Seyed P. Razavi (aka Syd)

Nice little drop from the postie.

The only essential oil is Nuln.

I don't know much but I think there's only two effective marketing tools:

1. Get people who love your product to recommend it.
2. A gun and legal impunity.

Age verification? I like singing along with K-Pop Demon Hunters!

oh wait...

English Magic and travel to Faerie would be fun to map out.

I'm so excited for this. Been following along the Bastionland blog and there's some great ideas here.

Reads like butter on hot toast tho.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is such a great book.

Mitchener RPG set in that world when? :)

Children of Fear - Episode #4 23 September 1923.The gate’s echo was still in the investigators’ bones when Sian closed around them. Rain hissed on brick. Steam lifted from cookshops. Lanterns tilted in the wind like watchful eyes…

Episode 4 of our Children of Fear campaign log drops the investigators into rain-slick Sian, where a small, unsettling mystery tugs at them even as the larger journey presses on. All atmosphere and tension, and tough choices. blog.monkeyx.games/2026/02/09/c...

Nice article on this game: zotiquest.substack.com/p/why-im-bac...

Maybe a murder mystery a la House of Gucci but about the Marriot hotel chain.

Hello, me a month back 😀They're great to read. Hoping they play well too.

Finally making it to Concrete Cow!

I’m running Fishguts Crawl using CY_BORG in the afternoon slot. Sludge, bad choices, and chrome-splattered chaos. Come get gross with me.

Arcana Rising - Fireballs and Day Jobs There’s a very specific brain-worm that afflicts some of us. The conviction that surely there must be a game out there that does “modern wizards in our world” in a way that clicks with your group.

If you like the idea of Shadowrun but die a little inside at the crunch, you might be interested in Arcana Rising. OSR chassis, modern magic Earth, day jobs, demons in the suburbs. Plus some honest thoughts on why I’ll mostly be stealing bits from it. blog.monkeyx.games/2026/02/06/a...

No Kate idol?

Recently as in the last 10 years. Crikey, time is an amorphous creature.

I was introduced to D&D in Edinburgh (age 10) and then moved to LA (age 12) where that is all I played. It wasn't until uni (back in the UK) I encountered other systems (Vampire first, then Traveller and Cyberpunk).

Must admit half the games UK folks in 80s liked wasn't on my radar until recently.

It's a gorgeous book. Well written too!

Meet the Johnsons The Johnsons have it all; a big house, a trust fund, beautiful cars. They only have one problem: You. Meet the Johnsons is a No Dice No Masters game where players take the role of a family member an...

Meet the Johnsons is a No Dice No Masters RPG where you play the Perfect Family and their tormentors.
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I backed it because I love story games that interrogate power and then hand you the tools to break it. 6/6

W.F.H. - Worry. Fear. Horror. Corporate horror, remote worker style. You and your "co-workers" must survive an all encompassing eldritch darkness that has overtaken your home-office, with only your work group chat to communicate.

W.F.H. is corporate horror for remote workers. An eldritch darkness overtakes your home office; you can only coordinate via the work group chat.
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I backed it because the format is brilliantly on-theme and I’m always here for horror that skewers modern work life. 5/6

The Deepest Dark The Deepest Dark is a tragic, GM-less horror TTRPG about being trapped underground.

The Deepest Dark is a tragic, GM-less horror TTRPG about being trapped underground and watching hope run out.
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I backed it because I’m a sucker for tight one-shots that turn survival panic into an emotional gut-punch. 4/6

Dead Internet Theory, an adventure module for Cy-borg Something terrible moves and wakes deep under the business district of Cy, in the enclave of an eldritch cult at the heart of the city's most powerful finance firm and megachurch.

Dead Internet Theory is a CY_BORG adventure about an eldritch cult under Cy’s business district, tangled up with big money, big faith, and a too-perfect virtual “afterlife” scheme.
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CY_BORG loves sharp, grimy set-pieces and this one sounds like pure neon dread. 3/6

Barbabianca - Rumour and silence in a town that is no more A GMless game for 3-4 players set in the deep Italian countryside at the turn of the 20th century. Think Pavese, Calvino, Buzzati. Or imagine the secrets buried beneath the stones of any village where...

Barbabianca: GMless, collaborative storytelling game for 3–4 players set in rural Italy, early 20th century, where gossip and memory can poison a whole village.
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Zero-prep, table-built communities where the drama comes from relationships rather than combat. 2/6

💥 Zinetopia 2026 on BackerKit Welcome to Zinetopia on BackerKit 💥  A Small-format TTRPG crowdfunding Group-Collab event on BackerKit celebrating Zine Month running February 2–27, 2026. What is Zine Month 📖 Zine Month is a mont...

It's #ZineTopia on Backerkit and I found some interesting projects to back. See 🧵 1/6

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Looking forward to this 👇I'll be running Feng Shui for the first time - a fast, cinematic action RPG about Hong Kong–style gunfights and kung fu where heroes from across time battle for control of the world’s fate.

Wrote the scenario "Lanterns of the Turning Year" to mark the new year.

Once again it is time to be clear in how much I enjoy Seyed's reviews. I have found them extremely enlightening about our own material. The summaries of systems are really sharp.
I've said it before, but I really admire Seyed's ability to engage with creator intentions. Nice.

I'm finding it hard to imagine anything less than a 6 session run through for both games as I read. Feels it needs that for the consequences to mean something.

6 sessions is also a comfortable bi-weekly over 3 months format I am experimenting with for these kinds of games. Enough room to breathe.

That's too kind, Jon. Playing it in my head to review is just my way to solve the scheduling problem 😃

Maybe @jwmuk.bsky.social l should run a games set in the 60s season on his Raspy Raven discord. This, the upcoming Blades 68 game and @sam0vail.bsky.social's Agents of Excalibur?

Started reading this... Hot Damn it looks good.

Will have to do a review when I've finished reading it.

Then the bigger challenge - find time and players to run it! But Cold City first maybe?