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HaikuEmpire

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Fan of indie TTRPGs, Japanese stuff, random music, cricket, old anime, 80s&90s sci-fi action movies, weird geekery, archaeology, and Raymond Chandler. Grew up by the seaside, used to live in Japan. A bit neurodiverse or maybe just rubbish at people.

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Dec 1

#intropost #promosky
Friends?
#ttrpg
Electric Bastionland
His Majesty the Worm
Swyvers
#music
Saint Etienne, New Romantic
Synth/vapour/new wave, Making Spotify playlists
#anime
OG Gundam, Kimagure Orange Road, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop.
#otherstuff
Haiku, cricket, Fith Element, Robocop, history

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · 2d

Disney's finest hour. (Sorry Moana)

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · 2d

I'll see your Romania and raise you eastern Uzbekistan.

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · 4d

Don't forget "Gunmen of the Appocalypse" for more rogue VR/computer virus fun. You could break out another Panic Engine game like Cloud Empress for a session or two while they fight the virus in fantasy form

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · 13d

it was some people mainly in the OSR camp who were singing it's praises, so that makes sense.

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · 13d

I heard Break is good too for that JRPG but in TTRPG vibe

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · 14d

Melvyn Bragg!

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · 28d

Before we got married and phones destroyed our attention spans, me and my wife would do double bills of films the other hadn't seen. The first was Dirty Dancing paired with Robocop.

(We also accidentally got a Topol double bill of Fiddler on the Roof and Flash Gordon.)

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 29d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Wrasil @bornetoblood.bsky.social · 28d

something unlike us

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 28

Don't forget to put a sandwich down to test first.

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 25

Breaking each trilogy volume into its separate parts so you can appreciate each book on its own makes it more as it was supposed to be read. The whole three volume thing was more due to publishing necessity than design. Plus they are slimmer and easy to carry around.

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 25

While I dislike the movies due to their historical inacuracies. (What did you do with Prince Imrahil you b@$†@rds?!) I have a movie tie in box set of Lord of the rings with the story split into 7 books (Lord of the Rings being a story of 7 parts with the seventh being the appendices.)

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Never Mind the Dice Rolls Magazine @nmtdrzine.bsky.social · Aug 28

Happy Fourth Birthday to us!

We are live with issue 48, that is four whole years of publication reached, and as we blow out the candles on that cake please do check us out on DriveThru or via our Patreon.

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Never Mind the Dice Rolls issue 048 - NMtDRzine | DriveThruRPG

Welcome to issue 48 of Never Mind the Dice Rolls zine, your friendly monthly TTRPG magazine. Each issue contains reviews, scenarios, advice, and other things TTRPG! Never Mind the Dice Rolls Issue 4...

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 22

Small furry animal that befriends princesses. No idea why it ended up used in cricket. Probably because it rhymes.

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 17

It's OK they won't expect the players to take their clothes off as much in later sessions.

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 17

I like it when random normal posts get picked up in the OSR feed. Like if you search Black Pudding it's 95% photos of full English Breakfasts and 5% old school TTRPG Zine. That said Pied Flycatcher and Garden Warbler are Electric Bastionland failed careers, aren't they?

Screenshot of a skeet describing birds seen during a walking Shetland, including a Pied Flycatcher and a Garden Warbler. The phrase into the odd appears in the middle of one sentence.

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 17

I think we need to paws and reflect if this is really what serious journalism should be covering.

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 7

I must admit I've been avoiding Clair Obscure as everything I hear sounds really good but I haven't got the time right now.
But I wasn't going mad about the 5SS vibe. ( I assure you most characters have really pointy chins.

A blonde woman in a fancy costume holding a sword in front of a giant Mortar head mech.

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 7

I really like girl with the sword. It's got a bit of a Five Star Stories vibe just without the really pointy chin.

CHL 九 @lianthuss.bsky.social · Sep 7

the icon, the artist, the art 🙌🏼

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 7

As in protein shakes or does the guy round the back of gym sell you the Clan Tremere handbook and the 2e Waterdeep boxed set?

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 7

What did you get on your random encounter roll?

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 6

Natalie brings the epic greek poetry, Huey brings the scooby snacks, everyone has a good time.

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you can't fight for your right to party, what can you do?

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · Sep 6

Have to say, fascinated as I am by this particular era/moral panics/folk devils generally i can’t recall getting any grief* about RPGs in the UK late 80s-early 90s, closest we got in terms of hilarious societal freakouts was when popo addressed our school assembly as we were all nicking car emblems

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Sep 6

You mean it isn't?!! Wait, that news article makes more sense now...

HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Aug 29

Unless you are bluffing right now.

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HaikuEmpire @haikuempire.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yet another Tiefling?