Personable | Markus
@personable.bsky.social
Liker of things, RPGs, literature, video games, art, food, craft beer, post-punk.
Scandinavian in Germany, previously Australia.
Sometimes I make things: https://personable.itch.io/
I also sometimes blog:
https://personabler.blogspot.com/
Scandinavian in Germany, previously Australia.
Sometimes I make things: https://personable.itch.io/
I also sometimes blog:
https://personabler.blogspot.com/
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Hello! I'm Markus AKA Personable, I like thinking (and talking) about tabletop RPGs almost as much as I like playing them. Occasionally I also make them.
I also maintain the RPG blogposts feed, let me know if you want your blog included.
I also maintain the RPG blogposts feed, let me know if you want your blog included.
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Critique Navidad! Brinkwood and Spire, eat your hearts out, Chain x Link is the fantastical revolution for me. Play revolutionary leaders, jailed in a megadungaeon, fighting your way out, smuggling loot to your faction, while also running the faction above ground! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/09/c...
Critique Navidad: Chain x Link
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
idlecartulary.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Critique Navidad! Brinkwood and Spire, eat your hearts out, Chain x Link is the fantastical revolution for me. Play revolutionary leaders, jailed in a megadungaeon, fighting your way out, smuggling loot to your faction, while also running the faction above ground! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/09/c...
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It’s Critique Navidad, and today I look at AM radio station simulator, VOID 1680 AM. Don’t dream of being a DJ, become one, in this fascinating game (and community) idlecartulary.com/2025/12/08/c...
Critique Navidad: Void 1680 AM
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
idlecartulary.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It’s Critique Navidad, and today I look at AM radio station simulator, VOID 1680 AM. Don’t dream of being a DJ, become one, in this fascinating game (and community) idlecartulary.com/2025/12/08/c...
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Are you interested in going Beyond Beyond Corny Grön? Then Castle of the Veiled Queen may be for you! Explore this castle of intrigue and backstabbing this week, in the bathtub! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/08/b... #osr
Bathtub Review: Castle of the Veiled Queen
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…
idlecartulary.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Are you interested in going Beyond Beyond Corny Grön? Then Castle of the Veiled Queen may be for you! Explore this castle of intrigue and backstabbing this week, in the bathtub! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/08/b... #osr
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I wouldn't be completely lying if I said the trading card game is my favorite new addition to Songbirds~
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I wouldn't be completely lying if I said the trading card game is my favorite new addition to Songbirds~
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Songbirds is a survival horror dungeon crawler where the dead come back to life and you just constantly get brutalized. It's more disco elysium than D&D. It's got unique classes, body mods, otherworldly beings, and all you need to run the game packed into one PDF.
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Songbirds is a survival horror dungeon crawler where the dead come back to life and you just constantly get brutalized. It's more disco elysium than D&D. It's got unique classes, body mods, otherworldly beings, and all you need to run the game packed into one PDF.
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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i worked on the mechanics for this !! this is what ive been doing when im not working on wizards btw
A new edition of Toon: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game is coming to BackerKit! In this hilarious RPG, you'll become any human, creature, or inanimate object you can think of . . . or make up. Characters will fall down – but they'll never die. Sign up for project notifications today!
bit.ly/toon2ebk
bit.ly/toon2ebk
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
i worked on the mechanics for this !! this is what ive been doing when im not working on wizards btw
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On the 5th day of Critique Navidad, my true love brought to me Fear and Panic, and elegant lightweight take on Call of Cthulhu, and a potential competitor to Liminal Horror! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/05/c...
Critique Navidad: Fear and Panic
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
idlecartulary.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
On the 5th day of Critique Navidad, my true love brought to me Fear and Panic, and elegant lightweight take on Call of Cthulhu, and a potential competitor to Liminal Horror! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/05/c...
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I dropped this prelaunch page a few weeks ago without getting into many more details. And now I have some pretty spreads too. So: 🧵
NULL_SPACE is itchfunding for Zine Month (Feb 2026)! Smash that "notify me" button and I'll let you know when: binary-star-games.itch.io/null-space-p...
NULL_SPACE is itchfunding for Zine Month (Feb 2026)! Smash that "notify me" button and I'll let you know when: binary-star-games.itch.io/null-space-p...
NULL_SPACE prelaunch by Binary Star Games
Coming soon, Zine Month 2026
binary-star-games.itch.io
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I dropped this prelaunch page a few weeks ago without getting into many more details. And now I have some pretty spreads too. So: 🧵
NULL_SPACE is itchfunding for Zine Month (Feb 2026)! Smash that "notify me" button and I'll let you know when: binary-star-games.itch.io/null-space-p...
NULL_SPACE is itchfunding for Zine Month (Feb 2026)! Smash that "notify me" button and I'll let you know when: binary-star-games.itch.io/null-space-p...
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Two years! As far as personal projects go, nothing has ever felt as fulfilling as this.
I'm very grateful that people listen ❤️
A special thanks to @simonwl.bsky.social who was commissioned to draw this episode's header image as a wedding present for me!
I'm very grateful that people listen ❤️
A special thanks to @simonwl.bsky.social who was commissioned to draw this episode's header image as a wedding present for me!
🎊 New episode! 🎊
This week, we're celebrating two podcasting milestones! A happy (somewhat belated) 2-year anniversary AND 50 episodes of Indieventure! Hell yeah!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
indieventurepodcast.co.uk/podcast/epis...
This week, we're celebrating two podcasting milestones! A happy (somewhat belated) 2-year anniversary AND 50 episodes of Indieventure! Hell yeah!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
indieventurepodcast.co.uk/podcast/epis...
Episode 50: The Indieventure 50th Episode Spectacular & Also Happy Belated 2-Year Anniversary! - Indieventure
This week, we're celebrating two podcasting milestones! A happy (somewhat belated) 2-year anniversary AND 50 episodes of Indieventure! Hell yeah!
indieventurepodcast.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Two years! As far as personal projects go, nothing has ever felt as fulfilling as this.
I'm very grateful that people listen ❤️
A special thanks to @simonwl.bsky.social who was commissioned to draw this episode's header image as a wedding present for me!
I'm very grateful that people listen ❤️
A special thanks to @simonwl.bsky.social who was commissioned to draw this episode's header image as a wedding present for me!
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For any of you artists out there who are at a loss with the way things are going right now, just remember Mr. Rogers' words of wisdom.
I think, more than ever, these words from Mr. Rogers hold as true as the day he spoke them.
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For any of you artists out there who are at a loss with the way things are going right now, just remember Mr. Rogers' words of wisdom.
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From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes...uh...a bit of a weird one. I've been watching a girl play adult dating sim Huniepop and it's making me think about the patriarchy.
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/maki...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/maki...
Making Love in Huniepop
I am not exactly a connoisseur of first dates, but I feel like "Watch someone else play Huniepop " is probably among the lower echelon...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes...uh...a bit of a weird one. I've been watching a girl play adult dating sim Huniepop and it's making me think about the patriarchy.
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/maki...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/12/maki...
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Happy Critique Navidad my friends! A year ago, Clayton suggested the best gift of all was to write about a designers game, so I decided to review your games for the holiday season! I’m doing it again this year — a review (or so) every day! Submit your own if you dare!
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Happy Critique Navidad my friends! A year ago, Clayton suggested the best gift of all was to write about a designers game, so I decided to review your games for the holiday season! I’m doing it again this year — a review (or so) every day! Submit your own if you dare!
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An anti-fascist game has been maliciously and erroneously flagged by a massive corporation "to protect the children" and this action is destroying the studio.
Go by the game on GOG, people, it's $5
Go by the game on GOG, people, it's $5
So HORSES is a game about fascism, and complicity in fascism, and it is about that in a way that is DEEPLY uncomfortable. That it’s being smeared as CSA material in order to get it banned from gamefronts amid the current political backdrop is shameful.
December 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
An anti-fascist game has been maliciously and erroneously flagged by a massive corporation "to protect the children" and this action is destroying the studio.
Go by the game on GOG, people, it's $5
Go by the game on GOG, people, it's $5
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I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).
Humble's now banned it too, post-launch:
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
Horses, the Upsetting Horror Game Previously Banned on Steam, Gets Last Minute Ban From Epic Games Store Too - IGN
Last week, we reported that disturbing horror game Horses had been banned from Steam. Now, at the last possible minute before the game was set to release widely across other PC store fronts, Epic Game...
www.ign.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).
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INCOMING TRANSMISSION FROM THE DATACACHE
A new Missive is here! I review @norgad.bsky.social's Mothership module DEAD WEIGHT, drop a house rules FREEBIE for adding Datacaches (inspired by #OVER/UNDER) to your Mothership table, and More Cool #TTRPG Stuff. Check it out: meatcastle.substack.com/p/dead-weigh...
