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#NightTideMag's December Monthly Macabre is PRE-CODE HORROR! It challenged censorship, moral panic, & taboo desire. It also weaponized difference; often villainizing disabled, queer, & racialized bodies. It’s a DEEPLY complicated era worth reexamining. Pitch us your essay @ nighttidemag.com/pitch 👻📽️

Crabs? What are you talking about??? The sea spiders are coming!!! Art for @gritdark.itch.io's Rustborn Bastards. Made a few color variants, but these two are my favs. Can't wait to see these with Dan's layout!

Due to intense health issues, I will not be available for any further art commissions for the rest of the month. I will still be working on personal creative projects, but at my own pace. If you'd like to support me financially, I made a bundle of all my paid stuff: itch.io/s/171477/sup...

This month's free game is ONE COURSE ULTIMATE MURDER MYSTERY DINNER. Shelby Deville is dead, one of you is the killer, and you've got twenty minutes to work out who (thirty if you chew your food properly). PDFs, text-only versions and extensive commentary here: www.patreon.com/posts/one-co...

So after visiting Finland and getting some editing for older recordings done, I am considering tackling the #TTRPG scene in Nordic countries. Which is a challenge because there is sooo much. Any advice on where to start, particularly Sweden and Finland? (I have some leads for Norway/Denmark/Iceland)

Newest episode is up! Let's talk about telling a story with your toys! Campaign Systems in Wargames - The SNARLcast Episode 022 youtu.be/wjaYBzjxMIU?...

This coyote photo might be my best of the year--and I think I had a really great nature photography year!

If you're looking for more rpg-related YouTube channels that aren't actual plays, check out Weird Place. They remind me of PBS's Idea Channel from almost 10 years ago. Very relaxing, informative watches. www.youtube.com/@weird_place...

”When MÖRK BORG came out, it didn’t come out of nowhere. It was the outcome of everything that the movement had been working towards. … All of the things that had been bottled up in OSR zine culture came pouring out into a single book, with the confidence of a manifesto.”

The Berlin of the 1920s is often associated with a certain excess and decadence, but it was a different side of the city — the “sobriety and desolation” of its industrial and working-class districts — which came to obsess the painter Gustav Wunderwald: publicdomainreview.org/essay/g...

Dead channel? I beg to differ! Episode 23 takes us to Mexico and I would invite you to go check out all the amazing creators and publishers in the shownotes, because there's a lot! Interviews with @wingedlion.bsky.social, @cymorgan.bsky.social ‬and more! open.spotify.com/show/0z4WwX6...

I wrote a blog post on an OD&D campaign I'm starting soon, as well as outlining a procedure inspired by Turn Undead to make people shit themselves. chaoclypse.substack.com/p/bear-witness

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Concept: chess with literally no rules changes but every piece has an elaborate backstory that the player must read before play begins. Sure, it’s easy to sacrifice a faceless nameless pawn, but not so easy when you know about their life story and everything that got them to this war

I woke up and chose violence today. Do I'll day it with my full chest. Fuck AI! The TTRPG space is built on heaps on creativity and using it cheapens the hard work countless artists, writers and game designers put into it. While the picture is images, I mean all Gen Ai uses!

Resource scarcity is a mechanic of horror in #TTRPG. Ammo, food, time, water, medical supplies, magical/scientific whatsits, safe areas... It all contributes. Does it make things a bit spreadsheet-y? It can. But is also makes things more urgent, concerning, and adds stakes to actions. 1/2

#MÖRKTOBER Day 19: Broken "Her consciousness persists in the stones, fractured but aware. Stand among the rubble and you’ll hear her disconnected whispers, all of her here in one place but lacking cohesion." Words by @loottheroom.bsky.social, art by me.

I wrote another adventure. It's free. It's a forestcrawl. Get it!

To my Lord Sandwich by water, and told him how well things do go in the country with me, of which he was very glad, and seems to concern himself much for me.

Messing around with Procreate, happy with the result. Some spooky Orlok sketching.

Hungry fishes for Rustborn Bastards 🐟

Every scene in this is a potential game. Amazing! 'All these contrivances had to be planned, and made, and transported. And fed. And it must have tired the imagination of the men of the first world to think of occupations for so many machines.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8yE...

