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Grant Howitt
@gshowitt.bsky.social
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I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
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If you missed it on Friday, we're doing a game jam next month using the system that underpins our popular nazi evisceration simulator EAT THE REICH

Make something just as big and just as bloody.

Or something smaller and, dare we say it, restrained?

rowanrookanddecard.com/havoc-engine...
HAVOC ENGINE JAM STARTS MARCH 2nd - SIGN UP NOW! - Rowan, Rook and Decard
Would you like to make your own tabletop RPG of madcap escapades, over-the-top high-octane action and/or narrative freedom within interesting constraints? We have great news! Today, we’re releasing th...
rowanrookanddecard.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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turbl.es
Just a little one
There is a shot of a guy someone sticking their hand in the torment box from Dune and someone has captured it in Dune. How do they make a torment box if they don’t have computers makes no sense And then user Grant Howitt says “little crab in there “
February 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM
gshowitt.bsky.social
Little tech priest that has a bell instead of a jumper
Kitbashed miniature. 40k tech priest made out of a Vae Victis bell knight, a skitarri head, a space marine power pack and some zinge industries flexible pipes Same thing but from the back to show off their trailing wires
February 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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This engine is more candy than you should eat. This engine is a greased pig. This engine is a drum kit for your seventh birthday. This engine is Friday night forever.

Make it sing.

itch.io/jam/havoc-en...
Havoc Engine Jam
A game jam from 2026-03-02 to 2026-04-14 hosted by gshowitt, Rowan, Rook and Decard & Ex Stasis Games. Let's keep this brisk. The Havoc Engine powers Eat the Reich, our game of monstrous and sexy unde...
itch.io
February 13, 2026 at 3:26 PM
gshowitt.bsky.social
I mean… yeah
February 14, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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planetsmudge.bsky.social
Sasquatch Diaries Feb 11th
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Sasquatch is caught having broken into a home and sits stiffly, balancing a teapot and cup. Caption reads: 'disguised myself as a table but once again did it the wrong side up
February 13, 2026 at 12:37 AM
gshowitt.bsky.social
This engine is more candy than you should eat. This engine is a greased pig. This engine is a drum kit for your seventh birthday. This engine is Friday night forever.

Make it sing.

itch.io/jam/havoc-en...
Havoc Engine Jam
A game jam from 2026-03-02 to 2026-04-14 hosted by gshowitt, Rowan, Rook and Decard & Ex Stasis Games. Let's keep this brisk. The Havoc Engine powers Eat the Reich, our game of monstrous and sexy unde...
itch.io
February 13, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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lettersofnote.com
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social
You ever think that BDSM CEO who wears SEX JEANS and is exploiting his low status subordinate with an UNUSABLE CONTRACT actually just needs to be shot

This game allows you to melt his consciousness too
a graphic with the Voidheart Symphony rpg, on a pink background. There are arrows pointing to the book with the following points: self insert MC only we can save us mindfuckery/unreality Canon trans MC Hurt/Comfort OT3+++ I'd burn it all down if you asked me to (please ask me to)
February 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
gshowitt.bsky.social
Everyone is Seagulls is a despicable infohazard that should never be played.

I am so excited to see a) a panel of drag queens playing it and b) that it has full audience participation. Thankfully it only lasts an hour. God speed, brave warriors
February 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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iammattsanders.bsky.social
Recently I've seen a few 'successful' TTRPG folks framed as if their success means they are now drenched in cash / running big businesses.

On any kind of scale except comparing to the DIY and hobbyist folks, this just isn't true. RPGs are a tiny field in terms of headcount and money.
cannibalhalfling.bsky.social Seamus Conneely of Cannibal Halfling Gaming @cannibalhalfling.bsky.social · 5d
Five Tiers of RPG Publishing

Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only…
Five Tiers of RPG Publishing
Hasbro’s annual earnings came out this week, so I took a look. It is truly staggering how much Wizards of the Coast has changed the company since they were acquired; when looking at unadjusted earnings the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Games division was the only one that turned a profit in the entire company. Not only that, but Wizards is responsible for roughly 47% of the entire company’s revenue and over 90% of all revenue growth over the last year.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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misterbrilliant.bsky.social
This is the review that got me blacklisted by EA. Some shitbag executive wanted me fired.
Photograph of the text of a magazine review of The Sims 2: H&M Fashion Stuff.
February 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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museum-of-twitter.bsky.social
@steph_mcca banks email like "Ummmmm we have a MESSAGE for you. In your INBOX" and then the message is like "Hello we are your bank"
February 7, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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jimmymakepeace.bsky.social
Wow I've been spamming these guys for the last couple of weeks, They're for the character selector screen in my animation but have been fun to draw as their own project. might do another ten, for a treat. Tag urself.
a lineup of ten weird little guys designed for a character selection screen in an animation, they are (left to right top to bottom): -a big eye guy in a lightly armoured sundress. -a distressed pile of mud in a wheelbarrow. -a tank of goop with floating eyeballs within. -a pair of legs topped by a scrotum full of eyeballs -not a pickle. -a mushroom shaped twig surrounded by orange spores. -a pea pod eyeball wizard. -a caped, staff weilding and hatted ameoba looking fella -a rotund figure with natty orange boots, a tube head and a mace fist -another ameoba looking fellow, this time a monk.
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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zaratustra.bsky.social
finally found this tumblr post expounding on how stupid owls are piraticoctopus.tumblr.com/post/6741867...
elodieunderglass I can confirm that most birds have a detectable amount of wiring behind the eyes - blinking lights and buttons and sliders and frizzy things that spark and chirp and beep. They also have a lot of soul that can communicate with ours because the programming is fairly compatible. Vultures are clever and curious, swans are clear and lawful, chickens have a lot of personality, caged parrots are dissociated and disinherited and frankly worrying, falconry-trained birds of prey are tremendously businesslike. And owls are absolutely lovely beasts with their own irreplaceable validity. but they are basically stuffed with polyester fiberfill. They have one button, like a child’s toy dinosaur that opens and closes its mouth when you press the back of its head. And it isn’t even a sophisticated electronic button it’s just a lever that rocks back and forth to make the claws open and close. I think they may have actually evolved independently from sponges. Their skulls simply exist to create holes that funnel sound and light, and as a place to hang a giant hinged beak. An owl is just an empty tube like a windchime that the wind whistles through, and you can drop meat down it. They use the meat to generate feathers, and then emit the bones in pressed little packages like those machines that flatten a penny and stamp it with the logo of a theme park. I think that’s the gist of it - most birds are electronics of varying levels of sophistication, but owls are just a system of levers and pulleys. No elevator music in those skulls, just the wind echoing through empty caverns of slightly irritating design. Absolutely fantastic.
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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amutepiggy.bsky.social
the monster and another monster were in the closet making abysses and i saw the abyss and the abyss looked at me

NIETZSCHE: the abyss looked at you?
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay
it is apparently the 25th anniversary of the greatest piece of art Denton, Texas, has ever produced
The PriceMaster (full version)
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February 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
gshowitt.bsky.social
I have written 75 space orc first names and 36 space orc surnames. Please do with this what you will.
FIRST NAME Absolute Bang Big Brace Brink Buckle Bulk Bunk Carve Choke Clank Cog Crank Crash Crash-Into-Heaven Crunch Crust Dig Dog Doktor Doom Duke Eats Flaps Forge Funk Girder Girth Grip Grit Hench Hots Infinite Jeff Kick Kill-The-Moon Lump Lunk Piss Piston Plank Plug Problem Punch Ratchet Ready Rev Rivet Saw Scabs Scowl Scrap Screw Scrum Shiv Skurj Slam Slaps Slops Slug Sluice Socket Spike Spit Stabs Stomp Stonk Stop Sump Thunk Tink Truck Vice Wrench Yell LAST NAME Batteryhead Bigjaw Biglugs Bodycount Buzzsaw Capacitor Dogkicker Doomhand Doublehard Doubletap Drumsmith Fathead Fullauto Fullthrottle Gobshite Headheight Headkicker Jackhammer Killshot Nextweek Ninety-Nine One Hundred Overclock Pissmaster Ramdozer Redhand Redhot Rustbuzzer Skulljammer Tekripper Ten Thousand Tendozen Totality Tractorhead Wetmeat Yellmouth
February 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
gshowitt.bsky.social
wait what
Photo of me sucking on a miniature, base-first. There’s blue on my face
February 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social
Do you want tragedy? Do you want hurt/comfort? Whumph?? Angst?? 🥲

This is the game for you. Dive into your own AU and create your own fix-it fic 🤌
February 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM
gshowitt.bsky.social
Since I took instagram off my phone I’ve had no-one to show off my minis to. So here you are - two space gits
Photograph of two space ork miniatures. One is pumping his fists in the air and listening to music on his headphones; the other has a pair of heavy pistols Orkish discman. Had fun painstakingly cutting and sticking greeblies onto it
February 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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During research into the Kuchisake-onna and various European equivalents I managed to find the central thread
4: DIFFICULT WINTER SPIRIT. There are legends about this sort of thing all over the province – a beautiful, pale-skinned, feminine ice-spirit meets a wanderer in the countryside, they have an exchange of some kind, and the wanderer ends up dead. Sometimes you have to tell them you’re pretty or they stab you; sometimes you have to look at but not speak to them or they shove you down a ravine; sometimes they give you a baby that attracts snow so quickly it buries you; sometimes you have to give them hot water if they ask for water because if you give them cold water you die. It would appear that these different stories point to either lots of different ice spirits with different rules, but in fact there’s only one of it and it just likes being difficult to give it an excuse to kill people.
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social
Imagine SPIRE but it's WETTER and NASTIER.

If SPIRE is CEO/Mafioso x Reader, HEART is the 2nd book where y/n escapes out into the evil swamp outside the city walls and there's some kind of chesty hairy bloke with a scar who may betray them for his own weird religious reasons
a graphic with the red heart rpg, on a pink background. There are arrows pointing to the book with the folowing points: self insert MC Monsterfuckers anonymous fast burn found family forced intimacy (trapped in a dungeon) BEES AND TRAINS (bees and trains) Traagic endings Confused? This is a Roleplaying Game that finally puts you in the writers seat because you can be [insert beloved author here] at home #booktok
February 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM