Listen to my old friend talk about the culture of Swedish TTRPGs.

Three days worth of TTRPG layout grinding.

@bsky.app, @safety.bsky.app, @support.bsky.team – unsuspend Goran’s account.

I need more TTRPG creators to follow. What are your favorite writers, designers, and artists here on Bluesky?

PSA to all fantasy TTRPG authors: Spiders do not have mandibles (they have chelicerae). Nor do they have compound eyes (they have “simple eyes,” ocelli). Nor a venomous stinger at the end of their abdomen (that’s where the spinnerets go). Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Here's what I've been working on the past month (typography, layout, and pre-press). As well as the twin book for the 5E version, of course.

TURIF!

I second that!

Jämtland, Sweden. 10 p.m.

I would have loved to keep every Mythic Carpathia vaesen on single spreads, but it was impossible. When just the text for a vaesen fills two pages, there is *no way* for me to fit the text *and* the image on one spread. 1/2

It always makes me happy when my layout work is appreciated.

Why, oh why, did I not go to UKGE? Everyone seems to be having a great time. And I do miss shooting the shit with British game designers over a pint or ten. Oh well –* maybe there’s a Dragonmeet in the cards for me in November. [* Non-AI generated en-dash.]

Loving the colors.

QFT. If I’m stuck doing layout, not being able to get the spreads just right – I work on something else. And while I do that, my brain ticks away in the background, finding a solution to my problem. Nearly every time.

It's amazing (and by amazing, I mean bad) how people who follow and interact with a bazillion of trans gals that actively make OSR stuff and are in their 30's, keep insisting on making long rants about how it is exclusively a scene of old bald bearded man in their 60's and shit

I'm sure by now you've heard that KNOCK! #5 is live on Kickstarter. And like the 4 volumes before it, it's jampacked with #osr goodness. And somehow they've squeezed another of my articles in too: a most unusual merchant, in a most unusual conveyance. www.kickstarter.com/projects/896... #ttrpg #nsr

To post on my patreon later: “But I thought you were a nice flail..”

Myconificent!

Backed!

Apparently this needs to be repeated: TERFs and transphobes can fuck all the fucking way off! All of them, generally, but particularly one of them.

People are finally receiving their Realms of the Three Rings/Keepers of the Elven-rings books – and a lot of them point out how gorgeous they look. And they do! The art is maybe the best I have ever seen in a TTRPG (❤️ that Galadriel cover). And, if I dare say so, my layout is not too shabby either.

Quote with a movie gif from the year you turned 18:

I will most likely be found with my Kartell buddies – or transporting a cup of coffee between different parts of the convention.

While working on the coming Starter Set for The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying, it was decided that the character sheet needed updating. I’ve tried to fit everything regularly needed during play on the front, leaving the back mostly a bunch of extra space. Available soon(ish) from freeleague.com

Spring has finally arrived in Stockholm! Today I found the year’s first bumblebee in my garden. A buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queen.

So, I did the graphic design, layout, and prepress for what may very well be the tiniest TTRPG in existence. The Keyring RPG, second edition, conceived, written, and translated by @devilkitten.bsky.social. More pictures in the comments.

I’m with Greenland.

Well deserved!

A night on the town. Riddarholmskyrkan, Stockholm.

Yesyesyes! These things are PACKED with amazing OSR stuff.

Currently working on a new starter set for The One Ring RPG (and its 5E counterpart) from Free League publishing.

A reminder that this entire Trans Panic thing is just another shitty step in a long history of fake panics completely invented by political hacks. Trans people are very likely not affecting your lives at all and they certainly are not the cause of any problems on a national level. It's BULLSHIT.

I designed a new logo for the band I’m in. Here as a vinyl application on my bass drum. (We needed to add ‘Stockholm Soul’ because other bands have tried to claim the name. But we’ve been playing under this nome de plume for fifteen years now.)

Sånt här gör mig glad. Jag tror inte rollspelshobbyn har haft ett större inflöde av unga spelare sedan … well 80-talets glansdagar.

So I’ve committed layout again. The penultimate installment of the epic campaign ‘The Throne of Thorns’ for the Ruins of Symbaroum RPG from Free League publishing. It contains two three-part adventures: ‘The Darkest Star’ and ‘Mother of Darkness.’ Pre-order with beta-PDF available now.

This is beautiful cartography!

Only Wrestling Is Real! Friend art for WREligion - debut comic book of Paweł Mączewski.

Currently working on: • Coriolis: The Great Dark (layout of the core rulebook) • “Svenska maskiner, ensligt belägna” the next book from Simon Stålenhag (layout) • “Deep Waters” for Kult: Divinity Lost (final touches)

I got to play this cool little game at a home con last year. Check it out!

This little bit of praise (in a review of the Path of Glory campaign for Dragonbane) made me happy. I try to lay out books that are easy to use at the table – and it’s always nice when someone notices. akhelas.com/2024/11/15/r...

New Year’s resolution: 300 dpi.

Happy new year!

God jul from Sweden!

On a train zooming through a wintery Sweden. Heading to the middle of the country. To a place approximately as far north as Nome, Alaska.

En bok om ett internetdiskussionsforum som fyller ett kvartssekel i år. Förmodligen mest intressant för de som hänger där, men kanske även för den som gillar nördkultur.

I can finally show these two books I’ve laid out. Realms of the Three Rings for The One Ring RPG, and the corresponding Keepers of the Elven-rings for The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying. The art in these books are amazing! Just look at that Galadriel cover by Antonio De Luca.

That’s some excellent news.

This little community project is one of my favourite things on Bluesky right now. Go to the original post and look at the quote posts to see an abundance of awesome green-armoured guys and gals.

My Year in Layout: All the stuff I’ve laid out and sent to print during 2024 (so far). A thread. First out are two books for Ruins of Symbaroum (from Free League) that I finished i January. One is a setting book and one contains the first two parts of a campaign.

An excellent little read about Alarums & Excursions, and its creator, Lee Gold.