Laurence Phillips
@hardyroach.bsky.social
Writer/Designer/Editor. Worked on Vampire Survivors, and TTRPG stuff for Rowan Rook and Decard, UFO Press, Weird Age Games, Cubicle7. Writes about toy soldiers for Goonhammer.com. Working on a new Giallo horror RPG, check my threads.
Open for work, DM me.
Open for work, DM me.
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Laurence Phillips
@hardyroach.bsky.social
· Sep 30
My thread of threads!
Design talk, film talk, Giallo talk.
Design talk, film talk, Giallo talk.
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Launch!
GRAVITY is a one-shot-focused RPG about powerful people stuck in an increasingly bad situation. To maintain suspense, the game uses a rotating-GM system (stolen from Lovecraftesque and my previous game, Bleak Spirit) to ensure that nobody knows what the Threat is until the climax.
GRAVITY is a one-shot-focused RPG about powerful people stuck in an increasingly bad situation. To maintain suspense, the game uses a rotating-GM system (stolen from Lovecraftesque and my previous game, Bleak Spirit) to ensure that nobody knows what the Threat is until the climax.
Gravity: A Roleplaying Game
A one-shot TTRPG about powerful people in a bad situation.
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Launch!
GRAVITY is a one-shot-focused RPG about powerful people stuck in an increasingly bad situation. To maintain suspense, the game uses a rotating-GM system (stolen from Lovecraftesque and my previous game, Bleak Spirit) to ensure that nobody knows what the Threat is until the climax.
GRAVITY is a one-shot-focused RPG about powerful people stuck in an increasingly bad situation. To maintain suspense, the game uses a rotating-GM system (stolen from Lovecraftesque and my previous game, Bleak Spirit) to ensure that nobody knows what the Threat is until the climax.
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
Bath, Britain.
Chicken Shawarma
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Bath, Britain.
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Made a timelapse for a Il Fantasma del Giallo related sculpt I'm working on, mostly as a test to see if I could given this sculpt isn't actually finished yet.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Made a timelapse for a Il Fantasma del Giallo related sculpt I'm working on, mostly as a test to see if I could given this sculpt isn't actually finished yet.
Made a timelapse for a Il Fantasma del Giallo related sculpt I'm working on, mostly as a test to see if I could given this sculpt isn't actually finished yet.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Made a timelapse for a Il Fantasma del Giallo related sculpt I'm working on, mostly as a test to see if I could given this sculpt isn't actually finished yet.
"Keeping busy, yeah?"
Me:
Me:
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Keeping busy, yeah?"
Me:
Me:
Oh do fuck off messenger. Right where "cut" would usually be, pressed it accidentally.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Oh do fuck off messenger. Right where "cut" would usually be, pressed it accidentally.
Go get my favourite PbtA game, its good.
To preorder the upcoming hardcover edition or get a bundle of all the World Wide Wrestling titles in one place, you can still late pledge to the Kickstarter! Thanks again everyone for all the support!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...
World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged
Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Go get my favourite PbtA game, its good.
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The bundle has ended, you can't contribute to this anymore, please stop reposting this. Go support the Games against Genocide tiltify bundle supporting MSF instead.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The bundle has ended, you can't contribute to this anymore, please stop reposting this. Go support the Games against Genocide tiltify bundle supporting MSF instead.
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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For both the NHS and the BBC- we pay for it. We are entitled to it. We are entirely within our rights to point out when it is not fit for purpose without having to worry about it being taken away if we aren't nice enough about it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
For both the NHS and the BBC- we pay for it. We are entitled to it. We are entirely within our rights to point out when it is not fit for purpose without having to worry about it being taken away if we aren't nice enough about it.
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My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
Second Il Fantasma del Giallo playtest was tonight, this time with partner running it (me elsewhere in the house listening to techno) and three players. One brand new rpg player, two players with low-middling experience of only d&d. No one at the table had seen a Giallo film.
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Second Il Fantasma del Giallo playtest was tonight, this time with partner running it (me elsewhere in the house listening to techno) and three players. One brand new rpg player, two players with low-middling experience of only d&d. No one at the table had seen a Giallo film.
My partner is running a playtest of my game and I'm listening to techno real loud on my headphones so I don't hear them and feel mortified.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My partner is running a playtest of my game and I'm listening to techno real loud on my headphones so I don't hear them and feel mortified.
God this sounds miserable for everyone. I don't want to be perceived, just let me buy my fucking jaffa cakes.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
God this sounds miserable for everyone. I don't want to be perceived, just let me buy my fucking jaffa cakes.
Its nice to be at the "fun to write prose" bit for a while rather than the "agonise over card probabilities" bit.
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Its nice to be at the "fun to write prose" bit for a while rather than the "agonise over card probabilities" bit.
Look, sometimes you've gotta amuse yourself to pass the day.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Look, sometimes you've gotta amuse yourself to pass the day.
You know you've fucked up trying to make your headline less horrible when you go from a "Way of Kings" manosphere headline to a Der Stürmer headline.
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
You know you've fucked up trying to make your headline less horrible when you go from a "Way of Kings" manosphere headline to a Der Stürmer headline.
Um actually hot take but...
Nah, not even for a joke. Rumours is just a perfect 10.
Nah, not even for a joke. Rumours is just a perfect 10.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Um actually hot take but...
Nah, not even for a joke. Rumours is just a perfect 10.
Nah, not even for a joke. Rumours is just a perfect 10.
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Alright, think I'm going to launch the Kickstarter for Gravity on... Tuesday. I'm bored of waiting.
Will I remember to hype it up on social media, multiple times a day, every day, to build interest and maximise income? Probably not!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot...
Will I remember to hype it up on social media, multiple times a day, every day, to build interest and maximise income? Probably not!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot...
Coming soon: Gravity: A Roleplaying Game
A one-shot TTRPG about powerful people in a bad situation.
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Alright, think I'm going to launch the Kickstarter for Gravity on... Tuesday. I'm bored of waiting.
Will I remember to hype it up on social media, multiple times a day, every day, to build interest and maximise income? Probably not!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot...
Will I remember to hype it up on social media, multiple times a day, every day, to build interest and maximise income? Probably not!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot...
I wonder whether part of the resistance towards making OpenAI take responsibility for this is the need to maintain the collective fiction of choice and individualism.
If a product kills you and nobody knew it would, you can't choose your way out of that. But you "chose" to hurt yourself, sorry bud.
If a product kills you and nobody knew it would, you can't choose your way out of that. But you "chose" to hurt yourself, sorry bud.
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I wonder whether part of the resistance towards making OpenAI take responsibility for this is the need to maintain the collective fiction of choice and individualism.
If a product kills you and nobody knew it would, you can't choose your way out of that. But you "chose" to hurt yourself, sorry bud.
If a product kills you and nobody knew it would, you can't choose your way out of that. But you "chose" to hurt yourself, sorry bud.
I would like D&D to stop being described as "entry level". Not even because I'd rather people play other things but because it creates false expectations.
Is it any wonder that folks are unsure about other RPGs after playing D&D, given that they're told that other games will be harder to learn?
Is it any wonder that folks are unsure about other RPGs after playing D&D, given that they're told that other games will be harder to learn?
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I would like D&D to stop being described as "entry level". Not even because I'd rather people play other things but because it creates false expectations.
Is it any wonder that folks are unsure about other RPGs after playing D&D, given that they're told that other games will be harder to learn?
Is it any wonder that folks are unsure about other RPGs after playing D&D, given that they're told that other games will be harder to learn?
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"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
New analysis by @lgilbert.co
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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The Spectator are confused.
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The Spectator are confused.
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
It's not going to be cost free.
Billionaires are going to pay more.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.