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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 15/08/2026

Getting some Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble playtesting in this morning.

Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble board game being played on an outdoor table. Translucent fish shaped dice of various colors are scattered around atop printed score cards and player mats.

AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 12/08/2026

I briefly awaken from my social media hiatus to share progress pictures of Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble! It's a push your luck dice rolling game where you play as bears at the Katmai National Park trying to catch and eat salmon to gain weight for the winter. First up, the fish dice.

Three fish shaped dice stacked atop each other, they are the trans pride colors. First a blue four sided fish die, then a white six sided, then a pink eight sided on top.

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Brian Stauffer @brstf.games · 29/05/2025

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Amanda P. will be at PAX Unplugged @weirdwonder.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I wrote a defense for the garlic press, whose honor needs no defending. Also some thoughts on what I personally like in rpgs as I continue in this hobby. Everyone can have different fun. #ttrpg #osr weirdwonder.bearblog.dev/the-garlic-p...

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In Defense of the Garlic Press

On Garlic Presses and tabletop roleplaying games

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 22/12/2024

PAXU Microreviews! awkwardturtle.games/boardgames/2... I wrote small reviews for all 20 something #boardgames I played over the weekend of PAX unplugged.

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Brian Stauffer @brstf.games · 15/12/2024

I had the good pleasure of reading proof copies of some of these adventures and they're great! Full of great ideas for mousey adventures and fantastic art and graphic design to tie them all together. So happy these are finally released! 🐭

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 10/12/2024

The Fish Dice (by @dcponcho.bsky.social)! If I can figure out a way to economically make a ton of fish dice I may try to sell a very very limited run of Chubby Bear Salmon Goggle next year at PAXU. Meanwhile: more playtesting and probably some rules tweaks based on excellent suggestions by Amanda.

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Brian Stauffer @brstf.games · 08/12/2024

The #paxu haul! Games from the fantastic Indie games night market, Tokyo games market, some great exhibitors (Saashi finally in the US!), and some flea market acquisitions. A successful pax!

Pictured is a lot of board game boxes including: Bus & Stop, Remember our Trip, 1 A.M. Jailbreak, High Tide (bring your own pieces version), Yokai Septet, Deep Sea Adventure and Souvenirs from Venice felt case from Oink, Modern Art Oink edition, Leviathan Wilds, Spectral, Out of Sorts, Gachapon Trick, Agency, Draught Trick, Fairy, Prey, Deep Sea Mines, Ito, Typeset, The Werewolves bEat Robbers' Horror

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 08/12/2024

We played a mysterious game that doesn't exist at #PAXU! It was extremely fun! I would totally purchase it IF IT ACTUALLY EXISTED IN OUR UNIVERSE.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 08/12/2024

A friend of mine printed fish dice for my little PnP board game: Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble! They're so good! Look at these little guys!

Pocket mod of Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble, illustrated with a bear trying to catch fish.

On the table next to it is a bear shaped box filled with fish shaped dice.

A bunch of fish shaped dice sitting in a bear shaped box lid.

A yellow 3d printed four sided fish die.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 05/11/2024

A game based on my own Brighter Worlds #TTRPG along with #Cairn is preparing to kickstart, about adventuring in Oz. Impressively the whole game will be public domain and free for reuse and hacking! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fre...

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Coming soon: The Lost Chronicles of Oz

A fun and open-licensed tabletop roleplaying game, set in the land of Oz, based on the Brighter Worlds SRD and Cairn RPG.

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

I posted 10 scrappy robots on my patreon. Hoping they will find their way into the pages of some zines. www.patreon.com/posts/smol-r...

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Smol Robits | Evlyn Moreau

Get more from Evlyn Moreau on Patreon

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SmallBu Animation @smallbu.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Original Pat debut Mashup Crocodile Chop by @neilcic.com

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 23/10/2024

Darien's hard work on the packing continues.

A tuxedo cat with a skinny tail is balanced precariously atop an open cardboard box, legs splayed to both sides of the top. Light from the window behind illuminates him, and makes his nearly hairless translucent ears practically glow.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 19/10/2024

Darien is hard at work helping us pack.

