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Sean Connery as William of Baskerville from The Name of the Rose holding a copy of the Carved from Brindlewood game Rosewood Abbey.

Derek Jacobi as brother Cadfael holding a copy of the PbtA TTRPG Rosewood Abbey.

Pope Francis' passing led to a couple of posts about religion-inspired TTRPG which resulted in a couple of kind recommendations for ROSEWOOD ABBEY (thanks).

The question "Is it inspired by The Name of the Rose OR Cadfael?" popped-up.

Let's dig into that with a thread.

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21.04.2025 13:58 — 👍 100    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 2

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

The Prince Charles - a West End institution - is under threat. Support them, unless you want to see another fucking M&M superstore where this beautiful cinema is. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

28.01.2025 11:46 — 👍 675    🔁 280    💬 42    📌 24

The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth Tuba: AI

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

23.01.2025 08:03 — 👍 2806    🔁 1007    💬 17    📌 39

Trump’s threats against three sovereign nations are just the start. He’s said that he’ll acquire Panama and Greenland by force and Canada he will take through “economic force”. This is mafia tactics. And for us, in Europe, trade agreements aka “economic force” are nothing compared to the big one: US withdrawal from NATO, a sword of Damocles, over our heads. But, the biggest threat is that we can’t even see or hear or contemplate this, what it means let alone engage in the urgent debates needed because our entire news cycle has been drowned in noise. This is how it happens. Steve Bannon who may turn out the most prescient philosopher of our era said you don’t have to prove or disprove anything, you just need to drown the zone in shit. Or, in the case of Elon Musk a ten-year-old British scandal that has dominated the news cycle and parliamentary debate for day after day. We are so ill-equipped to face the coming threat. Our entire news and information system was submerged by a barrage of noise from the richest man on the planet and because we’ve failed to grapple with the enormity of what’s happened to the underlying communication and power structures of our world, we are helpless to withstand them. We walked straight into Musk’s trap and allowed him - facilitated him - to set the political agenda in a crucial week.

Stop & read this @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warning about the terrifying threat we face from Trump & the oligarchs.

"The world has never seen power like this before. The state machinery of a global superpower allied to the power and reach of global information platforms." 1/

17.01.2025 20:55 — 👍 416    🔁 178    💬 10    📌 5

can you share any more info on this?

15.01.2025 03:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Look none of this is difficult.

The billionaires want us to hate each other. They're buying every newspaper and social media company to flood the space with bots and hate speech to keep us fractured and divided. And we could do that - and tear each other apart - or we could try to fix things.

09.01.2025 22:52 — 👍 2733    🔁 948    💬 37    📌 33

I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes I’ve gotten myself into a bit of a jam. A series of natural disasters is barreling towards my home, and there is a severe shortage of resources and...

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

10.01.2025 02:20 — 👍 3786    🔁 1190    💬 46    📌 109

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

08.01.2025 19:52 — 👍 34704    🔁 7766    💬 601    📌 206

Coming soon: Magic of Inventorying A roleplaying game to declutter your loot and banish encumbrance forever!

My big big big TTRPG endeavor for 2025, is the #MagicOfInventorying Kickstarter.

In this zero-prep (I mean it ZERO prep) TTRPG for 3 to 6 (8 with new classes), you're are adventurers who ALREADY reached the end of a dungeon...

...but what loot will you keep?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rol...

06.01.2025 14:39 — 👍 113    🔁 55    💬 4    📌 10

This is the side issue to so many politically-based bot and AI slop accounts. The posts and memes catch the attention of famous people, who re-post them and don't care.

ALT: "I don't care if the Star Trek man re-posted it. Stop posting A.I. Shit into my time line! Even if our politics align."

03.01.2025 17:42 — 👍 79    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 0

Life or death on your walk: Why Britons are calling for thousands of new paths - Slow Ways 7 in 10 UK adults think that people should be allowed to walk along the edge of privately-owned fields

Life or death on your walk: Why Britons are calling for thousands of new paths

Shouldn't it always be safe to walk to your local school, doctors, pub, friends?

buildstories.slowways.org/life-or-deat... on @slowwaysuk.bsky.social

27.12.2024 09:14 — 👍 187    🔁 55    💬 7    📌 3

Campaigners call for right to roam on edges of private farmland in England Group says people in rural areas have to walk on roads without pavement, which can be very dangerous

Too many people can't walk to the pub, shops, school, doctors or to see friends of family because there is no safe way to go.

7 in 10 agree we should be able to use field margins if there's no safe alternative

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

buildstories.slowways.org/life-or-deat...

26.12.2024 13:52 — 👍 311    🔁 90    💬 18    📌 7

Defra scraps England deadline to register thousands of miles of rights of way Campaigners jubilant after government heeded warning 2031 cutoff would mean loss of precious footpaths

This is brilliant news for people who enjoy walking!

A giant thank you to all our friends, colleagues and partners who have worked so hard to save our paths - especially @ramblers.org.uk + @openspacessociety.bsky.social

Great decision by the gov and DEFRA.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

26.12.2024 08:38 — 👍 99    🔁 40    💬 1    📌 2

Here's an early Christmas present.

@spoonerf.bsky.social has jazzed up our map of inaccessible monuments.

Investigate the hidden heritage near you! 👇

spoonerf.github.io/inaccessible...

24.12.2024 18:41 — 👍 32    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 0

Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

24.12.2024 03:11 — 👍 46423    🔁 21094    💬 255    📌 379

legacy news: Why would someone do this brazen shooting

shooter’s statement: I did it because America’s healthcare industry is inhumane

legacy news: Perhaps it was video games?

shooter’s statement: I am literally citing sources about corporate greed

legacy news: I guess we’ll just never know

11.12.2024 00:15 — 👍 5177    🔁 1535    💬 43    📌 27

Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts by John Harper A Setting & System Expansion for Blades in the Dark

Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts is packed with new lore, gameable details, plug-and-play systems, GM tools, crew opportunities, and new artwork.
Available now on itch and DriveThruRPG:
Itch: johnharper.itch.io/deep-cuts
DTRPG: shorturl.at/pKhsZ

02.11.2024 23:17 — 👍 261    🔁 42    💬 12    📌 12

The Rolistes Episode 57 Dragonmeet 2023

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Are you bracing up for #Dragonmeet?

Can't you wait?

Do you need something to listen to on your journey to London?

The Rolistes Podcast has several years worth of interviews recorded AT DRAGONMEET. 😉

Find out about #PodcastZon, traders, and more.

rolistespod.com/podcast?cat=...

25.11.2024 10:14 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0