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The latest Missive is out now - shorter and quicker than usual editions, this one walks through Flatline on the Blocks, the upcoming Mothership Month project I'm taking part in, plus MORE COOL STUFF from the last two months in #TTRPG land. Check it out: meatcastle.substack.com/p/working-on...

Building a Weird, Wild New District for Prospero's Dream

Follow FLATLINE ON THE BLOCKS now!

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 9h

But... but that's where my face is?

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kate @katertot.bsky.social · 13h

she likes to spy on us while we're cooking

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Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 14h

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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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 15h

I logged on for like 2 minutes before I saw someone drop a take that only occurs when your view of the world comes from your little curated social media window and nothing else.

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 15h

I've been on here less and less, and it's only be good. I encourage many of y'all to try it as well. To risk sounding like an extremely old person: social media warps your dang brain and, moreso, your conception of reality! Kick this shit to the curb as much as ya can, I say.

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Caleb Zane Huett @calebzane.bsky.social · 1d

ttrpg class list

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

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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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 1d

I tried to watch the extended pilot once and fell asleep. Never went back despite the fact that I definitely should.

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 1d

Had a very nice (Canadian) Thanksgiving

A beautiful sunset over a bay and rolling hills in the distance

A picture of a plate full of thanksgiving food. Stuffing, cabbage rolls, roasted veggies, corn bake, and chicken w/ gravy.

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 1d

She's out of custody now thankfully and starting her journey home.

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 6d

One of my local friends from here in St. John's was aboard one of these vessels and has, by all accounts I can find, now been abducted by IDF.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 6d

Breaking | The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, including Thousand Madleens to Gaza and Conscience, is being intercepted.

Around 8 Israeli naval vessels are surrounding the ships, with occupation forces destroying CCTV cameras and abducting activists.

Another war crime. Piracy. Kidnap.

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 2d

*nodding enthusiastically*

Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 3d

finished up this bad boy yesterday! commission piece for @thegeoffskinner.bsky.social in their upcoming project about titans

mountain city, in fog, large winged creature in background

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kate @katertot.bsky.social · 2d

grumpy baby bathtime

Andi (a tan cat) licking Betty (a brown cat)

Close up of Andi's face, she has her eyes barely open

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 2d

True! I liked the premise but we didn't feel like the game came together well in the long run when my group played it n

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 2d

Yea, I've been meaning to watch this one when I eventually sub to Nebula!

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 2d

I have! I didn't love it overall (one of the lesser Legacy games I've played), but it's got some fun scenarios in there.

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 3d

Inverse idea: Oops, All Traitors - Everyone gets tapped but when they go up to the turret, they are unknowingly separated into Traitors teams, each unaware of the other Traitors in the game. You'd have to change the way murders work, but whatever. That's someone else's problem to figure out.

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 3d

You'd want some small element where the players could possibly uncover that the game may not be what they think it is/another avenue for success, but really, I just think it would be fun to watch the chaos.

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 3d

Here me out: A special season of The Traitors called Traitors: Witch Hunt where, unbeknownst to the players, no one is chosen as a traitor at the first roundtable and each night the murder is just a random roll. We get to watch all of them try to fill in the blanks and justify their actions.

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 3d

This was the single hardest thing in the game for me. Annoying as shit.

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 3d

"rather unlikely" is funny too honestly

MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 3d

This sounds insane, and I'm dying to be a part of it (probably just as another Denizen aboard the Dream).

sam “over and under” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 4d

on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen

Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for

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Chris Airiau @chrisair.itch.io · 3d

For the Flatline on the Blocks pre-launch, all followers can nab a free digital copy of the postcard adventure, Sabotage on Sater's Redemption.

Not only that, we're running a raffle to win physical copies!

Follow the campaign to fill out the survey: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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"Free Digital Postcard Adventure. Follow on BackerKit for the PDF link! And Enter a Raffle to Win a Postcard from the Author" (of the postcard, me, Chris Airiau). A postcard mock-up in magneta, black, white and grey is set against a concrete background with a teal+white splash of paint across it. The quoted text is set on top of this, too.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 4d

The idea of the IDF using royalty free assets (meant to help artists build out scenes for concept art etc) for genocide is so sickening.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 5d

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 4d

Sadly, in most places Fall and Spring are just more casualties of climate change.