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MiketheGM
@mikethegm.bsky.social
He/Him

Professional Game Master, Dungeon Master, Keeper, etc. with 20(ish) years of experience and a love of weird games. My favorite is Heart: The City Beneath.

You can find me on StartPlaying here: https://startplaying.games/gm/mike-the-gm
Not for all the cruel, greedy, avaricious people it's not, and unfortunately they're also the ones who decided on that system.
January 28, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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just in case anyone wondered what was going on the background of my life, and people i value, trust, consider friends etc's lives, all last year.
Five creators who worked on Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast have spent the past year fighting a legal battle against Possum Creek Games and Steve Jackson Games. Neither the tabletop RPG nor their working relationships survived the fallout.
Battle over Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast contracts leaves the book, relationships, torn apart
Creative collaborators clash with Jay Dragon and Steve Jackson Games over unfair treatment.
www.rascal.news
January 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Hate it when that happens on a weekend.
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Black comedy murder plot
War movie my dad never watched because it was too real and reminds me of the terrible human suffering caused by empire
Has Bruce Campbell in it
This is a horror movie and the trailers lied
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
What tipped it for you?
August 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I have a friend who was an early user of LLM and had it write ad copy (which it was only ever okay at). A few times they had it "write" "stories", and it was reading those that made me realize how useless it would be for writing.
August 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I built my PC in 2020, and I made it as powerful as I could afford so I could play games like Cyberpunk 2077 at max graphical settings. Still can't "upgrade" to Windows 11, not that I really want to.
June 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
You definitely could.
May 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I like there being a difference between "light armored warrior" and "assassin", like the Swashbuckler kits from AD&D, or the Swashbuckler class from Pathfinder. The big difference between for me is a focus on speed and agility vs a focus on stealth and high risk, high reward attacks.
May 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Pirates, curses, and revenge on King George III? This sounds like my kind of game.
May 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
On the paid GMing website StartPlaying it's something like 70% of all games played, according to the somebody who works on the backend of the website.
May 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Did you realize yet that Hard Wired Island is funding a reprint right now? We have a retail tier, even www.kickstarter.com/projects/ett...
Hard Wired Island: Reprint
A second printing of the retrofuture cyberpunk tabletop RPG.
www.kickstarter.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
There's a lot of self-delusion to it, I think. Even if they know they're never going to approach Skynet in their lifetime, they've invested so much of themselves into the idea that it's too frightening to admit even they could be wrong. So they keep up the charade, just like all the rest of them do.
February 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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The GET LOUD bundle is live! 36 amazing #ttrpg, including two of my games, are in it.

Contain paranormal entities, explore a dreamscape, worldbuild a chimera, steal a mech, and more, for only $20.

itch.io/b/2864/the-g...
The Get Loud TTRPG Bundle by NotWriting and 20 others
The Get Loud TTRPG Bundle: 36 items for $20.00
itch.io
February 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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You can pick up Eat The Reich amid a bunch of excellent titles - and support the Center for Constitutional Rights at the same time - in the Resistance Bundle of Holding, live now!
Resistance Bundle
Adventurer! This new Resistance Bundle presents tabletop roleplaying games about fighting authoritarian regimes and punching Nazis. For just US$12.95 you get all five complete games in our Starter…
buff.ly
January 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I've been playing Pathfinder 2e with the same group of people for coming up on 3 years now, and there are exactly two of us who plan our turns. So instead of expecting the impossible, we've just taken to offering advice when the other players aren't sure what they want to do on their turn.
January 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Get your anime-cyberpunk but actual cyberpunk take down the damn system RPG thing going on.

bundleofholding.com/presents/Har...
Hard Wired Island Bundle
Adventurer! This Hard Wired Island Bundle presents Hard Wired Island, a retrofuture post-cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game from Weird Age Games inspired by '90s anime. Set in an alternate 2020 in Gr...
bundleofholding.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I don't have anything interesting or game-related to post here just yet, but I figure I should have something up. So here's a picture of the family dog from a decade back, Millie the Whippet.
January 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM