Made this for 2023's #MORKTOBER and still like it. The idea came to my mind because I remember watching a random video about a kind of fish that is known to jump over fisherman's boats and accidentally spear them with their sharp "noses". #mörkborg #ttrpg

Goro Nahr has a special request. Working on some Fomoria stuff 🐍 fomoria.com #fomoria #ttrpg

Goblin in plate mail

To close the year, a paper on how we developed a #ttrpg based on my fantasy novels, with the help of a couple of friends: digitalcommons.njit.edu/cgi/viewcont...

battling artblock with the power of ms paint, a mouse and a lighthouse --- #horror #art #mspaint

Oh, right. New arrivals: Around the parts of Bluesky I frequent, it's mostly settled that we're not doing generative AI as it now exists in TTRPGs, and if you want to argue with that, you'll mostly get yelled at, made fun of, and blocked, by various people. So, pick that battle at your own risk.

Kevin Costner's 1990s post-apocalypse movies don't get nearly the love they deserve, and I think it's because they both approach the idea of a post apocalypse differently than we're conditioned to accept. Waterworld and The Postman were both fine post-apocalypse movies. It's just that one was...1/3

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Fomoria Quickstart is crawling out of the earth now, free to download! Includes core rules, an intro adventure and 8 pregen characters ready to be consumed by the Darkness. An epic folk horror TTRPG created by Tania Herrero, laid out and published by @nohr.se tania-herrero.itch.io/fomoria-quic...

Last work that I exhibited earlier this year ✍️ #art #drawing #charcoal #darkart

As a Children of the Sun, you don't fear the Eldritch. You break them. Kalava, might be proud and severe, even cruel, but a valiskar does not tend to miss when they strike. One of the 8 pregens that will be available in Fomoria's Quickstart. #ttrpg #fomoria

Clarence Leroy Andrews, “The Father of the Glaciers”, 1902. One of more than forty photographs of snowmen, spanning almost a century from 1854 to 1950, featured in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-snowmen

This is not a painting. It is made entirely of wood, its surface flat. A detail from the 15th-century "Studiolo Gubbio", one of the finest examples of intarsia, the masterful art of fitting together pieces of wood to make images: publicdomainreview.org/essay/e...

I love the minimal approach here with chess pawns especially. It's easy and I agree that the impact of putting a fully painted mini down after mostly fighting green pawns is powerful visual design.

The (Orc) Pope is Dead by @gshowitt.bsky.social, in which the old pope died of a drinking binge, played with beer dice topped with froth. 🍻 #RPGNightUtrecht Now to pick the next game from vol. 6.

I will be spending Christmas in Lord Bafford's manor from Thief: The Dark Project.

church doodles.

#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

bumpkin

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...