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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Enjoying a day in ATL before the big day. If I’m unlucky you’ll see me on stream.

Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

9/11 is one of my earliest memories; I don’t really remember before 9/11 but I remember how everything felt different after. What does that make me?

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Weirdly some TTRPG actual plays do this for me. They have to be heavy on the editing, but Worlds Beyond Number is my go to example of an Actual Play that feels like a long form audio drama.

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UniVersus CCG @universusccg.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

That’s a wrap on day 1 of the Chicago Round 1 Regional! The take over is just beginning, make sure to stay tuned tomorrow morning for more content and the main event👀 Let us know which character you think will become the next regional champion! #UniVersusR1 #UniVersus #Chicago

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Took home the win at the Mighty Meeple Round 1 Local Championship. Looks like I’m headed to the UniVersus World Championship!

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Still early into Round 1 of Local Championships, but the meta seems to pretty “open”. Just have a plan to handle those top dogs.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Time to get on my competitive grind set.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Don’t forget their cheese pizza, it magically turns all other cheese pizzas into Plain Pizzas.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Had a great time tonight at a Jesse Welles concert. Opened with a great little ditty on current events.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Does anyone else start their work day with about thirty minutes of staring at spreadsheets, fantasizing about living in the woods before the coffee kicks in?

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I thought on this more during a work day full of meetings, and the Year Zero Engine (Forbidden Lands & Twilight 2k) are also examples. Dice Pool systems that has damage scale with number of successes rolled. TW2K also has weapons that can score multi-hits to add to the variable damage of 1 roll.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

One could make an argument that PF2E does this by rolling a 10+ over the Target Number you critically hit.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I have only used an AI search engine once, to find a re-stream of an out of network NFL game, it was oddly better at that then google, but not by much, after the 3rd result it was roughly the same stuff as google.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This would probably be my path in life if the dying part didn’t upset my wife.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Looks like I know what my travel plans are for 2026.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Nothing feels better than having your opponent repeatedly pick up your cards to read them because they’ve never seen them before.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Gun literacy has ruined most movies and TV shows for me.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

So, I need to buy some new shoes…

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Isn’t this just how they say AGI will be created?

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Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerwizard.co.uk · 14/08/2025

If I hear 'style over substance' one more time to describe Mörk Borg I'm going to scream. For the last time - the style IS the substance. You cannot separate them. That's what you're buying! You're buying an absolutely immaculately constructed VIBE.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Got back into UVS (formerly UFS), and it feels good to be slinging cardboard again.

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Chase Wassenar @chasewassenar.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We really went above and beyond after having to miss a week because COVID is the worst. One of my favorite episodes we've recorded recently!

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The teeth add so much character to the little guy.

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Ripley 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerwizard.co.uk · 31/07/2025

my only unhinged TTRPG opinion is that I think using the term 'math rocks' makes you sound like a four year old

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Molly @mollcap.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

went outside for a minute

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Death treats? You mean naps.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Of course! No malice perceived, and as much as I loved B/X I’ve hacked at it just as much (Always gotta use GLOG spell-casting) to get the system to align with my setting and the stories/gameplay I want to engage with.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

That does feel a consolation prize; I tend to like to use EXP to incentivize player behavior. So, it’ll likely be something I hack at some point.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I know I was just ragging on grid based combat TTRPGs, but when I am in the mood for that 4E is where it is at. I think someone tried to blend OSR and 4e, but I never had the table bandwidth to try it out: tundalus.itch.io/trespasser

tundalus.itch.io

Trespasser by tundalus

A d20 fantasy game of base building, survival, and perilous tactical combat.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

As a short aside, I’ll be hacking apart DW anyway as the fiction first is what appeals to me. I tend to get rid of any +X bonuses because they’re boring. Who remembers when Weapon Focus saved the day in 3.5? Nobody, but we pretty much all took it.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This might be my roots from D&D and OSR taking hold, but failing forward (7-9 result I assume), is just success with a cost, right? I don’t see the issue with that, even more so when 6- being a hard fail or worse. That being said lots of +1s can make it so you’re always “succeeding”.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

As for consequences, I already find myself doing this in modern TTRPGs and OSR games (especially OSR), where I need to decide the consequences of a failed roll; and if I can’t think of one, why are we rolling dice?

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Another example; It’s nice to know that if I want the different schools of magic to have unique smells, that I can let the Wizard decide illusion spells smell like spoiled milk (Once you know they’re an illusion of course).

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

For example, one of my players is an Beastman, and there is lore around their race but when it comes to specific details of their type of animal, I let them color away, with the right to veto. I think it helps that I trust my players to provide details that are consistent with the themes & tones.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This is very understandable, and maybe I’m not fully embracing the DW vision, but I don’t give my players full narrative control. I give them the outline and let them color within the lines.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

That seems to be a very common take; people either love them or hate them. I just find that the heavy emphasis on grid based combat in D&D and Pathfinder takes away heavily from the role playing game aspect for me. However, I am curious what gave you a bad experience so that I can avoid it.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Really? It doesn’t seem that bad; granted I have a habit of hacking any system I touch to fit the setting so the classes have already been thrown out and overhauled before our first session.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This is why my next campaign is being run using Dungeon World.

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NIKKI Baby 🍫♊️💜 @becauseofnikki.blacksky.app · 12/07/2025

This looks like so much harmful fun! 😂

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Damn, that sounds a bit extreme hope it all holds together till Tuesday.

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

As someone without piercings can you provide context on why this is problematic beyond aesthetics. Does it hurt for the ball to be out?

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aaron. @ayroned.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

once we let the man up the price of the beefy 5 layer from 89¢ to $4 we shoulda knew they didn’t respect the working folk. the french woulda burned some shit down

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Luke Butler @yoboldope.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

You can be “subtle” with this as well. In my setting there are humans and Animal-folk. Or if you’re feeling racist you can call them Beastmen. It’s an easy way to signal that an NPC is a “villain” to my players.

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