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NotASnark
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Gamer (TTRPGs, Wargames), developer, general geek.
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Our Ars Magica game continues. In Autumn some of us find ourselves at a strange house, not sure how we got there. Reality doesn't seem to work the way that it should. There is also a giant creature up in the clouds, which Jack decides to climb.
#TTRPG #ArsMagica
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1239, Spring
It is 1239, and much of it is spent in study at the covenant. On the night of All Hallows though, some of us have a strange dream. There is a house, and a giant creature that towers above the cloud…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Another development diary diving into the latest features in my Foundry implementation of Mongoose Traveller. It now adds speculative trade, freight, passengers, random NPC generation and a random name generator built from RollTables.
#TravellerRPG #FoundryVTT #TTRPG
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MgT2e FoundryVTT Dev Diary #16
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November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Working on support for the Passengers part of the Mongoose Traveller trade system for my Foundry system. The hardest part is that my brain really wants to create a complete random NPC generation system for the passengers. Maybe I'll allow hooks into roll tables.
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Starship sheet for a Free Trader, showing two crew members and a set of passengers.
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The Deepnight Revelation is rapidly approaching the destination of its voyage. The last few systems seem to be inhabited by low tech civilisations dreaming of space travel and a desire to consume the galaxy.

#TravellerRPG #TTRPG

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Azazoth
The Deepnight Revelation is approaching the end of their long journey. There are civilisations that have been touched by the Entity, which seems to be seeding long term plans.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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In our Ars Magica campaign, we are investigating the strange tunnels under our covenant, which now lead to a fiery realm. We find a volcano, a castle, and a king who has found true love.

#ArsMagica #TTRPG
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1239, Winter
We encounter the Fire King in his castle of fire and stone. He is a fey, and the story he tells though is of true love. However, his story is broken and it comes down to us to fix it.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Another development diary for my FoundryVTT implementation of Mongoose Traveller. Covers a few small bug fixes, but mostly takes a look at what I'm doing to implement the Traveller trade system within Foundry.

#TTRPG #TravellerRPG #FoundryVTT
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October 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The second session of my Limes campaign for Saga: Age of Invasions. Once again the Goths are trying to break through the Roman lines, and the survivors of the last battle (plus some new recruits) need to hold them off.

#wargaming #Wargames #saga
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Limes II
Second episode of a Limes campaign for Saga: Age of Invasions. The Goths are once again raiding the Roman lines, and they must be stopped!
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October 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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The Deepnight Revelation is less than a dozen parsecs from their destination the system of Terminus. There are both young and dead civilisations on the worlds here. They all share a similar religion which seem to worship eyes.

#TTRPG #TravellerRPG
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Eyes and Pyramids
With less than a dozen parsecs to go, the Deepnight Revelation is exploring the last few worlds before they reach their destination.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We return to our Ars Magica campaign. It is the end of the year 1238, and extreme cold has hit Scotland. Unless you are in Edinburgh, which has a volcano. Plus there are earthquakes all over the place, and strange smells in the basement.

#TTRPG #ArsMagica
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1238, Autumn
Getting to the end of 1238, it is time for Scotland to be hit by heat, cold, earthquakes, fire and strange smells.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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This session of our Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign sees us leave London and head on the Orient Express down to Cairo. The train journey isn't entirely pleasant and restful but it turns out to be better than the bus.

#TTRPG #CallOfCthuhlhu #MasksOfNyarlathotep

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Masks of Nyarlathotep 15
Our 15th session of Masks of Nyarlathotep, where we take the Orient Express and head down towards Cairo.
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October 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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In our Deepnight Revelation campaign, the Droyne 'ChatBot' is fuelling hatred for the Entity, whilst a crew member performs a coldly rational action.

They have 15 parsecs until their destination.

#TTRPG #TravellerRPG
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Cold Blooded Sanity
The Deepnight Revelation is getting close to the mission’s destination. Emotions are running high for some of the crew. For others. emotion is something that is bottled up and takes second pl…
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October 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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For various reasons, our usual RPG games have been on hold these past few weeks. So I've taken the time to do a write up of how to use the macros in my Mongoose Traveller system for FoundryVTT for streamlining character generation.
#TTRPG #FoundryVTT #TravellerRPG
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Foundry Update
A quick update on Foundry, with a bit of a dive into using macros for character generation.
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October 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A small Roman garrison tries to hold off against hordes of invading Goths. We start our Limes campaign for Saga: Age of Invasions. The Romans have a fresh garrison for the first year, but they need to survive 6 years to win the campaign.

#wargaming #wargames
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Limes I
Hordes of Goths try to cross the border into Roman lands. The Romans garrison needs to stand firm, and stop them. Part one of our Limes campaign.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Another release of my Mongoose Traveller system for FoundryVTT, another video. You can now add deck plans to spacecraft. I have also added some streamlining to character generation when a player is creating their own characters.

#TTRPG #TravellerRPG #FoundryVTT
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MgT2e Development Diary #14
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October 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Released version 0.15 of my Mongoose Traveller system for FoundryVTT. It has some back end fixes for supporting High Guard, and also adds support for v13.

Also, I've done another development diary video to go over some of the latest changes.

#TTRPG #TravellerRPG #FoundryVTT
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MgT2e FoundryVTT Dev Diary #13
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September 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Mrs Evelyn Wooldridge continues to document the events of our Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign. A sturdy umbrella and many layers of underwear turn out to be useful in the thick London Fog.

#TTRPG #CallOfCthuhlhu
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Masks of Nyarlathotep 14
Our 14th session of Masks of Nyarlathotep, where we wrap up things in London and book our train tickets to Cairo.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Our Traveller campaign continues with the Deepnight Revelation crew breaking out the chocolate and running some biowarfare experiments.

#TTRPG #TravellerRPG

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Death and Chocolate
As the Deepnight Revelation approaches its destination, it is time to give out chocolate and conduct biowarfare experiments.
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September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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We had our first game of The Barons' War. It was interesting with a lot of trying to figure out the rules. I think the game has potential and I'd like to give it another go now that we know where the complicated bits are and what we need to understand.

#wargaming
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The Barons’ War
We had our first game of Barons’ War, a skirmish game set in England around 1216.
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September 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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After four years of gaming the Deepnight Revelation has reached the final sector of the campaign. This has been a long campaign, but it's been a lot of work to get the campaign to this point. There's now less than half a dozen jumps to go.

#TTRPG #TravellerRPG
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Voidshore
The Deepnight Revelation arrives in the final sector of its journey. Ahead, is the Entity, less than a dozen jumps away.
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September 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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It is the Tribunal of Loch Leglean in our Ars Magica campaign, which means time for some political machinations and socialising. There are cases about scrying, interference with cows, and a rather unexpected Wizard's War which might be our fault.
#TTRPG #ArsMagica
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1238, Summer 2
It is the rest of the Tribunal of 1238 in Loch Leglean, and things take a turn for the unexpected. Information is shared, and Wizard’s War is declared.
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September 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A game of Saga: Age of Chivalry, with some Burgundians going up against my Free Companies. It was an interesting battle, with both sides having some really interesting battle board abilities.

#wargaming #AgeOfChivalry

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Clash of Burgundians
An Age of Chivalry battle between the Burgundians and the Free Companies. It was an interesting fight, with lots of good abilities on both sides.
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August 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The Deepnight Revelation gets to find another high tech world which isn't quite what was expected. They had some clues going in though that it might be dangerous. They weren't expecting to be on the other end of a bio probe though.

#TTRPG #TravellerRPG
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The Redeemer
The Deepnight Revelation comes across a world that is a lie, a trap set to attract travellers to it. The civilisation that built it is long gone, but they left behind something to continue their le…
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August 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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It is time for another Tribunal in our Ars Magica campaign. Before that though, my Criamon maga has to go a little bit mad, in order to unlock further secrets of her mystery cult.

#TTRPG #ArsMagica
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1238, Summer
It is time for the Tribunal of 1238 in our Ars Magica campaign. Pisciculus ex Criamon also unlocks some more of the secret wisdoms of her House.
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August 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I had a game of Saga: Age of Vikings, playing Anglo-Saxons against the Irish again, though against a different opponent this time.

I managed to pull off something clever, but in hindsight it probably shouldn't have worked.

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The Duck Pond
Promotion opportunities abound after the Anglo-Saxons and Irish clash near the Duck Pond.
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August 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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In our Masks of Nyarlathotep game, we continue our exploration of the spooky mansion, and find bathrobes, busts and sacrificial victims. We contact the police, which turns out not to be the worst idea ever.

#TTRPG #CallOfCthuhlhu

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Masks of Nyarlathotep 13
We continue our investigation of Misr House, and from there head up to Derby. Surprisingly, the police are more useful than I would have expected.
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August 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM