Cathriona Tobin
@catthm.bsky.social
Managing Director and co-owner at #TTRPG publisher http://pelgranepress.com. I mostly post about analog games, Irish things, books, and feminism. Proud Childless Cat Lady. She/her, sí/í
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Ca-caw! This Saturday @tabletopscot.bsky.social we'll be talking with, deep breath:
@catthm.bsky.social @lostpages.co.uk @peregrinecoast.press and @elainelithgow.bsky.social about the future of roleplaying games!
Join us live, in person, or online in the usual places at 2030 UK / 1530 ET / 1230 PT
@catthm.bsky.social @lostpages.co.uk @peregrinecoast.press and @elainelithgow.bsky.social about the future of roleplaying games!
Join us live, in person, or online in the usual places at 2030 UK / 1530 ET / 1230 PT
September 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ca-caw! This Saturday @tabletopscot.bsky.social we'll be talking with, deep breath:
@catthm.bsky.social @lostpages.co.uk @peregrinecoast.press and @elainelithgow.bsky.social about the future of roleplaying games!
Join us live, in person, or online in the usual places at 2030 UK / 1530 ET / 1230 PT
@catthm.bsky.social @lostpages.co.uk @peregrinecoast.press and @elainelithgow.bsky.social about the future of roleplaying games!
Join us live, in person, or online in the usual places at 2030 UK / 1530 ET / 1230 PT
⚔️I've known and admired Chrys for a long time, and I'm so excited to see the progress she's made through this Kickstarter. If you're into queer fantasy #TTRPGs, or swords & sorcery, you've only got 48 hours left to back this! ⚔️
It's the LAST 48 HOURS for Defy the Gods on Kickstarter! Come get your own slice of queer sword & sorcery. TWO stretch goals left! Get a Thief to steal your heart! Get Sumerian cooking by @trueryankhan.bsky.social! A guide to fantasy ancient Sumer by me! tinyurl.com/defy-the-gods
Defy the Gods RPG
Queer sword & sorcery tabletop role-playing game
tinyurl.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
⚔️I've known and admired Chrys for a long time, and I'm so excited to see the progress she's made through this Kickstarter. If you're into queer fantasy #TTRPGs, or swords & sorcery, you've only got 48 hours left to back this! ⚔️
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Here is my fruit:
Because of social dynamics, how fun a TTRPG isn't that good of a metric of the quality of a game; you can have fun with the right people and *any* game. A better way to determine a game's quality:
How consistently does it honor what it promises?
Because of social dynamics, how fun a TTRPG isn't that good of a metric of the quality of a game; you can have fun with the right people and *any* game. A better way to determine a game's quality:
How consistently does it honor what it promises?
I'm all for you holding dear whatever #ttrpg design theory you find fruitful; but gimme those sweet, sweet fruits!
June 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Here is my fruit:
Because of social dynamics, how fun a TTRPG isn't that good of a metric of the quality of a game; you can have fun with the right people and *any* game. A better way to determine a game's quality:
How consistently does it honor what it promises?
Because of social dynamics, how fun a TTRPG isn't that good of a metric of the quality of a game; you can have fun with the right people and *any* game. A better way to determine a game's quality:
How consistently does it honor what it promises?
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Hey everyone, I just came in, why is "Thank Fuck" trending? #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey everyone, I just came in, why is "Thank Fuck" trending? #Eurovision
Yeah, same.
I would happily watch a four hour documentary about the backstage logistics of a #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Yeah, same.
I'd swear that's a U2 song Lithuania are singing. #Eurovision
May 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I'd swear that's a U2 song Lithuania are singing. #Eurovision
This is the only explanation that makes sense.
i reckon Farage is a tulpa or egregore, he is the collected beliefs and suspicions and horrors of a specific focused group that has been unleashed to wreak havoc upon us all. in him we see ourselves, reflected in the frog-faced cosmic horror of his hollowed-out soul
So during Brexit Nigel Farage whipped everyone up into a nationalist frenzy and said a bunch of lies about how they could use Brexit bucks to fund healthcare and now everyone knows he was lying and it didn’t do anything for anyone and Britain is like “damn this guy is smart we should listen to him”
May 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is the only explanation that makes sense.
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"Surely, the same Micheál Martin who was just a few weeks ago japing about Ireland’s housing crisis in the Oval Office with a bona fide fascist should have some empathy for statements made during a performance."
This week's Surrealing in the Years.
This week's Surrealing in the Years.
Surrealing in the Years: Kneecap are NOT the story. And yet.
It’s easier for powerful people to talk about Kneecap than it is for them to talk about Israel.
www.thejournal.ie
May 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
"Surely, the same Micheál Martin who was just a few weeks ago japing about Ireland’s housing crisis in the Oval Office with a bona fide fascist should have some empathy for statements made during a performance."
This week's Surrealing in the Years.
This week's Surrealing in the Years.
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If you are a game designer with a marginalized identity, please apply for our diversity sponsorship! We provide cash grants and mentorships to marginalized designers to support their growth the industry. You can apply using the form below. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgfamily
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2025 IGDN Diversity Sponsorship Application
What is the Diversity Sponsorship Program?
This year will mark our twelfth Sponsorship expanding the scope of voices in the indie analog game community. Traditionally we would be bringing marginalize...
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April 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you are a game designer with a marginalized identity, please apply for our diversity sponsorship! We provide cash grants and mentorships to marginalized designers to support their growth the industry. You can apply using the form below. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgfamily
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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My traditional Warpcon Saturday afternoon game with @gregorhutton.bsky.social and @donogh.bsky.social (and this year's guest star @angelonikolaou.bsky.social) is The Big Store. We've got a great team so far - Billy Two Brains, Woody the Bolt, and Vivienne LeClair.
February 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
My traditional Warpcon Saturday afternoon game with @gregorhutton.bsky.social and @donogh.bsky.social (and this year's guest star @angelonikolaou.bsky.social) is The Big Store. We've got a great team so far - Billy Two Brains, Woody the Bolt, and Vivienne LeClair.
Another day, another moment of gratitude to that Gmail designer who thought of adding a pop-up to say "You say you've attached something, but you haven't; are you sure you wanna send this?" 🙏
January 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Another day, another moment of gratitude to that Gmail designer who thought of adding a pop-up to say "You say you've attached something, but you haven't; are you sure you wanna send this?" 🙏
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This is such a well-argued and thorough rebuttal to the reflexive assumption that only liberals and feminists have agency in the discourse about masculinity.
I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire.
www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire.
www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
Swiping Left on MAGA
The thing about a ‘no girls allowed’ treehouse is it doesn’t have any girls in it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is such a well-argued and thorough rebuttal to the reflexive assumption that only liberals and feminists have agency in the discourse about masculinity.
I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire.
www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire.
www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
There are always interesting articles on art site Colossal, but I just discovered they have a tag which helpfully collates all of their articles listing public domain resources 🙌 www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/public-...
public domain Archives
Creative materials, such as film, music, or art, are considered in the public domain when they are no longer protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patents. In the U....
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January 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
There are always interesting articles on art site Colossal, but I just discovered they have a tag which helpfully collates all of their articles listing public domain resources 🙌 www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/public-...
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Have you been asking yourself lately "Why doesn't someone write an essay about [X topic]?"
Have you considered that YOU are the one to write that essay?
Are you up for it?
We are!
Pitch your ideas and your working drafts to Analog Game Studies!
analoggamestudiesjournal@gmail.com
Have you considered that YOU are the one to write that essay?
Are you up for it?
We are!
Pitch your ideas and your working drafts to Analog Game Studies!
analoggamestudiesjournal@gmail.com
January 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Have you been asking yourself lately "Why doesn't someone write an essay about [X topic]?"
Have you considered that YOU are the one to write that essay?
Are you up for it?
We are!
Pitch your ideas and your working drafts to Analog Game Studies!
analoggamestudiesjournal@gmail.com
Have you considered that YOU are the one to write that essay?
Are you up for it?
We are!
Pitch your ideas and your working drafts to Analog Game Studies!
analoggamestudiesjournal@gmail.com
Happy Friday, all! Hope you've had a productive first work week of the year. Over the break, friends were shocked to learn I only know/use three PC keyboard shortcuts - CTRL+X, CTRL+V, and CTRL+Z. What am I missing, Bsky? What are your favourite or go-to shortcuts?
January 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy Friday, all! Hope you've had a productive first work week of the year. Over the break, friends were shocked to learn I only know/use three PC keyboard shortcuts - CTRL+X, CTRL+V, and CTRL+Z. What am I missing, Bsky? What are your favourite or go-to shortcuts?
Choking to death with a post-Dragonmeet lurgy, and trying rapidly to teach myself what the new GPSR regulations coming in next week will mean for my small business. The glamorous life of #TTRPG professionals! 😒
December 5, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Choking to death with a post-Dragonmeet lurgy, and trying rapidly to teach myself what the new GPSR regulations coming in next week will mean for my small business. The glamorous life of #TTRPG professionals! 😒
Once more keeping independent booksellers alive, it’s @kennethhite.bsky.social at his annual trawl of Treadwell’s Books, with @catthm.bsky.social & @simonjrogers.bsky.social.
December 3, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Most important prep for #Dragonmeet - sending off my postal vote for #GE24. It wasn't easy to set up, but totally worth it.
November 27, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Most important prep for #Dragonmeet - sending off my postal vote for #GE24. It wasn't easy to set up, but totally worth it.
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Tá Intern TG4 inár measc
November 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Tá Intern TG4 inár measc
I'm pacing the room while chewing my fingernails, and understanding the relativity of time. There are few clearer ways of experiencing time expanding towards infinity than going through the last 7 hours of an important crowdfunding campaign! 😰 (this one, ICYMI: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...)
Trail of Cthulhu 2nd Edition
TRAIL OF CTHULHU: A ROLEPLAYING GAME OF HORROR AND MYSTERY
Investigate Lovecraftian horrors in the dark decade of the 1930s!
www.backerkit.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:19 PM
I'm pacing the room while chewing my fingernails, and understanding the relativity of time. There are few clearer ways of experiencing time expanding towards infinity than going through the last 7 hours of an important crowdfunding campaign! 😰 (this one, ICYMI: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...)
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A Kickstarter for a TRPG based in Te Ao Māori and made by a Māori team: Tipua: The Wrath of Ngārara - A Māori TTRPG www.kickstarter.com/projects/4ph...
Tipua: The Wrath of Ngārara - A Māori TTRPG
Embark on an adventure to confront the cursed beast, Ngārara before it destroys the lands of Karito.
www.kickstarter.com
October 27, 2024 at 9:31 AM
A Kickstarter for a TRPG based in Te Ao Māori and made by a Māori team: Tipua: The Wrath of Ngārara - A Māori TTRPG www.kickstarter.com/projects/4ph...
Sure, Lords of Waterdeep, everyone's a winner - but _some_ of us are more winners than others...
November 2, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Sure, Lords of Waterdeep, everyone's a winner - but _some_ of us are more winners than others...
Thanks Freddie! 😊 I'm still very proud of the Dracula Dossier. I think it's a fantastic campaign.
Back to Gumshoe for one of the first big Kickstarter campaigns I backed, The Dracula Dossier. I've still to run this one, but it feels like a classic. I've got all the handmade handouts that @catthm.bsky.social et al. put together for it... That was a monumental effort and greatly appreciated!
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October 21, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Thanks Freddie! 😊 I'm still very proud of the Dracula Dossier. I think it's a fantastic campaign.
Welcome, new followers and mutuals, and a céad míle fáilte to Single Letter Site migrants. It's so much friendlier over here!
October 18, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Welcome, new followers and mutuals, and a céad míle fáilte to Single Letter Site migrants. It's so much friendlier over here!