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Luke 🦆

@aethercorp.games
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Tabletop board game and RPG creator. Current: aether.click/reducks Past: Field Agent Handbooks, A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG, Double D6, Coiled.Spæce, and Orchidelirium Also a UX designer (and a bit burnt out) www.aethercorp.games

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/09/2026
Border Morris dancers & last of the summer sunflowers (well, the fake one in my car anyway)
Watercolour painting of very simple shapes vaguely resembling Morris dancers with top hatsAn actually-not-awful watercolour of a sunflower head in front of a couple of leaves
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 06/09/2026
I think is improving
A small watercolour picture of a ruined castle on a hill being held up in front of the castle on a hill
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 31/08/2026
Don't tell anyone but I quietly released another expansion this week just gone for 'A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG'... A Guide to Somewhere — An easy formula to create locations for your characters Now also on @rpgtrader.bluesky.social! rpg-trader.com/products/875...
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A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG on RPG Trader
A play anything/everywhere micro RPG for your pocket
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 27/08/2026
All the best packaging is hand stamped packaging. Stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp...
Close up of black, unfolded business card envelopes stamped with 'A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG, an ever-expanding card-sized experiment in _ parts, collectors edition' in white ink with the rubber stamps beside them on a wooden table
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The Rook & The Raven @therookandtheraven.com · 12/08/2026
If you ship to Europe and you’re worried about the new PPWR, we wrote up an explainer on it and why we don’t think you actually need to worry over at corvocattivo.it And here’s the threads posts referenced in the write-up:
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Women Of TTRPG @womenofttrpg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
✨The Women of TTRPG website is live✨ Check it out for all our latest news, seminars and interviews. We’re making our previous interviews available here too, with a whole bunch already there, including last week’s interview with @maraholmes_ . Go check it out! www.womenofttrpg.com
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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
TRY ON A DIFFERENT IDENTITY FOR A DAY is my submission for #58mmRPGJam! 📛 It's a convention game where you get to take on a new name. aryl-ether.itch.io/toad
Photo showing the 58mm RPG on badges of different colours, with various funny misspelled names written on them. There are a few non-permanent markers next to the badges.
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/07/2026
I don't mean to brag but I've just found out there's a 'Print as Booklet' option under 'Pages per side' dropdown under the Layout settings when you go to print something in iOS My life will be split in twain with this moment as the mark forevermore
A screenshot of the Pages per Side dropdown with the Print as Booklet option sneakily ensconced at the bottom of a list of selectable numbers (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 16)
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A really nice thoughtful review of Full Send by @idlecartulary.itch.io , do I agree with every criticism? No, (I'd probably do the information design the same way if I did it again) but I'm extremely glad that somebody took the time to read it. idlecartulary.com/2026/06/29/i...
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I Read Full Send: A Game of Mountaineering
I Read Games reviews are me reading games when I have nothing better to do, like read a module or write or play a game. I don’t seriously believe that I can judge a game without playing it, usually…
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Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 06/07/2026
If you wish TTRPGS were more like birding, I’d encourage y’all to consider looking at Field Agent’s Handbooks, a TTRPG on the birding end of the TTRPG to birding spectrum. Super unique. idlecartulary.com/2025/12/24/c...
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Critique Navidad: The Field Agent Handbook
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
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Craig @whodo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Restock! Restock! Continue to rewrite your past (or is that your future?) and unleash the butterfly effect to wreck havoc on the timeline in The Words We Leave Behind!!! Or live out your life on a gigantic space station in Hopes and Dreams of the Orbital Bound, also available from @ipr.bsky.social
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 26/06/2026
Field Agent Handbook bundles and Calibration Records have made it over to IPR! www.indiepressrevolution.com Get all five Handbooks in a neatly wrapped... well, bundle.
IPR home page with the two newly-arrived Handbook listings clumsily circled in redA neatly wrapped bundle of Field Agent Handbooks
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 24/06/2026
Excitingly, Man Alone on YouTube has taken a real close look at Orchidelirium and how he adapts non-solo games for solo play: youtu.be/mHDjThjosPY?... Covers a couple of my other releases too with some kind words & valid criticisms before going into using multiple books together to bridge gaps...
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Unraveling Orchidelirium: How I Transform any Game into a SoloRPG (A Video for Patient People)
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 04/06/2026
NEW THIS MONTH: Field Agent Handbook - 1928 Colossus by @aethercorp.games 🗻 Love getting out into nature? Imagining fantastic beings? Giants once populated this land - find evidence them everywhere. A shoulder in the peak of a mountain, a face in a crumbling cliff, a knee in the curve of a hill
The cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1928. The notebook is brown with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled COLOSSUSAn interior example from Field Agent Handbook - 1928 Colossus. The lefthand page is titled Drawing and includes directions for how to sketch land masses in isometric perspective. The righthand page shows three stages of a drawing of a hill - first, as two cubes stacked. Second, with curvy lines around the cubes. Finally, as the Giant beneath the ground, with a nose and eyes
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 03/06/2026
NEW THIS MONTH: Field Agent Handbook - 1927 Tempus by @aethercorp.games 🕰️ Want to spice up a dreary commute? Sharpen your noticing skills? Appreciate the strange, beautiful world around you? Learn to identify, measure, and notate Time Pools. They're all around us, objects around which time collects
The cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1927. The notebook is dark gray with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled TEMPUSAn interior example from Field Agent Handbook - 1927 Tempus. The lefthand page is titled Observation and includes a diagram for how to fill out a Time Pool log (what info goes in what spots on the form). The righthand page is titled Reading and includes directions for how to take daily time measurements in the proximity the object of your observation
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 02/06/2026
NEW IN THE SHOP THIS MONTH: Field Agent Handbook - 1926 Communication from @aethercorp.games 🌿 Love plants? Spending time in nature? Imagining what non-human beings might want to tell us? Wander the verdant outdoors, be it hiking trail or neighborhood sidewalk. What will the plants there say to you?
The cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1926. The notebook is green with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled COMMUNICATIONAn interior example from Field Agent Handbook - Communication. The lefthand page is titled Size and includes directions for properly sketching the size and scale of plants. The righthand page is three frames with a silhouette of a tree in them, all demonstrating how to use a pencil to measure an object and accurately reproduce a drawing of that object on a smaller scale
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 01/06/2026
FRESH IN THE SHOP: Field Agent Handbook - 1925 Leviathan from @aethercorp.games ☁️ A solo observe-and-journal notebook game. Love clouds? Spending time outdoors? Imagining strange creatures? Search the sky for the leviathans who soar there and bring some (much-needed) whimsy to your day
The cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1925. The notebook is grey with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled LEVIATHANAn interior example from Field Agent Handbook - Leviathan. A two-page spread illustrating different types of clouds and their (real, actual) scientific names as well as how high in the sky they can be found. On the lefthand page, the title Cloud Type and a list outlining where leviathan can be found amongst the clouds
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 31/05/2026
Stay tuned this week as we feature Field Agent Handbooks! The Ætherial Corporation is an investigative organization. In the 1920s they produced a series of Guides, each covering the year’s most pressing matter of observance. Thanks to @aethercorp.games these are available to us, now, in the present
The cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1925. The notebook is grey with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled LEVIATHANThe cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1926. The notebook is green with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled COMMUNICATION
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urvy ✨ 🔜 PAXU @urvyfitz.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
and then looking forward to running ORCHIDELIRIUM from @aethercorp.games on Saturday, June 27 @ 15:30 CST as well as on @nerdswdice.bsky.social on Sunday, June 28 @ 19:00 CST
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Steph @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
If you don't use AI in your work swing by our stand or Rowan, Rook & Decard's for a free sign for your table. Boycotting an event like this simply does not work to effect change I'm afraid. You have to do it at the floor level. Help us make the stance clear about AI in our industry.
A red and white sign showing a NO AI logo and Hinokodo's human made logo
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 28/05/2026
Right #UKGamesExpo, I'm packed and coming for ya. In a bit. After a little lunch. And a trip to the petrol station. And then going back for whatever I've forgotten. But after that! Yeah, after that...
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 26/05/2026
Further...
Watercolour sketch of sun-dappled trees held up in front of the sun-dappled in the sketch
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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 22/05/2026
Need a full-on Go Outside break? Take an RPG! Try a Field Agent Handbook from @aethercorp.games Sky creatures, time pools, giants in the land, and chattering plants. Get exploring! You'll even practice "real" skills like drawing in perspective, cloud identification, and measuring distance and time
The cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1928. The notebook is brown with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled COLOSSUSThe cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1925. The notebook is grey with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled LEVIATHANThe cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1926. The notebook is green with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled COMMUNICATIONThe cover of The Ætherial Corporation's Field Agent Handbook. By the Observancy Department, Standard Issue 1927. The notebook is dark gray with a simple circular icon on the front. It's labeled TEMPUS
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 20/05/2026
Soon to be found in Portland, OR!
