Paul VX2
@letsdamage.bsky.social
Creator of GRIDSHOCK 20XX. Half of VX2, purveyors of tabletop roleplaying games - now including Terminal State.
https://linktr.ee/vx2games
https://linktr.ee/vx2games
I should probably try to follow some people who talk about games I'm interested in, instead of low-key hating on those who post about games I'm not a fan of, huh
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I should probably try to follow some people who talk about games I'm interested in, instead of low-key hating on those who post about games I'm not a fan of, huh
One of the few current bands I enjoy that I think most of my followers also would:
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youtu.be/ngID9PPZwnY?...
Poison Ruin - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
One of the few current bands I enjoy that I think most of my followers also would:
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youtu.be/ngID9PPZwnY?...
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it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Who up coldly staring out to the sky
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youtu.be/yVtgFM2w2Gs?...
PINK TURNS BLUE - I Coldly Stare Out
YouTube video by Pink Turns Blue
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November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Who up coldly staring out to the sky
youtu.be/yVtgFM2w2Gs?...
youtu.be/yVtgFM2w2Gs?...
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To mark the 10th anniversary of ACTION MOVIE WORLD's release Flatland Games and I are providing a special gift: every purchase, past or future, will include a digital rulebook, character creator, and play sheet
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Flatland Games
Hello Action Heroes,
ACTION MOVIE WORLD: First Blood released 10 years ago today. I envisioned it as a passion product, a fire and forget thing which nobody would notice. It turned out to have quite....
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October 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
To mark the 10th anniversary of ACTION MOVIE WORLD's release Flatland Games and I are providing a special gift: every purchase, past or future, will include a digital rulebook, character creator, and play sheet
www.facebook.com/FlatlandGame...
www.facebook.com/FlatlandGame...
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For those of you who missed it Devil's Due is now up for pre-order on backerkit, not only did I do the layout on this book I contributed a decent amount of my own art. This was a collaboration work from many different artists please support our work!
devils-due.backerkit.com/survey_store...
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Pre-order Devil’s Due: A Space Pirate Haven for Mothership RPG on BackerKit
A campaign framework for a forgotten haven of pirate plunder
devils-due.backerkit.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
For those of you who missed it Devil's Due is now up for pre-order on backerkit, not only did I do the layout on this book I contributed a decent amount of my own art. This was a collaboration work from many different artists please support our work!
devils-due.backerkit.com/survey_store...
devils-due.backerkit.com/survey_store...
A little late to the party since this was released a few years ago, but I have been getting into Crime of Passing lately. Synth-post-punk with some industrial tendencies. If you like The Serfs, Donzii, or Diät check them out. (Yes, I know they share members with The Serfs.)
youtu.be/Zs3-K-1f3Nk?...
youtu.be/Zs3-K-1f3Nk?...
Vision Talk
YouTube video by Crime of Passing - Topic
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October 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A little late to the party since this was released a few years ago, but I have been getting into Crime of Passing lately. Synth-post-punk with some industrial tendencies. If you like The Serfs, Donzii, or Diät check them out. (Yes, I know they share members with The Serfs.)
youtu.be/Zs3-K-1f3Nk?...
youtu.be/Zs3-K-1f3Nk?...
Women don't like the vehicle
October 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Women don't like the vehicle
I keep coming back to ORION, year after year. Did one album and broke up. Shimmery, sort of gloomy (but not goth) rock. Very Australian. I like a lot of Australian bands, really.
youtu.be/ubDCNR_d7JI?...
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ORION - S/T LP
YouTube video by Harakiri Diat
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October 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I keep coming back to ORION, year after year. Did one album and broke up. Shimmery, sort of gloomy (but not goth) rock. Very Australian. I like a lot of Australian bands, really.
youtu.be/ubDCNR_d7JI?...
youtu.be/ubDCNR_d7JI?...
Putting the key that randomizes your character's appearance and permanently erases all your work right next to the keys that rotate your character so you can look at them is such a choice move, great job guys
October 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Putting the key that randomizes your character's appearance and permanently erases all your work right next to the keys that rotate your character so you can look at them is such a choice move, great job guys
Latest stretch goal: Adding superpowers to the Year Zero Engine SRD. If I'm going to make a YZE version of GRIDSHOCK, this would make my life much, much easier. Maybe back it if you were on the fence until now?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/119...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/119...
