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Steve Dempsey

@gbsteve.bsky.social

Bilingual gamer, GUMSHOE enthusiast, folklore finder, West Ham supporter, ME/CFS layabout, ex-data scientist.

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And there's a bonus to playing with the publisher.

03.10.2025 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No. It's a group that meets twice a year and started when the original participants were at school, so over 40 years ago. I've only been playing for about 20 years. Two sons also now join in. We moved from AD&D to 13th Age when the original PCs got to around 25th level.

03.10.2025 09:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Good luck!

02.10.2025 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Playing 13th Age from lunchtime Friday until lunchtime Sunday. With breaks for meals and sleep.

02.10.2025 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's a creature on me!

#ReeceShearsmith #SuchBravery #Taskmaster

02.10.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's actually saoul vide, the empty feeling you get when you start to sober up.

02.10.2025 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hope you find what you need. This probably isn't the forum for serious medical advice.

02.10.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just find the right over the counter antihistamine.

02.10.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very nice work. My gran and her two sisters, mum and brother, his daughter and my sister's son all have it. So it was 3 out of 4, then 1 out of 2, then 1 out of 3, and now 2 out of 3. It's a sneaky gene and I'm jealous. Or perhaps I was just too busy doing maths and football to practice enough.

02.10.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cloud Empress: Land of Cicadas - worlds by watt | DriveThruRPG Expand your journey into an expansive, Ennie award-winning Nausicaa-inspired fantasy campaign setting ruled by giant magic cicadas, using the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG 1E compatible Panic Engine. T...

Land of Cicadas now available free, as well as the core rules. Get some great hexcrawl action!

I played this then ran it, and one of my players has done the same. We've already got three generations of #CloudEmpress.

#TTRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

01.10.2025 16:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Share the last 4 TTPRGs you played and expose your gaming habits.
Swyvers
Trail of Cthulhu
Cloud Empress
Mythic Bastionland

29.09.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

We played quite a lot of that with David Thomas. I don't remember any of the details but we did enjoy it.

26.09.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was all cut and paste.

26.09.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Slightly better than listening to the news.

26.09.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think I can probably still manage three hours about the Interdepartmental Business Register even though it's five years since I thought about it.

25.09.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You're gonna need a bigger hug.

24.09.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In space, no-one can hear you whatever you're doing.

24.09.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just got Crown of Salt too, after listening to Fear of a Black Dragon talk about it.

24.09.2025 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My game of Hot War also spent some time on Canvey Island.

23.09.2025 20:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bookhounds of London, the setting for Trail of Cthulhu. A result of that is my Fearful Symmetries explicitly avoids London, but still has to give an in game reason why this is so.

23.09.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Intrepid! www.kiwigamedesign.co.uk/intrepid
Montsรฉgur 1244 thoughtfuldane.com/games/montse...
My Life With Master en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Life...
And Trail of Cthulhu which I've run more than anyone else (and I have written for it, a campaign which I've been running for nearing 10 years).

23.09.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brian Lumley's cultists are specific in "The Second Wish" on #StrangeStudies this week - you don't want people thinking you're worshipping the wrong cosmic horror! Grab your bolo and head over to Patreon for more!

Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!

#hppodcraft

20.09.2025 17:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Loved the Butterscotch.

19.09.2025 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But also the many varied descriptions of the Mythos deities, "Nyarlathotep:
- began as a specific telepathic language โ€ฆ It eventually became artificially intelligent, as more beings put more and more information and meaning into it.
- is the soul of all the Gods โ€ฆ and other beings of the Mythos."

19.09.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I enjoy Ken's writing in Trail of Cthulhu, "But for every stick, there is a stunted, dubious carrot. When your Investigator obeys his Drive, he gains Stability, as he bolsters his own emotional or intellectual justification for action. His actions are authentic, even if they are horribly misguided."

19.09.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excellent. We've just finished a massively enjoyable 11 session campaign in which my knight lost a hand but become regent of the realm. There was so much good stuff in it, and the tactical element to the combat is a great flex on Into the Odd.

18.09.2025 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Somehow cooking the oats turns them into a cardboard flavoured unpalatable mush. And the Golden Syrup my mum put on it made it even worse. So now I have mine raw with a mix of fruits and nuts and lactose free yoghurt. So delicious I could eat it for every meal.

18.09.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Worked for me too.

18.09.2025 07:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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crown of salt Fear of a Black Dragon is hosted by Tom McGrenery and Jason Cordova, with production by Rich Rogers.

Listened to this today, www.gauntlet-rpg.com/fear-of-a-bl... and it sounds so fabulous that I just had to get a copy from @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social.

17.09.2025 10:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's an ill wind.

17.09.2025 10:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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