Sarah Cole
@irny.bsky.social
Pale. Curious. Game-maker. Writer. (de-)Archivist. Goon.
Goblinesque. Demi. ADHD. She/Her.
Current things:
- Darkened Hill & Dale 🎲💀🏞️
- TERMINUS 🎲💀🚇
- Trick or Retreat 🎃🎲☕☺️
links.patchworkfez.co.uk
Goblinesque. Demi. ADHD. She/Her.
Current things:
- Darkened Hill & Dale 🎲💀🏞️
- TERMINUS 🎲💀🚇
- Trick or Retreat 🎃🎲☕☺️
links.patchworkfez.co.uk
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Sarah Cole
@irny.bsky.social
· Apr 8
Patchwork Fez Games
Horrible games for lovely people.
shop.patchworkfez.games
Interested in a TTRPG of mine?
Pick up Darkened Hill & Dale at
shop.patchworkfez.games
TERMINUS late pledges are open on Kickstarter at
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
Sign up to my rare newsletter at
buttondown.email/PatchworkFez
General info at
patchworkfez.games
Pick up Darkened Hill & Dale at
shop.patchworkfez.games
TERMINUS late pledges are open on Kickstarter at
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
Sign up to my rare newsletter at
buttondown.email/PatchworkFez
General info at
patchworkfez.games
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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In Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders, with Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social you'd have seen a Venus figure like this from Magna Roman Fort. I'm running a Lamp & Deity workshop at Magna this Saturday where you'll make your own figurines Roman Lamps. Book here www.vindolanda.com/Event/potted...
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders, with Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social you'd have seen a Venus figure like this from Magna Roman Fort. I'm running a Lamp & Deity workshop at Magna this Saturday where you'll make your own figurines Roman Lamps. Book here www.vindolanda.com/Event/potted...
It's my first time on a stand at Dragonmeet, and I'm sharing with the friendly horror (writer) @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social !
I'll also share a summary of available wares in a couple of days, as I too am awaiting deliveries...
Visit us at location E15!
I'll also share a summary of available wares in a couple of days, as I too am awaiting deliveries...
Visit us at location E15!
If you're at Dragonmeet next week, I have a booth! Here I am, next to scrappy newcomers Chaosium.
I'm sharing with the incredible @patchworkfez.bsky.social (buy their stuff it's great). And I'll let you know later about what I'll have to sell: I'm waiting on one last delivery.
I'm sharing with the incredible @patchworkfez.bsky.social (buy their stuff it's great). And I'll let you know later about what I'll have to sell: I'm waiting on one last delivery.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It's my first time on a stand at Dragonmeet, and I'm sharing with the friendly horror (writer) @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social !
I'll also share a summary of available wares in a couple of days, as I too am awaiting deliveries...
Visit us at location E15!
I'll also share a summary of available wares in a couple of days, as I too am awaiting deliveries...
Visit us at location E15!
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Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Pre-announcing my Jubensha Convention
Come to my Jubensha convention in London on 8-9th May 2026!
mssv.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
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The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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A Cornucopia of Caskets. Dragon Warriors fanzine soon to reach issue 18.
All available free or pay what you want on @drivethrurpg.com .
Apart from 18. That's coming. As well as some more POD.
#bosr #dragonwarriors #britisholdschool
All available free or pay what you want on @drivethrurpg.com .
Apart from 18. That's coming. As well as some more POD.
#bosr #dragonwarriors #britisholdschool
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A Cornucopia of Caskets. Dragon Warriors fanzine soon to reach issue 18.
All available free or pay what you want on @drivethrurpg.com .
Apart from 18. That's coming. As well as some more POD.
#bosr #dragonwarriors #britisholdschool
All available free or pay what you want on @drivethrurpg.com .
Apart from 18. That's coming. As well as some more POD.
#bosr #dragonwarriors #britisholdschool
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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On @eurogamer.bsky.social this morning: well, the picture says it all, really. (Oh, and some hints for our next game, too.)
How Inkle's Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game, before it was exterminated
Inkle's Jon Ingold on how Heaven's Vault started life as a Doctor Who game.
www.eurogamer.net
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
On @eurogamer.bsky.social this morning: well, the picture says it all, really. (Oh, and some hints for our next game, too.)
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and we take a break from our usual nonsense to say go take a look at these octopus tea cups!
⚠️ 👋 Hey Original Art Collectors and Gift Givers 🐙 We're having a 25% OFF sale on all Octopus Tea Cups in this series: sculptedreef.com/collections/...
No code, discount automatically applied inside cart! ⚠️
#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
No code, discount automatically applied inside cart! ⚠️
#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
and we take a break from our usual nonsense to say go take a look at these octopus tea cups!
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Black Armada Games is bringing 3 new #ttrpg zines to #Dragonmeet this year:
Fists of Fury - Karate Kid inspired, PBTA game.
Three Sheets To The Wind - A reality TV rpg where you play the badly-behaved crew of a luxury yacht.
Sunrise - GMless optimistic post-apocalypse/community building game.
Fists of Fury - Karate Kid inspired, PBTA game.
Three Sheets To The Wind - A reality TV rpg where you play the badly-behaved crew of a luxury yacht.
Sunrise - GMless optimistic post-apocalypse/community building game.
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Black Armada Games is bringing 3 new #ttrpg zines to #Dragonmeet this year:
Fists of Fury - Karate Kid inspired, PBTA game.
Three Sheets To The Wind - A reality TV rpg where you play the badly-behaved crew of a luxury yacht.
Sunrise - GMless optimistic post-apocalypse/community building game.
Fists of Fury - Karate Kid inspired, PBTA game.
Three Sheets To The Wind - A reality TV rpg where you play the badly-behaved crew of a luxury yacht.
Sunrise - GMless optimistic post-apocalypse/community building game.
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The Terror Beneath is just £12.50 in Osprey's winter sale www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/terror-be...
The Terror Beneath
An investigative roleplaying game of horrors both ancient and modern, inspired by the works of Arthur Machen and powered by the GUMSHOE system.Britain at the da…
www.ospreypublishing.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The Terror Beneath is just £12.50 in Osprey's winter sale www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/terror-be...
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Finding the exact way to lay out your art work station so you aren't in agony feels like a puzzle designed by the cenobites in hellraiser
im starting to think my new tablet arm isn't helping my posture as much as i thought it would
#sketch
#sketch
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Finding the exact way to lay out your art work station so you aren't in agony feels like a puzzle designed by the cenobites in hellraiser
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📣MuppetMeet 2025 Announcement!
Join us and a host of fantastic guest speakers on the evening before Dragonmeet (Friday 28th Nov) for an evening of #TTRPG industry networking and knowledge sharing.
Be sure to grab your FREE tickets here: dragonmeet.co.uk/tickets
👇Read more about what's on 👇
Join us and a host of fantastic guest speakers on the evening before Dragonmeet (Friday 28th Nov) for an evening of #TTRPG industry networking and knowledge sharing.
Be sure to grab your FREE tickets here: dragonmeet.co.uk/tickets
👇Read more about what's on 👇
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📣MuppetMeet 2025 Announcement!
Join us and a host of fantastic guest speakers on the evening before Dragonmeet (Friday 28th Nov) for an evening of #TTRPG industry networking and knowledge sharing.
Be sure to grab your FREE tickets here: dragonmeet.co.uk/tickets
👇Read more about what's on 👇
Join us and a host of fantastic guest speakers on the evening before Dragonmeet (Friday 28th Nov) for an evening of #TTRPG industry networking and knowledge sharing.
Be sure to grab your FREE tickets here: dragonmeet.co.uk/tickets
👇Read more about what's on 👇
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Hive mind.. whats the general thoughts on allowing players to brick their games by letting them kill NPCs? Are folk ok with that? any smart examples where it is recoverable?
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Hive mind.. whats the general thoughts on allowing players to brick their games by letting them kill NPCs? Are folk ok with that? any smart examples where it is recoverable?
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there's a special kind of weird in england
Chat, is "the rich are doing the 'fox' hunts again where the fox is a person" a recession indicator www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
there's a special kind of weird in england
Whale Hat is cute and likes to make an appearance on damp days. 🐳💕
The shadow from the brim also helps to conceal the horrendous bags under my eyes. ✨
The shadow from the brim also helps to conceal the horrendous bags under my eyes. ✨
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Whale Hat is cute and likes to make an appearance on damp days. 🐳💕
The shadow from the brim also helps to conceal the horrendous bags under my eyes. ✨
The shadow from the brim also helps to conceal the horrendous bags under my eyes. ✨
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Any typography and layout nerd out there has opinions on justified text versus left aligned ?
I feel like that’s a question for @nohr.se but I’m curious what yall prefer.
Question is open to readers too, not just designers. What do yall think ?
I feel like that’s a question for @nohr.se but I’m curious what yall prefer.
Question is open to readers too, not just designers. What do yall think ?
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Any typography and layout nerd out there has opinions on justified text versus left aligned ?
I feel like that’s a question for @nohr.se but I’m curious what yall prefer.
Question is open to readers too, not just designers. What do yall think ?
I feel like that’s a question for @nohr.se but I’m curious what yall prefer.
Question is open to readers too, not just designers. What do yall think ?
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This is very good
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This is very good
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We're beginning a whole season of winter sales with 90% off our All Fonts Pack! Get 1200+ fonts for just $19 from November 15th to December 15th #gamedev #fonts #digitalart
Winter Sales begin with All Fonts Pack
We're beginning a whole season of winter sales with 90% off our All Fonts Pack!
chequered.ink
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We're beginning a whole season of winter sales with 90% off our All Fonts Pack! Get 1200+ fonts for just $19 from November 15th to December 15th #gamedev #fonts #digitalart
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I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays
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Played this last night an excellent and classy addition to The Dee Sanction cannon and the first to be set in Winchelsea!
The Admiral's Compass is a short adventure for @paulbaldowski.bsky.social The Dee Sanction. Written for the Tales from the Raspy Raven competition, it's a tale set in the aftermath of the English Counter Armada.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Played this last night an excellent and classy addition to The Dee Sanction cannon and the first to be set in Winchelsea!
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
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For anyone that needs it today, a French brick catalogue from 1879
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
For anyone that needs it today, a French brick catalogue from 1879
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...
www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/t...
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Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Video game giant Rockstar has sacked more than 30 workers across the UK, including my constituents working at their Edinburgh office. I urged Ministers to support workers who have lost their jobs, and stop this from happening again.