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The Fisherman’s Fiend

@bastardcrew.net

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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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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 13

You can buy my gear here & here:

bastardcrew.itch.io
oddmentsoh.itch.io

All money goes straight to buying little treats that keep the brain fog away, thus perpetuating the cycle of me releasing a game sometimes.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · 29d

God, Bela Lugosi’s Dad would be a peak boss card for a goth version of Jazzmanji.

It has to be done.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · 29d

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”

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · 29d

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

oddmentsoh.itch.io

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Aug 1

Otis B. Driftwood from The Devil’s Rejects, but his head is replaced with a spool of welding cable. Text reads “I am the cable, and I have come to do the cable’s work”

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Apr 4

Come grab Threads! It’s released today and buddy? It’s cheap as chips:

oddmentsoh.itch.io/threads

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?

oddmentsoh.itch.io

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Mar 5

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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Sam Leigh @goblinmixtape.bsky.social · Feb 22

I'm so late on this but I finally read THIS MACHINE HAS MEAT IN IT by @bastardcrew.net and god it's so fun. Highly highly recommend.

bastardcrew.itch.io/this-machine...

THIS MACHINE HAS MEAT IN IT by Bastard Crew

A game about killing the eldritch nightmare that is your job.

bastardcrew.itch.io

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Feb 22

Ahhhhh, I love this, thanks so much for reading it and I’m extremely glad you liked it.

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Jan 2

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

Threads by Oddments

What happens to our worlds when we leave them behind?

oddmentsoh.itch.io

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Dec 5

A snippet of this year’s Spotify wrapped.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Dec 5

Some powerful genre combinations in the Wrapped this year

Goblin core Soft Piano Instrumental in April

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 24

I can’t help but picture this when I hear someone mention them together.

Donald Trump standing next to Malenia, Blade of Miquella.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 24

It was my first WoD intro — it’ll always hold a special place in my heart.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 24

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)

🎃Gore By Night🎃 @lorebynightvtm.bsky.social · Nov 24

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

Rampant Wombat, a Monument to All Your Sins of Empathy @rampantwombat.bsky.social · Nov 24

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

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 24

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?

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 23

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.

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 23

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.

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 23

Starting a rivalry with the mayor of the town one county over with the giant Pit.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 23

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 23

Scarfolk Council’s “Christmas boy”. A maudlin white faced child playing a flute.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 23

The J stands for Jun.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 22

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 :(

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 21

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.

The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 21

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.

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The Fisherman’s Fiend @bastardcrew.net · Nov 20

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

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