Rich Forest

@stevejacksongames.bsky.social Thank you again for The Fantasy Trip! We played it in the heart of pandemic quarantine with our three oldest kids, and now we’re playing it with number Child #4. (Four is enough. You won’t get more kids for your game from us. It’s someone else’s turn.)

@adevenney.bsky.social feels

It’s 1984 and you’re training for the big karate tournament 🥋

#80s #synthwave #cobrakai #nostalgia #80smusic

This is so effing rad.

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Hello Bluesky! We've made the jump over here. We're Central Michigan University Press, an academic publisher putting out scholarly and educational games. We do a double-blind peer review process for everything we release. Give us a follow if you want to learn more about our games!

In addition to fishin' for reposts and sign-ups to the pre-launch mailing list, I'm also on the hunt for artists. I'd especially like to commission transgender folks, folks of color, and members of the LGBTQIA2S+ communities.

Image of the Scissorman snipping a thumb-sucking child’s thumb off with huge scissors, from a 19th century German children’s book, standing in for the Rainy City Thumbcutter.

Newly re-established Department for the Maintenance of Grounds, Bounds, and Hedges in the Headlands of the Rainy City had a curious first day of work tonight. We had to deal with a fey spirit called the Thumbcutter who was causing trouble near the Fugger-Papenheim estate. Better not suck your thumb!

My first supplement for Blades in the Dark is out now!
Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts is a 118-page expansion for the game, a treasure trove of lore, setting material, and modified mechanics I've developed over the years (details follow)

Itch johnharper.itch.io/deep-cuts
DriveThru shorturl.at/pKhsZ

Today I'm working on the Forerunner, an extended playbook for AW:Burned Over, where you play from the beginning of the apocalypse instead of starting 50 years later.

If you're playing Forerunners, everyone is. You play to find out which playbooks you'll change to.

It's coming together super well.

Guida Turistica alla Città delle Piogge | Nigredo Press Con la Guida Turistica alla Città delle Piogge, avrai un'ambientazione per un qualsiasi gioco di ruolo per una città dove non smette mai di piovere!

The Visitor’s Guide to the Rainy City by @richforest.bsky.social & @warbeard.bsky.social has been translated into an Italian version by Nigredo Press. For our Italian friends and supporters, check it out!

nigredopress.it/guida-turist...

A triptych of images depicting scenes from Blades in the Dark, including an industrial-age airship, a dark ritual in the void sea, and a rooftop chase.

It's spooky season, and what's spookier than the haunted streets of Doskvol? Probably a good time for me to release my expansion supplement for Blades in the Dark, right?

Announcement coming soon. Keep your eyes peeled and your blades sharp. ;)

The year has withered to pale grass that none will ever cut. Spirits that slept in the dappling of summer's sun now begin to wake, walk old paths. A wise witch knows that the song of harvest always contains voices no longer at the feast. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

A full page black and white illustration of a woman with an iron crown, fur cape and sword. She is wearing armor on her hips, shoulders and torso. She's stands in front of the steps of ancient ruins. Above the sword is a list of prices for ordering illustrations.

Long overdue commission sheet.
Since there are no dm's here, I can be reached at:
wspytma@gmail.com

My face at the end of a run on a snowy day , tired, smiling.

Snow. A run. Coffee. A fire in the fireplace. A barrel aged stout. Beef stew. A book.

Love.

Good.

A high contrast black and white digital illustration, in a medieval woodcut style of Conan, wielding a large sword against an axe wielding skeleton.

Hither came Conan...to beat the ass of some skeleton or something...

@warbeard.bsky.social

Sitting in a coffee shop, watching the rain.

The other thing I really want to do is the idea of running an rpg campaign using a modern wargame as the chassis.

Black Ops or Spectre Operations for GI Joe style gaming, And a Bottle of Rum for a pirate rpg thing.

Was just reading Pacesetter Chill and it really clicked for me this time, which hadn’t happened before.

Like I really like RQ/BRP as a basis for horror gaming but Call of Cthulhu comes with a lot of Cthulhu elements built in.

Have to think about what my equivalent list is. I could definitely run with a lot of these.

Heavy Gear (1e maybe even) is probably the big one here for me.

Ars Magica for a middle length campaign maybe.

Traveller, Ghostbusters 1e, James Bond 007 also yeah.

Oh man that’s cool

I feel like I have pretty solid rules knowledge of TFT but this is giving me a new lense to reread the combat rules. 😁

I’ll do that soon! (In kid sports drop off purgatory)

Over the last 11 years, our game group has played 758 RPG sessions.

I was GM for 303 of those.

Here it is as a picture. My GMing 2012-today.