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Robin D. Laws

@robindlaws

Writer, game designer, podcaster. Winner of the Diana Jones Award, 8 Gold and 5 Silver ENnies. Translated into 11 languages.

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I know, right?

07.03.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As a Gen X elder I am not letting young people tell me how to say things.

I am still going to use "crash out" to describe an unproductive day

06.03.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 689: Bring Out the Claw Β« Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Ken and Robin talk idiot plotting in rpg mysteries, Project Azorian, the Green Man, and Erich von Daniken.

06.03.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A screen on Amazon prime. Two movies - Fargo above and Mission Impossible below. The image gives the illusion of Frances McDormand working Tom cruise like a puppet.

A screen on Amazon prime. Two movies - Fargo above and Mission Impossible below. The image gives the illusion of Frances McDormand working Tom cruise like a puppet.

If I have to see Frances McDormand working Tom Cruise like a puppet then so do you

06.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Dans is not an actual squirrels

05.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That sound you hear is Canada's Strategic Smugness Reserve topping up again

05.03.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Markwayne Mullin has to get confirmed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is chaired by Rand Paul, who Markwayne Mullin recently called a β€œsnake” & said he sympathized with Rand Paul’s neighbor who beat him up.

05.03.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 820 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 1

When elected, I too will select cabinet members because I enjoy watching them on television.

With that in mind, please meet my Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Squirrelly Dan

05.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Stagnant air trapping vehicle emissions at ground level.

05.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What Bogart Can Tell You About Page Turners Page Turners, my game of dramatic interaction for one player and one GM, enables you to create stories resembling the character-driven narratives of films and l

What Bogart Can Tell You About Page Turners

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05.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s his Goodfellas name

05.03.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Some posts don’t quite warrant a block but still cry out for an incremental demerit points system

05.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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View from the Pelgrane’s Nest β€” In Like a Lion Edition Your part of the world may be balmy or merely damp but here at the Pelgrane’s Nest winter retains its grip on the land. Like our other cold-blooded staff memb

With Page Turners and 13th Age 2nd Edition out, it’s time to look forward to Paragon Blade, Ballad Hunters, and the Fear Itself Shattered Veil Edition in the latest updates from Pelgrane Press

04.03.2026 20:44 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

After the current murder mystery the players will be launching an inquiry into which of them did this

04.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In Merryshire Detective Club players collaboratively invent details of their home village. Someone decided that the vicar speaks in a roundabout manner, which in the GMing biz is what we call a gift

04.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Ubiquitous online gambling answers the question β€œwhat if we all collectively went Bad Lieutenant?” which personally I was not asking

04.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIs there an appropriate amount of blood? I’m checking for vampires.”
β€œAnd whether he was killed elsewhere and moved here.”
β€œNo, just vampires.”

#quoteOfGame #merryshire

04.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAre we the accident friends or the murder friends?”

#quoteOfGame #merryshire

04.03.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

On my (virtual) to read pile

03.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mexican drug lord 'El Mencho' buried in golden coffin Nemesio Oseguera led the feared Jalisco New Generation Cartel until his death as a result of a firefight in February.

Plot hook: your heist crew plans to steal a cartel boss’ golden coffin.

The twist: your character sheets say β€œNight’s Black Agents.”

03.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ken and Robin Consume Media: Book Thieves, Unreliable Narration, and a Yakuza Father Β« Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

Ken and Robin Consume Media: Book Thieves, Unreliable Narration, and a Yakuza Father

03.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Time change on the weekend will be the last ever as BC switches to permanent daylight savings time It's been years in the making, but British Columbia is finally adopting permanent year-round daylight saving time. That means Sunday's time.

British Columbia adopts new excuse to miss Zoom meetings

03.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Spatchcocked a chicken for the first time just now and startled to see how easy it is. To think of all the spatchcockings I left to others all these years.

02.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Coming soon: Ballad Hunters RPG Britain, 1813: Folk ballads are coming to life. Armed with ballad magic, you decipher clues in each song and save the people affected.

Ballad Hunters, @moltensulfur.bsky.social's brilliant GUMSHOE game of folk songs gone supernaturally wrong on the gritty side of the Regency era, Kickstarts soon. Sign up for launch notification!

bit.ly/47jkjRn

02.03.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Three years ago: interesting visualization

Today: guess I have to search trending topics to see who's planning to drain the water from the oceans

01.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Always a relief to hear that the stars are not, in fact, right

01.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can recover them when they bat them off the counter

01.03.2026 00:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hence the well known design adage:

DON'T GIVE CATS STATS

01.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Reasons for the ejection of New York Public Library patrons, Dec 1914: sleeping, drunkenness, smoking, spitting, disorderly conduct, malicious mischief, boxing, war discussion

28.02.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ad for costumes for ushers to wear during screenings of the perverse horror classic THE BLACK CAT (1934)

#Caturday

28.02.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5