Ludovic Chabant

The first volume of the Canadian Chronicles is out on DriveThruRPG! Three scenarios of historical colonial horror for Call of Cthulhu, made and set in Canada 🇨🇦, written by Francis Acquarone, Patrick Chandler, and myself. Grab the bundle now!

in 2020 i awoke in a cold sweat with the realisation that the burger chain in Interstate '76 has the same name as the antagonist burger chain in Good Burger (1997), googled it, and stumbled upon someone's tripod site, which, blowing my own mind, i remembered visiting as a kid in like 1998.

The Guide to Glorantha is a wonderful beast, and I figured I should write about it! Because this 800-pages, 5.7 kgs slipcase set is a great source for your next light Gloranthan setting! It makes zero sense? Sure it does! Read on! ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2026/10...

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New comic in production. Join my Patreon to help out.

My first 5 RPGs: 1. The Dark Eye (L’Oeil Noir in French) 2. MERP/Rolemaster 3. Cyberpunk 2020 4. Vampire: The Masquerade 5. Call of Cthulhu (it’s all quite hazy in the middle, there was some Amber and Star Wars somewhere too)

For those who voted for the BC Conservatives, remember that their economic platform was mostly… wishful thinking and made up numbers, sprinkled with cuts to public services?

The next few years are going to be “fun”. Remember the rule of thumb: left wing governments barely ever make things better, but right wing governments almost always make things worse.

David Eby, last month, talking about calling a snap election (which historically doesn’t work out well most of the time)

Ossi Hiekkala has a blog post about his illustration work in the recently released “Lands of RuneQuest: Sartar”. Lots of pretty paintings to gawk at (while waiting to receive the book), and some interesting anecdotes. Ossi’s art is frankly the number 1 reason for me to buy the book!

Why I'm not putting my books in Kindle Unlimited... Amazon are feeding them into their AI systems, and authors don't get any choice about it #booksky

Cthulhu en XXL dessiné par CAZA dans Verdun 👍

"The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow (2024) is the most ambitious Liminal Horror scenario to date... tighter, cleaner and easier to run. I think, ultimately, it’s scarier, too." Thanks for the review, Stu!

I regret to announce that a state of war now exists between Britain and Germany

Can’t somebody just tell Chris Pratt? I mean, what if he doesn’t drive by?

local AI guy who could "finally focus on the higher level ideas" now asking AI to come up with some ideas

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

Secret easter egg: In Rangers of a Broken World, if you flip the pages fast enough, you'll "scroll" across the lands of Amylte. See it in action for yourself. Instantly get the Prototype PDF (full rules, limited art but includes the page borders) when you back: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Old fart posts even older fart joke: wondereo.com/oldest-joke-...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

I love TTRPGs and play at least twice a week. I used to also play a lot of video games when I was a kid, but now I barely play one or two a year. And that’s from someone who works on video games 😅

If anyone in Canada has been affected by the EA/Bioware announcement and would like to talk about it, email's in my profile. Can discuss on the record/on background etc.

If you're an EA employee impacted by the cuts and want to speak confidentially, please reach out. Email: chris.kerr@verticalslice.news Signal: kerrblimey.43

My gamedev hot take for a while has been “it was a mistake to go 3D”. We spend millions of $$ for shit like cloth physics and foot planting and rendering grass, which has no fucking incidence on a game except for a vague sense of “immersion” or whatever.

Less than 12 weeks ago, EA was effectively purchased by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law for $55B in a deal that saddled the company with around $20B in debt. 12 weeks. That's how long it took for them to shutter a decades-old studio in BioWare and deem people surplus to requirements.

This is them stripping the company for parts. In a better economy with anyone else investing in video game companies, they might try to sell Bioware. Instead, it's cheaper just to shut it down, people and legendary games be damned.

“Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds”: this doesn’t come as any surprise (there was very little chance Bioware was going to survive long enough to ship any other game) but it still is sad. Call me back once capitalism is done with the games industry.

Another day, another company trying to extract more money out of our data. Today’s company: eBay! Go to your Account Settings and turn that shit off. Well, assuming that toggle actually does anything, because we’ll never know, right?

“Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers”: $4.6b in revenue (at best), $12.65b in operating expenses, and $500+b in commitments they can’t possibly cover. Meanwhile, the Conservatives always lecture us about “government spending” and “balanced budgets”, LOL.

Warning: playing to much Unknown Armies may lead to these kinds of posts

Update on the use of AI text in Chaosium Community Content programs @drivethrurpg.com. TL/DR: Don't use it in our programs. AI is not art. It is theft from you and every writer who has gone before you, repackaged dishonestly and shamelessly as original. www.chaosium.com/blogupdate-o...

"I know X is ethically bad but it benefits me and my friends so I'll use it" is the ethos that basically got the US to end up where it is now. I'm thinking of starting replacing "genAI" with "slavery" and see how that makes people sound.

“Listen, I know taxing the ultra-rich would fix almost everything, but what you’re not understanding is that it ruins the fantasy of my inevitable rise to billionaire status.”

a better world is possible

“Copyright and the Vibe-Coded Adobe Clones”: A good summary of the problems waiting for these vibe-coded clones we’ve seen popping up. Still, I’m grabbing some popcorn because things might get interesting.

“Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams is as tired of genAI in the industry as anyone else, and is pretty set on never using it”: Nice.

Congrats to our Albertans neighbours for going out en masse to vote against a bunch of silly disinformation, but it’s only the start of your work: there’s still 1 in 4 of you that believes secession is going to accomplish anything worthwhile.

Video games studios: <are risk adverse and want to lay-off people willy-nilly, so use contractors for 80% of their production> Video games press: “THIS GAME WAS MADE WITH A VERY SMALL CORE TEAM!”

Dog in fog / dog above fog

“Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First”: A little classic from the Onion, which is relevant again for my fellow French people!

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

We should bring thon back because “they” is an editorial nightmare

It would be a shame if something was to happen to these warehouses… Unrelated: how much for one of those drones I keep hearing about in the news?

"I'm going to charge those machine guns." "...Are you sure?" "My super speed will get me there before they fire. Werewolf howl!" [[dice roll]] "Machine gun bullets hit you in the arm, the chest, and three times in the head." —Godlike, Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire. 1936–1946

More pictures from these tobacco ads can be found here: tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/d... You know, in case someone wanted to make some genAI memes or something

seems timely this week aftermath.site/tag/tim-swee...

Today: "Billionaire former dev whose engineering firm has been mismanaged to the point it has to vibe-code a launcher takes offense at AI-critique of popular developer that every developer that started since 2015 or so adores; Elon Musk gets involved to support the side that is obviously wrong."