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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you. Weirdly, a WTF from someone else about this is exactly what I needed today

Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 17h

It’s doing my head in too. Mum is sending me Rupert Lowe speeches and insisting he will make Britain better for her grandchildren who are 50% SE Asian. No words.

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TheNumbersTzar @thenumberstzar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is Warhammer 40K coded.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I recently re-read Consider Phlebas for fist time in 30 years and it felt like coming home. It really is extremely good.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My take, and it’s just a take: If you no longer endorse it or it is deprecated for something better then maybe remove it. If it’s just not your current bag - ie unsupported - leave it up. Somewhere in between: be transparent in the description.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Curiously there are some surprising thematic similarities regarding how they both end.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pft, you sound like my Call of Cthulhu players asking me to run D&D 5e for a change! The real question is how many of your legion followers will pay to join a Patreon in order to watch it!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They are just hanging out on your land. Frogs will travel quite some distance from the home pond, toads - who are more resistant to desiccation - even further.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pitch for a mini campaign: @thedicemechanic.bsky.social is an idealistic young lawyer in the Old World, fighting against the relentless injustices of the justice system from within. Watch him struggling, slowly overcome by the awfulness, try not to become what he despises.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From this she clearly identifies as “British Asian” not “English” but is wilfully ignorant of what logically follows from that amongst the far right. She absolutely is being racist against herself, incredible.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NB - justice didn’t even make the cut!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nice, so we have consensus the WFRP Old World legal system objectives are: Primary: tool of oppression for the noble class. Secondary: ongoing success of the legal edifice and its stakeholders. Tertiary (at best): raising monies and efficiency.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So should we still set luck to 50% always? I kinda like the fact some people are luckier than others, it feels true and will change how people play…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In WFRP Old World I’d expect the legal system to first and foremost be a tool of oppression for the noble class with efficiency being a tertiary objective at best

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ll bite - example of an “irrational legal system” please?

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fairness, I’m guessing. Makes every luck roll a coin toss. I do agree with him, it feels right, but it’s not terribly relevant because I *do* allow luck spend.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And nothing in my life to date prepared me to read it - oh the horror!!! 😱

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m not a huge fan of GM less games but this setting tickles my fancy - I’ll totally pillage it for a Call of Cthulhu scenario

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This somehow caused me to type “maggots eating time lapse” into YouTube search and the ensuing content is truly horrific! NB: you’d need more than 2,000 maggots to consume a human corpse.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That’s really interesting case of YMMV, too bad we didn’t do a read through together - would have been fun! I agree she *is* peevish but early on it’s generally in a good cause (abolition). What you see in her does however better support what happens in later seasons…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a #callofcthulhu survival horror one shot my objective as Keeper is that only some should survive. This creates some iconic scenes and is a lot of fun for everyone (usually even the dead investigators). But it is not a *designated* survivor it’s a *lucky* or *resourceful* survivor(s).

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the books she was a favourite character because her story arc is so strong and has charisma, backbone and (against slavery) ethics. There were attempts to steal her dragons which she somehow manages to rebuff. Why would we not support her?

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s #TTRPG challenge: design a scenario using this hat!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is it any good? I saw mixed reviews.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Apparently vanilla Star Destroyers are 1.6km long. By contrast the tip of the Gherkin to the Shard in London is 1.2km apart. So we can imagine one parked above London would be pretty impressive - see my scale sketch. In NYC it would cover 20 blocks. But YMMV....

A Star Destroyer over central London more or less to scale, its quite big.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is there something wrong with the game or the book? [I have subsequently successfully run Teeth, which I believe is a derivative, and found that to be challenging also]

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I found Blades in the Dark so incomprehensible and inaccessible that I gave my copy away 😬

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Same, I think this is a really powerful shot:

Star destroyer hovering over Jedha City as shown in the film Rogue One

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes. The point is generally that players only need to read up to a certain point in the book: introduction, lore, example of play, making characters, skill checks. The rest is for the GM - crunch including combat, running the game, character progression, example scenario, GM lore - and comes later.

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Francis Irving @flourish.org · 21/09/2026

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🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re just a contrarian aren’t you? 😜 bsky.app/profile/hawk...

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why would anyone want to get away from d% low!? 😉

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@rpgaugust.bsky.social scenario #3 👆🏻 will be Castrum Primum (converted to Cthulhu Invictus in northern Britannia 117AD), a standout scenario in the Cohors Cthulhu Germania book. Did you have a syllabus or escalation ladder for the experiments? Any specific advice from the play tests?

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

4e’s problem was it only made sense if you already knew 1e. Weird stuff like armour being in a much later part of the book to combat. Lots of cross references. It was obtuse. If 5e fixes that, job done. Everything else can be house ruled.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh, thanks, this is interesting - am really on the lookout for folk horror scenario inspiration currently after a recent Wicker Man and Midsomer double bill…

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The freshwater snails and the assassin bugs surprise me, also sharks have a *really* bad rep!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Descended as I am in part from a Grimsby trawler family, this earns a like and a follow although I‘ve no clue how you’re gonna turn this into a TTRPG!?

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not exactly - it’s Eriador + coastal waters. I think we‘d need all the books (including forthcoming Gondor/Rohan and 1e Mirkwood), a large whiteboard and a free weekend to roll our own Middle Earth Quest™️

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tales from the Lone Lands *is* a campaign - so watching this space 🙂. You can of course pull one together yourself from the many scenario seed locations and NPCs, but obviously significant effort involved (just to read it all is no small matter).

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Interested in your thoughts on this one. My main complaint on 3 rings is I couldn’t get a one or two shot out of it. However I did use The Island of the Sorceress very successfully in my Moria campaign.

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These make me want to try myself. Do you use Procreate On an iPad?

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So armed with his service number I looked at the National Archives but his records are not scanned. I am requesting a copy, hopefully we can find out more:

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Born in 1904 so he was too old to fly in combat (he retired as a pilot in 1931), during WWII he served as an instructor. Ended up stationed in Turkey. You sent me down a rabbit hole, here is his The London Gazette entry where he is listed as getting the AFC, but it does not say why:

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got grandad’s flying log and AFC here:

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This. I would sink into despair if I could not imagine I might actually read all my physical books one day! I have hardcopies of 1e and 4e so it only makes sense to get a pdf of 5e. Also my WFRP is a tainted amalgam of the 4e rules, my jumbled memories of 1e, and Call of Cthulhu 7e!!!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Even if you tried could you manage to use them all up in a lifetime?

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Talk about how you can live and act and pick your own adventure in horror films of various genres at any time in history - ancient Rome to modern day, cosmic horror through survival horror (not to mention Pulp horror)

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That is very canny and I am realising if I’d DM’ed you “which 1980s White Dwarf modern day CoC scenario has chainsaws” you could have saved me from a time consuming rabbit hole!

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Ray Irving 🇺🇦 @skiingmouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

[You should definitely dip and skip - too much content to catch up]. I really wanted to find a modern day #callofcthulhu scenario I remembered from 1980s White Dwarf with chainsaws. Finally tracked it down, was by Rowland

Draw the Blinds on Yesterday - a Modern Day Call of Cthulhu scenario by Marcus L Rowland

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