David Lombardo explains what goes into the twist-filled CRYPTOBIOLOGY. www.myth.works/blogs/artist... @awkwardturtle.games

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I wrote a defense for the garlic press, whose honor needs no defending. Also some thoughts on what I personally like in rpgs as I continue in this hobby. Everyone can have different fun. #ttrpg #osr weirdwonder.bearblog.dev/the-garlic-p...

PAXU Microreviews! awkwardturtle.games/boardgames/2... I wrote small reviews for all 20 something #boardgames I played over the weekend of PAX unplugged.

I had the good pleasure of reading proof copies of some of these adventures and they're great! Full of great ideas for mousey adventures and fantastic art and graphic design to tie them all together. So happy these are finally released! 🐭

The Fish Dice (by @dcponcho.bsky.social)! If I can figure out a way to economically make a ton of fish dice I may try to sell a very very limited run of Chubby Bear Salmon Goggle next year at PAXU. Meanwhile: more playtesting and probably some rules tweaks based on excellent suggestions by Amanda.

The #paxu haul! Games from the fantastic Indie games night market, Tokyo games market, some great exhibitors (Saashi finally in the US!), and some flea market acquisitions. A successful pax!

We played a mysterious game that doesn't exist at #PAXU! It was extremely fun! I would totally purchase it IF IT ACTUALLY EXISTED IN OUR UNIVERSE.

A friend of mine printed fish dice for my little PnP board game: Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble! They're so good! Look at these little guys!

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A game based on my own Brighter Worlds #TTRPG along with #Cairn is preparing to kickstart, about adventuring in Oz. Impressively the whole game will be public domain and free for reuse and hacking! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fre...

I posted 10 scrappy robots on my patreon. Hoping they will find their way into the pages of some zines. www.patreon.com/posts/smol-r...

I do love my bird key caps!

Original Pat debut Mashup Crocodile Chop by @neilcic.com

lmao vocals by my girl @leftatlondon.bsky.social

Darien's hard work on the packing continues.

Darien is hard at work helping us pack.

Interdimensional Goblins! (Art by @n8hps.bsky.social layout by @brstf.games in my adventure Wizard Trash, Goblin Treasure.)

Halloween approaches. Do you desire space horrors? Check out Resonant, my #mothership adventure #osr

Welcome to bluesky. I don't post very much (which makes me a great follow, imo) but when I do it's usually about TTRPGs, game design, mead making, and maybe some data analysis stuff on occasion. Here are pictures of my extremely doofus tuxedo cat Darien, and my extremely normal tabby cat Desdemona.

Sound off below if you're a TTRPG designer! Let's help everyone find each other.

Welcome $CURRENT_YEAR Twitter exodus! Bluesky is nice. This is a thread with some recommended feeds for our RPG friends!

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VSTARS THREAD!! Fighter - Orion

For a window into my disastrous time management skills, I had intended to release this for *last year's* #FatBearWeek but didn't get it done in time. So I figured I'd just wait until the next one. Then a year later I nearly missed it again...

I have successfully early voted!

Just in time for the tail end of #FatBearWeek I am pleased to announce CHUBBY BEAR SALMON GOBBLE: a push your luck #boardgame about preparing for hibernation. The PDF is free here, you'll just need a load of dice: awkwardturtle.itch.io/chubby-bear-... Bear artwork by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social

Once again being reminded that there is no replacement for play testing. I've had the design of Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble bouncing around for months, and within a few minutes of starting to actually play I realized half of it just wasn't working.

Trying to get some last minute play testing in for my print and play #boardgame so it can be released for #fatbearweek. Art by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social .

hey @awkwardturtle.games & @n8hps.bsky.social - just watched this really great solo session using tunnel goons and wallet dungeon! well done, no-nonsense session www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf24...

moo deng is a cat i’m sure of it

drew some knights at a coffee shop.

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Desdemona sleeps in the most normal ways.

Just shared a timelapse of me painting this cutie over on my patreon. Hoping to do more in the future!

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I started working on my 3D engine for #playdate a little over 3 months ago, and took copious footage of the milestones and interesting failures. All footage is timestamped with the date of capture. Enjoy! #gamedev

Slowly starting back to draw for my patreon.

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I made an AI-Free Asset Pack for exactly this reason. Free to use on your projects to proudly shout that your product is made without the use of AI-Gen Content. lonearchivist.itch.io/made-by-humans

Orbital megastructure doodle, lil bug want some soup

Currently reading: Goblin Mail! This kickoff adventure truly invites you to engage with the world and paints such a clear picture that I could easily step in and run a whole mini campaign in this setting. It features the art of one of my favorite artists in the scene @evlynmoreau.bsky.social ❤️✌🏼

Some very exciting #TTRPG mail lately. I am already running Ave Nox out of the PDF, making plans to run Goblin Mail (a perfect tie in with my own goblin based adventure), and stealing all the excellent ideas from The Electrum Archive.

Working on a minidugeon die drop procedure for the UL framework Roll 6d6 die face: rooms doubles/triples: larger room even-even: door odd-odd door even-odd: secret passage/locked door 1 Trap/Complication 3/4 Entrance 6 Relic/Treasure Highest die: where the boss is Here's 2 examples

OCEANS 2400 is a cinematic heist #TTRPG hack of @jst.bsky.social's 24XX series of micro games and inspired by Blades in the Dark. I'm pretty proud of the extremely rules light flashback mechanics, and the "alarm die" used to track alertness. Includes some tiny generators for heists (and twists)!

Lady Luck's Traveling Gachapon! A couple years into my current #TTRPG campaign my pack-rat players have accumulated backpacks full of magical nick-nacks with questionable utility. Being the benevolent GM I am, I created this friendly NPC to give them the opportunity to gamble the items away!

A Traveler's Guide to the Echelon Forest is a #ttrpg die drop zine about traveling a forest both magical and mundane in the style of a national park guidebook. DTRPG: awkwardturtle.itch.io/echelon-forest Itch: awkwardturtle.itch.io/echelon-forest Riso Zine: store.cairnrpg.com/products/a-t...

Tunnel Goons from @n8hps.bsky.social is such a good game system for art based zines because it focus on collecting items without the need to stats such items. So everything you draw become a useful thing to collect and is covered by the game system. And you can draw tons of monsters too.

Day 3 of posting my #ttrpg stuff is SÖVERKALT, an IKEA themed pamphlet adventure for #mausritter. Steal past Mold Gremlins and Rot Golems, and avoid waking the Slumbering Spaghetti to make off with the final piece of unspoiled food: a giant Gold Butter Bullion sufficient for a mouse to retire on.