Jukka Särkijärvi

Fantasy campaign idea: Only Polearms

The most immediate "Hey, if you liked BioWare games, then you'll dig this..." is the RPG project I've been on since this summer, Hunter: The Reckoning -- Deathwish. Its biggest influence is obviously Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, but BioWare hallmarks are there too. teyon.com/games/hunter...

Didn't have this on my bingo card. youtu.be/X8cX7sjN53w?...

for those of you who don't know the Shopping Mall lore my first RPG was Heroes Unlimited (1E) and the group that introduced me played the intro scenario which is a nice standard "supervillains are threatening the shopping mall and the A-List heroes are unavailable, HELP". It's fine. Decent intro.

Heidi Wong's Halloween costume (instagram) is as the Shimmer from the Annihilation movie, with a purse using my novel. Really clever, looks good affixed to the purse.

Well, that's one blog off my Feedly.

This seems like a big deal

Saw Street Fighter. Immensely dumb, but my kinda dumb.

Palantir cofounder is afraid of cooties.

This might sound kinda weird, but in feeling sad about BioWare and wanting to avoid EA, I do recommend playing the Baldur's Gate remasters. They're made by Beamdog, so EA doesn't get a dime of it, and you get to appreciate the games that put BioWare on the map.

The intro round at the first lesson of any doctoral school course is always fun. It's like 20 people who tell about their serious work in healthcare or with abuse victims or climate change or something involving tensile strengths and then there's me going "o hai I study fantasy RPGs and vampires".

Criminally under rated film

Happy KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS week to film perverts everywhere!!!!!! IT IS OUR TIME!!!!!!

A must-share every single time it comes up.

Ea-nāṣir Must Die! is out now! Thanks @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Copy/Paste Co-op and @plusoneexp.bsky.social for making this full release happen! A Bronze Age sword & sorcery house crawl adventure for 3–5 players, inspired by the historical figure and meme, Ea-nāṣir. Links below! #ttrpg #osr

The game dwarf fortress isn’t for everyone, it’s likely the most complex management game ever created. I love it, so I jumped at the chance to work with mightymerch.store to make a 20th anniversary map poster. This one was super fun to draw. #map #cartography #dwarffortress #graphicdesign #games

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WE ARE BACK BABY I appreciate you being reasonable, Travis, despite our fundamental disagreements on fair use. But we will meet again. youtu.be/zjPRAM0WDgw

I'm trying to remember a tv show or a movie I saw in the 90s. I only remember one scene but it's stuck with me... It's a historical story, set during the Christianization of Scandinavia. One character is a monk or a bishop sent to convert the heathens. He gets advice from a Norse person. 👇🏼

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Winston Churchill as a baby (colourized).

What does the sky above the port, looking like television tuned to a dead channel, look like?

Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...

icymi the cover for my new book, THE AGE OF IMMERSION is out! Here's why I wrote it, what's going to be in it (everything from medieval tournaments and pageants to panoramas, installation art, Happenings, the Starcruiser, and jubensha), and how I researched it.

While some purists restrict the "OSR" label to games emulating OD&D and/or Mentzer Basic, others consider anything from the hobby's first decade fair game; thus, having first been published only six years after OD&D, under the broader definition you could technically write an OSR game based on this:

Bit late on here due to some familial expansion, but Shelfie #3 is already out and in it @ghargremxul.mt shares his very unique collection that helps him produce games inspired by Maltese history and folklore: www.shelfie.email/p/003-ghar-g...

How to make Jacob Rees-Mogg look good: put him next to Tucker Carlson.

“How did you get into TTRPGs?” I no longer even remember. I have always been here.

It wouldn't let me sleep. kelvingreen.blogspot.com/2026/10/pole...

Happy Spookie Season - STRAHD MUST DIE is live! This 54 page supplement is a cypher to make #Daggerheart shift from heroic fantasy to dark gothic horror.

We had this talk sometime in the beginning of the year so I'm frankly a little hazy on the specifics by now, but I do remember it was a good time. It's always a good time talking to Cam. Anyway, RPGs are the fuckin' best and I love talking about them.

Yes, well, they would.

Thrilled to see this latest special issue of Eludamos out now! Pop open some champagne and read about Party Studies in Game Studies, guest edited and introduced by Leland Masek and @jaakkostenros.bsky.social!

Given Wizards' abandonment of D&D fiction, it's great to see Hachette Partworks bringing back 100 classic D&D novels—even better, all in a gorgeous HARDCOVER format. If they were more easily available in the US, I suspect I'd be looking for shelving to fit 100 books. 🧵1

I am now apparently a #dragonlance influencer. I did a pronunciation guide for the Finnish Dragonlance Chronicles audiobooks and then the publisher, Saga Egmont, also wanted Instagram videos about it. www.instagram.com/p/DdoLMINoTBE/

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Last night I finished reading the 64th and final book in the Warhammer 40,000 Horus Heresy series.

There's much more to say about this than fits well on Bluesky--glad to give many other examples to back up different elements of what @ecfriedman.com and @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social were saying. Here's an old roundup that needs updating boardgamegeek.com/thread/34237...