Rose Skye
@vorpalcoil.bsky.social
Actually a living doll. Author of fiction and tabletop RPGs. There is a cat sleeping on my lap as you read this.
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https://vorpalcoil.itch.io/
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https://ko-fi.com/roseskye
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@vorpalcoil.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Protoplastic 0.4 Has Arrived! | Rose Skye
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The first public version of Protoplastic, the plastic robot roleplaying game, is now available!
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VOID_SHIFT PHYSICAL IS OUT and BLACK FRIDAY(ish) SALE IS ON
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Read on for more detail!
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November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
VOID_SHIFT PHYSICAL IS OUT and BLACK FRIDAY(ish) SALE IS ON
shop.binarystar.games
Read on for more detail!
shop.binarystar.games
Read on for more detail!
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@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...
Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...
The Tomb of Eight Gates: Puzzle Dungeon Workshop
YouTube video by Direct Sun
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November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@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...
Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...
I just finished playing through Subnautica, and my biggest complaint is that the entry field is too small to let me name my rocket like a Culture ship and call it the "I'd Rather Be Fishing".
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I just finished playing through Subnautica, and my biggest complaint is that the entry field is too small to let me name my rocket like a Culture ship and call it the "I'd Rather Be Fishing".
I feel like there's a Platonic "talking to people" game out there in conceptual design space that we haven't quite grasped yet - something that focuses on the basic act of roleplaying but expands it into a multi-session campaign structure about making friends and solving social problems.
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I feel like there's a Platonic "talking to people" game out there in conceptual design space that we haven't quite grasped yet - something that focuses on the basic act of roleplaying but expands it into a multi-session campaign structure about making friends and solving social problems.
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My blogging compatriots at Random Ape Encounter and To Be Resolved have launched a small collab where we analyze the styles of play implicit to generic game systems. I volunteered to talk about my experience with Cortex Prime:
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
generic play: revisiting cortex prime
Earlier this month, fellow blogger soopersmert (Random Ape Encounter) proposed a mini-collab to investigate the style of play implicit in generic roleplaying games. Soopersmert has already tackled the...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My blogging compatriots at Random Ape Encounter and To Be Resolved have launched a small collab where we analyze the styles of play implicit to generic game systems. I volunteered to talk about my experience with Cortex Prime:
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
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The first episode of the new video podcast, Rose Playing Games, is out! Join two Roses on a journey through hex mapping in tabletop RPGs, and the possibilities that lie beyond the grid.
Rose Playing Games Episode 1 – Hexcrawls | Rose Skye
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November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The first episode of the new video podcast, Rose Playing Games, is out! Join two Roses on a journey through hex mapping in tabletop RPGs, and the possibilities that lie beyond the grid.
The first episode of the new video podcast, Rose Playing Games, is out! Join two Roses on a journey through hex mapping in tabletop RPGs, and the possibilities that lie beyond the grid.
Rose Playing Games Episode 1 – Hexcrawls | Rose Skye
Get more from Rose Skye on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The first episode of the new video podcast, Rose Playing Games, is out! Join two Roses on a journey through hex mapping in tabletop RPGs, and the possibilities that lie beyond the grid.
A weird, funny, and thoughtful expansion upon a single entry in a random table. Your science fiction game needs more things like this in it.
I just released SLUG MODE, my first Mothership pamphlet scenario! It expands on Slug, a psychedelic drug whose users all inhabit a shared virtual space while high - my favorite weird little plot hook from A Pound of Flesh.
thursday-garreau.itch.io/slug-mode
thursday-garreau.itch.io/slug-mode
SLUG MODE: a drug-fueled diversion for Mothership by Thursday Garreau
a trip into the virtual Sluglands
thursday-garreau.itch.io
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A weird, funny, and thoughtful expansion upon a single entry in a random table. Your science fiction game needs more things like this in it.
RosePG, the only tabletop roleplaying game video podcast with two Roses, releases tomorrow!
(All Roses locally sourced.)
(All Roses locally sourced.)
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
RosePG, the only tabletop roleplaying game video podcast with two Roses, releases tomorrow!
(All Roses locally sourced.)
(All Roses locally sourced.)
I wish my HMtW campaign was ongoing, because this looks fantastic and I want to play it.
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...
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I wish my HMtW campaign was ongoing, because this looks fantastic and I want to play it.
Gwen does fantastic work, and you should work with her!
hi, i do graphics, writing, and layout for role-playing games. sometimes other things, too. i like bright colors, sharp edges, and challenging myself. let's work together.
gwencie.carrd.co
gwencie.carrd.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Gwen does fantastic work, and you should work with her!
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🙏CHAPTER SERF🙏
I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
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I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
1/
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🙏CHAPTER SERF🙏
I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
1/
I finished it! A Warhammer 40K adventure & TTRPG where you *don't* play Space Marines. Instead you play those little hooded freaks loitering in the background while Space Marines hog the limelight.
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1V4Mt...
1/
Episode 1 of the Rose Playing Games video podcast drops this Friday! I've had this in the works for the past few months and I'm looking forward to showing it to everyone.
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Episode 1 of the Rose Playing Games video podcast drops this Friday! I've had this in the works for the past few months and I'm looking forward to showing it to everyone.
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1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"Held kinetic energy" for faction conflicts. So simple, so obvious in retrospect: an elegantly concise post.
I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out:
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs
A framework for building powder keg scenarios.
www.mindstormpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Held kinetic energy" for faction conflicts. So simple, so obvious in retrospect: an elegantly concise post.
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Have you ever wanted to take a vacation in hell?
This card-based, cooperative one-shot RPG might be the closest you'll get. You have 30 real-world minutes to collect souvenirs before the portal home closes.
Have a great trip!
This card-based, cooperative one-shot RPG might be the closest you'll get. You have 30 real-world minutes to collect souvenirs before the portal home closes.
Have a great trip!
Visit Beautiful Carcosa by Vorpal Coil
A breathtaking getaway for 1-6 tourists
vorpalcoil.itch.io
August 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Have you ever wanted to take a vacation in hell?
This card-based, cooperative one-shot RPG might be the closest you'll get. You have 30 real-world minutes to collect souvenirs before the portal home closes.
Have a great trip!
This card-based, cooperative one-shot RPG might be the closest you'll get. You have 30 real-world minutes to collect souvenirs before the portal home closes.
Have a great trip!
I'm leaving a hug here. You're welcome to have it if you need one.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm leaving a hug here. You're welcome to have it if you need one.
🫂
🫂
The first sentence of METASTRUCTURE, a novel of simulacra and the system that sustains them.
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The first sentence of METASTRUCTURE, a novel of simulacra and the system that sustains them.
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Ever wake up just exhausted? Yep.
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ever wake up just exhausted? Yep.
Watching Pluribus made me want to finish writing a half-completed short story from last year about a global mental merging, but now it will look like I'm copying a recent popular thing...
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Watching Pluribus made me want to finish writing a half-completed short story from last year about a global mental merging, but now it will look like I'm copying a recent popular thing...
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NULL_SPACE IS COMING
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
NULL_SPACE IS COMING
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON
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New Blogpost: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf — Prismatic Wasteland
I love pretending to be an elf just as much as the next guy, but it pales in comparison to the joys of pretending to be a mouse with a sewing needle sword at my side.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New Blogpost: I’d Rather Be a Mouse Than an Elf
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
Why sword & whiskers fantasy is more gameable than your standard pseudo-medieval fantasy settings.
#osr #ttrpg #MausritterMonth
Made some Vietnamese-style coffee using some leftover diplomat cream instead of condensed milk, calling it Paris Peace Accords Coffee.
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Made some Vietnamese-style coffee using some leftover diplomat cream instead of condensed milk, calling it Paris Peace Accords Coffee.