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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs
@opensketchbook.bsky.social
Magical Girl. RPG designer & author. Milhist nerd. Buckling spring keyboard shill. Made Flying Circus that one time. Now working on Torchship.

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The Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

Wait a minute, why are they wearing equipment from 101 years later?

Something to look out for when admiring manuscripts from the middle ages is that they often depict events from history with the arms and armour of the current day

(Pretend I painted this in 1916 lol)
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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"Actually this is your fault for not buying enough Traveller" is a take you could have I guess
Everyone talking like Mongoose is doing wrong here. But if the community supported their existing Traveller line with better sales obviously they'd rather publish for 1 system instead of 2. (Of course Bsky considers indie folk "the community" and the (many more) fans of trad or both as rpg MAGA.)
The best science-fiction role-playing game ever, adapted at last to the world's most popular rules!

Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran Timothy Brown, Traveller 5E is coming from World's Largest RPGs, with crowdfunding in March 2026...

#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
torchship work
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Sitting down to make an Official Traveller TRPG, taking out a copy of D&D5E and staring at it thoughtfully for 16 hours before crossing out "Fireball" and writing "Fusion Gun, Man Portable" next to it
The best science-fiction role-playing game ever, adapted at last to the world's most popular rules!

Spearheaded by GDW and TSR veteran Timothy Brown, Traveller 5E is coming from World's Largest RPGs, with crowdfunding in March 2026...

#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Half of progressive politics is Knowing Who To Be Mad At, and a lot of you bitches are flunking the course.
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Butch Ami and Mako, better late than never!
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
making the wrecker (the jetpack-equipped juvie) was going well, i had a cool dynamic midair pose where she's sort of descending toward the ground, and then i was like

wait shit

probably...

probably shouldn't go jetpacking in a skirt
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
*enormous* torchship progress today. as of right now, the core rules section (all the foundational rules everything else keys off of) is *done*. It's 36 thousand words!

We've been hitting our heads against it for a long while because it has to carry *so much game* but it's finally, *finally* done
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Colliding headfirst into a Goliath juve who is similarly late, as is the tradition.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"oh no! i'm late for my first day of hive war!"
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This is what it's like in our house anytime a balance dataslate looms
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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she got bottom surgery! i'm happy for her
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November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
the gang keeps its members in line with a strict code and an even stricter set of punishment, typically involving hazing, ostracization, restitution theft, or burns with lho sticks. the penalty for the worst offense, stealing another member's boyfriend, is to carry the group's plasma gun
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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They used to make fuckin MOVIES
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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a movie set where you're from

i shit you not, I took my friend @opensketchbook.bsky.social to my high school and she was like, "holy shit dragon, we are going to be killed by vampires"

(this counts as a movie cause there's a movie too, and my girlfriend says the movie is better than the show)
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
the gang has formed an alliance with another group of juvie criminals in the distinct based on a gendered division of labour. the girls practice racketeering, mugging, chem-dealing, and drive-by shootings, allowing the boys to focus on shoplifting hair gel, noise violations, and loitering
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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In "Eric's Ultimate Solitaire", entering your name as "Weasel" changes every single card face into a Joker. They still retain their ranks and suits, though, so this effectively blindfolds the game.

For years I thought this was a bug. It'd literally only happen to me.
July 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The armour designs in Legend of the Galactic Heroes is top tier.
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the gang's arms master is a transfer from saint deddog's school For thinkin' good, having been mistaken for an ogryn due to her unnatural height of 5'6"
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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game design 101
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM