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@ostrichmonkey.bsky.social

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31, he/him. #ttrpg designer - of the sort of spooky and sort of strange variety 🔗 ostrichmonkey.itch.io 🔗 patreon.com/OstrichmonkeyGames 📧 [email protected]

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internet hermit josh @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social · Nov 1

I'm Josh aka Ostrichmonkey Games ~

- Check out my #ttrpg work over on itch
- Contact me about writing for your game & dev editing

ostrichmonkey.itch.io

Ostrichmonkey Games

ostrichmonkey.itch.io

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, was it #portfolioday??? Hi Portfolio Day folks! I'm Merlin, I'm an illustrator, designer, and craft-maker! I love fantasy/folklore and monsters! I work with a lot of natural materials and make jewelry!
You can support/contact me over on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/necromatador

#artpost #myart

A small brooch featuring a bright fuchsia petal set into a gold-colored heart-shaped frame, like one would put a painting into were it at a larger scale.

A two panel comic. In panel one a kachina-masked individual with a skeletal prosthetic arm is saying "We have to get people under the dome-" before he's cut off. In the second panel everything has gone black and white and there's a massive bright red SNAP sound effect behind the masked person, a matching red crack having traveled up their mask.

A drawing of a stylized brown and pink manticore curled around a bush of pink garden roses. He's wearing several gold and diamond earrings in one ear, and has a tiny stylized gold crown over top of his head.

A character sheet for a bird person based on the rook bird. They are labeled "Rok Merla" and have dark blue feathers over most of their body, as well as cartoon-styled arms that are both wings and hands (the primary feathers forming the fingers). Their bald face and legs are a light grey-pink color, and they have a long, draconic or devil-like tail with a fork on the end that is the same color. Around the end of their tail is the mark of a stylized serpent or wyrm.

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 18h

(I also really love designing patches, stickers, and enamel pins!)

A bunch of designs for fictional pins done for the TTRPG Vibe Check by Josh Hittie.
1: A group of stars dripping as if from a ceiling.
2: The chamber of a revolver with one of the bullets replaced by a stylized bullet hole.
3: A horse skull in a spiral of black goo.
4: A leech slithering through a sparkling, ruby-encrusted gold crown.
5: A group of ghosts coming out of the aorta and vena cava of an anatomically accurate heart.
6: A calico cat biting a gold coin.
7: A monstrous creature with multiple eyes and sharp teeth in a mouth dripping blood, swiping with one clawed arm.
8: A celestial spinning wheel, creating thread that becomes constellations.
9: A snowflake with a woman's face in the middle.
10: A group of crows with stars for eyes, wide grinning beaks, and too many wings.

A trio of enamel pins. One larger pin is a cluster of mushrooms, while the smaller two are more stylized single mushrooms.

Two rainbow metal enamel pins of magpies with eyes in their neck.

An antiqued copper enamel pin stylized like a black figure amphora from ancient Greece. Around it are three stickers of stylized animals, also made to look like black figure creatures.

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 18h

If you want to see what those illustrated pin designs in that first image are for, btw, you should check out my friend @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social's game: Vibe Check. Inspired by The World Ends With You, I got to design some of the wearable power-ups aka Tokens: ostrichmonkey.itch.io/vibe-check

Vibe Check - Enter the Inversion by Ostrichmonkey Games

Survive the Watcher's Game in this illuminated by LUMEN tabletop role-playing game

ostrichmonkey.itch.io

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internet hermit josh @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social · 18h

Someday, I think it would be so cool to have physical versions of the pins you designed!

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Travis D. Hill ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of really big crowdfunding campaigns and preorders launching today. Here's to tossing in my little project!

You can find RITE: A Midwinter Sacrament #TTRPG #zine below. You can grab it for $7 and receive it before the bleak midwinter.

7 day campaign. Thanks for sharing.

Coming soon: RITE: A Midwinter Sacrament RPG Zine

An RPG Zine for up to four players participating in four sacraments during the bleak midwinter.

www.kickstarter.com

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satah @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 1d

been thinking a lot abt cool ttrpg coverage i can do & facilitate & i think i'm just gonna.... try one.......?

please write ~250-500 words about A SPECIFIC DEATH MECHANIC IN A TTRPG for me to compile into a little webzine! you have until november 13th! that's in a month!

unnamed ttrpg zine project volume one - DEATH MECHANICS

tell me about death mechanics for volume one of an as-of-yet-unnamed ttrpg zine project i'm looking for: 250-500 words (feel free to go under but please don't go over) about a single mechanic or syst...

docs.google.com

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internet hermit josh @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

ohhhh, happy anniversary!

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 1d

More Tron ‘82 explorations. Did these as warmups before starting the work day, but I’m starting to think it’ll turn into a mini side project

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 20d

To celebrate my first novel‘s birthday, I’m holding a 75% off sale on my Detente for the Ravenous work! I’m really proud of the book (and the accompanying RPG), and I’d love if folks checked it out.

