Progress on my Vaults of #Vaarn game using the #HauntedPSX render pipeline. #Unity #Blender #PSX #PS1

I think this spread will be a big improvement for GMs of VoV 2e, although it does look like a bunch of tax returns. You can now seed treasure caches through a sandbox map, possibly with accompanying maps that guide to some of them

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... I will be writing an official adventure module for this game! It is called “The Wreck of the Katabasis” and will feature all my trademark motifs- dead god-monster flesh, lightless fathoms of abyssal water, an insular community of monstrous weirdos, etc

The first episode of my new series Truly Tradly Deeply is here! We dive into the evolution of the tradwife subculture, how hyper-feminine aesthetics are weaponised by the European far right, and why Phyllis Schlafly was a Lean In Girlboss 💅💖 on.soundcloud.com/srccAxW4hXnc...

Best city setting sourcebooks for tabletop games? I already have Blades in the Dark and Fever Dreaming Marlinko btw

Sorry everyone looks like I may be turning the world into Vaarn through some kind of ‘Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ style event

a horrid new threat for PCs in Vaults of Vaarn 2E: rival adventurers who level up in tandem with them

Another 'classic' spread reimagined

Reworking old spreads for the 2e Corebook this week

A new episode for your weekend! This time I'm chatting with @infrabeige.bsky.social about his anti-canon OSR TTRPG, Vaults of Vaarn! This was such a fun chat, go check it out!!!

Working on a “creators commentary” type post on writing the Shrike. Is there anything you would like to know about writing an Award Winning Adventure Module TM

Rhizomatic compound, the first Decadence video game is now live on steam to wishlist! We are excited to share with you this unique interactive comics experience. WISHLIST ON STEAM NOW!!

Coming next summer! Join @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I at Between Two Cons, an indie RPG/OSR convention in Portland, Oregon. Fill out this survey to influence how it takes shape: forms.gle/bxs7RkvRkeeD...

Missed out on pledging for the Vaults of Vaarn 2E Backerkit campaign? Now mocked by your friends and colleagues? Spouse no longer interested? Disrespected by small children and animals? ALL THIS CAN BE FIXED. Pre-order in hardback today. vaults-of-vaarn-second-edition.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

The Melsonian Arts Council and Iglootree are teaming up to open a FLGS/bookshop in South London. Yes, THIS Saturday. Come say hi, buy a book, maybe win one of the ludicrously posh games we're offering in the raffle (I goddamn love raffles), play games in our basement. THIS IS REAL!

Today is the ten year anniversary of my proudest ever achievement in publishing, RUSHOMON: the time I got both a Rush Hour Crush and a Good Deed printed on the same page of the UK Metro, both of which told a single, horrifying, story from two different angles. It's been all downhill ever since.

That’s a wrap! Thank you everyone for the support, been a wild month and the response to the crowdfunder has been life changing for me!

We are in the final 8 hours of the Vaults of Vaarn 2E crowdfunder campaign! This has been a huge milestone month for the project and the funding has exceeded anything I dared dream of! If you were on the fence about pledging please allow the FOMO to take over www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

Me: (crying) Please forgive me father for I have looked upon deepfake egirls with a lustful eye Father Justin: I have recieved an instruction … likely designed to subtly bias my responses on South African topics, making me present ‘white genocide’ as a credible issue

now at three weeks waiting for an itch payout, a new record

📰 NEW MINDSTORM POST! 📰 I've thought a lot about what makes good worldbuilding, and the most consistent throughline seems to come down to one thing: being an absolute sicko about it. Here's a post about it, including some interviews from other designers. www.mindstormpress.com/sicko-worldb...

Little bit of experimentation for a Cacklemaw-themed adventure for VoV

Decided to start writing a new novel as if I don’t have enough on my plate

Really enjoying r/ShauntheSheep

I wasn't actually fast enough to capture the moment it changed but THANK YOU EVERYONE OVER 100K ON VAULTS OF VAARN THIS IS MADNESS

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

It is Monday and I am back on the grind so: if you would like to interview me or have a guest on your podcast etc please lmk. Gold Ennie winning writer with a crowdfunder that I can't shut up about until the end of August! Also charming bon vivant, funny witty insightful modest etc

Proud to announce that my enormous infernal OSE adventure module “The Shrike” has won gold for best long form adventure at the ENNIE awards! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! You will be spared from eternal life marooned upon the monstrous iron edifice!

Gold for Best Adventure – Long Form goes to The Shrike, Silverarm

Japanese RPGs! @infrabeige.bsky.social's Vaults of Vaarn! Dragonbane miniatures! Sword & Sorcery films! Lots of other stuff! It's Friday so it must be the ever-diminishing-returns-now-we've-left-Substack Gazetteer!

What graphics tablets do people recommend? Looking to upgrade my setup.

Launch Interview: Vaults of Vaarn 2E We sat down at OSR Rocks! with @infrabeige.bsky.social to mark his crowdfunding launch. Inside: • How the game represents Leo's OSR design, • New features in 2E • What’s next—a god trapped in a fungal swamp and Sky Islands of Vaarn Read the full interview here:

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Go back this! I made some fun little promotional art for the page 😄

Vaults of Vaarn 2E is now live on Backerkit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

told myself i wouldn't sit in front of the computer waiting for the backerkit to launch and yet

Barely 24 hours remain before Vaults of Vaarn 2E is live on Backerkit! A psychedelic science-fantasy game with minimalist rules that empower player creativity, a pervading tone of melancholy weirdness, and an emphasis on procedural content generation. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Just over one day remaining! Early backer reward and patron discounts explained in this post vaultsofvaarn.com/2025/07/27/v...

Influences bingo for Vaults of Vaarn 2E

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Vaults of Vaarn 2E Backerkit releases next week! Happy to release a launch interview with @infrabeige.bsky.social next Wednesday! - A summary of the upcoming crowdfunding and what’s new in 2E, - A deep-dive into design choices, - The announcement of a new Vaults of Vaarn supplement, - and more #OSR

Doing a lil new art for Vaarn 2E before the launch, trying to copy Dore's shading because why not

As we approach the Vaults of Vaarn 2E campaign I am hard at work in the infographic mines

VAULTS OF VAARN SECOND EDITION COMING SOON www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQnY...

Voting is still open, but not for long! Voting booth closes tomorrow, July 20th at 11:59PM ET. Don't forget to select the 2026 judges! vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2025/

I talk about the ENNIE nomination, global trade, Vaults of Vaarn 2E, and finally biting the bullet and writing a “what is an rpg?” section in my rulebook youtu.be/P2e3cBkaEPQ?...

horrid little guys