Ben M | Periapt Games

Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,

colossal stone head @colossal-head.bsky.social the alt text field is where you imagine what guybrush threepwood might say if he examined your image September 5, 2024 at 5:56 PM

Sitting at The Computer and inadvertently hunching my shoulders so hard that my spine starts retracting into my neck and my legs into my spine

I saw a pair of quail with a whole wagonload of baby quail chicks a few weeks ago and was hoping to come back with photo evidence but they've proven very wily

Pixelated ham is to dancing skeleton gif as actual historical round black bomb with lit fuse is to memento mori

It's #SelfPromoSaturday which means I want to see the #ttrpg stuff you've got available today, whether it's #dnd #pathfinder or #indierpg

As always, don't forget;

👍 Like cool stuff

🗨 Engage with folks

🔃 Repost your favorites

🚫 No A.I Though

Overzealous: Your cult has no chill! A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.

Cheers all!

Make wizards out of Wikipedia articles using my zine bit.ly/wikiwiz

Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...

And my crowdfund is almost over for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult! bit.ly/ovze

Overzealous: Your cult has no chill! A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.

Nontraditional play!

Turn Wikipedia articles → wizards in this zine bit.ly/weirdwiz

Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...

And my crowdfund running for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult bit.ly/ovze

a bunch of blue rabbits holding hearts with the words " spread the love " below them Alt: a bunch of blue rabbits holding hearts with the words " spread the love " above them

It’s #SelfPromoSaturday

Show us your creative work - and boost other people’s

Salted Heart adventurers ... from 6 years ago?!

nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social [right before losing my job at the conjuration obelisk] ok but technically regular Coral *is* a Coral Elemental October 6, 2024 at 6:32 PM

Bandwagon: The Map is Not the Territory But It is the Topic — Prismatic Wasteland Announcing a new blog bandwagon! This time you have 80 days in which to write something on your blog about maps and/or to annotate/remix/expand a map drawn by the esteemed Amanda Lee Franck!

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

Let Me Make The Neopets TTRPG I Can Be Trusted With It

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

have taken to addressing the two cats collectively as “chat” in a dual language pun they do not appreciate

Finally got some good copyediting done today, having previously put it off in favour of wilting in the summer heat.

Overzealous: Your cult has no chill! A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.

One week to go!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...

If you're having a bad night, I cannot recommend this thread of a judge absolutely destroying an attorney that cited cases from AI enough

Weird maps: Three book reviews It's Febreviewary! Last month I set myself a  2026 challenge  to learn a bit more graphic design and got some practise in by making a new TT...

Too short; did read? Longer reviews here periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/weir...

Cropped page showing a basement serving a similar role of a cave to prehistoric people. A scavenged caution sign with a deer on it. Cave paintings. An old well used as a burial site.

3. A standout is 'City across time', a children's book showing how an imagined city changes over the centuries as archaeological strata are deposited. I'm a sucker for cross-sections and this hits. It got me hyped to keep working on Dungeon Dig Site, and maybe draw some cross-sections of my own.

Bird's eye view illustration of Vancouver with a kaiju baby wading.

Market Reef. An absurd kink in the island border between Sweden and Finland.

The Land of Oz. Map from an old book.

2. 'Strange maps: An atlas of cartographic curiosities' covers a lot of ground, taking as its subject "every unusual map we could find, historical or fictional". One of those books that has something for everyone, but I liked the examples from the real world (like Märket Reef) best.

Diagram for The Library of Babel showing the cell-like tessellating rooms of the library.

Map for Pride & Prejudice (cropped). Coloured roads representing characters' paths towards marriage.

Title for Moby Dick. Lettering is set as wooden flotsam.

1. 'Plotted: A literary atlas' converts classic literature into maps. It's a hit-or-miss premise which works really well for Moby Dick, the Library of Babel, and Pride & Prejudice, but is stretched thin when applied to e.g. a 128-word poem.

Weird maps: Three book reviews It's Febreviewary! Last month I set myself a  2026 challenge  to learn a bit more graphic design and got some practise in by making a new TT...

It's Febreviewary! As part of my ongoing attempt to learn a bit more graphic design, I've been reading art books. Here's my reviews of three books of weird maps.

periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/weir...

The Thunder Perfect Mind An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG

I'm captivated by Tanya's new RPG in which you (an undead revenant) form a Mystery Cult to help resolve your toxic nostalgia for your past life.

"An occult action thriller TTRPG for 1-7 people" with a focus on interpersonal drama and occult investigation!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...

Let Us Parley! by Chaoclypse Reaction & Parley for solo RPGs!

LET US PARLEY! is out!

It's a free system-neutral reaction/parley system for solo RPGs - I've been tweaking it for about a year now, and have been actively using it in my games!

I'll probably continue to tweak it, but it is complete in its current state - Enjoy!

chaoclypse.itch.io/let-us-parley

(someone I know was doing a research project with art students asking them to use image generation AI stuff for their art class and I told them they couldn’t force students to use it and so they changed the research design on my insistence and EVERY SINGLE STUDENT REFUSED TO USE IT AHAHAHAHAHA)

*Bruce Springsteen voice*

Saying mantras to help me go to sleep like:

Japanese Snowball

This looks kinda gory-creepy-cute!