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Can you hear the thunder?

FOLKS!!! This thing is so imminent!

Things are coming together for Swords Without Master! Here's 2 preview Eidolon Folio cards, from @gorangligovic.bsky.social and @queerwizard.co.uk. Eidolons are imaginative images to inspire your Rogue character - a beast, a sword, a location, even a color! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Swords Without Master is nigh! Sign up to be notified when we launch @epidiah.bsky.social's iconic sword & sorcery ttrpg, along with original Eidolon art cards from @portablecity.bsky.social, @gorangligovic.bsky.social, @queerwizard.co.uk and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Swords Without Master is nigh! Sign up to be notified when we launch @epidiah.bsky.social's iconic sword & sorcery ttrpg, along with original Eidolon art cards from @portablecity.bsky.social, @gorangligovic.bsky.social, @queerwizard.co.uk and more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

There it is!

Folks!!! Remember all that stuff I said about commissioning art cards for use as eidolons in Swords Without Master? bsky.app/profile/epid... Here's a little sneak preview!

Christmas is coming early for Swords Without Master fans…!

Advent of Swords, Day 5: Hey it's the solstice! I've got 1,000 errands to run, but I should really post about Swords, too. Did you know that Swords has a phase your only allowed to play when you're not playing?

Advent of Swords, Day 4: Hiding in the advance game, there's a section on Rituals. Optional rules in #TTRPG tend to be the kind of rules where someone, usually a GM-type, proposes them to the group ahead of play. Maybe to get buy-in. Maybe as a warning. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Advent of Swords, Day 3: If you're designing a #ttrpg, what's its objective? What are the players trying to accomplish? Can you clearly put that into words? Would those words help you organize your thoughts and design? If you confessed the objective to the players, would that help them play?

Happy Friday! We've added a few community copies (thanks!), still aiming for 500 by the New Year. It's one way to give the gift of game!

Swords Without Master blew the lid off of the way I think about RPG play. I will never not enjoy running it for people because it brings out magic at the table. I see people pull out storytelling chops they didn't know they had.

Late on this tonight, the 2nd night of the Advent of Swords. But things have been BUSY. Okay, here's a short one, because I've only got a two hour window to watch a holiday horror film in tonight and I don't want to miss it! Sometimes you think you know a game and then over a decade later…

And that's a wrap! We want to thank @epidiah.bsky.social for spending time with @markdc.bsky.social today, talking about how he approaches making and playing games.. First off, I want to point you all to his upcoming Kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

I had a great time chatting with @epidiah.bsky.social about Swords without Master. It's a unique TTRPG that really encourages everyone at the table to take an active role in building an epic Swords and Sorcery story.

Will you be the 666th follower of this kickstarter‽ (I like that my computer autocorrects to an interrobang.) It's a really fun game!

Someone recently asked about influential indie ttrpgs from 2001-2015. I was a tabletop normie for a lot of those years but Swords Without Master was a real eye-opener for me. Get on board 👇

So Epimas is in a week, and the gift I most want for the holiday is to see the number of followers on this to hit 666: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw... I think it's possible. I believe in the power! To help it along, for the next week, I'm doing an Advent of Swords.

I am just, like, extremely chuffed to have such top tier map artists joining us on Swords Without Master! I have work from a lot of these folks on my walls already and I cannot wait to have more in hand when we get these folios made!

As I understand it, you should be able to watch on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/lorelinkrpg Or on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/tI1kjwp...

Tuesday is for Twitch! Join @markdc.bsky.social as he talks with @epidiah.bsky.social about Swords Without Master, making games, and other projects! Conversation starts at 5 PM Eastern, over on Twitch!

One of the pieces in the Adventure & Hobbyist Annual 2025! Play the astronauts stranded on a lost land from their Mission Beyond the Moon! Now out in print and digital: payhip.com/unwrittenear...

really looking forward to SWORDS WITHOUT MASTER the name alone guarantees a level of certified toughness

warhorn.net/events/dahn-... Chock full of gaming goodness, just in time for having been paid.. Age of Cthulhu, Vaesen, OSE, Lex Arcana, T2K, Da'Zoon, Savage Worlds of Kids on Bikes, Quarrel & Fable, Mothership, DCC, Dolmenwood, and Swords without Master. Face to face London. January.

Folks! Join us tomorrow!

look at that! :D

The Swords Without Master campaign page has been updated with the final Eidolon Folio we are preparing for the initial campaign: Maps! We are pumped to have @queerwizard.co.uk, @salvaterra.bsky.social, @mapcrow.bsky.social and Arlin Ortiz on board for this one! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

New ep Wednesday! In the latest Plus Expenses, we talk about The Rockford Files (a little), writing cover tune versions of other games, and more. Not a patron? Check it out with a 7-day free trial! Join Our Discord: discord.com/invite/cgJa5... www.patreon.com/posts/plus-e...

ICYMI, we dropped a revision of the introductory/learn-to-play adventure for Swords Without Master. Check it out for free, then sign up for the Kickstarter for the full game coming in 2026. Or, the other way around! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Journey to The City of Fire & Coin to learn how to play Swords Without Master by playing Swords Without Master. This free play-along download by @epidiah.bsky.social contains the Rogues, Phases and rules for a full introductory tale of swords and sorceries! unwrittenearths.itch.io/the-city-of-...

Journey to The City of Fire & Coin to learn how to play Swords Without Master by playing Swords Without Master. This free play-along download by @epidiah.bsky.social contains the Rogues, Phases and rules for a full introductory tale of swords and sorceries! unwrittenearths.itch.io/the-city-of-...

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i see your "cellar door" and raise you "roll the bones for the overtone"

For the Swords-curious! I'll be on Lore Link on Dec 16th to talk about tones and motifs and morals and rogues!

New ep Wednesday! We reflect on a year of the podcast, talk about how making the thing changes the thing, and survey feedback tools and frameworks to use in play and design. Listen: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/28 Subscribe: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/subscribe Support: patreon.com/UnwrittenEar...

Buy cool shit for the holidays, support independent artists.

The Adventure & Hobbyist Annual is now available at @ipr.bsky.social! Critically, this is the best way for folks not in the US or Canada to order the print book - thanks for your patience, international scholars. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Advent...

New! Grum Hall: Visitor's Guide Adventure & Hobbyist Annual 2025: Caught Between Worlds www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/

Pure gold here folks

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Want to catch up on 11 issues of sword-and-sorcery goodness (including games by @lumpley.bsky.social, @epidiah.bsky.social and @ndpdesign.com)? We now have the full run of Worlds Without Master up on itch, as well as the Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025, and more! unwrittenearths.itch.io

In addition to the standalone game, the Swords Without Master campaign will fund Eidolon Folio art cards to inspire your rogues and adventures. We're pumped to have @gorangligovic.bsky.social, @goblinprincete.bsky.social and @portablecity.bsky.social on board! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

I am pretty wildly pumped to get to work with Jabari and Goran - two artists I've been a huge fan of for YEARS, who have definitely had an influence on my own work!

"You'll be visited by three spirits" the three spirits: (see also: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...)

We are very happy to announce some of the artists that we will be working with to envision, explore and enhance Swords Without Master: @goblinprincete.bsky.social, Goran Gilgović, @portablecity.bsky.social (of course) and Erin Vest! Preview page has more info. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

We are very happy to announce some of the artists that we will be working with to envision, explore and enhance Swords Without Master: @goblinprincete.bsky.social, Goran Gilgović, @portablecity.bsky.social (of course) and Erin Vest! Preview page has more info. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

The full run of Worlds Without Master is now available on our itch page! Get the Omnibus Collection of 11 issues (including 10 ttrpgs), the Selected Worlds 3-issue bundle, or if you just want Swords Without Master, you can pick up Worlds Without Master Issue 3! unwrittenearths.itch.io