Nikita

Nikita

@coppershaman.com

A human Made OSWOR: a hopeful game about dismantling sun-powered oppressive tyranny https://laplab.itch.io/oswor Blogging from the shaman hut: https://coppershaman.com/

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If unions didn't work employers wouldn't pull this shit to stop them

Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social

The IWGB is arguing that the 'moles' or 'information providers' were provided time off in lieu by HR as a "sweetener" for surveilling the union discord. Emails are shown that indicate a HR rep at Rockstar allowed someone to claim back the hour they spent combing through the Discord for info.

Team at Peregrine Coast are legends. I’ve seen them work, it’s art

Eryk@peregrinecoast.press

brother could AI do THIS

I’m excited! I was already planning to run FIST but Triangle Agency looked super interesting too. Marriage between the two sounds perfect

Caleb Zane Huett@calebzane.bsky.social

entering the kickstarter campaign madness zone. please be patient with me for the next six weeks. also pre-save the house edge www.kickstarter.com/projects/hau...

“If the dragon didn’t have that much HP, then players would not have time to press the buttons on their character sheet” I’ve never thought about it that way. This is sad

The Dolent City@thedolentcity.bsky.social

This Game Demands a 200 HP Dragon After last night's 4e game, I felt the need to rant. The session didn't go how I wanted. Who is to blame? Me? The players? The system? A little bit of each I think. www.thedolentchronicle.com/posts/this-g...

That was surreal. I’m not supposed to be older than anybody Oh well, jazz was fun, grandpa Nikita approves

Eryk@peregrinecoast.press

Took @coppershaman.com to a Leeds jazz bar and realised the place I went as a 21 year old trying to be cool is now full of 21 years trying to be cool and we had progressed into being chopped and unc at the jazz bar 😔

@olddog.games Hiya! Do you happen to know any artists/designers working in a similar visual style in TTRPGs? I’ve got a vague creative itch around cassette retrofuturism vibes and I’m curious who else is doing interesting work there — no concrete project yet, mostly exploring 👀

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The next time you sit down to start writing a list of 10 gods and 1 evil god, stop. Don't do that. Do this instead. Get 3-6 friends who play RPGs that aren't part of your current campaign. These are your setting's gods. riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

riseupcomus.blogspot.comThe gods are the gay people that live in my phoneSometimes I kvetch about how boring I find fantasy pantheons that are just Greek gods with a bad coat of paint. Sometimes I've blogged abou...

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My gf has this cool worldbuilding project that's all about bug-bio-mechs and part of it has been creating a new poetic form, which is, simply explained, 6-word poems. Pilots name their mechs like this but also do it to flex. So we've been writing a few of those. Here are my favorites:

Holy shit!

Sean McCoy@sean.tuesdayknightgames.com

Mothership Month is back this year, with one big caveat: no crowdfunding, no new releases. Instead we're investing back in the community: For starters: the Jump-9 Writers Grant will invest $9k in 3 new writers to help them each create a Mothership zine. www.failuretolerated.com/mothership-m...

Perhaps this second point about control is more important here We want our games to be played, right? If you are getting my game and not playing it later, I have not achieved my goal So I will force you to feel bad by making you pay. Now if you don’t play, you wasted money

It’s also clear that it doesn’t work Paying money for something doesn’t magically organise a group of adults to play As a result, I have a bunch of games that I bought, but haven’t played (or even read!) The same end state, people not playing our games. Now with money

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Hell yeah!

IWGB Game Workers Union@gameworkers.co.uk

Workers at Rowan, Rook and Decard have secured the first union recognition agreement in the UK table top games industry! 🙌 iwgb.org.uk/en/post/tabl... Work in the UK games industry? Join our union today!

Paul’s work is incredible 🙌

Paul Red@paul-red.bsky.social

The third mountain-themed painting I made for my close friend @coppershaman.com By the weekend those paintings will be framed and on a wall in their new home 🙂

When I was in uni, Oliver Tree‘s Alien Boy was my whole vibe. I listened to the album way too many times. I was psyched when Ugly is Beautiful came out. Both albums played at my wedding. I was considering getting the same haircut. Rest in peace, weirdo. I will miss your immaculate vibes

Sometimes the stars just align, don’t they. I was literally thinking how can add Milk Bar vibes to my next BitD game with focus on organising and then this drops God I love this community

we pitched a game where we would play community organizers building a sustainable community in the depressed streets of a modern, neglected city. This required a lot of reflavouring playbooks and building our own moves to fit the vibe, and I am so excited to announce that it is almost here! (2/?)