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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It looks blurry here. Oh, Bluesky. This trick was fine last time I did it. Reposting with the table text as alt text, in case that helps.

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's one of my own uses for a D36; the Critter Skills table. Critters get 1D6 skills at a level chosen by GM fiat. Just pick any from whichever row you roll. Critters will use their skills 1-2 times during and adventure, and 1-2 times during downtime, and the PCs can deal with the results. #ttrpg

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

No cat has ever been a member of the Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things. (see figs. 1 and 2) #completelytrue

Figure 1: A stone statue of a cat sitting down, looking at an empty beer can on its plinth. The cat looks a bit like a lioness, and its tail is curled in a spiral along its left flank. The tail may have a tail-tuft on the end, hard to be certain. In the background is the green lawn of a park, a few trees, and distant picnickers.
Figure 1/Figure 2 interstitial (not shown): The beer can blinks.
Figure 2: The beer can is now lying on the ground, having been pushed off the plinth. The cat is looking at it in its new position. See, not even stone cats can be trusted.

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Well now, that's revealing. Minecraft is a Media franchise, is it? This is autocomplete on Edge on a corporate-pilled laptop. Any shenanigans here aren't from my end!

An autocomplete pull-down menu with 'mi' filled in, and the Minecraft 'Media franchise' - not 'game', I notice - as the second most probable option.

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Oh yes, if you're not the subject it's all too easy to overlook.

Two eagles sat in chairs in a gentlemen's club are discussing an owl.
"Do you think the owl is a predator?"
"Of course not. He's never bothered me."
"Exactly." (sips his cup of tea) "No idea what Mr. Mouse was going on about."

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Last try, as a GIF, cos this is a nuisance and I'd like to find a workaround. The procedural element is that the cutaway happens whoever's winning - the PCs are trapped in the detention block, the scene cuts away to the garbage chute. (And PCs shouldn't care about shooting all the troopers anyway.)

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Tactical Successes Buy Time - an extract from a house Star Wars D6 rulebook where I try to make the point that as soon as it's clear which side is winning, in cinematic terms, the fight is over and the camera would probably cut away. I should probably add that bit in so many words.

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I've had a partial stab at this in the rules I already have:

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Flash has a good point (textsfromsuperheroes.com/image/676850...)

Text conversation between Green Lantern and Flash:
GL: Piece of advice, if The Question asks you to be on his podcast say no.
F: The Question has a podcast? I hadn't heard of it.
GL: It's not available online. He says "Cell phones are for tracking us" so he records it on cassette tapes and leaves it in mailboxes around town.
F: No one can possibly be listening to that.
GL: Actually it's got a weird hipster following who say that podcasts sound warmer on cassette.
F: That might be peak podcast actually.

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Yeah, nicer than the Dairy Milk Vegemite flavour

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Honestly, the branding practically draws itself

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

You can't make a wig out of Wotsits You can't make a truss out of tripe You cannot make jeans Out of haricot beans Regardless of whether they're ripe.

Bob Mortimer in formal black tie attire against a black background with sparkles in it, giving the lie to my 'You can't make a wig out of Wotsits' thesis by wearing a wig made of Wotsits. Curse you, Mortimer, you win this round.
One Wotsit is sticking up from the otherwise smooth and cheesy hairpiece.

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Simons Mith @simons-mith.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

See - no scrollbar. If I'm quick, I can scroll once, before the page fully loads (using the mousewheel) but once it's fully loaded I'm locked in position and the mousewheel no longer responds. This is a new glitch I've never seen before, on any web site. Sorry I can't give much more info.