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John Walter
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An always-already cyborg waiting for the Singularity | Digital rhetoric | Technical Communication | Digital Curation | Media Ecology | Medieval Studies | TTRPG gamer |
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John Walter @johnpwalter.bsky.social · Nov 17
Calls for using alt text really need to include good guidelines for writing alt text.

Just telling people to use the feature without easy to digest guidance on how alt text is it’s own genre with its own conventions and best practices won’t get us useful alt text.
Write helpful Alt Text to describe images | Digital Accessibility​
Alternative (Alt) Text is an essential part of making content accessible. When adding images, charts, icons or other graphic elements, alt text should be added to ensure your content will be accessibl...
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koboldpress.com
A gift from the Pumpkin King: a free Halloween oneshot adventure! #ttrpg #dnd5e #tov

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Need a quick Halloween one-shot adventure? The Pumpkin King arrives! - October 31 2025
In the spirit of the season (especially when some players might miss a session due to trick or treating) meet the Pumpkin King, For your D&D or Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game!
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October 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
Happy Halloween!
A large Jack-o-lantern with flames coming out of the top.
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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jwmuk.bsky.social
A Raspy Raven episode that goes deep into the dark heart of Ex Tenebris from @armadajosh.bsky.social & @beckyannison.bsky.social

Kickstarting to 9/Oct - www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

open.spotify.com/episode/0v9i...

Please like and share and help out these wonderful indie RPG designers!
So you want to write an adventure for Ex Tenebris
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September 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
For Roll20 Con, I'm running the Alien RPG scenario "Mission FUBAR." The game does cost $5 per person to play, with all proceeds going to the Trevor Project and both Roll20 and Start Playing Games matching donations.
johnpwalter.bsky.social John Walter @johnpwalter.bsky.social · Sep 4
"Mission FUBAR" is Colonial Marine focused one-shot for the Alien RPG. I originally wrote and ran it for a "heist gone wrong" season of seven games, each using a different TTRPG system.

This is Alien, so it's survival/space horror.

Players of all experience levels welcome.
Join Alien RPG: Mission FUBAR - Discord / Roll20 - Alien: The Roleplaying Game | StartPlaying Games
You’re part of an elite Colonial Marine black op unit. Along with a Weyland-Yutani advisor, you've been sent to an abandoned communications relay station turned into a clandestine bio-weapons lab. You...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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jwmuk.bsky.social
Check out our talk with @savagespiel.bsky.social as we discuss how to write an adventure for her Brindlewood styled game, Matrons of Mystery. The C word may be used, Cosy that is.

open.spotify.com/episode/1EWQ...

#TTRPG
So you want to write an adventure for Matrons of Mystery?
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September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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paulbaldowski.bsky.social
Until the end of the Cörk Børd Kickstarter (in 48 hours time), all three Core Books — Cthulhu Hack, Sanction and The Dee Sanction — are 25% off on @drivethrurpg.com

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...
September 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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awkwardpause.bsky.social
I’m sad that so many Americans do t know what this photo shows or why it matters (metro train sign showing trains arriving within 2-4 minutes of each other, a mechanical feat of great proportions involving complex systems and systems analysis to deliver er us safely)
wvistheduck.bsky.social Goseg Train Thread @wvistheduck.bsky.social · Sep 3
DC is a world class city ✨
3/4 min headways
September 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
As part of Roll20 Con 2025 (Sept. 26-28), I'm running three online TTRPG one-shots: "The Swan's Way" (Swords of the Serpentine), "Mission FUBAR" (Alien RPG), and "Moonbase Blues" (Mothership).

Each game is $5, with all proceeds going to the Trevor Project.

Games described in thread.
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
Need some cuteness in your day? Here’s the Meeper. Now just about 6 years old, we found her one bitterly cold night when she was about six weeks old. She’s deaf, has a mild case of wobbly cat syndrome, and believes if anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing 211%.
September 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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paulbaldowski.bsky.social
The pace has quickened, the storyline is tight, and we have more questions than answers. Better get used to it.

#cörkbord #mörkborg #nordicnoir #ttrpg

www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Cörk Børd – Nordic Noir RPG Kickstarter campaign, featuring a dramatic interrogation scene inspired by Nordic crime dramas. A serious-looking woman in a black-and-white patterned sweater holds up a black-and-white photo of a man shielding his face with his hand, while a stern man in a plaid shirt sits with arms crossed beside her. The setting is a dimly lit police interview room with a blurred officer in the background. In the lower left corner, the Cörk Børd logo appears with stylised letters, pushpins, playing cards, and dice, along with campaign details: “Coming to Kickstarter, 2PM, Tuesday 19th August."
August 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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kennethhite.bsky.social
This is a very gratifying list to have appeared on, lack of a visible author notwithstanding. Also I somehow hadn't known that Dave Arneson also invented the prewritten adventure but of course he did:

www.questportal.com/blog/ten-ttr...
Ten TTRPG Adventures That Changed the World - Quest Portal VTT
These ten groundbreaking adventures not only shaped their own systems but also reshaped how we play tabletop role-playing games today. | Ten TTRPG Adventures That Changed the World
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August 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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paulbaldowski.bsky.social
Inspired by the Nordic Noir of Henning Mankell, Sjöwall & Wahlöö, Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø, and the doom-laden atmosphere of Mörk Borg, Cörk Børd is live on Kickstarter now.

