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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium

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Author & tabletop role-playing game designer, perhaps known for Dread, Swords Without Master, Vast & Starlit, or Wolfspell. (he/him) https://unwrittenearths.com https://dig1000holes.com 💀🪏

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · Apr 1

Hello Stranger,

I'm Epidiah Ravachol. You may have heard of my #ttrpg work, like Dread, the horror game that uses Jenga; or Swords Without Master, which can be found in Worlds Without Master, issue 3.

I've been at this indie truly-true role-playing game publishing gig for about a quarter century.

a stack of jenga blocks on a table

Alt: Some folks playing Jenga, right at the moment of the tower collapsing. Someone in the background cowers away from the tragedy.

media.tenor.com

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1h

Happy #portfolioday ! I'm Shel, I'm an artist, art director, comicker, and more.

I do concept art, pitch package art, style guide development, and more, and I'd love to hear about your next project!

Learn more at www.portablecity.net/shel-kahns-p...

Created for Peculiar Path Inc.; A painting of a cluster of boats and ships in front of an oil rig; the centermost ship is an aircraft carrier; all have been converted into solarpunk living spaces with visible gardening and retrofitted elements. The sea is calm, the sky is blue with big fluffy clouds, it feels peaceful and hopeful and vibrant.

Created for Numizmatic Games. A sheet of black and white line and tone drawings of pieces of landforms, ready to beincorporated into a procedural environent kit; all variations on layered desert rock structures; several are fully cleaned up, the rest are a little sketchier.

Created for Chaosium. A black and white inked and toned lineup of five Gloranthan adventurers, wearing bronze age outfits and armor inspired by etruscan, scythian and sumerian clothing and technology. There are three men, alla bout the same height, with beards and long hair, and two women, one shorter in scaled maille with a braid, and one taller, in religious dress, with full etruscan hairstyle including crimped curls and a headband. All have tattoos showing gloranthan runes.

Created for Hit Point Press. A digital painting of a strange goat-like creature with needles for feet and a visibly bad attitude, leaping towards the viewer, in a landscape of strange precarious stacks of stone. Behind it, a dusk sky with a bright moon, giving it a dramatic rim light.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 2h

It's going to be a race to see if this gets released before the new Heroes of Might and Magic; because, folks, once the latter arrives, you might not see Eppy for a long time.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 2h

This is one of the illustrations that had us think of you for Escrow of the Damned!

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 2h

Is this the one? github.com/Raphire/Win1...

GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve you...

A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11D...

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 3h

Anyway, I need a VGA connection to see the BIOS screen on this computer--because the people who design computers are made of entirely of spite--so score one for the bin of old cables you refuse to throw away because maybe, perhaps, someday you might need one.

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 3h

Hey #portfolioday! I'm a comic artist and colourist who's worked for OniPress, Harper Alley and a bunch of indie projects.

And ff you're looking for help on a kickstarter project, I've run 3 and am great with promotion 👽

Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hey friends, my schedule is opening up and I am looking for more ✨comics and colouring work✨

Check out my portfolio here
🔸 www.megacarter.com
You can reach out to me through my website or directly at [email protected]

comic page from THE IRON BARGE, featuring a boat filled with talking animals under attack from possum and racoon pirates!

comic page from GODSLAVE, taking place inside a grand temple cover in the changing leaves of fall. The goddess Hathor holds a conversation with a fennec fox

comic page from GODSLAVE, featuring a young woman touching a lightning blade to a rain puddle. A bolt travels across the road using the puddles to attack a sphinx and a woman with iron skin.

cover for the comic TO KNOW A WITCH, featuring a teen girl sitting against the roots of a tree with a notebook and gathered flowers.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 3h

Setting up a new computer--messing around with the Windows side of it, trying to scrub all the AI shit out--and I totally forgot what a needy child Steam was. Just constantly pulling at your pant leg going, "mom mom mom mom mom mom," and when you finally ask, "What?" it has literally nothing to say.

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

I very much enjoy watching this number go up, too.

Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 1d

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 15h

hey folks, are you an artist who would like to get hired to draw? here's one pro tip to level up your odds instantly!

...........make a ✨portfolio website!✨

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Cal @caljones.com · 17h

FOUR days left on this awesome Kickstarter. I'm a backer. I'm also fulfilling it. You should also be a backer too. These games rule.

Tracy @theothertracy.bsky.social · 19d

You Are the Dungeon
You Are the Tavern
You Are the Wilds
You Are the Palace of Dreams

You Are... The Kickstarter!

Four solo worldbuilding TTRPG zines, all in print, all you!

Create the world, create yourself

www.kickstarter.com/projects/san...

You Are... The Kickstarter!

Four solo worldbuilding games in print! You Are the Dungeon, Tavern, Wilds, and the Palace of Dreams (plus play a game as it funds!)

www.kickstarter.com

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 28d

The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 28d

CALL YOUR REPS ABOUT THIS. If youre in missouri, especially call about it, but if youre not in Missouri you should still call your own reps and explain how this is unacceptable and demand action!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 19h

Stunned and saddened to hear Rob Wieland passed away. He and his work were invaluable to our community. An irreplaceable presence gone too soon milwaukeerecord.com/arts/r-i-p-r...

R.I.P. Rob Wieland

Rob was a steadfast contributor to Milwaukee Record since its founding in 2014. He will be forever missed.

milwaukeerecord.com

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 22h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 22h

I've run 5 Kickstarter campaigns (!) in the last calendar year and I support @kickstarterunited.org! Here's a form for creators to add their signatures to a petition in support of their strike action towards a fair contract.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Creator Petition In Support of Kickstarter United Workers on Strike

If you are a creator on the Kickstarter platform - you are probably aware that we, Kickstarter United (OPEIU Local 153), are on strike. For more information about us and why we are striking, please vi...

docs.google.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 1d

Ettore Boiardi

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Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 1d

Rob Wieland's first email to me was on Sat, Oct 21, 2006, asking to get the PDF of Spirit of the Century to go with his physical-copy purchase.

There since the beginning.

Wish he could've been there until the end.

Cover of Fate Worlds Volume 2: Worlds in Shadow, featuring cover art taken from Rob Wieland's contribution to this book, the amazing King-Arthur-in-Mech-Suits CAMELOT Trigger setting. Armored mech-knights suit up to face the robotic horde led by the giant-floating-head MerGN-A!

In this interior image from CAMELOT Trigger, we get a closer look at the giant floating head MerGN-A as her mouth opens to disgorge endless flying robots.

Writing credit:

CAMELOT TRIGGER
by Rob Wieland
editing by Tom Cadorette, Mike Olson, and Brian Engard
art by Brett Barkley

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Epidiah Ravachol of the Unwritten Earths Symposium @epidiah.bsky.social · 1d

I very much enjoy watching this number go up, too.

Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 1d

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 1d

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 1d

It’s a real blow to see the news of Rob Wieland’s passing. A true original who has supported small indie designers for years, including me and my games. Love and peace to his family and everyone else grieving today.

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 1d

THE IRON BARGE ⚔️✨is a talking animal adventure comic set in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, following a duty bound otter travelling with a pirate across the different Casino kingdoms to hide a deadly secret.

Read from the beginning here
ironbargecomic.com?pg=1#showComic

Cover for chapter 2 of THE IRON BARGE. An otter in a green cloak carrying a large flashlight stands with an aye-aye lemur pirate, alarmed and defensive. Behind them is an old brick wall covered with posters of escaped animal convicts. There's a yellow spotlight on the otter and lemur.
THE IRON BARGE. HARPER CARTER

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

why bother with contracts?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 1d

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.

A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.

So many people on the wrong side of history.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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