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Phil (Giving up positivity for Lent)

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Geek, gamer, whingebag (he/him) 'Dicemechanic' on Discord. Blogs rarely at dicemechanic.wordpress.com I block often. Nothing personal, but this is my walled garden.

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My one true love is now Spectaculars, and I no longer buy every superhero RPG going...but M&M will always have a place in my heart (and on my shelves!)

28.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Tabletop RPG A new edition of our classic superhero TTRPG with updated and streamlined game systems, more options, and a new look!

Better late than never - I just backed Mutants & Masterminds 4th Edition Tabletop RPG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...

28.02.2026 21:37 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Woah, roll an E overdose critical!

28.02.2026 19:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feeling in the mood for some escapism. Might finally try Ironsworn later.

28.02.2026 19:16 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Well known side effects of stacking too many Marshalls in a confined space, creating a hard rock singularity

28.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sssh, that's just our little secret

28.02.2026 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Always looking out for new turn based games!

28.02.2026 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At times like this, who can blame you for wanting to pretend to be a wizard or a spaceman or a superhero for a few hours?

28.02.2026 17:57 — 👍 38    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, I think my thesis was entirely wrong 😁

28.02.2026 10:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, I think this is right. Combined with the fact that only core rules really make money, it explains why we most recent licenses haven't been well supported (exceptions being TOR coz, well, Middle Earth innit and surprisingly Marvel Multiverse which has had a steady flow of supplements)

28.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

27.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 5035    🔁 677    💬 193    📌 39

I have to confess, I've been too busy to even think about Torg once today

27.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

One of the joys of writing Designers & Dragons has been discovering the wonder in games & even companies that I had no interest in.

From Rifts to Tails of Equestria, I found what other people see in them, and it's amazing.

27.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Tried to. Didn't work. But what a mixed bag of nominees.

27.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I have voted!

27.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

H is for Ade

27.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

I can imagine. I'm remembering it with the rose-tint of nostalgia! Given it was basically a copy and paste, I imagine the writing is in reality no better

27.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Always wanted it, bought it about ten years ago. God awful writing! The GW version was way superior.

27.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Photo of bookshelf.showing RQ3 deluxe set

Photo of bookshelf.showing RQ3 deluxe set

27.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You too can earn Stock Points... which entitle you to spend some time in the stocks

27.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've been buying most of my white whales in recent years, so it's just those few left overs to finish my collection. And then the next 1980s RPG I choose to become obsessive about...

27.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yup, I'd ban the practice entirely if I was dictator

27.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

will of the *wrong sort* of people

27.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yup. He got a duff hand and proceeded to hold them the wrong way round and roll one of them up his own nose

27.02.2026 12:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yup, probably not registered as a separate domicile. Fraud klaxon!

27.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I told my Copilot to stop apologising, be brief, only provide the info I want, and don't make unnecessary inferences or conclusions

Seems to work, but whether it lasts I doubt because those things seem hard coded

27.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wait til they learn about the Welsh Language Act...

(Oh, that's alright, those are *our* *white* foreigners)

27.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Labour have made a lot of mistakes in govt, but this ought to highlight to some people that part of the problem is that being in government is actually really fucking hard - especially in the face of the sort of global events that have rocked us since the financial crash

27.02.2026 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, they all do this now, but Sainsburys seems among the worst. Tho maybe I'm only saying that because I don't have a nectar card so it's more obvious to me!

27.02.2026 11:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

*and too evil

27.02.2026 11:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0