Ray Irving 🇺🇦

In the final scenes of “Don’t Look Up” everyone wonders what they should do waiting for the meteor to strike… In the forthcoming cyber apocalypse I have decided I want to play Warhammer 40k with Ciaran Martin!

OMG! 😮 I am in love. Want want want! @fuzzybunny.org, @flourish.org

#TTRPG Game Designers: every time I learn a new game I have to make one of these, but it’s never included in the rules. Why?

The Gentlemen, Season 2: starts well, wavers slightly in the middle, finish (the last two episodes) is very very strong. Not quite as good as S1, but still highly recommended.

The mash up we all want to see! Horrific body count, even with Harper’s 7 barreled volley gun!

Yes, used hang out with medics a lot and can confirm this is standard practice for consultants - if they like you they put all kinds of flowery praise in the referral letters, just for fun and giggles really.

This is the 3 constraints of Project Management working as normal, you can pick *only* 2 from: a) Low cost b) Fast delivery c) High quality AI code gives you a) and b) but the lack of c) leads to technical debt… You can correct the quality issues but that costs, so you end up with b) and c).

Either they’re Cats of Ulthar or Detwiller started worshipping Bast…?

This is Warhammer 40K coded.

Today’s #TTRPG challenge: design a scenario using this hat!

Next Land Talks is tomorrow! Speakers on the tickets page: luma.com/mka0gu7s Get a ticket, bring a friend, if you think the cost of land, or quality of housing, or the consequences of those, needs radical improvement.

That Bronze Age Cyclops art really is quite the thing (not to mention those hippo riders…), very evocative…

Vernor Vinge passed away in 2024, his SciFi book *Rainbows End* which is set in 2025 - uncannily accurate prediction of destructive book scanning: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

A couple of years ago I made a concerted effort to remove as many die rolls from my #callofcthulhu as possible. The result: a regular player had a quiet word that she actually *liked* rolling the dice, could I please reverse this change 🤷‍♂️

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This is just 👌🏻

Definitely passes the same vibe check…

Good thread - we don’t actually know for sure how Homeric armour looked…

As portrayed in Nolan’s Odyssey, the Atreus brothers come over as exactly the kind of guys who would go to considerable effort to obtain exotic wives. The scene with Menelaus in his gold spangled palace in Sparta makes it clear - Lupita fits in perfectly. It’s entirely believable.

I really enjoyed The Odyssey in IMAX format, it is excellent: intense, epic, beautiful and well acted. Definitely nothing to get worked up about like folks did after the trailer…

Of course Plato was right, life would be better in a rationally structured city-state governed by enlightened philosopher-kings

Today’s AI ick trigger (from a sales email): “No demo, no deck — just a concrete control pattern to react to”. They certainly got a reaction!

I just announced to my Swiss colleagues that my summer wish list is for England to win the world cup and the UK to get a decent Prime Minister. Oh the mirth, they are falling over themselves with laughter!

Over on LinkedIn I can’t look anymore - every post: “here’s the bind” “why this matters” “and another thing” Totally doing my head in!

Later in my 2nd Call of Cthulhu campaign I had the epiphany every single player had totally different motivations to play - I now swear by premise buy in, session zero and hooks between party members

And here I would have captioned it, "Trump meets with Elric of Melniboné cosplayers to ask if this so-called 'Black Blade' named Stormbringer can be used to end the war with Iran"

@flourish.org remember playing this and marvelling at the parallax scrolling?

I don’t understand all the fuss about OSR - it’s an obsolete 40 year old game that is best forgotten

Brilliant how, when you add the colour, it becomes clear The Regia Marina was not loaded with mines, but Poké Balls. I wonder what types of aquatic Pokémon Mussolini managed to collect?

Inspector Morse was a huge thing for me at the time, totally unmissable, seriously tempted to start re-watch…

All set for tomorrow, running the Regency version of the #callofcthulhu scenario Zennor & the Sins of St. Senara by @stygianfoxpub.bsky.social. Jane Austin’s Persuasion meets Lovecraft, well, sort of… 🤭

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Land Talks #5 is soon! I'm running another evening of lightning talks about land policy. This one's got quirky stuff about the impact of driverless cars on land, and crunchy stuff about how liberalising planning can reduce trust and cause more problems. luma.com/avdjw348 Come along!

#DnD has a lot to answer for - I think the issue stems from later versions containing a mini game, namely designing and levelling up your PC. Players are so invested in this mini-game that killing a PC without cause breaks the social contract with the DM. Thus the “balance” obsession. It’s absurd.

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

This would make Reform a sort of Arc B for useless MPs!

A lifetime studying primates provides valuable insight on humanity…

Took me 25 minutes to download an app, create an account and set up credit card payment to charge a hire car before returning it in Germany. Ridiculous!

A one shot should be designed to complete in 4 hours. A good one also has safeguards to ensure it does.

If you're in London - my third evening of lightning talks about Radical Land Policy is next Tuesday - have a look at the Luma page to see the speakers! luma.com/v8knl21z

I urge you all to back this - like me - he says in a desperate effort to atone from dropping out of Paul’s play by mail game in the early 90’s!