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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's the Freddos.... i can't resist...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He is a Fine, Upstanding, and Lovely Folk Horror, Eater of Faces... etc etc...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tough on Beatrix Potter, Tough on the Causes of ... nope... seems a step too much even for that... let's hope he finds the Help he needs... far far far from here... (and a bit further, thanks, ta)

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

psst... just wait 'till he finds out about the Coast of Labrador...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember using one of their morgagage calculators and discovering the sliders didn't go down anywhere near the value I was looking at... I guess the "buy for your student kids so they don't have to bother with rent" headline was probably a Clue

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tough on Cheliax, Tough on the Causes of Cheliaxians...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If we don't want them 'coming over here and taking our jobs' then perhaps we should have been less keen on the whole 'going over there and taking their countries'...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My players are basically the equivalent of younger relatives visiting me in my care home...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you find the EVIL monster lair - by getting the local Ixitxachitl drunk, that's how....

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This has disproportionately amused me :-)

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unhealthy, Controlling, and frankly ruinous to her own happiness as well... if it was consenting it would still be a problem... without it should probably be a communications offence...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Seriously, if LLMs are as good as my autocorrect then Skynet will kill us all by accident...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tough on Passport to Pimlico, Tough on the Causes of Passport to Pimlico...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Go into a big branch and they might be able to sort it out. You will probably have to cancel the card and get a new one. If you have ID, branches can usually sort you out cash to cover the intervening period.

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

History tends to repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. The ghost of Marx is presumably delighted that Farage and Bardella want to be associated with the legacy of Louis Napoleon

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy memories of 'Fill room with Summomed Hobgoblins' from Baldurs Gate... Not a patch on 'stab them in the back with two invisible paladins' though...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I can imagine wanting to track dementia-suffering parents, but am pretty sure that they can probably be asked to grant consent as is. Going out of your way to track kids and family members (especially secretly) seems a recipe for making your own anxiety worse.(at the very best.)

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Now I'm worried they want me to go and knock up some civil servant's 'niece' ... bloody Fae The civil servant also looks suspiciously like emperor Palpatine as well... And now it's Vampire all the Way Down...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Or, put another way, a bad Knowledge check just doesn't help you get towards your objective, a mediocre one lets you progress a bit, and a good one has the GM tell you all sorts of interesting things that hook to future scenarios... Now if only I could remember to stick to that...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The real issue/mechanic is the Int Check to remember a thing that was only 5 minutes ago but also 2-weeks-of-real-time-between-sessions, and the Int Check of 'you've overlooked something really obvious' (aka the GM always knows more about the setting that the player does)

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A knowledge check is no different to a climb check - both get you past barriers (or not) they just tell you the flavour of how you get past it.

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The 'dance' scene is one of the best on TV...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Empire:Total War, so I'm either trying to remember how steam engines work, or trying to sell people plans for 'guaranteed perpetual motion machines'

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The BBC coverage is nothing compared to when they sent Sir Patrick Moore down to Cornwall yo commentate... he was entertaining, informative, and left you in no doubt he'd rather be watching a proper eclipse literally anywhere else...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sitting in the park, and the temperature is suddenly bearable, and the birds have started making funny noises... probably it's just a cloud...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I've run the proper module the once, used it's maps & locations to run a prequel saga, & have looted bits & pieces for more stuff. Main module is a full campaign to itself, & each location is a work of genius & can be used individually. I can't really praise it enough (also pick up Gaz1-Karameikos)

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sparkling Randomness? Or a hamlet in Maryland... he won't tell me...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Don't leave us hanging... what is the answer...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Obviously, I'd just finished writing up the helpful residents of the tavern that the players just acquired... and THEN I realised I could simply have used the cast of Fawlty Towers instead... #fail...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You are tolerable, Those Curtains However...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One of those is hooch made by a well known player...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One for all, and all for One

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For those who enjoy seeing Hyacinth giving Meriadoc a thick ear, everyone's favourite (ie only*) Lancastrian Detective is currently loitering on the iPlayer... *ok, ok, Juliet Bravo is out there too...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Why kill them, when I can make them suffer my bad prose, incoherent homages to Dynasty, and scattergun references to Mysterious Cities of Gold

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You should go listen to Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics... its good, especially today as she is graced with a Biggins... Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This dnd game *might* not go down this route, though I fear there is a certain gravitational inevitability...

"This had better work!" A cartoon from the AD&D DMG - 2 characters with Mickey Mouse ears prepare to infiltrate a temple to a rat god

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

DnD - weird session where you are worried your Glantrian Investigators are going to shoot Joan Hickson.

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In retrospect, and from the outside, it seems to have looked suspiciously like a Cult... and not the "slightly too keen on kid's TV and Lego" kind of Cult

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yeah... the towns of the North Kent coast are like that too... hollowed out, with nothing going for them - places for people to spend their pensions while wondering why the younger generations keep leaving

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How about if they add 'through the power of embroidery' somewhere in the text?

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Came here to say this...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Biggins? Truly you walk among Giants...

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Jon @plautiani.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

<sigh> you can go off people, you know...

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