Dan Thompson

‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering

When I said the various Rowlings and Linehans of Britain were assuming and hoping for the public to act as the unpaid enforcement arm of their crank movement, this is precisely what I meant.

Sometimes you catch it early and can bend the solution in the direction they're heading but sometimes they're so far off that there's no way to make it work and you need an NPC to show up like Clippy and go "it sounds like you're trying to solve a mystery, have you tried..."

As a GM there are few moments as nerve wracking as when the players have completely missed the solution to a puzzle and you have to get them unstuck. Most people find the fun in realising how far off they were but there are a handful that get real mad about it and you don't know until it happens.

He's not on Bluesky so I can talk about him without him behind his back. Working with Ross Harmston is my favourite part of doing APs for this reason. He will pass the ball to anyone and it always scores. He's not the only one by any means but man i cannot get enough of improvising with that man.

That logo is absolutely *chef's kiss*

Just a reminder that if you're working on the HBO Harry Potter show, or the audiobook, or making/buying licensed Harry Potter products, or covering *any* of the previously noted without mentioning JK Rowling's virulent and non-stop transphobia, this is what you're supporting:

It really is remarkable just how freely accessible the pathfinder and Starfinder rules are. It catches me out when I'm playing another game and realise I can't just look up any rules question for free in seconds. @archivesofnethys.bsky.social truly do (a) gods work.

HERE'S TO THE SICK AND DISABLED THAT AREN'T 'OVERCOMING' OR DOING THINGS 'IN SPITE OF' AND INSTEAD ARE JUST HAVING A BIT OF A SHIT TIME. @ THISTHINGTHEYCALLRECOVERY

You are seen, and I can relate.

#spoonie #chronicpain #chronicillness

I've taken some time as QCG winds down to think hard about the places we struggled, and what other aspirational indie studios might learn from it.

So here's a short thread: advice on running an actual play company from the Managing Director of Queen's Court Games.

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It blows my mind how perfectly Google has managed to completely ruin the search engine, a piece of technology that has basically been fine since the 90s. It's like if thirty years into making cars Ford had just gone "fuck it lads, let's square off the wheels!"

Upon reviewing Instagram Trans Pride takes the title for largest number of people I know at an event where I spectacularly failed to bump into any of them. 😅

The Danger Club Logo. The words "The Danger Club" underlined with a pencil. Behind them is a flame wreathed D20 in the colours of the Trans flag.

I made this logo for Pride month last year and I still think it's pretty sick. So since it's Trans Pride in London today...

I absolutely loved your podcast. Back when I was doing Danger Club I hardly had time to listen to any other shows but Rulelords always went right to the front of the line when a new episode came out. Your love for the game is so infectious.

Wishing love to any creators who are scrambling to post their Starfinder 2 content today after Paizo lifted the embargo a day early with no notice. Pretty sure when we did day and date content for the Pathfinder 2 launch we were still editing at this point in the process.

YouTube video by Danger Club Cocaine Owlbear: Woodland Creatures Pulling Heists!

It's @naomithinksit.bsky.social's birthday so here's a reminder that she's one of the funniest people on the planet and like half a dozen podcasts would literally fall apart without here.

Here she is playing Cocaine Owl bear with us a while back.

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2) Getting to play a character that I genuinely loved when I usually just do silly comedy bits. Maggie is the version of me at that age who I wish I could reach out to and say that it'll all work out one day.
1) Every single NPC Ross came up with, especially Principle Hardwinkle and that damn vet!

My top favourite things from Danger Things
5) Getting to make the town together and Ross having to figure out how it all fit into the story
4) The Sock Experience
3) Drum's performance across the whole series, he threw everything at Mickie and it shows

All ten parts of the Danger Club Kids On Bikes show are out now on the free DCP feed. It's the show where we play 12 year olds in 1985 and it's one of my favourite things we ever made. linktr.ee/dangerclubpo...

My old D&D buddies are late to meet and the bar and it's taking me right back to the days when they'd show up late to sessions where they knew it was a big fight because it meant I was a pint or two ahead of them and would forget all the scary monster abilities.

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Turned up late to my weekly Pathfinder game, GM immediately gets me to roll a check to save the ship, roll a nat 20, discover that he's set foundry to play John Cena's theme when I roll 20s.

Best day of my life.

“Transphobia is not f**cking feminist”

Kate Nash's powerful speech during her performance at Glastonbury.

Brilliant 😂

They should consider putting that Lawson guy in the second Red Bull. 😂

Good to see Diamond going out the way they lived. As complete and utter bastards.

I've had so many great games this week. Three different groups, three different systems. Pure joy from start to finish. I'm not saying I don't miss podcasting but man I'm playing a lot more rpgs now that I'm not making content about them.

YouTube video by Danger Club Free RPG Day - Little Trouble In Big Absalom

We used to do a Free RPG day one shot on Danger Club every year. We'd pick up the Pathfinder adventure and do it in a day.

I wanted to shout out our 2020 one because the rpg shops who opened during COVID are saints and we owe Leisure Games London such a debt.

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The public was 100% ready for trans rights just a few years ago.

What we’re seeing now is a massive shift in public opinion after a coordinated and expensive propaganda blitz, one that Dems happily ignored.

Trans rights aren’t new. We had them for years and everything was cool.

One of the things about Star Wars that I always thought was dumb was the comedy battle droids. Why would you make robot people and then deliberately program them to be morons?

But then Gen-Ai happened and now it all makes sense.

Fuck Koko. Don't pull this shit when you're happy to make money using queer performers.

Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside.

Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!