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James Hoare

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Writer and Social Manager. Adopted Geordie. Obsessed with old #ttrpgs, #horror, #history, and #rugbyleague. Editor of 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 zine: https://ko-fi.com/secretpassages/

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · Sep 7

If the sight of people tearing open their copies of Secret Passages #2 has given you serious FOMO, why not treat yourself to one at ko-fi.com/s/4e6c38c736

Secret Passages #2 - Secret Passages's Ko-fi Shop

Secret Passages #2 is the second issue of a new 74-page quarterly A5 magazine packed with original artwork, in-depth interviews, and insightful essays...

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 1d

always a better choice than *gestures at everything else*

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

Tired Of Reality? Press advertisement for London’s Games Workshop

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 7d

Work will never love you back. Consistently make regular time for your physical and mental health and your relationships.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 11d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! I’ll check ‘em out!

James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 2d

She might be, I was quite gung ho and traumatised her with a Chris Priestly story

James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 2d

She likes spooky and magical stories, but it’s a struggle finding compendium’s of short stories that fit the bill

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 2d

She’s a very advanced reader, but we’ve found short stories easier to pick up once a week and some illustrations help give it a focus on a video call.

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 2d

I’m looking for children’s’ book recommendations. Once a week I read my 8-year-old a bedtime story from roughly 10,000 miles away.

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 2d

This is how they wrote The Mandalorian

Brian Takle @wylfing.bsky.social · 2d

A long time ago when I was regularly running Star Wars games, I came up with some frameworks for generating "what's next." This is part of it. First you roll a trouble (e.g., broken hyperdrive) and then roll 3d20 and read down the columns for who/what can solve it.

#ttrpg #starwars #swd6 #weg

A table of opportunities that can crop up during a Star Wars D6 adventure, mainly as a response to the troubles that you roll at the start of a session. For example, you could roll that an old friend wants you to extract someone from a prison.

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 2d

This probably the magazine geek in me, but I love the window they give you into the concerns and obsessions of a specific time

James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 2d

I wish it was possible to get a big stack of White Wolf magazines and not pay the GPD of a small nation for the privilege.

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te pua o te rēinga (🫴🏼🎃) @cucumber.bsky.social · 5d

the powerful are petrified of wahine māori and the haka.

got emotional watching this wee clip of oriini kaipara in the house.

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 4d

How have I only just discovered this?

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 6d

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 7d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 8d

Aw Nic, thank you so much!

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Nic Small @lairofthelagomorph.com · 9d

Been thoroughly enjoying reading #SecretPassages 2. The whole concept just cool and a good read. Nice trip down memory lane and beyond (not quite old enough to have experienced all of it!). Heartily recommended picking both #1 and #2, and look forward to what’s coming next @jdhoare.bsky.social

Photo of Secret Passages #2 on my paint palette newly decorated with one of the very cool (and shiny) stickers I got with it!

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 10d

Back, temporarily, in the UK means we can finally check out the new issue of Secret Passages. Looking good! Great to see more small press print media in the games space

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 11d

Baali pretending to be a Ventrue

James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 11d

Flying home today and I’m having a lot of feelings. Anxious about the flight itself and returning to work, and heartbroken to be leaving my little girl behind. But excited about eating salt and vinegar Walkers Max.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11d

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James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations mate! You’re such an inspiration

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RetrogamerDaz @retrogamerdaz.bsky.social · 14d

November marks my 20th year on the magazine. I think that deserves a self-congratulatory pat on the back.
For every like this receives I'll try and recall one anecdote (interesting or otherwise) about my time on the mag.
(this is one of my favourite covers by armyoftrolls)

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Lukasz Kowalczuk @elkowalczuk.bsky.social · 14d

Extra, extra! Support me on Ko-fi! Witness oldhammerish brawl between Gouged Eye hooligans and Reikland Reavers firm!
This full color and full page illustration for upcoming issue of Secret Passages is available exclusively for Minions, Mutants and Monsters. Thanks!
ko-fi.com/post/52-Excl...

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Shannon Appelcline 🌮 @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 19d

Designers & Dragons ORIGINS are new books. These are not the classic Designers & Dragons books, which detail the histories of about 100 companies in the industry. These are the histories of 200-300 D&D supplements that TSR published mostly in the 70s & 80s.

Launching Soon - Designers & Dragons: Origins

From Evil Hat - Launching Soon - Designers & Dragons: Origins

www.backerkit.com

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