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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are several tropes in fiction that are plot convenient, but cause real world harm. A big one is "you can hit someone over the head and knock them out, and they will be fine." Don’t do that. It will be weeks to months before they heal, and quite possibly NEVER.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Art is inherently political. You may not like that, but it is true. If you make ttRPGs, you are making art. The sooner you embrace these things, the better off you will be. Make art, change your world. THEY, are scared out of their minds by Art and Artists. Make ART, any way you can! RESIST.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Decades ago, I was working in the basement crawl spaces of a theater, sealing up an architectural void. There was a lot of junk getting dumpstered. I found a nail keg, a cardboard skeleton and a plastic wineglass. yes, I did. I hope someone finds it.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very important topic came up at work: What color is best for cultists robes? One camp favors RED The other favors BLACK The camp that favored Yellow was subsumed…

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another fine day in the Arts! Fixing church pews Painting socks Sewing the pants I’m wearing, while wearing them Admiring really good new local graffiti ( ZOOT, Bio Tek, Deb, Emar) archiving old records All before 10a.m. I might even get time to write more than a few words, for myself!

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For reasons I won’t go into, I rewatched John Carpenter's THEY LIVE! again last night. It reminded me how much I don’t miss the 1980’s, with Reagan, crack, AIDS, cool war, and the rest. It's like we're doing it all again, on meth! This time we don’t need the glasses to see the problem.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m getting error: TypeError: URL.canParse is not a function. (In 'URL.canParse(n)', 'URL.canParse' is undefined) When I try to log in from A browser on an iPad. Enraging.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Game designers can affect your life in strange ways. Yesterday I was making a sandwich. I had a choice to make: ham or turkey… It was Thursday, so I knew what to do. Thanks Eppy! @epidiah.bsky.social

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When I was a pre-teen, I read Samual R. Delany and Octavia Butler. I discovered them in Analog magazine, that my other bought me at a local bookstore. They, and others like them, were my "YA Lit." Kids should be allowed to read what THEY want! Yes, it warped me. In a good way.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’ve been working on a game that I’ve been trying to finish. It’s like playing hide and seek with the Fey. I look right at it and it isn’t there. Taking a break and working on the playbooks for a modern touring variant of @megueyb.bsky.social & @lumpley.bsky.social 's wonderful Under Hollow Hills.

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Adam Scott Glancy @adamscottglancy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Apparently there's a chance I'll be kidnapped by post apocalyptic mutant madmen if enough of you buy a ticket to attend KamCon in Kamloops British Columbia. youtu.be/lNPJe5_lcxc?...

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KamCon is coming!!!!

YouTube video by KamCon

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It’s the end of an era! The Compleat Stratigist is changing hands, on Monday. Mike and Danny established the Stratigist in 1975 and it has been the center of NYC gaming for 51 years. They have had several stores in other locations too. I think the high point was 7.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I just reread Robert Heinlein's If This Goes On, for no particular reason. Also redeveloping a taste for Jerked Quisling…

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

People talk about the 26 words that started the internet. Nobody talks about the 3 words that started civilization: EVERYBODY POOP HERE. Think about it. When you start to manage waste, to protect other things, you have a system that leads to a whole lot of other systems. W/o it civ fails fast.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

@sskorkowsky.bsky.social got the Muppet Show theme stuck in my head. It’s not really a bad thing as I’ve had worse things stuck in my head. The problem is he updated a version of the lyrics. Now my mind is mashing all the versions I know into an extended dance remix.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Today was the kind of day where I had to say the sentence: "You put a boxing glove on a wiffle bat, and gave it to a seven year old, what did you THINK would happen?" Life in the arts.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A small request to the TTRPG writing community: Could you please put a date on your work? It could be publication date, a release date, or anything like that! I’m hoping for some kind of temporal marker so I know WHEN it came from! Accident… Research… Time-machine… Library… You know.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This address is important in the lore of @deltagreen.bsky.social. Does anyone recognize it?

An apartment building that doesn’t match those next to it. It is important in the lore of Delta Green

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

<muffled> This isn’t even Sherry!

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

First game: AD&D 1E in 1979 Last game: All The World's Problems (Beta) Next Game: Delta Green Playtest Longest game: AD&D 1E Favorite game: one that someone else runs Favorite mechanics: Red Markets Favorite setting: Apocalypse World (think about it) Favorite art: today, A|State. tomorrow?

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Never forget the COVER UP in @deltagreen.bsky.social …or the SAFTY CABLE in Theatrical Lighting.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Okay, its come up so often recently, that I have to say it again. from the point of a near permanent GM, who has been playing RPGs for 47 years: IT'S OKAY TO MAKE STUFF UP!!!! As a matter of fact, I actively encourage it! It’s your game, play how you want! Have fun and don’t be hurtful.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Jonathan has an interesting piece of gaming history! He's auctioning it off for a good cause.

