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ben swinden

@benswinden.bsky.social

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Writing, illustrating and designing tabletop roleplaying games.

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finished up a small zine with some mech imaginings, writing and drawing benswinden.itch.io/exomachina

Image from a page of the zine EXOMACHINA including an illustration and writing about the mech named Goliath

Image from a page of the zine EXOMACHINA including an illustration and writing about the mech named Dragoon

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Stella Joy @500poundsofnothing.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Printed and assembled cave of the sleeping sage by @benswinden.bsky.social

Pale hands with bright pink nails holding a black and white booklet with pictographic symbols and an illustration of roots breaking through stonework with title text reading Cave of the Sleeping Sage

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Working on a little zine about mechs, here's the cover!

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Quiet Year was a revelation to me about what roleplay could be. Monsterhearts has been a true gift to get to share with so many people over the years and Dream Askew continues to be such a lucid point of inspiration for my own work

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Very grateful for the lovely conversation on the recent Between Two Cairns about the adventure I wrote. Thanks guys!

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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

RYNE: Life in the footsteps of gods A pbta slow fantasy campaign game of broken gods and diverse, stubborn humanity. Shipping soon to backers, available for sale Autumn 2026 🍂

A coy of the RYNE TTRPG book, open to show the first page of the Weaver rolebook: a character with grey hair, sandals, and a walking stick with a bird perched atop it. The pages shows the rolebook has a 1 out of 3 complexity

A coy of the RYNE TTRPG book, open to show the first page of the Skilled rolebook: a character with bracket mushroom like ears, a back brace, and surrounded by sheep/bug like creatures. The pages shows the rolebook has a 2 out of 3 complexity

A copy of the RYNE TTPRG, nestled outdoors in some branches. The cover is orange and brown toned, and shows a group of characters around a fire, on a small chunk of rock suspended by vines. A ghostly Echo Remnant walks above them with the coils of a Vacant Remnant visible in the earth below them.

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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Really happy with the adventure cover design for Sleeping Sage. The final image is a photography, of a print, of a painting of the dungeon map! Very convoluted but sometimes you have to just follow your heart and this is where it led me

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The whiplash of going from the nightmare of creating a product page on DrivethruRPG to the joy of using @rpgtrader.bsky.social's new storefront

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Cave of the Sleeping Sage! A short introductory adventure for Shadowdark. Introduce new players to OSR, or drop in for a session one-shot! Commune with a forest spirit, help out a weird little guy, roll on the egg table! benswinden.itch.io/cave-of-the-... #osr #shadowdark #dnd #ttrpg

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

An illustration for a Shadowdark adventure I'm working on finishing up and publishing. A giant centipede twisted by the old magic of the cave’s waters. Hard segmented chitinous shell, vicious barbed tail and a mouth full of razer sharp teeth.

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This drawing book is a bit too biblical for my taste

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

alien rewatch number i don't even know. no one shoots models this well. what trust.

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I did a write up on my process of learning to build boards for the tabletop game Trench Crusade open.substack.com/pub/benswind...

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Design for Trench Crusade tables

Hey!

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

learning about the indie / sculpture / kitbash side of miniature painting and it really feels like a generation influence by that weird kid from toy story who made his own toys

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Believing more than ever these days in the personal internet. Rebuilt and updating my own web page for the first time since 2018! rvaise.com

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ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

shocked to hear about blaseball's return last night

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