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Coddlesworth
@clockworkcirc.us
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TTRPG Writer (Shadowrun, Voltron TTRPG)
Comic Book Writer (Coddlesworth's Clockwork Circus)
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Coddlesworth @clockworkcirc.us · Apr 20
Hi, I'm Danny. I write for #TTRPGs and play whenever I can, including Actual Plays, professional GMing, and being active in the general #TTRPGcommunity.

I'm also very slowly writing/producing a graphic series rooted in my #TTRPG experiences: www.clockworkcirc.us

I'm @coddlesworth in most socials.
A 3x3 "collage" in the style of the recent "Artist vs Art" social media trend. Centered is an image of @Coddlesworth (Danny), with a dark mustache and long, mostly white, goatee, looking up and to the left (viewer's right). Around him are the covers of various published works he has written or help write. Starting from top left and going clockwise, they are: 1. "Coddlesworth's Clockwork Circus" issue #2 cover, featuring a collage style image with many key characters from the series. 2. "A Little Wetwork" is an official adventure module for the Shadowrun TTRPG (5th Edition). 3. "Shadowrun Sixth World (City Edition: Seattle)" is a special edition of the core rulebook for the Shadowrun TTRPG (6th Edition). 4. "Coddlesworth's Clockwork Circus" issue #1 alternate cover features the lead co-protagonists overlooking a city. 5. An image of the upcoming "Voltron" TTRPG. 6. "Shadowrun: Slip Streams" is a sourcebook for the Shadowrun TTRPG (6th Edition). 7. "Death of a Fixer" is an official Shadowrun TTRPG module (6th Edition). 8. "Shadowrun: Collapsing Now" is a sourcebook for the Shadowrun TTRPG (6th Edition).
clockworkcirc.us
When you have a GREAT game, but you're mad anyway:

#tft #TeamFightTactics #RiotGames #LeagueOfLegends
A screen grab of the results screen at the end of a game of Team Fight Tactics, a "battlechess" game where you purchase champions and place them on a board, trying to find a strong combination of champions and board configurations to beat other players in the match. Champions have 5 tiers of power with matching costs from the shop, White (1), Green (2), Blue (3), Purple (4) and Gold (5). Finding three of a particular champion in the shops combines them into a single 2-star champion. Having 3 2-stars of the same champion combines them into a single 3-star champion. As you proceed in the match you gain 2 experience per round. Your level equals the amount of champions you can field on the board. Between rounds you can purchase XP 4 at a time at a 1-1 exchange. You gain coins for winning a round, win or lose streaking, and holding on to coins (interest). Between rounds you are presented with a store of 5 champion to purchase or you can reroll the shop for 2 coins. This shows I won the game with 6 3-star Champions on my board, 2 2-star Champions from the Gold tier, and a 2-star dragon Champion (dragons are a special aspect of this season of the game and have costs outside of the normal 1-5 and count as 2 champions on your board). This screen grab shows that I have a 2-star Aurelion Sol (a dragon champion in Team Fight Tactics; also a playable champion in League of Legends) in play, one on the bench, and 2 1-stars on the bench as well. The final 1-star is in my shop, which would grant me the 3-star Aurelion Sol. I would have had the coin to purchase after the round, but it ended up being the winning round so I was unable to get the 3-star Gold tier dragon champ. I didn't need it to win, but 3-star 5 tiers have special casts and animations as well as it just being fun to say you got the 3-star.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
clockworkcirc.us
Hey, we're back after a few weeks break with our DnD 5E #ActualPlay "Beyond the Stellar Veil." Space shenanigans abound, stop in and say hi!

Tuesday, 18 November 7p-1030p ET/4p-730p PT

www.twitch.tv/dndenial

#TTRPG #DnD
An image capture from Twitch featuring the players for the D&D 5E actual play "Beyond the Stellar Veil." The DM, @thespeedofcandy is in the center, labeled Shenanigan Sovereign. The players are, from top right and going clockwise: @davidjoneskrause playing Kessel, a druid @iSneezeStars playing Samanthar'ra, a gunner @Coddlesworth playing The Captain, a ship's captain @DungeonMistressKatie playing Giulia, a bard
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Sebina Stiletto, played by Mournique, is a dwarf tiefling monk who specializes in Mountain Stance. She is the leader of the Stiletto gang, and has a punch first ask questions later outlook on life #ttrpg
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Social media isn't the place to push nuanced discussion on hot button topics, you just piss everybody off and get piled on.

