Zedeck Siew

Why the Castle Automatic is doing a preorder campaign instead of a Kickstarter In case you missed it, I just launched a pre-order campaign for my upcoming 100+ room, 5 level dungeon The Castle Automatic .  Click to bec...

In case you missed it, I just launched a pre-order campaign for my upcoming 100+ room, 5 level dungeon The Castle Automatic.

Instead of doing a "traditional" Kickstarter, I opted for a pre-order campaign through Exalted Funeral instead. We're calling it the Early Worm campaign.

Why?

I'm jealous af

Play as the wretched background weirdos from Warhammer 40k artwork in this free indie RPG In 'Chapter Serf' you get a worm's eye view of Warhammer 40,000, playing as a lowly peon with dangerous duties aboard a Space Marine voidship.

"This isn't an official Warhammer 40k RPG, but it's very well put together - I haven't played Chapter Serf yet, but oh boy do I want to."

There's that pull quote!

CHAPTER SERF got some press from Wargamer holy shit. Thanks @tjohnlinward.bsky.social !

www.wargamer.com/chapter-serf...

FREE Islands of Weirdhope QUICKSTART by David Blandy Free barebones version of this Odd-like Windwaker meets Waterworld game

I realised the QuickStart was getting a bit lost on the Backerkit page, so here’s an easy-peasy itch link for the free game. It’s a pretty nice sample, with lots of Dan’s lovely art and all the rules you’ll need to play.

davidblandy.itch.io/free-islands...

🚨BABE NEW AMANDA LEE FRANCK GAME JUST DROPPED🚨

🚨MAJESTIC NEW ADVENTURE ALERT🚨

Yes, please! I am super bad at catch typos!

Two of my adventures, Resonant and Orestruck, are on sale now over at @spacepenguinink.bsky.social #osr

YES! That was my thought, also---that it be an interlude in an Oath of Moment / Deathwatch campaign. A kind of upstairs-downstairs style contrast

Outlaw merchant was invaluable as a reference when I was writing this---so thank you! (I made sure to shout you out in the credits)

Welcome! (Btw: reading your blog got me to pick up the new Old World RPG)

Glad you like it! I'm mostly a 40K fan by way of the TTRPGs, so am sticking squarely to my wheelhouse here, ha!

(Is Milton on here, btw?)

Five dolphins leap out of the ocean, projecting a Punk flailing into the dusk sky, under the emerging stars. Below is the title: Islands of Weirdhope. Each of the Dolphins is marked with a word- Thanks-for-all-the-fish Art by Daniel Locke

Just when I think @daniellocke.bsky.social can’t surprise me any more…

(yes please!)

(Very thrilled you like it! Oath of Moment is so good)

"Squire doing the nasty stuff knights don't want to worry about" is exactly the analogue I was thinking of!

"Oh the peasants are suffering from a drought right now? So sad. The castle needs grain. Sort it out"

The Satanic mills, yes!

still regularly go back to the notes and plans I had for my short-lived campaign where the PCs' patron was a Port Commander aboard a hub station for a strategic promethium-rich system, like a Gothic Deep Space Nine; if the game had gone on longer we would've been cooking, tellyawhat

Thank you for the rec! Imma check it out

I don't think I got the exact font---but yes! The opening text for the adventure is me aping the "HMS SURPRISE 28 guns 197 souls N. coast Brazil" opening text in Master & Commander

(<3 Maturin <3)

(is it still inaccessible for you? The internet has been spotty because of a cloud flare outage in Singapore)

I'm surprised how earnest CHAPTER SERF turned out, tbh. I'd thought it would be all jokes and memes.

But why not take it seriously? The peon, the clerk, the mutant, the youth warming a Space Marine's bed---the little people, crushed by grimdark. Why not make a game about them? Subaltern 40K.

3/3

CHAPTER SERF CHAPTER SERF is a tabletop roleplaying game and adventure, set in Warhammer 40K, where you play those hooded peasant weirdos you sometimes spot in the backgrounds of the art. Full PDF downloadable...

Spent the last two weeks working on this, missing deadlines and not answering messages---but this thing was in my mind like a psychic worm; I just had to get it out, you know?

Process notes and extra thoughts here: slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...

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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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A zine, two art prints and an envelope spread out on a light blue background. The zine has a monster in red and the title A PERFECT WIFE in white. The two art prints feature the “monster” and a scene within an alley.

Just phenomenal. Fantastic writing and art by @zedecksiew.bsky.social, @amandalee.bsky.social and Scrap World (I don’t think they’re on here). I can’t wait to get this to the table. Also, great packaging, @spacepenguinink.bsky.social

(Reposted with my address removed 🤦)

Am really gratified that it worked for you! Always I try to make sure a TTRPG text both works as usable for play and as a piece of storytelling pleasurable to read ...

🚨A PERFECT WIFE, TOUCHING YOUR SHOULDER🚨

Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts Writers and archaeologists also worked on a new guide to a lost early medieval Scottish society.

A few of us designers have been privileged to follow along while @stoutstoat.co.uk chipped away at this project for the last few years.

It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.

Stretch Goal achieved! Next up:

We’ll add a starter adventure island to Islands of Weirdhope - Bluestone Isle, where weird things are happening in a quarry near a sleepy village. Has love seeped into the stone?