j strautman

just your irregular reminder that @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social is really cool and skilled and you should follow all of their endeavours

carry on

oh!!! 🥰🥺🥹

i can't believe we're at the penultimate episode for this series. many gambles and gods in this specific ep!!

FUNDED!!

OH HELLO ❤️💚💛🖤

Happy Black History Month, friendos! Come celebrate with us! My session goes live this Saturday at 1p EST, be there for be square (and not the hip kind 😤)

i love u zinesters

Get Ready for The Endtimes Trilogy From Adam Bell Games - Get Ready for The Endtimes Trilogy

The Endtimes Trilogy is now live on Backerkit for #zinetopia and #zinemonth!

The world is ending. Will you pretend everything's fine? Will you enter the warden's bunker? Will you get tracked in an endless cycle across time and space?

Back now to do all three!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

A mockup of the All's Fair Zine over a background of the cover art featuring a camo pattern of figures in various sex positions. The negative space of these bodies makes a sci-fi gun shape. Text reads: "Live Now On BackerKit"

All's Fair is an 18+ duet game about wanting to fuck each other so bad you save the world about it.

Our team:
@superdillin.bsky.social - Writer/Designer
@seaexcursion.itch.io - Illustrator
@brianflaherty.bsky.social - Layout

hell yeah

A mockup of the Rise, Wizards! Zine over the background art by Helena Bia which features several wizards dueling atop dice shaped wizard towers, one of which is tumbling in the background. Text reads: "Live Now On BackerKit"

Rise, Wizards! is a dice-stacking, map-making, worldbuilding game of wizard hubris.

Our team:
@captainkrail.bsky.social - Writer/Designer
@helenacore.bsky.social - Illustrator
@strautmaskreplica.bsky.social - Layout

Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair From moreblueberries - Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair

Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair are now LIVE on BackerKit for Zinetopia!

Get in right away to take advantage of special early bird bundle deals

I am so proud of @captainkrail.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social and cannot wait to help bring their games to life!

please back these two beautiful games by two TRULY excellent designers!!!

i have the privilege of doing layout for Rise, Wizards! (exclamation point mandatory) and i'm so excited for it to release into the world

Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair From moreblueberries - Get Ready for Rise, Wizards! & All's Fair

TODAY IS THE DAY! Just THREE HOURS until the launch of the campaign for Rise, Wizards! By @captainkrail.bsky.social and All’s Fair by @superdillin.bsky.social

I'm still working on The Afrodyssey, a re-translation of The Odyssey into AAVE!

I've translated a lot of the iconic scenes, but Black folx, y'all lemme know if there's a scene you wanna see translated next 👀

towerofbasil.wordpress.com/afrodyssey-h...

this is very special

100 episodes, 2 years - I cannot believe how much every single guest, every game (and the designers behind them), and every single listener has meant to me.

I remember the day I got this job so vividly, and this episode has been a love letter to the entire experience.

😭

A soft cover book in pink and teal with an android holding a rose on a sheet of red velvet with tarot cards scattered about. The backdrop is a series of colorful postcards

I can not wait to play A Fool’s Errand again. Our band of fools have their work cut out trying to stop the constellations vanishing as the stars wink out! I highly recommend trying this game for yourself! @planetarcanapod.bsky.social

Great day for Fools

Are you ready for Perils & Princesses?!

Episode 1 drops THIS THURSDAY!

so stoked to see this at tabletop bookshelf!!

YAY!!!! thank you so much for carrying this ! ♥️

the game is also by @bmars.bsky.social 🪐

A book cover titled "A Fool's Errand" by J. Strautman and B. Marsollier. The art features a slender, pale-green alien character walking across a floating island, carrying a bindle on a stick and holding a single white rose. A small white dog with blue eyes trots alongside. In the background, a hazy pink and purple sky hangs over a futuristic city with neon lights and palm-like alien flora. The text "NEW ARRIVAL" is at the top and "NOW @ TABLETOP BOOKSHELF" is at the bottom in bold yellow letters.

A two-page spread from a tabletop RPG rulebook. Page 106, titled "End of Encounter," details how to determine narrative outcomes using a deck of cards, featuring a table for "Redrawing an Outcome" with costs like "Stamina" or "Scars." Page 107 features a "GM TIP" box and an illustration of a classic Tarot card, the Five of Wands, showing five people engaged in a mock or chaotic struggle with wooden staves.

A two-page spread featuring a "Key Paragonian NPC" named Lux Booker. Lux is a "Steam Android" depicted as a green, barrel-chested robot sitting in a plush teal armchair, holding a smoking cigar and a pink popsicle. The right page introduces the location "TROPONEO VEGA" with an Art Deco-style illustration of a retro slot machine. The text describes the city as a "neon jungle-city" balancing crime and hedonism.

A teal-colored introductory page titled "the characters" for a guided Session Zero. The page features a mock-up of a social media profile on a site called "pipspace." The profile is for "Beefs Impartial," a human male with a square body shape and a stern expression wearing a military-style uniform. A humorous banner ad at the top of the profile reads, "STOP GETTING HOT ALONE - SEXY STEAM ANDROIDS IN YOUR AREA."

NEW ARRIVAL: A Fool’s Errand by @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social is a storytelling roleplaying game about grappling with godhood and keeping the gods in check. Use tarot cards to add complications and resolve obstacles as you explore the 5th Collide and the Dream & Digital Networks.
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your favourite game is in this shop! if you don't know what it is yet, I encourage you to buy them all.

Home Indie TTPRGs and Art!

My cat is sick please buy my games

moreblueberries.shop

I'm so excited!! playing with a couple brand new players 😈

I'm so excited, been keen to run this one for a bit

Photo of a yellow manila envelope with a page peeking out of it - the sheet has the Deathmatch Island logo at the top left and some body text is visible welcoming the contestant to the island

Getting ready for a campaign of Deathmatch Island starting next week so I'm making manila envelopes for all the player facing docs 😇

OPINION | Canadian TV needs to get weird again | CBC Arts In the ‘80s and ‘90s, English Canadian screens were filled with bizarre, fever dream-like shows. Writer Niko Stratis argues that we need to back to that

For CBC Arts, I wrote about why I think Canada needs to revel in the beauty of its weirdest impulses www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...

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