Just how it do.

But it's important to seek context and nuance when you can, for real conversations with real people you care about.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVIJ...
we need to change the AI conversation.
YouTube video by Michael Burns
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
clockworkcirc.us
If you got some free time tonight, we're streaming a State of the Union side mission. Tonight we'll be meeting with Ms. Johnson to see what she's got on offer.

Wednesday Night (Semi-weekly)
7p ET/4p PT

www.twitch.tv/dndenial
or
www.twitch.tv/kikiclownmen...

#Shadowrun #TTRPG #ActualPlay
A screen grab from a twitch stream featuring an actual play of the Shadowrun TTRPG. The title of the stream is State of the Union. There are four players and a game master, each in their own windows. The players are: @KikiClownMenace (femme presenting) playing Smokey, a changeling rigger @MaxRomans (masc presenting) playing Simon, a human mage @MilestoneRPG (femme presenting) playing Popi, an oni face @Scxrlet64 (femme presenting) playing Loophead, a human sniper The gamemaster is @Coddlesworth (masc presenting).
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Faxing still exists to create a barrier to document submission for the sole purpose of increasing revenue by:

A. extending fee periods (since whatever it is "can't" officially cancel until documents are submitted)
B. charging late fees

There is nothing—NOTHING—that will convince me otherwise.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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In what world does it make sense for ANY type of corn chip to cost the same per ounce as beef jerky?!

Oh, it's this one.

Fuck, I hate it here.
A "SidexSide" screen grab from Amazon showing the per ounce price of ofJack Links Beef Jerky and a per ounce price of caramel Bugles Corn Chips. It shows the Beef Jerky at $1.46/ounce and the Bugles at $1.43/ounce.
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
clockworkcirc.us
When your feet are on the edge of a sock size range, new socks are never going to fit quite right.

It's a curse that millions live with and nobody cares.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
clockworkcirc.us
Following up on the "Steel Lynx" token from the other day, I also made a #battlemap token (in #Inkarnate) for a "Lockheed Optic-X." This is a flying surveillance drone favored by many Shadowrunners.

Again, if you want it, take it and use it.

#Shadowrun #ActualPlay #TTRPG #TTRPGCommunity
A top-down view of a futuristic flying surveillance drone. Is it similar in shape and function to a jet with a conical nose, tapered wings, and a central jet thruster. There is an optical suite on the nose and additional cameras where the front of the wings meet the fuselage.
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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It's easy to say from the sidelines (I don't own a games company that will suffer by skipping events) but companies really need to skip events with even a whiff of Gen AI about them.

Cause if they keep thinking they can get away with it, they will... and in a few years, you'll lose that bag anyway.
rascal.news Rascal News @rascal.news · 17d
UK Games Expo promoted a tabletop RPG on Instagram that claimed to use "fully ethical and transparent" generative AI. Everything went downhill once the publisher began responding to criticism.
UK Games Expo criticized for promoting RPG with generative AI imagery
Gates of Krystalia’s creators insult commenters, struggle to explain provenance of LLM training material.
www.rascal.news
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
clockworkcirc.us
My friend in #ArcRaiders:

"I hope we run into folks so I can blast em!" On contact, immediately opens fire.

Me in Arc Raiders:

Spams [Don't Shoot] emote. "Hey buddy, just chillin'. Want some olives?"

One of us DEFINITELY won't survive an actual apocalypse event.
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
clockworkcirc.us
Did I have things I wanted to accomplish this weekend?

Yes, I did.

Did I just put over 24 hours into Arc Raiders instead?

Stop judging me, get off my back, jeez!
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
clockworkcirc.us
Here's a #battlemap token I made (in Inkarnate) for our #Shadowrun #ActualPlay to represent a "Steel Lynx," which is a sort of wheeled mini-tank. This one is armed with rotating barrel chaingun.

If it might have a place in something you are doing, absolutely take and use it.

