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Feral Lands v0.5.14 playtesting continues! I think I'm on maybe the 7th or 8th entire overhaul of the combat, but the last 2 have actually been pretty engaging! The player were doing too well, so I think I'm nudging towards balancing territory. Onwards! #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign

screenshot from my notes of a playtest of the combat of feral lands v 0.5.14

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

playtesting for Feral Lands still simmering along on the front left burner, think I'm kiiiinda hitting a point of "no dead turns" which i really wanted. got a fun little pbta'ish structure going for all the moves #rpgdesign #rpg #ttrpg

a screenshot of my latest playtest from Feral Lands

my "MOVE!" action. all the actions in the game, you'll roll 4d6 to determine what you get and bonuses to pick

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BarnabusVTT coming along so well that I'm now running my own The One Ring 2E game in it. fully locked in to the idea that its "Miro but for RPGs and you host it yourself" gonna have a proper public release in the next few months once i've got all the wrinkles out

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Radagast the Brown as a patron for The One Ring 2E! #lotr #theonering #rpg wanted to have a crack. Just started my first campaign, it's a very ad-hoc schedule West Marches situation and really fancied a framing of the players fucking around in Mirkwood so Radagast seemed a natural choice!

Radagast the brown as a patron for the one ring 2e rpg

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

with basically 0 marketing (a handful of Reddit posts do count I guess hah) I just cracked £1k on my games on itch! 4 years of having games up, that's a lovely bit of beer money haha

A screenshot of my itch page showing I just cracked £1000

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

you can use the built in tool to align system grids to a maps baked in grids using a simple drag-and-count interface #rpg #ttrpg #vtt #webdev

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

fames are working nicely as a nice way to group content #ttrpg #webapps #vtt #rpg

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

nearly 2 years ago i prototyped my own #rpg #vtt - well, im back. I've re-thought some core rendering bits and re-architected others (tl;dr it uses @svelte.dev under the hood now) and i'm pretty damn happy with the performance! tl;dr thus far it blows other VTTs out of the water #ttrpg #webdev

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

my free video editor that has a fraction of the features of canva/capcut/etc. but isn't actively morally evil now has a home on itch tmcgry.itch.io/gerty-video-... so you have a place to demand features and such

tmcgry.itch.io

Gerty Video Editor by Tom G

A simple free video editor

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

maybe i've cracked the trick to doing combat tactics system: trick the players into playing a pbta-based spatial mini game i've ran some playtests for myself and we're at 3.5/5 fun and it works. more fine tuning! coming v. soon to FERAL LANDS! 🎲⚔️ tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign

the melee combat actions for Feral Lands

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

todays play testing: The Vampire, The Guardsman and The Detective fight off a zombie swarm - what if multiple people could be in the same tile at the same time - had a fun idea for armour - more dice = more fun - realised im taking inspo from warhammer #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign

showing some playtesting that im doing for feral lands combat system

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

big dawg out here accidentally making incredible Blades in the Dark / Darkest Dungeon artwork

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Rodriguez @pissb0y.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Timelapse as always

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Rodriguez @pissb0y.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A Dagger a Dagger please fetch me a Dagger 🗡️ (Gerard Way bloodied and vanilla editions)

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ran 3 more combat scenarios last night for myself, came to the conclusion the combat system is functional but A) doesn't hit the design goal I wanted B) is maybe like 2/5 fun Back to the blank void of the drawing room.

A photo of man in despair which is what I am

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Can't stand working on something and my brain is all "WHAT IF [NOUN] WHO ARE [VERB] IN [NOUN]" without warning, god damn self inflicted memetic flashbangs

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

ran my own little one man playtest tonight. lovely stuff! everything is broken and combat felt weird and stale! but _it worked_, and now i can make it feel not weird and stale before anyone else has to suffer it!

a screenshot from miro where i ran a mini playtest with myself

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands/... I'm absolutely cooking with Feral Lands ATM, feels good. Bottom left burner full send, you get it You should have a look! It's like forbidden lands but tooled up a bit! Plus a new chaotic combat system! #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign #forbiddenlands

tmcgry.itch.io

Feral Lands v0.59

Wassup big dogs, another update here tidied up hp and ar, how it gets its initial values and "bloodied" and stuff replaced "leverage" with "vice", this needs expanding but you get the idea renamed an....

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

im writing Feral Lands to prove to all my friends who think that i only like super rules-lite #pbta stuff that i actually do think rules are good and cool "well could a forged in the dark fanboy do this" - me in real life #rpg #bitd #ttrpg #roleplayinggames

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

i was toying with having the intro splash for Feral Lands be an in speech, but sorta liking this almost "no nonense, why do we pretend games are grandiose" tightrope i've landed on tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands

potential first page for my rpg FERAL LANDS which says

Feral Lands

A Tabletop Role Playing Game
of the
Open-World-y, Sandbox-y, Survival-y Game
variety, wherein PCs are
Reluctant Swords-for-Hire
in a
Low-Fantasy Euro-Medieval World

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

reckon i've cracked this 10 minute dungeon turn malarky #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign #gamedesign #osr

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I just know theres a certain kind of player whos gonna be irreperably angry by failing a check cus their character ran out of rations; thats who this game is for tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands #rpg #ttrpg #roleplayinggame #gamedesign

rules for hunger, thirst, bleeding and disease in Feral Lands

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

even if it never really sees the light of day, nevermind gain any traction, im having fun making shitposts of short videos to post to tiktok about my games #rpg #ttrpg

a screenshot from me editing a video to put together to post to tiktok

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

(please forgive the fact that I'm intolerably bad at recording myself) tl;dr my video editor has a name now, & got some more features and is sort of slowly-but-surely becoming a real thing tl;dr++ what it lacks in features, it makes up for in not being dogshit #webdev #programming #videoeditors

youtube.com

Gerty v1 - Product Demo

YouTube video by Tom Gray

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

i mainly do RPG and code stuff here on blue sky but I've been toying with and posting guitar stuff on tiktok. It's fun! [ Garth voice ] I like to play #guitar #guitarplaying #bluesguitar

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

what the f**k is happening lol this isn't even a released game, its just some ashcan release WIP pdfs #rpg #ttrpg #itchio

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

wanting to get into a rhythm of posting guitar videos online, so wanted a little editor to make them snazzy... but every video editor out there is super paywalled, or full of ai dogshit, or watermarked, or blah blah blah. they're all rubbish basically. so, in classic me fashion, im making my own

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

so i got a crazy bump in views on my itch.io specifically for Weird Weird West over the weekend, want to learn more... they're all from google? what the _fuck_ does that mean? what do i possibly gleam from this??? #rpg #itchio #ttrpg #weirdweirdwest #tabletop

a view graph showing that i usually get around 30 views a day but then it jumped to 300 on friday

but all the views came from google. what does that mean?!

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

likely playing some IRL #bladesinthedark soon so making, printing, and laminating some clocks that i can physically throw at people #bitd #ttrpg #laminationstation

made, printed and laminated some clocks for Blades in the Dark

made, printed and laminated some clocks for Blades in the Dark

one is labelled "MORE BULLSHIT", which is an important clock to have in blades

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today's was brutal; FLAG SHAGGR — Daily #3 🟨🟧🟨🟨🟥 260 / 500 flagshaggr.tomg.cool Those blues were brutal

flagshaggr.tomg.cool

FLAGSHAGGR

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I made a daft little flag colour guessing game flagshaggr.tomg.cool Couple of friends told me to make the name more sfw but unfortunately the name is non negotiable #game #flags #vexillology #flagshaggr

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Final session of the forbidden lands campaign went down a treat #rpg #ttrpg #forbiddenlands

The player characters break into a siege while an ABYSS WORM attacks

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Doing my chaos beast men as crusty white dogs in honour of my own crusty white dog #warhammer #killteam #minipainting #crustywhitedog #dogswithhorriblehumanfaces

A fellgor ravager like a crusty white dog

Another fellgor ravager as a crusty white dog

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

can't work on warhammer stuff atm so work continues on FERAL LANDS reasons to NOT use the combat system, cus sometimes, getting stuff out is just a right pain innit #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign #osr

example text from my wip rpg "FERAL LANDS" that discusses reasons to NOT use the combat system

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

More adventures in deliberately constrained and limited mini painting via using ONLY cheap Amazon acrylic pens (ok ok a bit of random flock I had too) This time: some purple space mens #warhammer #minpainting #killteam #spacemarines

Some purple space marines coloured in with acrylic markers

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

bought myself hours of labour while i was on holiday. shoutout of the Porthmadog Model Shop! #waroftheworlds

A "Pegasus Hobbies" War of the Worlds hobby model diorama kit

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

the combination of an FDM printer and a load of cheap acrylic pens. it's by no means the best quality but it's faaaaast and eaaaaaasy and table ready in no time. quick easy terrain ftw #warhammer #killteam #terrain #tyranid #3dprinting

FDM printer Tyranid terrain, coloured in with justart acrylic pens

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Took the TROLL KOMMANDOS out for a spin in a little 2v2 to intro some mates to killteam. good laugh. we got thrashed by space marines. so it goes. waaaagh etc #warhammer #killteam #wargaming

5 of my troll kommandos ready to main some smurfs

we're getting into position, things are going relatively well...

well, we got killed. but! said friends had a good intro to the game and really enjoyed it, so its all worth it

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

a combination of 3d prints and lots of kit bashing, proud to present my TROLL KOMMANDOS #killteam #warhammer #orks #trolls #minipainting Really really proud of these, my first proper table ready minis since I was like 14 lmao (I'm old now)

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

my hand looks like this // so his car look like this

My thumbnail covered in bits of acrylic paint

2 of my badly painted not finished Warhammer models

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Just feels like every material representation of masculinity for 12 year old boys, all crammed into a tiny digital space that will fit your screen. So farcical that I don't know how anyone working on or watching this production doesn't feel like their intelligence is being insulted.

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

can't recommend the DEAD BY DAYLIGHT board game enough. i love it bigly. - fun bluffing mechanics without falling into the cludge of being a lying game - feels really balanced - does a great job of feeling like the videogame #deadbydaylight #boardgames

a photo of me and friends playing the DEAD BY DAYLIGHT board game

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

i, a lowly computer programmer who doesn't have an ounce of artistic fibre in his body, am still inordinately proud of the art/graphics/layout I did for Weird Weird West tmcgry.itch.io/weird-weird-... #ttrpg #art #design #layout #rpg

art for weird weird west rpg - photograph from 1800s of men standing and sitting outside a building, edited in photoshop

art for weird weird west rpg - photograph from 1800s a family outside a house, edited in photoshop, with a spark table on top

art for weird weird west rpg - photograph from 1800s of items in a shop, edited in photoshop, to be a splash page in a game

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

work continues on the forbidden lands hack, thiiiiink i've got a fun new combat system clocked out, tl;dr what if hurting the monster was really hard unless you put yourself in danger a lot? follow it as tmcgry.itch.io/feral-lands to keep up with it! #rpg #ttrpg #rpgdesign #osr

front cover for "Feral Lands", the rpg im working on

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

who needs a dedicated hobby space when you have a dining room table and a penchant for eating your tea by balancing a plate on your knees on the sofa #warhammer #minipainting

My dining room table covered in Warhammer stuff

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

done a variety of horrible little mens. had the models lying around for aaaaages, dno what they're even from, like a magazine or something? done some orange, some sickly greens and greys and purples, one dude in a nice jacket from sainsburys tu (probably)

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Tombola @tombola.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I do be flocking (and dry brushing and a quick wash) #warhammer #frostgrave #terrain #3dPrinting

A photo of some plastic terrain that I've painted and flocked

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