Update 14: Superpowering The Year Zero Engine – Bonus Stretch Goal! · Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying
Hello!To spice things up a bit here in the middle of the Kickstarter, we have decided to throw in an extra stretch goal in between our regular ones – and it's already close to being unlocked!This bonu...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Latest stretch goal: Adding superpowers to the Year Zero Engine SRD. If I'm going to make a YZE version of GRIDSHOCK, this would make my life much, much easier. Maybe back it if you were on the fence until now?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/119...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/119...
Surprised to find a couple of (very thorough) summaries of two of the GRIDSHOCK 20XX zines on Reviews from R'lyeh recently.
It sounds pretty nuts when you boil it all down the way these reviews to, and I guess it kinda is!
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It sounds pretty nuts when you boil it all down the way these reviews to, and I guess it kinda is!
rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/search/label...
October 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Surprised to find a couple of (very thorough) summaries of two of the GRIDSHOCK 20XX zines on Reviews from R'lyeh recently.
It sounds pretty nuts when you boil it all down the way these reviews to, and I guess it kinda is!
rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/search/label...
It sounds pretty nuts when you boil it all down the way these reviews to, and I guess it kinda is!
rlyehreviews.blogspot.com/search/label...
I wrapped up a year-long Dragonbane campaign last night. That's the longest stretch of uninterrupted time I've spent running any TTRPG, by far.
I had a few problems with the adventure, but I definitely got my money's worth out of Path of Glory. Thanks, Free League!
I had a few problems with the adventure, but I definitely got my money's worth out of Path of Glory. Thanks, Free League!
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I wrapped up a year-long Dragonbane campaign last night. That's the longest stretch of uninterrupted time I've spent running any TTRPG, by far.
I had a few problems with the adventure, but I definitely got my money's worth out of Path of Glory. Thanks, Free League!
I had a few problems with the adventure, but I definitely got my money's worth out of Path of Glory. Thanks, Free League!
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CHARITY AUCTION!
I am selling set of illustrations done for Jeff Cannonball. Jeff was diagnosed with ALS, all proceeds will support directly him and his family:
www.gofundme.com/f/rgs2d8
Auction: www.instagram.com/p/DPOZCIRDPb-/
In this case Instagram is the best place, whether we like it or not.
I am selling set of illustrations done for Jeff Cannonball. Jeff was diagnosed with ALS, all proceeds will support directly him and his family:
www.gofundme.com/f/rgs2d8
Auction: www.instagram.com/p/DPOZCIRDPb-/
In this case Instagram is the best place, whether we like it or not.
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
CHARITY AUCTION!
I am selling set of illustrations done for Jeff Cannonball. Jeff was diagnosed with ALS, all proceeds will support directly him and his family:
www.gofundme.com/f/rgs2d8
Auction: www.instagram.com/p/DPOZCIRDPb-/
In this case Instagram is the best place, whether we like it or not.
I am selling set of illustrations done for Jeff Cannonball. Jeff was diagnosed with ALS, all proceeds will support directly him and his family:
www.gofundme.com/f/rgs2d8
Auction: www.instagram.com/p/DPOZCIRDPb-/
In this case Instagram is the best place, whether we like it or not.
It's been fun to see YZE's core audience announce that they're not big fans of superheroes, but Free League's Invincible RPG looks like it was their excuse to make a TSR Marvel Superheroes (FASERIP)-style game using the Year Zero Engine, and I'm absolutely on board with that. Target audience: me.
September 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It's been fun to see YZE's core audience announce that they're not big fans of superheroes, but Free League's Invincible RPG looks like it was their excuse to make a TSR Marvel Superheroes (FASERIP)-style game using the Year Zero Engine, and I'm absolutely on board with that. Target audience: me.
Games I will never run (and that's probably good because nobody would want to play): A Traveller campaign inspired by 1970s British SF TV, art of the style compiled in the Terran Trade Authority books, and Part Time's Cryosleep Explorer concept album.
youtu.be/hsUJLxYbVW8?...
youtu.be/hsUJLxYbVW8?...
Aboard Oberon VI
YouTube video by Part Time - Topic
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September 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Games I will never run (and that's probably good because nobody would want to play): A Traveller campaign inspired by 1970s British SF TV, art of the style compiled in the Terran Trade Authority books, and Part Time's Cryosleep Explorer concept album.
youtu.be/hsUJLxYbVW8?...
youtu.be/hsUJLxYbVW8?...
Flying a pink hovercycle over a checkerboard pattern background and avoiding ring-shaped energy blasts spat from the mouth of a moai statue type beat
youtu.be/OIFASfPkw9g?...
youtu.be/OIFASfPkw9g?...
Toshiki Kadomatsu (角松敏生) – 52nd Street (52ndストリート) (1987)
YouTube video by Missa Mente
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September 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Flying a pink hovercycle over a checkerboard pattern background and avoiding ring-shaped energy blasts spat from the mouth of a moai statue type beat
youtu.be/OIFASfPkw9g?...
youtu.be/OIFASfPkw9g?...
I finally saw Clock DVA earlier this week. Remarkable performance, cold, calculated, yet emotional.
Put me in front of a piano and I will try to play this every time
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Put me in front of a piano and I will try to play this every time
youtu.be/NcnevPIcuB8?...
A2-Clock DVA-Techno Geist
YouTube video by Giorgos Mouratidis-Γεωργιος Μουρατιδης
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September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I finally saw Clock DVA earlier this week. Remarkable performance, cold, calculated, yet emotional.
Put me in front of a piano and I will try to play this every time
youtu.be/NcnevPIcuB8?...
Put me in front of a piano and I will try to play this every time
youtu.be/NcnevPIcuB8?...
Listening to this and taking a mental trip back to 2018, one of the lowest points of my life
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youtu.be/hMjyjwYIQ0g?...
ESPRIT 空想 : 200% Electronica
YouTube video by Vapor Memory
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September 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Listening to this and taking a mental trip back to 2018, one of the lowest points of my life
youtu.be/hMjyjwYIQ0g?...
youtu.be/hMjyjwYIQ0g?...
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We filter everything through the stupid blunt instrument of two party politics in this country. It may be our primary rubric for meaning-making.
September 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We filter everything through the stupid blunt instrument of two party politics in this country. It may be our primary rubric for meaning-making.
You take the life
From the young (you try)
You punch down the generations
You jumpstart
Tragedies
Welcome to the new creations
All the great minds
Of our time
Are dead (yeah, haha)
And Jesus fears us
youtu.be/p63uxLCI260?...
From the young (you try)
You punch down the generations
You jumpstart
Tragedies
Welcome to the new creations
All the great minds
Of our time
Are dead (yeah, haha)
And Jesus fears us
youtu.be/p63uxLCI260?...
Alan Vega - Nike Soldier (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Sacred Bones Records
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September 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You take the life
From the young (you try)
You punch down the generations
You jumpstart
Tragedies
Welcome to the new creations
All the great minds
Of our time
Are dead (yeah, haha)
And Jesus fears us
youtu.be/p63uxLCI260?...
From the young (you try)
You punch down the generations
You jumpstart
Tragedies
Welcome to the new creations
All the great minds
Of our time
Are dead (yeah, haha)
And Jesus fears us
youtu.be/p63uxLCI260?...
I've been thinking about power ranks or "dice codes" in games like TSR's Marvel Superheroes or Twilight: 2000. It occurs to me that if you wanted to do something similar in a TTRPG that'd be readily understandable by today's kids, this would be the way to go:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_list
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_list
Tier list - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I've been thinking about power ranks or "dice codes" in games like TSR's Marvel Superheroes or Twilight: 2000. It occurs to me that if you wanted to do something similar in a TTRPG that'd be readily understandable by today's kids, this would be the way to go:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_list
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_list
When I run published adventures, I have this tendency to want to just get to the next section. Usually not a big deal, but if I've been running that published adventure for a year, the lack of roleplaying opportunities starts to become noticeable. Something I need to work on as a GM.
September 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
When I run published adventures, I have this tendency to want to just get to the next section. Usually not a big deal, but if I've been running that published adventure for a year, the lack of roleplaying opportunities starts to become noticeable. Something I need to work on as a GM.