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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Question Two: For the fiction side, I don't rely much on music at all when writing or plotting. But when getting ready to run TTRPGs I spend SO MUCH time putting together soundscapes and playlists to get the right vibe while writing those up, never even share with my players

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Question 1: I'm Astraelith! I write Horror Journaling Games and am currently working on a Folk Horror / LitRPG manuscript. I am currently listening to a lot of female fronted Rock, including: Halestorm, DIAMANTE, The Pretty Reckless, Dorothy, Halocene & Butcher Babies

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I attempted to do a sneak peak of Archivium 2.0 for @solorpgday.com which turned into a bit of a how to play. Overly long, potentially rambling. youtu.be/PWvmmeNItaM I am so very out of practice with content creation, video editing and just speaking like a human in general. Pfft

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Archivium 2.0 | Sneak Peek & How to Play | Solo RPG Day | Dark Academia Journaling Game

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Archivium 2.0 - Book 4: Spades = drafted and laid out! 1,080 pages down, 320 to go until feature complete. Then the fun (terrifying) part: art & polishing. We might just have Archivium 2.0 ready for a suitably spooky month release. I'm so slow at art #solorpg #ttrpg #darkacademia #journalinggame

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I am once again begging folks to understand the difference between ‘I don’t like this’ and ‘Nobody likes this’. You are not the main character of the world. Readers and authors have different tastes. You are not the arbiter of what authors should and should not put into books.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

As someone who loves: world building, character creation, and deep narrative experiences. Journaling games are some of the most relaxing creative fun you can have. Different than just writing a story because there's so much less pressure. You don't gotta plot. You don't need story structure.

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ready for launch! Darkheart Games is on @rpg-trader.bsky.social 🎉 I’m happy to announce the availability of PHYSICAL COPIES for both my popular vampire romance game MIDNIGHT’S KISS (4500+ downloads on Itchio & counting 🦇) & - HELP! I’M TRAPPED IN A GOTHIC NOVEL #soloRPG #vampires #Goth

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Darkheart Games on RPG Trader

Immersive, story-driven journaling games and solo rpgs. I'm an award-winning queer GenX creator from NE Ohio. I write character-focused roleplaying games with horror, gothic, and afterlife themes. Dar...

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

You know my favourite thing about #soloRPG? Some of them are so weird! You look at them and you are like... how? why? and I know this is true for indie TTRPGs in general because there's no need to suckle at the corpo teat, but there's a special kind of weird to solo games. Please never change! ❤️❤️❤️

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Spent some time this week working on early cover concepts for Archivium 2.0. Just poking at shapes, colours, and vibes. Definitely not final #soloRPG #journalinggame

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Last month I mentioned to my Discord that I had created a personal curriculum to upskill my own #TTRPG Design skills, and some people were interested in seeing how I process the learning, so I am starting a 10-12 week series lichlight.substack.com/p/week-1-loo...

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Week 1: Loops and Motivation

TTRPG Design 201 - Personal Curriculum

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It’s my birthday!! 🎂 Celebrate with me by snagging a free community copy of The Archivium, a dark academia/cozy horror soloRPG about dodgy societies, creepy libraries and bad decisions at university. lichlight.itch.io/the-archivium #ttrpg #solorpg #indiegame #journaling

30 community copies of Archivium has been released.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

POV: you are autistic and feel the need to plan your entire life, but you also have ADHD and just know your lovingly built structure will soon go up in smoke 😭 Anyhoo, big plans for 2026! Lots to do. Many games. Much art. If you see me waffling about, please shame me back into productivity.

A digital dashboard titled "The War Room – Q1: The Forge (Jan to Mar)" showing a quarterly planner for 2026. It covers six sections: LichLight GameDev, Art, Health, Writing, Day Job Bullshit, and Astraelith. Each section includes goals, curriculum, and energy cost notes.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Hi hi, still alive, just deep in dev. The Coldest Shoulder, our folk-horror roadtrip TTRPG, finished playtest phase. Ticket to Tithe, a cozy fae tour-guide solo game, goes to playtest in December. Hoping to launch both early 2025. And I am considering runnning a small KS to print The Archivium.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

reminder, if you are supporting indie developers this black friday, Itch's Creator day has all sales going to the developer for a 24 hr period. All my own soloRPGs will be 50% off - itch.io/s/170401/bla...

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Oh what the actual fuck Youtube?! I now have to pay to not listen to people talk slow? What complete and utter horseshit.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Today I had a 6 hour nap, followed by takeout because I felt too lazy to cook dinner, followed by 2 hours of just staring out into space doing nothing. I should never be allowed afternoon naps. I am utterly zombified

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We just dropped our last planned expansion for The Archivium, bringing in a way to learn the arcane and dark arts. To celebrate we put together the full collection bundle - 600 pages of #darkacademia / #cozyhorror #soloRPG madness Grab: itch.io/s/159345/the... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Shows the covers of the 6 dark academia / cozy horror solo journaling RPG books available in The Archivium Complete Collection

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I am slowly getting back into content creation! The rigging is still not there but attempts are being made. Be a dear and drop a view on this short: www.youtube.com/shorts/f3eH7... I am participating in a 30 day challenge where views can help me win art school subscription. #artchallenge #vtuber

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Can I learn to love Environment Art? 30 Day ArtWOD Roadmap Challenge Part 1

YouTube video by Death, Dice and Diaries

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Elloriah ⛩️🪭| UndeRealm | Maiden of Mischief @elloriahvt.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Just a quick reminder to help support your favourite streamers! Remember to throw a !lurk, a quick "hey" or channel point redeem so that your view is being counted on the purple app. There is news going around stating that lurkers are now being treated as bots which has yet to be confirmed!

