, again!"
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Please stop inviting me to add yet more €€€ to my soon beginning mini hobby by putting a little light tent, stands and flashes on my to-buy list.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I just started your 2023 Traveller 2e videos! Loving it, although I'm not very far in as I watch in bed and thankfully sleep has been coming easily these past couple of weeks. I do wake up having had about five or six hours of it beamed into my dreams!😄
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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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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Have a thing I'm writing (eventually) about the dangers of doing something to be the first, or the biggest, or the best. The idea of doing something to satisfy a need is being abandoned. If you look at knowledge people "collect" knowledge to know more than others, not because they need the info.
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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
Ah! It's a Salt and Vinegar Pringle then...
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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
Well... I had a healthy breakfast dining out on them out 😂
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy birthday!
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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
Play games, have fun.
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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
My plan is to not watch the Hootenanny tonight, the same as every year. You know what I'll end up seeing at least some of... the bloody same as every new year's...?
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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
I include in this buying your games and dice in the actual gaming store in your town despite it being 15% more expensive than online because they're putting effort, time, money and actual gaming options into your space. As well as buying your drinks and teas and coffees off them instead of outside.
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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 · 30/12/2024
Book of Disquiet is great. Perfect bus reading. And I need to pick up another copy.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I know nothing about Pathfinder but a "It's D&D but good, and has a load of splats and options for stuff, and you can roleplay as well as fight" generic-ish Sword and Sorcery system could be nice. I dunno if it is Pathfinder but surely there's a supported system that provides options and depth.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The basic bundleofholding bundle with the core rules, etc. for $18 is worth it just for the Core Rules and the Companion.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Think "teach as you go" is what works for me too because learning a TTRPG isn't just about learning the rules, it's also about the table learning to play with each other and the GM, and the GM learning to run the game for the table. Expectations for any group to be flowing from the off are too much
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I've outright told my players about their plot armour, both in game and out of it. The older vampires see them as baby vampires and, for now, are mostly amused by them. They haven't been able to fuck up in a way to raise much ire, yet.
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I've found extremely cheap, small notebooks I have no compunction about scribbling in have been great. The only *fancy* notebook I got use out of was one I took with me specifically to an open-mic poetry night. All the rest had been too intimidating to actually use willy nilly.
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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
Literally why I'm gonna pick up the MLB baseball radio streams and old recordings when March comes around. It's perfect for background noise, occasional commentator ramblings, and tuning in as you wish. I'll keep active listening for when I'm doing something but not activating language centres.
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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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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I've found my "consume" relaxation becoming more enjoyable when applied to "create" relaxation. Even while I still "create" as a productivity thing. I've fallen off video games as I've returned to TTRPGs as I can create within the consumption. It's also why I'm trying painting minis to unwind.
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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
Oh wow, your scarf is perfect! Gonna keep my eyes open for something similar. Also, happy Christmas to all three of you! And a prosperous new year!
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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
Please... This isn't just random half-assed buffoonery. There are many and deep lore reasons for such buffoonery which will play out over the many nights of personal torment.😂
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
As you search around you find one saying, "The Various Definitions of the OSR."
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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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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I desperately want to run to the model shop and pick up all the tools, primers, glues and basic paints with my voucher. Painting is also something I know I won't have the time and space to do until I'm in the new house. And then I'll walk to the shop for the stuff and it'll be so much *delayed* fun
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Pebble Sucker @pebblesucker.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I played a homebrew setting in SW ten-ish years ago. It got very samey, very quickly. Although I don't know how much that was the game/GM.
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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 need to get off this planet? No! I will stay swimming with the friendly fishies!
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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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