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Vulpinoid
@vulpinoid.bsky.social
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Artist, Teacher, Game Designer, Freelance Visionary
My game design musings are at https://vulpinoid.blogspot.com/
My game designs can be found at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/3402/vulpinoid-studios
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Posing a worldbuilding idea...
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Fever Dreams
As I sat in a hospital last week, intravenous drip in my arm, I had a whole heap of revelations and moments of satori. Now that I'm in a sta...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Ideas I hadn't considered, but which back up my thoughts about RPGs in recent years. vulpinoid.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Have I already shared this? It's been a pretty chaotic week.

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Here's that next post...
Sceletus has had its soft release. There's still things that need to be changed about it. Included in that are needing to add in a few more ...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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@gumiho-girl.bsky.social has uploaded the first part of our collaborative project, just in time for halloween...🎃...
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Sceletus by Stone Cold Fox Games
Eternity under a black hole sun
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October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I guess we've got to accelerate the schedule.
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I just realised
Halloween is almost here. The game about skeletons that I've been working with Erin on is almost done. I'm going to have the make sure enoug...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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The last few posts have focused on seasonal stories, this one ties them together...
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Crossovers between Seasons
I've never been a fan of throwing in too many ingredients, because it just muddies the output. But a single ingredient just isn't enough to ...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Laat of the seasons, now to look at comparisons and contrasts between them.
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Stories of Winter
The stories of winter can be some of the hardest to achieve. With a focus on gloom, despair and ennui, they're basically like playing out ...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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These are some of the more interesting stories in my opinion, but YMMV... vulpinoid.blogspot.com/2025/10/stor...
Stories of Autumn
If a spring story shows a rise, and a summer story shows a time of strength, then an autumn story explores a downfall. A downfall may be a...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I'm hoping to get back to this project soon...
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The Walkabout World: Part 1
When I saw a post about a tilted world similar to the one I've been devising for Walkabout, it gained a bit of interest. You can find it h...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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In which I look at the types of stories that discuss characters at the high points of their lives.
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Stories of Summer
Stories of summer are harder to portray than those of spring. This is generally because the period of  rapid growth has reached it's concl...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I like theorising, but I like it more when I can back up those ideas with some solid examples.
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Stories of Spring
I've mentioned several times here and elsewhere that there are a lot of things D&D doesn't do well. It struggles with character agency, th...
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October 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Also, just based on what I saw today, it's good for people to associate your political movement with having fun as a community, and also people enjoy it, which has real material value
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The inflatable costume thing with the protesters is really good because it renders the body armor/CoD weaponry aesthetic of the ICE Nazis even more ridiculous than it already was. Suiting up like Rambo to face down a dancing frog. No coming back from that
October 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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This post is just because I like to complicate things...
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Another way to look at the Seasons
The last post looked at the different parts of the seasonal narrative from the framework of the four European seasons...spring, summer, autu...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Back to musings and observations...
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Seasons of Narrative
I helped found a ferret rescue group a few years ago, and recent chats about that group and the way it has developed over the years have fe...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Always happy to support a good local band... especially when they're playing my local bar.

They signed my hand-illustrated concert poster too, which is always a bonus.
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Surely everyone who might be interested in this has seen it by now...
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Map Drawing Tutorial 1
Here's something I've been working on...inspired by the recent work of  +Dyson Logos . (Awesome, I can stick google+ links in my blog post...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Sitting in the hospital ER with two possibly broken fingertips, waiting on an X-ray and industrial strength painkillers. So happy that I'm in Australia, and this won't bankrupt me.
October 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Just a little something I've been working on with @gumiho-girl.bsky.social ... coming soon to Itch.
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Sceletus
So I'm gathering together a bunch of ideas for the new game that I've been developing with Erin. Both of us have been looking at different...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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ago is still getting views...
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Game Mechani(sm) of the Week #21: Otherkind Dice
I've run into this concept a few times over the past couple of months so I thought that I should make some kind of reference to the idea in ...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Sometimes it's good to look beyond one's prejudices and expand one's horizons.
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Digging through Itch
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been looking through itch.io  to see what sorts of interesting things have been developed by folks in pa...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Hmmm...
Dammit!!!
I sit here tonight, at the computer... ready to write a post, because I had a great idea for a post this afternoon but I was was too busy to...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Not good enough, I want to pick who.
October 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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To continue our current naming scheme, we've just added to Bo Katan Kryze, Obiwan Kenobi, Grogu, and Han Solo... meet Fennec Shand, I'll show her partner Boba Fett as soon as I find him.
October 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I'm really not sure what happened to the traffic at my blog last month...but I think we're back to our regularly scheduled programming now.
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Well, that was weird...
The last time I mentioned the traffic here at the blog was in early September , and I was getting a bit more traffic than expected. However,...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Next challenge...
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October Drawing Challenge Variants
I shared this on my assorted slsocial media feeds... "bluesky", "threads", "facebook", etc... "Does anyone know of any good #Inktober varian...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM