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Tim Hutchings

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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every time I get a big PDF bundle through DTRPG its becomes a pain in the ass. I'm trying to download a big batch of stuff but it wants me to log in, but I'm logged in, but blah blah blah.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm sending another newsletter out tomorrow. Two in one week! Almost unheard of.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh, this looks exciting
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wun...
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Mars Watch | PBTA space military + survival horror
An almost tenth-anniversary second edition of award-winning RPG The Watch by Ash Kreider, with a new setting and playbook
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Leo Andrade @wizleo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Último dia para apoiar O Vampiro de Mil Anos (de @timhutchings.bsky.social )no Catarse! Junte-se a 580 outros apoiadores para garantir a sua cópia do journaling TTRPG mais premiado de todos os tempos! #TTRPG #RPGdemesa #vampiro #journaling #catarse #rpgbrasil www.catarse.com.br/mil_anos?ref...
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O Vampiro de Mil Anos
Viva como um vampiro por séculos, precisando abrir mão da sua memória e lidar com as consequências da imortalidade!
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Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We had a BLAST at RPG Night on Wednesday! Thank you to everyone who joined us from various RSOs on campus and CMU's own actual play show, Dungeons and Dormrats! Thanks also to our GMs, Gabby and Andrew, for creating an awesome experience for everyone. See you for our next event on September 25th!
A person sits with a journal, a book, and a deck of tarot cards at a table. They write in the journal. Four people sit around a table, midway through a game. One person with a long brown braid sits with their back to the camera. To their left are two people leaning on the table and smiling. To their left is a person sitting back. On the table are phones, pieces of paper, and pencils.Three people are sitting at a table. The person to the farthest right is at the head of the table and sits behind a wooden screen with dragons etched onto it. A computer sits behind the screen. On either side of the screen, on the opposite side, are two other people. Five people sit around a table. The one closest to the right and the camera sits with their back to the camera. They have a camera and a screen up in front of them. The rest of the players are seated around a rectangular table. Each person has a piece of paper or two in front of them, plus some writing utensils.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Quiet Year is one of the best and most accessible ttrpg-like games I've ever played. If you haven't tried it you should buy a copy now.
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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
As the rules say: "The phrase 'I don't know what I'm looking at' indicates that the game is working as intended." 😆 I cannot wait to hack this for language learning, haha. Well done @timhutchings.bsky.social ! Find it here: thousandyearoldvampire.com/products/a-s...
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A Sargasso Sea of Space (a party card game)
“Uh oh!  We are stranded in a messy SARGASSO SEA OF SPACE and our noble spaceship is all banged to heck. Like, broke forever. Kaput.  Let’s hurry and improvise some smaller and, we’re sure, perfectly ...
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I find The Peanut Vendor by Moisés Simons and Blue Skies by Irving Berlin to be unsettling. Not quite spooky but something else. Some recordings affect me more than others. What are other songs that might fit that same category? What music-thing do these two songs have in common, if any?
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The Peanut Vendor Complete Director's Cut - Len Lye (1933)
YouTube video by optimisticwombatninja08
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Spooky McSpookyface the Third 9th of Her Name, Lass of Terror. @lulz.network · 15/08/2026
There you have it.
so, (barely) reading between the lines of what Twitch's staff said:

1) they were forced by Amazon to add the AI training setting and to make it opt-out, because the overlords know perfectly well there's no reason anyone would ever opt-in

2) the actual Twitch staff who run Twitch do not like this and are of the same mind about it as all of you

3) Taking the time to opt-out, even if you don't really stream, gives them data to take to meetings with their overlords to prove that Twitch users dislike AI and pushing it too hard will drive people from the site. 

Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI
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The Clinton Street Theater @cstpdx.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Arenas and data centers use the same playbook: Pressure local governments to give them billions in subsidies and lower regulations over the threat of going elsewhere. We're told it's best to let them make as much money as humanly possible because scraps for a few here are better than nothing.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So You've Met A hand printed upside down and backwards
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
And upside down image reading SO YOU'VE MET in large, handwritten print.
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Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Just purchased my spot in hell
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm stupidly excited for this.
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Octo @octodontidae.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Raised as an orphan in 15th century London she got turned by a rich noblewoman who kept her as a handmaiden. She had to kill the only childhood friend she had. Mary later traveled to France and met a vampire who taught her to turn into a bat.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Proud to be the 304th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Blue Way: A Game of Lost Stories! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
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The Blue Way: A Game of Lost Stories
The Blue Way is a game of lost stories, colonialism, and its cultural aftermath from Jason Morningstar and Central Michigan University Press.
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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I love seeing solo RPG events likes this one, and I wrote about my own experience earlier this year for The Soloist. I also like to see The Balsam Lake Unmurders getting some love!
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Playing Alone Together
My essay in The Soloist, plus the social dyanamics of solo RPGs.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is the first time I've seen a real sticker on the front of a copy of Thousand Year Old Vampire.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I haven't done one of these in a long while: I solved the daily #CluesBySam, May 11th 2026 (Easy), in 03:11 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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Leisure Games @leisuregames.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Who would you rather fight - 60 Thousand Year Old Vampires or 60,000 One Year Old Vampires? @timhutchings.bsky.social
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story. If you didn't read it already, read it. Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
oh oh oh, one of my favorite game makers ever has a thing you can sign up for!
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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 18/03/2026
I think this is gonna be the cover for the “zine” game that accidentally turned into 20+ pages
Potential cover for The Wild Vengeance of Witches. Text in black letter and a vintage illustration of a witch with a cauldron
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This explanation of the game's intentions is buried in the Saving Throw section of the AD&D DMG. Check the alt text for easier to read version.
As has been often pointed out, AD&D is a game wherein participants create personae and operate them in the milieu created and designed, in whole or in part, by the Dungeon Master and shared by all, including the DM, in imagination and enthusiasm. The central theme of this game is the interaction of these personae, whether those of the players or those of the DM, with the milieu, including that part represented by the characters and creatures personified by the DM. This interaction results in adventures and deeds of daring. The heroic fantasy which results is a blend of the dramatic and the comic, the foolish and the brave, stirring excitement and grinding boredom. It is a game in which the continuing epic is the most meaningful portion. It becomes an entity in which at least some of the characters seem to be able to survive for an indefinite time, and characters who have shorter spans of existence are linked one to the other by blood or purpose.
These personae put up with the frustrations, the setbacks, and the tragedies because they aim for and can reasonably expect to achieve adventure, challenge, wealth, glory and more. If player characters are not of the same stamp as Conan, they also appreciate that they are in effect writing their own adventures and creating their own legends, not merely reliving those of someone else's creation.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Image from students in a TTRPG class I was teaching. Students made me an NPC in their Wanderhome game.
scratchy drawing of a snake with character sheet type info
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Andy Pressman @andypressman.itch.io · 18/02/2026
Extraordinary
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🅳🅴🅰🅳🅻🆈 🅵🆁🅴🅳🅻🆈 @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is a good perspective on the orders of magnitude in the TTRPG publishing industry, and by and large positions us correctly at the bottom-most named tier (while acknowledging that there's a broad swath of indie designers further down). cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2026/02/11/f...
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Five Tiers of RPG Publishing
Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earn…
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk
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Slow Walk by Six of Hounds
Cute animals sabotage a mousetrap factory. A serious larp.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Yeah, let game designers know when you are using their stuff in your classes.
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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
If you are an academic interested in using our games for teaching and learning, know that we love to see it! Case in point, Willian Amboni Scheffer. a Professor at UNIGUAÇU in São Miguel do Iguaçu, has written a paper on his use of #FiascoRPG as part of the contract law curriculum.
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jerome i guess. @jeromecylin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Happy Weekend! My tiny Over the Garden Wall adventure game has hit 10k plays on itch.io🎉! It's FREE to play juliaminamata.itch.io/otgw -- A nice way to spend a cozy half hour or so indoors. ❄️ There's also a walkthrough, no worries about getting stuck!
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The Round-about Orchard: A tiny Over the Garden Wall game by JuliaMinamata
A two-room adventure game that takes about fifteen minutes to play
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22/01/2026
the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
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Lauren Bryant-Monk @starvingsoubrette.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
cyclical ttrpg discourse is important not only because it brings new voices and ideas into old conversations but also because it allows everyone who has participated before to feel like a grizzled old veteran of being a ttrpg person on the internet
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repeteme.bsky.social @repeteme.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We have to acknowledge private equity practices as detrimental to the nation and outlaw the way they operate.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
As a composer of choral pieces for tardy cats I often sit frustrated, waiting for my muse.
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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
ANNOUNCING MY WINTER ANTI-SALE for the next few weeks, itch.io is doing its winter sale, where devs who cut their game prices get promoted. but my games are all already underpriced, so i'm jacking up the prices by 50% instead. ho ho ho happy holidays
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Winter Anti-Sale 2025 by Anna Anthropy
A bundle by Anna Anthropy, $40.50 for 10 games
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I absolutely love this game format.
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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 04/12/2025
Sometimes games exist to break down barriers between rules and play. Apollo 47 by @timhutchings.bsky.social makes rules feel like a tennis net rather than a fence.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
These "playable" bookmarks are for sale on thousandyearoldvampire.com and I think my own set is getting delivered today.
front and back of a game bookmark
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Their policy position is "I should be able to take whatever I want, tell whatever story I want about it and be believed, and consign all my critics to silence, prison, and death." That's *what* they believe, as expressed through statements and action. We need them as far from power as possible!
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This makes me a lot more interested in using KS next time around.
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jenn martin is not trying so hard @tenpenjenn.com · 02/11/2025
If you donate food/money/time to a food bank or to help folks who didn't get SNAP benefits, I want to mail you a print copy of my goose game! DM me your address and what you donated (I don't need receipts) and the goose will be on its way! International is ok! I have a dozen to send out! HONK
A picture of multiple copies of the tabletop RPG game The Goose of Grillner Grove. The game is printed as a tri-fold brochure, with one inner flap showing a picture of a Canada goose and a speech bubble that says "HONK".
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Karen Twelves @ktwelves.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Some larps to play tonight by @timhutchings.bsky.social and Jay Treat! timhutchings.itch.io/halloween?sy... www.goldencobra.org/pdf/2015/Hal...
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Fights in Tight Spaces is one of my favorite computer games. I could not get into Knights in Tight Spaces. It feels wrong in a way that didn't soften with time. The Far Sails sequel was the same. It just never had the same feeling of quality as the first game, controls felt wrong.
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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I read bad. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in 04:55 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 13/10/2025
Old Morris Cave is great for letting your mind wander through history #ttrpgs #ttrpg
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