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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 23d

We launched a Liminal Horror Patreon!
1. So the free membership can function as a blog/newsletter
2. To help fund the website and library and other grants
3. To be a place to share draft content (for future Case Files)

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Liminal Horror | Patreon

creating content for the Liminal Horror ttrpg.

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 1d

An amazing resource and a direct reason I decided to start a version of this for Liminal Horror.

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 2d

Happy drop weekend! What's new? Liminal Horror modules like The Mall Remastered by @goblinarchives.itch.io
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An entity slithers through the racks of last season's jeans, consuming and transforming all it encounters - salespeople, garlic pretzels, teens in the arcade. It's 90s nostalgia + The Thing!

The cover of The Mall, a module for Liminal Horror. The entire cover is a graphic novel-style, detailed black and white ink illustration of a decrepit, blood-stained mall hallway. Bad things have happened here but now all is relatively quiet. There's slimy ooze crawling out of the roll-down gate of a closed store, twisted mannequins (including one stepping out of a shattered display window), and more ooze slinking above, along the hanging banners that would have advertised sales

An interior example from The Mall. On the lefthand page, location descriptions for 17. Food Court, 18. Stan's Pretzel Stand, 19. Joe's Burger Bar, and 20. Spiral Cinema. The illustration shows a freestanding pretzel kiosk with blood pools at the register and on the counter. A mass of meat that might be a person's torso leans against the front of the kiosk. The righthand page is a lettered map of the Basement and Lower Tunnels (yes, there are tunnels in a mall - Jen used to work at one, Jen is writing this description, and Jen affirms that real mall basements are absolutely as labyrinthine as this game suggests)

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 2d

Since it's always fun to highlight the writings of others. A list of blogs, essays, websites that are inspiring or useful.

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Liminal Horror Resource Review (a collection of blogs, essays, and resources for ttrpgs) | Liminal Horror

Get more from Liminal Horror on Patreon

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · 3d

Spontaneous Carcinometamorphosis, commonly known as Mancini's disease after the famed boxer-turned-crustacean Bruno Mancini, is a disease that will slowly turn skeleton to exoskeleton, hands to claws, lungs to gills, until a human being finds itself where all the roads of evolution lead: crab.

A textbook anatomical drawing of a human with a large crab claw for an arm. Some of the organs inside appear to be that of a crab's.

A black-and-white photo of a patient in a hospital, being held by two nurses. The man's arms are now crab claws, and his skin is turning into an exoskeleton. His eyes are now at the end of stalks.

A textbook showing three black-and-white pictures of a person's arm turning into a crab claw. The three stages read "Presymptomatic patient", with a regular man's arm, "Exoskeletalization", where the arms turns hard and segmented and the fingers start fusing, and "late stage transformation", where the arm is fully crab-like.

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jwmuk @jwmuk.bsky.social · 2d

I just released echovore, a monster for the Liminal Horror RPG, part of the itch.io/jam/liminal-...

Thanks to @groewe.bsky.social for design 🔥 @unenthuser.bsky.social for Affinity 2 templates & both they & @goblinarchives.itch.io for Liminal Horror!

Download PWYW - theraspyraven.itch.io/echovore

echovore by The Raspy Raven

A Liminal Horror Halloween Monster Jam

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 2d

The Liminal Horror Halloween Monster Jan already has two entries so far!

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Cats Have No Lord @catshavenolord.itch.io · 2d

To avoid any confusion, I can confirm that the Dracula in Hotel Dracula is a Confirmed Dracula, same one Stoker wrote about.

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 3d

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 3d

Theres a lot of new bits in this newsletter post/blog that builds on the SRD. One of my favorite things that Josh wrote for the Deluxe Edition/SRD is the Horror templates. These provide such a strong starting point by using archetypes as a means of laying the foundation for your own monsters.

Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 3d

To celebrate the jam launching we put out a newsletter that goes into HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN MONSTERS for Liminal Horror.

You can read it for free here (and you can sign up for the free membership on the patreon to subscribe to the newsletter)

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 3d

The Liminal Horror Halloween Monster Jam (October 11th 2025 at 11:02 AM to October 31st 2025 at 11:59 PM)!

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Liminal Horror Halloween Monster Jam

A game jam from 2025-10-11 to 2025-11-01 hosted by Goblin Archives, Zach Hazard Vaupen // Emo Sludge & Unenthuser. Join us for a Halloween/October Monster Jam! As a Liminal Horror team we just couldn'...

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 3d

Perfect to bring to your table!

