raven haunts / Arty (he/him)
@ghost-spark.itch.io
Ghostwriter of Ghost Spark.
Known to some as Arty.
Currently writing WARDEN.
@GhostSpark_off and @ravenhaunts on Twitter.
https://ghost-spark.itch.io/
Known to some as Arty.
Currently writing WARDEN.
@GhostSpark_off and @ravenhaunts on Twitter.
https://ghost-spark.itch.io/
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WARDEN - The d20 RPG for All Settings
WARDEN is a genre-agnostic and cinematic d20 RPG, designed for tight, tactical and fluid gameplay.
www.backerkit.com
I'm doing a Backerkit campaign now!
It's a pretty cool d20 game, not probably what you expect!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g...
It's a pretty cool d20 game, not probably what you expect!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/g...
No! Not again!
Beset by another game idea. These just never end, do they??
Anyway this time it's a migration and fantasy evolution -based solo (?) game, where the Vo' people migrate from The Heartland to form the different fantasy peoples in the setting, and gain traits depending on player choices
Beset by another game idea. These just never end, do they??
Anyway this time it's a migration and fantasy evolution -based solo (?) game, where the Vo' people migrate from The Heartland to form the different fantasy peoples in the setting, and gain traits depending on player choices
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
No! Not again!
Beset by another game idea. These just never end, do they??
Anyway this time it's a migration and fantasy evolution -based solo (?) game, where the Vo' people migrate from The Heartland to form the different fantasy peoples in the setting, and gain traits depending on player choices
Beset by another game idea. These just never end, do they??
Anyway this time it's a migration and fantasy evolution -based solo (?) game, where the Vo' people migrate from The Heartland to form the different fantasy peoples in the setting, and gain traits depending on player choices
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Oh no not the
BOOMER SHOOTER IMMERSIVE SIM DUNGEON CRAWLER WITH PC-98-STYLE SPRITE ART
Game idea wrought in pure gold attacking my head. One of these days one gets made, but I have a lot of stuff on my plate already, uggghhhh.
Anything that gets me to work on my art, I guess!
BOOMER SHOOTER IMMERSIVE SIM DUNGEON CRAWLER WITH PC-98-STYLE SPRITE ART
Game idea wrought in pure gold attacking my head. One of these days one gets made, but I have a lot of stuff on my plate already, uggghhhh.
Anything that gets me to work on my art, I guess!
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Oh no not the
BOOMER SHOOTER IMMERSIVE SIM DUNGEON CRAWLER WITH PC-98-STYLE SPRITE ART
Game idea wrought in pure gold attacking my head. One of these days one gets made, but I have a lot of stuff on my plate already, uggghhhh.
Anything that gets me to work on my art, I guess!
BOOMER SHOOTER IMMERSIVE SIM DUNGEON CRAWLER WITH PC-98-STYLE SPRITE ART
Game idea wrought in pure gold attacking my head. One of these days one gets made, but I have a lot of stuff on my plate already, uggghhhh.
Anything that gets me to work on my art, I guess!
Drawing hands is fuckass. Gonna need seventeen years of more practice to make them not look like mittens with hotdogs glued to them.
December 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Drawing hands is fuckass. Gonna need seventeen years of more practice to make them not look like mittens with hotdogs glued to them.
Is English the 5e of languages?
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Is English the 5e of languages?
Sometimes it's just having the right project to push you forward.
I'm starting a side project called CITY OF DOOM, which is a sort of OSR X PBTA sort of dungeoning game, and it has kind of lit a fire in me. I just want to draw the art for the game myself and make dungeon synth for the game.
I'm starting a side project called CITY OF DOOM, which is a sort of OSR X PBTA sort of dungeoning game, and it has kind of lit a fire in me. I just want to draw the art for the game myself and make dungeon synth for the game.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sometimes it's just having the right project to push you forward.
I'm starting a side project called CITY OF DOOM, which is a sort of OSR X PBTA sort of dungeoning game, and it has kind of lit a fire in me. I just want to draw the art for the game myself and make dungeon synth for the game.
I'm starting a side project called CITY OF DOOM, which is a sort of OSR X PBTA sort of dungeoning game, and it has kind of lit a fire in me. I just want to draw the art for the game myself and make dungeon synth for the game.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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this is all fun and games but you gotta go outside and breathe the fucking air to live, this shit ain't real, this is the fucking illusory realm, this is the realm of spectacle and unsuppressed urges man, this is 100% performance, none of this means jack shit, peel your fucking eyes away
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
this is all fun and games but you gotta go outside and breathe the fucking air to live, this shit ain't real, this is the fucking illusory realm, this is the realm of spectacle and unsuppressed urges man, this is 100% performance, none of this means jack shit, peel your fucking eyes away
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she got bottom surgery! i'm happy for her
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November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
she got bottom surgery! i'm happy for her
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
I don't often say this, BUT.
Fractures is probably the best game I've ever made. It's 2 pages, barely has rules, and still somehow allows for the most cinematic gameplay I've ever managed.
It's like a culmination of all my narrative games.
Also it's free.
ghost-spark.itch.io/fractures
Fractures is probably the best game I've ever made. It's 2 pages, barely has rules, and still somehow allows for the most cinematic gameplay I've ever managed.
It's like a culmination of all my narrative games.
Also it's free.
ghost-spark.itch.io/fractures
Fractures by Ghost Spark
One-Leaflet Scene Creation Game
ghost-spark.itch.io
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I don't often say this, BUT.
Fractures is probably the best game I've ever made. It's 2 pages, barely has rules, and still somehow allows for the most cinematic gameplay I've ever managed.
It's like a culmination of all my narrative games.
Also it's free.
ghost-spark.itch.io/fractures
Fractures is probably the best game I've ever made. It's 2 pages, barely has rules, and still somehow allows for the most cinematic gameplay I've ever managed.
It's like a culmination of all my narrative games.
Also it's free.
ghost-spark.itch.io/fractures
> Watched Counter Monkey Videos from Spoony in very early 2010s
> He recommends Pathfinder 1e as the first RPG to play
> Get the game, GM a campaign, learn to hate the game
> I start making RPGs
> 10 years on, here we fuckin are
> He recommends Pathfinder 1e as the first RPG to play
> Get the game, GM a campaign, learn to hate the game
> I start making RPGs
> 10 years on, here we fuckin are
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
> Watched Counter Monkey Videos from Spoony in very early 2010s
> He recommends Pathfinder 1e as the first RPG to play
> Get the game, GM a campaign, learn to hate the game
> I start making RPGs
> 10 years on, here we fuckin are
> He recommends Pathfinder 1e as the first RPG to play
> Get the game, GM a campaign, learn to hate the game
> I start making RPGs
> 10 years on, here we fuckin are
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I haven't read this yet but I see my name and therefore must repost it.
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-definition blogpost about the definition(s) of objectivity! After a small discourse roundabout, I came to some conclusions about how I understand tabletop games and established a new taxonomy for them!
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-o...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-o...
On Objectivity in Game Design
Earlier tonight (11/22/25) there was a discussion in valor stealer Farmer Gadda 's discord about this post from the Dododecahedron ,...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I haven't read this yet but I see my name and therefore must repost it.
Okay silly TTRPG idea: A game about violent corporate espionage and organized crime.
To play the game you gotta but multiple Employee Handbooks and sell them to prospective players, who can, after playing, run their own games and sell Employee Handbooks themselves.
The name? The Pyramid Scheme RPG
To play the game you gotta but multiple Employee Handbooks and sell them to prospective players, who can, after playing, run their own games and sell Employee Handbooks themselves.
The name? The Pyramid Scheme RPG
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Okay silly TTRPG idea: A game about violent corporate espionage and organized crime.
To play the game you gotta but multiple Employee Handbooks and sell them to prospective players, who can, after playing, run their own games and sell Employee Handbooks themselves.
The name? The Pyramid Scheme RPG
To play the game you gotta but multiple Employee Handbooks and sell them to prospective players, who can, after playing, run their own games and sell Employee Handbooks themselves.
The name? The Pyramid Scheme RPG
I'm trying to figure out a somewhat modern TTRPG scenario where you depose a dictator.
The problem is that in most cases they just end up being replaced by another dictator.
But I guess that's fine if we cut out the fine print from it and add some hopeful epilogue.
The problem is that in most cases they just end up being replaced by another dictator.
But I guess that's fine if we cut out the fine print from it and add some hopeful epilogue.
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I'm trying to figure out a somewhat modern TTRPG scenario where you depose a dictator.
The problem is that in most cases they just end up being replaced by another dictator.
But I guess that's fine if we cut out the fine print from it and add some hopeful epilogue.
The problem is that in most cases they just end up being replaced by another dictator.
But I guess that's fine if we cut out the fine print from it and add some hopeful epilogue.
Here I am trying to make up a fake Latin American country for my modern fantasy thing and hoping that my names for things aren't too stupid.
Ironically the NPC names are so generic they match to wikipedia articles of Latin Americans.
Just gotta see I don't have any names that are too unfortunate.
Ironically the NPC names are so generic they match to wikipedia articles of Latin Americans.
Just gotta see I don't have any names that are too unfortunate.
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Here I am trying to make up a fake Latin American country for my modern fantasy thing and hoping that my names for things aren't too stupid.
Ironically the NPC names are so generic they match to wikipedia articles of Latin Americans.
Just gotta see I don't have any names that are too unfortunate.
Ironically the NPC names are so generic they match to wikipedia articles of Latin Americans.
Just gotta see I don't have any names that are too unfortunate.
Anyway time to read CIA / Military dossiers as writing inspiration.
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Anyway time to read CIA / Military dossiers as writing inspiration.
Huh. I might have figured out why I 1) I prefer black and white images for games and 2) why I struggle to make art.
I rank somewhere between 3 and 5 in the aphantasia scale. I can't really "see" anything in my head, but I can have fleeting images that may inhabit my mind temporarily.
I rank somewhere between 3 and 5 in the aphantasia scale. I can't really "see" anything in my head, but I can have fleeting images that may inhabit my mind temporarily.
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Huh. I might have figured out why I 1) I prefer black and white images for games and 2) why I struggle to make art.
I rank somewhere between 3 and 5 in the aphantasia scale. I can't really "see" anything in my head, but I can have fleeting images that may inhabit my mind temporarily.
I rank somewhere between 3 and 5 in the aphantasia scale. I can't really "see" anything in my head, but I can have fleeting images that may inhabit my mind temporarily.
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You know, I bet this is a place of honor.
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
You know, I bet this is a place of honor.
What's happened to just appreciating things on their own? I guess this might be unique to me, but I feel like, as a creator and game developer, weirdly stressed about actually making a proper breakthrough.
It's like I feel the chains of obligation hanging over me, ready to catch me whenever I do.
It's like I feel the chains of obligation hanging over me, ready to catch me whenever I do.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What's happened to just appreciating things on their own? I guess this might be unique to me, but I feel like, as a creator and game developer, weirdly stressed about actually making a proper breakthrough.
It's like I feel the chains of obligation hanging over me, ready to catch me whenever I do.
It's like I feel the chains of obligation hanging over me, ready to catch me whenever I do.
I know I'm known for my derivative games, but then my non-derivative game ideas are like "100% Narrative Card Game" and "100% Combat RPG".
That's not a joke, those are my two primary projects outside of derivative games (i.e Pathfinder, PbtA etc).
That's not a joke, those are my two primary projects outside of derivative games (i.e Pathfinder, PbtA etc).
November 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I know I'm known for my derivative games, but then my non-derivative game ideas are like "100% Narrative Card Game" and "100% Combat RPG".
That's not a joke, those are my two primary projects outside of derivative games (i.e Pathfinder, PbtA etc).
That's not a joke, those are my two primary projects outside of derivative games (i.e Pathfinder, PbtA etc).
Without saying your age, who your first animated crush?
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Without saying your age, who your first animated crush?
Some mornings and nights I hear the reversing beeps of large machinery and vehicles, and I think to myself:
"Should have become a road worker or mechanic instead."
That shit is some honest work, and we won't run out of it.
"Should have become a road worker or mechanic instead."
That shit is some honest work, and we won't run out of it.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Some mornings and nights I hear the reversing beeps of large machinery and vehicles, and I think to myself:
"Should have become a road worker or mechanic instead."
That shit is some honest work, and we won't run out of it.
"Should have become a road worker or mechanic instead."
That shit is some honest work, and we won't run out of it.
Hope for tomorrow: Restored.
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Hope for tomorrow: Restored.
Is it hopeful or depressing that I made what is probably the best RPG I've ever managed to create (at least I feel like that) and realized that as a product it would be better as a board game (with heavy RP elements)?
Otherwise it's just going to be one of the million free RPGs released every year.
Otherwise it's just going to be one of the million free RPGs released every year.
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Is it hopeful or depressing that I made what is probably the best RPG I've ever managed to create (at least I feel like that) and realized that as a product it would be better as a board game (with heavy RP elements)?
Otherwise it's just going to be one of the million free RPGs released every year.
Otherwise it's just going to be one of the million free RPGs released every year.