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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

*record scratch* Excuse me what When your fight against the relentlessly imperialist culture-obliterating confederation of nations causes you to accidentally fall in with the fascists. (To her credit, Roxelana's is very 'uhhhh')

A scene from the Fire Emblem romhack 'Drums of War', wherein a dispossessed nobleman says 'Blood and soil, captain, these are our tenents.' to a shocked protagonist.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

1) Engaged in Union busting 2) Failed to catch someone blatantly lifting art from another artist in a card reprint. (Okay, this is MtG related, but also led to exposing how exploitative Universes Beyond art contracts are) 3) Doubled down on turning a TTRPG into a 'live service product'.

Image of a D&D fire giant with the article headline "Chris Cocks says it makes sense to move D&D to a 'live service model, but Hasbro will always make physical books.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Very cool that the West gets to see Korea's most renowned tactical RPG in at least some form after 30 years, but they are definitely making some localization choices for Genesis War.

Picture of a blue haired knight from the Korean tactical RPG Genesis War whose nameplate is displayed as 'Dycus Rockwood'.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm horrendous at being active here, but in a week we, the band that never wanted to leave their houses, leave the country to play a festival in Canada:

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Playing through a complete version of Dream of Five has been every bit as good as I expected, but still feels like a bit of a fever dream. I do get some amusement from the fact that if you take Ioan's old portrait with his new it looks like he's been through some shit since 2012 (relatable)

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Saw someone post this unironically and I can't believe I've been notching out Peace and Enlightenment for years now

A chart of gibberish, describing emotions associated with a particular frquency (e.g Anger at 150 hz). Please do not take this seriously.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Haven't posted much here on account of having way too many balls in the air right now, but the Owlbear tour starts in a week:

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Rolling up to my Lancer players with an opportunity for them to fight not just fascists, but fascists who believe in the divine right of kings, like:

A picture of Faramir from the Lord of the Rings films, taking place in Osgiliath, with the quote 'Tell him, Faramir sends a mighty gift."

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Ah shit, here we go again. (I'm painting these, not playing them.)

A photo of a box of Khorne Berzerkers, a sub faction of Chaos Space Marines in Warhammer 40,000, on a painting desk.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm sure this cover choice is totally innocuous and has nothing to do with the political leanings of half this band. Anyway, I am once again asking when we can stop pretending Exodus was good and bands can stop trying to remake Bonded by Blood

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

When 7 people ask you for a slot in your LANCER game, a system which can definitely not accommodate that many players.

A picture of the album cover of DJ Khaled's album 'Suffering from Success', featuring DJ Khaled, wearing furs and multiple pieces of gold jewelry, clutches his head and looks, eyes closed, to the ground.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Seems a good time to repost this. Stop with your ChatGPT Ghiblification nonsense, you clowns.

An image of famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki reacting in disgust to being shown an AI art workflow with the words 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Our custom dice arrived. They are enormous. This is glorious.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Woke up this morning, saw this, nearly spit my coffee out, and am still wondering if I am on Earth 7 like eight hours later.

Streaming statistics for the band 'Owlbear', showing 9,144 monthly listeners.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Fuck the government, we violently persevere. We'll see you in Denver in August if we have to basically enact the Owlbear version of the road trip plot from FF15 to make it work.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Just going to paste this here to cover my bases, but yeah, fuck every part of the US government, we can't risk traveling right now.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Guess I should finally talk about music here. New Owlbear single on the 21st. Rob Steinway of Greyhawk/Glyph guests and plays an absolutely incendiary solo on a song that already had too much lead guitar on it. Art by @jsolkusardi.bsky.social

The cover art for the heavy metal band Owlbear's new single 'Hawkriders of the Waste', depicting a knight in heavy armor, with a red plumed helmet, wielding a spear and riding atop a giant hawk, set against a dusky sepia sky.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This is the most invested I've been in anything the MBTA has done in a very long time and an exceedingly rare opportunity for this agency to actually bring joy.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In retrospect maybe we should have expected this to be the end result of three people who do not understand the concept of restrain being in a band together

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Plush owlbears the band went in on are a little bigger than anticipated. Here is my cat for scale.

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He Who Walks Behind the Riffs @swordwraith.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"How tired are you?" I've been laughing at the word Stump Beast for about two minutes straight. (Mierce is a great company though, no disparagement to them.)