#TTRPG #TTRPGCommunity
A top-down view of a futuristic vehicle in heavy armor plating. It has four "legs," underneath which are meant to be wheels that cannot be seen from the top-down perspective, but could be imagined to have some manner of hover capability. You can see places where wires extrude from one part of the body to others. The front of the vehicle is towards the bottom of the image. The box-like turret is turned about 5-10 degrees counter clockwise and it is armed with a large multi-barreled gun, protruding off-center on the turret.
October 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
clockworkcirc.us
Meet tonight's Shadowrunners for our State of the Union side hustle.

We're live on Twitch tonight (Wednesday) for Session 1 of a short #Shadowrun #ActualPlay campaign, streamed simultaneously on

www.twitch.tv/scxrlet64
www.twitch.tv/kikiclownmen...
www.twitch.tv/dndenial

430p ET / 730p PT
An RPG virtual tabletop token for a character being played in a Shadowrun 5E campaign. The character, Loophead, is a cybernetically augmented sniper. This is a bust portrait in a comic book style that shows her in a grey motojacket with thick, pink pads on the shoulder. She is wearing a pink motorcycle helmet with "cat ear" points. The faceshield is a screen currently projecting text emoji face ( ^ _ ^ ). She is also wearing headphones which fit over the helmet itself, with a pink and white band and grey cups. Long, flexible light tubes come down from the back of the helmet, almost like hair, in a variety of pinks, purples, and pastels. The helmer has a sticker under the right cat ear that has the letters BAMF over a comic book explosion effect. Ther are purple star stickers ounder the left ear and on the left headphone cup. The background is a glitchy hot pink to electric blue circle border with a grooved interior (representing a vinyl record) and pink "glitter" dots surround the circle border. An RPG virtual tabletop token for a character being played in a Shadowrun 5E campaign. The character, Popi, is an oni social adept (a face/grifter/con artist enhanced with magical glamours). Popi has bright blue skin and large anime eyes with yellow-brown irises. Her hair is styled in a bob that comes down to her jawline. Her bangs drop down between two blue horns that extend from her brow, above each eye. She has strong eye brows and long eyelashes. She is facing towards the viewers left, but her eyes are focused forward. She is wearing a white blouse with a pink bow centered on the collar. We can see she is wearing fingerless black gloves with knuckle spikes. The background has shimmering distortions in neon colors, representing mana flows around her. The token border is a circle styled to look like marble with electric blue highlights and an inner ring of metal in a braidlike twist. An RPG virtual tabletop token for a character being played in a Shadowrun 5E campaign. The character, Smokey, is a gnome rigger (a vehicle and drone operator) with certain "changeling" features. The art is in a 2D chibi style. We see a young, cherub-faced woman with pink/fuschia hair in a shag style, but with trimmed bangs. She has pink fox ears that are part of her changeling mutations. She has long eye lashes and thick purpole eyeshadow. Her left eye has a black sclera and a pink and blue iris. Her right eye is blue. She has an electronic monocle over the right eye. She has purple skin colorations spiking in over her cheeks and a sassy expression with an anime "tiger-tooth." She is wearing a high collared teal/sea-green jacket with yellow highlights and a teal/sea-green skinsuit with pink highlights underneath. She has several hair barrettes in her bangs: a green car, a skull and cross bones, a yellow star with checkered flag, a broken heart, and some manner of mana ball. The background token border is a racing tire with various letters that one might find on a racing tire, including pressurization instructions and branding. It is lit up with pink fluorescent lighting. The interior has HUD style displays that warn that something (unknown) is "Repairing." An RPG virtual tabletop token for a character being played in a Shadowrun 5E campaign. The character, Simon, is forensic mage. The art is a photobash image of a man with his black hair in a shoulder-length grunge style and a 5 o'clock shadow. He has dark eyes, probably with black eyeliner and is wearing a beat up black leather jacket. He is facing the viewer's left, tilting his head back (exposing a prominent adam's apple), with his eyes turning to the left. Behind him is an out of focus cityscape. Emanating from his body is a reddish haze. The background token border is a metal spring tube reflecting red lights, with blood spatters superimposed over it.
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
clockworkcirc.us
How does my job expect me to focus on "work" when I got session 1 of a new TTRPG campaign tonight?
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
clockworkcirc.us
$239?! I hope it's got some amazing features!
A screen grab of an Oral-B "Clic" toothbrush. A Clic toothbrush is a toothbrush model with a metal handle and detachable plastic head, intended to reduce waste from disposing of plastic toothbrushes by around a third. It is a manual toothbrush. This one is listed on Amazon for $239.30, which is remarkable for a $15-$20 toothbrush.
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
clockworkcirc.us
I think my package might be out for delivery...

