This was such a joy to put together. The art and words came easy… more Cairn science fantasy in this cat’s future, I think!

I just added a portfolio section to my website showcasing some recent illustrations. If you, or someone you know, is in need of high quality art for your project, please get in touch! Check it out! Shoot me a DM! Email me like it’s 1999!

Where’s Gravy!? I’ve been in the illustration mines, err… pipes! PIPESONG illustrations are coming along nicely.

In other news, I finally got off my ass and released my latest project, an adventure for #shadowdarkrpg MURDER AT MURDER MANOR! It's a social sandbox adventure, where players will be get plenty of opportunities to fuck over a class of cannibal uber-elites and ruin their party, and try not to die!

Monday's Gravy: - Pipesong layout is nearly done - Got all the art spot assignments figured out - Added our Crews and Entrepreneurs tables (fun NPCs in there!) - Finalized the primary alteration clock

My friend just released this adventure for Cairn 2e. Great one shot length, where reality warps and crumbles as the players seek to stop incursions by a strange order of extra-dimensional mystics. Prints will be available soon!

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played: - Mothership RPG - Cairn 2e - Old School Essentials - Shadowdark

I'm Bo Ryan, I'm a designer, adventure writer, and Cairnies award recipient. You can check out my work at gravy.press. I provide layout, writing, editing, illustration, and graphic design services, please shoot me a DM if you're interested!

Monday’s Gravy: Been really struggling with my demand avoidance the last couple days, and didn’t get anything done for Pipesong. I did provide detailed feedback to four different TripTech Jam 3 participants, a mothership trifold game jam. This post is for accountability: I will work today.

I’ve missed a couple today’s gravies Pipesong is coming along nicely, the layout is 90-95% full. Levi’s going to work on filling out our tables and other finishing touches.

Today's Gravy: PIPESONG work continues! - Edited the Overview / What's in this Module spread - Wrote and laid out the faction pages: Pipefitter's Union, Sunny Labs, Molvo Crime syndicate - Added phase alterations for the four Pipesong platforms - Edited Chin Molvo's (main shithead) page

Today’s Gravy: Another real job workday. Partner was out for the evening, so I was able to work on the Pipesong faction spread. I also spent a few minutes working on the “crazy board” for a Liminal Horror adventure I’ve got in the pipe, using elements cut from Beneath the Muckfort.

Today's Gravy: I worked all day at my 'real job' But I did some cool PIPESONG stuff on Tuesday!

Reminds me of session one of Tomb of the Serpent King. Two players, a couple irl, nodded to each other, and triggered the first door trap. One miraculously survived, the other was turned into paste. Hilariously, his trinket was a gem that reforms when shattered, discovered on the next visit.

Today’s Gravy: Did a ton of really hard work on the tangle map for Pipesong. I’d made a cool map, but realized that it wasn’t going to support the layout the way I wanted. I made some extensive revisions to the map layout, and grouped a bunch of locations into sub-nodes. I’ll share it tomorrow

Today’s Gravy: - Working at my ‘real’ job PIPESONG - Edited/prelim layout for the Manufactory, a wildly dangerous cult-operated back-alley warp core production facility - Edited/prelim layout for Tangletown, a small secret settlement protected by a powerful computer intelligence

Today's Gravy: - Therapy day - Went for drinks with my mom PIPESONG - Wrote a backerkit update - Finished the Tangle map - Took another run at the Hive map, still WIP

Today’s Gravy: PIPESONG - Finished my edit pass on the platforms that make up Pipesong. - Had a productive work session with co-author; got all remaining writing tasks on our issue tracker. - Made some serious headway on the graphic design for the tangle pipe crawl map

TTRPG about Gravy First game: GURPS Lite Last game: Mothership 1e Longest game: My abandoned heartbreaker Favourite game: Cairn Favourite mechanics: Black Hack Favourite art: Ultraviolet Grasslands Luka Rejec 😍

Today's Gravy: Spent the day shopping. My partner has a fancy business trip this week, and required fancy clothes for the occasion. I needed shorts, because my clothes don't fit me any more. I was able to sit down before bed and get some writing done, got some solid edits in on Pipesong proper.

Today’s Gravy: selling books at C3 Game Con in Corvallis, OR

Missed a daily, so here's today and yesterday: PIPESONG: - Got the HIVE preliminary layout done - Did some test maps for the Tangle - Did quite a bit of editing on the Tangle and Pipesong platforms NOT PIPESONG: - Prep for a local TTRPG market - Got in a round of disc golf - Day job

Gravy Press daily: - Ran session 8 of Gradient Descent - Therapy - Got the new Pipesong Hive stuff in layout, and took a run at the map for this section

Today at Gravy Press: - Played a round of disc golf because I'm allowed to do stuff just because it is fun. - Got some major edits done on one of Pipesong's major locations, the Hive. A too-short list of buildings turned into a cast of criminals unique vibes and an organizing ethos. Progress!

Last week we wrapped up the first draft of the PIPESONG manuscript. Yesterday, I started editing the keys for our Pipecrawl (tm tm tm). I also set up some google sheets to track editing assignments.

Just watched Vampire Hunter D (1985). Highlights: the monsters living in not-Dracula’s basement are an amazing assortment of totally unique weirdos. Also, everyone who creeps on the Dorris the lead girl immediately dies afterwards.

GURPS! The first RPG I ever discovered was at my LGS, drafting MtG with my best friend. We were 10, and found a copy of GURPS Lite in the 'free shit' section.

@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social You would 100% be played by H Jon Benjamin

A bunch of projects launching for Kickstarter’s #ZineQuest this month are using Gen-AI. Even if the concept sounds appealing, please support designers with integrity first. If this sounds unreasonable, we shouldn’t be mutuals. Art by @/willowsquest.co.uk Logo by @/hinokodo.com

Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!

Dungeon Town Fence: A "dangerous" dungeon item can be sold with a maximum placed on either speed, value, or descression. Pick 1. ⚡Speed = money next session, 💰Value = 2x money, 🤫Discretion = no one hears about it. A fence might give a thief a discount on their cut out of professional courtesy

@edzitron.com Another excellent article from the Times, “the only problem with AI is there might not be enough money in the world to make it good”

You can now purchase @gravy.press The Fiend Sworn on the Cairn store. store.cairnrpg.com/products/the... It's available for free on Itch so you can check it out first, if you like: gravy-press.itch.io/the-fiend-sw...

Oh shit that’s me!

The weird varmint who lives in my house turned FOUR yesterday! Happy birthday Gravy

"It will be a cold day in hell when you catch me ragging text by hand," he said, as he inserted soft hyphens just in case

Sick haul from CritCon this morning! Dope stuff for Mothership and Liminal Horror and Cairn!!! Got to meet @gomezwrites.bsky.social and @gravy.press, super cool folks! Also ran into @bradkerr.net Overall, good weekend!

Technically funded in under four hours (3 hours and 58 minutes, count it!) and over 2.5x funded on day 1. We got early bird patches, get em while they’re piping hot. First stretch goal unlocked is another sick-ass patch, even our patches got patches.

My first crowdfunding project launches tomorrow! I couldn't be more honored to be part of #MothershipMonth2025, working on an awesome project with my best friend.

My stylistic goals for my art are simple: I want it to exist. If it looks good, that’s a pretty sweet bonus.

The digital version of my latest cairn joint just dropped! It's got weird little guys, spooky skeletons, and some downright deadly encounters. Stay tuned for physical versions coming soon. boryanonline.itch.io/beneath-the-...

I’ve got a crowdfunder coming up as part of mothership month. Check it out if you want, it’s actually going to be pretty fuckin cool

57. The Fiend Sworn by @gravy.press A slimy & deadly tombcrawl for Cairn 2e 🐌 Another entry formatted as an 8pg A6 foldout, the layout and map are extremely clean & legible. Great Knight factions within add intraparty fighting into what should be a united front against this fierce giant mollusk

One of my favorite PNW creators just dropped this for the One Page TTRPG Jam, it's fucking sick. gomezwritesgames.itch.io/unworthy

New ep! We've got another NOT Cat Chats with @spacepenguinink.bsky.social! We talk cat dads, sumo, Weird Tales, and EX INFERIS from @thetylerwelch.bsky.social and @gravy.press, a Liminal Horror Twisted Classic that reimagines the cult sci-fi movie Event Horizon as a modern-day nautical nightmare

Holy shit! My first real published adventure released today! Shout out to co-creator and writer Tyler Welch @thetylerwelch.bsky.social , and a big thank you to @spacepenguinink.bsky.social spacepenguin.ink/products/ex-...

After all the hyping and nonsense, Geezer Butlerian Jihad is out! I hope y'all enjoy it. Please let us know what you think :) #doom #metal #dune ampwall.com/a/bongcoffin... bongcoffin.bandcamp.com/album/geezer... elasticstage.com/bongcoffin/r...

The awesome cover art is by @gravy.press And the badass mixes by @legendarium.bsky.social