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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why yes tomatoes but only if the curios are authentic

As part of a teaser campaign that withholds the type of cuisine a restaurant will offer, two tomatoes say “Curios looks good on you”

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Noted game designer and author @mytholder.bsky.social demonstrates his additional skill of being very tall

Gar puts up Pelgrane banner at Tabletop Scotland

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My favorite joke in this satirical article is that the cratering hedge fund is called Situational Awareness [checks notes]

Financial Times headline:

Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness seeks to raise capital after Al rout

Hedge fund has held talks with existing investors and lenders in recent days

Includes photo of faun-like young fund manager

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is a Dramatic beat, which occurs when characters pursue their emotional goals.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is a Commentary beat, marking a moment when the story stops for tangents, observations, or pontification. Like when your players hilariously riff. Or a discussion of the latest DC movie breaks out in the middle of a fight.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Reality shift detected on Amazon.

Kindle cover of John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There, attributed to Robert W. Chambers

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is a Bringdown beat, marking a moment when a story rings a negative emotional note. Like when the GM describes the sudden downpour that drenches the adventurers as the dark overlord’s castle heaves into view.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is an Anticipation beat, symbolizing the jolt of hope when you can see something cool about to happen in a story.

Abstract symbol resembling a chest with keyhole.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

When you need to be reminded which restroom you’re in

Washroom with pistol and bullet themed wallpaper

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Excuse me which way to the wraiths’ room?

Men’s room door w identifying symbol that looks like a creepy ghost

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Super into the image Spotify serves when a track is credited as Traditional

Spotify image of a smiling young couple who seem very nice w explanation of what traditional songs are

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Little known fact: the Lionel Messi potato chips are made from FIFA’s failed Lionel Messi cloning experiments

Bag of Lay’s FIFA tie-in Beef and Chimichurri flavor chips featuring image & signature of Lionel Messi

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

When the T fell off the sign it became clearer where the death came from

Sign for Death and Taxes pub, but the last T has fallen off

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The Colour Out of Space has been feeling under utilized

Headlines of recent meteor incidents in Philippines and Massachusetts

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Big Red has just about had it with certain Farm Boy staffers

Portable shelving cart in grocery store, full of beverages, with laminated sign reading:

BIG RED
• I DON’T LIVE IN THE FRIDGE
• DO NOT PUT ME IN THE FRIDGE
• DO NOT PUT REFRIGERATED PRODUCT ON ME

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This task is a slog; time for the motivational pie chart

Pie chart with two segments, Done (most of the pie) and To Go (about 15%)

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

When the same brain-mushing problem shows up at the end of two consecutive work days

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

There’s a lot to worry about right now so let’s cheer up with some trepanation pelgranepress.com/2026/02/14/s...

Period engraving of head-drilling tools, one of which is demonstrated on a skull

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What is the weather like in Toronto people ask me

Forecast for Wed with high of 57 and half an inch of snow

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

He heard of looksmaxxing before you did

Dandyish 1781 French gent in powdered wig, blue long tailed coat, with orange stockings and cane

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Does your beloved local tabletop game store stock books in a multi-tier rack? Interested in both yes and no answers. (Extra belovedness to you if you are yourself a game retailer.)

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

An ancient Egyptian tomb switch leads your Trail of Cthulhu investigators into 1930s peril pelgranepress.com/2026/01/31/t...

Museum display of Egyptian funerary figurines in Trail of Cthulhu's brown and green color scheme

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Iron Man will return… …as the TTC's new Line 2 subway cars

Concept rendering of sleek new subway trains with a distinct MCU design aesthetic, posed heroically against CN Tower at sunrise

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

In a hole in the ground… they found a body. As a halfling amateur sleuth — or perhaps as a dwarf, boggart or pooka — you investigate the village crimes the constable is too sleepy to solve. The playtest for Merryshire Detective Club is now open. pelgranepress.com/2026/01/07/c...

Cover image for Merryshire Detective Club, in which a redheaded female halfling investigator uses a magnifying glass to examine a red scarf wrapped around a piece of driftwood jutting from a swirling river. In the river swims another player character, a pooka in the form of an otter with antlers. The pooka wears swim goggles.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

At Pelgrane Press, 2026 is the Year When Books Come Out pelgranepress.com/2026/01/07/v...

A gnome warrior, fresh from the pages of 13th Age 2nd edition, leaps from a tree, wielding an axe bigger than he is, plunging toward a big green ogre

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Yellow King Paris story hook: the 1895 art students celebrate a year vanquishing the forces of Carcosa — until the stroke of midnight, when they discover that they have entered the 13th month, the month of Hali

Charles Dana Gibson’s symbolic illustration of a New Year’s procession with cherubs and celebrating Gilded Age swells

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

How to do M. R. James inspired Christmas ghost stories with DramaSystem. pelgranepress.com/2025/12/17/a...

Distressed photograph of the ghostly floating head of Oliver Cromwell haunting Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I'd wish Nostradamus a happy birthday but he always knows when I'm going to say that

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I thought I was buying a ticket to a Predator movie but apparently I now have to escape a Predator…?

Screenshot of email header reading as follows:
Cineplex
Your Escape is confirmed Predator:...
Your escape is confirmed for Predator...

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The defendant, as seen in file photo

Belloq from Raiders of the Lost Ark, with crudely pasted on Stalin mustache

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Oh no, not my ea-sywebvh account!

Junk text reading: Your account has abnormal login behavior. If it is not verified within 24 hours, it will be permanently frozen. Please click the following link to verify immediately: https://ea-sywebvh.cfd/a

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

One of my Christmas traditions is getting angry at the unnecessary skeuomorphism of this sprinkles topper

Chocolate sprinkle bottle with lid that looks like a cupcake. Label says “Chocolate Jim Bits”

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Ken and Robin talk the vital sense rpg designers need, invisible consort Zhongli Chun, words the Elizabethans gave us, and the murders of Morton the Regent. www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/ep...

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Is this the version where they accidentally switched Charles from product identity to open content?

OGL
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated
DIEU ET
MONDEOT
© Crown copyright

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

With his usual Treadwell’s hunting ground inexplicably closed on Mondays, the apex predator expands his range to an alternate habitat — Atlantis books on Museum street. @kennethhite.bsky.social

Ken Hite with stack of books at cozy specialty book shop

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It’s been many a moon since I’ve been at a booth with a brand new game and here I am at Dragonmeet with Page Turners

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Due to a security breach* it has now been revealed that the special @pelgranepress.bsky.social advance edition available at Dragonmeet this weekend is Page Turners.

Print copies of Page Turners showing a two-page spread of the Austen-inspired scenario Entreaty and Entanglement, with romantic Regency era lead character, with books turned to front and back covers behind it.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Time for my annual joke about not knowing what’s going on here

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Only now found out about the new contemporary-set Inspector Maigret series where he is a razor-stubbled hunk in a leather jacket. This raises hopes for my pilot script in which Nero Wolfe is a spunky tween makeup influencer navigating laughs and love in an unnamed Midwest college town.

Cover to Maigret TV series soundtrack album

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

What it looks like in the notional offices of @pelgranepress.bsky.social when changes from daylight to standard time between Europe and North America are out of sync

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I’ve been hearing not so great things about the Corolla Truck

Mid 2000s Toyota Corolla with such a heavy load of chipboard strapped to its roof that its windshield has cracked and its driver door has buckled

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Sometimes events overtake your carefully chosen brand

Sign in window:
Proudly Canadian
100% Canadian Owned
Established in 2023, we're a Canadian-owned and operated burger spot serving our neighborhood with heart and joy.

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Robin D. Laws @robindlaws.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This is good news, I was worried about Hing

Partially torn bumper style sized sticker on outdoor metal beam now reads HING IS OKAY

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