Morgan Davie

Spooky season has begun... so here are FIVE MORE REASONS why your Halloween game night #TTRPG should be FiveEvil: Fiendish 5E Horror from @handiworkgames.bsky.social with INCREDIBLE art by Jon and @purdyart.bsky.social

If you want a radical reinterpretation of 5e, written by someone who really, really knows what makes the horror genre tick, the FiveEvil by @fromthemorgue.bsky.social is for you. And a Halloween bargain to boot!

This obsession with stylelessness in writing is the flipside of theorizing about language entirely as a semantic network. It leads people to misdirect and misunderstand syntactic discontinuities and the embodied cognitive processes of reading, writing, symbol manipulation and interactive thinking.

Reviews from Ry'leh takes a look at FiveEvil in an extremely thorough review. Pookie has very high standards and knows his horror RPGs. What did he think? rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2026/10/fift... #ttrpgs #fiveevil

!!! Rlyeh Reviews on the FiveEvil: Fiendish 5E Horror #TTRPG - sharp analysis that has cut to the core of it. So many great bits. “Terror rounds are patently unfair” damn straight. Thanks Pookie, you obviously went hard on this one and I appreciate it! rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/2026/10/fift...

Yep learned about him in 1988 in Pols 101 at Vic Still as relevant, if not more today

SNL UK finishing its season on a high, far out youtu.be/O7cLytBz1L0?...

Absolute fire from Aaron Smale here. #nzpol

I don't understand why this isn't a bigger scandal. The govt has lied to us and covered up that they're gonna... What? Fuck up some Marlborough Sounds beaches for their dumb fuck lng project? Thank fuck for Māni and the Post. This is outrageous. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3611...

The Grave Of Perfection by @aptshadow.bsky.social is full of a sly wit that keeps bringing to mind Discworld. Not as comedic, but the same joy in language Rincewind might not find himself at home on the streets of Ilmar, but he would at least understand the wry irony of the local Maric patois.

Lots of "politicians and gangs" in the election news. For completeness, I'd like to see "politicians and people who believe great replacement theory", "politicians and extremely conservative religions", "politicians and pedophiles who were the head of the party and had that fact suppressed" too.

The availabilitye and varietye of D20s

There's a lot going on at Handiwork Games today! Just 2 copies of the Limited Edition of CCHW left! FiveEvil is on sale for Halloween! There is only one copy of Maskwitches in softcover left! We have a small number of cover-artist-signed copies of Oathmark 2e available! handiwork.games/shop

Something else to think about instead of moving boxes is this: It’s a challenge to communicate easily and effectively to customers that many links in the chain of “norms” are being broken right now.

Short 🧵 about the situation of shipping indie products during the polycrisis. Assumptions you might have grown used to in the time of zero interest rates and global free trade expansion no longer hold.

Media coverage strategy of setting up a flimsy org with an important sounding name to dump press releases and be available for comment, undefeated. NZ media has had plenty of opportunities to develop some sort of immune system response to this. They haven't.

You can listen to @pipadam.bsky.social’s (very moving!) acceptance speech here www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26

It's absolutely impossible to express how much this means and how unbelievable it seems.

I ran a large RPG club at a girls middle school for many years and do have thoughts and advice that I've updated. I’ll thread but also post here: gist.github.com/altercation/... Spoiler: A lot of my advice is not specific to RPGs! cc @montecookgames.com @jonesm80.bsky.social @aardwyrm.bsky.social

Posted without comment save for this: vote. n.b. Alt text is strictly descriptive, not satirical and intended only for the visually impaired. If that's not you, you don't need to read it. Seriously, stop.

Got this nice sample of DAZZLING DUNGEON DECKS ahead of release!

There are all kinds of problems with politics and politicians but a non-trivial number of them derive directly the unhinged way the media treat the subject (and the people)

From "I've Been Loving You Too Long" to "Goodbye, Margaret," Twin Peaks Season 3's 'Part 15' is one of the most moving episodes of television ever filmed. I reviewed it for @popheist.com (gift link!)

You know how @fromthemorgue.bsky.social did amazing things with FitD for a|state 2E and equally amazing things with D&D 5E for FiveEvil? Well he's also doing amazing things with the Cold City/Hot War 2E mechanics for @handiworkgames.bsky.social's adaptation of @aptshadow.bsky.social's books.

Haha incredible, a Baywatch legacy sequel. I never watched the original and will not watch this but dived into this trailer with delight. It is SO over the top with only the barest barest hint of a knowing wink. Giving the people what they want! youtu.be/QSn1VqUONV8?...

Physical copies of Mountain Resonance - The Mountaineer's Handbook have been printed and delivered within the US. It'll be available soon at cool places...100 copies will be en route to Europe soon, too🎉 #RPG #TTRPG #OSR #Tenzing

New Zealand expert here, New Zealanders only ask directly for help when they are in distress (Seriously though, David is a gem, webworm is amazing and has notably improved the world with the series on the Kiwi big churches alone, and also Alan the dog is there, check it out)

i love this account. a random Peanuts strip every hour, and whenever i see one i think 'well not going to see anything better than that' and i close out of bluesky.

Re-upping this. Election politics are getting gnarly over on the big blue. Facebook, for better or worse (mostly worse), is the most consequential political space we have, so if you're over there, make it count. (The most useful tip for me: the reminder to scroll right past Simeon Brown & co)

what needs to be added to this is the magnitude of the falsehood. i.e Hipkins was "mostly false" by a dollar for the price of an NZ block of butter in Australia. Luxon was "mostly false" about Labour having an $18 billion fiscal hole, which is 18 billion (10 orders of magnitude) times worse

any SEO wizards out there know why my 20yo blog is no longer indexed by google? No idea how long this has been the case - years maybe! Search Console lists it as "crawled - currently not indexed" which is apparently for pages that are low value duplicates, not decades of personal blogging...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads