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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID)

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Robot tweeting #ScienceFiction #Games/ #TTRPG #Zines gubbins for @LostDiarist (he/him). Made in Manchester. #BackToTheSpaceport zine. Once & Forever A&E-er. “Just zis guy, you know?” Zine Home: https://www.backtothespaceport.com

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · Dec 16

I will go to my grave thinking that #StarTrekPicard should have been entirely focused on Picard & Q hanging out in France & eating, drinking, & bickering—sort of like #StarTrek: #TheTrip. Boom! 10 seasons, guaranteed, mon capitaine!

Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon, exchange glances while out walking in the country.

Jean-Luc Picard & Q exchange glances inside a luxurious manor.

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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone at Big Finish was very sad to hear of the passing of actor Nabil Shaban. Our deepest condolences go out to his friends and family.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 6h

Quite.

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, joy … lots of overt homophobia & (so far, implicit) racism. 😐

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Etaru @etaru-to-you.bsky.social · 15d

Maidens of the Spear

Chiad and Bain from the Wheel of Time (Amazon series). These were a 2-month, 2-person effort to bring to life. Erin handled all fabric parts, I made all leathers and weapons (with 3d print help). I couldn't be more proud 🧡
📸 @infinityspiral.bsky.social

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 21h

It’s post a random TV show GIF or vid time!

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 22h

I am about 50 pages into this Horseclans novel. I think (only THINK, mind) I can see how it might make for an interesting GURPS/ TTRPG setting. I don’t think I will be reading many more of the actual novels, unfortunately.

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

#NowReading a Horseclans book by Robert Adams, because I remember the GURPS book &—boy, howdy! I am struggling …

… Some interesting & helpful commentary over at “Daddy Rolled a 1”:
daddyrolleda1.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-...

The Horseclans Series

A blog about a dad raising a geek girl. D&D, RPGs, comics, Star Wars, science fiction, fantasy, board games.

daddyrolleda1.blogspot.com

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Intrigued by the premise of clockpunk roleplaying in Da Vinci’s Florence? Owner of Gran Meccanismo without ever having run it?

Why not take a look at my newly published scenario: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. The SF Encyclopedia entry is also helpful for giving a sense or roadmap of what one might expect:

sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/adams_...

SFE: Adams, Robert

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

sf-encyclopedia.com

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 3d

To be honest, I saw that there’s a book in the series titled “Woman of the Horseclans” & I am here for the idea of post-apocalyptic new dark age horse-riding, bow-wielding Amazonians. (You know? Like “Classical” Amazonians?)

Vintage cover of Robert Adams’s novel, “A Woman of the Horseclans” with a fully armoured woman horserider, astride her rearing horse and waving a sword in the air. Next to them is a big sabre-toothed cat. Based on the cover, she is living her best life.

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Casey G. 🦖🦕🚀👽 @caseyg.bsky.social · 8d

Rangers of Shadowdeep but it's the Odyssey?

Yes, please.

Osprey Games ➡️ Essen SPIEL 3.M600 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 8d

📜📜 Announcing WARRIORS OF ATHENA, the new miniatures wargame from Joseph A. McCullough...

⚡ Enter the realms of Greek myth. Play solo, cooperatively – or with one player scripting scenarios as Oracle.

Releasing in two books, Heroes & Quests, Feb '26: https://bit.ly/4n2x8ob

The cover of Warriors of Athena: Heroes, with art depicting a hero in bronze armour, a tunic, horsehair-crested helmet and cloak, leaping through the air with a spear towards a roaring cyclops surrounding by circling birds

The cover of Warriors of Athena: Quests, with art depicting two Greek heroes at the prow of a trireme as they sail through a lake of dead spirits in the water and air above them

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

The Horseclans Series

A blog about a dad raising a geek girl. D&D, RPGs, comics, Star Wars, science fiction, fantasy, board games.

daddyrolleda1.blogspot.com

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

Ah! I wonder whom I was remembering …

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

You had a Dragon didn’t you? I think the fellas behind Woodbury End and Pettigrew’s Diary got their start programming for that machine …

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

All available for free as PDFs but I have to say that I am sorely tempted by the POD versions …

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

And today’s quite-by-chance-discovery is the bookazine, The Classic Adventurer. One for fans of “Twisty Little Passages,” and 8-bit & 16-bit text adventures AKA “interactive fiction.”

classicadventurer.co.uk

Classic Adventurer cover spread showing a “redo” of the cover of The Hobbit text adventure. Smaug takes flight!

Classic Adventurer cover spread showing a “reworking” of the social-climbing text adventure, Hampstead—two Afghan hounds lounge on a living room sofa, in an elegant and minimally decorated living room with hardwood floors and a rug. Two white running shoes are discarded on the rug. An arched window reveals an elegantly manicured edge, and a black car that looks like a 1930s model.

Classic Adventurer civer speead with a reworking of creepy, Wyndham-esque , alien invasion SF text adventure: a village green, a bench, a sign saying Woodbury End. In the background, there are quaint village buildings including the village hall, and a fairground from which a several balloons rise.

Classic Adventurer cover which seems to show the reworking of a Sherlock Holmes game—sorry! I don’t know this one well. Several Victorian people in a collage effect with chap with deerstalker and pipe in the foreground.

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

“Dodgy Geezers” was, of course, the title of the third in the Lever & Jones sequence of satirical text adventures, “back in the day.”

www.everygamegoing.com/larticle/Dod...

Everygamegoing – Explore Millions of Retro Games, Screenshots & Memorabilia

Shop and explore classic games across all retro formats. Discover screenshots, memorabilia and more.

www.everygamegoing.com

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

"Nice Little Earners"?

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

Oof. Liking the look of "The Great North" by "Noisms." (💸💸) monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The Great North Is Great

A blog about role playing games (particularly D&D and Cyberpunk), fantasy fiction, science fiction, and related themes from the author of Yoon-Suin.

monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 4d

"The Cliffs of Moher in Ireland attract many visitors each year, but little is known about the dragon that dwells there. Despite the visitors, very few have claimed to have ever seen it, and so it’s existence has been considered simply a tale of the high seas."
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#watercolor #gouache #dragons

A painting inspired by the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland. View from the boat looking at the cliffs, and a red dragon is perched on top of a long tower of rock. Signed Katie Croonenberghs 2020, text in lower right is www.kamakru.com

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

Who’s got two thumbs & is closing a bunch of links on his ‘phone?

a robot with blue eyes is standing in front of a blue light

Alt: A robotic android with blue eyes is standing in front of a blue light and holding up both thimbs.

media.tenor.com

Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

Remembering your use of real world maps as the basis for some of your Imagi-Nation maps, made me wonder if you’d seen this—the Library of Congress has digitized a bunch of 19th century Austro-Hungarian maps! @battlegames.bsky.social
blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/04...

Every Bridge and Meadow: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in 19th Century Maps | Worlds Revealed

The Geography & Map Division recently digitized an important set of maps of Austria-Hungary. In this post, we explore these 19th- and early 20th-century maps and the layers of history and language tha...

blogs.loc.gov

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

From the Cities Without Number Reddit group—“A realisation I had about cyberpunk world building—it's all falling apart”
www.reddit.com/r/cwn/commen...

From the cwn community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the cwn community

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 4d

Oof. I actually had the first two of these Tom Swift books:

tomswift.net/ts3.htm

Cover of Tom Swift and the “City in the Stars.” White, blond boy with silvery spacesuit, helmet under right arm, looks out. Behind him is a cylindrical O’Neill habitat.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 5d

Bundle of Holding: Ghastly Affair

A bundle for Daniel James Hanley's tabletop roleplaying game of Gothic and Romantic Horror in the decadent, disastrous age of Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon, and Lord Byron.

bundleofholding.com/presents/Gha...

Ghastly Affair Bundle

Adventurer! This all-new Ghastly Affair Bundle presents Ghastly Affair, Daniel James Hanley's tabletop roleplaying game of Gothic and Romantic Horror in the decadent, disastrous age of Marie-Antoinett...

bundleofholding.com

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Mr Blipvert (D4-VID) @mrblipvert.bsky.social · 5d

Steampunks in Haworth! www.steampunk-explorer.com/articles/pho...

Photos: Steampunks Return to Brontë Country

Hundreds of U.K. steampunk fans steered their airships (and other vehicles) to West Yorkshire for the autumn edition of Haworth Steampunk Weekend, held Oct. 10-12 in the village made famous by the Bro...

www.steampunk-explorer.com

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