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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 7h

Bashir & Garak are 🤩

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 7h

I have heard of all of them, in fact I've read all of them 😅

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway I just backed eight projects and now have steam coming off my company debit card

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 16h

I was wondering the other day why we don't have a super exciting cyberpunk TTRPG, and then I realised we do, and it's Mothership.

...I just didn't expect them to lock in that crown with this year's Mothership Month, with all the modules set in the same megacity. www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

MOTHERSHIP MONTH on BackerKit

Mothership Month returns October 14, 2025 with even more creators, nightmares, and community events. Whether you're an old teamster or a fresh recruit, you're invited to the largest Mothership even...

www.backerkit.com

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 16h

How could you possible make Doomsong more macabre? Well, you could sell a giant fucked-up candle as a campaign timer www.kickstarter.com/projects/cae...

DOOMSONG: Thou Shalt Not Suffer The Wycce

A horror TTRPG that pits your players against foul heresy. Can you root out Famine before it's too late?

www.kickstarter.com

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 23h

Up to date with this, and am really enjoying it - I find myself thinking what Quinns is doing with these heavy games is doing what most these games don't - follow the old screenwriting adage of Turning Exposition Into Ammunition. As such, it's both an intro to the players AND the audience.

Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 11d

The new season of my actual play show where we play old rpgs from history BEGINS!

Here at the start of the season I mostly hold it together as the GM. Later, you can practically hear the steam coming out of my ears. Podcast links are in the video description!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTLB...

Play to Find Out, S3E1: Nobilis

YouTube video by Quinns Quest

www.youtube.com

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Ted Brassfield @tedbrassfield.bsky.social · 1d

Pre launch, and already the solidarity of the union is being tested by corporate scabs, religious schisms are forming, and independent media has been established.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

For sure some of you freaks wanna join the 1000 person play-by-Discord Mothership megagame

Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 1d

Alright, let's fucking go.

The lobby for OVER/UNDER by @samsorensen.bsky.social is now live. Come help make history on the Dream.

discord.gg/FDJ7T4C2Sm

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

Oh please do! Email in my bio

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

I agree, something about them means melancholy is supercharged

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

You did not! Email it to me

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

Literally have the recommendations doc you made for me open in another tab! You're great

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

What is the best or most impressive 2 player RPG you've played? 📢

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Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · 2d

ttrpg class list

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Jul 14

pipe dream, print ad (1991) archive.org/details/vgce...

a dude climbing between a maze of pipes, attempting to attach one pipe that is lose, however he is very high up and at the risk of falling (could possibly be in the process of slipping with the shocked look on his face).
quote:
"...it's just as addicting as tetris." -nintendo power may/june 1990
more text (all in caps):
get ready for a mind-wrenching experience.
pipe dream.
what if you had a whole warehouse full of plumbing parts
coming at you! and you had to build a huge pipeline out of them? what if there was a big puddle of slimy green stuff called flooz? and it was running through the pipes right behind you? well, that's the whole idea behind pipe dream. it has basic, expert,
and two-player modes. it has 256 levels to get into. and you get bonus rounds every four levels. you already know what nintendo power magazine says about it but there's only one way to see how intense
pipe dream really is. go down to your nes/game boy dealer and see for yourself
more text underneath an in game screenshot:
it takes about five seconds
to get the idea. it can take a
lifetime to get good at it.
really good.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 4d

I think I'm going to need to see your internal lore bible

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 4d

Okay, first off, it was an honour to be included on this podcast. Second, I've just noticed the tiny mouth and tiny ear on the Talk of the Table logo and they're just disgusting 😨

Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 4d

COMING OCTOBER 20th!

Tune in for a TWO HOUR discussion about teaching games through actual play featuring an absolute POWERHOUSE panel.

Ft.
@friede.bsky.social
@itsquinns.bsky.social
@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

Subscribe to Talk of the Table wherever you get your podcasts.

Talk of the Table Patreon w/ Dr. Emily Friedman, Quinns, & Brennan Lee Mulligan.

Roundtable: Teaching Games Through Actual Play

Pictures of each guest are in circles on a yellow background. To each side are anthropomorphized dice, one with a mouth and one with an ear.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 4d

Surprising no-one, the Wyrd Science weekly roundup article is just as good as the magazine

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 4d

Put your feet up & skive your way through what remains of the working week with the Wyrd Science Gazetteer!

This week @emielboven.itch.io's DURF puts on some weight + loads of interesting stuff to check out, from Warhammer themed model railways through to a look at AD&D's horrific baby beaver trade

Slay To Find Out

In this week's Gazetteer, one of our favourite post-OSR games, DURF, gets expanded, Frogs cast a spell on you and what is better than Warhammer? Warhammer and model railways, obviously.

wyrd.science

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 5d

Shit this looks so pretty

Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social · 5d

checked out Carimara on a whim, got maybe the most gorgeous and heartbreaking game I've played all year by surprise www.inverse.com/gaming/carim...

Steam Just Quietly Added A Stunning Horror Mystery With A Surprising Twist

A stunning new mystery game is the perfect game to play this Halloween, even if you're not a typical horror fan.

www.inverse.com

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 5d

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 6d

This looks great

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 7d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 7d

I sure did Steve

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 8d

Lovely, thank you!

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 8d

Literally anywhere you love, I'm renting a car for the next few days

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