Introduce yourself 10 bands you’ve seen live: ERRA Bleed From Within Sleep Token While She Sleeps Karnivool Linkin Park Killswitch Engage Heilung Ladysmith Black Mamboza Hackivist

Very interesting.

This is a fun lens to use for looking at the fruitful void and how rules direct play.

This is a damn good theory post. Communication of a games intent to its readers is such a rich avenue to explore, and this cuts through some silly debates on the topic like a battle axe.

This week we’re talking about what games are and are not about based on their rules and voids, a riff on @lukegearing.bsky.social’s article on abstraction murkdice.substack.com/p/the-2-axes... #ttrpg #osr

The last 4 TTRPGs you played… - Mörk Borg (like, so much Borg), @morkborg.com - Salvage Union, @leylinepress.bsky.social - The Vast in the Dark, @feralcharlie.bsky.social (I used the sub-systems in the book to cobble together a weird franken-OSR thing) - Into the Odd, @bastionland.bsky.social

Warning for board game folks: this site has a list of industry people that uses AI slop for images and bios. I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to them to ask to have the entry on me removed. Wanted to spread awareness on the slop. www.4pillargames.com/about/

Every old-school blogger has to talk about it at some point… murkdice.substack.com/p/unbalanced... #osr

More Inkvein art process breakdown. I had a lot of fun with this one, making art for an inky megadungeon is never dull though #illustration #ttrpg #osr

Next month I'm launching the first in a series of "double feature" releases. These are complete books, PDFs delivered to backers on completion of the campaign. More in the thread.

Deep beneath the mines, the Iron Lady awakens, ready to wreack havoc on the workers of the world once more. As members of the Salvage Union your job is to stop her reign of terror. Thatchers Mech Base is an upcoming Salvage Union adventure, available as part of the Salvage Union Starter Set.

Preview of the Salvage Union Starter Set Reclamations of the Wastes campaign map! We've put a lot of love and effort into making this an adventure packed with unique content that also guides players and GM's through how to play Salvage Union, with room for them to expand into their own campaigns.

It’s a pretty bad day in England today for… reasons, but @leylinepress.bsky.social have just sent out the beta PDFs for their Salvage Union starter set. Anti-capitalist and anti-fascist art to soothe the soul on a miserable day.

A little example of one of my painting processes for Inkvein (my @morkborg.com megadungeon) #art #illustration #painting.

Another year, another State of the OSR panel with Kelsey Dionne, Matt Finch, @bradkerr.net, and Luke Stratton as host. youtu.be/epW1Rs5VjIQ?...

Listen, Hasbro is a bullshit, WotC is a bullshit. You are gonna see a lotta posts about this. I need you to remember the following: 1. You are not evil for playing D&D with your friends 2. You should, however, not support them by buying stuff. 3. You should also not give them free publicity.

Thought this was really interesting (and has made me think)

Slightly diminish a book The Woman in Dark Grey

I was sitting for ages on the lineart for Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser chilling in the Silver Eel. Struggled a bit with the poses and moodiness. Now I don’t have the energy and time to color it properly, so I guess I’ll see these two in a few months or so

Sometimes in #ttrpgs, ‘no’ is really good: murkdice.substack.com/p/no-is-the-... #osr

Great stuff from @nohr.se and such good art from Kat Martin. A must for anyone who Borgs.

Per is an absolutely incredible artist! Seriously you should hire them!

I love a good random encounter table! Recently I've been leaning on the "nested encounters" concept @murkdice.bsky.social wrote about last year: open.substack.com/pub/murkdice...

Full DEADSUN strip. A little experiment. I know it's not what you want to see from me but it can't always be robots :/

Evening demon knight

This weekend, I played in a MÖRK BORG tournament with ~50 players trying to reach the heart of Hell in 2,5 hours with as few deaths as possible. The grim reaper patrolled the tables, flail in hand, feeding slain PCs’ sheets to a shredder. All GMs had corpse paint. We didn’t win, but it felt like it.

@explorersdesign.bsky.social writes a perfect send up of adventure reviewers, myself included. www.explorersdesign.com/reviewing-bl...

Ordered. Look at the freaking art. Plus Nohr has packed it with great writing.

