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Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 16h

It's for the Folklore Jam 2025 on Itch - I'm using tarot decks for the PCs (humans transformed into crows), & the oracle deck for the story and the Mother who cursed them.

Here's an example spread - the Mother equals the Magus in the Lonely Tower - three cards to the right.
itch.io/jam/folklore...

A spread of momatoe's oracle deck and three different tarot decks on a table with a cover draft that reads "A Murder of Crows".

Seven cards of the oracle deck on the top right stand for the story of the crows, three cards for their Mother on the right.

On the bottom left, three individual crow characters are made up of three cards from three different tarot decks each - The Tarot of Servants from Bluebeard's Bride, The Urban Tarot by Robin Scott, and the Spheres of Heaven.

Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 17h

@momatoes.com - Thank you! I really love the oracle deck! It's a wonderful engine for storytelling on the fly.

My favorite part is the inspiration picture on the front, language prompt on the back duality.

I'm experimenting with using it for a folktale game I'm working on - hope that's okay?

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Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 17h

I just read the PDF of Sacred Bodies and it's amazing! Very inspiring story and worldbuilding! Hats off!

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 3d

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

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Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 2d

Gaming Halloween in full swing, wow! I ran The Magus by @momatoes.com for the Paradice Halloween Special at Hauptbücherei Wien.

My table was all newbies who were amazed that the session was entirely improvised, just based on the Oracle Deck. We had a blast, no notes!
#TTRPGs #StoryGames #ZeroPrep

Five happy gamers holding up their oracle cards/characters for The Magus. In the background, there's about 20 tables of gaming at Hauptbücherei Wien.

A room full of role-playing gamers having a blast at the annual Paradice Halloween Special at Hauptbücherei Wien.

Selfie of me at the gaming table with one of the players - Me, with beard and glasses and in an iFoL t-shirt. The table sports snacks, an x-card and cards from the oracle deck. There's also a copy of Women are Werewolves lying around.

The full gaming table with snacks, an x-card and gaming paraphernalia - notes, oracle cards, pencils, index cards and dice. Four players are getting up from the game to take a break.

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Ben Robbins @lamemage.com · 3d

The power of a good name to make a good game

arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/48...

Our Bankrupt Dracharium and the Power of Names

Our merchant cartel -- our Dracharium -- has cut a deal with the very bandit's that blocked our trade through Vulture Pass, enlisting them as toll collectors and even building them a fort to secure th...

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 3d

we need to more signups

help me out folks

www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt...

Coming soon: BREATHLESS: FRIGHTMARE EDITION

An action survival tabletop roleplaying game designed for on the go play in a box. Loot. Shoot. Survive.

www.kickstarter.com

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ZealZaddy 🔜 PaxUnplugged @zealzaddy.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s break down the budget of a TTRPG project! I hope it’s helpful and you release lots of cool TTRPG product! I also hope it helps ensure paying collaborators fairly (or even great)!

#TTRPG #RPG #GameDesign #GameDevelopment #IndieTTRPG #TTRPGCommunity #IndieDev #GameBudget #HowItsMade
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Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 4d

This. 👆🏻

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Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 4d

Great! I dm'd you the link to my play report 😊

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shel's gone @portablecity.bsky.social · 6d

This past weekend I put together a post of things I've learned about soft pastels since getting back into them: www.portablecity.net/soft-pastel-...

A photograph of four wooden drawers, all open so you can see a little of each, holding colour-sorted soft pastel sticks.

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shel's gone @portablecity.bsky.social · 6d

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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Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 6d

I just played the ashcan of We Contain Solitudes and I love the idea. Let me know if you'd like to hear how it went!

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Unwritten Earths Symposium @unwrittenearths.bsky.social · 10d

⚔️ The Season of Swords is upon us! Swords Without Master is coming out of the pages of Worlds Without Master Issue 3 into a full, stand-alone release!

🔮 Follow the Kickstarter page to get notified on launch in early 2026

www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Coming soon: Swords Without Master

A ttrpg of strange sorceries, brutal violence and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

www.kickstarter.com

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Cam Banks 🇳🇿 ❌👑 @rustysellsword.com · 6d

Literally nobody else does breakdowns like this. Amazing.

Fred Hicks @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 6d

Q3 sales numbers (public-facing, primarily volume based, no strong distinction made between physical and digital sales, but still, visualization) for Evil Hat: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Archive going back to 2016 (when I switched over to doing them in Drive) drive.google.com/drive/folder...

2025Q3 Quarterly Numbers for Evil Hat

docs.google.com

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Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 7d

There's an anthology of two player RPGs from the era of Google+ that's still available on DTRPG:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/2...
Happy to email you a copy if you'd like.

You & I: Roleplaying Games for Two - Ginger Goat | DriveThruRPG

Fifteen two-player roleplaying games are perfect for friends, lovers, roommates, and weird first dates! In You & I: Roleplaying Games for Two, you will find: Surreal games of mysterious powers and...

www.drivethrurpg.com

Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 7d

Fiasco. Showed me that zero prep GMless one shots were possible. Role-playing with no boring parts, what? Mind blown!

And then Fate and Apocalypse World, which showed me that real people I could meet can make games that I love. And that I could be one of them.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 8d

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 8d

We are looking for panels for Metatopia Online 2025 which will be taking place on December 6 and possibly December 7, 2025. If you can't attend Metatopia in person this year for any reason, please join us at this online event and spread the word! forms.gle/aTqCs7bBJpfC...

METATOPIA ONLINE 2025 Panel Proposal Form

METATOPIA is Double Exposure, Inc.'s Game Design Festival, an event for people who are passionate about the design, publishing, selling, or playing games of all types. This year, the Double Exposure...

forms.gle

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Johannes @johanneso.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone can write copy...

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 8d

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

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 8d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 8d

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

“a supply chain attack”

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Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social · 9d

Swords without Master, standalone.

Finally. 🎲⚔️🖤

One of my favorite TTRPGs.
Thanks @epidiah.bsky.social

www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

Coming soon: Swords Without Master

A ttrpg of strange sorceries, brutal violence and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.

www.kickstarter.com

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 20d

NEW (FREE) GAME FORTHCOMING:

SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book.

In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…

You are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative… Image: Print copy of SPINE

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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 12d

Last 24 hours of the Ex Tenebris Kickstarter campaign and then we can rest here at Black Armada Towers!

If you like dark gothic space settings and supernatural investigation games then check this out and please share.

#ttrpg #kickstarter #spacegothic

Ex Tenebris: A star-spanning gothic investigation TTRPG

Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars

www.kickstarter.com

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shel's gone @portablecity.bsky.social · 17d

I painted this warrior woman with my non-dominant hand when I had to turn down a fun art job shortly after arm surgery; I needed to prove that I could still paint, albeit way, way slower at that time, and I'm still so proud of her!

A woman in late middle age, sitting in anglosaxon / medieval clothing and partial armor, with a golden helmet at her feet, at the base of a big tree. She is a heavier built white woman with dark greying hair in a long braid with red ribbon.

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