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Ty
@mindstorm.bsky.social
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I'm just a silly little guy (he/him). Creator of TTRPGs and a follower of all the coolest blogs. Ennie award winner and definitely a person. Was @eldritchmouse on twitter.

https://www.mindstormpress.com/
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Ty @mindstorm.bsky.social · Aug 26
📰 NEW MINDSTORM POST! 📰 I've thought a lot about what makes good worldbuilding, and the most consistent throughline seems to come down to one thing: being an absolute sicko about it. Here's a post about it, including some interviews from other designers.

www.mindstormpress.com/sicko-worldb...
Sicko Worldbuilding
Question: What does it take to make compelling worlds? Answer: Going sicko mode.
www.mindstormpress.com
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elmc.at
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready

Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map

What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?

elmc.at/mapping-the-...

To check out the graph directly follow this link:

graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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binarystar.games
VOID_SHIFT PHYSICAL IS OUT and BLACK FRIDAY(ish) SALE IS ON

shop.binarystar.games

Read on for more detail!
Void shift box at an angle. You can see the cover, the side, and the bottom with dice visible. Binary Star Games shop showing discounts of 20% for 3 products
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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knightattheopera.bsky.social
@directsun.bsky.social Invited me onto his podcast talking about Puzzle Dungeons and it was real fun. Give it a listen.

Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...
The Tomb of Eight Gates: Puzzle Dungeon Workshop
YouTube video by Direct Sun
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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diyanddragons.bsky.social
Although it was written 15 years ago, I think China Mieville's "Embassytown" can be read as depicting AI psychosis.

Aliens with two voices that always speak in harmony and always speak the truth can only understand pairs of human ambassadors who do the same.

💙📚🪐 1/
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
So which one of yous is the vampire and which ones the vampire hunter?
A colored and stylized digital illustration of two figures - Norn and Ty - in the costume of vampire and vampire hunter with bats, rats, and mist surrounding them. A colored and stylized digital illustration of Norn as a vampire strutting out of a mist, with bisexual bats surrounding them. A colored and stylized digital illustration of Ty as a vampire hunter wearing a coffin shaped backpack capturing footage on a handheld camera, with bisexual rats and leaves scuttering by.
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
mindstorm.bsky.social
when you're doing princess play with a trad system while running an OSR module remember that rules elide for as long as the system matters and only when your players are in a fiction first actor stance
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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riseupcomus.bsky.social
The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures.

Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!

www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
A book with a black cover, showing a clocktower being struck by lightning, an eye set above in the clouds. The His Majesty the Worm logo, and the title The Castle Automatic. Preorder now for an exclusive a3 map.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
Got to finish a super cute pink witch tattoo yesterday! Lines are healed, shading and color fresh.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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mindstorm.bsky.social
I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out:

www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs
A framework for building powder keg scenarios.
www.mindstormpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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emkultra64.com
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
mindstorm.bsky.social
I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out:

www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs
A framework for building powder keg scenarios.
www.mindstormpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
for someone who's skeptical of any film that comes out in 2025 i really, *really* loved Guillermo Del Toro's take on Frankenstein. Incredibly well crafted and well-performed. So I made some Creature flash 🍁🦋🔥
A digitally-rendered sheet of tattoo designs featuring two portraits of Frankenstein's creation and two designs of the hands of the creature and Elizabeth.
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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bakenshake.bsky.social
If you're having #over/under fomo, want a recap, or left mid-game, you can read about what happened on my public timeline here: app.mural.co/t/oneshots51...
O/U Timeline
app.mural.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
mindstorm.bsky.social
I still regularly use my faction generator to spark ideas and think you might get some use out of it too. Check it out!

perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
smoke, fuel, & fire faction generator
perchance.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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riseupcomus.bsky.social
Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.

Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Stepladder Tables
I am not certain that I am the first to have this idea. In fact, I most certainly am not; there's nothing new under the sun (especially in R...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
protagonist (chapter one) versus protagonist (chapter two) #webcomic #marakethschosen
a purple digital illustration of a young fantasy-style tiefling sword fighter. a green digital illustration of a scarred-looking significantly more bad ass fantasy-style tiefling sword fighter.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
Seven new pieces of flash and some placement ideas
A digitally rendered flash sheet in a neo traditional style featuring birds, some ornamental florals, and two hands holding a chalice. An edited image of a marble figure kneeling, with two designs from the previous flash sheet superimposed on her leg.
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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prismaticwasteland.com
NEW BLOG BANDWAGON
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas
Blogwagon Announcement: Merry Hexmas — Prismatic Wasteland
A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has all the information you n...
www.prismaticwasteland.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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worldchamp.bsky.social
Fuck it up, drink blood, Blood Borg is free to download today only, happy Halloween.

worldchampgameco.itch.io/bloodborg
Blood Borg by World Champ Game Co.
Scumbag punk vampire ttrpg
worldchampgameco.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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newmadras.bsky.social
Talking to @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social is always a delight. Their work is inspirational and also so much damn fun. Burned Over is worth getting excited about.
rascal.news Rascal News @rascal.news · Oct 23
"The time for a softer, gentler Apocalypse World was gone."

Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.
Apocalypse World: Burned Over is kinder and much angrier
The end of the world isn’t what it used to be. It might be better.
www.rascal.news
October 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
next update is Tuesday 11/4 (newsletter 'scribers get it early on 10/28)
a panel from the webcomic Maraketh's Chosen featuring Eris casting a spell and saying "we are so back" (she does not actually say this in the comic).
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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binarystar.games
Now that AWS isn't being stupid:

Devlog 1, in which the Developer begins to understand the extent of the work ahead of him.

binarystar.games/posts/origin...
Devlog Has Come to This Town
Content warning: This is a game about a plague. There’s basically no way I can’t talk about the current, ongoing one. I try not to look directly at it, here. Every year I try to do a little something ...
binarystar.games
October 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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johnerrwin.bsky.social
Hey folks, my laptop needs fan replacements, but I am currently having financial struggles. Need my device for some freelance work, so any help to get them repaired is appreciated.

itch.io/s/162117/hel...
Help John Erwin repair his laptop by John Erwin
A bundle by John Erwin, $11.00 for May Project Na Naman Si Kapitan?, Life of the Poultry, 24XX: A Goon's Guide to the Galaxy
itch.io
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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cavegirl.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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nornnoszka.bsky.social
I haven't been posting much on here because I've been busy with work! Here's some tattoos I've done in the past month
A photo of a fresh tattoo on the back of my clients upper arm. The tattoo is a bright red devil head with her forked tongue sticking out. A photo of a fresh tattoo on my client's upper leg. The tattoo is a large black and gray rendition of the Shards of Narsil from Lord of The Rings. A photo of a fresh tattoo on my client's ankle. The tattoo is a brightly colored rendition of the One Ring from Lord of the Rings engulfed in flames. A photo of a fresh tattoo on my client's calf, depicting a stylized vampire face with a collar reminiscent of a Venus fly trap plant.
October 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM