Hendrik ten Napel is a sad Dutch cowboy
@napel.itch.io
I design tabletop games from my apartment in the Netherlands. (he/them)
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Would love to get to at least 100 followers on the project page for Card Drives. It goes live on December 2nd.
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Coming soon: Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Would love to get to at least 100 followers on the project page for Card Drives. It goes live on December 2nd.
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Damn, y'all. I know we're having fun with the OSRs but not only does Rowan give me the clearest idea yet of what those games are interested in, they also made me think, for the first time, about where they might go next:
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Damn, y'all. I know we're having fun with the OSRs but not only does Rowan give me the clearest idea yet of what those games are interested in, they also made me think, for the first time, about where they might go next:
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Good morning! Meg and I just added community copies to all of our games on Itch.
I always say "if times are tight," but we all know that times are tight.
lumpley.itch.io
I always say "if times are tight," but we all know that times are tight.
lumpley.itch.io
Meguey & Vincent Baker, et al
lumpley.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Good morning! Meg and I just added community copies to all of our games on Itch.
I always say "if times are tight," but we all know that times are tight.
lumpley.itch.io
I always say "if times are tight," but we all know that times are tight.
lumpley.itch.io
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It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Benoît Blanc!
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Benoît Blanc!
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thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
@juniper-c.bsky.social learned about the OSR while playing #over/under and has somehow managed to already learn enough about it to hold correct opinions on what OSR stands for.
@explorersdesign.bsky.social is it too early to submit posts for the Bloggies?
@juniper-c.bsky.social learned about the OSR while playing #over/under and has somehow managed to already learn enough about it to hold correct opinions on what OSR stands for.
@explorersdesign.bsky.social is it too early to submit posts for the Bloggies?
What is an OSR? - The Garden Below
a post about not knowing what the OSR is.
thegardenbelow.blot.im
November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
@juniper-c.bsky.social learned about the OSR while playing #over/under and has somehow managed to already learn enough about it to hold correct opinions on what OSR stands for.
@explorersdesign.bsky.social is it too early to submit posts for the Bloggies?
@juniper-c.bsky.social learned about the OSR while playing #over/under and has somehow managed to already learn enough about it to hold correct opinions on what OSR stands for.
@explorersdesign.bsky.social is it too early to submit posts for the Bloggies?
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Oh hey - if you're in the UK and need cheaper shipping + no customs shenanigans, guess who serendipitously just received a whole new batch of these! peregrinecoast.press/products/cit...
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Oh hey - if you're in the UK and need cheaper shipping + no customs shenanigans, guess who serendipitously just received a whole new batch of these! peregrinecoast.press/products/cit...
Imagine an ecosystem wherein each opinion has their own role to play. Blogs chirping in the trees. Further along, a publication of articles is startled by a sound in the bushes. No fear, it's just a podcast marking its territory. O, what's this? Video content just came out of hibernation!
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Imagine an ecosystem wherein each opinion has their own role to play. Blogs chirping in the trees. Further along, a publication of articles is startled by a sound in the bushes. No fear, it's just a podcast marking its territory. O, what's this? Video content just came out of hibernation!
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I'm going to do everything in my power to make this one of those weekly memes.
September 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm going to do everything in my power to make this one of those weekly memes.
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We (bloggers) have GOT to get sluttier (link more)
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We (bloggers) have GOT to get sluttier (link more)
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Between year of the beta, zungeons, and minimalist jam, i think the era of "just make stuff" is real and thriving. It's certainly helped me publish instead of constant draft refinement.
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Between year of the beta, zungeons, and minimalist jam, i think the era of "just make stuff" is real and thriving. It's certainly helped me publish instead of constant draft refinement.
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Check out the new game that @diceexploder.com and I have designed: randylubin.itch.io/three-genera...
In "Three Generations: The Rise and Fall of the Eternal Empire" you tell the story of an empire as you build a city network and tell stories of the characters who travel across its lands.
In "Three Generations: The Rise and Fall of the Eternal Empire" you tell the story of an empire as you build a city network and tell stories of the characters who travel across its lands.
Three Generations: The Rise and Fall of the Eternal Empire by Randy Lubin, sdunnewold
Build an empire and watch it crumble
randylubin.itch.io
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Check out the new game that @diceexploder.com and I have designed: randylubin.itch.io/three-genera...
In "Three Generations: The Rise and Fall of the Eternal Empire" you tell the story of an empire as you build a city network and tell stories of the characters who travel across its lands.
In "Three Generations: The Rise and Fall of the Eternal Empire" you tell the story of an empire as you build a city network and tell stories of the characters who travel across its lands.
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I think about this little guy all the damned time.
I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.
Art is fucking wonderful.
dia.org/collection/s...
I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.
Art is fucking wonderful.
dia.org/collection/s...
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I think about this little guy all the damned time.
I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.
Art is fucking wonderful.
dia.org/collection/s...
I saw him in the DIA collection almost ten years ago and he's remained a permanent fixture in my brain ever since.
Art is fucking wonderful.
dia.org/collection/s...
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This piece by @newmadras.bsky.social just made Oddfolk click for me. I bounced off it, misunderstanding what 'modular' was supposed to mean in this case. The piece is also so joyously well written it becomes infectious, much like its subject aims to be. Don't let this one pass you by.
Oddfolk is the most fun you can have with four lines
Warning: can cause game design.
www.rascal.news
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This piece by @newmadras.bsky.social just made Oddfolk click for me. I bounced off it, misunderstanding what 'modular' was supposed to mean in this case. The piece is also so joyously well written it becomes infectious, much like its subject aims to be. Don't let this one pass you by.
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
Time to eat: lumpley.games/2025/11/25/p...
Powered by the Apocalypse, part 12: A Move Nuance – lumpley games
lumpley.games
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Time to eat: lumpley.games/2025/11/25/p...
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Would love recommendations for TTRPGs, modules, hacks etc. that explore femininity, misogyny, and gender roles through the lens of horror.
Think ‘Bluebeard’s Bride’ as a great example of the kind of thing I’m after.
Also open to recs from other media (books, films, etc.)
I’m researching 🤓
Think ‘Bluebeard’s Bride’ as a great example of the kind of thing I’m after.
Also open to recs from other media (books, films, etc.)
I’m researching 🤓
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Would love recommendations for TTRPGs, modules, hacks etc. that explore femininity, misogyny, and gender roles through the lens of horror.
Think ‘Bluebeard’s Bride’ as a great example of the kind of thing I’m after.
Also open to recs from other media (books, films, etc.)
I’m researching 🤓
Think ‘Bluebeard’s Bride’ as a great example of the kind of thing I’m after.
Also open to recs from other media (books, films, etc.)
I’m researching 🤓
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Folks keep talking about how digital PDF’s are more sustainable for indies.
So here’s the deal: this project will be digital. A pdf you can print. A digital network keeper.
If you give a little more I send you a modded card you can slot in your cyberdeck.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
So here’s the deal: this project will be digital. A pdf you can print. A digital network keeper.
If you give a little more I send you a modded card you can slot in your cyberdeck.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Coming soon: Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Folks keep talking about how digital PDF’s are more sustainable for indies.
So here’s the deal: this project will be digital. A pdf you can print. A digital network keeper.
If you give a little more I send you a modded card you can slot in your cyberdeck.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
So here’s the deal: this project will be digital. A pdf you can print. A digital network keeper.
If you give a little more I send you a modded card you can slot in your cyberdeck.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
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"Wait, did you say NEW GAMES?!"
We did!
Crescent 2E is an all-ages RPG about brave kids in the Daydream. Unlikely friends and promises under starlight!
Exile is a gritty teen survival in The Below. Cross the Nightmare Lands to escape and find your way home.
Both by acclaimed designer Ema Acosta!
We did!
Crescent 2E is an all-ages RPG about brave kids in the Daydream. Unlikely friends and promises under starlight!
Exile is a gritty teen survival in The Below. Cross the Nightmare Lands to escape and find your way home.
Both by acclaimed designer Ema Acosta!
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Wait, did you say NEW GAMES?!"
We did!
Crescent 2E is an all-ages RPG about brave kids in the Daydream. Unlikely friends and promises under starlight!
Exile is a gritty teen survival in The Below. Cross the Nightmare Lands to escape and find your way home.
Both by acclaimed designer Ema Acosta!
We did!
Crescent 2E is an all-ages RPG about brave kids in the Daydream. Unlikely friends and promises under starlight!
Exile is a gritty teen survival in The Below. Cross the Nightmare Lands to escape and find your way home.
Both by acclaimed designer Ema Acosta!
Train Dreams is almost certainly exactly my shit. I've yet to fully figure out what the slow, alternative western means to a little Dutch boy like me—maybe I should watch a couple more of them.
What are y'alls favorite westerns? Are they slow? Meditative, even? Tell me.
What are y'alls favorite westerns? Are they slow? Meditative, even? Tell me.
Train Dreams director Clint Bentley and star Joel Edgerton speak with Mitchell Beaupre about their film’s balance of the mythic and the intimate, Edgerton’s draw towards stoic, sensitive characters, and the people whose impact echoes within us. boxd.it/2Po
The New World: Clint Bentley and Joel Edgerton on balancing the mythic and the intimate in Train Dreams • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Train Dreams director Clint Bentley and star Joel Edgerton speak with Mitchell Beaupre about their film’s balance of the mythic and the intimate, Edgerton’s draw towards stoic, sensitive characters, a...
boxd.it
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Train Dreams is almost certainly exactly my shit. I've yet to fully figure out what the slow, alternative western means to a little Dutch boy like me—maybe I should watch a couple more of them.
What are y'alls favorite westerns? Are they slow? Meditative, even? Tell me.
What are y'alls favorite westerns? Are they slow? Meditative, even? Tell me.
Great call to give the protagonist of Dispatch a panting chihuahua so fat it gets mistaken for a corgi
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Great call to give the protagonist of Dispatch a panting chihuahua so fat it gets mistaken for a corgi
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Painting by Joëlle Wehkamp ‘Flower Landscape , Pink’
Acrylic on wood. Size 70 x 100 cm.
www.joellewehkamp.com/original-art...
Acrylic on wood. Size 70 x 100 cm.
www.joellewehkamp.com/original-art...
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Painting by Joëlle Wehkamp ‘Flower Landscape , Pink’
Acrylic on wood. Size 70 x 100 cm.
www.joellewehkamp.com/original-art...
Acrylic on wood. Size 70 x 100 cm.
www.joellewehkamp.com/original-art...
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In CARD DRIVES you use a deck of cards as your cyberdeck and character sheet, pumped full of custom programs, adware, ICE, and more.
Live and die on the 'Net and pass on your deck to a new hacker and start the whole thing over.
Coming soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Live and die on the 'Net and pass on your deck to a new hacker and start the whole thing over.
Coming soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Coming soon: Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In CARD DRIVES you use a deck of cards as your cyberdeck and character sheet, pumped full of custom programs, adware, ICE, and more.
Live and die on the 'Net and pass on your deck to a new hacker and start the whole thing over.
Coming soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Live and die on the 'Net and pass on your deck to a new hacker and start the whole thing over.
Coming soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
If you're going to sit around feeling sad, might as well do it in a lighthouse
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If you're going to sit around feeling sad, might as well do it in a lighthouse
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Look, I wouldn't get into D&D again, but I would do a lot to step inside of a pocketss comic strip
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Look, I wouldn't get into D&D again, but I would do a lot to step inside of a pocketss comic strip