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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 8m

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The Press Betwixt @thepressbetwixt.itch.io · 4h

💜 AND WE’RE LIIIIIIIVE 💜

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#AmbitionTTRPG #TTRPG #TTRPGs #TTRPGSky #Crowdfunding

Ambition by The Press Betwixt - Gamefound

Ambition is a tales & tactics TTRPG for 2-4 Ambitious and a River by Yanni Panagiotopoulos. Reach for Heaven from underneath, Strive for whats beyond it, and Shape the continents into the image of you...

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 19h

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 23h

Still so proud of Public Access. My first layout design project longer than a zine, and it's now PWYW!

Jason Cordova @jasoncordova.bsky.social · 1d

Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG

A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system! Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 23h

coming soon!!! The Firmament, a tarot game for 1-7 players. Join your celestial brethren and stop humans from invading heaven, lest they open the door to the House of the Infinite.

An early version of The Firmament has been out for a while, but I'm finally getting ready for v1! & maybe print?

A draft cover of a game called "the Firmament." It features an enormous pearlescent hand reach from the top to the bottom of the image, a faint blue maze inscribed on the arm. A bony, insectoid thing weaves around it, from the top left to the bottom of the image. A faint grid is visible in the background. At the bottom, in a funky, slightly occult/Judeo-Christian flavored font, are the words "the Firmament," and below that, in small sans serif font, "Ben Mansky."

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah absolutely, Lil is like 5 Clues in one

Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

Or maybe we should just put more demons that love creamed corn into our games.

Until next time, happy #hauntalong!

A burning CRT television set sits on a lawn at night.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

Playing a tabletop game is making an agreement. I think the scariest thing a game can do is make players feel like they have no choice but to break that agreement. I want a game that disorients and betrays its players - that promises one thing and delivers something much worse.

A man stands in a circle of trees with no leaves, with a small round pool on the ground. He is illuminated by a spotlight and faces away, towards long red curtains that extend from the top of the image to the ground.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

I think horror TTRPGs have a problem that can be solved with a little wisdom from Twin Peaks. I've played games that told scary stories. But I don't know if a TTRPG has ever really pierced through the fiction to scare me (Ten Candles came closest, and I still need to try Something is Wrong Here).

A stoplight, lit red, hanging from a wire against a pitch-dark background.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

FWWM (and Twin Peaks: The Return, released in 2017) argue that Twin Peaks was never about the town, but rather cycles of violence, the corroded soul of modern America, and the ravenous society that consumed Laura Palmer. (Even if you don't watch the rest of The Return, watch Part 8.)

A black-and-white image of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

At the heart of it all is Laura, a girl the town claims to treasure even as she's hollowed out by her circumstances. Sheryl Lee, the actress who plays Laura, is electric. The experience is backed up by Angelo Badalamenti's haunting score.

A blonde woman, Laura Palmer, stands in a fairly affluent suburban living room, filling the right half the frame. She holds a cigarette and wears all black. In the background, her friend Donna, a woman in a coat with shoulder-length dark hair, moves toward her, gesturing.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

FWWM is unsettling and incisive, yet silly in the way dreams are silly. Laura tries to gaslight her boyfriend into thinking he murdered his best friend, and it's barely a plot point. Her mother, drugged and in denial, hallucinates a white horse materializing in her bedroom. A ceiling fan is scary.

The view of a stairwell, looking up to the ceiling from below. In the center of the image is a ceiling fan, and a man stands on the landing, turning the fan on.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

It opens on an FBI investigation introduced by a dancing woman in a bright red wig. David Bowie shows up. There's a nightmare-blunt-rotation meeting above a convenience store. An old woman at an intersection gives Laura a photo of a door she enters in her dreams. Demons exist and crave creamed corn.

A woman in a bright red dress and a bright red wig with a blue rose pinned to her lapel stands in a shadow next to a yellow airplane.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

The plot is not too hard to summarize: popular high schooler Laura Palmer realizes that the man who has been molesting her since she was 12 is her father. When he sees that she figured it out, he kills her. But this movie resists summary.

A hand reaches up, illuminated by a bright light. There is something red - nail polish, or blood - on the middle finger, and a large green ring on the ring finger. There is a red mark on the wrist, like rope burn. The shadow it casts has a conspicuous spot of light where the ring sits on the hand.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

Where Twin Peaks was punctuated with humor and melodrama, Fire Walk with Me is brutal, rotten. Where audiences expected a sequel, they got a nightmarish examination of an abused girl's last week alive. (content warning)

A young blonde woman gasps in fear and shock as an older male figure leans over her, one hand pinching her cheek and the other holding a gold half-heart on a chain around the woman's neck.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

If you're not familiar, Twin Peaks popularized the "quirky detective in a small town where everyone has a secret" trope. Its influence can be found everywhere from Silent Hill to Stranger Things. It starts with a question: who killed Laura Palmer? The answer is both simple and wildly complex.

A landscape of mountains and trees, with a road extending around a curve up ahead. The road is lined with electrical poles. A sign is off to the right of the road, painted with two mountains and the text "Welcome to Twin Peaks." At the bottom of the image is the text "Twin Peaks, Washington. One year later."

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 4d

Hi friends! For my first ever #hauntalong, I want to shine a (flickering) light on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (FWWM). Released in 1992, a year after the titular TV show's cancellation, David Lynch took a beloved setting known for its charming characters and said: "it's worse than that."

The cover of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, featuring a burning half of a heart-shaped "best friends" necklace with a photograph of Laura Palmer, a young blonde woman, smiling. In the background, red curtains line the walls of a room with a zig-zag black and white floor. Toward the bottom is the text, "In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent."

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Lone Archivist @lonearchivist.bsky.social · 7d

Hey! I'm Lone Archivist. A games and graphic designer.

Looking for help on your next project? My commissions are open for all of the following services and more!

Logo Design
Brand/Visual Identity Design
Manuscript/Editorial Layout
Sci-Fi Cartography
Crowdfunding Graphics
Interface/Terminal Design

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Mike Murderens | Clear Keep @clearkeep.bsky.social · 12d

Weeeeeee're baaaack.

#hauntalong has a group of ttrpg wrting/arting/playing friends chatting about their favorite horror movies.

This year, we've got a full month of recos, and we'll truly push Bluesky's threading feature well beyond the black rainbow.

Come haunt along with us.

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Haunted Table @hauntedtable.bsky.social · 14d

New project announcement! TRIANGLE U, with lead designer Noel Warford!

Check out a short teaser of the setting and some information in our public post below, then join in playtesting our first mission by signing up for the Patreon!

Class starts Monday.

www.patreon.com/posts/triang...

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 17d

I think it's inherently better because it's about witches

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Nick @deepdark.games · 19d

Almost finished the layout of A Perfect Rock!

Here are some sneak peeks and my thoughts on the design:

A page spread from A Perfect Rock showing a variety of illustrated rocks, in the style of an old scientific book.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 24d

it chafes me when platforms put forth these moderation guidelines that use the jargon of safety, inclusivity, and community before detailing all the kinds of art that ought be banned, shunned, persecuted. why is it that "community" always looks like absence, never curated abundance.

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 24d

I don't know. Pretty fucking cool, innit?

The cover of The Between Core Rulebook featuring a paisley blue background and a sapphire set in an occult broach with a feminine eye leering at you from it.

Screenshot of the credits to the core rulebook showcasing Jason, the primary writer, and contributing writers including Wes.

Screenshot of the Library Hargrave House room. Showcasing a description, scene setting prompts and an unlockable move.

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Ben // Foresight Studio @foresightstudio.bsky.social · 24d

for the record I'm neither autistic nor christian

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