Ben M | Periapt Games
@periaptgames.bsky.social
🦆 New Zealand indie thing-maker, he/him
🦆 TTRPG, RPG, D&D, art
🦆 I make #devlog posts!
🦆 I blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizards from wiki articles! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Psychic detective puzzle duo game! bit.ly/SMAL
🦆 Games, books, resources! bit.ly/periaptg
🦆 TTRPG, RPG, D&D, art
🦆 I make #devlog posts!
🦆 I blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizards from wiki articles! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Psychic detective puzzle duo game! bit.ly/SMAL
🦆 Games, books, resources! bit.ly/periaptg
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Coming soon: Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
www.kickstarter.com
My latest #TTRPG is Overzealous! It's a solo game where you're a (nice, sensible) elder god who has to rely on a bunch of (distractable, bloodthirsty) zealots to get summoned into reality. Cartoon mayhem ensues!
People can follow along on the preview page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
People can follow along on the preview page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
Making myself eat an extra vegetable to stave off the Bad Syndrome one more day
November 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Making myself eat an extra vegetable to stave off the Bad Syndrome one more day
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fo- five. five shrews tall.
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
fo- five. five shrews tall.
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Shout out to all the people filling up the Little Free Libraries. I've never seen one that's completely full or completely empty, and that seems like a good thing
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Shout out to all the people filling up the Little Free Libraries. I've never seen one that's completely full or completely empty, and that seems like a good thing
QUAIL BEFORE ME
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
QUAIL BEFORE ME
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*stepping into the mead house and it's packed, there's one guy up at the front playing The Riddling Game and you realize all of the villeins are Riddling Teams* ah shit okay let's, uh, hmmm. do you want to go to the bear-baiting
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
*stepping into the mead house and it's packed, there's one guy up at the front playing The Riddling Game and you realize all of the villeins are Riddling Teams* ah shit okay let's, uh, hmmm. do you want to go to the bear-baiting
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Sixty pages of type specimens + the AD&D Player's Handbook + A Book Of Edwardian Etiquette
=>
"The Font Of Elemental Airs And Graces. In this gritty simulation fantasy adventure you'll contend to become the most decorous to ever delve the Office Of Imperial Design. Conduct yourself accordingly."
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"The Font Of Elemental Airs And Graces. In this gritty simulation fantasy adventure you'll contend to become the most decorous to ever delve the Office Of Imperial Design. Conduct yourself accordingly."
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Sixty pages of type specimens + the AD&D Player's Handbook + A Book Of Edwardian Etiquette
=>
"The Font Of Elemental Airs And Graces. In this gritty simulation fantasy adventure you'll contend to become the most decorous to ever delve the Office Of Imperial Design. Conduct yourself accordingly."
=>
"The Font Of Elemental Airs And Graces. In this gritty simulation fantasy adventure you'll contend to become the most decorous to ever delve the Office Of Imperial Design. Conduct yourself accordingly."
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This is my Kickstarter project preview page. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
Coming soon: Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
www.kickstarter.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is my Kickstarter project preview page. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
Only a couple of days left in the TTRPG tools game jam!
I'm excited to see what comes out of it.
itch.io/jam/ttrpg-to...
I'm excited to see what comes out of it.
itch.io/jam/ttrpg-to...
TTRPG Tools Jam
A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-11-16 hosted by Aaronsxl. In the vein of the TTRPG Resource Jam , this jam aims to create tools to bring indie RPGs to a greater number of people. These would likely...
itch.io
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Only a couple of days left in the TTRPG tools game jam!
I'm excited to see what comes out of it.
itch.io/jam/ttrpg-to...
I'm excited to see what comes out of it.
itch.io/jam/ttrpg-to...
To paraphrase @bretdevereaux.bsky.social, people everywhere and everywhen tend to believe in their religious beliefs. This is eminently reasonable!
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
To paraphrase @bretdevereaux.bsky.social, people everywhere and everywhen tend to believe in their religious beliefs. This is eminently reasonable!
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The lowliest of Karazad’s necromancers - the corpse-driver. Seen here marching bog-cured levies from their home village to the lands of the local lord.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The lowliest of Karazad’s necromancers - the corpse-driver. Seen here marching bog-cured levies from their home village to the lands of the local lord.
I used my printer to print a document this evening and I didn't have ANY problems.
That brings my streak to three. THREE! I didn't know that was possible
That brings my streak to three. THREE! I didn't know that was possible
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I used my printer to print a document this evening and I didn't have ANY problems.
That brings my streak to three. THREE! I didn't know that was possible
That brings my streak to three. THREE! I didn't know that was possible
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HAHAHA guess who added stuff to their stock art shop and then forgot to tell anyone about it 🫠
In definitely unrelated news - there're some new files in my stock art shop
www.alderdoodle.co.uk/shop
In definitely unrelated news - there're some new files in my stock art shop
www.alderdoodle.co.uk/shop
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
HAHAHA guess who added stuff to their stock art shop and then forgot to tell anyone about it 🫠
In definitely unrelated news - there're some new files in my stock art shop
www.alderdoodle.co.uk/shop
In definitely unrelated news - there're some new files in my stock art shop
www.alderdoodle.co.uk/shop
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it.
Fill in the blank:
Before you pick your Game of the Year, make sure you play _______
Before you pick your Game of the Year, make sure you play _______
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
it.
#thisisjusttosay
I have referenced
the structure
that was in
that poem
which you were
probably remembering
Forgive me
it was so obvious
so recognisable
and so salient
I have referenced
the structure
that was in
that poem
which you were
probably remembering
Forgive me
it was so obvious
so recognisable
and so salient
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#thisisjusttosay
I have referenced
the structure
that was in
that poem
which you were
probably remembering
Forgive me
it was so obvious
so recognisable
and so salient
I have referenced
the structure
that was in
that poem
which you were
probably remembering
Forgive me
it was so obvious
so recognisable
and so salient
BRB gonna write a dungeoncrawl through a dungeon which opposes your attempt to crawl it by crawling you back
The book ends with a poem called "The Ruin", about a ruin, but the poem itself is ruined, full of holes, followed by about 30 pages of riddles that are increasingly impossible to solve because more and more words are missing. I don't know why I'm telling you this except it's one of my favorite facts
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
BRB gonna write a dungeoncrawl through a dungeon which opposes your attempt to crawl it by crawling you back
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The official Power Rangers ttrpg including rules for getting Tetanus is what radicalized me into a deep believer of "Design with Intention."
I know this may come across as unreasonable, but I feel like when I pick up an officially licensed TTRPG adaptation of some piece of media, it shouldn't be a coin toss whether there will be any mechanism for playing as the sorts of characters the game's ostensible source material is actually about.
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The official Power Rangers ttrpg including rules for getting Tetanus is what radicalized me into a deep believer of "Design with Intention."
Born too late to be illiterate, born too early to be illiterate
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Born too late to be illiterate, born too early to be illiterate
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
Sword-sage. Axe saint. Disciple of the empty hand. Blade ascetic. Arquebuspope Vengeful IX
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Sword-sage. Axe saint. Disciple of the empty hand. Blade ascetic. Arquebuspope Vengeful IX
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Here's a fun paperfold book form with some interesting qualities.
December 5, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Here's a fun paperfold book form with some interesting qualities.
A golden era, of sorts
(okay not all of these were shareware I guess but anyway)
(okay not all of these were shareware I guess but anyway)
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A golden era, of sorts
(okay not all of these were shareware I guess but anyway)
(okay not all of these were shareware I guess but anyway)
Mustering the willpower to once more face the challenge of the novice visual designer:
Selecting a typeface that works and is readable, instead of one that stands out by being bizarre
#typography #design #layout #fonts
Selecting a typeface that works and is readable, instead of one that stands out by being bizarre
#typography #design #layout #fonts
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Mustering the willpower to once more face the challenge of the novice visual designer:
Selecting a typeface that works and is readable, instead of one that stands out by being bizarre
#typography #design #layout #fonts
Selecting a typeface that works and is readable, instead of one that stands out by being bizarre
#typography #design #layout #fonts