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The Fisherman’s Fiend
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He/Him. Autistic. Makes wee games. Level 13 Kobold Sorcerer. Looks by Junji Ito, moods by Werner Herzog. One half of Dr Sandman PhD, one fifth of Oddments Games, one whole Bastard Crew. https://itsjustdave.carrd.co/
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All money goes straight to buying little treats that keep the brain fog away, thus perpetuating the cycle of me releasing a game sometimes.
God, Bela Lugosi’s Dad would be a peak boss card for a goth version of Jazzmanji.

It has to be done.
We made it for the cassette tape jam, hosted by @axiomdelver.bsky.social, which has a great many lovely handheld games, including @noseatbelts.bsky.social’s absolutely peak “Vampires at the Goth Show”
You should checkout Jazzmanji — a very weird little niche card game that’s a lot of fun to play. You can print it, or just look at the pretty colours, and you can do it all for free (or a nominal donation of your choice, you kind stranger you).
JAZZMANJI by Oddments
A quickfire party game of Jazz adventure
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Come grab Threads! It’s released today and buddy? It’s cheap as chips:

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It’s a little ode to games gone by, and a helpful tool to flesh out time skips in active campaigns too. #ttrpg
Threads by Oddments
What happens to our worlds when we leave them behind?
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In a game book I was writing once, set exclusively in the Yorkshire countryside, I had the stats: Head, Heart, Hand, Hearth, & Horror — or ‘ead, ‘eart, ‘and, ‘earth, & ‘orror in the localised version.
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Ahhhhh, I love this, thanks so much for reading it and I’m extremely glad you liked it.
Though I didn’t get it to Bluesky before the deadline: Oddments announces new game for new year.

Threads helps build bite size returns to characters and campaigns of yore, allowing players to follow up on what might have become of past protagonists.

#solorpg #ttrpg
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Some powerful genre combinations in the Wrapped this year
I can’t help but picture this when I hear someone mention them together.
It was my first WoD intro — it’ll always hold a special place in my heart.
Oh, these ol’ top 5 #TTRPG picks? Shucks…

1. Vampire: The Masquerade (Rev)
2. Mage: The Ascension (20th)
3. Shadowrun (4e)
4. Warhammer Fantasy RP (2nd)
5. D&D (4e)
Introduce yourself with your top 5 #TTRPG picks challenge! Here's mine:

1) Vampire: The Dark Ages
2) Wraith: The Oblivion
3) Call of Cthulhu
4) Ironsworn
5) MORK BORG
Introduce yourself with your top 5 #TTRPG picks challenge! Here's mine:

1. Changeling the Lost
2. Magnus Archives RPG
3. Kult Divinity Lost
4: Werewolf the Forsaken (2nd edition)
5. Vampire the Masquerade 5E
I slept two more hours than I normally do, and now it feels like someone’s punched my body to pieces. What the hell, man?
It may be on all of them? Definitely PC & PS5, unsure on Switch.

The other Owlcat games are worth a look as well, they did Pathfinder: Kingmaker & Wrath of the Righteous. I’ve never played WotR, but Kingmaker was fun, and I think both are available on PS/Switch/PC.
If you’ve any interest in Warhammer 40k, the Rogue Trader CRPG is great. Filled a tactical combat hole I had after finishing Baldur’s Gate.
Starting a rivalry with the mayor of the town one county over with the giant Pit.
It was a dream, augmented by some work after the fact. Sat down to write it at one point before realising it was just a sort of…messy Shadowrun :(
As generations passed in the sunless world, new kinds of Nightfolk began to emerge. Thinbloods forced to subsist on synthetic blood, Wyrm warped Garou, and crust-punk hedge wizards all living in the grimy underbelly of infinite cityscapes.
I once dreamed a whole cyberpunk conversion for World of Darkness. It was called “Goths with Robot Arms”. Ghenna happened, and before a last alliance of Mages and Garou stopped them, the Antediluvians ate the sun.

Humanity lived on in fractal arcologies, built by the remnants of the Technocracy.
It’s definitely one of the clunkier parts of the game, and the V5 hunger system is so slick as to make it an easy replacement. Would recommend