One of the greatest thing at Blackwork con was when a gang of kids 12-14y from a local youth center came with their pedagogue to give me a copy of the MÖRK BORG adventure they worked on together. Nervous and proud, they each signed my copy and did a short interview. The next generation, man.

Just a quick note for this week’s regular release murkdice.substack.com/p/a-moment-o...

Hooray! We finished playtesting my next #OSE #OSR adventure last night! 🎉 Now, on to the actually fun part! 🤓 If things *finally* go according to plan, "He Who Claimed the Sun" should be out before the next solstice!

In the spirit of revisiting previous work, did you know Murkdice & @odinsongames.bsky.social made a PWYW @morkborg.com adventure? You can pick it up for free if you want! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... And you can get physical copies in @nohr.se’s Pit Trap Shop pittrapshop.com/products/the...

After a little push from @doogface.bsky.social, I did a little revisiting of stuff I worked on prior to Inkvein. When you’re in the midst of working on what you perceive to be your best effort yet, it can be tempting to remember what came before it as ‘inferior’ or ‘lesser’ in some way...

This is worth the price of admission just to hear @bradkerr.net try to describe what's happening in the scenario during deep dive. So stoked the guys reviewed my adventure. Thank you!

IT IS FINISHED. With an incredible last-minute backertrain, INKVEIN closes out at $48,306 with 838 very eager backers. A hearty thank-you from everyone here at Space Penguin Ink for helping bring this incredible adventure to life!

A preview of a blog post that I meant to write right after PAXU but just got around to, inspired by my alcohol-stuffed backpack bursting open just as I was trying to head to the convention center (I promise this is actually game-related). Just for patrons for now www.patreon.com/posts/blog-p...

We're officially in overtime mode on the Inkvein campaign! Let's see how close we can get to that extra bookmark ribbon: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Thanks to the fine folks at Tuesday Knight Games (@sean.tuesdayknightgames.com and fellow makers of @mothership.bsky.social and their top-notch adventures) for backing a copy of Inkvein. Mere MINUTES left people! Get your pledge in here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

"... there are places that I do not belong, that I do not know, and perhaps never can know." I really feel this. This foreword goes so hard, my excitement for Inkvein just shot through the roof.

1 hour left on Inkvein! This close to the finish line, I'm sharing the draft foreword of the book which talks a bit about why I wrote the megadungeon. We're about 10 backers away from the Pen Tower Dungeon expansion stretch goal! #osr murkdice.substack.com/p/60-minutes...

1 hour left on Inkvein! This close to the finish line, I'm sharing the draft foreword of the book which talks a bit about why I wrote the megadungeon. We're about 10 backers away from the Pen Tower Dungeon expansion stretch goal! #osr murkdice.substack.com/p/60-minutes...

Only 6 hours left to back the biggest @morkborg.com dungeon ever! We've released our next sneak preview on how Inkvein uses layout to make this massive adventure easy to run at the table #osr murkdice.substack.com/p/only-6-hou...

YES!!! We're on our way to hitting the battlemaps stretch goal which means in the last 9 hours of the campaign... those top 2 Inkvein stretch goals might be in reach. Over 250 pages of setting and megadungeon for your @morkborg.com campaign awaits you! Back here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

We’ve released a mapping preview for Inkvein! Less than 14 hours now. We’ve smashed through the extra background table stretch goal and next up is a set of 10 print at home battle maps!!! #osr murkdice.substack.com/p/14-hours-l...

Less than 24 hours to go on Inkvein and we’re closing in on another fun stretch goal: an extra table of setting-specific backgrounds for our enormous Mörk Borg megadungeon. Back it here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

There's now less than 24 HOURS to pledge your support for INKVEIN, the MÖRK BORG Megadungeon from @murkdice.bsky.social!

The next Inkvein preview is here! Today we're looking at what goes into an Inkvein region! murkdice.substack.com/p/last-day-t... 1 day left to back our @morkborg.com megadungeon Inkvein! #osr

The next Inkvein preview is here! Today we're looking at what goes into an Inkvein region! murkdice.substack.com/p/last-day-t... 1 day left to back our @morkborg.com megadungeon Inkvein! #osr

I think Inkvein is now roughly at 90k words. Madness. I guess I like words in my dungeons.