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Ethan Henry

@ehenry.bsky.social

Canadian in Silicon Valley. Tabletop roleplaying games. #TTRPG One-time Metafilter poster. He/him

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Everyone saying this is just a cover for anti-lgbtq censorship is right BUT

It's also a way to prevent new entrants into online social media as only large incumbent companies can afford to comply with these onerous rules. It's anticompetitive.

06.03.2026 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

100% stolen valor

05.03.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Abolish ICE.

05.03.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Also give away an artifact-level soul-eating magic sword at the end and players will forgive the dungeon of many sins

05.03.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There Is No Housing Affordability Without Building More Housing If we make it easier to build dense housing in cities, then the resulting supply boost will ease the cost burden on renters and put homeownership within closer reach for millions of households.

Every couple of months or so, someone puts out a piece of bad social science meant to undermine the case for more housing. For Roosevelt Institute, I wrote a blog post responding to the two most recent specimens. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/there-i...

05.03.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 290    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 14

Traveller published a couple alien rpg supplements back in the 80's that basically said this - sure, you can play this alien race, but they don't behave or think like humans, so maybe think twice here

05.03.2026 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a fun review/roast of a dungeon that both great and terrible and definitely deserves to be roasted, both for being incredibly famous and extremely cheesy

05.03.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I went to a Toronto Sceptres game on NYE last year and it was great hockey. Fast, no fights and the crowd was absolutely insane for it. The PWHL could become the most popular women's sports league in north america.

05.03.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it is indeed a little insane living in the US as a Canadian

05.03.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once a week - I'm pretty lucky to have a great group currently

We go out of our way to play new games. I'm prepping Genesys for the first time to start hopefully next week.

I read new games pretty regularly but mostly because I can't stop buying them...

05.03.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Making Enemies β€” Spy & Owl A treasury of ideas for inventing all-new abominations for player characters to confront.

Yo-HO! March fo(u)rth! It's #InternationalGMsDay! And what better way to show your GMs your appreciation than another book for their groaning, overburdened shelves?

MAKING ENEMIES is a deep dive into monster creation, a treasury of ideas for inventing all-new abominations for PCs to confront.

04.03.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Sometimes I think about how my work isn't always great or that I just drop things because time is finite but then I read things like this and I'm absolutely buoyed

04.03.2026 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

everyone is fighting a battle you can't see because you are the only one without cool invisible wizard powers

04.03.2026 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 563    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

"bone dry" is a weird idiom because the vast majority of bones are extremely wet and working hard to stay that way

04.03.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There was enough money in SEO that they used to pay a lot of people to churn out junk so I'm not exactly mad they've found a different way to do it.

04.03.2026 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Curse of Stoneshatter Tomb: A Shadowdark Adventure A 2nd level adventure balanced for one-shot, or convention, play!

24 hours left to go!

If you play #Shadowdark (or other #OSR games) then grab this 2nd level adventure for your table!

New monsters, magic items, rival crawlers, and campaign plot hooks available in PDF, Print, and for Foundry VTT.

#TTRPG

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04.03.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The struggle for the soul of Union Square The city’s most important shopping district should feel distinctly San Francisco, stakeholders say. Delivering on that vision isn’t easy.

sfstandard.com/2026/03/03/f...

This is a good article and reinforces my belief that the way to make cities vibrant again is for commercial landlords to take a haircut.

04.03.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Again, huh, so much for my theory.

04.03.2026 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn, there it is. Huh. Predator came out 1987, 2nd ed 2300AD was 1988. It seems less surprising now 😜

04.03.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was never really into 2300AD (the RPG) but at what point did the Kaefers become Predators?

Also while I generally like to see old games kept in print and I'm glad it has an audience... Kaefer was always a problematic name for one of the big-bad alien races. They could have changed it.

03.03.2026 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
EMF - Unbelievable (Official Music Video) HD
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That's Unbelievable

youtu.be/sfCLt0kTd5E?...

03.03.2026 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hahahahahahahaha

02.03.2026 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is like some perverse Mitch Hedberg joke.

"The mood here is intense and paranoid. It was intense and paranoid before, but it still is."

02.03.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Straight up Yarvin shit

02.03.2026 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Sword of Cepheus 2nd Edition - Stellagama Publishing | Cepheus Deluxe | DriveThruRPG A sorcerer blasting his enemies with the power of his mind. A muscled barbarian wielding a flaming sword against the local tyrant’s thugs. A gladiator who freed himself from slavery wanders the land, ...

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I've never tried it but people are thinking the same thing

02.03.2026 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People confuse avoiding politics with being really ignorant of politics

02.03.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I went to see it last night and this movie rules.

02.03.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Everything old is new again

In the words of the Smiths, stop me if you've heard this one before

28.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"I'm getting sued for this so you better pre-order" would be a bad pitch most of the time but this time it's got the juice

26.02.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0