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Alistair Smith

@alistairsmith.bsky.social

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Mid-life crisis: return to OSRPGs, painting and general escape from the mundane. Happiness through imagination and camaraderie. He/him. #grognard

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Thank heavens America has a written constitution, otherwise who knows what Trump might do?

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Really well thought thru.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I might actually go out and get wander about in the hope of meeting him. Will he pay well?

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Slightly freaked out by a Magpie having just tapped on my office window. Our eyes met and then it flew away.

It’s a sunny day in October - not the start of a folk horror story hopefully!

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 1d

What’s happening in the US shows that a written constitution is no safeguard against bad actors.

Have to try and beat Reform, not put in place imagined constraints for when they win.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Bless him. What a lovely boy.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Pre 1937. Ireland still marked up as ‘Irish Free State’ and coloured pink.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 1d

It was Tim. Thanks

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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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that Churchill did some sort of ascetic physical regimen is hilarious.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

I’m guessing he’s never seen the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

On the shopping list, once I’ve played it next month.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll run MERP at one of the cons, using the paper standees.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

A policy the BNP only dreamt of, articulated by a Tory front-bencher. The party of Churchill, MacMillan, Thatcher, has fallen to the Mosleyites.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

I note them on my timesheet. My brain is clearly working (if not entirely functional)

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

It’s great fun. My 14 y-o loves it, which I didn’t think was a given.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

I need to try and find Krell.

This is my substitute.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 2d

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Perhaps we should suggest the Vlad Dracul ‘makes you focus’ method?

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. You have an actual Krell. I have chaps who substitute but not the real thing.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 3d

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Nice to see Arron back in town tho. Thought he’d perhaps retired to a cut price Bond villain set up on Lundy or something like that.

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Ran a WD WFRP scenario the other week which featured an NPC called Knud Gropenfrotteur. He only had a bit part (oo-er) so the joke was totally wasted.

Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 3d

New day rising?

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Alistair Smith @alistairsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Have had so much more fun since I embraced randomness rather than having a ‘typical’ character which I adapted for all the different systems.