Picking up a pen and drawing something every day is a great way to build yourself up, especially when you don’t think of yourself as an artist. One day, you’ll feel like you’ve earned the title. Eventually you’ll realize you earned it the moment you picked up the pen. I’m proud of you, Exeunt.

A lot will be happening over on my Itch page, including a ton of print at home foldable versions of my games inspired by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social But until they are uploaded, from now you can grab a physical copy of Pirouette and Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto! These are VERY limited, only 7 of each

A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

Been a year. Time to repost this.

Oof, this one’s so heavy, I haven’t been able to commission art for it or finish the work myself. If you wanna feel some kinda way, check out this stream. Good luck, Wyvern!

Interrupting my summer of inactivity to say: oh holy crap, one of our blue pearl neocaridina shrimp is carrying eggs! There’s a little yellow shrimp just below her, to the right. Li’l bonus for ya.

Got a lot of new followers today, but I haven’t been very productive this summer. Please enjoy this (invasive) mollusk shell that my kid found in the river. We spend a lot of time outside this time of year, but I’ll be back to posting bookbinding, publishing, and TTRPG stuff in September!

We bully people into great things in the Plus One discord. Also if you want to support @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's Longsword @hipolita.itch.io's RAD @apesofwrath.bsky.social's Down We Go Tony's Through The Void Or one of our other house systems we would love to help you

I think about this a lot and definitely feel that a game is not truly complete until it has at least one adventure supplement to support it and show what playing that game is actually like. It's like a video game with no story. Cool mechanics but how do I use them?

So you’re a game designer who wants people to write adventures for your system. Here’s how you facilitate that:

Plus One is looking for 4 "Zine Weight" #TTRPS to help support next year in a very particular way. We want to run 4 titles by newer creators through 4 different "funding platforms" & track the process for each one. The platforms are: -Kickstarter -Backerkit -Gamefound -Zine Club 1/4

Write an adventure for an indie system you read or played recently. Go on, do it. Even if you don’t think of yourself as a game designer. It doesn’t have to be great— it just has to be playable. One page, back and front. Three pages. An unformatted google doc. A postcard dungeon. Doesn’t matter.

I try not to put spiders into my games, out of consideration for my arachnophobic friends, but I am making a terrarium for my girlfriend and look what I found while misting it today… webs! (This shot was selected because it does not have a visible spider) What a productive little dude.

A long time coming, but Mausritter now has an SRD! There’s a nice website where you can get the rules or download a markdown file, plus they’re now released under a CC-BY license so you’re free to use the rules text in your own projects mausritter.com/srd/

All my friends are running ads for their projects and I can’t be arsed to charge more than $5 for a PDF simply because the rat race takes all the fun out of making stuff. Ho hum.

play games outside your discipline, even if you don't like them. engage with why you do or don't like them. it's great practice! you should try to experience OSR, trad, storygame, gmless, solo, fkr, larp, etc and see how they warp your idea of what our goofy little hobby is

Did you know that you can fit ~40 standard sized playing cards, five dice, and a rules sheet printed on the back of a J-card inside a cassette case without posts? Do something with this knowledge.

It’s summer, so we’re enjoying the best of the season. I got some worm castings for the terrarium, too!

You can draw with shape tools in any layout program. Or sunlight and stencils and vegetable juice. Collage is a legitimate art form. You can paint with coffee. You can burn a stick to make charcoal. You don’t have to be “good at art” to make art. There is no gatekeeper. The process is the point.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Hey TTRPG crew. If you can't afford to hire a great artist like Evlyn (she's worth it, though) and you use Affinity Publisher to lay out your games, I can teach you how to draw this little bird using nothing but shape tools. You don't need fancy equipment to make half-decent art and I'll prove it: 🧵

HELLWHALERS: The Book of Leviathan is live Based on our best selling #ttrpg of dammed sailors on the seas of hell hunting demon whales, this zine expands play with content by the original team! @mossdaggar.bsky.social @boguscheesecake.bsky.social & crew have made something amazing! ttrpg.link/bol

Digital 'What If' rules for tactical skirmish wargaming against the Hellwhale with every backing of the book. A deadly naval combat against hell's foulest sea beast. Entirely tables of procedural events for every roll of the dice. New scraps of horrific lore, and two haunting epilogues.

1/ Pues no había leído todavía 24XX de Jason Tocci, pero la excusa de un artículo sobre tablas para crear acervo, me ha empujado a ello, con más razón teniendo traducción pagaloquequieras de @laesquinadelrol.com y ocupando lo básico un folio por las dos caras... #lodelrol

Making a poster for your TTRPG Actual Play or cast announcment? Can I please recommend using a colour contrast checker? I see so many graphics which don't pass accessibity checks. colourcontrast.cc

New review up! A double feature this time: Wands & Laserguns, and This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl by @no-name-games.com and @shoutingcrow.bsky.social Two short and silly little solo zines that helped me enjoy RPGs even when I didn't feel up to my usual games. youtu.be/c8zIN0GGmpM

Genuinely worth checking out, folks. Very much something I’m looking for the right group to play with me.

Nobody will make you do worldbuilding faster than a new player. What books are on the shelf? Can I read them? Can I find a book about the origins of magic? Why does spell crafting work like that? How does one go about making custom spells, anyway?

The Bonsai Diary is now live on Kickstarter. Grow a tree with pen and ink and play to find out: What does it mean to leave a legacy? 💚 It's a meditative and tranquil drawing and journaling experience. Please consider backing it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sti...

New journal INTERLACE devoted to mathematics & fiber arts: interlace-journal.org 🧮 #mathart

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... Tell your friends. Tell your priests. Tell your shipmates. Book of Leviathan drops into BackerKit on June 10th. Hell awaits us all.

New mosses, from my father’s garden. My desk collection is slowly growing…

Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Zungeon #5! Thanks to everyone who's been loyally supporting this zine series. Five months in, no signs of slowing down! katt-kirsch.itch.io/a-simple-req...

If you see this tired old backpack at #UKGE, ask me for a free copy of my solo murder mystery investigative game Sworn by Ghostlight.

In the UK? Want a physical copy of one of my games? Compose Dream is carrying Hedge Witch, This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl, Fallow Ground, and Wands & Laserguns.

My DMs alternate wildly between people saying: “I didn’t know you were the guy who made HedgeWitch!” and “Oh my god, you’re the Print It Yourself guy!” So, uh, yeah. This is just a post to say I am both of those people, and I make other things, too: shoutingcrow.itch.io

How mini can your minizine get? @innocentgoblin.bsky.social used a nice sans-serif typeset for the body, here, so even though I reduced it to 2x3” (smaller than a business card!) it remains legible while still fitting inside the card sleeve in my wallet.

Today marks 600 days since the beginning of genocide in Gaza. If you live in canada, please take a few moments to send an email to PM Carney and key Cabinet Ministers to demand an Arms Embargo Now. These horrors must stop! actionnetwork.org/letters/newm...

There is still time to send zines!! Send us your zines to be donated to libraries around the nation to found new zine libraries! Your zines will be seen & enjoyed by thousands of library workers at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social’s Annual Conference and will become an important part of

You know you can design a TTRPG any time you want and be a game designer. You don't need any fancy credentials or some wild abundance of creativity. You can draw on what you know and simply make a thing. You don't even need to publish it, though it's fun to put it out there. Go make something.

I genuinely believe part of the solution to this is being extremely mean to these little anglican bitches.

LOOK HOW GORGEOUS THIS IS

Thursday is the last Make Your Own One-Page RPG session at my local public library. Teaching this has been such a rewarding experience! If you have some game design experience, please consider running a class or session at your library. I assure you they are looking for help! #publiclibraries #rpg

Added 12 new images (And their negative version) to the LH Inertia '25 image pack, this time photographic textures. There are 58 images right now (116 if we count the alternate versions) roque-romero.itch.io/liminal-horr... #ttrpg #ttrpgart #lodelrol #imageset #liminalhorror #liminalhorrorttrpg

SIN EATER KICKSTARTER IS LIVE. BACK IT NOW if you want. up to you but it’s a cool game and i am very proud of it and it’s really fun to play but no pressure either way. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hun...

As a forever game master: I am a factory. Ask me the name of cave goblin #3. Not only do I know it, I can also tell you how he ended up accosting adventurers for profit. Isn't he sympathetic, now? Go ahead. Adopt him. That'll pan out. Don't worry about it, babe.

My girlfriend just now, apropos of absolutely nothing: “You should start a rival publishing company called Alfred Mountain.” Babe, have we got beef with @alfredvalley.bsky.social that I don’t know about?

Doing weird, stupid stuff with wheat paste and newsprint today. God forgive me, I know not what I do.

Well, well, well. Would'ja look at this: @lonearchivist.bsky.social just made one of their system-agnostic adventures PWYW-- and I can't help but notice there's a print-friendly version... lonearchivist.itch.io/moonies