Dark! This bat god comes from central Mexican traditions influenced by Zapotec and Teotihuacan religious ideas, roughly 600–900 CE. This deity is associated with death, the underworld, the night, caves and sacrifice; often referring to decapitation, human sacrifice and regeneration through death.

"Bell and Small-betta, Travelling Circus Sorcerers"

When the Italians cook... THEY DELIVER #ttrpg

We added a couple of artists to our small resource document! If you are looking for cool art for your TTRPG project, we compiled a bunch of nice places to look! wendigoworkshop.itch.io/art-resource...

Just unpacked the cutest thing I got at Pax Unplugged, this thumbnail-sized dungeon module from @molomoot.bsky.social

Mecha mayhem I drew a year ago

Hello #PortfolioDay I'm a freelance illustrator of dark fantasy. Looking for work on album covers/book covers/ttrpgs/video games...

Starting the year off right with some #AerTi 😉 ❤️ 🐬 🎀 Such an underrated ship, but definitely one of my top 3(?) favourites, next to CloTi and Zakkura. I can't believe my last painting of them was YEARS ago, it's high time I drew them again! #TifaLockhart

Hey #PortfolioDay. I'm an illustrator and 2D game artist based in the UK. I'm looking for new opportunities, primarily in video games and board games, but I'm very open to other projects too.

Here is a pack of art, create your own dungeon. Pretty neat idea! I imagine it would be a pretty fun dungeon-design workshop exercise too.

cowpybara

We also have a Showcase Zero 2025 bundle live now on itch.io/b/3476/showc.... Get 8 incredible games from @kobanya.bsky.social @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social @andrewgillis.bsky.social @cutestpatoot.itch.io @yanahn.bsky.social and me at over 50% off!

Hello!! My commissions are open again as some hospital bills and general bills are coming up! :D Feel free to fill in this Form! They will be open for about a week (or until slots fill up((roughly 5!)) (Alternately, feel free to also DM or email me if you prefer! :) )

Next month I will launch Cairn Press. I tried to make a publishing agreement that is fair, free, and mutually beneficial. Once the lawyer approves final contract I'll release it as CC-BY-SA, if possible. I've also written up a "plain English" version that you can read here: cairnpress.ink#terms

Gentlepeople, your eyes and ears please! If you'll guide your attention to the stage, you'll see one of this age's wonders... cover art for STEP RIGHT UP, sourced from the imagination of @jnb.art at no insignificant risk! A small traveling carnival, menaced by a dust storm! See it, LIVE!

One of my last art posts as I switch back into design/writing mode.

Zelafiel, Bearer of The Amputated Martyr #2026sketches Day 4 #art #illustration #darkart Did I have a bunch of work to do today? yes. Did I spend all day drawing this instead? also yes. Guess I'll be twice as busy tomorrow.

シュラカンパ（ちゃんとスキャンしたものを再掲）

Speaking of Arthuriana, here are some Knights of the Round Table figures I drew up for Patreon some time back.

The momatoes bundle has been extended for one year! Four of my award-winning games, for only $40 — a $37 discount. From heart-racing adventures to sad tales of longing, this bundle is a great way to explore new games. I think it's very cool :) itch.io/s/161143/the...

Check out my new #Shadowdark adventure: House of the Wasp! Delve into a samurai castle in search of weapons, training, and intrigue! #osr #ttrpg www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Between Two Cairns is organizing an RPG convention. Won’t you come?

I've quickly gathered together the articles I've written on Chinese and Taiwanese RPGs in one convenient category, if you'd like to take a look :) kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/category/chi...

This bundle launched pretty quietly, but it's running to help with the hurricane relief in Jamaica. 103 games, one of which is mine, and the whole thing is $6. itch.io/b/3458/jamai...

🦋 #pixelart

YEAST GHOULS

Last of my Kala Mandala adventurer team illustrations. Welcoming 2026 with the tenacity displayed by this party!

A Dungeon Game is here and it's free! (It's been both of those things for ages tbh) Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good). https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game

(3/12) Fire in the Highlands takes place in a small alpine glen, over one day. You might wonder how an artist might keep track of the position of the sun relative to the characters as they travel—so here's the map I used for that very purpose, on the first half of the book.

Kala Mandala is probably the most interesting setting I have seen in a long ling time. @munkao.bsky.social has in a clean 44 pages (including rules!) created a really evocative and fun place to adventure in. Based on Cairn with some nice twists, setting linked rules, and incredible art. PWYW at:

A really nice thing to start the year. Thank you @swanandravenstudio.com.

As always, Aaron does great, vital, interesting work. I started playing RPGs in 2010, so it’s really nice to chart my own experience and slice of the hobby along with this video, and great to see Session Zero here as it was a really crucial turning point for me. Playtest Zero was born there!

To learn more about Whole New World l, be sure to click the link below to be notified on LAUNCH! 🚀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/one...

I wrote about my plans for 2026, both under the @cairnrpg.com umbrella and Between Two Cairns. newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/

for the record, if I'm ever putting on a public event, but there's some kinda creature that's gonna eat people at the event, just let me know and I'll cancel it, no problem don't even care if it bankrupts me to be honest I was looking for an excuse not to go

Regular reminder that I am trying to build a corps of new Youtubers to cover indie RPGs. If you have any desire to do this, please let me know and I will give you what little knowledge I posses.

DNGN CLUB '25: a year in review. Today, I'm highlighting my surprise darling, DNGN + DRGN. It essentially started as a demo of what I ended up calling the DNGN ENGN (I'm aware of how annoying I am) and as a bit of a joke. Its become one of my most downloaded games, and I absolutely love it. 🧵

if you’re new to bsky and look for a french lesbian artist who draws women and also likes mecha, I got you covered

"The Harvest Beast of Sekot Runs Amok!" Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year! I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year. Happy holidays!

Hello, PDF games cheap now WINTER SALE very good!! please buy thanks bye bye itch.io/s/175165/win...

Fomoria Quickstart is crawling out of the earth now, free to download! Includes core rules, an intro adventure and 8 pregen characters ready to be consumed by the Darkness. An epic folk horror TTRPG created by Tania Herrero, laid out and published by @nohr.se tania-herrero.itch.io/fomoria-quic...

I keep coming back to these tarot inspired mechs because I had so much fun designing them and thinking about the world they are from. I think I'm going to try and make a game about them. That way I can have my friends pilot their own make-believe-cool-robot assigned by fate.

Last convention of the year! Comic Fiesta! If you are coming, drop by and say hi. I am at PG 01 along with @ehronlime and @nightshade_tavern_dnd at our own TTRPG alley! (Last photo of our alley by Aaron!)

The Northern Rustback, from my book Savage Strangehollow. Pre-orders open again in January (books will ship end of Feb at earliest). If you want to be notified when the shop opens then join my newsletter here: buff.ly/ET9Po9M #dragon #artbook #folklore #watercolour #painting #dragonart

Subscribe to Unwinnable before the end of the year and get all the 2025 issues free! That's twelve issues of Unwinnable Monthly AND twelve issues of Exploits for five clams. Feed your brain over the holidays! unwinnable.com/subscribe/ (@unwinnable.com)

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Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

Another party of nosey folks (2 of 3).

In the midst of all the AI vomitodramum, here's a two page spread I made for my #ttrpg book which I'm particularly proud of. :') Text, art and layout by yours truly; never have used, never shall use genAI.