@joelhines.bsky.social
I write and publish sci-fi and fantasy adventure modules at Silverarm and like to go outside sometimes too. https://shop.silverarmpress.com https://silverarmpress.com
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Fresh post up, some day I'll get back to blogging regularly again!
"Just tell them" is such an underrated piece of advice for telegraphing dangers in RPGs.
"How can I hint that the hallway is trapped? How can I hint that if they defeat the dungeon lord, they become the next dungeon lord?"
Just tell them. Tell them out loud. With your words.
I want to print this blogpost out and tape it to my bathroom mirror to recite like an affirmation each morning. There's a million ways to have fun with games but this pithily sums up what I personally enjoy most in playing or running an RPG.
@bastionland.bsky.social
Proud to announce that my enormous infernal OSE adventure module “The Shrike” has won gold for best long form adventure at the ENNIE awards! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! You will be spared from eternal life marooned upon the monstrous iron edifice!
02.08.2025 08:57 — 👍 119 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 3Ahhh yeah!
02.08.2025 06:46 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's not very active but here it is! discord.gg/juWmz42J
22.07.2025 09:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Would appreciate your Ennies vote for The Shrike for best long form adventure! Nobody does extradimensional hellscape sandbox adventurers like Leo.
12.07.2025 09:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“There is no such thing as a “neutral” design. As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact."
― Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
One of the best GDC talks ever.
Larstown Blues - the latest instalment of my Mothership Play By Post game set in @joelhines.bsky.social Desert Moon of Karth.
#osr #mothership #ttrpg
See, this is great.
18.05.2025 12:47 — 👍 73 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 2
Today on Between Two Cairns, we're joined by @joelhines.bsky.social of Silver Arm Press to review Doom of the Savage Kings by @harley-stroh.bsky.social. We also answer a mailbag question about adjudicating drunk player characters.
www.patreon.com/posts/doom-o...
If you're a tabletop designer and/or publisher whose business will be adversely affected by Donald Trump's April 2nd suite of tariffs, I want to hear from you. Changes in business, canceled or delayed projects, etc.
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Collecting some posts from yesterday into a blog post, which attempts to correct the notion that the OSR was just retroclones: arrested development gob yelling "come on!" dot gif.
28.03.2025 12:35 — 👍 70 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 6Knock magazines are some art packed great collections of some of the most impactful blog posts contributed by a large cross section of the scene with sweet micro supplements and adventures.
27.03.2025 16:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
GaryCon
Friday night
Just finished a hilariously scary game of Mothership run by the lovely @joelhines.bsky.social
#osr #dnd #ttrpg
A portrait of Governor Stieg Tanaka, a severe looking woman with black hair in a high collared uniform and sash.
I am enjoying bullying my players with tea ceremonies and icy politeness as they meet Karth Governor Stieg Tanaka and her bioluminescent shark Shashihoko.
Shashihoko is a merciless apex predator. So is Tanaka.
They're terrified.
#osr #mothership #ttrpg #desertmoonofkarth
Very cool game report, story sucks you in.
14.03.2025 23:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The time is here!! 🤠🦑🏜️
14.03.2025 23:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New blog post with a Mothership hack for a historical weird investigation campaign I ran in Volga Bulgaria! For the Eaters of the Dead/Ibn Fadlan fans
17.02.2025 15:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've released the Outdoor Survival Scaffolder - a tool that automatically generates lairs, monsters and treasure based off the terrain of the classic OD&D wilderness map!
It's still WIP, but has been an enormous undertaking so far - I hope it's of use!
chaoclypse.itch.io/outdoor-surv...
This is very uncomfortable for me to do, but right now I'm having trouble getting by. I know a lot of you are struggling too, but if you can spare it and you've enjoyed my work in the past, I want to ask if you can spare a small tip.
ko-fi.com/alexdzuricky
Hardcover copy of The Shrike by Leo Hunt
Kickstarter delivery day!
This time, The Shrike by Leo Hunt, published by @joelhines.bsky.social
I wrote a thing about setting up a Play By Post game of @seanmccoy.bsky.social's Mothership game running @joelhines.bsky.social Desert Moon of Karth.
I plan on checking back a couple of times a month with a post on how it's going.
#ttrpg #osr #mothership #scifi
My copy of #TheShrike by Leo Hunt arrived this week! Brilliantly grimdark adventure module set in an abandoned corner of Hell. Some amazing NPCs in this too.
Another winner from @joelhines.bsky.social publishing
Out of the most successful ($100,000+ raised) crowdfunded TTRPG projects in 2023; 43 of 105 of those projects were Fifth Edition. In 2024, this has shrunk nearly 50% to 22 of 106. Wild times we're in, folks.
Data is from Tabletop Analytics and compiled by @mtblack.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy.
Hey all! Interloper, my new sandbox sci-fi mystery book for Mothership Month is wrapping up on Backerkit in 48 hours. Check it out if you dig rogue planets, failed utopias, murder investigations, and sweet retro art by Jacob Fleming.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
#MothershipMonth #MoshMo24
How did your party end up interacting with the crab people in Black Crag?
05.12.2024 09:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0ayy thanks!
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