DEAD WEIGHT: Death Begets Death
MOTHERSHIP FREEBIE: Transmissions from the Datacache
meatcastle.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
INCOMING TRANSMISSION FROM THE DATACACHE
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I come to you like Paul Revere on the back of a liger. The Bloggies are coming!
Like, share, and subscribe.
www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...
Like, share, and subscribe.
www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...
The Bloggies 2026!
The blogosphere's annual celebration is coming back.
www.explorersdesign.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I come to you like Paul Revere on the back of a liger. The Bloggies are coming!
Like, share, and subscribe.
www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...
Like, share, and subscribe.
www.explorersdesign.com/the-bloggies...
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CHC Bosses do Dragonmeet, feat. I.T. Ramel Ebanks, big_dog beefstink, Engineer Seraphin, and Denk Fontaine C.I.S.O (aka @chrisair.itch.io, @lukegearing.bsky.social, me, and @meatcastlegameware.com ).
#over/under
#over/under
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
CHC Bosses do Dragonmeet, feat. I.T. Ramel Ebanks, big_dog beefstink, Engineer Seraphin, and Denk Fontaine C.I.S.O (aka @chrisair.itch.io, @lukegearing.bsky.social, me, and @meatcastlegameware.com ).
#over/under
#over/under
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I had fun at PAX Unplugged! I played over 20 hours worth of games and went out to the local taverns every night. How did I do it all? That’s proprietary, but you can instead read all about the games I played
#osr #ttrpg
#osr #ttrpg
PAXU: Cram a Month of Gaming into One Weekend — Prismatic Wasteland
I Played Seven Games at PAX Unplugged and Lived To Tell You the Tales Thereof
www.prismaticwasteland.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I just published my first Mothership module: Twinkle Twinkle little star
The module will have your crew investigating a solar research ship orbiting a dying star, can you figure out what happened, and will you complete their mission?
Available now on itch!
personable.itch.io/twinkle-twin...
The module will have your crew investigating a solar research ship orbiting a dying star, can you figure out what happened, and will you complete their mission?
Available now on itch!
personable.itch.io/twinkle-twin...
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Personable
A sunny module for Mothership
personable.itch.io
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I just published my first Mothership module: Twinkle Twinkle little star
The module will have your crew investigating a solar research ship orbiting a dying star, can you figure out what happened, and will you complete their mission?
Available now on itch!
personable.itch.io/twinkle-twin...
The module will have your crew investigating a solar research ship orbiting a dying star, can you figure out what happened, and will you complete their mission?
Available now on itch!
personable.itch.io/twinkle-twin...
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I may have been the last person in the OSR to own a copy of Knock. Subway reading while I take the Northern line to Morden!
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I may have been the last person in the OSR to own a copy of Knock. Subway reading while I take the Northern line to Morden!
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I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
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
I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
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Starting at 1pm Central Time! Get REAL with Small Business SaturDAG with commissions done TO ORDER day of!!!
FANTASY!
SCI-FI!
HORROR!
SUPERHEROES!
AND MORE!
PLUS, A ONCE IN-A-LIFETIME OPPURTUNITY TO GET YOUR "MICE GAME" CHARACTERS DONE BY A CERTIFIED HATER!
FANTASY!
SCI-FI!
HORROR!
SUPERHEROES!
AND MORE!
PLUS, A ONCE IN-A-LIFETIME OPPURTUNITY TO GET YOUR "MICE GAME" CHARACTERS DONE BY A CERTIFIED HATER!
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Starting at 1pm Central Time! Get REAL with Small Business SaturDAG with commissions done TO ORDER day of!!!
FANTASY!
SCI-FI!
HORROR!
SUPERHEROES!
AND MORE!
PLUS, A ONCE IN-A-LIFETIME OPPURTUNITY TO GET YOUR "MICE GAME" CHARACTERS DONE BY A CERTIFIED HATER!
FANTASY!
SCI-FI!
HORROR!
SUPERHEROES!
AND MORE!
PLUS, A ONCE IN-A-LIFETIME OPPURTUNITY TO GET YOUR "MICE GAME" CHARACTERS DONE BY A CERTIFIED HATER!
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songbirds is a gorey, weird, sexy dungeon crawler where you guide spirits to the afterlife with violence <3
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
Songbirds - The Complete PDF by snow
An eldritch fantasy game.
snowttrpg.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
songbirds is a gorey, weird, sexy dungeon crawler where you guide spirits to the afterlife with violence <3
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e
snowttrpg.itch.io/songbirds-3e