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Independent TTRPG game producer. SEE YOU, SPACE COWBOY… | THE RUINS OF CASTLE GYGAR | HEARTBEAT HIGHSCHOOL http://tidalwavegames.com

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a grid of zine pages

a grid of zine pages

When your "little zine project" ends up being 50+ pages long

05.08.2025 03:29 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Coming soon: Monster Condo A 17-area dungeon for old school roleplaying games

www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...

Launching later this month! 17 areas, 100+ rooms, factions, cults, cool monsters. The best way to start a new dungeon crawl campaign. Follow now!

04.08.2025 22:35 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Scifi and Fantasy pencil & pen work -
If you have any lo-fi projects that would suit work like this, I'm now available for commissions! Get in touch here, or through website!

04.08.2025 10:15 — 👍 285    🔁 64    💬 7    📌 1

Had a great art direction meeting tonight for #HBHS, got lots of great drafts done for final character pieces. I have another meeting later this week, so I hope I'm coughing less by then, it's obnoxious and I'm not fast enough to mute my mic every time 😵‍💫

04.08.2025 07:30 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Obviously Ripley finding out about her daughter should have been there. And the turret scene has become iconic. The rest? Ehh...

03.08.2025 21:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Heavy/Scratch: - G1 seeker arms and wing upgrade [ATTACH] So I had a junker G2 starscream lying around and had seen a few files for the g1 seeker bits I was missing online, only problem is that g1...

Actually, yeah, I think it kind of is. Maybe not 100% like this, but:
www.tfw2005.com/boards/threa...

03.08.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who knows! Those guys are insane.

03.08.2025 21:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
ENCOUNTER 2:3
XNG SHARD67000 DAGGER-2663
A shifting machine, larger than even the greatest wyrm, erected and tall in the empty dust bowl. Its structures and wires, still taut but rusted, stretch into the skies as tall as the Black Spire. It squeals and howls in pain when it moves. Its agony can be heard for miles; a death rattle as it begs for the sweet release of expiration.

The side of the creature is marked: 
XNG SHARD67000
DAGGER-2663
SERIAL: E/A 392282867
- DNR -

Dagger-2663 is a living machine designed for large-scale planetary excavation. It was brought here by the CONTROLLERS to help mine SAND for resources. Finding nothing of value, it was left alone, still following its instructions to dig endlessly. When one track burned out, it continued on, looping itself into a circle and digging itself further in. 

Dagger-2663 can communicate simple ideas through its onboard ten-character seven-segment display near a control console in the central tower. It can only be communicated with via a number keypad interface, requiring laboriously typing numbers multiple times to display the correct letter, with a maximum of ten characters per message. 

It wishes for repair, to continue doing its job, faithful as ever. In absence of this, it wishes for death. 

If repaired, location and information about Dagger-2663 can be traded for up to 6 Water.

ENCOUNTER 2:3 XNG SHARD67000 DAGGER-2663 A shifting machine, larger than even the greatest wyrm, erected and tall in the empty dust bowl. Its structures and wires, still taut but rusted, stretch into the skies as tall as the Black Spire. It squeals and howls in pain when it moves. Its agony can be heard for miles; a death rattle as it begs for the sweet release of expiration. The side of the creature is marked: XNG SHARD67000 DAGGER-2663 SERIAL: E/A 392282867 - DNR - Dagger-2663 is a living machine designed for large-scale planetary excavation. It was brought here by the CONTROLLERS to help mine SAND for resources. Finding nothing of value, it was left alone, still following its instructions to dig endlessly. When one track burned out, it continued on, looping itself into a circle and digging itself further in. Dagger-2663 can communicate simple ideas through its onboard ten-character seven-segment display near a control console in the central tower. It can only be communicated with via a number keypad interface, requiring laboriously typing numbers multiple times to display the correct letter, with a maximum of ten characters per message. It wishes for repair, to continue doing its job, faithful as ever. In absence of this, it wishes for death. If repaired, location and information about Dagger-2663 can be traded for up to 6 Water.

oh no oh no oh no no no no no no I *can't* work on this right now

03.08.2025 11:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Auntie!!!

03.08.2025 09:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This kind of thing actually makes me LOSE trust in a payment processor because that means I can't trust them to LET ME BUY THINGS WITH MY OWN MONEY

03.08.2025 05:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This one I haven't read!

03.08.2025 05:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yep!! Got that too from the Patreon.

03.08.2025 01:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yeah everyone recs this one. I just don't like it lol

03.08.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking for OSR spell supplement books. What you got?

03.08.2025 00:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Come back to the server we had an Argument

02.08.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The higher profile a celebrity is, the less I care about what they think. My dollar cannot influence them.

This is doubly true for works from 30+ years ago. Will I go see a new Mel Gibson movie? No. Will I watch Maverick, or Payback? Yes.

01.08.2025 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

>:(

01.08.2025 12:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I find using a PDF as a table reference really grating. Can't do it at my physical table due to not really having the right equipment, so I'm either staring at a tiny phone trying to find a rule in 300 pages or I'm on my PC doing the same thing. With a book I can just go to that page.

01.08.2025 00:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

my ttrpg opinion is that a lot of you would be happier writing board games

31.07.2025 23:01 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Theres actually an old ass Matt Colville video where he does this with a friend who is running the monsters for him.

31.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I were too make new art-pack for Draw Steel monsters, instead of player ancestries, what kind of monsters would You like to see?
I would prefer to do a mix of monsters, so we are not talking a specific band, but more random assembly of creatures.
#drawsteel

31.07.2025 07:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ay, you know what you should do on this summer? Check out the #SummerAdZine! (And also take pictures and go to the beach too, that's cool too)

Thanks to @otacat.bsky.social for organizing this and letting me join in with #spacecassettemoumou !

30.07.2025 21:43 — 👍 414    🔁 133    💬 8    📌 0

Okay folks, think I got this. Thanks!!

30.07.2025 17:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm seeking someone who can do detailed point crawl maps/cartography of strange otherworldly landscapes. Outer plane bullshit. Paid work!

30.07.2025 15:22 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Mothership streaming anthology series. If any of the episode writers/directors need inspo I just spend budget to license third party modules my friends made, giving them Hollywood Money so huge they can just afford to live forever on it

30.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ratcatcher Magazine 01 cover. A human, high elf and dwarf run away from an Overmind.

Ratcatcher Magazine 01 cover. A human, high elf and dwarf run away from an Overmind.

Ratcatcher 01 preorders now available! Pick up yours today!
ratcatcher-magazine-issue-01-for-draw-steel.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

29.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
A round circle with a black and white picture of Lou Reed that says "the mods are pro ding-dong"

A round circle with a black and white picture of Lou Reed that says "the mods are pro ding-dong"

I got this sticker with something in the mail but I dont remember what and don't remember what it's from.

24.05.2025 14:04 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Look, if you are a small press ttrpg publisher and you want to take half an hour of my time to help discuss how we can get you a webstore, I will help you for free. We can go over options, I can talk about what I've learned over the last decade, and we can build redundancies for you.

26.07.2025 21:11 — 👍 206    🔁 98    💬 13    📌 9
Garden of the Celestials by Tidal Wave Games A Feymarch Adventure for the Appendix N Jam

I made this!
tidalwavegames.itch.io/garden-of-th...

28.07.2025 09:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What should a Ranger be able to do?

Asking for OSR folks primarily but any fantasy TTRPG.

28.07.2025 05:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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