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Roleplaying Games.
The Raspy Raven - https://discord.gg/gtcmDuprUE
Blog - https://buttondown.email/theraspyraven
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Borg Season is live, well the Google Forms lottery sign up is, a week of Borg games on The Raspy Raven Discord from 19-15 Jan. All curated by @savagespiel.bsky.social 🙏🏻

forms.gle/SeFx7om5wYJn...
the bones of a vulture, swathed in green gas and murk reach out to the words proclaiming Sue's Borg Season Jan 2026 The Raspy Raven
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Hope (1886) George Frederic Watts
Hope sitting on a globe, with bandaged eyes playing on a lyre which has all the strings broken but one out of which poor little tinkle she is trying to get all the music possible, listening with all her might to the little sound
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Game No.2 @paulbaldowski.bsky.social gives us a sneak peek of Cörk Børd in Beneath Gotland's Skin

Investigators follow the trail of a missing hiker on Gotland, leading to a notorious local landmark, Olycksbrunnen (translation "the well of misfortune").
Cörk Børd https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/allrolledup/cork-bord-a-nordic-noir-investigative-role-playing-game Beneath Gotland's Skin GM : Paul Baldowski see https://www.thedeesanction.com/about-me/ Tuesday 20th Jan 7.30pm UK Investigators follow the trail of a missing hiker on Gotland, triggered by eyewitness testimony indicating the victim was last seen heading into a remote gorge toward a notorious local landmark, Olycksbrunnen (translation "the well of misfortune") Warning: horror, violence, self-harm, substance dependency (Open Table applies to handle triggering content) AOB: Discord voice, Theatre of the Mind, no experience, pre-generated characters provided
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Here is game No. 1 CY_BORG GM'd by @seanfsmith.bsky.social with a game called

b̴̭̀̄̍u̵̳͋͒͑ẗ̵̛́̀̽ ̴͋̉̅͝d̸̡̖̔o̸̹͑͗͝e̶s ī̶͎͍t̷̻̜̐̀ ̸̰͊

"priority one || priority one |||| priiiiirroo CRASH TEAM NEEDED::"

Invokes the spirit of Escape from New York (1981)!
a funky cyberpunk font, white on black background, suitably distressed!
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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It's a bit like the Meltdown Festival on the Southbank, but instead of music it's a season of Mörk Borg #TTRPG games and we've been lucky to get guest curator for this season @savagespiel.bsky.social

Jan 2026, 19-25

More info on The Raspy Raven Discord, link in bio

Design by @groewe.bsky.social
a yellow garish image of the skeleton of some kind of bird, black text BORG, red text SEASON, more red Sue's and then black to black text JAN 2026 before yellow text THE RASPY RAVEN ...put it all together and what have you got?
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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My Bloody Valentine are still feckin' loud!
Lights, strobes and mist in purple and red shades, bounced above a sea of heads
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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You've heard about my capers when windows I've to clean
Now I'd like to tell you of a few more things I've seen
I've seen Miss Thompson in her flat take off her shoes, her coat and hat
I've seen her take off more than that, when I'm cleaning windows
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
jwmuk.bsky.social
Practice for @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social Grogmeet, The Vast in the Dark from @feralcharlie.bsky.social , implemented in @foundryvtt.bsky.social and using @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io TROIKA!

A randomly generated hex crawl, dungeon delve and exploration of a crumbling alien wasteland. #TTRPG
A hex map showing settlements, ruins, roaming hazards and wastes within The Vast in the Dark. This is for the VTT Foundry, includes a character sheet of a Brain in a Jar!
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Back with The Yellow King RPG crew last night, we continued "play testing" Cassilda's Song, the epic four setting campaign which is coming soon.

We are in Aftermath.

Robert W. Chambers' Repairer of Reputations inspired post revolutionary America. 50s styling, 80s tech, so a very alt 2025.
A yellow book with black writing. A skull with an ornate crown. THE KING IN YELLOW. ROBERT W. CHAMBERS.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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The Silt Verses RPG last night, we completed our first assignment, burnt down the warehouse and transported a god to a mega graveyard so it could ...feed. All in a day's work for our Custodians - Mario, Remi and Sibil... Onwards to Weft, The Journey next.
A god wanders the wheat fields, black, burnt hands and covered in a white shawl and hood. The skies dark and stormy overhead.
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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One for Polaris RPG...!
an underwater scene, showing submarines, sharks, divers and various citizens who live in a bubble under the sea, sometime in the future
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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An emergent mystery play through of @armadajosh.bsky.social & @beckyannison.bsky.social Ex Tenebris at Dice in a Dead City, Alex our GM did a grand job of guiding us through our investigation of an offworld mining accident. Loved playing The Relic; eons old barely human cyborg with dark memories.
Ex Tenebris, showing a dark red and brown sci-fi building with a glowing beast in the centre
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Thanks @fabiovol.bsky.social @alistairsmith.bsky.social , GM Alex and all folk at the most excellent Dice in a Dead City. @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social you'll be pleased to hear the Ana-Sin-Emid was saved with only minimal* trauma and injury to it's rescuers!

*Minimal as per company assessment.
Maps and stuff for Pressure
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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@paulbaldowski.bsky.social led us through Something Winged This Way Comes from @shannagermain.bsky.social for his KS The Dee Sanction Monad edition.

A wonderful evening of sleep scented dreamscapes amongst the Corvus Corax of ye olde Tower of Londinium.

Never leave home without a Book of Heraldry.
Two ravens caw at the viewer against the background of the tower of london
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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“You are now entering a voting booth. You may choose: Protest or Forget.”
The Smilers from Doctor Who. Androids whose face portray's a smile or a grimace
November 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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@ospreygames.bsky.social season on The Raspy Raven Discord in July (link in bio) but I already have a scenario idea for Hard City.

Motor City Requiem:
Detroit in the 1970s, murder, shakedowns & life in the fast lane. An ode to James Ellory.

Handily found a hardback of the rules on the Bay of E.
Hardboiled noir fiction
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Smash Wraps at Unit VII in Watford 😋
A chipotle bean smash wrap with salad
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Halloween.

After our regular Trail of Cthulhu session, I put on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022).

Pluses for a field full of red/orange sunflowers as the sun sets, super atmospheric, pluses for 1h20m, minuses for almost everything else.
a man with the skin of another human over his face, walks through a field of sunflowers/poppies as the sun sets
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Have you read Semiosis?
A fern unfurls
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Ok, so this is pathetic high score, 4360, but I'd love to see the highest one out there... get thee to a Google.

searchplayground.google/pacman/hallo...
a hi-score of google's pacman as of 30th October 2025, 4360 lvl 2/8
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A great sounding playtest opportunity for @moltensulfur.bsky.social's new Fear Itself scenario, Dead Man Walking, coming soon from @pelgranepress.bsky.social

Sign up and details of a new Fear Itself scenario anthology, here: pelgranepress.com/2025/10/30/c...

Playtest Deadline: 7th Dec 2025
an image of a broken down shack, somewhere in the deserts of USA
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Worth mentioning Alteregomania, similar in tone & setting to The Boys™️.

We ran this on The Raspy Raven play-by-post for a half a dozen members. It worked well PBP, where as something like NBA Solo Ops was harder to get that high octane action working in a stop-start PBP format.

bit.ly/3JxDE8N
A woman in heavy coat, with glasses and long wind tousled hair stands on a balcony against a wall covered in graffiti, she surveys the urban sprawl beneath her. Alteregomania in fractured red letters is pasted above her.
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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An extremely enjoyable run out of @savagespiel.bsky.social's The Reid Legacy for @thetweedmeister.bsky.social's Liminal at The Arcanist's Tavern in Shoreditch.

I love the real world and historic elements that are interwoven into a (hopefully) fictitious supernatural investigation of The Hidden.
A man with his dog standing on the shore, looking out to sea. Experimental print for postcard of Edmund Reid at Hampton-on-Sea, Herne Bay, Kent, England in 1912. Reid had retired in 1898, having been head of CID in the Metropolitan police, and his most famous case was the Whitechapel murders in 1888. He moved to Hampton-on-Sea which was lost to sea erosion by 1916. He died in 1917. This is understood to be a scan of an original exposure of the original damaged negative by Fred C. Palmer, so it would be inappropriate to attempt to correct this image. It is one of at least three 1912 experiments at exposure and composition of this negative by the photographer, and this one has been provided by Herne Bay Records Society, which possesses the originals.
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Drop someone scared, also waiting for a meeting to start.
Quatermass and the Pit at the Riverside Studio
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Getting ready for Liminal face-to-face tomorrow. The rules come back to me like whispers in an empty room.
5 folks cross the void to the other
October 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM