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Robin Marx

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Tokyo-based American working in the video game industry. Role-playing gamer and goth/industrial music fan. He/him. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ dice.camp/@Ashigaru, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19h
8th Dungeon of the Mad Mage session of 2026, first in five months. After looting a secret treasure vault, we found ourselves in a swampy level full of elusive bullywugs. Using a newly recovered Ring of Tongues to talk with them, we befriended the bullywugs and learned of a nearby yuan-ti temple […]
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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20h
The Halls of #ardenvul, session 51 The party braces against the baboon assault inside the barricaded library. Using molotov cocktails and spears, they held firm against the first wave of attack, and forced the beasts to retreat. Wounded and outnumbered, they still pressed on the attack and […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
The Halls of Arden Vul (OSRIC) Session 51: We were barricaded in the Library of Thoth with a massive horde of baboons (led by giant four-armed ones) just outside. As they broke down the door we threw out flaming oil flasks, stabbed through with spears, attacked their morale with displays of […]
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Doing the trendy book thing, too. #My9Books #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery #AmReading
Text reading “The 9 Books I’ll Never Forget” is printed above a grid of nine book covers: The Elric Saga Part 1 by Michael Moorcock; The Three of Swords by Fritz Leiber; The Essential Conan by Robert E. Howard; The Night Land (Unabridged) by William Hope Hodgson; Lost Worlds by Clark Ashton Smith; The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins; Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance; Vorkosigan’s Game by Lois McMaster Bujold.
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Brindlewood Bay Session 5: We solved a murder mystery at an antique store silent auction. We did it in the same way we always do: collect random unconnected clues until we no longer have a penalty on the Theorize dice roll and then the most engaged player BSes a semi-plausible story around them […]
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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
The halls of #ardenvul, sessions 49 and 50. The party was looking for its captured friends, and instead found the druid Gerrilad and the mage Isocritis at the library of Thoth. A successful ambush quickly took down the squishy druid and mage. The fight against the Logovores (one of the coolest […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Good to be playing again after nearly a month off. My group managed some board game nights with a visiting former member during that time, but RPGs >>> board games in my book.
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
The Halls of Arden Vul (OSRIC) Session 50(!): Last session we took out Garrilad, druid ruler of the baboon level, leaving his reluctant mage assistant(?) Isocritis and a squad of zombie baboons. We tried to talk him down, but he was hostile. Turn Undead with a Destroy result took care of the […]
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Boneji ☠️ @bearji.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Welcome! Come on in." Skeletons: "Ayyy, you're here!"
Japanese Dungeons & Dragons Basic ruleset cover art. A young woman in light armor with a bow in her hair and a sword at her side smiles and gestures casually towards a pair of giant open doors, behind which wait skeletons and a winding stairway rising into a glowing star.
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
If you want to get a bunch of new or previously released Conan RPG & board game stuff by Monolith, here’s your opportunity. The board game catch-up options look great, but I have shelves full of as yet unplayed HeroQuest stuff, so I’m sticking with just the new RPG books (ignoring the unplayed […]
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Bryan H. Rombough @bryanrombough.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Another new 3D printed resin miniature for #HeavyGear. This time the Mastodon, the beefed-up version of the Mammoth, created for Heavy Gear Blitz. #Miniatures #Mecha #MechaGaming #Wargaming #MiniaturesWargames […] [Original post on dice.camp]
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Wizards of the Coast has really been dropping the ball on a whole new segment of D&D players: Retirement Communities. You got millions of people all hanging out in the same place all the time with nothing to do. Get them into TTRPGs. Make large print versions of key books, oversized high […]
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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
“The practice ended in a draw and took 18 months to complete alongside their jobs and everyday lives.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmvgyqy… #TheCampaignForNorthAfrica #SPI #Wargames #Games
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Newcastle friends embark on 20-year board game battle
James Purcell and Andy Taeger are confident their friendship will survive the test.
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
I enjoyed the latest televised adventures of notorious murder hobo Jack Reacher.
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Brindlewood Bay Session 3: We solved another mystery, this time involving a murder at a charity poker tournament. Still not digging the game. I came up with a plausible solution to the mystery, but failed the Theorize roll so I was wrong. I’m not good at roleplaying an old woman. I’m not a […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
The Halls of Arden Vul (OSRIC) Session 49: No sign of our captured comrades, but we stumbled across the evil druid ruler of the baboon-infested dungeon level separated from the bulk of his guards. After some debate we decided to take advantage of the opportunity and ambush him. We set up […]
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Shawn Tomkin @shawntomkin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hot take: when you run a crowdfunder, you're obligated to update backers once a month until fulfilled. And you can't be (publicly) grumbly about it. Just pop in and make the update. Might be not-fun if you have no news or bad news, but them's the breaks. You opted-in to that responsibility.
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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
A new puzzle game with an RPG theme to try, should such a thing appeal: Word Dungeon. word-dungeon.com #WordGames #Puzzles #Games #RPG
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Word Dungeon — A Hand-Drawn Word Puzzle Dungeon Adventure
Hand-drawn word puzzle dungeons. Spell your way from entrance to exit, looting treasure and claiming gems.
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
⚔️📚NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS 2026 is live! 📚⚔️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
⚔️📚NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS 2026 is live! 📚⚔️

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/new-edge-sword-sorcery-novellas-2026
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
ICYMI, my recent Grimdark Magazine review of Cormac Mac Art: Isle of Swords by Matthew John is now mirrored at my review archive blog. Mud-caked melees and dirty tactics! robinmarx.writeas.com/review-archiv… #BookReview #Books #Booksky […]
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Tim_Eagon @tim-eagon.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Mork Borg has an official hot sauce now. I've seen everything. That's a wrap folks, we're done here. www.chachosauce.com/shop/p/liquid-m… #TTRPG #MorkBorg #HotSauce #Food #Absurdity #Capitalism
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Liquid Misery Pre-Order — Chacho Hot Sauce
THE END IS NIGH. IT TASTES LIKE MISERY. Be the first to burn your mouth— STOCKHOLM KARTELL ✚ CHACHO join up at the cauldron to conjure the official, blistering MÖRK BORG hot sauce, Liquid Misery . Perfect for when your character just died but you still want to feel something. LIQUID MISERY
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
I really, really like Apocalypse World 2e but so far I’ve been disappointed by every other game I’ve played that uses the Powered by the Apocalypse system. I guess it’s rare to find game designers with chops of a similar caliber as the Bakers’.
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Brindlewood Bay Session 2: We fumbled our way through, solving the murder mystery with pretty scant evidence. A yacht captain had killed his employer to cover up an affair and love child with the employer’s wife. I’m trying to be a good sport, but I’m not feeling this game at all. I’m not a […]
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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I just noticed that my coffee table book, Nordic Larp, which came out in 2010, won the Diana Jones award, and has been available as a free download for over a decade, has been downloaded more than 30 thousand times. trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024...
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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Halls of #ArdenVul, session 48 (after a big hiatus!) The group goes back to the Baboon level, with the objective of trying to find their friends who got captured by the druid Gerrilad. Carefully exploring the rooms, they avoid encountering any baboons. They do not find their friends, but come […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
The Halls of Arden Vul (OSRIC) Session 48: Back in the dungeon after a month of cancelled sessions! We’ve decided that “Never leave a man behind” is our party ethos, so we returned to the druid-ruled baboon hell level in search of our Charmed fighter henchman and downed magic-user, both MIA […]
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
S&S fans: the first issue of Swords Against! Sword & Sorcery Fiction Magazine is now available! www.mysticbull.com/post/swords-agai… #Fantasy #SwordAndSorcery
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Swords Against! Sword & Sorcery Fiction Magazine
Pick up issue #1 of Swords Against! A sword & sorcery fiction periodical packed with heart-pounding stories accented by great art. Our magazine explores the boundaries between the old and new, challenges where the genre is and was, and tells some kick-ass stories. This is the digital version of the magazine.
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 22/08/2026
Today I had a disappointing visit to a large, bright, clean, and crowded tabletop gaming store that had a significant section dedicated to RPGs but it stocked only and exclusively Dungeons & Dragons. They're doing their patrons a disservice.
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If You’ve Only Ever Played D&D, You’re Missing Out
Tabletop RPGs are story engines. Why would you want to tell only one kind of story?
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
The Backerkit campaign for Seers in a Broken Season is in its final days, and my early look made me very happy I’d backed it! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/old-mo…
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
New at my blog, a review of Seers in a Broken Season by Jonathan Olfert! An Ice Age tale of Stone & Sorcery starring a warrior wooly mammoth! (As always, boosts are appreciated!) robinmarx.writeas.com/review-seers-… #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Whenever a new Dungeons & Dragons video game is announced I never investigate further and just assume it’s going to be cancelled. A pretty accurate assumption post-Baldur’s Gate 3. #VideoGames #DnD
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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
The subtle signs that you are living with a gamer. #RPG
A pencil lying on a wooden surface. It is orange, has obviously been sharpened many times, and has a pink eraser on one end crimped into a short metal sleeve. On the barrel of the pencil in white capital letters it reads INSTRUMENT OF INSCRIPTION +2.
