With these reaching me, a whole chapter of my return to role-playing games comes to its lavishly illustrated end. Joining a playtesting campaign of what would become @ema-acosta.com's EXILE as a complete nobody was an enlightening and beautiful experience I will forever be thankful for.

Rudolf Sieck, 1923

Today on the Maelstrom: a first crack at using questions to build short story arcs ("adventures," if you will) thepsychicmaelstrom.pika.page/posts/where-...

More wok i did for Where the Water Tastes like Wine. 2015-2018

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Compositions that go hard (Faeries and Elves, 1984 - via archive.org/details/fair...)

The Dragon Dance by Justin Gerard www.artstation.com/a...

Today on the Maelstrom: an early draft on character-sharing thepsychicmaelstrom.pika.page/posts/relati...

What Use Is a Broomstick? thepsychicmaelstrom.pika.page/posts/what-u...

i used to Walk Around And Look At Things because it made my art better. now it feels more like making art takes away from the time i have to do the actually-important work of Walking Around And Looking At Things

*Reposts appreciated” My webstore heycentaur.com is finally up! This took so many months of labour (mostly my partner’s), but it is all ready and running. Physical copies of Kala Mandala are now available, shipping to most of the world.

It's 968 AC. An artificial sun shines down upon Doskvol. Autopods cruise down rows of peaceful, prosperous houses. Beneath it all, strange actors and twisted conspiracies work their shadowy agendas. Blades '68. The future is now. Don't miss it: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Have you ever wanted something so bad but knew you can't have it? JUNJI ITO PINBALL is part selfish wish-fulfilment, part internet art, part game. And it's shaped entirely by people like you 🌀 Curious? Confused? Go check out the readme doc on the page above.

Exile's crying-based economy is just one element that marks the "feelings-based RPG" as unique. Designer @ema-acosta.com puts her whole heart into our gauntlet of questions in the latest Rascal 7.

BTW I have a blog now, I’m part of the blogosphere. So if you prefer, you can read this whole ramble in blogpost form, like it’s 2008: blog.olddog.games/posts/the-vi...

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

an axe with heart-shaped holes in the blade, japan, 14th century

Announcing a new podcast: Rascal Reading Club! Join @newmadras.bsky.social as he analyzes RPG texts in an inviting, conversational framework. First up: the Warden's Operations Manual for @mothership.bsky.social.

New! Crescent: Feelings-Delving Role-Playing (2nd Edition) is an RPG of lost children in a magical dreamworld, seeking a way home Exile: Dark Fantasy Role-Playing is a fairy tale RPG of sharp blades, cutthroat kinship, and bloodied tears www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/

Burnout is genuinely life-destroying and I really can't say, on this website, what I think should happen to managers who not only let it happen to one individual worker but who systemically make it happen on large groups of workers.

I think this gets lost in a lot of these discussions. Crunch isn't just a bad experience in the moment or a bad job situation. Burnout has long, lingering effects on the brain and body that can last for years.

So cool!

The Watcher Kurt Huggins

Pierre Amédée Marcel Beronneau - Orpheus in the Underworld

Trim the elf’s beard, this is the cutest Advent calendar (for next year!) franzworks.com/en?utm_sourc...

"Courtship of Kings, Danglok's Royal Dance" Redid it an old piece from last year that annoyed and frustrated me so much.

*Great* mail day today featuring the absolutely beautiful Crescent and Exile by @ema-acosta.com and published by @mythworks.bsky.social (I also got all my Alien: Evolved Edition stuff today but none of it is as exciting as these!)

Sun and moon in pageant, from a 1596 manuscript about the eight lavish pageants held for the christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, 1596. One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/sun-and-moon-in-pageant/

Hey it’s me, Graham, again. I’m back! The other half of the RPG dyad with Crescent is Exile! We’re teens in a dungeon of the soul, cast out by our people. Time to do some hard growing up with a LET’S MAKE A CHARACTER THREAD!

Graham here! The upcoming Crescent TTRPG is full of imagination and adventure, big themes for what roleplaying is all about. And character is the key to investment and excitement. So LET’S MAKE ONE. CHARACTER CREATION THREAD INCOMING!!❤️‍🔥😮😶‍🌫️

Hendrik’s game is smart, spine-chilling, and moving. It left me eager for more carefully authored scenarios like these. I can’t wait to play it again.

#currentlyreading “Umbra” by Jordan Speer (AKA @beefstrong.bsky.social ) ✨ Published by @mcsweeneys.net

My tabletop fantasy dyad, Crescent and Exile, is now available for preorder at the Mythworks store. 🖤 www.myth.works/pages/cresce... All orders (along with crowdfunding rewards) will be shipping in November. Stay tuned. 🌜💫⚔️

"Chladni figures" from 1787 created by German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni, showing nodal patterns made by drawing a bow along the edge of a sand-covered plate. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-1787

Crescent and Exile have been sent to print. Now published by Mythworks. Stay tuned for delivery by late Summer. 🌙

Inspired by Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

New Painting. Gouache on Paper. Feels good to be making fantasy work again.

Questionnaire

Canopy Gargantuan New card for Magic the Gathering's upcoming Tarkir: Dragonstorm set. AD Ovidio Cartagena Copyright Wizards of the Coast, 2025.

sacred heart

I went on an episode of WRTA and had a lovely chat with Alex :-) We talked about asymmetric design, interrogating player behaviour through playtesting, and whatever in the world is happening on 5E's Dungeon Master's Guide. 🎲 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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Happy year of the snake! In Korea the snake was the god of fertility, abundance, fortune and happiness, and represented immortality, regeneration. We grow heirloom Korean peppers on the roof and save the seeds to plant each year, a cycle of regeneration, fertility and abundance. 새해 복 많이 받으세요!

Night Bloom, two views. This was created in Kato Polyclay, a very strong clay, with gem-stone eyes. And it found the most magical home, lucky Being!

my journey from kyle websters 1000+ megapack brushes to hard round

the poster!! here it is

Self-Indulgence

Crescent 2e is out 🌙✨💚 crescentrpg.com

very old painting that i still like