Yesterday my leg was healed enough to go on a short walk up Pororari River. Sheer limestone cliffs, tui song, giant nikau palms, ferns and lichen everywhere.

Last night it rained on the cabin and I dreamt of stone and moss

For months I’ve been looking forward to hiking the Paparoa Track. Unfortunately, I twisted my knee yesterday and can’t walk.

Instead, I’m in a tiny cabin for four days in Punakaiki, waiting for friends to return. Deeply sad about not going on the walk, but grateful for an impromptu solo retreat.

A weekend learning about late Hellenistic trade networks, as work continues on Snail Herders 🐌

Announcing Snail Herders, a #ttrpg for solo & group play.

Lead a caravan of humans and giant snails along ancient trails over weeks of travel. Trade tales and tend the snails. A game about care, journeying, and stories that travel faster than you.

Art by @garin.bsky.social
Coming Nov 2025 🐌

OSR fungi in the front yard

continuing to work on solo ttrpgs. Getting excited about how things are coming together

detail of some art by the amazing @garin.bsky.social

I’ve been quietly working on a #solorpg for the last year. It doesn’t have a name yet, but it's about magic, exploration, roads less travelled, and the passing of time.

Sharing a piece of game book's art that captures something of its spirit. The illustration is by the amazing
@garin.bsky.social

The complete Lighthouse at the Edge of the Universe arrived yesterday. This is my favourite journaling game and I’m delighted by this new edition.

Wonderful stuff, @lostwaysclub.itch.io

despite radio silence, I have been working on a pair of #ttrpg projects in the background, which I hope to release during 2025.

one is a duet game about going on a journey
one is a solo game about magic

illustration by the amazing @sisaliks.bsky.social
#solorpg

I've been working on a game about travel and experimenting with different scales. To visualise this, I drew a 5-mile hex over coastal and river settlements near my hometown.

The challenge of hexes in ttrpgs is widely discussed, but it was eye-opening to see it applied to places I know.

finally getting around to laying out a complete Spanish extended edition of Last Tea Shop / La Última Tienda de Té thanks to an amazing translation by @plumadeicaro.bsky.social

mentally drafting a mini-campaign based on the Wind in the Willows endpapers map

running some playtests 🌿

local news giving journaling ttrpg prompts

Went to a museum; saw some art

I made a new solo journalling game.

Space Jellyfish Overhead is a solo journalling game about communing with interstellar Visitors 🌌

Check it out if that sounds like your jam. It's free on Itch
https://springvillager.itch.io/space-jellyfish-overhead

racing to finish my submission to the one-page RPG jam: Space Jellyfish Overhead
here's a small section that I worked on this morning:

wrapping up a one-page RPG about interstellar oracles
should be done this weekend
Space Jellyfish Overhead