@directsun.bsky.social
Mr. Puzzle Dungeon. Author of Aberrant Reflections and The Seers Sanctum. Currently working on: A Familiar Tower. Mid-life time achievement Carnie Award winner. 🎉
All bloggers are hereby cordially invited to participate in a new blog bandwagon on the topic of MAPS, featuring art (which you can use, remix, distort as you see fit) from @amandalee.bsky.social (Garbage Barge, Vampire Cruise, et al)
You have 80 days starting now!
#osr #tttpg #blog
It was super fun being on as always! ❤️
05.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I are joined by @directsun.bsky.social to review Dinoplex: Cataclysm by @ianyusem.bsky.social and CRYO-SIQ by @wacomatrixo.bsky.social. We also answer a mootsack question... sort of!
www.patreon.com/posts/dinopl...
Super surprised to hear a Twisting Unseen shout-out at the end of this episode alongside some of my other zine month faves, thanks @directsun.bsky.social !
05.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Missed this when it launched 2 days ago.
The art and setting. I really want to read this.
Also, check out the charming trailer!
"Ella doesn't mess around" - me, having died in a cave
I was lucky enough to playtest and can confirm: you too will totally die in a cave (whilst having a meaningful and emotional time)
Also: I highly recommend having @georgiacooked.bsky.social illustrate your demise (whether in-game or elsewhere)
workin on some scifi interiors for patrons
free to use in your zines & etc!
#ttrpg #osr #zimo
I tried to wrap my head around the #AD&D domain game. How does it work? Is it worth using? What ideas can you steal for your next D&D-like game, & which should you leave in 1979? Plus, what does a character's inhabited domain eventually look like, & how big are those peasant uprisings exactly? #OSR
04.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
I just backed Demidirge - Fanged Funnel on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/laz...
04.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Proud to be the 171st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Deepest Dark! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
04.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This guy's got slime on his mind @slimemindstudio.bsky.social
04.02.2026 00:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I just backed Sarkaasa's Lair: An Old School Fanhawk Adventure on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sar...
04.02.2026 00:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Cairn box set was reviewed by Questing Beast!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G62...
Time to replace the internet with newsletters. Let's go! #osr #dnd #ttrpg
03.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🪲 🪲 🪲 I just backed Outcast Unseelie and the Ooze Between: For Shadowdark RPG on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/a-h...
03.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🐛 🐛 🐛 I just backed CAIN SUN - a Mothership scenario on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/wac... by @wacomatrixo.bsky.social
03.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The first in my ZineMonth 2026 interviews is now live, this one with @directsun.bsky.social talking about their just launched product. If you're participating this year and want to answer some softball questions to promote your project hit me up. #zimo #zinemoth #indiezine
03.02.2026 13:12 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0👋😁
03.02.2026 06:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It arrived! It's still so unreal for me.
03.02.2026 01:39 — 👍 161 🔁 39 💬 14 📌 1Super cool 😎
03.02.2026 03:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This one's really special! There's a lot of cool concepts and mechanics happening here - unlike anything I've experienced for Mothership in the past.
02.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Hey, get a load of this wizard tower. It's my escape room puzzle dungeon infused with my love for zelda and crystal fantasy. It's almost finished and now it's crowdfunding 🥲
puzzledungeon.com/tower
#zinemonth #osr #dnd @zinemonth.bsky.social
Happy that my puzzle dungeon is finally almost finished.
It's an escape room wizard tower adventure. If you like Zelda and 80s fantasy, you'll like this. Guaranteed no sudokus.
puzzledungeon.com/tower?ref=bsky
Runes in ruin looks cool. Magic crafting system that's cool enough on its own but also a bunch of dungeons and locations to drop in your game and find this stuff. So plenty of adventure to go with it. 👍 crowdfund.1pagedungeons.com
02.02.2026 02:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Happy ZiMoto all who celebrate!
Hype to see
- #ZineQuest at @kickstarter.com
- #ZineTopia at @backerkit.com
- @gamefound.bsky.social getting in w/ #ZineMonth
- Itchfunding at @itch.io
& folks just dropping cool projects on their own!
What projects are you excited about?
ttrpg.link/zimosite
Did I forget to write and publish The Explorateur while working on The Bloggies? *Jonathan Frakes Voice:* "Not this time."
A treasure trove of links for rpg designers by rpg designers 👇
www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...
There are folk who see new tech, settings or procedures and say, “No thanks, too silly. I’m pretending to be an elf here - this is serious business.”
To them I say, “Pah!”
In this blogpost, I present House of Cards Encounter Tracking.
bommyknocker.bearblog.dev/a-gimmick/
#blog #ttrpg #osr
Don't forget the official unofficial #zinemonth website!
iwanttoplay.games/zinemonth
Get out there and make some games, y'all.
BackerKit Zinetopia: Indie Tabletop Role-Playing Games title over a selection of zines. Launching Monday, Feb 2. Unlock early birds, an exclusive zine when you back 5+ campaigns & cross-collab freebies.
🎉Celebrate #ZineMonth with Zinetopia on BackerKit! Launching this coming Monday, Feb 2nd.
Be sure to hit follow to be notified right away and grab the early bird rewards! 👉 https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/zinetopia-2026
Hands-on crafting advice with top-notch presentation. This is some damn fine work I'm excited to flip through.
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