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
It’s been almost three weeks since my last RPG session, this has not been a good month for any of my gaming groups… #TTRPG
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
My review of Cormac Mac Art: Isle of Swords by Matthew John just went up at Grimdark Magazine! A fast-paced and gritty adventure involving one of Conan creator Robert E. Howard’s more underutilized characters. (As always, boosts are appreciated!) […]
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Tim_Eagon @tim-eagon.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
It looks like the Diamond Comic Estate and the consigners whose stock was in limbo in their old warehouse have reached a settlement: www.comicsbeat.com/its-over-diamond… #TTRPG #Comics
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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I think, according to Jung, we were looking for vaginas when we were crawling through dungeons in Dungeons and Dragons. ... ... He's either incredibly wrong or incredibly right.
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Tab Creations @tabcreations.com · 03/08/2026
What's the longest your party has ever spent planning something that completely fell apart? #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity
Tweet by Sascha Stronach: 'D&D is a game where you sit around arguing about your plan for 25 minutes and then do not follow that plan.' The tweet was posted at 4:40 PM on 3/14/21 via Twitter Web App.
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
ICYMI, my critique of Profane Altars: Weird Sword & Sorcery is now up at my review archive blog. This review was originally printed last year in New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine Issue #6. (As always, boosts are appreciated!) […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
The Halls of Arden Vul (OSRIC) Session 47: Reunited on the surface after having fled combat separately, we search above ground for the obelisks for which the ankh we recovered is supposed to act as a key. Bumped into WAY too many ghosts and wraiths when entering ruined buildings, but we Scooby […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
Mail call! I received issue #5 of the Hobonomicon art zine for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. Fun series with great art. #TTRPG #DCCRPG #Zines
An 8.5” x 11” sized zine printed with “The Hobonomicon #5” near the top. The cover features an illustration of female figures along with disembodied eyes, tree branches, and occult symbols.

Also shown is a printed sticker drawing of a horned skull holding a D20 along with the text “Are you feelin’ lucky?” and a signed “Packed by Chaos Lord:” label signed by a staffer named Marvolo.
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
Brindlewood Bay Session 0 + 1: Did character creation, safety tool review (not that it’s really needed with this particular group), mechanics intro, and then into the Dad Overboard mystery. It’s interesting so far, but my frame of reference for investigations is mostly Call of Cthulhu and […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026
[Mild Tomb of Armansquagulat spoilers?] A former RPG group member is visiting from overseas, so we played a level one Old School Essentials one-shot, which I’m informed is “The Tomb of Armansquagulat” by the 3d6 Down the Line podcast people. While attempting to loot a goblin chieftain’s tomb […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Mail call! Some books from two previous crowdfunding campaigns arrived. Got The Veiled God, an adventure campaign for Barbarians of Lemuria, and Dungeon Denizens 2 for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and some other books made available for preorders at the same time […] [Original post on dice.camp]
Seven roleplaying books grouped together: the Mother of Monsters adventure for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, the DCC Dying Earth Tome of Adventure, the “monster skin” limited edition Dungeon Denizens 2 hardcover and Bonus Monster Booklet, the Mutant Crawl Classics RPG Book of Monstrous Mutants, The Veiled God for Barbarians of Lemuria, and 2-Page Dungeon Delves II.
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Tim_Eagon @tim-eagon.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
Three kernels of ideas for TTRPGs, Fire & Smoke edition. 1. A dryad's tree is threatened by an encroaching forest fire. How can you help? 2. An entire village is blanketed by a miasma of smog except for one deserted house, whose environs is crystal clear. Everyone wants you to investigate. 3 […]
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Claus @wrench.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
Hallls of #ArdenVul, session 46 The fight with Gerrilad goes south very quickly, as the lead fighter is taken down by a druid spell that covers him in insects, and the giant baboons take down two more adventurers. The party quickly retreat, but two of their members are captured, and the gnome […]
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Boneji ☠️ @bearji.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Don't have your players' party meet in a tavern, it's a tired cliche." They're trying to take away third places in D&D now too!?
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Robin Marx @robinmarx.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
New at my blog, a review of Old Gods and Other Tales by Scott Oden! Eleven stories spanning Sword & Sorcery, historical fantasy, and straight historical fiction. Action, overwhelming odds, and desperate last stands! Winner of the Robert E. Howard Foundation’s 2026 Costigan Award for Literary […]
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Robin Marx @ashigaru.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
The Halls of Arden Vul (OSRIC) Session 46: We burst in on the evil boss druid Gerrilad and his baboon cohort (some of them 9’ tall and four-armed) torturing a dwarf. We attempted to fight them, but the fight QUICKLY turned against us. We fled, but my fighter hireling was Charmed to stay and a […]
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Tim_Eagon @tim-eagon.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
Unfortunate news for Pathfinder fans: www.archivesofnethys.com/agreement.… #Pathfinder #Pathfinder2e #Paizo
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Archives of Nethys
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Doing what we can to keep one eye on #portfolioday but please know if you think you could rock some Sword & Sorcery art for us you can always send a portfolio link via our contact form: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/contact/ If we decide you're a good fit for an upcoming project we'll get in touch.
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