Wonderful insights from Nova here when it comes to writing minimalist hacks of more complex systems. I'll be thinking about this as I incorporate Ross Burton's intriguing Liminal Maus into Mausantara for MZ01 Pandan Island. #Mausritter Late pledges for MZ01 opening soon.

One of my favourite newsletters. :-)

I am opening a shop

A new Missive is here! I review @norgad.bsky.social's Mothership module DEAD WEIGHT, drop a house rules FREEBIE for adding Datacaches (inspired by #OVER/UNDER) to your Mothership table, and More Cool #TTRPG Stuff. Check it out: meatcastle.substack.com/p/dead-weigh...

This is so cool. Instantly transported to when I was a kid first discovering my friend's older brothers DND 2e collection. Would love to thumb through and run something for nostalgia's sake. But, with an OSR system lite enough to cut straight to the good stuff. Any recommendations?

This upcoming sculpture at the Barbican in London looks to be good inspiration for dungeon exploration! https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/barbican-to-unveil-giant-plant-covered-clay-pavilion-next-spring-85660/ #osr #NSR #ttrpg #dungeon

I wrote a TTRPG-specific gift guide that isn’t just nice or rpg books you already have or purposely don’t have. If you have well-meaning loved ones who support but don’t necessarily understand your hobby (or if you are that loved one) this may be helpful to share with them #ttrpg #osr #dnd

Creator Day is the best way to support artists directly. All my Mothership Adventures are on sale to celebrate and the bundle is nearly 50% off. Check it out here: itch.io/s/170190/mot...

Hey folks! Eric interviewed me for the newest issue of the International Player's Review. We had a fun time rolling up a character for Classic Traveller, 😁 Issues #1-4 are coming to print for the first time, check 'em out: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

New post on the Magnum Galaxy Gazette: an interview with my long-time collaborator @golden-achiever.bsky.social about design, #OSR RPGs, and his first zine series, The International Player’s Review. Come for the interview, stay for the links!

Headed to PAX Unplugged? Pandemonium Books and Games will have copies of Nirvana on Fire: Expanded Edition for sale at Booth 3701. Check them out if you'll be there! Thanks for setting this up as always @ipr.bsky.social!

Pre-orders for the print version release today. I'm excited to see the sci-fi issue!

Love this. The shadows are terrifying.

So cool to have the excellent @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social of Root and other great board games in on the @mothership.bsky.social train. Awesome portraits, and all released for free. So generous!

One week until The International Player’s Review Annual goes live on backerkit’s Holiday Market. Four issues of @golden-achiever.bsky.social's zine in print for the first time; 100+ pages of tables, short adventures, interviews, comics, and mini-rpgs. Nov 18–Dec 1 only. Free preview in the link!

@golden-achiever.bsky.social and I are taking up to give his old school #osr zines their first ever print run. Limited run launches in two weeks. Check it out!

This week on Ansible Uplink, @norgad.bsky.social joins me to review The Drain, by @ianyusem.bsky.social

In honour of the most appropriate season for @mothership.bsky.social I've put all my adventures for sale itch.io/s/165753/mag.... Go a la carte, or pick up everything at a steep discount! And most of all, enjoy THE HORRRRRROR.

HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid: 203 items for $12.00 itch.io/b/3276/hello... There are 203 items in here for 12 bucks. Expanded edition seven sealed spirits is in there, you should grab this and help people if you are able.

ALERT: A new great sci-fi RPG podcast is live! I accompanied Chris during the dev process and I can tell you this is a space bomb. Go give it a listen!

Stoked to have my @mothership.bsky.social adventures at Essenspiel with @joshuakitz.bsky.social. Wishing a great con to all who celebrate!

Mothership's A Pound of Flesh is my single favorite TTRPG supplement ever, and this year's Mothership Month is a crowdfunding blitz for 27(!!) expansions to it... but I'm getting married next month, so I can't afford to back any. So here's a thread for shouting out those that caught my eye!

every time i sit down to edit the Meatheads megadungeon im accompanied by this doodle of @golden-achiever.bsky.social

Asking with Mothership Month, this is a really exciting RPG project. I love that the one dollar pledge still gets you a cool book. Also, the art looks bangin!

A big shout out to @thecodexnoirmatic.bsky.social for their artwork - Burning Gods is forever intertwined with this awesome aesthetic. Wouldn't have it any other way!

For the Flatline on the Blocks pre-launch, all followers can nab a free digital copy of the postcard adventure, Sabotage on Sater's Redemption. Not only that, we're running a raffle to win physical copies! Follow the campaign to fill out the survey: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... 1/2

Well, this is exciting.

Hey! I'm Lone Archivist. A games and graphic designer. Looking for help on your next project? My commissions are open for all of the following services and more! Logo Design Brand/Visual Identity Design Manuscript/Editorial Layout Sci-Fi Cartography Crowdfunding Graphics Interface/Terminal Design

My Canada/UK distributor, Compose Dream Games is running a site-wide sale until Oct 5. - 20–25% off site-wide, including all my titles + affordable shipping - Great RPGs like Skerple's The Monster Overhaul - Support cool people and an awesome indie retailer composedreamgames.com/marketplace/...

Yippee-ki-yay, Mothershippers, Hardlight Station is back! Check out the free preview now on Itch here: magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io/preview-dyin... (also available on DTRPG). Happy hunting and see you in Q1 2026 when the Kickstarter goes live!

In this month's Rokaner Report, I talk about Flatline on the Blocks, games I'm runnning for the ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS digital convention, and my work with @chaoclypse.bsky.social on All Roads Lead to Rome open.substack.com/pub/5mwpress...

This just dropped, Marchebranche, the French game that Thomas Munier wrote and that I illustrated won « best indy game 2024 » of the French RPG awards. It is a nice surprise, thanks to Dystopia for the great work they did on the book (especially Laure who did the layout) It was good teamwork. :3

Have you seen our upcoming Mothership Month zine, Flatline on the Blocks? Well, you should! My block, The Faucet, includes one of the district's four cargo lifts, strictly controlled by a new Teamster splinter faction - The Order of Free Labourers. Follow it HERE: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Can we be real for a second? This cover is sick.

The art of Ray Minn https://www.artstation.com/nicatorshields #fantasyart #osr #ttrpg #art

New newsletter post in which I talk all about writing and assigning stress in #Mothership. Also, a preview of the new cover art for the upcoming Dying Hard on Hardlight Station: Anthology! open.substack.com/pub/magnumga...

It's here!

It's my birthday, so I've put up an all-weekend sale, 39% off. Or $29 for everything! (The age I wish my achy body was.) itch.io/s/157072/chr...

New mork borg supplement?

Itch tip for game designers: Add links to your other games as the "Download & install instructions" in your Itch games. Use the embed codes to put them right there, easy to get. Help people find your other work!

I heard you like ttrpgs and prehistorical times, so I made a wildly historically inaccurate prehistoric adventure game. Includes 24 keyed locations, 2 cave adventures and more... golden-achiever.itch.io/year-100-mil...

A clever solve - love it.

the return of the king

Enjoyed the thorough and generous flip through of my @mothership.bsky.social adventure Nirvana on Fire freshly posted by @watcherdm.com. It gives a great overview of what's inside from the perspective of a Warden who's run it. Highly recommend! youtu.be/eiTHmeMUCJk?... #sci-fi #osr

Wednesday I got to play Mothership. Playtesting a new secret thing from @magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io, it was very exciting. I also got to play the Convict class by @wacomatrixo.bsky.social but I played it as an escaped convict, so I was pretending to be a scientist. Love my creative friends!

It's here, it's here, is here. Fresh off the dot matrix printer it's The International Player's Review!

Going to kick back and relax all summer? WRONG! You are going to read and write TTRPG stuff starting right NOW. Here are your assignments #osr #ttrpg

Very cool.

I love stuff like this: Emmy Allen, quickly and concisely nails this B/X to sci-fi conversion, note for note makes total sense.