A scrungly tuxedo cat is sprawled out, fast asleep on top of a stack of banker boxes. This skinny tail is curled up beside him, and a patch of sunlight is illuminating his tummy. Behind him is an empty board game shelf (previously where the contents of the banker boxes were stored).

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 19/10/2024

Interdimensional Goblins! (Art by @n8hps.bsky.social layout by @brstf.games in my adventure Wizard Trash, Goblin Treasure.)

Inner spread of the zine Wizard Trash, Goblin Treasure. The zine is titled GOBLINS and features a half dozen goblins wearing and wielding various items of clothing and accessories from our real world. Such as a goblin with a stack of different baseball caps, holding a computer keyboard. Or a goblin wearing a trenchcoat and sunglasses throwing whole cans of beer from a six pack

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Amanda P. will be at PAX Unplugged @weirdwonder.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Halloween approaches. Do you desire space horrors? Check out Resonant, my #mothership adventure #osr

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 17/10/2024

Welcome to bluesky. I don't post very much (which makes me a great follow, imo) but when I do it's usually about TTRPGs, game design, mead making, and maybe some data analysis stuff on occasion. Here are pictures of my extremely doofus tuxedo cat Darien, and my extremely normal tabby cat Desdemona.

A doofy looking tuxedo cat lying in patches of sunlight and scratching at a cardboard cat scratcher. His ears have little enough hair that sunlight shining through them makes them appear to be glowing, and his tail has little enough hair on it to look a bit like a rat's tail.

A quintessential tabby cat is snoozing soundly on a warm heating pad.

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Sam Leigh @goblinmixtape.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Sound off below if you're a TTRPG designer! Let's help everyone find each other.

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Welcome $CURRENT_YEAR Twitter exodus! Bluesky is nice. This is a thread with some recommended feeds for our RPG friends!

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

skidaddle skidoodle

a poorly drawn cat wearing a witch costume (it’s casting some spells!)

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SmallBu Animation @smallbu.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

VSTARS THREAD!! Fighter - Orion

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 10/10/2024

For a window into my disastrous time management skills, I had intended to release this for *last year's* #FatBearWeek but didn't get it done in time. So I figured I'd just wait until the next one. Then a year later I nearly missed it again...

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 10/10/2024

I have successfully early voted!

An "Ohio Voted" sticker stuck to the front of a jacket.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 09/10/2024

Just in time for the tail end of #FatBearWeek I am pleased to announce CHUBBY BEAR SALMON GOBBLE: a push your luck #boardgame about preparing for hibernation. The PDF is free here, you'll just need a load of dice: awkwardturtle.itch.io/chubby-bear-... Bear artwork by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social

CHUBBY BEAR SALMON GOBBLE

A Push Your Luck Game About Preparing For Hibernation

One delightfully chubby bear frantically tries to catch salmon from a river, while already caught fish slip from their grasp. A second chonky bear sit and happily monches on fish.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 01/10/2024

Once again being reminded that there is no replacement for play testing. I've had the design of Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble bouncing around for months, and within a few minutes of starting to actually play I realized half of it just wasn't working.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 30/09/2024

Trying to get some last minute play testing in for my print and play #boardgame so it can be released for #fatbearweek. Art by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social .

A small pocket mod zine titled Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble: A Push Your Luck Game about Preparing for Hibernation. The cover shows a bear frantically trying to catch fish while already caught fish slip from his grasp.

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

hey @awkwardturtle.games & @n8hps.bsky.social - just watched this really great solo session using tunnel goons and wallet dungeon! well done, no-nonsense session www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf24...

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Let's Try Tunnel Goons RPG Solo (With Wallet Dungeons)

YouTube video by Lone Horizons

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

moo deng is a cat i’m sure of it

a high textured paper with “proof moo deng is a cat” written on it

a drawing of moo deng, a baby hippo being bathed, she looks scared! on top of the drawing it’s written: “hates baths”

a drawing of moo deng, a baby hippo, running very fast! on top of the drawing it’s written: “zoomies”

a drawing of moo deng, a baby hippo, and a leg with a boot. moo deng is biting the leg and looking angry. on top of the drawing it’s written: “bites legs”
all drawings are made with black pen on a high textured paper!

