Ian Cooper

You're committed to making it a musical episode now.

Agreed Trisha, this is gold. Bravo.

Even so, you still end up with the spotlight falling on a character who isn't going to be there next week. And you have to decide on "keep momentum" or stall until they are back. I tend to prefer momentum, so someone else has to be entrusted to play that character.

It's easier to create setups where a player can always be "back at base, doing something useful" when participation can't be guaranteed. Star Trek aces this; you can beam back and be replaced by an NPC to fill the skills gap. But not all campaigns can do this.

Let’s talk about “Move fast and break things.” First of all, Facebook itself changed its motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure” in 2014. So much for breaking things, at least if you’re a soulless corporate behemoth.
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when we say “Glorantha is mean to be Bronze Age” this is what we mean.

I guess after a while even paradise feels like Tuesday

BBC Radio 4 - The Anatomy of Kindness - Ten things we learned from the world’s largest study of kindness Claudia Hammond announces the results of the biggest ever in-depth study on kindness.

We have been sold a lie by the minority of humanity that is not, that it is in our nature to be cruel to each other. But for most of us, it's not.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

ALL THE TABLETOP

London has had a good run, but perhaps it is time to accept the existence of the Nottingham Tabletop Powerhouse and cede our status.

We must transition to net-zero Space Marines, obviously.

A report from the Guardian with Games Workshop’s profits of £135 million and noting its star performance in the FTSE 100

Might I suggest a new industrial strategy for the UK, transition our economy to become world leaders in tabletop.

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I think that Labour MPs must make a stand and call for a leadership election to oust Starmer and his far right cronies from the Labour Party.

And we must go to the streets to protest this.

Labour MPs have the power to stop this now by calling for a new leadership election. Now is the time for courage. This is not what the British people voted for when they voted Labour.

Mahmood furious over asylum seeker taxi bills.

Overton window has been obliterated

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

join.greenparty.org.uk

Love too

Apocalypse World: Burned Over The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.

A friendly reminder to my friends and colleagues; the kickstarter campaign for Apocalypse World: Burned Over is going strong and now is a good chance to show your support to @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social

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I'll be there. I tend to treat Dragonmeet as a "meet and greet" con

The Labour party is an existential threat to my family. There is little difference on that perspective between them and Reform.

I am married to a black woman and a migrant. Going to say that Labour currently stinks of racism, and is sliding towards authoritarianism. It's not a campaign, we just used our eyes and looked.

I left the Labour party. If you can't see how they keep echoing "Rivers of Blood", the rest of us can.

Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as #TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in @chaosium.bsky.social's first edition of #RuneQuest (1978).

It’s a day to be very glad that I left the Labour party and joined the Greens.

Amazed tha no one can see the echoes of the Holocaust in the principle of seizing refugees jewellery on arrival, to fill the public coffers.

We voted progressive; we got ethno-nationalism.

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The cover of Howard the Duck, Howard holds a sword and is smoking a cigar. A woman in a chainmail bikini lies behind him

Greg Stafford put them in Glorantha. Riffing off Howard the Duck originally, over Donald. Dragonbane descends from RuneQuest and thus inherited the ducks.

Looks like their dads, who made them dress up for the camera

YouTube video by techamanap The new phonebook's here!

The Jerk pretty much sums up all these feelings:

"I'm somebody now millions of people look at this book every day this is the kind of spontaneous publicity your name in print that makes people. I'm in print. Things are going to start happening to me now."

youtu.be/kOTDn2A7hcY?...

Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
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With his “Island of Strangers” speech Starmer was doing Farage’s work for him.

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