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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 hats

An actually-not-awful watercolour of a sunflower head in front of a couple of leaves

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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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 27/07/2026

*yet! (Hopefully/eventually/maybe-lly/with any luck-ily)

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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

*it printed, I folded and stapled

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/07/2026

Can confirm! Can confirm! Printed on A4, folded in half, stapled—page numbers all in correct order, much shock & excitement

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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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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 09/07/2026

Fabulous :) once I've got the duck book I'm working on out the way I can put a little more thought into it but give me a nudge if there's anything you want to talk over

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 08/07/2026

Did my email make it over to you?

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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 · 30/06/2026

...follow up with the others to see how they're getting on but such is the way of a very relaxed wandering band—we're just doing bits when we can and I think the when-we-can has been very limited for all of us so far.

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 30/06/2026

Hello! There's a Google form over on the 'Contribute!' page to fill in after which I'll send over a login: theforesthymn.band/contribute There's a few in-progress text-based items in there at the minute & I'd not considered illustrations but they would certainly be welcome. I should really...

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Contributions

Contribute to the band's repertoire can be requested by filling out a form

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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 red

A neatly wrapped bundle of Field Agent Handbooks

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 24/06/2026

—and 2) what exactly they'll want/need from the system. Vols. II & III of Orchidelirium *will* be coming at some point (more settings, auctions, & orchids! campaign & solo play!) but I desperately need to get what I've taken to referring to darkly as 'The Duck Book' done and dusted first—ho hum

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 24/06/2026

There's an interesting comment in there too about how the conversion to solo play itself is an aspect of his play experience which is something I don't know what to do with yet but do think is important in terms of 1) who the eventual solo-able/GM-less version will be made for...

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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)

YouTube video by Man Alone

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 17/06/2026

Floofs have all disappeared into the night so have a plant I found on the headland the other evening instead— I thought its pink weirds the eyes

Large pink daisy-like flowers with yellow centres

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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 COLOSSUS

An 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 TEMPUS

An 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 COMMUNICATION

An 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 LEVIATHAN

An 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

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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.

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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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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

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 20/05/2026

Soon to be found in Portland, OR!

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 11/05/2026

That avoids terms altogether though (beyond "player") so maybe not the answer you're looking for? Although, do you even need a universal name for GM? The role itself changes so much between games & even between GMs so maybe you only a shorthand noun within any specific ruleset for *that* ruleset

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 11/05/2026

"It's game set in a [fantasy]* world where one player describes what the other players—acting as characters in that world—see, smell & hear. They then decide what they do or say in response and [roll dice]* to see what happens next" * adjust description of genre/base mechanic to taste

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 08/05/2026

I think I might also be too concerned about the use of exclamation points. Or possible overuse. Maybe improper use. And about whether they're points or marks. Answer on a postcard to the usual address.

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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 · 08/05/2026

Yes, some maybe more than others—I think the further removed from the first person the less the label applies but they're still part of the same family

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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 · 15/04/2026

!!! That is, quite frankly, fantastically amazing :D

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Luke 🦆 @aethercorp.games · 13/04/2026

Actually there's some more in the thread that I think I need to check out

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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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