Gizmo Widget
@gizmowidget.bsky.social
Social media presence, TTRPG aspect. He/Him/His.
Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter.
The following things suck: Blockchain, so-called AI, Capitalism.
https://gizmowidget.uk
Gear icon by Lorc https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/gears.html
Trans rights are human rights. Black lives matter.
The following things suck: Blockchain, so-called AI, Capitalism.
https://gizmowidget.uk
Gear icon by Lorc https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/gears.html
Cool, jetpack. Subscription required for landing.
write a six-word sff story (🧵):
hardsuit compromised. incursion type: unknown (biomemetic)
hardsuit compromised. incursion type: unknown (biomemetic)
January 4, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Cool, jetpack. Subscription required for landing.
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Instead of RPG discourse, why not draw an animal on a skateboard instead?
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Instead of RPG discourse, why not draw an animal on a skateboard instead?
Pick six things by indie developers you have been meaning to buy (ttrpg, video game, novels whatever).
Roll a d6. Ignore the die roll and buy all six.
Hard mode. Pick twelve works etc and so on.
Roll a d6. Ignore the die roll and buy all six.
Hard mode. Pick twelve works etc and so on.
I need everyone to make a shitpost game that fits into at most 3 posts on here before the end of the year otherwise thr sun will not rise again
Not enough shitpost games though
December 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Pick six things by indie developers you have been meaning to buy (ttrpg, video game, novels whatever).
Roll a d6. Ignore the die roll and buy all six.
Hard mode. Pick twelve works etc and so on.
Roll a d6. Ignore the die roll and buy all six.
Hard mode. Pick twelve works etc and so on.
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I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
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wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys
December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys
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The Jengabus is coming
And everybody's jumping
Their motion shakes the table
And makes the tower unstable
We need a different approach
To playing games on this coach
Avoid egregious wobble
By maybe trying Dobble
And everybody's jumping
Their motion shakes the table
And makes the tower unstable
We need a different approach
To playing games on this coach
Avoid egregious wobble
By maybe trying Dobble
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The Jengabus is coming
And everybody's jumping
Their motion shakes the table
And makes the tower unstable
We need a different approach
To playing games on this coach
Avoid egregious wobble
By maybe trying Dobble
And everybody's jumping
Their motion shakes the table
And makes the tower unstable
We need a different approach
To playing games on this coach
Avoid egregious wobble
By maybe trying Dobble
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talking about this in the dice exploder discord but kinda interested in what the rabble thinks
from a TTRPG perspective, what is the difference between a mechanic and a rule and do we actually care about that difference?
from a TTRPG perspective, what is the difference between a mechanic and a rule and do we actually care about that difference?
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
talking about this in the dice exploder discord but kinda interested in what the rabble thinks
from a TTRPG perspective, what is the difference between a mechanic and a rule and do we actually care about that difference?
from a TTRPG perspective, what is the difference between a mechanic and a rule and do we actually care about that difference?
I wrote something about probabilities and dice. I misused some terminology, come at me, maths nerds. www.gizmowidget.uk/blog/compari...
Gizmo Widget
www.gizmowidget.uk
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I wrote something about probabilities and dice. I misused some terminology, come at me, maths nerds. www.gizmowidget.uk/blog/compari...
I made a thing. It's.... real dumb, but it made me laugh. gizmowidget.itch.io/the-three-wo...
The Three Word Solo Journalling Game Where You Play Yourself by Gizmo Widget
gizmowidget.itch.io
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I made a thing. It's.... real dumb, but it made me laugh. gizmowidget.itch.io/the-three-wo...
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following a star ✅
getting pregnant from a non terrestrial life form ✅
a virgin mother ✅
in space nobody can hear you scream = silent night
alien is a nativity story
getting pregnant from a non terrestrial life form ✅
a virgin mother ✅
in space nobody can hear you scream = silent night
alien is a nativity story
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
following a star ✅
getting pregnant from a non terrestrial life form ✅
a virgin mother ✅
in space nobody can hear you scream = silent night
alien is a nativity story
getting pregnant from a non terrestrial life form ✅
a virgin mother ✅
in space nobody can hear you scream = silent night
alien is a nativity story
@plusoneexp.bsky.social hey there. Any news on if/when spindlewheel might be back in stock?
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
@plusoneexp.bsky.social hey there. Any news on if/when spindlewheel might be back in stock?
I made something for PROCJAM. It's a bunch of tables! Roll on the tables! Do it. gizmowidget.itch.io/gizmo-widget...
Gizmo Widget's World Famous Name Roller by Gizmo Widget
Need a name for a person? Oh no! Now you've got a name for the person and it's a bad name. Why did you do this?
gizmowidget.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I made something for PROCJAM. It's a bunch of tables! Roll on the tables! Do it. gizmowidget.itch.io/gizmo-widget...
Dark Cloud, and/or Dark Chronicle.
Space Station Silicon Valley.
Space Station Silicon Valley.
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Dark Cloud, and/or Dark Chronicle.
Space Station Silicon Valley.
Space Station Silicon Valley.
This, but for books.
And video games.
And TTRPGs.
Oh god
And video games.
And TTRPGs.
Oh god
I have just learned the acronym STABLE (Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy) in reference to craft supplies, and it is so rude of the English language to call me out like that
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This, but for books.
And video games.
And TTRPGs.
Oh god
And video games.
And TTRPGs.
Oh god
I wrote a review of Lineage: Epoch Edition, a solo worldmaking game. Short version: it's good, and it provoked interesting game design thoughts. www.gizmowidget.uk/blog/lineage...
Gizmo Widget
www.gizmowidget.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I wrote a review of Lineage: Epoch Edition, a solo worldmaking game. Short version: it's good, and it provoked interesting game design thoughts. www.gizmowidget.uk/blog/lineage...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
I've been working my way through the @diceexploder.com podcast back catalogue and reading electric bastionland @bastionland.bsky.social so maybe this is just free associating what's top of my mind, but my hot take is that the failed careers are both playbooks and also a lyric game.
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I've been working my way through the @diceexploder.com podcast back catalogue and reading electric bastionland @bastionland.bsky.social so maybe this is just free associating what's top of my mind, but my hot take is that the failed careers are both playbooks and also a lyric game.
I love this meme. We don't use it often enough. Let's bring this one back.
It's over. There's no more games to make, no more worlds to conquer.
You think you're safe? No. A new phase begins. Playing Games.
You think you're safe? No. A new phase begins. Playing Games.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I love this meme. We don't use it often enough. Let's bring this one back.
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the people demand lego warhammer 40k
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
the people demand lego warhammer 40k
I wrote a thing. It's a game where you are scholars submitting papers to a journal. It's an asynchronous collaborative story telling game. gizmowidget.itch.io/proceedings
Proceedings by Gizmo Widget
gizmowidget.itch.io
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I wrote a thing. It's a game where you are scholars submitting papers to a journal. It's an asynchronous collaborative story telling game. gizmowidget.itch.io/proceedings
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Caligula's unorthodox style raises eyebrows among some liberal Romans.
-New York Times, 39 AD
-New York Times, 39 AD
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Caligula's unorthodox style raises eyebrows among some liberal Romans.
-New York Times, 39 AD
-New York Times, 39 AD
Turn this into a random table for your next RPG campaign.
recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
October 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Turn this into a random table for your next RPG campaign.
I'm going to make a character name generator but it's going to be very stupid and complex. Like, I'm planning at least five dice tables, probably more.
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
October 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm going to make a character name generator but it's going to be very stupid and complex. Like, I'm planning at least five dice tables, probably more.