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Jonathan Tweet @jonathantweet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Here's a draft manuscript of the Magic: The Gathering roleplaying game from 1996, and I've giving it away as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood, with permission from the authors. Not sure how much to ask for. Vanishingly rare. $1,872 raised so far. #mtg #ttrpg

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Seeing Buffalo/Southern Tier weather in the Hudson Valley is strange and a little amusing for this Snow Belt kid. I want everyone to know IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY!!!! It will melt and spring will come! How do we deal with MONTHS of this? Well, we do a lot of projects and play a lot of ttRPGs.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Tired brain today. Now, I’m wondering why I wrote "5# d20 nails." I’m pretty sure 8d would be sufficient for most dice nailing applications. Maybe I shouldn't worry about it. Brain: " hey… dude…. You cold worry about it. Just a little.…

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The other day I found a plain gold ring amongst the gravel in a gutter. I picked it up and dropped it in my pocket, and forgot about it. Today I was finding something in my pocket and found the ring. I was thinking, "what have I got in my pocket?" This story is vaguely familiar for some reason.

A plain gold ring, found in a ditch.

The Other Ring

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Over the holidays I went back "to the Shire", where I spent my youth. It’s in the Snow Belt. The weather was awful. 3’ of snow, low, grey sky, an ice storm. I am very much an outdoor cat. I do a lot of "out in it" things like XC skiing and winter camping. There is a lot of great terrain for it

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

With things going well on www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum... I offer this bit of Apocalyptica: YOU NEED ACTIVE PATROLLING. With out it you are blind and a ripe target for raiders. It doesn’t take much and you can get the older kids involved. They are naturally good at it.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I have decided that my Arch-Nemesis is named Otto Korekt. He is a former spy from the GDR. He hacks into everything I write and changes things. He does this to cloud my work and annoy me. I will persever.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Metatopia 2025 is now in the books. I’m back at work and holding on to an amazing weekend with wonderful people! it was great to talk to everyone, even if it was only for a minute! So many games! So many cool ideas!

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

When you play a lot of @deltagreen.bsky.social, you see the world a little differently. The agents had trouble contacting their handler because…

Hand drawn sign on a burner phone kiosk, in a dollar store. The sign reads: “we can not set up phones in store -DG team"

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I had to get a new copy of DREAD by @epidiah.bsky.social My old copy just gave up and… well, anyway, it’s gone.

Cover of DREAD, by @epidiah.bsky.social.

The bloody fingerprints are crudely edited out.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

500 good words on a project and clean laundry. Lately, thats a hell of a victory!

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Back in the '80s I had a group of D&D players who were totally into empowerment fantasy. They showed up with mostly barbarians with a “17” dump stat. Yes, everything else was an “18." I figured "what the hell, roll with it!" I told them to roll a d6 and add those points to their stats however…

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

So there I was brooding over something, with roadrunner quietly running in the background. (Try it! It works!) When @lumpley.bsky.social drops a super post on that sinking feeling that "you aren’t going to succeed" in a game, and how much he loves it. "BONG!" I realized that Chuck Jones' wrote…

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Under hollow hills hits a sweet spot for me personally. Talking with @megueyb.bsky.social about it was like a walk in the Fae realms. If you ever worked, or just loved, live performance this game will take you places. Old friends you just met, or astounding new sights you’ve seen a thousand times.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Good morning friends! To celebrate Pride, we're putting the Under Hollow Hills collection on sale on itch: itch.io/s/154748/und... There are community copies too. Check it out!

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Under Hollow Hills Pride Sale by Meguey & Vincent Baker, et al

A bundle by Meguey & Vincent Baker, et al, $42.00 for Under Hollow Hills, Under Hollow Hills presents The Wolf King's Son, Under Hollow Hills presents In Dreaming Avalon

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I’m not very good at handling GIFs

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

If you run @deltagreen.bsky.social's Impossible landscapes, you will begin in Washington Sq. Park on Aug 10, 1995. For maximum realism make a loop where someone comes up and says "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke" quietly, every 45 seconds. Play this the entire time the agents are within the park.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I’m not a great writer, but I keep trying! I was recently asked about the best trick/hack/app I’ve found. After thinking awhile, I said "a cheap notebook and a cheap mechanical pencil." Catch thoughts as you have them. No batteries, architecture to manage, or updates required! Just write!

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

1. First RPG? - AD&D 1E 2. First you ever ran? - AD&D 1E 3. Played the most? - AD&D 1E>2E 4. Run the most? - AD&D 2E probably. 5. Favorite? - Delta Green 6. Most recently played? Delta Green 7. Most recently run? Delta Green It will take time to beat AD&D, played A LOT as a kid.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

My sweet spot in Delta Green is highly a competent character who is completely out of their depth and gloriously struggle to figure out how to apply their skills to *THIS* situation. …or a rando who understands they have NO skills that are relevant, but recognize "this is fucked up!"

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Sustaining. Doing what I can. Writing when I can. I’m still here.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Is it a game? Is it a setting? Is it a scenario? I may have found Schrödinger's design envelope.

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I love that game designers across at least six time zones are virtually pawing through @megueyb.bsky.social's button box, oohing and ahhing, and guessing at the provenance of each one. Just made my night.

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