ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 03/10/202602 - Divination Bones - Making up magic cards when you don't play magic 120
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Doing Inktober for the first time in years, using prompts from www.instagram.com/cursed.relics/ 01 - Thornblade 152
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Finished up a small zine with some mech imaginings, writing and drawing benswinden.itch.io/exomachina 021
Reposted by ben swindenStella Joy @500poundsofnothing.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026Printed and assembled cave of the sleeping sage by @benswinden.bsky.social 121
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Working on a little zine about mechs, here's the cover! 041
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The 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 030
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Interesting topics of discussion include, is 12 rooms the minimum for a dungeon, should you put the hardest enemy as the first encounter to teach your players what d&d is really about 😄 020
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Very grateful for the lovely conversation on the recent Between Two Cairns about the adventure I wrote. Thanks guys! 2151
Reposted by ben swindenFurtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 21/07/2026RYNE: 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 🍂 0104
Reposted by ben swindensami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I 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 401524504
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I also kept working on the dungeon long after doing the painting so the actual physical space changed and grew overtime, so a purely functional map became necessary for that reason anyways. 010
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I can't really remember why I decided to turn that map into a painting, probably just for fun! I'd say at this point its become much more decorative and not something I'd personally want to use at the table as a map. 120
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This was initially going to be the GM / player map for the dungeon. Somewhat illustrative but still at least a functional map. 100
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Really 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 161
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The whiplash of going from the nightmare of creating a product page on DrivethruRPG to the joy of using @rpgtrader.bsky.social's new storefront 010
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Cave 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 074
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 03/07/2026An 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. 010
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This drawing book is a bit too biblical for my taste 020
Reposted by ben swindenloren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026alien rewatch number i don't even know. no one shoots models this well. what trust. 732234
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I did a write up on my process of learning to build boards for the tabletop game Trench Crusade open.substack.com/pub/benswind...open.substack.comDesign for Trench Crusade tablesHey! 081
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Obsidian rocks for what it is (plain text files you control, markdown etc.) but no d&d specific features Legendkeeper is freaking awesome for more roleplay specific features, with cool integration of maps 110
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 11/01/2026learning 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 010
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Believing more than ever these days in the personal internet. Rebuilt and updating my own web page for the first time since 2018! rvaise.com 122
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 28/10/2025shocked to hear about blaseball's return last night 010
ben swinden @benswinden.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Hunt is so different that other games in the genre so nothing compares directly Arc Raiders is the first real 'second generation' for the genre evolving it in very cool ways and adding accessibility Tarkov as the originator of the genre is worth experiencing if your curious but is very hardcore 000