Detente for the Ravenous 1st Anniversary Sale by Aaronsxl

A bundle by Aaronsxl, $6.99 for Detente for the Ravenous: The Roleplaying Game, Detente for the Ravenous, Operation Red Calcite: A Mission for Detente for the Ravenous

itch.io

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internet hermit josh @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Birthday!! 🎉🎉

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 3d

Feeling less sick today and was tired of being stuck in bed. So with all the Tron talk, I did a couple quick and dirty sketches to see if I could come close to hitting the look of the original. Might try to do more with it?

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yuko @aidosaur.bsky.social · 4d

Wahhh the BARBAROUS ch6 kickstarter broke through the last set of stretch goals which means we get to announce more!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...

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Montro @montro.bsky.social · 5d

A TTRPG specialty bookstore "CCFOLIA BOOKS" opened in Tokyo.
You can find many kinds of Japanese TTRPGs there. You should go there when you come to Japan.

books.ccfolia.com

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Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social · 5d

Find me at Game Hole Con next week and get:
- free worksheet printings of SpeedRune with all the adventures
- free Reading the Apocalypse/ Game Genie Apocalypse flipbooks
- the last two copies of Handbaskets/In a Mirror Brightly
- whatever else I print between now and then

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 5d

My latest essay is on @olddog.games's "Deathmatch Island!" I talk about how the game designs its climax around the Prisoner's Dilemma, and how, despite the fact that the game wants you to break that cycle, that initial tension is the best part of the text.

Deathmatch Island, Squid Game, and the Tension of the Prisoner's Dilemma [TTRPG Video Essay]

YouTube video by A.A. Voigt

youtu.be

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World Champ 🔜 Gamehole @worldchamp.bsky.social · 5d

Do you wanna traverse an infinite afterlife universe & discover new planets in service of the god Death? Good news, STELLAR REMNANTS 2, the second compendium of Necronautilus expansion content, is up for download on itch now.

You can get the print book too at Worldchamp.io/store

Stellar Remnants 2 by World Champ Game Co.

More adventures and adversaries for NECRONAUTILUS

worldchampgameco.itch.io

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Aaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 5d

New video up tomorrow on Deathmatch Island! Patrons have access to it now, along with 1. the first draft of the essay which is more of a review and 2. a book report I did on Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083-- real ones from the Scholastic Book Fair know what I'm talking about.

Surviving Antarctica Book Report | Aaron Voigt

Get more from Aaron Voigt on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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🪼Jellyfishlines is Haunting You🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 5d

OooOooOo you wanna back Absurdia to 25k to get cool folks like @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social, @goblinmixtape.bsky.social, and @moreblueberries.bsky.social and I to be stretch goal writers oooOOoOoo!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/q...

Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition

An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.

www.backerkit.com

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Smagma @smagma.bsky.social · Jul 7

desire

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internet hermit josh @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social · 5d

I loooooove some goofy melodrama

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World Champ 🔜 Gamehole @worldchamp.bsky.social · 6d

Get my zines here you gameholes

SpicyTunaRPG @spicytunarpg.bsky.social · 6d

We're going to be at Gamehole Con next week!
Find us at Booth 21 with @goosepoopgames.com
We'll have everything Spicy Tuna + solo games from our friends at @worldchamp.bsky.social, @dngnclub.itch.io, and @spacepenguinink.bsky.social

Also hoping to play some Blackthorn and Cryo Drakus!

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Requinoesis✨ @requinoesis.bsky.social · 7d

This animation test was more laborious...

When his friends are going through difficult times, Roberto shares his favorite dance music to cheer them up! 📻🎶

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RA Creedon(She/her)🏳️‍⚧️ @raccomputing.bsky.social · 6d

This one's gonna be a banger. Promise

RA Creedon(She/her)🏳️‍⚧️ @raccomputing.bsky.social · 25d

Hey folks! Follow this here project of ours and get a dope discount on @ghosttropic.org 's stuff on Itch. You may know them as the creator of Hekate Cassette Archive, Radio Free Hekate, and Analog Survey #1!

Sunlit Path for Mothership RPG

From RAC Computing and Joshua Justice - Sunlit Path for Mothership RPG

www.backerkit.com

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 6d

Husk, Day 6, #Mörktober
I have been posting these pages over at my patreon!

Hop on over! You can sign up as a free follower, just to see what I'm up to. Liking the images you see is a cool way to show support for my work; perhaps consider a subscription to see more
www.patreon.com/perplexingru...

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internet hermit josh @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social · 6d

you should check out my games because i want to buy digimon time stranger

internet hermit josh @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social · 9d

I've put a curated selection of my #ttrpgs on sale for the autumnal season! Check out a mix of mysterious, frightful, and/or slightly chilling games!
itch.io/s/161344/omi...

An image with text that reads "Oct 6- Nov 6. Ominous Autumnal Sale. ostrichmonkey.itch.io". The background behind the text is a half-tone image of a bunch of itch.io game thumbnails with a grotesque face overlaid on top.

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