Some RPGs don’t just teach rules—they speak in poetry. 🎲 From MÖRK BORG’s apocalyptic verses to Troika!’s dreamlike absurdity and Into the Odd’s quiet minimalism, their words shape how we play. Read the full piece: Designers as Poets. ✒️ #TTRPG #OSR #GameDesign

Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero

#MÖRKTOBER DAY 15: NAILS "At the base of The Basin, the dead don’t surrender easily to the salvagers’ hooks. They cling to life as their lungs fill with black water, and in their final moments, the stone at the bottom of the pit wrenches their fingernails loose." Words by me, art by @nohr.se

You gotta. You just gotta.

You can read an excerpt of my novel that releases tomorrow here, at TheNerdDaily! thenerddaily.com/the-night-th...

#MÖRKTOBER DAY 4: HOWL "Those who spend the night in the clearing are tormented by violent visions of pulsing red, rending flesh, twisting gristle, hot muscle tearing and pulling apart at the seams." Words by me. Art by @nohr.se

"I thought you had the keys to the research cabin"

Appropriate for today's #MÖRKTOBER prompt, here's a classic @chaoclypse.bsky.social video on how to easily photomash muscle arms onto a frog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYrU...

#MÖRKTOBER day 1: FROG "Wanted dead or alive on both sides of the Moon, the unregistered bounty hunter known as The Frog is a guaranteed double-cross, poisoning targets and employers alike and then devouring them."

MÖRKTOBER IS UPON US #MÖRKTOBER

#MÖRKTOBER day 1: FROG GLOPSTEPALOF "His eye on the east and the dying light of the sun, he wants nothing less than to flood the world and plant his throne atop it. His time is nigh." Writing by @loottheroom.bsky.social Art by me

This unlocked a new part of my brain

So cool to see more people use my Monstrous Menagerie free stock art pack! Thank you so much for sharing @gilarpgs.bsky.social ! You can download Monstrous Menagerie I for FREE! tania-herrero.itch.io/monstrous-me...

I finished Our Wives Under The Sea this morning and wrote up some thoughts about it. This was really good and I'm keen to see what Julia Armfield does next. chrisb.bearblog.dev/our-wives-un...

I really like the idea of lantern scouts and no one can stop me now. More sketches on Fomoria Patreon every Monday! www.patreon.com/Fomoria #fomoria

Your Daily Dracula – Dracula vs Freddy Krueger (2024) www.youtube.com/watch?v=stNx...

This panel was super fun. Just spending an hour talking about making this game and how a community formed around it. It’s about releasing a game during the pandemic, encouraging community participation, making an open license and being approached by incredible creators for collabs. What a ride.

This is one of the first illustrations I made for The White Horse of Lowvale. It is based in a Germanic legend, although I've always found fascinating the amount of cultures referencing an evil white horse that charms people to take them for a ride and drown them. You can get the book in my store!

Very annoyed that I haven't managed to find time to make anything for this jam but some of these entries look awesome itch.io/jam/appx-n-jam

TTRPGs that are actually *relatively complete games,* explaining things from square one and not requiring many *many* hours of prep to build fiction are, while on the rise, still the exception, and "Everything you need to play" is, historically, so false as to be bad comedy.

A wondrous thing about games being folk art is that you can 100% throw some half-baked bullshit out there, be clear that's what it is, and people are still interested. It ALSO makes skipping the "be clear that's what it is" upsetting to a much greater extent. But this too is tradition... 1/2

This month's one page game is the ludic antifascist DO IT YOURSELF. The first half of the game is written; the second half is up to you. Design notes, a blog about impostor syndrome and PDFs available at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/134777...

@nulluhreinspodcast.bsky.social Dem Podcast steht die Überlänge echt gut. Dadurch geht es echt noch etwas tiefer in die Materie rein. Das höre ich mir gerne an. Und vielen Dank für die stabilen Ansagen in der letzten Folge. Wichtig! www.buzzsprout.com/1940667/epis...

If you want to replace Spotify with something infinitly better, buy physical copies of the music you like.

RIP, Tom Lehrer. youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs

"I was waiting for the right moment to spring a mouse themed RPG on my friends" @cjeggett.co.uk spoke to @losing.games & @manarampmatt.bsky.social about everyone's favourite swords & whiskers old school (& cheese) flavoured RPG & reveals the importance of haribo sweet inventory management