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

It irks me that I cant use Paypal on Steam or Kickstarter. Getting the money out of Paypal in my country is a pain in the backside, let me at least use it to support other developers!

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Calling into the radio station to request a song and then waiting with your fingers on the record button of the tape deck because you have to time it just right to cut off the DJ speaking over the bloody song!

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

so, about that roadmap... www.patreon.com/posts/mid-ye... I used to write Devlogs every month, but then I forgot / got lazy. Figured it might be good to look back at everything we've done so far and all the things still coming. I am all verklempt. This is more than I ever thought I'd accomplish

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Thank you ADHD for sometimes masking the autism quirks. Yay for a new special interest every month. Not yay for having the opposite problem with verbal communication i.e. overly fast and often told to calm down. Thank you mom for over correcting eye-contact, I guess? Now I stare into people's souls

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I may or may not have something a-brewing and a-meowing up my sleeve.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Archivium #soloRPG Drop! Codex 4: Idle Hands & Interludes now live A cozy, low-stakes expansion adding to downtime and off-shift moments: Campus traditions Town events Weekend parties Weather and seasons Hobbies Free for all Patreon members (no paid tier needed): www.patreon.com/posts/codex-...

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Codex 4: Idle Hands & Interludes – Suprise! | LichLight Imprints

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Gird your arteries. I spy a Tiny toothy shadow on the horizon...

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I just realized something. When I started working on #TheArchivium all I wanted to build was a game where you create spooky books for a spooky library. Now the more I add to it, the more I veer away from horror into the cozy aspects. It's becoming Sims: University the #TTRPG.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Should I, the world's slowest "artist", participate in #ArtFight this year?

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

someone is playing The Archivium?? on stream?? 😭🖋️💀 I hope the Archive treats you kindly (it won’t lol) y’all go show them some love on Friday!! #solorpg #ttrpg #TheArchivium #vtuber

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Wyldosis | UndeRealm | Scarecrow Slasher 🔪🐦‍⬛ @wyldosis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Ready for a trip to a completely safe summer camp? The gates of Camp Nightmare have officially opened! Check out all the new goodies in my summer asset debut live now over at ttv/wyldosis! Art by @nobufreak.bsky.social

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I made a thing! born out of corporate day job frustrations

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Shaun (Shaun of the Dead) + Chandler Bing (Friends) + Stuart Bloom (The Big Bang Theory) + Nick Miller (New Girl) what does this say about me? Am I the comic relief?!

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I may or may not be giving into temptation. Again. Damn you, dopamine starved brain! ALSO, why are all the games I am working on this year horror?! Is it me? Am I the problem.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Me: I am so tired of DnD, it's time for new systems Also Me: yes, but... I don't have these in my collection yet Also, also me: let's book a 3 hour DnD session for tomorrow! First day #comicconCapetown haul.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Good morning, Cape Town! Time to get cracking on the laziest possible cosplay for #comicconCapetown #ccct2025 It's my first comiccon, wish me luck. My social anxiety is screaming at me to abandon ship, but we drove 4 hours to get here 🤦

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Mossy💀🔜Comipara7 & CF23 @necromoss.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

sometimes we (i) forgot

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Ever so frustrated you just want to peel your own face off? I don't know how that would help the situation but I crave violence. Coworkers are surely testing me today. I want to deglove my meatsuit and haunt nightmares.

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Matt Joro @dungeonglitch.com · 08/04/2025

Shout out to the ppl working on their life projects and chasing dreams, especially if it involved learning 8-12 different new skills and took years, decades, to get everything ready and never got around to it but the end of the world is a convincing motive for completing that thing you said you’d do

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I may or may not be working on a new project and am still waffling on an art direction for it.

Digital drawing of cracked asphalt with something red seeping up through the cracks

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I am considering messy crazy just crawled out me coffin hair. Not that I would have a coffin, having never been buried. Whatevs. Also I seem to have forgotten how to do a painterly style :( No, I will not be taking queries about why the rigging is still not done 5 months later. I suck. That's why.

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LichLight Imprints @lichlight-imprints.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Codex 03: The Academic Register is now live! Expand your Archivium playthrough with classes, electives, exams, and extracurricular chaos. + community copies of the base game on Itch 💀 Itch: lichlight.itch.io/archivium-co... DTRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #ttrpg #solorpg #darkacademia

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Archivium Codex 03 The Academic Register + Bonus Codex 2 by LichLight Imprints

Even more Dark Academia in this expansion to The Archivium

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I have a millionty things to do: layout for the upcoming expansion, writing for the one after that, recording an actual play for youtube, finishing my doggone rigging. Instead I thought: how about I do none of those and start a #soloRPG and #gamedev blog instead? open.substack.com/pub/writruin...

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Why I Play SoloRPGs, Why I Write Games

… and Where Ideas Come From

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Much ❤️ to The Soloist for featuring my game, The Archivium. Go give the base game a try! Our next expansions drop this coming week: Codex 2 - Love Beyond the Veil is a haunted post office liminal adventure Codex 3 – The Academic Register brings university mechanics, degrees, electives (the HORROR)

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Created an account solely for LichLight, so I can post all development updates without clogging up my personal feed. Go follow if you are interested in #TTRPG #SoloRPG #HorrorRPG projects.

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Astraelith / Astra @astraelith.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

💀 Lost in The Archivium? We’ve got you. We made simple reference flowcharts to help new players ease into the game without feeling overwhelmed. Available to on Patreon to all. Will be added to Itch/Drivethru in due course. 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/archiv... #SoloRPG #TTRPG #IndieTTRPG

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The Archivium: Flowcharts | LichLight Imprints

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