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Tim Obermueller

@timogames.bsky.social

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hey, I'm Tim, a ttrpg designer from Nebraska, USA.

I write adventures and supplements primarily for Mothership and Liminal Horror, but I also sometimes write weird little games. Check out my stuff on Itch; there's free stuff there, too.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 7h

Defeated the main antagonist in Hades 2 for the first time with what was essentially an automatic shotgun/firehose (the skull + fire all shells at once + retrieve shells 100% faster + Heroic and leveled up ~10 times Poseidon blessing on the attack.)

Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 23h

I am stirring some pots in here. I never could have fathomed that all this would precipitate from this and only after ~5 hours.

Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 1d

Okay I'm just gonna start posting wild shit I'm seeing in #OVER/UNDER (public facing stuff only).

First: they set up a fucking casino??

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 1d

I think about my Sliding Doors moments frequently. Could easily be floundering as a lawyer or journalist right now. Was shortlisted to attend the local Seminary in high school. So glad I'm not any of those things.

Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 1d

Hitch builds have become my favorite

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ianyusem.bsky.social @ianyusem.bsky.social · 2d

I live! Dropping this Mothership Month: a brand new way to play your favorite sci-fi horror RPG, with a high-powered corporate twist on the PC crew.

Trade economic for moral horror in the grand MOTHERSHIP EVIL CAMPAIGN.

Keep an eye out for the (free) full release in the next few weeks.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 7d

It's almost his time.

Nosferatu stands in a door in black and white movie. He's holding a card that reads "Say it's Carol Singers"

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 6d

which made two of the investigators lose so much sanity they were erased from existence.

Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 6d

That is not great. On the flip side, in a Call of Cthulhu game that was a time loop and a player said "Fuck it. I'm gonna do a Sweet Jump." Ramped their car into a house, and failed so aggressively that no cultists were hurt and it shattered a statue causing Azathoth to appear in the sky

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 7d

"When you enter, the floor and walls are covered in blood dusted over with black powder, y-"
Player: "Nope. I leave."
"Well, this has been an amusing... several minutes."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 7d

It's almost his time.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 14d

They are very good, thank you! Added to my rotation

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MagnumGalaxy @magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io · 14d

Yippee-ki-yay, Mothershippers, Hardlight Station is back!
Check out the free preview now on Itch here: magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io/preview-dyin... (also available on DTRPG). Happy hunting and see you in Q1 2026 when the Kickstarter goes live!

Preview - Dying Hard on Hardlight Station: NS-1365 Anthology Edition by Magnum Galaxy Games

Return to Hardlight Station in this free Mothership RPG preview with expanded locations and new Sector 1365 adventures.

magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io

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Chris Airiau @chrisair.itch.io · 16d

In this month's Rokaner Report, I talk about Flatline on the Blocks, games I'm runnning for the ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS digital convention, and my work with @chaoclypse.bsky.social on All Roads Lead to Rome

open.substack.com/pub/5mwpress...

Magenta card for 5 Million Worlds Rokaner Report #21, September 2025. The 5MW spaceship is headed to Prospero's Dream.

Free Flatline on the Blocks "Spinal Crux" patch in the first 48 hours for all physical backers.
The patch is a purple-y cyborg eyeball with wires going into the orbit around it. Art by Scragend.

All Flesh is Surplus, The Lost Bay Reborn Digital Convention, Second Edition: Found Footage of the Bay. October 2025. A jawless skull sits in the middle of the text.

Cover mockup for All Roads Lead to Rome with fungal strips spreading from a skull. Four creepy, muscled alien sketches off to the left. One's a fungal squid-shark like thing, one's a square-ish flesh blob. One's a suit(?) made of meat(?). The last and biggest one is an early drummer sketch, with a huge face like a drum kit.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 19d

If you have any recs, by all means

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 19d

Friendship ended with Sad Girl music, Now Angry Girl music is best friend.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 19d

One of my most anticipated upcoming games!

Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 19d

When our adventure game launches on November 26th, we will support...

- Steam, including Steam Deck 💻
- Nintendo Switch, and Switch 2 via backwards compatibility 2️⃣
- English and Japanese languages (see our Japanese version in action below) 🗾

Spread the word!
store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 23d

Have you seen our upcoming Mothership Month zine, Flatline on the Blocks? Well, you should! My block, The Faucet, includes one of the district's four cargo lifts, strictly controlled by a new Teamster splinter faction - The Order of Free Labourers.

Follow it HERE: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Prepare for wetwork in Flatline on the Blocks, a 20-block space station district at death's door from a team of veteran creators, for Mothership RPG

From Spinal Crux Warriors - Prepare for wetwork in Flatline on the Blocks, a 20-block space station district at death's door from a team of veteran creators, for Mothership RPG

www.backerkit.com

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 26d

We may have *lightly* collapsed the entire Paris Catacombs.

Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 27d

TTRPG Out of Context: "My apologies to the French and those who may be of a French persuasion."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · Sep 12

A Fey Trickster gets your true name by dating you & getting your name from the marriage certificate but due to fey law, has to sign their true name as well. So you're in this weird cold war of being able to entirely undo each other but also genuinely in a loving relationship. Get tricked loser!