If bluesky gets popular we're all gonna have to stop using it

Anyway, @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io 's Swyvers is awesome, it's maybe my favorite experience running an ongoing campaign and this project looks to expand everything I love about it.

oi bruv. If you follow @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io 's new Swyvers campaign, you'll get a free copy of the core rules. It's free dosh innit. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

‘New Releases for Swyvers’, including a new product from me and the new supplement by @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io : alegisdownport.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/n...

On 🐋Tales from the Humpback Sky🐋 Season 2 Episode 9 Ridge fights for their life at the hands of an overpowered enemy and Owen stampedes himself into the history books. To listen to the podcast search for "Humpback Sky" wherever you listen to pods. #troika #podcast @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io

Obsidian is really helpful for running games. Why did no one tell me about this word processor sooner? And by sooner I mean *harder*, 'cos I pointedly ignored it when i confused it with Obsidian Portal, which I dislike greatly. Really, you gotta up your game people.

This is one of my grid maps. 6-mile x 6-mile grid that shows the northern area around Darsildorf - homebase for my #OSE #DnD campaign. I have one of these for each nearby grid. This gives me all the info I need when in the grid. #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG

"Ok class, to use AI responsibly you must throw your ring at it while invoking the names of god and demanding they tell you which angels govern them"

Don't make me lose faith in crowdfunding as a tool to help bring peers together in mutual support and instead declare it to be yet another anti-consumer tool used only by rich people to get richer. Help do this by giving @betterlegends.bsky.social money! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

All this brought to you by Me Putting A Grid Crawl In The Megadungeon

Maps? Solved.

Come visit sabregamesandcards.com to check out our selection of indie #ttrpg zines. #dnd #osr #indiegames

Grid over a Tolkien style map (pretty sure this is a origin of fantasy map style, unless i missed something). 1square = 1league = 1/6 of a days foot speed. Wouldn't have any trouble using that in a game, even though the grid is an afterthought

Phwoah! gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/564551-mi...

Anyone seen a TTRPG do a wilderness map like Might & Magic 3? I'd like to see it

Iiiiiiit's GAME MONTH

Fixed the Troika PC and NPC generator page: dsell.me/troika-chara...

Melsonia isn't at UKGE this year 'cos it is far away and very expensive (and also make less money and meets fewer people than a local zine faire)

Why mourn the PCs death? *IS IT* realistic to do a RP mourning moment? All formations are subject to dissolution, but the holy daemon lives to ride again. So chin up.

Oh, i forgot to mention we have a sale on at www.melsonia.com . Sorry, i respect you too much to market here most of the time. Still, buy things!

Are you in London on June 6th? GOOD, come GM a game for local TTRPG players and player-curious people. You could alternatively come and play, of course. www.dancon.co.uk

Look, I'm not saying you're a big fake megaposer with something to hide if you don't start your megadungeon book pitch with how many rooms it has, I'm just saying I'm thinking that.

This is our second warning, don't make me call it dancon! Also we need some more GMs, anyone fancy it?

Need a name for a convention so we can put up these posters for a melsonia convention in June. If no one thinks of anything soon it's getting called DanCon.

Another Troika RPG sheet. I drew this in a hotel in Mexico, oddly enough.

More! More social proof!

RIP JAIME WORRIED, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN! dsell.me/jaime-memori...

Troika #TTRPG Character sheet drawn in a sketchbook. Great game from @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io that riffs on Fighting Fantasy.

The complete season one of 🐋 Tales from the Humpback Sky 🐋 is now up on YouTube! It's audio-only but we get video working towards the latter half of season two! #troika #podcast #tabletop @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgEn...

The logical conclusion and counter-reformation of the commercialisation of TTRPG crowdfunding is for (actual) small creators to start adding stretch goals like "£1,000,000: Don't stop making news things, renounce the world, and meditate in an undisclosed stupa for the rest of my days."

Made a basic Troika character generator to save some time on our open table megadungeon. Easily copy + pastable to a text document! I pondered making the inventory automatic but it's a lot of work for something I expect will be hand written somewhere anyway, right? perchance.org/troika-chara...

The Gourmand requests your help assembling the first course - one delicious, and incredibly rare Black Swan. Rare Bird is a little heist and setting for Swyvers by @lukegearing.bsky.social and @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io. Art by Alice Carroll infinite-twin.itch.io/rare-bird

Is it record breaking disposable IP tie-in ttrpg crowd funder season already? It feels like Christmas was only last week! Time flies

Constancy is its own value! At conventions we have encountered multiple "oh wow, I grew up playing troika!" 20yearolds and "i have internalised every letter of the book" teens. Now we wait for them to grow up into the new generation of 30yearold youtubers who decide the fate of us all.

Addicted to play testing

Genuinely brilliant twist on Troika maths without changing it

Once again we confirm that small groups will Do Stuff when in the megadungeon: TWO basement vagrants finally killed the biggest and nastiest boss monster (that anyone knows of...). She'd previously claimed 3 lives and foiled 2 concerted attempts to end her. Poor Mrs Dentlin, we barely new ye

The sound outside our south London offices can be recreated at home by playing alternating parakeet calls and ambulance sirens on loop, broken up by a skateboard over rough pavement every 1-3 hours

🐋Tales from the Humpback Sky🐋 Season 2 Episode 7 "Coconut Slug Dreams" is live! This week Owen helps Ridge calm down, Bernard asks for too much, and the crew take a much needed but slimy moment to recuperate. To listen search for "Humpback Sky" wherever you listen to pods. #podcast #troika #rpg

Swyvers is so good. The group did a job stealing a sealed crate for a mobster one of the players caroused too hard and fell into debt with. Turns out the crate was sealed with royal insignia. Inside, armor decorated for the royal guards.

Yeeeees, more webrings! MORE!

I think the reason I like blogs is cos they're very not part of the cult of the new. 6 figure flashes in the pan don't penetrate them. They're "mend and make do". Probs why they're commercially maligned, and still actually good.

If you are going around the table making sure everyone gets a moment during exploration, then why change during combat? In the same way you test luck to not set off the trap you test punching to not get hit when it comes to you

Drama! Undulations! Violence!

Did you know? That Troika might not have a month, but it does have a day. 52 Tuesdays is more days than even the very best month (June). 🌈

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

Oh wow, historical TTRPG blog of note wakes up with bombshell revelation on secret to the good life whatwouldconando.blogspot.com

Blimin' YES! This is what we like to SEE!

Got the urge to upload my old blogspot posts to my bearblog. Only 747 to go!

Gosh darnit, if another ttrpg citing us as an influence makes 6 figures on crowdfunding i'm gonna take it as a personal insult.