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Dave Percival

@tetrapod.bsky.social
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He/Him. Former Carpenter, occasional gamer + writer, proud dad and husband, hockey nut, fumbling gardener, and home cooking nerd.

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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 5h
Idea for #traveller I've been toying with. Every session, I put two 6-sided dice, two 12-sided, two 16-sided, and two 24-sided dice in the centre of the table. Every time a player makes a roll that has some importance, they pick one of those dice to roll in addition to their normal 2d6 roll. 1/
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally got around to playing dispatch. I'm halfway through it, and really digging the interactive story format. I kind of want to have a "movie night" where I watch @lilcoppertop.bsky.social play it.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lol, I'm banned from making posts on Facebook; probably because I was calling out a local right wing nutjob running for political office. He didn't take kindly to my suggesting his hard drive be searched, and I think he sicced his followers on me, so I'm shadowbanned.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Friday night prep. Think this map is looking okay so far.
Map of a cave system, in the Islent system of Traveller.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A thing I've been noticing lately is that a lot of the food I buy has been repackaged slightly, showing a Canadian flag if it was made in Canada (even American brands, like coca cola!) I'm also seeing products you'd think were American showing flags of real country of origin (Germany, Italy, etc)
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Alexander the Fine @alexrineh.art · 24/09/2026
coming soon
Cover for Glorydays: A TTRPG by Alex Rinehart

A long haired teenager floats in an ethereal green pyramid of light up to a flying saucer above. A walkman and gameboy float nearby. It's the 90s, baby.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
With Halloween around the corner, it'll be interesting to see how many of my neighbors give out American brand candies versus the made in Canada types (such as coffee crisps, or Swedish berries). I live in a fairly right leaning riding; I wonder how many are "elbows up"
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Drawing up maps for my next traveller session, and I suddenly have an idea to draw a player facing map as a rail map. Has anyone ever drawn a subway map for a fictional city? Anyone provide me a link for inspiration?
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wellp. Kiddo has been back to school for a week, which means the head cold, congestion, and sore throat I have is ~right on time~
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can't believe he outlived Richard Bachman!
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of my players leant me his copy of travellers aliens of charted space volume 3, and behold! The greatest image ever created... This Bwap noble.
A sentient newt in medieval aristocratic clothing, clasping his hands together in a pondering way.  The next is smiling slightly.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Traveller session today. My players learned a hard lesson - just because someone names a price, doesn't mean they have to pay it. They'd already spent a quarter million in bribes, and now didn't have enough to pay the last guy. They made a deal, but now they can't afford gas, ha.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have a joke about Traveller, but it didn't survive the editing process.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Doctor Who comes back as an old man. He adopts two kids that he calls his "grandchildren". His TARDIS works for a bit, but then gets stuck into the form of a police call box. It's then that he realizes he's in a time loop, and he spends the next several seasons trying to break out of it.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My god, ive been finding the best memes today.
The super Canadian log driver, from that lovely classic, "the log drivers waltz", balancing gracefully like a ballerina atop a log.

Next to it, text says "why don't you come up here and just fucking try it".

Pride in our country and our traditions, and thinly veiled violence towards the Americans.  Quintessentially Canadian.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Whoever made this image is brilliant. And sick.
A shocked looking Kash Patel (ie, the only face he can make) is in the embrace of that weird dog pig bear fella from The Shining.  

