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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Booo. C’mon @mozilla.org fix this. Help Firefox be the browser we need it to be.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gack. Can the AI be removed or excluded? I guess I ought to just open my home laptop and figure it out. 😞

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Absolutely. Sounds great.I’ll message you.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A few of my faves: Fu Manchu The Sword High On Fire

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Done a lot with my summer, but I never seem to get around to the hard creative work. So I’m reading a book on self-sabotage, The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest, and hoping it helps me. Got to get out from behind the creative (writing) block I’ve been having.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Super proud of these — especially the hand painted faceplates and the aged / worn look of them.

A pair of large painted AdMech robots and their datasmith / handler — tabletop minis from Warhammer 40k.

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One of the best things about our country, honestly.

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This is me, but with my wife and kids — even though they’re college aged and home for the summer. You just can’t win. If I buy a sourdough loaf and they know about it, it’s gone in two days and I’m lucky if I get a slice.

And now I have one more reason to like the cut of your jib, Jim.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As a high school English teacher, I concur.

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Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

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Wolfgang Baur @wolfgangbaur.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A hobby about human creativity and quirky homebrew is really not the place for AI slop. Kobold is sticking with human-made games and sourcebooks.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I have one of the NES Classic consoles and am perfectly content with it. I’m sure there are games not on it that I’d like to play, but I’m not worried about them. Punch Out, Castlevania 2, etc. I’m good.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Nicely done. I’ve got to paint a couple of the small screamers for the Infernal Master I’m working on for my TSons army. They’re a bit intimidating.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’ve read it. Great recommendation though. Thanks!

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Reading update - recently read: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Bladerunner) Neuromancer Altered Carbon Count Zero It’s at this point I need a palate cleanser before continuing my sci-fi reading and new sci-fi noir RPG campaign writing. Probably some old school fantasy.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The summer game group hiatus has stricken my regular RPG gang. People going on trips and vacations and such. We’ve paused the Shadow of the Weird Wizard game with one more adventure left.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Good call. I remember playing this in the early 2000’s. I loved sim games back then. Evil Genius was another favorite.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Don’t know who to credit for this, but I find it hilarious.

A wizard with skull staff, speaking, stands in front of a barbarian seated on a throne. A diploma plaque is on the wall behind the throne. The cartoon’s caption reads: “Behold Vorgar, destroyer of lands, reaper of death, bachelor of fine arts!”

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Been reading sci-fi noir lately so I can be inspired to write my group’s next RPG campaign. Recently read: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Bladerunner) Neuromancer Currently reading: Altered Carbon TBR Pile: The Expanse, Count Zero Any other recommendations?

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I recommend asking your group which they prefer. We often do campaigns with an overarching plot, but our current is made up of individual published adventures with no other connective tissue but the PCs.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This show is dang gorgeous Lookit that super hot typewriter He’s just typing words on it without AI Using his brain like all the hot people do

A man is typing on a Remington Portable typewriter, a cigarette dangling from his lips.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

These look cool! And system agnostic. Nice.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits. Shadow of the Weird Wizard Hyperborea (2e) Worlds Without Number Savage Worlds - Deadlands

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I don’t recall that one specifically. I was definitely on some of the others you mentioned though, like Matrix and Eagle’s Nest. I got on nearly every Salem BBS at some point. And 92-93 was right in the middle of my high school years. I played a lot of TW2002, Lord, The Pit, and O:OII / LoD.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Which one? I might have been one of your users. I called and played games on most of the Salem area BBSs as a teenager. So did my friends. That included frequenting the RPG message board on the public library’s BBS.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just finished painting my first two five man squads of Thousand Sons. Still need to do some transfers and grass tufts, but I’m pretty much done. #Warhammer40k #minipainting #ThousandSons

Five thousand sons minis, one with a staff and flaming green eyes.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Nice. I remember playing DII. I had a Paladin who could do multiple fast hits with two handed weapons. Super fun.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Great game night last night. Finished our first master tier adventure for Shadow of the Weird Wizard RPG. The heroes slew a really tough dragon in its lair. Lots of super heroics - spell throwing, a paladin with a fire aura, specialist warriors doing brutal damage with two handed weapons… great fun.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

First battle with a dragon in last Friday’s master tier adventure for Shadow of the Weird Wizard. Fighting on open ground definitely favors the dragon. Players did well, but some almost died. Thankfully they hurt it badly enough that it retreated. Time to beard it in its lair next session.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nice. VtM was the reason I first checked out a Joy Division cassette (or was it a CD?) from my local library in high school.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Had a fun game session tonight with the family. Playing the Hyperborea 2e RPG by way of the Gunderholfen megadungeon campaign. I’ve got a ranger, a warlock, and a magic-user. A little t of mapping, some fights with kobolds. ‘Twas a good evening.

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Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Had to look up the Marvelous Magic book. Very cool. This BECMI book was the game I started playing D&D with as a kid.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

With a TSR copy of Gamma Workd on it? Probably. Awesome game though.

Bryan Smart @smartone.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This thread is fricking hilarious Jim. Especially those sweet variant titles. They’re the icing on the AI cake (made of manure underneath, donchaknow).

Very cool. Thanks. Looks like I can buy The Colour Forge from their USA distributor now. Cool.

Nice. What color are you priming in?

Awe yeah. D&D and Metal go together like peanut butter and jelly. I’ve been listening to Castle Rat for a while. Lots of good fantasy Metal out there. The Sword is another favorite of mine.

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Started running this, our first adventure for the newly minted master level heroes, Friday night. I’m really enjoying this Shadow of the Weird Wizard campaign. PCs are getting pretty powerful at this level, so I’ll be interested to see if I can really challenge them with this one.

Cover art for “Cry of the Red Wyrm” an adventure for the Shadow of the Weird Wizard tabletop RPG. There’s a dragon breathing fire down on heroes. It is being blocked by a shield, while an ornate longsword is being held by an armored warrior in the foreground.

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