Check out the promo video!

#NordicNoir #CörkBord #MörkBorg #RPG

www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

youtu.be/s2PHsUXUHvs
Cörk Børd: a Nordic Noir investigative Role-Playing Game
YouTube video by Just Crunch Games
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August 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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paulbaldowski.bsky.social
The truth won’t wait. Neither should you. Sign up for notifications. Cörk Børd @kickstarter.com campaign starts tomorrow, 2 PM BST.

Join the investigation before it slips away.

#cörkbord #mörkborg #nordicnoir #rpg

www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Actor Kenneth Branagh as detective Kurt Wallander stands in a dark coat on a rocky, windswept coastline, looking pensively into the distance. Overlaid text reads a bleak, sardonic quote about the Cörk Børd Kickstarter, with the game’s colourful logo in the lower left corner.
August 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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pelgranepress.bsky.social
Game Designer Kenneth Hite's #1 GMing Tip #rpg #ttrpg #roleplaying #dnd #indiegame

Pre-Order Trail of Cthulhu 2E Here: bit.ly/3UboGal
August 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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pelgranepress.bsky.social
Curious about Page Turners? Catch the Unconventional GMs crew diving into our upcoming narrative RPG in their latest actual play. Watch the twists, choices, and page-flipping tension unfold. Link below. Let us know your favorite moment. #PageTurners #TTRPG
bit.ly/41fbIMT
August 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
Back in Maryland after a trip back home in the mountains of western Colorado. Had this lovely sunset on my birthday.
Orange-red sunset with silhouettes of pine trees in the near ground and mountains off in the distance.
August 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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salvo7.bsky.social
New book; free download!

Artificial Infrastructures investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries.

Salvo & Sherrill interview 3 experts to historicize, analyze, and contextualize the emergent disruptive technology

wac.colostate.edu/books/practi...
Cover of the book Artificial Infrastructures by Salvo & Sherrill. Writing & Artificial Intelligence, literacy & technology: Artificial Infrastructures investigates how generative AI is reshaping the work of technical and professional writing across high-technology industries.
August 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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jwmuk.bsky.social
#TTRPG hiatus begins, filling in the gaps in gaming with some family holidays and RPG writing & blogging.

Speaking of which 👇 Mon 15th Sep, competition deadline.

talesfromtheraspyraven.carrd.co

#RPGJam #SanctionRPG #TheDeeSanction
Tales from the Raspy Raven
A writing competition for Dee Sanction
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August 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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paulbaldowski.bsky.social
CÖRK BØRD isn’t about causing bloodshed. It’s about uncovering who did.

You don’t fight monsters—you chase them through witness statements, cigarette ash, and screaming silence.

The grimness of it all? That stays. You’re still broken. Just quieter about it.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
July 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
I played one of the sacrifices. It was a delightfully terrible ending.
jwmuk.bsky.social jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · Jul 22
Thank you @irny.bsky.social really enjoyed our run out of your Fatstock scenario on The Raspy Raven. Two sacrifices, two discombobulations.

@paulbaldowski.bsky.social Cthulhu Hack conversion worked well, supported by the ace Dark Symbols of @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social & @brennenreece.bsky.social
A Melton Mowbray Pork Pie on a plate.
July 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
Looking at my schedule for the next week,, I see I’ve booked a lot of TTRPGs.

Tonight, I’m running The Dee Sanction. Sunday, I’m running two different sessions of Pendragon. Monday I play in the new Discworld rpg. Tuesday, I run Vaesen.

Wednesday, I rest.
July 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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paulbaldowski.bsky.social
Two gentlemen, bothered ✔️ One globe, spun ✔️ One lute, soiled ✔️ One skull, stretched ✔️ — but no copy of The Dee Sanction: Monad Edition?

Don’t be these fops. Embrace Elizabethan intrigue, supernatural horror, and plague-worthy plots.

Late pledges still open: www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
July 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
Just reread Electric Bastionland and Into the Odd in preparation for reading Mythic Bastionland, and this very thin has been on my mind.
July 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
johnpwalter.bsky.social
Summer 2021 at the Old Creamery Co-Op in Cummington, Massachusetts. We have a lifetime membership. Their blueberry pies are phenomenal.
Long-haired man in yellow shirt sitting at a picnic table under an umbrella. Flower pots and a road are in the background.
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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awkwardpause.bsky.social
It’s hard for me to get mad at my neighbor for letting out her cat when he’s such a Ferdinand. He doesn’t give a flip for the birds. .
June 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM