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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 48m

If you ever wondered why there hasn’t been more TTRPGs for Arthurian adventures in the 50+ years of our hobby, it’s because this came out and nobody could do better than Greg Stafford!

Mark Morrison @markmwrites.bsky.social · 1h

To horse! Pendragon Classic is live on Kickstarter. This is a full and faithful reprint of the 1st edition of this magnificent game, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its original publication. Just looking at the cover makes me want to go questing.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

Pendragon: Classic Edition

Bringing the iconic Pendragon 1st Edition collection back to life!

www.kickstarter.com

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Mark Morrison @markmwrites.bsky.social · 1h

To horse! Pendragon Classic is live on Kickstarter. This is a full and faithful reprint of the 1st edition of this magnificent game, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its original publication. Just looking at the cover makes me want to go questing.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

Pendragon: Classic Edition

Bringing the iconic Pendragon 1st Edition collection back to life!

www.kickstarter.com

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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 4h

ALIEN! You know! For kids!!!!

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 10h

Rob Wieland was a hobby ambassador, a game designer and a family man.

Let’s do what Rob would have wanted us to, and help out his family. Please pitch in.

Share the link if you can.

Donate to Family of Robert Wieland, organized by Vickie ONeill

Friends of Robert Wieland have requested that we set up goFundMe page for the benefit of his f… Vickie ONeill needs your support for Family of Robert Wieland

www.gofundme.com

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 3h

Heh yeah

Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 6h

Yay, I updated to the new iOS 26! Now my devices are 20% uglier and less readable, and push notifications don’t work anymore! Good job, Apple.

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 18h

Jennell’s art for “Cults of Terror” is firmly in my top 3 favourite covers for any RuneQuest or Glorantha book. Love it.

Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the birthday one of the most talented creators in TTRPGs, Jennell Jaquays, who passed away last year. Jennell was one of our company's earliest artists, and played an prominent role in Chaosium's success over many years, as an illustrator and writer.

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Ossi Hiekkala @ossihiekkala.bsky.social · 18h

RIP Drew Struzan. Masters like him are now an extinct species. The whole movie poster art form is dead.

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the birthday one of the most talented creators in TTRPGs, Jennell Jaquays, who passed away last year. Jennell was one of our company's earliest artists, and played an prominent role in Chaosium's success over many years, as an illustrator and writer.

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 21h

Oh right, although that was a bit before all the sexual assault allegations came to public light I think (even though it was apparently an open secret inside the industry... IIRC the director of Chronicle had to ban Landis from the set... I mean, WTF)

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 1d

What is Kirkman working on with Landis?

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 1d

Want a method to prep exciting #TTRPG One Shots? You need something as easy as 1-2-3; check out Three Step Prep
burnafterrunningrpg.com/2025/10/14/t...

Three Step Prep – my new method

I’m always looking for ways to approach my game prep that results in great gaming experiences that are fun for my players – and, importantly, easy for me at the table. I’ve used a few methods…

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Small penis?

Have I got

a car for you.

If you're going to overcompensate, then by all means, overcompensate. Loaded '89 911 Carrera 4. Call (312) 552-1676. Ask for Tiny. JOE'S PORSCHE

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 1d

“The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe”: this article is not only very good, it also has at least one extremely quotable line in every fucking paragraph. Amazing work.

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 1d

How did you know?!

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 1d

We have so many internal codenames for various projects at work that, for fun, I invented two new semi-fake codenames and started using them in status updates. Now waiting to see if anybody asks what these are…

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 2d

Oh yeah I remember that too — it was sitting in my very first “RPG PDFs” folder along with Fudge

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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 2d

Now on delta-green.com for paid members only, an excerpt from the upcoming DELTA GREEN: OPERATIONAL HISTORY !928-1960 — a deep-dive catalog of Delta Green operations all the way back to the horrors of Innsmouth!

Join for as little $6 to gain access to hundreds of PDFs, monsters, spells and more!

OPERATIONAL HISTORY: HORRORS, SURREAL AND SECRET

WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE

www.delta-green.com

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 2d

FUDGE and Amber Diceless Roleplaying

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 3d

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 3d

"Autodesk acquires Blender Foundation"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Coman Fullard @comanfullard.bsky.social · 3d

So very #UnknownArmies

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Ludovic Chabant @ludovic.chabant.com · 3d

Holy shit I just learned Tim Curry is stuck in a wheelchair since 2012? And he doesn’t have enough insurance coverage to address it? WTF, the USA is a fucked up place

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d

Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop

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