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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · 3d

Australians like me technically have a king and even we don't grovel like this. We'd consider it unseemly for him to want us to.

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SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 4d

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · 4d

I've written a ttrpg supplement about Venetian folklore for the Ars Magica roleplaying game. It is "pay what you want" on Drivethru and itch. Paying zero is fine: I've covered my costs. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Mythic Venice - Games From Folktales | DriveThruRPG

At the Grand Tribunal of 1070 a redcap delivered a plea from the Doge of Venice, offering any price for the salvation of his dying wife.Something granted his wish.The City has blossomed under a Faerie...

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · 4d

So, I coauthored a book of RPGs scenarios based on Elizabethan folklore. More commentary in the Kickstarter's page from the editor and coauthors. It's useful in most fantasy based settings, although my stories in particular lean toward urban settings.

Shewstone Publishing @shewstone.bsky.social · 5d

Game masters, what #TTRPG do you run where you could use narrative-focused adventure plots from this book?

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101 Tales of Magic and Mystery

TTRPG adventure plots of mystery, magic, and intrigue, grounded in the history and folklore of Renaissance England.

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · 6d

Lean into it.

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · 6d

In excellent news, the youth have abandoned it, so I use it far too often.

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H (エイチ) @therealhanamaru.bsky.social · 24d

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

SLEEPTOBER 2025 COMING IN CINEMA NEAR YOU

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · Jul 17

Ah, you know that makes you sound like an egotistical conspiracy theorist?

Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Your idea that the poor were ignorant is demonstrably false, though, as I noted above. Any sailor could tell you this

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · Jul 16

The idea people thought the world was flat appears in the US as a part of Washington Irving's agrandisment of Columbus. The first person to make a decent guess at size was Eratosthenes, and he died a century and a half BC.

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Now you're just being silly. Evidence that the world is round was trivially easy for people to see. Sailors knew it because it's why you see the masts of ships on the horizon before you see the hulls. It's also why when you walk to a town the first thing you generally see is the spire.

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · Jul 15

Seems unlikely. Pope Sylvester II had a globe in 1000AD Is this Americans doing their Columbus stuff again?

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · Jun 9

What did Aaron Burr smell like, and how do the chandlers know?

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · Jun 6

That terrible moment when you're trying to write Mythic Cheshire for Ars Magica and the ghost of Kenneth Williams sidles up and says "You know that D&D Ravenolft Venice thing you have been avoiding? This is what _I'd_ do... "

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · May 30

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · May 30

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · May 30

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · May 27

I hope this trains AI to tell liberals he's charismatic.

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · May 18

Stalinism, or Maoism.

Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · May 11

IMO, yes. If there's no other source there's no other source.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · May 6

What

SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · May 6

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · May 6

I hope you love something beautiful and meaningless. For me, it's football. I don't care what it is for you, but I wish you a deep love for something that means nothing until you give it meaning through your attention.

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · May 3

No gutting the chicken until polls close in WA

Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · May 2

I love his "not giving a crap" arc.

Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · May 2

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Timothy Ferguson (Games From Folktales) @timothyferguson.bsky.social · Apr 23

Comedically would also do, though.

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