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Tim Gray

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TTRPG creator. Freelance editor and proofreader. Geeky stuff. Occasional wit. Games at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/543?affiliate_id=3127

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · Jun 27

Looking for editing or proofreading help with your ttrpg or boardgame project this summer?
I've worked for large and small publishers, with a reputation for high accuracy and helpful feedback.
(Happy to talk about writing or development too.)
silverbranch.co.uk/ttrpg-editing/

TTRPG editing

Hi, I'm Tim Gray. I provide freelance editing and proofreading for roleplaying game publishers, large and small, to make your work its best.

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 8h

Just noticed the Dragonmeet exhibitors page has added an alphabetical list as well as the logos. Nice.

Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 16h

For UK folks with Windows 10 - this vid popped up in YT, and having watched and done what it says, you can in fact sign up for extended updates for free.
(Which is good if, say, you meant to get a new PC up and running before today...)
youtu.be/3CGqOwKTo7k?...

Windows 10 Extend Security Updates in the UK are Now FREE! - Extend Windows 10 till October 2026!

YouTube video by Chris Waite

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 1d

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* For anyone who doesn't know, they've got something like 13 players and the ongoing format will be subgroups having separate but connected adventures. But to start they're all together, with people rotating in and out at the table. Not often you can say a liveplay has good choreography. ;]

Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 1d

Finished Critical Role C4 ep 1. That's set up one heck of a relationship map introducing all the characters for the new format*. And raised lots of questions.
I doubt I'll watch it for the long haul as the eps are just so long, but I'll go a bit further.

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Graham Spearing 🔜 Furnace XX @firstage.bsky.social · 1d

We've just had #FurnaceCon XX over the weekend in #Sheffield UK. It was packed with beautiful people and #ttrpgs.

We'll do a XXI, so come and join us. Here are a few quick thoughts.

farhavens.blogspot.com/2025/10/furn...

Furnace XX

We have just had a great weekend of RPGs and company at our twentieth Furnace Convention in Sheffield at the Garrison Hotel. To celebrate th...

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t buy anything at Furnace, but a previously ordered treat turned up today. The Electrum Archive, a small rpg of weird science fantasy. Looking forward to digging in.
An easy to encompass game with a quirky setting feels like where my tastes are at the moment.

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 2d

I am absolutely gutted to hear of the death of Rob Wieland, literally one of the greatest tabletop reviewers and commentators we had. Tirelessly tracked industry news, omnipresent in our collective circles and communities. I am so sad for his young family. These are dark days, friends.

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 1d

Victim mythology. The world is not going their way like they were told it would, so there must be some more powerful group/entity that’s against them.

Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 2d

It's an attempt to frame things via tribalism rather than substance and issues.

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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a four-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

He did a dawizard.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 2d

… And home, hurrah.

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Coman Fullard @comanfullard.bsky.social · 2d

So very #UnknownArmies

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 2d

Second day at #furnacerpg. Played Liminal (WWII blitz) and Otherscape. Nice to catch up with people. Amazing that was the 20th Furnace! Thanks to the organisers for all they do - and for the commemorative dice tray!

Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 2d

And Eurythmic resonance and Thomson entanglement and…

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Jim Milligan @chronopunk.bsky.social · 2d

The existence of Adamantium in the Marvel Universe implies the existence of Billyidolium, Thomasdolbinium and possibly even Davidbyrneite.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 2d

And also One Piece represents the real world. 🍌

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Guy Milner (BurnAfterRunning / Unconventional GMs) @burnafterrunning.bsky.social · 3d

#furnacerpg Slot 2 - Run Out The Guns. I have a book of critical hit tables, and an awful lot of skills to do sums with. Hornpiping the poop deck with @paulbaldowski.bsky.social at the helm (?)

A games table with a ttrpg in progress with a cardboard ship in the centre

A booklet "The Combat Book" with lots of critical hits

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a great and fun example of play - and also completely at odds with how the game is described.

Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 3d

More games at #furnacerpg. Candela Obscura, investigating a mass disappearance at a carnival. Then all-cat-people Dragonbane with @savagespiel.bsky.social - good dialogue opportunities for an evening game!

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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 3d

My husband has concluded that Christmas comes earlier every year because of climate change.

As temperature rises and ice melts faster, Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé thaw in their storage units quicker each year and thus Christmas arrives sooner and sooner.🎄

a woman in a red dress is standing in a glass container

Alt: Mariah Carey in a red Santa bodysuit is shattering an icey enclosure

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Tim Gray @timgray101.bsky.social · 3d

At #furnacerpg in Sheffield. First game: Fabula Ultima fell through (boo) but got into Traveller (yay). Our elite recon unit successfully liberated some Ancient artifacts.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 4d

My art packs are 10%OFF for a few days:

👉 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

👉 salvaterra.itch.io

#bsnm #stockart #ttrpg

a collage with several black and white item drawings like books, chests, maps, scrolls, treasures, idols etc.

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Angus Abranson @angusabranson.bsky.social · 4d

(RPG PDF Spotlight)

Cold City takes place in Berlin in 1950, when the Cold War has fully emerged and trust is at a premium.

The game also grapples with the legacies of twisted sciences, occult experiments, and the reality-fracturing horror of war.

angusabranson.com/2025/10/10/r...

(RPG PDF Spotlight) Cold City Second Edition

Cold City Second Edition by Handiwork Games In the divided city of post-World War II Berlin, terrors hide in the darkness. The legacies of war, suffering, and fringe science lurk beneath the surfac…

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4d

As any military strategist knows, port cities are always particularly vulnerable to amphibian assault.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 4d

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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