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Morgan Davie
@fromthemorgue.bsky.social
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Tall man, weird little telly boy
Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Writing, TTRPG design with Handiwork Games and Taleturn, taking action, discussing NZ political nonsense. Usually walking the dogs. #FiveEvil coming soon!
(mr_orgue at the bird site)
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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · Oct 24
FiveEvil: Fiendish 5e Horror

My upcoming horror #TTRPG, made from twisting 5e until it squealed, and sprinkling some indie game genius over the mess.

Kickstarter link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...

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The cover of FiveEvil shows a D20 dice, upon which is sat a fly. When studied closely, we can see the fly has tiny hands. The logo is large and appears broken and fractured. The word "Five Evil" is large, with the subtitle "Fiendish 5e Horror". Across the bottom of the cover a tag line reads: "a game of unnerving terror, subverting the expectations of the world's greatest RPG"
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I never do sales, but I'm doing a big Christmas sale this year! Shop #kikorangi local, support an artist, and give unique gifts that always hit with their recipient!

Get in and snag bundle deals, marked down tees, and restocked items that were previously sold out: pepperraccoon.com/collections/...
A digital poster advertising Pepper Raccoon's black friday sale, discounted tee designs, pins, and totes. Buy any tee, get the second for $10 off. Buy 3 pins, get 1 free. buy 4 stickers, get 1 free.
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Great summary of #FiveEvil Fiendish 5E Horror, with some nice jokes in there!

And the pre-order has just now tipped over into actual-order! Get it right now from Handiwork Games!
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Bendis back at Marvel Comics
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Jessica Jones back in the MCU
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new Alias series?
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Police Officers O’Leary and Minogue from the Wellington Paranormal division
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Incredibly Tim “the worst Davie” Davie has managed to make his resignation from BBC director general even more frustrating than all the shitty things he did in the role
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie tells staff departure was “my own decision” but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and the head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights. In a shock move, Davie said his depature was his own, but comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way the broadcaster edited a Donald Trump speech. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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lyndonhood.bsky.social
As above but it says: 'andles FOR forks!
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Pretty sure like there’s a dungeon design lesson here for DnD folks
erindwyer.bsky.social Erin Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 2d
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
It’s like photos of corn on plastic in an inflatable corn maze on grass. The inflatable parts are yellow and blue. It looks like an AI hall of mirrors but it’s IRL.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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jessnevins.bsky.social
I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....

Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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floaker.bsky.social
I've really enjoyed adding my own twists onto @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's setting and @fromthemorgue.bsky.social's mechanics. Cheers to Jon and the team for having me on board to do so.

There's so much I want to say about hope & struggle in cities, and will do as soon as the project is done!
handiworkgames.bsky.social Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 4d
Gratitude post! Today I am extremely grateful for Tanya Floaker’s amazing work on Mapmaker’s Guide for a|state, alongside their amazing perseverance with my entirely unreasonable demand that we’re not talking about it until it’s written.
The cover to The Mapmaker’s Guide to The City for a|state by Paul Bourne. It shows a close up of a hooded woman staring intensely at us. In the background is The City. A small group of a|state Troublemakers can be seen in the midground.
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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obviousplant.bsky.social
Dungeness & Dragons
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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malcolmcraig.bsky.social
The WAC is a hugely important resource for historians (I've made extensive use of it on multiple projects) and these hugely significant changes are an effective bar on access.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Awwww yeah!!
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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itsthebrandi.bsky.social
Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World
www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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maxread.info
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1 But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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garethwatkins.bsky.social
The desire for Lore is how you get "the Space Jockey from Alien is part of a race called Engineers who made all life on Earth and they don't like humans any more because they killed Jesus who is half Engineer."
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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trvshane.bsky.social
I finally found the time to have a deep read through of Cold City 2e from @handiworkgames.bsky.social (after a skim on release). One thing I am particularly loving about the new edition is the footnotes added by the now professional historian @malcolmcraig.bsky.social.

1/?
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Yay!!
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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malcolmcraig.bsky.social
It's one of the great mysteries of life: why have 15-minute demos been forgotten/memory-holed/discarded as chaff unto the pitiless winds? They worked brilliantly on multiple levels: as intros to RPG/intros to new games/as a sales tool/etc.
malcolmcraig.bsky.social Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 5d
I would go further than that. Back in the Collective Endeavour days we very successfully used 15-min demos that distilled games to their core experience. People loved them, as they very quickly got a feel for whether or not the game was for them. Taking that into the wider world would be a winner.
November 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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malcolmcraig.bsky.social
I would go further than that. Back in the Collective Endeavour days we very successfully used 15-min demos that distilled games to their core experience. People loved them, as they very quickly got a feel for whether or not the game was for them. Taking that into the wider world would be a winner.
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
Fantastic news. The Green Party needs a strong, smart CoS to be at its best. Yay! #nzpol
kevinhague.bsky.social Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 5d
Kia ora e hoa mā. I'm pleased to announce that I'm coming out of retirement to take up the role of Chief of Staff role for the Green Party in Parliament (think Malcolm Tucker, Leo McGarry). I'm not moving away from Te Tai o Poutini, but just now going the process of setting up a 2nd home in Wgtn.
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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handiworkgames.bsky.social
Back in stock - it’s The Hermit’s Sanctuary print book. This one was double ENnie-nommed! Grab some form of 5e rules and this book gives you else everyone you need to play a BEOWULF adventure! The PDF version is absolutely free and there’s a link at our store:

handiwork.games/product/beow...
A photo of The Hermit’s Sanctuary book.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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handiworkgames.bsky.social
It’s another really excellent run down of one of our games from Seyed! Well worth your time.
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
fromthemorgue.bsky.social
FAFO, cutie patootie version
delaneynolan.bsky.social Delaney Nolan @delaneynolan.bsky.social · 8d
New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM