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Oisin Duffy
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He/They. AroAce. Ecologist, Leftist and TTRPG fan.
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Kelloggs Crunchy Nut breakfast cereal
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Undefeated post
A tumlbr thread. The first post by writing-prompt-s says "In a game with no consequences, why are you still playing the 'Good' side?". In response, user raphealiscoolbutrude says "Because being mean makes me feel bad", to which user everybodyilovedies says "23 fucking hundred years of philosophy and this mother fucker on tumblr gets it in a meme".
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Been painting up the 30k Saturnine box. Here's the Praetor, Centurion and a tactical squad..
A Saturnine praetor from the Horus Heresy Saturnine starter box. This picture is of its front side. It's colour scheme is metallic green armour plating with gold accents and black with fire designs on its pauldrons and loincloth. The hammer is painted to look like it's glowing with molten heat. A Saturnine praetor from the Horus Heresy Saturnine starter box. This picture is of its back side. It's colour scheme is metallic green armour plating with gold accents and black with fire designs on its pauldrons and cloak. The hammer is painted to look like it's glowing with molten heat. A centurion from the Saturnine Horus Heresy box. It's armour is metallic green with bronze accents. It's hammer and melts gun are painted to look superheated. A squad if Mark 2 tactical Marines from the Saturnine Horus Heresy box. They are painted a metallic green with bronze accents.
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Let's hop on this.

Judge me based on 4 favourite films, GO!
Poster for Hellboy (2004) Poster for Moulin Rouge! (2001) Poster For Children of Men (2006) Poster for Hot Fuzz (2007)
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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And here's their backs
The backs of the Saturnine Command Squad from the previous post The back of the Vigilator from the previous post The backs of the seekers from the previous post.
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I've started painting up the guys from the new Horus Heresy box, so here's some Salamanders with a nice alternate colour scheme. A Saturnine Command Squad, Seekers, and a Vigilator
Three kitbashed salamanders Saturnine Command Squad models painted black with flame designs on armour panels and bronze and green accents. A kitbashed Salamanders Vigilator model painted black with flame designs on armour panels and bronze and green accents. Five kitbashed Salamanders Seeker models for the Horus Heresy game.
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Here's Zaku painted up
Painted Zaku Gundam model
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Working through painting the models I picked up in Japan this summer. Here's Nausicaa and Evangelion Unit 01
A painted model kit of the character Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind riding the bird, Kai. Painted miniature of Evangelion Unit 01 from its left side Painted miniature of Evangelion Unit 01 from its right side
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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@dragoncobolt.bsky.social I'm running a HEAT one shot at a convention soon and I figured you'd enjoy this piece of equipment.
A screenshot from the equipment section of the character sheet for the RPG, HEAT. The item is a Katana. It has no characteristics, adds +2 to the Edged melee weapon skill, and has the spark (special ability) Katana Physics which reads, Gain this stack only if you sheath your Katana after an attack. If you attack while Mildly Posessed, consume this spark to add one to one of the boosted characteristics as you do the cool iaijustsu thing and it works because the demon is also a massive nerd.
September 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Here's a better look
One of the Jet Jaguar shooting suits
August 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Ooh. That reminds me. I got to see an exhibition with some of the shooting suits and miniatures from a bunch of Godzilla movies in Morioka last week.
Shooting suits of various Kaiju from the history of Godzilla movies Miniature from Shin Godzilla Miniature from Shin Godzilla Train miniatures from the original 1950s Godzilla
August 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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It's great how magic abandoned the nuances of the colour pie in favour of colour coded D&D alignment.
A simple pink cartoon person saying "oh no".
August 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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No critique.

Only review and summary.
Template meme of the 'no take only throw' dog
August 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Getting called out at the art museum
A painting by Kin Shiotani titled, "A Young Man Whose Way of Relieving Stress Has Somehow Become Stress Itself", depicting a young man in a black suit against a dark city backdrop.
July 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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I'm in Hangzhou in China as the first leg of my China and Japan summer backpacking trip. Observations from the first couple days. Massive, humid, bizarre Tomie collaboration at a random tea stand.
Statue of Budai at the threshold of a building Junji Ito themed tea stand Elevated view of Hangzhou China Hefang street, Hangzhou
June 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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This is the vibe they give off, except that it's with playing in APs rather than regular games.
A screenshot from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace with him saying "I'm one of the few people who've written more books than they've read".
May 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Here's the rest of my Prussians for Trench Crusade. Went a bit overboard with dirtying up the machine armour this time but happy with them still.
Three yeomen models for the game Trench Crusade Six shocktrooper models for the game Trench Crusade Two combat engineers, a dog and a combat medic for the game Trench Crusade Two heavy mechanised infantry models for the game Trench Crusade
April 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I've started painting the New Antioch Trench Crusade line. Doing them as Prussians and pretty happy with the colour scheme. Gonna try some different techniques with the mechanised infantry next time though. I like the textured repainted vibe but I think I can do it better next time.
A dark blue painted heavy mechanised infantry model from the game Trench Crusade. Third party sculpts for a Prussian Lieutenant and Trench Cleric for the game Trench Crusade A pair of great sword wielding shocktrooper models for the game Trench Crusade A pair of yeomen models for the game Trench Crusade
April 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Finished these guys off and some 3rd party Knights of Avarice models.
Painted miniatures from the game Trench Crusade. Three third party variants sculpts based on the Knights of Avarice artwork Painted miniatures from the game Trench Crusade. Two digitally kitbashed takwin homunculi Painted miniatures from the game Trench Crusade. A third party Sultanate grand cannon and an official assassin sculpt
April 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Final few models to round out my Trench Crusade Iron Sultanate off. A 3rd party grand cannon (for Defenders of the Iron Wall), a 3rd assassin (for F'dai of Alamut), and two digitally kitbashed takwin homunculi (for House of Wisdom) primed and ready for painting.
Photo of primed miniatures for the game Trench Crusade. A 3rd party grand cannon (for Defenders of the Iron Wall), a 3rd assassin (for F'dai of Alamut), and two digitally kitbashed takwin homunculi (for House of Wisdom) primed and ready for painting.
April 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Finishing off some random models for Trench Crusade. Here's the rest of my Knights of Avarice after doing the first half a month or two ago. Kitbashed another anointed. This time with an anti-materiel rifle. Can probably get away with using the death commando as a goetic warlock.
A photograph of eight painted heretic legion models for the game Trench Crusade.
April 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The Results of tonight's Quiet Year Game. I will not elaborate
A messily sketched map from a session of the game, The Quiet Year.
March 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I think this passage from Blades in the Dark does a good explanation of how its mechanics are meant to be used. It's fiction first and designed so that the implementation of a given mechanic is contextual. Oftentimes two different mechanics can be used to resolve the situation and its more a
Fiction-first is a bit of jargon to describe the process of playing a roleplaying game, as opposed to other sorts of games you might be used to. In a standard board game, for example, when you take your turn, you choose a move from one of the mechanics of the game, and then use that game system to resolve what happens. You might say, “I’m going to pay two stone to build a second fort on my home tile.” We could call this process “mechanics-first.” What you do on your turn is pick a mechanic to engage, then resolve that mechanic. Your choices are constrained by the mechanics of the game. You might color it in with some fictional trappings, like, “The brave citizens of Baronia heed the call to war and build a stout fort!” but the fiction is secondary; it’s flavor added on. In other words, the fiction is brought in after the mechanics, to describe what happened. In a roleplaying game, it’s different. When it’s your turn, you say what your character does within the ongoing fictional narrative. You don’t pick a mechanic first, you say something about the fiction first. Your choices in a roleplaying game aren’t immediately constrained by the mechanics, they’re constrained by the established fictional situation. In other words, the mechanics are brought in after the fictional action has determined which mechanics we need to use. For example, in Blades in the Dark, there are several different mechanics that might be used if a character tries to pick the lock on a safe. It’s essentially meaningless to play mechanics-first. “I pick a lock” isn’t a mechanical choice in the game. To understand which mechanic to use, we have to first establish the fiction. If your character is at their liberty back at the crew’s lair, with plenty of time to dedicate to opening the lock on the safe, then we could use one of the downtime mechanics—namely “Work on a long-term project.” You might do very well and open it quickly, or it might prove more challenging, requiring several attempts over a l… If your character is in a burning building, trying desperately to open the safe while flaming roof-beams are raining down around them, then the action mechanic would come into play. You might do very well and avoid harm from the fire and debris while you work on the lock or you might have to abandon your work to keep from being crushed and burned. If your character knows nothing about safe-cracking, you might pay someone to open it for you. In which case, we’d use the mechanic to acquire an asset—a master locksmith in this case. You might arrange a good deal and get a skilled worker, or you might have to pay more to get the quality you need. And so on and so forth. There are an infinite number of approaches you might take, constrained by the fictional circumstances. The important concept here is that you first choose what your character does in the fiction, then the group picks a mechanic that suits the situation to resolve what happens. Once you establish the fictional action, selecting a mechanic from the options at hand is pretty easy. If you try to do it the other way around—picking the mechanic and then trying to “color-in” the fiction after—you’ll find that the game can become confusing and muddled. When something seems weird, or a situation resolves in a bizarre way, back out to the level of the fictional narrative. What’s going on? What are you trying to do? Which mechanic is suited for this? Don’t try to force a particular mechanic onto the fiction. Take the fiction first (ah, see that? “fiction-first”) and then use the mechanics to support it. Think of the mechanics of the game as tools in a toolbox. There’s no point saying, “I hammer it” until you know what you’re building. Also, there’s no constraint that says you must always use a hammer and nail every time you need to attach two pieces of wood. You use the tools that suit what you’re trying to do. The same goes for mechanics in a roleplaying game. First establish the fiction, then select a mechanical t…
March 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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A painted Praetor model from Trench Crusade Three painted Hell Knight models from Trench Crusade Three Painted Pit Locusts from Trench Crusade
March 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Should have posted these last week when I finished them rather than throwing them up the same time I did the Black Grail but here's my Court of the Seven Headed Serpent models completed too.
A painted Hunter of the Left Hand Path from Trench Crusade Three painted Yoke Fiends and two Wretched models from Trench Crusade A painted Desecrated Saint from Trench Crusade A painted Sorcerer from Trench Crusade
March 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM