Ossi Hiekkala
@ossihiekkala.bsky.social
Illustrator, Staff Artist at Chaosium Inc. Only art, RPG's, Boardgames, and other positive stuff. No AI.
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Ossi Hiekkala
@ossihiekkala.bsky.social
· May 11
Staff Artist at Chaosium Inc.
My job is to bring worlds to life. I like to illustrate subtle stories of the mundane, not just the stories of the heroes. And the heroes are not perfect either. My view is not focused in the middle of the scene. It’s a little bit off*.
I am where I want to be.
My job is to bring worlds to life. I like to illustrate subtle stories of the mundane, not just the stories of the heroes. And the heroes are not perfect either. My view is not focused in the middle of the scene. It’s a little bit off*.
I am where I want to be.
BRP is a great system!
Basic Roleplaying: Creatures Review
I expected Chaosium to forget about Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine after releasing it under the ORC-license, leaving its future entirely in the community’s hands. Fortunately, I was wrong. W...
vorpalmace.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
BRP is a great system!
RuneQuest. The best fantasy game.
Call of Cthulhu. You can run this in every setting.
Pendragon. Maybe the best game ever?
Age of Vikings. Great magic, great feeling of the historical setting.
Yes, I’m a Chaosium fanboy and love BRP, but these games are absolutely great. Try them.
Call of Cthulhu. You can run this in every setting.
Pendragon. Maybe the best game ever?
Age of Vikings. Great magic, great feeling of the historical setting.
Yes, I’m a Chaosium fanboy and love BRP, but these games are absolutely great. Try them.
If you wanted to run say, four different games that weren't Dungeons & Dragons in hopes of showing people the breadth of the TTRPG hobby, what games would you run for them? Assume that they are sort of familiar with 5E.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
RuneQuest. The best fantasy game.
Call of Cthulhu. You can run this in every setting.
Pendragon. Maybe the best game ever?
Age of Vikings. Great magic, great feeling of the historical setting.
Yes, I’m a Chaosium fanboy and love BRP, but these games are absolutely great. Try them.
Call of Cthulhu. You can run this in every setting.
Pendragon. Maybe the best game ever?
Age of Vikings. Great magic, great feeling of the historical setting.
Yes, I’m a Chaosium fanboy and love BRP, but these games are absolutely great. Try them.
I am often puzzled why RuneQuest is considered too intimidating game to learn when people are ok with D&D.
In the RPG community, statements that shouldn't be controversial in any way -- like "you should read the rulebook before playing the game" -- are instead seen as radical and unreasonable because D&D's core rules are 900+ pages.
It's like everyone's first board game was Advanced Squad Leader.
It's like everyone's first board game was Advanced Squad Leader.
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I am often puzzled why RuneQuest is considered too intimidating game to learn when people are ok with D&D.
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If you'd like to see a bunch of my old @chaosium.bsky.social work, I've got it up here (for free) on the patreon - absolutely some of my fave work from that period! Nothing I love like bronze age fantasy of any and all types
And these are fabulous too! www.patreon.com/posts/gloran...
Glorantha | Simon Roy
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December 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you'd like to see a bunch of my old @chaosium.bsky.social work, I've got it up here (for free) on the patreon - absolutely some of my fave work from that period! Nothing I love like bronze age fantasy of any and all types
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Our forthcoming Lands of #RuneQuest: Sartar book has a section on Creating Duck Adventurers, with art by Ossi Hiekkala @ossihiekkala.bsky.social. There's also more Duck art coming by Mark Smiley. Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks.
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Our forthcoming Lands of #RuneQuest: Sartar book has a section on Creating Duck Adventurers, with art by Ossi Hiekkala @ossihiekkala.bsky.social. There's also more Duck art coming by Mark Smiley. Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks.
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Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as #TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in @chaosium.bsky.social's first edition of #RuneQuest (1978).
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as #TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in @chaosium.bsky.social's first edition of #RuneQuest (1978).
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hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
hearing reports out of Japan that Tatsuya Nakadai has passed away at 92. RIP to a legit legend.
This is brilliant!
Behold! The massive RPG Moral Panic video I've been researching and assembling for years, and why people who call the whole affair the Satanic Panic are wrong.
I'm so damned happy to finally have this beast out of my system.
youtu.be/OpjV-melB-c
I'm so damned happy to finally have this beast out of my system.
youtu.be/OpjV-melB-c
The 3 Waves of the RPG Moral Panic - RPG History
YouTube video by Seth Skorkowsky
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is brilliant!
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November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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In this week’s newsletter, we delve into legendary territory.
The year was 1977…with STORMBRINGER, I completed work on the Elric Saga and received my first World Fantasy Award nomination.
theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/1977-year-...
The year was 1977…with STORMBRINGER, I completed work on the Elric Saga and received my first World Fantasy Award nomination.
theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/1977-year-...
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In this week’s newsletter, we delve into legendary territory.
The year was 1977…with STORMBRINGER, I completed work on the Elric Saga and received my first World Fantasy Award nomination.
theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/1977-year-...
The year was 1977…with STORMBRINGER, I completed work on the Elric Saga and received my first World Fantasy Award nomination.
theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/1977-year-...
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Yesterday the RPG Realms zone of tabletop.me in Dubai 🇦🇪 was packed with players, all day. And it was exciting to see so many newcomers trying #TTRPGs for the first time!
Plenty of games to choose: we're running #CallOfCthulhu demos, and there's also more CoC & #Pendragon happening too. Plus D&D etc
Plenty of games to choose: we're running #CallOfCthulhu demos, and there's also more CoC & #Pendragon happening too. Plus D&D etc
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Yesterday the RPG Realms zone of tabletop.me in Dubai 🇦🇪 was packed with players, all day. And it was exciting to see so many newcomers trying #TTRPGs for the first time!
Plenty of games to choose: we're running #CallOfCthulhu demos, and there's also more CoC & #Pendragon happening too. Plus D&D etc
Plenty of games to choose: we're running #CallOfCthulhu demos, and there's also more CoC & #Pendragon happening too. Plus D&D etc
One more but without X before it:
It is more important to be reliable than to be great. The reliable ones are the ones the clients come back to.
It is more important to be reliable than to be great. The reliable ones are the ones the clients come back to.
Artist propaganda I’m not falling for (and you shouldn’t either):
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
One more but without X before it:
It is more important to be reliable than to be great. The reliable ones are the ones the clients come back to.
It is more important to be reliable than to be great. The reliable ones are the ones the clients come back to.
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Carol Tierney says let's talk about hólmgang, a very Viking way of settling scores. This is one the most evocative elements you can drop into an Age of Vikings game.
#ageofvikings #rpg #ttrpg
#ageofvikings #rpg #ttrpg
Age of Vikings: Hólmgang!
Let’s talk about hólmgang, a very Viking way of settling scores. This is one the most evocative elements you can drop into an Age of Vikings game.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Carol Tierney says let's talk about hólmgang, a very Viking way of settling scores. This is one the most evocative elements you can drop into an Age of Vikings game.
#ageofvikings #rpg #ttrpg
#ageofvikings #rpg #ttrpg
Have you ever asked yourself, where do the fantacy characters get their clothes? Everybody is dressed like Caultier or whoever designed their custom clothes. You'd think there were more haute couture tailors and dressmakers than food vendors everywhere.
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Have you ever asked yourself, where do the fantacy characters get their clothes? Everybody is dressed like Caultier or whoever designed their custom clothes. You'd think there were more haute couture tailors and dressmakers than food vendors everywhere.
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Test print of this year's Dragonmeet booklet. Cover by @marksmylie.bsky.social, interior art by @katrindirim.bsky.social and Agathe Pitié.
#Glorantha
#Glorantha
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Test print of this year's Dragonmeet booklet. Cover by @marksmylie.bsky.social, interior art by @katrindirim.bsky.social and Agathe Pitié.
#Glorantha
#Glorantha
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The famous Basket Building here in Ohio. HQ of the Longaberger Basket Company until it went belly up 10 years ago.
Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.
Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The famous Basket Building here in Ohio. HQ of the Longaberger Basket Company until it went belly up 10 years ago.
Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.
Baskets were huge, especially in the 1960s & 70s. My mother had tons of them. Longaberger sold $1B of them a year at its peak. In the 00s, the bottom dropped out of the biz.
I have not remembered to comment about the Chaosium Con EU I took part in last week. Tldr: It was absolutely a blast.
Gdansk in Poland was a great place, the venue was great, and the Chaosium tribe was the greatest. I had great games, was in good panels, but really enjoyed talking with the people.
Gdansk in Poland was a great place, the venue was great, and the Chaosium tribe was the greatest. I had great games, was in good panels, but really enjoyed talking with the people.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I have not remembered to comment about the Chaosium Con EU I took part in last week. Tldr: It was absolutely a blast.
Gdansk in Poland was a great place, the venue was great, and the Chaosium tribe was the greatest. I had great games, was in good panels, but really enjoyed talking with the people.
Gdansk in Poland was a great place, the venue was great, and the Chaosium tribe was the greatest. I had great games, was in good panels, but really enjoyed talking with the people.
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Pendragon gamemasters, gather round! The Companions of Arthur First Anniversary Celebration Bundle of community content ends 7 November. Save 30% on all 8 launch titles. If you already own some of them, you still get the discount on the rest. Adventure awaits!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Companions of Arthur First Birthday Celebration [BUNDLE] - Chaosium | Companions of Arthur | DriveThruRPG
This special bundle contains the following titles:Squires RampantRegular price: $0.99Bundle price: $0.50Format: PDF "Squires Rampant" provides 20 squire personalities with which to vex ...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Pendragon gamemasters, gather round! The Companions of Arthur First Anniversary Celebration Bundle of community content ends 7 November. Save 30% on all 8 launch titles. If you already own some of them, you still get the discount on the rest. Adventure awaits!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here.
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here.
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜
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brain broken
You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
brain broken
Often whatever I do will see the light only after a year or even years, but these pieces I did only few weeks ago, so it is a pleasure to see them released when they're still hot out of an oven.
A new adventure for RuneQuest! The Hunt for the Storm Calf is a stand-alone scenario that contains everything for a riveting adventure in the far east of Dragon Pass!
(And featuring vivid cover art by @ossihiekkala.bsky.social!)
(And featuring vivid cover art by @ossihiekkala.bsky.social!)
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Often whatever I do will see the light only after a year or even years, but these pieces I did only few weeks ago, so it is a pleasure to see them released when they're still hot out of an oven.
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Here's pt 2 to my🧵on Western movie gun modifications. In pt 1, I went over the ways Colt Single Action Armys & Winchester '92s were altered to look like earlier gun models
This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications
This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Here's pt 2 to my🧵on Western movie gun modifications. In pt 1, I went over the ways Colt Single Action Armys & Winchester '92s were altered to look like earlier gun models
This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications
This🧵will touch on the rise of the gun reproduction market, Spaghetti Westerns & a sampler platter of movie gun modifications
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Storyboards for The Wild Bunch (1969) by Tyrus Wong
November 12, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Storyboards for The Wild Bunch (1969) by Tyrus Wong
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Hear the call to arms at Essen!
Pendragon: The Sauvage King is available in pre-release!
Get your copy and take up your sword for Arthur!
Pendragon: The Sauvage King is available in pre-release!
Get your copy and take up your sword for Arthur!
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Hear the call to arms at Essen!
Pendragon: The Sauvage King is available in pre-release!
Get your copy and take up your sword for Arthur!
Pendragon: The Sauvage King is available in pre-release!
Get your copy and take up your sword for Arthur!
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October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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