Don't worry, though, Kash changed the rules about bestiality.  It's now fine for an FBI agent to have bestiality in his past, so Kash is fine.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Susanah Grace @susanahgrace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If I have to hear one more American whining about Canadians being mean to them again, I'm going to lose my mind.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Had a weird dream last night where I was the doorman at a Mafia run kitchen, and my BFF was the cook. He was cutting up people the mob had killed, and cooking them as Smashburgers, like a millennial Sweeney Todd. And I was upset that we were being ignored by the Michelin Guide.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the early days of the civil war, Confederate forces came across a hive of vampires, feasting on the corpse of an impossibly large moth with humanoid features.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I dropped Scout off at music lessons, and hangout at the library a block away. This is my official writing time this year. Work starts on the hobo rpg.....NOW.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My wife will buy me a book "that I think you'll love", put it on my TBR shelf, and then, when I'm not looking, quietly move it to HER to-be-read shelf.
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🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
People being all "Canada needs to get back to the table with the US now!", look: Not until after their midterms, for starters. And in the meantime, damn right, we should be improving our position on all fronts: The US simply isn't reliable anymore.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Woke up at 3 am with a lyric. Not sure if it's mine, or I heard it and forgot the source. The Body of Christ is a Body of Lies Cuz Nobody Cries When the Poor's in a Vice.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My daughter and I made a "bunk bed for cats" today. She painted it - with a half dozen rainbow colours & hand prints I told my wife it was as if it was painted by "A Gay Uruk Hai" I've since spent the evening saying "Meats back on the menu, boys" and cracking up each time
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A buddy of mine is running for town council, and just accidentally spelled his name wrong on the link to his website. Naturally, I'm giving him grief.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Not quite the same, but here's the Muppets explaining economics on Nightline. youtu.be/U3aIs1URP78?...
youtu.be
Black Monday October 19, 1987 Stock Market Crash - Ted Koppel Muppets Nightline Special Townhall
YouTube video by miamitab
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sketching out stuff for my hobo TTRPG, in particular the rules for "hobo magic". I also wrote down the rules for "weird mojo" magic, as well as the newest, most destructive type of magic in the 1930s - Stock Market Magic. Because CEOs = dark, unknowing sorcerers fits my mood perfectly.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some adventure ideas for my hobo game: PCs arrive in town. The head hobo there sold his soul to the devil to get his youth back. PCs have to track down the devil and trick him into reversing the deal, before the devil leaves on the midnight train.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spending the morning reading about cryptids. As one does. Anyone got a favourite they'd like to share with the class?
static.klipy.com
El Chupacabra: Baby Bat Revealed
Alt: El Chupacabra: Baby Bat Revealed
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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today my toddler threw a d6 at me. The first time she's ever rolled a die. She got a 4. Success with a complication.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kiddo has school again, so I have time to write once more. Hobo Game starts soon! Wonder if I can get the whole thing done in sub 80 pages?
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Was scouts first day of grade three today. She had a blast, came home super happy. For some reason, it reminded me of when she was in kindergarten. She's a totally different person than she was then. A weird moment of being both happy and sad. Parenthood is weird, y'all.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A rule I added to my traveller game is PCs can retire at any class A starport, and have a new player generated to join the crew. Two of my players are taking advantage of it, as they don't like how their characters are turning out.
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
dig through the TINKER and burn through the TAILOR and slam in the back of my SOLDIER SPY
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Two highlights from #Traveller today: DAVE: "okay, so the enemy ships approach. You scan them, and realize you're facing two hostile pinnaces." GROUP: *Snicker* ~later~ DAVE: "one of the pinnaces gets close, and it's loaded with Marines - it's gonna try to dock you!" GROUP: *snickers again*
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, something should really make a mash up of Twilight Imperium and Eclipse, but also make it a Legacy game. Political phases. Tech Trees. Upgrading ships so every faction has entirely different capabilities. Exploration. It'd be so fun. And would eat up literal days.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just finished our 13th traveller session - and this time, we had our very first starship battle. It was a little clunky as we all learned the rules, but was fun. The PCs far trader squared off against two 40 ton pinnaces, and blew them up readily - but not before suffering a NASTY crit.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A thing I love about Traveller is how easy it is to abbreviate stats so they don't take up space - especially if you use the areas of knowledge rules from Cluster Truck. I can have an NPC whose full stats (useable in gameplay!) be something like: Jack Cutter. 87946B. Blades-2.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I was making an NPC for my traveller game last night, using character creation rules. She was supposed to be a gender flipped version of Jayne Cobb. I have never rolled so well in my life. Her stats were amazing - on 2d6, her lowest (of 6 stats) was a 10. And she had two 12s.
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The Produce Stand Podcast 🍁A Letterkenny and Shoresy Aftershow @producestandpod.com · 03/09/2026
I know a great Shoresy companion podcast, if you're interested. :)
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Layne and I finished season one of Shoresie, which is basically "what if Ted Lasso, but hockey, and VERY Canadian? And also, Ted Lasso is kind of a jerk in this one". We loved it. It's so Canadian that I'm amazed anyone outside the country likes it, but apparently they do.
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Shoresy Says Hell Yeah Fuck Yeah
Alt: Shoresy Says Hell Yeah Fuck Yeah
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My daughter made dinner tonight - a sort of ragu carbonara dealio. I did all the prep and walked her through the steps, but things like salt, how much (non alcoholic) wine to add, tomato paste, etc were all her. It turned out great, and, for the first time in a while, she ate the veggies!
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Radiohead. My gf at the time and I decided to plan a big bday party for me, where we spent a few days at a cabin on salt Spring Island. On day one, I learned that Radiohead was playing Vancouver, and she said "yeah, I knew about that, but I thought I'd like this more so I didn't tell you".
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Putting together a list of playable alien species for my traveller campaign set in the Trojan Reach. Tempted to take a chainsaw to canon, and add a few Hiver worlds so I can have a bunch of the weirdos flitting about.
A weird, tentacly Hiver, fascinated with a can of soup that it holds in it's almost petal-like "hand".
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On a whim, I cracked out my copy of pente and played it w my daughter. She glommed into it, strongly, and actually beat me a few times (with me pointing out a few things). Now she wants to learn chess, and is looking at all the board games we have with wonder. Very cool.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#Traveller character creation idea I'm toying with. Players call their number of terms after they roll stats. They mention where their Homeworld is, and all PCs start in the same 5 or so systems (a cluster or main). 1/
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Update. Still hasn't gone away. I'm lying in bed, bored to tears, because I can't really move. It's not as bad as it was a few hours ago, but still very annoying. Getting old blows.
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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Woke up this morning to a Charlie horse... In my back. It's now seized up so bad that, two hours later, I'm still stuck in bed. Even moving the blankets to warm my feet triggers another cramp. Luckily my wife pampered me before she had to take Scout swimming, so I have supplies
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