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Lett @lettuces.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

drew some knights at a coffee shop.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 20/09/2024

Desdemona sleeps in the most normal ways.

A tabby cat snoozing on a heating pad, with her face smooshed into the corner of the window frame. One front paw is pressed against the glass, and the other is bent at a 90 degree angle.

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Alex C @alexcoggon.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Just shared a timelapse of me painting this cutie over on my patreon. Hoping to do more in the future!

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Jordan 4D @jordancarroll.com · 14/09/2024

I started working on my 3D engine for #playdate a little over 3 months ago, and took copious footage of the milestones and interesting failures. All footage is timestamped with the date of capture. Enjoy! #gamedev

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Slowly starting back to draw for my patreon.

Masked marchant with giant frog beast of burden

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Lone Archivist @lonearchivist.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

I made an AI-Free Asset Pack for exactly this reason. Free to use on your projects to proudly shout that your product is made without the use of AI-Gen Content. lonearchivist.itch.io/made-by-humans

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Made By Humans Asset Pack by Lone Archivist

A logo asset pack for work made without AI-generated content.

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Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Orbital megastructure doodle, lil bug want some soup

Guy walking with a small bug and noticing some moss on pipes text is hmmm good pipes moss, I could make some soup

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Brooklet Games @brookletgames.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Currently reading: Goblin Mail! This kickoff adventure truly invites you to engage with the world and paints such a clear picture that I could easily step in and run a whole mini campaign in this setting. It features the art of one of my favorite artists in the scene @evlynmoreau.bsky.social ❤️✌🏼

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 10/09/2024

Some very exciting #TTRPG mail lately. I am already running Ave Nox out of the PDF, making plans to run Goblin Mail (a perfect tie in with my own goblin based adventure), and stealing all the excellent ideas from The Electrum Archive.

Three RPG books arrayed on a desk next to a glass mug of coffee and a keyboard with wooden and bird themed keycaps.

The books are Ave Nox, The Electrum Archive Issue 2, and Goblin Main.

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 09/09/2024

Working on a minidugeon die drop procedure for the UL framework Roll 6d6 die face: rooms doubles/triples: larger room even-even: door odd-odd door even-odd: secret passage/locked door 1 Trap/Complication 3/4 Entrance 6 Relic/Treasure Highest die: where the boss is Here's 2 examples

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 04/09/2024

OCEANS 2400 is a cinematic heist #TTRPG hack of @jst.bsky.social's 24XX series of micro games and inspired by Blades in the Dark. I'm pretty proud of the extremely rules light flashback mechanics, and the "alarm die" used to track alertness. Includes some tiny generators for heists (and twists)!

A red, black, and white stylized illustration of a man hanging from a wire interacting with a large, chunky computer. Directly lifted from that one Tom Cruise scene in Mission Impossible.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 03/09/2024

Lady Luck's Traveling Gachapon! A couple years into my current #TTRPG campaign my pack-rat players have accumulated backpacks full of magical nick-nacks with questionable utility. Being the benevolent GM I am, I created this friendly NPC to give them the opportunity to gamble the items away!

Lady Luck's Traveling Gachapon

Lady Luck is a enigmatic figure cloaked in scarves and loose fabric, while her head is a clear gachapon capsule with a happy face floating within.

Her Traveling Gachapon is a claw machine with four mechanical legs, a crystal atop its body, and a gaping toothy maw hungry to feed on magical items.

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AwkwardTurtle @awkwardturtle.games · 02/09/2024

A Traveler's Guide to the Echelon Forest is a #ttrpg die drop zine about traveling a forest both magical and mundane in the style of a national park guidebook. DTRPG: awkwardturtle.itch.io/echelon-forest Itch: awkwardturtle.itch.io/echelon-forest Riso Zine: store.cairnrpg.com/products/a-t...

Two copies of the Echelon Forest zine outdoors on fallen leaves with the shadows of tree branches stretched across them. One zine shows the cover, the second is open to a spread showing an example forest created from a bunch of dice.

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