Automated systems doing good things for our world 😒
A screen grab from my Gmail app. It shows series of emails sent from "Uniexpress Admin", each with the subject line "Your package is out for delivery." All were sent at 7:35 AM and have the same preview text, "Your package is out for delivery Hello DANIEL ???, Your package is on the way! A UniUni..." From the screen grab, it appears to have been sent at least five times. (NOTE: It was sent 10 times.)
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
clockworkcirc.us
Doing some last minute prep for session, I order pizza. They always get here faster than I anticipate (~25 min) so I go downstairs after 20, not wanting to leave them hanging at building's front door.

Of course this will be the time it takes them an hour, for no reason at all.

#TTRPG #dmProblems
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
clockworkcirc.us
Generic white guys referring to other generic white guys as generic white guys will never not be funny to me.
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
clockworkcirc.us
You know, it's called a defibrillator, but I've never heard anyone ay, "Back up, I gotta defibrillate this guy!"
October 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
clockworkcirc.us
I hate everything about it. I hate that I noticed it happening. I hate that they are doing it. I hate that Google AI is on top of every search. I hate that the AI overview had a tight summary.

I hate it.
A text screengrab from Google's "AI Overview" of a topic with 3 bullet points. The third bullet point is highlighted in a thick red box. The text says: Why Facebook auto-refreshes • Encourages more engagement: Refreshing the page takes you back to the top of the News Feed, forcing you to scroll and see new and promoted content. This prevents you from simply returning to the exact post or comment you were looking at. • Maximizes ad views: A full page reload guarantees that new advertisements will load, generating more money for Facebook. • Prevents "fact-checking": Some users have noted that the refresh often happens when they switch tabs to investigate a suspicious claim. They believe this is an intentional design choice to make critical cross-checking more difficult.
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
clockworkcirc.us
It's just gonna get worse...
DESTROYING my PS5 with AI SLOP GAMES
YouTube video by qzeq
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 AM
clockworkcirc.us
Which system completely changed your perspective on what tabletop RPGs could be?
#ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme
A "motivational poster" style meme collage of six images over a set of text. The text begins with a "header" or title centered from left to right in large font, all caps: "RIFTS ROLE PLAYING GAME" That is followed by an expounding statement in sentence format in smaller font, also centered from left to right: "Because its (sic) a magic wielding, high tech epic [that's] set in a post apocalyptic setting of complete bad-assery. Thats (sic) why!" The images are presented above the text in 3x2 grid starting (from left to right): TOP The cover art for the Rifts TTRPG "Atlantis" sourcebook, featuring a two-armed, tentacled alien with a gun and spear piloting a hovering barge that is also crewed by 3 human(?) women in leotards, wearing helmets and aiming futuristic blasters. A gleaming silver mechsuit known as a "Glitterboy," holding a shoulder mounted railgun. A dragon lying down in a forest clearing. It is curled up like a cat and a woman with black and red wings is laying against the dragon as if they are napping together. BOTTOM: A female vampire in a white dress being repelled by a cross brandished by someone outside of the image. The cross is starting to burn and the vampire has tears of blood. A trio of humans(?) surrounded by a battle. A woman dual-wielding heavy blaster pistols is forward and center. On the left is a man who seems to be wielding energy between his hands. On the right is a large man with muscular arms holding a hefty stone hammer. A feminine fire spirit or elemental.
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
clockworkcirc.us
Why no one told me about Stardew Valley?!

Today, as I pet the dog I got the message, "Crash loves you" and I guess I really needed to hear that today.
One of the dogs from the game "Stardew Valley," the image is a pixel-art dog resting on its haunches, facing forward. It is a black and white dog, reminiscent of a border collie, wearing a red bandana.
October 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
clockworkcirc.us
Might I suggest that, instead of "Eldritch Knight," we call them:

Swizards?
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM