#geekery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #geekery, aggregated by home.social.
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Phased Maps in Roll20
I've been playing around in Roll20 to make phased maps work without complicating my life with animated backgrounds. Here's how to do it #ttrpg #dnd #maps #roll20 -
Phased Maps in Roll20
I've been playing around in Roll20 to make phased maps work without complicating my life with animated backgrounds. Here's how to do it #ttrpg #dnd #maps #roll20 -
Phased Maps in Roll20
I've been playing around in Roll20 to make phased maps work without complicating my life with animated backgrounds. Here's how to do it #ttrpg #dnd #maps #roll20 -
Phased Maps in Roll20
I've been playing around in Roll20 to make phased maps work without complicating my life with animated backgrounds. Here's how to do it #ttrpg #dnd #maps #roll20 -
Phased Maps in Roll20
I've been playing around in Roll20 to make phased maps work without complicating my life with animated backgrounds. Here's how to do it #ttrpg #dnd #maps #roll20 -
Played is Better than Perfect
This Month's RPG Blog Carnival is Roll for Initiative… Next Tuesday at 7pm? – of Dice and Dragons Thoughts on the theme of Time and gaming. Rules almost, for how I manage, even imperfectly, to keep gaming as an adult. My Two Rules Rule the First: Schedule Ruthlessly. Most of us manage it in our non-gaming lives to a greater or elsser degree and have systems that work. Reapply them to gaming. Rule the Second: Played is better than Perfect. I sometimes couch this in work as "DON't […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/played-is-better-than-perfect/
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Played is Better than Perfect
This Month's RPG Blog Carnival is Roll for Initiative… Next Tuesday at 7pm? – of Dice and Dragons Thoughts on the theme of Time and gaming. Rules almost, for how I manage, even imperfectly, to keep gaming as an adult. My Two Rules Rule the First: Schedule Ruthlessly. Most of us manage it in our non-gaming lives to a greater or elsser degree and have systems that work. Reapply them to gaming. Rule the Second: Played is better than Perfect. I sometimes couch this in work as "DON't […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/played-is-better-than-perfect/
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Played is Better than Perfect
This Month's RPG Blog Carnival is Roll for Initiative… Next Tuesday at 7pm? – of Dice and Dragons Thoughts on the theme of Time and gaming. Rules almost, for how I manage, even imperfectly, to keep gaming as an adult. My Two Rules Rule the First: Schedule Ruthlessly. Most of us manage it in our non-gaming lives to a greater or elsser degree and have systems that work. Reapply them to gaming. Rule the Second: Played is better than Perfect. I sometimes couch this in work as "DON't […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/played-is-better-than-perfect/
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Played is Better than Perfect
This Month's RPG Blog Carnival is Roll for Initiative… Next Tuesday at 7pm? – of Dice and Dragons Thoughts on the theme of Time and gaming. Rules almost, for how I manage, even imperfectly, to keep gaming as an adult. My Two Rules Rule the First: Schedule Ruthlessly. Most of us manage it in our non-gaming lives to a greater or elsser degree and have systems that work. Reapply them to gaming. Rule the Second: Played is better than Perfect. I sometimes couch this in work as "DON't […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/played-is-better-than-perfect/
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Played is Better than Perfect
This Month's RPG Blog Carnival is Roll for Initiative… Next Tuesday at 7pm? – of Dice and Dragons Thoughts on the theme of Time and gaming. Rules almost, for how I manage, even imperfectly, to keep gaming as an adult. My Two Rules Rule the First: Schedule Ruthlessly. Most of us manage it in our non-gaming lives to a greater or elsser degree and have systems that work. Reapply them to gaming. Rule the Second: Played is better than Perfect. I sometimes couch this in work as "DON't […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/played-is-better-than-perfect/
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Re: What is your concept of technology? 💭
In answer to Finest Day's question. I think I fall somewhere between Alan Kay's “Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff" and Dougas Adams' overlapping idea which runs: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/re-what-is-your-concept-of-technology-%f0%9f%92%ad/
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Re: What is your concept of technology? 💭
In answer to Finest Day's question. I think I fall somewhere between Alan Kay's “Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff" and Dougas Adams' overlapping idea which runs: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/re-what-is-your-concept-of-technology-%f0%9f%92%ad/
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Re: What is your concept of technology? 💭
In answer to Finest Day's question. I think I fall somewhere between Alan Kay's “Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff" and Dougas Adams' overlapping idea which runs: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/re-what-is-your-concept-of-technology-%f0%9f%92%ad/
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Re: What is your concept of technology? 💭
In answer to Finest Day's question. I think I fall somewhere between Alan Kay's “Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff" and Dougas Adams' overlapping idea which runs: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/re-what-is-your-concept-of-technology-%f0%9f%92%ad/
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Re: What is your concept of technology? 💭
In answer to Finest Day's question. I think I fall somewhere between Alan Kay's “Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff" and Dougas Adams' overlapping idea which runs: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/08/24/re-what-is-your-concept-of-technology-%f0%9f%92%ad/
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Ahoska Rewatch with Waffle: Ep 2
Got around to continuing eventually! Since last time I’ve had a go at that lovely bit of light-sabering with the head block that I liked last time. Def something in that. Also started learning some standard blocks and defences for two sabers which has broken all my pre existing muscle memory into pieces but been fun. Onwards. Story and Character We pick up with Sabine being patched back together after her disastrous lightsaber fight with Shin. It is rather on the prickly side… […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/24/ahoska-rewatch-with-waffle-ep-2/
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Ahoska Rewatch with Waffle: Ep 2
Got around to continuing eventually! Since last time I’ve had a go at that lovely bit of light-sabering with the head block that I liked last time. Def something in that. Also started learning some standard blocks and defences for two sabers which has broken all my pre existing muscle memory into pieces but been fun. Onwards. Story and Character We pick up with Sabine being patched back together after her disastrous lightsaber fight with Shin. It is rather on the prickly side… […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/24/ahoska-rewatch-with-waffle-ep-2/
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Ahoska Rewatch with Waffle: Ep 2
Got around to continuing eventually! Since last time I’ve had a go at that lovely bit of light-sabering with the head block that I liked last time. Def something in that. Also started learning some standard blocks and defences for two sabers which has broken all my pre existing muscle memory into pieces but been fun. Onwards. Story and Character We pick up with Sabine being patched back together after her disastrous lightsaber fight with Shin. It is rather on the prickly side… […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/24/ahoska-rewatch-with-waffle-ep-2/
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Re: Memorization through movement
Memorization through movement - Finest Day talks about in the first instance what I descibe as the "I can't remember my PIN unless I'm Stood In Front of the Cashpoint" problem. I've run thriugh a range of random physical skills though and definitely also know well the overthinking problem. I've learned to lean into it. One of those obscure physical skills has been flying and I remember writing about this exact thing then. all the mnemonics that flying is littered with slip out of my […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/16/re-memorization-through-movement/
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Re: Memorization through movement
Memorization through movement - Finest Day talks about in the first instance what I descibe as the "I can't remember my PIN unless I'm Stood In Front of the Cashpoint" problem. I've run thriugh a range of random physical skills though and definitely also know well the overthinking problem. I've learned to lean into it. One of those obscure physical skills has been flying and I remember writing about this exact thing then. all the mnemonics that flying is littered with slip out of my […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/16/re-memorization-through-movement/
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Re: Memorization through movement
Memorization through movement - Finest Day talks about in the first instance what I descibe as the "I can't remember my PIN unless I'm Stood In Front of the Cashpoint" problem. I've run thriugh a range of random physical skills though and definitely also know well the overthinking problem. I've learned to lean into it. One of those obscure physical skills has been flying and I remember writing about this exact thing then. all the mnemonics that flying is littered with slip out of my […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/16/re-memorization-through-movement/
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Helemet Games Challenge 2026
One of the things I wanted to do in terms of encouraging myself to play more instead of defaulting to doomscrolling was the Helmet Game Challenge 2026 To remove decision paralysis I spent a sort of session zero looking through the list and deciding what games which I already own matched the criteria – however loosely. I allowed myself a few which had been on my wishlist a while but tried to mainly do it with games I already owned – the aim after all was to play those games more often. […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/12/helemet-games-challenge-2026/
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Helemet Games Challenge 2026
One of the things I wanted to do in terms of encouraging myself to play more instead of defaulting to doomscrolling was the Helmet Game Challenge 2026 To remove decision paralysis I spent a sort of session zero looking through the list and deciding what games which I already own matched the criteria – however loosely. I allowed myself a few which had been on my wishlist a while but tried to mainly do it with games I already owned – the aim after all was to play those games more often. […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/12/helemet-games-challenge-2026/
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Helemet Games Challenge 2026
One of the things I wanted to do in terms of encouraging myself to play more instead of defaulting to doomscrolling was the Helmet Game Challenge 2026 To remove decision paralysis I spent a sort of session zero looking through the list and deciding what games which I already own matched the criteria – however loosely. I allowed myself a few which had been on my wishlist a while but tried to mainly do it with games I already owned – the aim after all was to play those games more often. […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/07/12/helemet-games-challenge-2026/
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Masks and Movement
Yes I was going to find a way to dress up even for a covid-era videocall Halloween "party" So the month’s IndieWeb Carnival theme is “Masks, Identities & Cosplay” so that’s an easy one. I already waffle about this more than a bit (cosplay | Leia Dot Cymru) and one of my previous Carnival posts was A love letter to cosplay But there’s always more to waffle about and I noticed at the most recent con quite how differently I move about a space in different costumes. Playing as Ahsoka […] -
Masks and Movement
Yes I was going to find a way to dress up even for a covid-era videocall Halloween "party" So the month’s IndieWeb Carnival theme is “Masks, Identities & Cosplay” so that’s an easy one. I already waffle about this more than a bit (cosplay | Leia Dot Cymru) and one of my previous Carnival posts was A love letter to cosplay But there’s always more to waffle about and I noticed at the most recent con quite how differently I move about a space in different costumes. Playing as Ahsoka […] -
Masks and Movement
Yes I was going to find a way to dress up even for a covid-era videocall Halloween "party" So the month’s IndieWeb Carnival theme is “Masks, Identities & Cosplay” so that’s an easy one. I already waffle about this more than a bit (cosplay | Leia Dot Cymru) and one of my previous Carnival posts was A love letter to cosplay But there’s always more to waffle about and I noticed at the most recent con quite how differently I move about a space in different costumes. Playing as Ahsoka […] -
Sonic FanFest Cardiff 2026
The con itself is exactly the sort of event I was being wistful about when I started this blog – just taking over a hotel (or at least a floor of it) and having a bunch of fan-run panels, a bunch of traders and enough free time to chitchat and talk with Internet Friends and new people where the hard part of the conversation starting is already done because after all your both here!https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/28/sonic-fanfest-cardiff-2026/
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Sonic FanFest Cardiff 2026
The con itself is exactly the sort of event I was being wistful about when I started this blog – just taking over a hotel (or at least a floor of it) and having a bunch of fan-run panels, a bunch of traders and enough free time to chitchat and talk with Internet Friends and new people where the hard part of the conversation starting is already done because after all your both here!https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/28/sonic-fanfest-cardiff-2026/
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Sonic FanFest Cardiff 2026
The con itself is exactly the sort of event I was being wistful about when I started this blog – just taking over a hotel (or at least a floor of it) and having a bunch of fan-run panels, a bunch of traders and enough free time to chitchat and talk with Internet Friends and new people where the hard part of the conversation starting is already done because after all your both here!https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/28/sonic-fanfest-cardiff-2026/
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Sonic FanFest Cardiff 2026
The con itself is exactly the sort of event I was being wistful about when I started this blog – just taking over a hotel (or at least a floor of it) and having a bunch of fan-run panels, a bunch of traders and enough free time to chitchat and talk with Internet Friends and new people where the hard part of the conversation starting is already done because after all your both here!https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/28/sonic-fanfest-cardiff-2026/
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Cymraeg, tech a’r Haclediad o hyd
Mae wedi bod yn amser maith ers dw i wedi ysgrifennu yn Gymraeg. Digon hir i fi anghofio hyd yn oed pa offer o’n i’n arfer defnyddio i wirio pethau. Digon hir i gael gliniadur newydd heb y pecyn sillafu Cymraeg arno fe eto. Oedd rhaid i fi chwilio ar gyfer “beth yw enw'r peth gwirio" Gymraeg + Bangor” O. Cysill dyna fe. Hefyd, 600 geiriau i mewn i hynny dechreuodd Libre Writer marcio popeth fel Saesneg yn lle Cymraeg... Pam? Beth bynnag... Ailddechrau'r meddalwedd sortiodd y […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/12/cymraeg-tech-ar-haclediad-o-hyd/
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Cymraeg, tech a’r Haclediad o hyd
Mae wedi bod yn amser maith ers dw i wedi ysgrifennu yn Gymraeg. Digon hir i fi anghofio hyd yn oed pa offer o’n i’n arfer defnyddio i wirio pethau. Digon hir i gael gliniadur newydd heb y pecyn sillafu Cymraeg arno fe eto. Oedd rhaid i fi chwilio ar gyfer “beth yw enw'r peth gwirio" Gymraeg + Bangor” O. Cysill dyna fe. Hefyd, 600 geiriau i mewn i hynny dechreuodd Libre Writer marcio popeth fel Saesneg yn lle Cymraeg... Pam? Beth bynnag... Ailddechrau'r meddalwedd sortiodd y […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/12/cymraeg-tech-ar-haclediad-o-hyd/
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Cymraeg, tech a’r Haclediad o hyd
Mae wedi bod yn amser maith ers dw i wedi ysgrifennu yn Gymraeg. Digon hir i fi anghofio hyd yn oed pa offer o’n i’n arfer defnyddio i wirio pethau. Digon hir i gael gliniadur newydd heb y pecyn sillafu Cymraeg arno fe eto. Oedd rhaid i fi chwilio ar gyfer “beth yw enw'r peth gwirio" Gymraeg + Bangor” O. Cysill dyna fe. Hefyd, 600 geiriau i mewn i hynny dechreuodd Libre Writer marcio popeth fel Saesneg yn lle Cymraeg... Pam? Beth bynnag... Ailddechrau'r meddalwedd sortiodd y […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/12/cymraeg-tech-ar-haclediad-o-hyd/
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Ahoska Rewatch with Waffle: Ep 1
Episode 1 A blog is a space to waffle about things right? I used to do a lot of fannish waffling about things, on mailing lists and bulletin boards, picking over the fine detail of episodes, speculating, over analysing, enthusing about details. A lot of that happens on YouTube these days it looks like and it’s hard to navigate with stumbling into toxicity. And anyway I like writing better than talking, and I do not enjoy video editing. So the Ahoska live action series... (I actually kind […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/07/ahoska-rewatch-with-waffle-ep-1/
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Ahoska Rewatch with Waffle: Ep 1
Episode 1 A blog is a space to waffle about things right? I used to do a lot of fannish waffling about things, on mailing lists and bulletin boards, picking over the fine detail of episodes, speculating, over analysing, enthusing about details. A lot of that happens on YouTube these days it looks like and it’s hard to navigate with stumbling into toxicity. And anyway I like writing better than talking, and I do not enjoy video editing. So the Ahoska live action series... (I actually kind […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/07/ahoska-rewatch-with-waffle-ep-1/
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Ahoska Rewatch with Waffle: Ep 1
Episode 1 A blog is a space to waffle about things right? I used to do a lot of fannish waffling about things, on mailing lists and bulletin boards, picking over the fine detail of episodes, speculating, over analysing, enthusing about details. A lot of that happens on YouTube these days it looks like and it’s hard to navigate with stumbling into toxicity. And anyway I like writing better than talking, and I do not enjoy video editing. So the Ahoska live action series... (I actually kind […]https://www.leia.cymru/2026/06/07/ahoska-rewatch-with-waffle-ep-1/
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3 Cons
So an Old Internet thing we used to do all the time was share stories from cons. I rather over did it on that front over the bank holiday weekend so have plenty to waffle about! MCM London This was a impulse unwise financial choice almost immediately after Liverpool Comicon only a few weeks earlier but my favouritest of favourite Star Wars characters, even more than my namesake, is Ahsoka... and how often are the American based voice actors over here and and and... So the short version is […] -
3 Cons
So an Old Internet thing we used to do all the time was share stories from cons. I rather over did it on that front over the bank holiday weekend so have plenty to waffle about! MCM London This was a impulse unwise financial choice almost immediately after Liverpool Comicon only a few weeks earlier but my favouritest of favourite Star Wars characters, even more than my namesake, is Ahsoka... and how often are the American based voice actors over here and and and... So the short version is […] -
3 Cons
So an Old Internet thing we used to do all the time was share stories from cons. I rather over did it on that front over the bank holiday weekend so have plenty to waffle about! MCM London This was a impulse unwise financial choice almost immediately after Liverpool Comicon only a few weeks earlier but my favouritest of favourite Star Wars characters, even more than my namesake, is Ahsoka... and how often are the American based voice actors over here and and and... So the short version is […] -
3 Cons
So an Old Internet thing we used to do all the time was share stories from cons. I rather over did it on that front over the bank holiday weekend so have plenty to waffle about! MCM London This was a impulse unwise financial choice almost immediately after Liverpool Comicon only a few weeks earlier but my favouritest of favourite Star Wars characters, even more than my namesake, is Ahsoka... and how often are the American based voice actors over here and and and... So the short version is […] -
3 Cons
So an Old Internet thing we used to do all the time was share stories from cons. I rather over did it on that front over the bank holiday weekend so have plenty to waffle about! MCM London This was a impulse unwise financial choice almost immediately after Liverpool Comicon only a few weeks earlier but my favouritest of favourite Star Wars characters, even more than my namesake, is Ahsoka... and how often are the American based voice actors over here and and and... So the short version is […] -
A love letter to cosplay
Apropos of IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 but that really only gave me the title because I'd been meaning to waffle on this for a while. When I did my tally of things I missed from the old internet there was one particular thing which had endured, and that was what we’re now calling cosplay. We called it ‘hall costumes’ back then and I can’t really recall at what point that terminology shift occurred. I do remember being a bit resistant to it – twenty-something me thought it sounded […] -
A love letter to cosplay
Apropos of IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 but that really only gave me the title because I'd been meaning to waffle on this for a while. When I did my tally of things I missed from the old internet there was one particular thing which had endured, and that was what we’re now calling cosplay. We called it ‘hall costumes’ back then and I can’t really recall at what point that terminology shift occurred. I do remember being a bit resistant to it – twenty-something me thought it sounded […] -
A love letter to cosplay
Apropos of IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 but that really only gave me the title because I'd been meaning to waffle on this for a while. When I did my tally of things I missed from the old internet there was one particular thing which had endured, and that was what we’re now calling cosplay. We called it ‘hall costumes’ back then and I can’t really recall at what point that terminology shift occurred. I do remember being a bit resistant to it – twenty-something me thought it sounded […] -
A love letter to cosplay
Apropos of IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 but that really only gave me the title because I'd been meaning to waffle on this for a while. When I did my tally of things I missed from the old internet there was one particular thing which had endured, and that was what we’re now calling cosplay. We called it ‘hall costumes’ back then and I can’t really recall at what point that terminology shift occurred. I do remember being a bit resistant to it – twenty-something me thought it sounded […] -
A love letter to cosplay
Apropos of IndieWeb Carnival May 2026 but that really only gave me the title because I'd been meaning to waffle on this for a while. When I did my tally of things I missed from the old internet there was one particular thing which had endured, and that was what we’re now calling cosplay. We called it ‘hall costumes’ back then and I can’t really recall at what point that terminology shift occurred. I do remember being a bit resistant to it – twenty-something me thought it sounded […] -
new on my blog: One week with my Xteink X4
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new on my blog: One week with my Xteink X4
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new on my blog: One week with my Xteink X4
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new on my blog: One week with my Xteink X4
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new on my blog: One week with my Xteink X4
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Map – Flooded Crossing
A waterlogged new encounter map, and five system-neutral scenario ideas - plus link to the Dungeon Alchemist files #maps #ttrpg -
Map – Flooded Crossing
A waterlogged new encounter map, and five system-neutral scenario ideas - plus link to the Dungeon Alchemist files #maps #ttrpg -
Map – Flooded Crossing
A waterlogged new encounter map, and five system-neutral scenario ideas - plus link to the Dungeon Alchemist files #maps #ttrpg -
Map – Flooded Crossing
A waterlogged new encounter map, and five system-neutral scenario ideas - plus link to the Dungeon Alchemist files #maps #ttrpg -
Map – Flooded Crossing
A waterlogged new encounter map, and five system-neutral scenario ideas - plus link to the Dungeon Alchemist files #maps #ttrpg -
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