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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Returned and De-Powered Masks playbooks are on Itch! The Returned is about dying and coming back, like Jason Todd and Magik. The De-Powered is about losing your powers and still fighting, like Storm and Dani Moonstar

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ID: The Returned icon, featuring a young woman in goth makeup and a dark red and blue superhero suit.
Text: The Returned
Everyone on a team has a role to play. You were the one who died. Your team buried you, mourned you, and were inspired by your memory.
But now you're back. And things have changed.

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 1d

kind of unfair that Thomas Manuel is so fucking funny on top of being an incredible writer

Tom Vasel's whole shtick is that he's a man of the people. He's just a regular guy. A normal dude. An innocent man. He's a gamer and his reviews reflect how much of a gamer he is, because he reviews games that other normal gamers like. It's so simple. It's surprising there's any salt left in the earth, given that Tom Vasel seems so full of it.

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 22h

Or the Society for Psychical Research, who did believe that these phenomena were real, but tried to find a scientific explanation because a lot of them didn't really believe souls existed (at least in the same way as the spiritualists)

Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 22h

One thing I think is interesting is that paranormal investigators ran the gamut from purely skeptic debunkers like Houdini to groups like The Ghost Club who were essentially the Victorian equivalent of modern tv ghost hunters.

Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 22h

Love it when an opponent has 100+ life and you have 3 PLUS they have a "you can't win, your opponent can't lose" card in play, so you hit em with the "infinite trigger combo until they get annoyed and quit" strategy

ID: Magic the Gathering card
Text: Val, Marooned Surveyor {R}{G/W}

Legendary Creature — Human Scout

Vigilance

Whenever you discover, investigate, scry, surveil, or seek one or more cards, Val deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
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ID: Magic the Gathering card
Text: Trelasarra, Moon Dancer {G}{W}

Legendary Creature — Elf Cleric

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Trelasarra and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

“Eilistraee teaches us that we are not bound by the circumstances of our birth. We all may find beauty and light, if we have the courage to seek them.”
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HolBat (Waitlist open) @kholbatar.bsky.social · 2d

It costs $0.00 to support a art deco artist!!

The image shows a stylish illustration of a woman in an evening gown. The work is done in a neon graphic style using rich shades of blue, red, and purple.

The woman stands at a balustrade under a starry night sky. Her image is elegant: short light hair, long gloves, and a dress with a high slit that emphasizes her figure. The background is decorated with large decorative plants illuminated by contrasting neon colors—blue and red.

The atmosphere of the scene is mysterious and cinematic, reminiscent of retro-futurism or noir art.

A stylish art deco portrait of Muechin. Blue-yellow-red-black color scheme. The man is located in full face, his expression detached. An abstract bullet flies into his faces on the left and his face scatters.

The image depicts a man in a suit in stylized, bright graphics.
The figure is rendered in rigid geometric shapes, with a predominance of yellow-green and dark orange tones creating a sharp contrast. The character wears a dark jacket with a bow tie and a shirt with vertical stripes. He wears round glasses.
In his hand, he holds a glass with a clear drink and straws, which gives the scene the atmosphere of an evening or social conversation.
Large palm leaves are visible in the background.

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 1d

Like, in a movie, it might just be that that was the first set of curtains they grabbed for the set, and there wasn't any intention behind it.

But in a BOOK, where nothing is described unless it needs to be, if the author tells you the color of a random object, there is an intention behind it!

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 1d

"The curtains were just blue" is especially egregious because we are, for the sake of argument, talking about a BOOK.

Where the author DID NOT HAVE TO TELL YOU the curtains were blue!

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 1d

They are not beating the “thinks fiction is documentaries of fictional worlds” allegations

Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 1d

Like, if it’s a pretty set of art objects I’d like on its own I’ll buy a set of dice, but I’m not really approaching it like they’re gaming tools, because I have a set of dice already, and also a computer

Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 1d

I’m working on a project and I wanted to brainstorm. What pop culture trends do you think would influence ttrpgs if they were created in the early 1900s, instead of the sword and sorcery revival of the 1970s?

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 2d

See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 3d

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 3d

“Ectoplasm” was coined by a Nobel prize winning doctor

Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 3d

Not enough steampunk stuff utilizes the fact that a surprising number of truly established legitimate scientists were convinced that psychic powers existed

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 3d

@microsoft.com perhaps not a good look for your company to not only allow this imagery to be used at all but also to go on to refuse to comment about it

Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 4d

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 3d

For every vampire on your steampunk avengers, you need at least two women who have mind powers or can talk to ghosts

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 3d

Any steampunk superhero team should be like the x-men what with the number of telepaths running around

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 3d

Not enough steampunk stuff utilizes the fact that a surprising number of truly established legitimate scientists were convinced that psychic powers existed

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 4d

FIRMAMENT is a fast-paced fantasy action TTRPG. Play as warriors of sun and moonlight in an ancient order, and burn out corrupting magic.

Available on on Itch:
veilsedgegames.itch.io/firmament

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about how bows actually take way more upper body strength to wield than swords and yet every fantasy thing has archers be slim and effeminate because Gygax thought shooting bows was less manly

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 4d

It took me a second to realize this was a random line from moby dick, I just assumed we had reached a new level of Advanced Posting

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d

if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so

Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly you can get a good bit of a ttrpg campaign just by stealing from Chris Claremont

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 8d

If you want to read it, you can check it out here:
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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · Jun 25

WIP cards for my upcoming Deck of Many Things designs
#dnd

ID: Art Deco card design for the Gem card, featuring a hexagonal-cut gemstone in a stylized setting.

ID: Art Deco card design for the Knight card, featuring a sword and shield.

ID: Art Deco card design for the Moon card, featuring three stylized moons in different phases.

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Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 5d

Which film reminds you the most of your childhood?

Erin Tierney | Veil’s Edge Games @veilsedgegames.bsky.social · 5d

Last day of Clockwork Alchemy. All of my talks are finished, and I think I’ll definitely be bringing back the Victorian occultism one in future years