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Richard ‘The Maligned’ August

@rpgaugust.bsky.social

Dublin-dwelling game designer, writer, reader, and all round nerd (he/him) https://rpggeek.com/rpgdesigner/89296/richard-august

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Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

07.08.2025 18:46 — 👍 2443    🔁 964    💬 11    📌 13

I’m so sorry for your loss, my friend. He sounds an amazing person. I hope you’re doing as well as you can in the circumstances. Love and strength x

07.08.2025 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A world with more THORN is a better world

06.08.2025 16:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m so sorry. I hope they find out soon and it’s fixable x

05.08.2025 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I got Hunters, and Thorns, but not Omen I’m afraid!

05.08.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well this is absolutely amazing and all I want to do is write a campaign for it. Why don’t I have more time?!

05.08.2025 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Be gentle with yourself, and I hope it backs off soon

05.08.2025 11:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dragon Slayers TTRPG Heroic fantasy roleplaying using the award winning Slayers system. Time to slay a dragon.

Sitting at 95%, today feels like a good day to get Dragon Slayers funded.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

04.08.2025 16:18 — 👍 45    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 5

Laurie is an amazing designer. This will be amazing. Give it a follow, or you’ll probably fall of a mountain.

30.07.2025 09:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

How dare you assume this before checking with me

27.07.2025 06:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Imagine living in a world where you can read James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, or Agatha Christie and actively choosing to read the crime novels of JK Rowling. Who does that to themselves? Do you not think you deserve good things?

26.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anything that gets Castle Falkenstein more attention and love is a good thing

20.07.2025 15:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations!

20.07.2025 08:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a man is squatting in a hallway with an exit sign above him Alt: a man is squatting in a hallway with an exit sign above him

When someone wants to tell me about their D&D character

19.07.2025 10:18 — 👍 425    🔁 22    💬 75    📌 7

All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine

17.07.2025 18:47 — 👍 93    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 4

It’s been a glorious run of endless test matches and now it’s over I feel so lost!

15.07.2025 05:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

14.07.2025 15:02 — 👍 6751    🔁 1878    💬 147    📌 186
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Almost 500 backers contributed to make Menagerie of Unbearable Things a reality! We are on the final hours if you still want to participate in this bestiary of tragedy full of stories, ideas and adventure hooks for GMs and players alike.
Link here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tan...

#ttrpg

13.07.2025 17:18 — 👍 51    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1

Did some classicist wish on a cursed monkey's paw for more contemporary relevance of ancient history? Between Zuckerberg and his Roman emperors thing and whatever this metaphor is supposed to be, I just . . .

08.07.2025 00:09 — 👍 40    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

It wasn’t me. I was 401! But the game looks fantastic. I’m looking forward to finding out more.

13.07.2025 15:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel exactly the same, and each time I try I just end up disliking it more! It moves too fast and there’s too much of it

12.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So true. And with much worse dialogue.

Sigh.

11.07.2025 11:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am making a lasagna for this evening’s tea. The flat smells of the components of lasagna cooking

This is a good Friday afternoon

11.07.2025 10:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense, organized by Nicole Lindroos My name is Nicole Lindroos, co-owner of Green Ronin Publishing. Diamond … Nicole Lindroos needs your support for Support Green Ronin in Critical Legal Defense

We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...

10.07.2025 23:00 — 👍 369    🔁 285    💬 9    📌 30

Right?! It manages to be both dynamic and… communicate nostalgia

10.07.2025 07:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I genuinely am 6’2, but I lack any ‘traditionally handsome facial features’ and have an awful personality. I have been married 14 times. It really is just about height. He’s completely correct.

10.07.2025 07:21 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

By the many headed gods of the outer dark, this is glorious stuff.

10.07.2025 07:16 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

This is just wonderful stuff!

10.07.2025 07:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
advert for Bad Squiddo Games showing Annie (me!), an artwork of a Pulp explorer by maritn whitmore, a shieldmaiden, soviet spotter, vampire queen and jeanne de clisson on a horse.

advert for Bad Squiddo Games showing Annie (me!), an artwork of a Pulp explorer by maritn whitmore, a shieldmaiden, soviet spotter, vampire queen and jeanne de clisson on a horse.

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man!

www.badsquiddogames.com

07.07.2025 13:30 — 👍 936    🔁 609    💬 29    📌 67
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HXPLR HXPLR (hex-plore) is a very rules-light roleplaying game I wrote as an experiment for myself. That’s it, there’s nothing too fancy about it. I hope it’s useful to you.  Be small in form factor, so the...

I released HXPLR today. A little cc-by 4.0 chassis I wrote as an experiment for myself as I tried to codify the ideas i use while teaching rpgs at schools, libraries, and cons.

itch.io: northernlightsfoundry.itch.io/hxplr

NLF: store.northernlightsfoundry.com/products/hxplr

06.07.2025 18:11 — 👍 69    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 4

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