Cats Have No Lord @catshavenolord.itch.io · 4d

You + kitschy rural Romanian hotel + snowstorm + Dracula = perfection

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#TTRPG
#OSR

Hotel Dracula by Cats Have No Lord

A Vampiric One-Shot Adventure for Liminal Horror

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Cats Have No Lord @catshavenolord.itch.io · 4d

You + kitschy rural Romanian hotel + snowstorm + Dracula = perfection

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#TTRPG
#OSR

Hotel Dracula by Cats Have No Lord

A Vampiric One-Shot Adventure for Liminal Horror

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 4d

Welcome fresh Liminal Horror modules from @goblinarchives.itch.io + @spacepenguinink.bsky.social + Seth Ian
🐝The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow - body horror bee cult!
🧸Playthings - a surreal escape challenge for a box of sentient toys
🛍️The Mall Remastered - a 90s mall with a sinister oozing twist

The cover of The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow, a hardbound book with a yellow title in 70's-inspired cinematic font (like a movie poster). The rest of the cover is an oil painting-like illustration of a pregnant woman in a yellow dress standing in a wooded clearing, turning toward the viewer. In the distance behind her, two people in apiarist outfits release bees from a wooden box-style beehive

The cover of Playthings by Seth Ian for use with Liminal Horror. The title appears in childlike crayon-rainbow font. The central image is a head made of a mashup of half a Barbie face, a skull, part of a stuffed animal, and a GI Joe's helmet. The head floats against a blue sky-like background

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 4d

We restocked some faves from @goblinarchives.itch.io + @unenthuser.bsky.social + @thetylerwelch.bsky.social, too. Welcome back:
🍄‍🟫The Bloom, malevolent fungus meets quiet lakeside town
👁️One Night at Shelterwood Inn, an ancient evil beneath the motel
🚢Ex Inferis, an earthly homage to Event Horizon

The cover of The Bloom, A module for Liminal Horror by Josh Domanski and Goblin Archives. A faux-weathered black and white background with the title in all san-serif caps. A red stripe through the middle of the cover contains the other text as well as white illustrations of mushrooms

The cover to One Night at the Shelterwood Inn, a Liminal Horror & Triangle Agency crossover Reality by Josh Domanski, Goblin Archives, Sean Ireland, and Caleb Zane Huett. The image is a lighted MOTEL sign, in red, glowing in the darkness with mountains in the background

The cover of Ex Inferis by Tyler Welch and illustrated by BoRyan Crum. A graphic novel-style realistic illustration of a shipping vessel sailing under calm, pink skies and blue clouds

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Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 4d

So this is a big swing for us for Mothership Month. Sam has designed a bespoke REAL-TIME play-by-post wargame for Mothership Month. We have room for hundreds if not thousands of players fighting in a giant faction cold war on the Dream. Read the post for details. Sign-ups on October 13.

sam “over and under” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 5d

on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...

Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen

Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 5d

Two days until the monster jam for Liminal Horror opens!

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[🎃] 𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝 @owllog.bsky.social · 6d

In October 1999, four teenaged sleuths and their Great Dane got lost in the woods while in search of a mystery. This is their story.

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[🎃] 𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝 @owllog.bsky.social · 6d

📺🎃🍂 One last watched before going to sleep:

The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

A fantastic little parody flick.

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 6d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🩸Messiah Of Evil
🪏Dead And Buried
✝️Exorcist III
🔪Alice, Sweet Alice
🪟The House With The Laughing Windows
🎅Black Christmas '74
🐺The Thing
📺Ghostwatch
⚪Phantasm
🪦Creepshow

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 7d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 7d

10 horror movies to get to know me by
🪡 May
🩸 Nosferatu '22
🩸 Nosferatu the Vampyre
🩸 Nosferatu ‘24
🌸 Midsommar
💀 Blood Quantum
🩰 Suspiria '77
🐝 Candyman
🐅 Manhunter
🌲 Antichrist

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 7d

The Liminal Grimoire boxset by @mallenhall.com is beyond amazing. There is so much here. You won’t want to miss out.

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 21d

Coming next summer!
Join @bradkerr.net, Skullboy and I at Between Two Cons, an indie RPG/OSR convention in Portland, Oregon.

Fill out this survey to influence how it takes shape:
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Between Two Cons

The Between Two Cairns podcast is hosting a convention (Between Two Cons) next year in Portland, Oregon, and we'd love your help! Please answer the following questions so we can plan accordingly.

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Brad Kerr @bradkerr.net · 12d

There's a new Between Two Cairns podcast out wherein we review the module "TURN IT OFF" by Cloud Press. Attention all you spooked out pumpkin day freaks: this is a tight, creepy, one-shot. www.patreon.com/posts/140027...

Turn it Off | Between Two Cairns

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 9d

Custom reaction tables for specific NPCs or monsters is always a sure fire way to level up your writing!

Murkdice @murkdice.bsky.social · 9d

We’re talking about tailored reaction tables this week in MurkMail! #osr #nsr #ttrpg

Tailored reaction tables

Levelling up statblocks

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Goblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 9d

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