I feel so seen. 🤣🦇🤣

After 40+ years playing every system I could get my hands on, trust me: you’re overthinking it.

You fuck with Mörk Borg? Just about a week left until the launch of the Amethyst Alcove. Follow along for the slow unraveling of it all.

Fire Magic - Memories of Fire (III/06/2026) Melodic Black Metal / War Metal from Virginia stygianblackhand.bandcamp.com/album/memori...

Winter '25-'26 has been some of my best art making! feels really nice. like breaking free from a previous plateau - Let's Go!

The Witch #art #fantasy #darkart

morning

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein

This is so incredibly difficult and I also want to stare I could go on for days: Household: Fun ✅ Good Game ✅ Invisible Sun: Fun ✅ Good Game ❌ Pathfinder 2e: Fun ❌ Good Game ✅ Anima: Fun ❌ Good Game ❌ (what’s would your matrix be?)

Dyke knights wip! ⚔️

I miss when each class level in D&D had a different title

night

COMBAT

VOID II - Sample set has been uploaded on the drive // Free Library folder - 12 assets for ..... Free! #TTRPG #Stockart

Bandcamp Friday? Pick yourself up some weirdness. #dungeunsynth #darkambient #musicsky #dungeondrone plaguerelic.bandcamp.com/album/all-sh...

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-583

Recoder, Digital Collage, 2020. #graphicart #blackandwhite #artsky #collage #grunge

6/3/26 - nocturn

Art by • Romulo Royo

They needed the skeleton to be a little ickier.

A game you enjoy doesn't have to be a deeply transcendent experience,or a perfectly well oiled and designed system to have a good time, you can and will in fact enjoy this hobby playing games that are clunky, broken and bad. You should, however, be able to tell the difference between fun and good.

Pues me gusta esta manera de meter monstruos errantes en las partidas de OSR, oiga #osr #lodelrol

Gargoyle mercenary Azzik Commission for DCC #ttrpg #osr #dccrpg #ttrpgart #rpgart

Day 369, random old school TTRPG art from random book: “AC9 Creature Catalogue”, TSR 1986, Keith Parkinson, cover. #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #d&d #dnd #osr #ad&d #fantasyart #art #ttrpgcommunity #dndart #osrart

Some bronze age bandits #osr #illustration #ttrpg #art #characterdesign

what the fuck.

Black tape. Violet ruin. I had the pleasure of creating the art + layout for the cassette inlay on this upcoming project. Part of The Amethyst Alcove, coming soon to Kickstarter. #ttrpg #dungeonsynth #cassetteculture #darkfantasy #morkborg

Buy Borg get free zine

‘Nope. Nothing over here. I swear the catacombs are empty’ #dnd #ttrpg

Horror runs on fear, and fear runs on loss. Loss of control, life, identity, and so on. If nothing can be taken from the characters in the name of preserving agency, dread disappears. What remains is not horror, just danger.

“Shield Maidens”, 12x12 inch acrylic on wood panel. Appalled by the war. These three took many layers to reveal their comforting message. May we be the “warriors” that end this. Just finished and listed on my website. www.jeanietomanek.com/new-products...

3d6 or d20? Swinglines or stability?

A game should be harmonious (or generate good/useful friction) with all its components working together towards a common (if not unified) goal; you should not feel like parts of the game are fighting each other unless that’s the point. You also shouldn’t easily be able to chop out rule segments.

Changing your opinion is sexy. Overhauling your whole perspective is hot.

TTRPG systems, at their core, are frameworks of creative restraints, posing imaginary exercises you wouldn't undertake otherwise. House-ruling games out the gate avoids the confrontation of expectations & robs you the opportunity of switching frameworks, making you default into a "standard game".

(Purely personal experience) Thirsty Sword Lesbians: Fun ✅ Good Game ✅ Kids on Bikes: Fun ✅ Good Game ❌ Blades in the Dark: Fun ❌ Good Game ✅ The Lawnmower Man TTRPG: Fun ❌ Good Game ❌ (what’s would your matrix be?)

Very few Actual Play podcasts should be using a rules-heavy system like D&D or Pathfinder. There are plenty of looser, more narrative systems that would be a far better fit.

You can be a mechanics freak and a roleplay freak at the same time

Yes D12 has the best mouth feel, but d6s are ubiquitous, cheap, and taste just as good

Same reason, on the opposite hand, why secret checks can be so great. The GM rolling to see if you succeeded on that stealth check but not telling you the outcome until it matters is great for player engagement.

D&D may not be the best game, but the d20 is the most fun to roll of any shape of dice

There's no wrong system and no wrong way to play it. If everyone is having fun, the specifics don't matter. Period.

night

I think a lot of MÖRK BORG-based spin-off games and hacks would do WAY better as modules or adventures in the original setting instead of its own system.

I liked reading Mörk Borg when it came out, and Pirate Borg and CyBorg were cute, but if I see one more "Mörk <random nerd trope>" kickstarter, I'm going to go smash something with a crowbar. I swear these things are just being churned out of a mill at this point.

Packing parcels and listening to the newly released MÖRK BORG Heresy Supreme OST! Life is good

get weirder 🫵

Tabletop RPGs would be a healthier space if people looked at it the way boardgamers do; there's a lot of games to choose from, you probably want to try a bunch to find out what kind of games you're into. Instead, it follows a historical pattern at least going back to the 80s which still haunts us..

I think the biggest hurdle that players, including ones that have played for years, struggle to jump is that roleplaying is a significantly more emotionally vulnerable type of play than anything else.