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 08/05/2026
The next three ✨collectors edition✨ cards of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG just showed up! (Obviously it's because I ordered them; the exclamation point is more because I *got around* to ordering them rather than suggesting surprise that they appeared as if from nowhere)
Fronts and backs of three business cards (illustrated worksheets on one side, game rules on the other) labelled 'Relationship Map' (illustrated in a mushroom theme), 'Solo RPG' (illustrated in a snow theme) and 'Tracking All The Things' (illustrated in a retro-digital theme)
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 05/05/2026
Hm...
A small watercolour of fields being held up in front of the fields in the picture
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 25/04/2026
Went camping, intended to write, did a paint sketch instead... it's like progress! But not. Slightly clearer head though so taking it as a win.
Watercolour painting of a pond and some trees in a sketch book being held up in front of the pond and trees
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Steph @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
With all the UKGE AI stuff going round: if you are vending this year and would like a free NO AI used sign for your table, email me (link in bio) so I can vet and add you to the list for one. Lets make these lazy grifters real uncomfortable.
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 19/04/2026
A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG now has a Thing Tracker—TRACK ALL THE THINGS! Also added a new plain'ish-text PWYW version, y'know, for funsies aethercorpgames.itch.io/wuats-this-a...
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A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG by ÆtherCorp Games
A play anything/everywhere micro RPG for your pocket
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 15/04/2026
Have you seen this!? 'Mazing
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/04/2026
Field Agent Handbooks alongside some excellent company!
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/04/2026
TTRPG about me First game: Star Wars Last game: A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG Longest game: D&D 5e Favourite game: Can't choose Favourite mechanics: Usage dice, physical props Favourite art: Mouseguard
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Now live on Twelve Pins Press: "Regime Change Super Soldiers" and Other Games. An incomplete anthology of smaller RPGs which comment on political violence, war and imperialism. Proceeds are donated to fund the revolution. Direct 🔗 in next post.
The cover and back page of a zine entitled "regime change super soldiers"A collection of political games by Laurie O’Connel, this incomplete anthology comments on political violence, war and imperialism. O’Connel’s modern take on the somewhat restrictive form of the role-playing game asks what a game writer or player living through the death agony of the US empire can possibly say about topics which are not at all “fun”. The four games within, Regime Change Super Soldiers, Man vs Beast (or: This Game Does Not Condone Murder), Manufacturing CNNsent, and High Score,  range in both number of participants and style, from one to many players and from tongue-in-cheek satire to direct participation. “You can tell from [O’Connel’s] art that he sees the world and does not blink.” Michael Elliot
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 08/04/2026
A boy looks puzzled at the ground while a man in a black turtle neck side-eyes the kid with the caption 'I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you Warren.'
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 28/03/2026
Highly suspicious sighting!! Field Agent Handbooks spotted on the @ipr.bsky.social stand at Pax East! Booth 12109 if you're there and would like to go hunting for more suspicious activity.
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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 19/02/2026
Pixel and Paper 0.0.1, markdown + CSS editor and PDF generator is live. Run it * in the browser, use app text editors * locally, use any text editor (Obsidian, VSCode...) Preview pixelppr.com Code and documentation github.com/the-coded-ty... #markdown #css #pdfgeneration #obsidian #vscode
Pixel and Paper Desktop version usage, right side markdown filed edited in Sublime text, left side PDF preview
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Seamus Conneely of Cannibal Halfling Gaming @cannibalhalfling.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Crowdfunding Carnival: Zine Month 2026 Welcome back to Crowdfunding Carnival! We’re more than halfway through February, and Zine Month is still going strong. As I covered a couple of weeks ago, Kickstarter’s Zine Quest and Backerkit’s Zinetopia are the key leaders of the month, with Kickstarter’s…
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Crowdfunding Carnival: Zine Month 2026
Welcome back to Crowdfunding Carnival! We’re more than halfway through February, and Zine Month is still going strong. As I covered a couple of weeks ago, Kickstarter’s Zine Quest and Backerkit’s Zinetopia are the key leaders of the month, with Kickstarter’s event currently a little more than double the size of Backerkit’s. Still, you’d be making a mistake if you didn’t check out both.
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Steph @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The handmade Toe Beans dice for #Daggerheart are Kickstarter-exclusive. Once the campaign ends on March 4, they’re gone for good! Each 9-piece set is crafted and painted by artisanal dice maker, @rollgothica.bsky.social Don’t miss them: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fis...
A set of handmide dice photographed closely on a blank background. They are pink, blue and purple in colour.
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 12/02/2026
I've wondered about this for a while now so it's good to see some numbers. I've also wondered about how much the TTRPG space might mirror the local music scene (wherever 'local' is for you) with innumerable bands, most of whom will only ever play small venues and maybe release an EP of rough...
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 12/02/2026
Keep chipping away at the to-play list — misunderstood the rules as written but enjoyed Nova Luna: nicely balanced with some light puzzling Do wonder if rule books now expect you to watch a 'how to play' video so they can avoid a couple more rounds of editing (might be a me problem though)
Board game laid out on a table with black& white wooden discs, colourful square cardboard tiles arranged around an illustrated circlular cardboard track
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Spilled Coffee Creatives - Ali and Nell @sccreatives.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We’re so excited to be guest writers for our friends’ incredibly clever game Punderworld, now live on Kickstarter! Check them out - it’s sure to be a rewording experience. www.kickstarter.com/projects/twi...
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Punderworld: A Tabletop Wordplaying Game
A game of puns to inflict on your friends.
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emma 🌙✨ gothHoblin @gothhoblin.me · 24/01/2026
One week left to apply 🖤
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Zine Month IS HERE!!! @zinemonth.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
How much should I playtest? Where do I get art? What do I charge for shipping? WHAT IS A ZINE!? Tuesday the 20th at 8p et join Tony from @plusoneexp.bsky.social @samsorensen.bsky.social & Yeet from @9thlevelgames.bsky.social as we answer any & all #ZiMoQuestions! #TTRPG Twitch.tv/TonyPlusOne
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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 17/01/2026
Thought I'd solved my zine storage problem — I did not. But the theory's sound! Ho hum.
A slim metal magazine rack packed tightly with RPG zines hanging from the end of a set of a set bookshelves packed tightly with RPG books (alongside some fiction books and LPs)
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Colin Le Sueur | By Odin’s Beard RPG @byodinsbeardrpg.com · 15/01/2026
Want to make your own #TTRPG art for #ZineQuest or #ZineMonth but all you’ve got are photos? Have no fear, follow these ██ steps and you, too, can have some cool art without having to go anywhere near slop. youtu.be/gFMYiNA2bMk?... Many thanks to @chaoclypse.bsky.social for his previous tutorial!
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Turn Photos into Zine Art
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Steph @fistfulofcrits.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Toe Beans is now live for sign up on Kickstarter! ☕🐾 Our 5e module returns in this magical cat café supplement for Daggerheart with cozy quests, enchanted drinks, magical items, real recipes, brand new art and an exclusive new story to play! #Daggerheart #TTRPG Launching Feb 2nd! shorturl.at/8pN1A
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Coming soon: Toe Beans Magical Cat Cafe: A Supplement for Daggerheart
Welcome to Toe Beans, a magical cat cafe purrfect to drop in to your Daggerheart game, by Fistful of Crits.
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Rob Harris @playtestuk.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is a great competition for your as-yet-unpublished prototype.
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Yanahn @yanahn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Also there is a real cool showcase zero bundle spotlighting real interesting rpg work from the server
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 07/01/2026
#TTRPG Designers, players, & related nerds: @ttrpgcataloging.bsky.social is a group of Library & Information Science MA students are working on a research project focused on improving cataloging for TTRPGs — unbelievably important work! They’re seeking participants for interviews.
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Elliot Davis | Pre-Save To Feel Your Warmth @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We are looking for Zine Month creators to feature on Talk of the Table! Please please please fill out this form so we can talk to you about your cool new game!
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Talk of the Table x Zine Month 2026
This form is to express interest in being featured on one of Talk of the Table's Zine Month Special Episodes throughout the month of February. Submission of this form is not a guarantee to be featured...
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