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Creator goals for 2025

- prepare a good draft of #LangobardRPG
feyearth.bsky.social Fey Earth @feyearth.bsky.social · Nov 5
Repost with your creator goals for 2025!

Complete my kickstarter and publish the core rulebook of Fey Earth officially launching it by December 2025
Run at least two 6-8 episode mini campaigns of Fey Earth
Run at least three 1-3 episode Candela Obscura games
Publish my YA novel
captainzenscuel.bsky.social Captain Zenscuel is Taking a Break @captainzenscuel.bsky.social · Nov 5
Repost with your creator goals for 2025!

-Finalize the GM Update
-Do more, how terrible, marketting
-Find and build relationships with more artists
-Improve the vehicle rules
-Actually do the third draft of my novel manuscript
-Find a way to be less exhausted all the time so I can do more.
November 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
A few small goals for 2026:

🌊 Get back to swimming

🎲 Run Vampire: Dark alAges and/or Chronica Feudalis #TTRPGs

🪶 Write more of #LangobardRPG

🌿 Realise and resubmit poisoning proposal, and

📖 hope that *this* will be the year my first monograph finally goes to print
December 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Thought I'd slid through the door at the last second for this year's #MAMG - then saw there's still the weekend!

I'll (hopefully) talk about "From 'Docufictions' to 'Lawplay': On Speculative Engagement with Early Medieval Law". Because, of course, what else?...😉

🎲📜⚖️

#TTRPG #LangobardRPG #Medieval
midagesmodgames.bsky.social The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · Jun 18
The CfP for the upcoming #MAMG26 is now live!

The event will take place on 5-7 Oct, assynchronously and online.

Come join us from anywhere in the world to discuss medievalisms in games and alternative approaches to the ludic past.
In a time of growing political and environmental anxieties, the Middle Ages are often sought as a source of inspiration for alternative futures. Ecologically-minded games like Of Life and Land look to the medieval past to explore alternative, non-exploitative engagements with nature. Medievalist RPGs have long served as possibility spaces for players to interrogate and experiment with notions of sexuality, gender, and identity more broadly. Games like Scriptorium and Traveller’s Rest imagine medieval pasts divorced from the logics of violence often associated with the period. Medievalist fantasy games like Metaphor: ReFantazio openly engage with utopian thinking and our capacities to imagine possible worlds. We invite analytical ‘papers’ (comprising 400-500 words of text or 5-minute videos) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Possible Worlds’ and ‘Possible Pasts’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones. We encourage submissions from medievalists, games scholars and developers at any point in their career— especially those from Postgraduate Students, Early Career Researchers and members of any groups under-represented within the academy and industry. We welcome pieces addressing any region globally, and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’ and ‘medievalism’. We are able to accept papers in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to midagesmodgames@gmail.com by Sunday 3 August.
July 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
1. Call of Cthulhu
2. Elric of Melnibonè
3. Vampire Dark Ages
4. V:DA or Elric...
5. Check table: 2d12+Mood mod. 😉
6. D&D 5E
7. #LangobardRPG (my homebrew)
deaconblues1979.bsky.social Frankenstein Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · Mar 13
1. First #ttrpg you ever played?
2. First you ever ran?
3. Played the most?
4. Run the most?
5. Favorite?
6. Most recently played?
7. Most recently run?
March 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
On my way to the UK for two weeks. Holiday in Cornwall first, then off to the #IMC. To do:

🌊 see the sea! swim in it!

📜 present paper on grave re-opening, #643
- Esther Simpson, 2.07, 11:15

🎲 playtest(s) of my #LangobardRPG
- 🦅 hawking scenario
(Old Bar. Tuesday evening?)
June 27, 2026 at 6:18 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Another great day at the Historical Games Studies workshop in Durham, ended with a short play test/demonstration of #LangobardRPG, with:

🎲 @drhelenroche.bsky.social
🎲 @katexe.bsky.social
🎲 @vinicius-marino.bsky.social
booksoflaw.bsky.social Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · Jun 24
At the airport, off to the UK for a couple of weeks

Two conferences:
🎲 Middle Ages in Modern World (KCL)
🎲 Historical Game Studies (Durham)

Two viewings of Lombard lawbooks:
📖 Lambeth Palace, MS 39
📖 Bodleian, Laud. Misc. 742

Hopefully a TTRPG session or two along the way, and holiday!
🏖️🏝️🏰🎲🦉
June 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
I'm absolutely in favour of this (as a GM it's what i keep my stash of the good XP for)

For #LangobardRPG i've brought it into the mechanics, so that by talking about how what you're trying resonates with your motivations (basically feelings) affects the chances of success when the dice clatter
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beckyannison.bsky.social Becky Annison 🔜 Dragonmeet @beckyannison.bsky.social · Dec 13
1. Speak about your characters feelings, often.

Even the secret ones that should probably stay in your character’s head. This gives other players something to react to!

[The Spill Move in Bite Marks comes from this.]

2/11
December 13, 2024 at 12:01 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Just ran a work-in-progress play test of the "Hawking & Lawplay" one shot scenario I've been working on for my early #medievalsky set #TTRPG (the #LangobardRPG) with work friends

Seems like everyone enjoyed themselves, and got invested in the legal content and intrigue, as well as the story

🎲🦅📖
April 14, 2026 at 7:42 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Waiting for my flight back, so a quick update - had a lovely time 😍

🌊 Swam in sea. Also went to King Arthur's Hall, Kastel Dore

💀 Had fun graverobbing. Recruited more speakers for workshop in Sept

🎲 Ran 4 games of #LangobardRPG, chatted about #TTRPG and Historical Game Studies

🦅 Held a red kite
booksoflaw.bsky.social Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · Jun 27
On my way to the UK for two weeks. Holiday in Cornwall first, then off to the #IMC. To do:

🌊 see the sea! swim in it!

📜 present paper on grave re-opening, #643
- Esther Simpson, 2.07, 11:15

🎲 playtest(s) of my #LangobardRPG
- 🦅 hawking scenario
(Old Bar. Tuesday evening?)
July 10, 2026 at 12:07 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Hello world!
I'm Thom, #medievalist and codicologist focusing on early medieval laws and lawbooks (especially those of the Lombards), and also slowly making a #ttrpg based on the Lombard laws, the #LangobardRPG :D
September 22, 2023 at 9:49 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
We shall!

And, yes, I'll definitely be bringing #LangobardRPG and running at least one or two sessions 😁

Looking forward to gaming with you again! 🎲
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Just ran an evening playtest of my #LangobardRPG which went nicely: tweaks to the system seem to work well, and the players got enmeshed in the story - so we're hoping to continue tomorrow... When they'll find the victim of the "Striga"/poison and start to investigate in more depth 😊

🎲⚖️🗡️🌿✨🦉
July 2, 2024 at 11:02 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
And, last but not least, very slowly preparing a TTRPG based on the Lombard laws, that is more in my head than written down, but which I do enjoy play testing every now and then... #LangobardRPG, in which players investigate (or commit!) crimes in Lombard Italy in the second half of the 7th century.
November 10, 2024 at 8:27 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Hi, just realised the #LangobardRPG session is going to have to either be tonight (after the roundtable), Wednesday and/or Thursday...

I'm attending Linette's "Historical Research, Public Engagement, and Tabletop Role-Playing Games" special event from 19:00-21:00 on Tuesday evening!
July 6, 2026 at 8:28 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
#LangobardRPG update:

- Good news: just had flash of inspiration for making the setting chapter work, while integrating it into RPG mechanics & historical materials. Which I didn't even realise *was* my stumbling block before... Feeling motivated!

- Bad news: where is the time to pursue this? 😉
October 24, 2023 at 1:37 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Went to Belgrade again last week and didn't get more dice to commemorate the visit... #SadDiceGoblin

But did:

✨ Have a fun trip to the national museum

📜 give a lecture on poisoning as a crime from Lombard law to Lombardist legal studies

🎲 Playtest #LangobardRPG
November 28, 2024 at 3:03 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
For those interested in the #LangobardRPG session, here's a snippit of introductory text that I'm preparing for the scenario-as-written.

It's written to be a bit 'GM facing' -but maybe that's just good for managing expectations
(session -1 ? 😉)

🎲🦅⚖️
#TTRPG
Hawking and Lawplay Motivation To be able to hunt with a raptor, you must first have one. While there are numerous permitted means of acquiring a hunting bird in the early middle ages, there are likewise many illicit ways. And these means can surely result in accusations and the pursuit of justice through the emnity of the faida [feud] and recourse to the law. For this one to two session scenario, each player character should be suitably motivated towards the acquisition and ownership of a raptor—typically a goshawk, else a sparrowhawk or peregrine falcon—whether they want it to hunt with themselves (for prestige or to fill the cooking pot), to gift it to another in the hopes of gaining favour, or else to maliciously prevent another from owning it and deprive them of the benefits it would have bestowed! Scenario The scenario should typically be split into two main parts, with the referee making at least one or two significant opportunities throughout, in which the player characters get to fly their birds. The first part focuses on the .I. Acquisition of raptors by the player characters, and growing Suspicison as to who perpetrators likely are when illicit means have been employed. And with the referee (and ruleset) facilitating the onset and escalation of legal troubles, there should hopefully be many grounds for pointing blame and levelling accusations with relevant legal officials. By the end of this section, at least one of the characters (hopefully more, if not all) should be directly embroiled in one or more .II. Causae [law suits]. In the second part of the scenario, then, the player characters develop their role as the accusers, or the accused—depending on the nature of the shenanigans that occured previously. But, if all goes well (from the perspective of the troupe!), the dispute will have erupted between the collected characters, and the players will end up portraying both sides as the events unfurl. If the acquisition scenario somehow passes witho…
June 27, 2026 at 9:24 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
I like this strategy, last year I ran a few tests of my #LangobardRPG and did some where players investigated until a truth emerged, which worked really well. So I'm looking forward to diving into Rosewood¹ Abbey in more detail soon 😊

¹ I also realised I renamed it "Hexwood" Abbey in my head, oops!
rolistespod.itch.io Kalum 🔜 GrogLaw 2027 @rolistespod.itch.io · Apr 1
The Rose in the Garden is also the mystery featured as the Replay transcript at the beginning of the book. As for all #CarvedFromBrindlewood
mysteries, what happened and who's guilty of anything is NOT pre-determined. It's up to the players and their Confabulation/Theorize roll.
April 3, 2024 at 7:55 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Making my way to Cornwall for my dad's 80th 🥳

Also to do:

📜🔥 Prepare paper on arson and verbal repetition in the Lombard laws #medievalsky

🎲💀 Revise character creation for my Re-Opening #TTRPG (a one shot spin-off from my #LangobardRPG)

🎲🧛🏼‍♀️ Run Masquerade for Hallowe'en
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
I find myself thinking of the Hawks & #Lawplay sessions I ran over the summer (and am writing up), so to this list I therefore add:

#LangobardRPG: oh, that's exactly what this scenario is about... You've acquired a raptor, but, there _might_ (😉) be legal implications about how and where you got it
lauren-urban.com OboeLauren🔜PAXUnplugged @lauren-urban.com · 22d
My TTRPG prep for this week:

D&D: One of your players wants a bird? Here's several different bird stat blocks to choose from.
MÖRK BORG: One of your players wants a bird? Sure, hopefully the player gets attached to them before they die miserably.
13 Omens: The bird is a ghost.
September 17, 2026 at 6:49 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Love the evolution of a chapter idea in the "writing-as-research" phase. This week, the chapter has shifted from:

1. Magical practices across the Lombard laws, and how to adapt them for TTRPG

2. Focus only on laws on arioli [soothsayers]

3. Laws on arioli as case study for design of #LangobardRPG
October 2, 2024 at 3:37 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Just realised while I have run 4 sessions of this #LangobardRPG scenario over the last two weeks - all incredibly enjoyable! - I didn't take a single selfie of the respective groups... Oops!

Also, we only got into the very start of part .II. twice, but hey. Most importantly, there were shenanigans!
booksoflaw.bsky.social Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social · Jun 27
For those interested in the #LangobardRPG session, here's a snippit of introductory text that I'm preparing for the scenario-as-written.

It's written to be a bit 'GM facing' -but maybe that's just good for managing expectations
(session -1 ? 😉)

🎲🦅⚖️
#TTRPG
July 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
I've been looking at #ChronicaFeudalis (Keller 2010), and love how the "mentors" system defines starting skills and inventory at character creation, but also gives you a social network of NPC allies, in game already.

It's inspiring a revision of some sticky elements for my own #LangobardRPG 😊
March 13, 2024 at 8:33 AM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
Had a great session today with my #TTRPG and #medieval studies discussion group. "Ergodic research" being a fancy way of saying we ran a game session 😉

We took #LangobardRPG into mid-770s Italy, and set some post-conquest Lombard legal officials to investigating a reopened and robbed grave!

🎲✨️
🪦🪏☠️
July 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
booksoflaw.bsky.social
But I'm very glad that you likes the game design itself, and incredibly happy to have finally had that chance to get you to the table and trying out #LangobardRPG

Next time, let's hope for a longer session (we left your character putting away the horses, and on the other side of a barred door!)
June 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM