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Seth Ian

@boltneckopossum.bsky.social
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Small Time Rpg Creator, Obnoxiously Political, Hates RPG Discourse.

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👻 ⛧ Victor J. Frankenstein ⛧ SCARY SEASON ⛧👻 @victor-el-dm.eurosky.social · 01/07/2024
@davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social 's ECO-MOFOS weird hope near-future post-apocalyptic #OSR #TTRPG is in the house! Punks fixing the future with the help of Gaia herself in an Earth broken by the wealthy who fleed to Mars. ✊ Art by @daniellocke.bsky.social !
Photograph of the roleplaying book ECO MOFOS, cover depicting a tattooed punk with a mohawk, dressed with a denim jacket full of eco patched and pins, the message being "weird hope". Top there is a ECO MOFOS patch, sides page markers with rules summaries, and an additional fungi themed page marker from the book handler.
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Logan Dean @logandean.games · 01/07/2024
If you enjoyed Andor you may enjoy these sequels
Five books
The end of policing by Alex s vitale
How to blow up a pipeline by Andreas malm
Fascism today by Shane burley
October by china mieville 
The transgender issue by shon Faye
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Physicals now available at Spearwitch. spearwitch.com/products/spe...
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Spectacle Deluxe
56 pages, sewn-bound softcover in yellow thread, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Color cover, black-and-white interior, risograph print on textured paper. New. Spectacle is an all-in-one world setting, adventure ho...
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Hey folks, Physicals are avaiable now at Spearwitch. spearwitch.com/products/spe...
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Spectacle Deluxe
56 pages, sewn-bound softcover in yellow thread, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Color cover, black-and-white interior, risograph print on textured paper. New. Spectacle is an all-in-one world setting, adventure ho...
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Hey Folks, Now live for digital purchase. seth-ian.itch.io/spectacle Spectacle: troika supplement based on Jack Kirby silver age comics: art by Mark Conway, Layout by Tony Jaguar, and an adventure by @lukegearing.bsky.social Physical will coming in the next week or two to @SpearWitch
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Spectacle by Seth Ian
Troika Suplement based on the Cosmic Worlds of Jack Kirby
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
I've been neglecting Blue sky for too long. Glad to be back!
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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 18/03/2024
Bolt neck opossum logo I did a couple years ago for @boltneckopossum.bsky.social
Bolt neck opossum
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👻 ⛧ Victor J. Frankenstein ⛧ SCARY SEASON ⛧👻 @victor-el-dm.eurosky.social · 06/02/2024
I backed @melsonia.bsky.social SWYVERS because: a) Mudcaked peasants stealing stuff from aristocrats. b) OSR stuff, you know, my thing. c) The writing, oh God, the writing! d) Talking dogs? Talking dogs!
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Swyvers - An urban heist roleplaying game
A tabletop RPG of heists and intrigue through the foggy streets of The Smoke.
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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 06/02/2024
Since everyone is looking at this site right now I’ll give you all some art to look at.
Krampus headFrog guys of various kinds on the streetBlowing the bubble but the bubble hates itA wraith
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
📖ROACH GOD REVIEW ALERT📖 Was a hard listen, because I'm still so fucked up by what happened- BUT! Hearing folks talk the book helped me remember: 🩸 I put my whole self into this work; 🎲 I love roleplaying games; 💭 All the ideas in this are ideas I still wanna explore in my work going forward. 1/
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
We are 67 hours away from funding. Lots of creative people on this one. @lukegearing.bsky.social @jaguartony.bsky.social and art by Mark Conway. If you like @melsonia.bsky.social 's Troika and weird comic books. Give us a look. We're 700 dollars away from our first stretch goal. kck.st/3u8MUrS
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Justin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Spectacle is funding till November 31. Troika! Kirby! @half_blark @jaguar_tony @LukeGearing ! Check us out. kck.st/3u8MUrS @DiekuGames Interview: youtube.com/live/2c1H7rD... Liveplay by Wander Monster: youtu.be/AaUY7mXt8_c?... Hobo's Interview: hoboscollective.com/spectacle/
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Spectacle: Science-Fantasy Gladiatorial Mayhem for Troika!
An all-in-one adventure setting, bestiary, and character collection for running games in an alien overlord's merciless fighting pits.
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Hey Folks, we launched a gamejam to celebrate Longshot City and Spectacle! I've just dropped my submission seth-ian.itch.io/mutagenic-mu... Spectacle is funding till Dec 1, please check us out if you love comic book silliness. kck.st/3u8MUrS #ComicalSpheres
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Space Penguin Ink @spacepenguinink.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
ANNOUNCING THE SPACE PENGUIN INK HOLIDAY SALE! 25% off ALL books and zines and an ADDITIONAL 40% off all versions of Dread Nights! (Discount automatically added at checkout) This sale runs from now until November 27th, check it out at spacepenguin.ink
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Hey Folks in about 15 minutes I'm going to be on @DiekuGames Game Pitch. Come tune in if you're around! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c1H... fb.me/e/4KrK5io1g www.twitch.tv/diekugames
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Hey folks, I'm gonna be on Dieku Games Game Pitch, tomorrow at 12pm EST. If you have been sitting on the fence about Spectacle give toon in and listen to me get nerdy about comics and troika. youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=2c1H... fb.me/e/4KrK5io1gt...
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Chris AirioOOoOoOooo @chrisair.itch.io · 06/11/2023
This book is so damn gorgeous, y'all, go nab it!
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Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 06/11/2023
IT IS TIME. Spectacle, the science-fantasy pulp-comic space-gladiatorial Troika! extravanganza is now live on Kickstarter! For fans of John Carter of Mars, Jack Kirby's Fourth World, Thor: Ragnarok, and dying under the uncaring gaze of an alien eyeball. Link below!
Spectacle Header, with the "Just Launched on Kickstarter" sticker.
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
Money has been real tight for a long while. Only now do I have a couple of loose cents to push towards TTRPG stuff. Ongoing thread as I back stuff. Suggestions for currently-running Kickstarters / Patreons / Itchfunding / etc to support? 1/
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
Nick LS Whelan has a new dungeon on KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ava... Errant is a solid system, and Nick is a dear. He is also behind Blogs on Tape, a very cool / very important podcast project (one of the efforts keeping the institutional memory of the old-school RPG scene alive). 2/
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Sanctimonious Slimes vs Expired Epicures
Face off against gorgons, slimes, and undead in this dungeon delve adventure for Errant RPG!
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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
@rrookstudio.bsky.social has a KS for the "Moonlight on Roseville Beach" hardcover + new adventures: www.kickstarter.com/projects/r-r... Roseville Beach, a queer beach town menaced by cosmic horror and pulpy romance! @daishugars.bsky.social 's art direction is worth the price of admission. 3/
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Moonlight on Roseville Beach—A Queer Tabletop RPG
The original Game of Disco & Cosmic Horror, back on Kickstarter! Get the TTRPG rulebook and new mysteries for the ENnie-winning game.
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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 02/11/2023
TMNT AND an Evlyn book in the same week? We live in blessed times! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aba...
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
We went back to the drawing board with this to better serve the public with an excellent troika supplement. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dai... #Troika #OSR #JackKirby #Comicbooks #RPG
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Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 03/11/2023
"A monster saved for the champions of the arena. It breathes noxious fumes from the engine humming inside that act as pre-digestion—those breathing it erupt into lesions, which the Carcinophage devours." Preview of the Space Carcinophage, one of 36 new monsters in SPECTACLE!
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Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 02/11/2023
"You worship thunder, the power of storms echoing within you. You are a spectacle in your own right, voice booming with thunder, laughter cackling with lightning." Preview of the Electronical Templar, one of 36 new Troika backgrounds in SPECTACLE!
A humanoid hammerhead shark in techno armor holds up a fist that is crackling with thunder.
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Hey Folks, a thing I wrote for Micah Anderson's Bastards. A reworking of Adnd's Bugbear Hunt. seth-ian.itch.io/squash-hunt
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.bsky.social and I are joined by @betterlegends.bsky.social in another Gamer Blast from the Past to review The Caverns of Thracia by Jennell Jaquays. PLEASE SUPPORT JENNELL ON GOFUNDME! www.buzzsprout.com/2042709/1385... www.gofundme.com/f/jennell-ja...
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The Caverns of Thracia - Between Two Cairns
Yochai & Brad are joined by Sam Mameli aka Skullboy in another Gamer Blast from the Past to review The Caverns of Thracia by Jennell Jaquays. PLEASE SUPPORT JENNELL ON GOFUNDME!Check out Michael Bacon...
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Strzyga, Flesh Enjoyer @evilgoblin.wedding · 01/11/2023
Oh hey that's some of my stuff!
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Dai Shugars @daishugars.com · 01/11/2023
Coming soon: The SPECTACLE relaunch! Me and @boltneckopossum.bsky.social went back to the drawing board with this one and will be re-launching on November 6th at 10 AM EST. If you're a fan of Troika! and science-fantasy, click below to be notified on launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dai...
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Coming soon: Spectacle: Science-Fantasy Gladiatorial Mayhem for Troika!
An all-in-one adventure setting, bestiary, and character collection for running games in an alien overlord's merciless fighting pits.
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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 30/10/2023
Next kickstarter: £1mil to build a no-kill sanctuary for 80s and 90s era games workshop illustrators
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Melsonian Arts Council @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io · 29/10/2023
I'm still clinging on! (slate & chalcedony). It's been a ROUGH few months and it's a little bit comforting seeing something i'm so personally involved in sticking.
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Brad Kerr @bradkerr.net · 17/10/2023
Feeling syked for this one @unenthuser.bsky.social @goblinarchives.bsky.social @spacepenguinink.bsky.social
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Diogo Nogueira - Lead Game Designer - White Wolf @diogooldskull.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
New episode of Weird Games and Weirder People! This time with thr incredible Marco Serrano from @spicytunarpg.bsky.social! We chatted short stories, art, comics, being a creator and parent, growing up in church and all sort of weirdness! Listen up and get weird with us! anchor.fm/wgnwp/episod...
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08 Marco Serrano by Weird Games and Weirder People
8th Episode! Today with the creative and resourceful creator Marco Serrano, from Spicy Tuna.  Marco Serrano may be best known by his various and excellent contributions to the Mothership Space Horro...
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 28/09/2023
The Luddites weren’t technophobes. They saw factory owners using tech to degrade their livelihoods and fought back—first by trying to negotiate, then writing to Parliament, and finally smashing the machines. @bcmerchant.bsky.social talks to @parismarx.bsky.social about what we can learn from them.
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The Real History of the Luddites w/ Brian Merchant - Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the history of the Luddites, why we have their story all wrong, and what we can learn from them today. Brian Merchant is the technology columnist at ...
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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 29/09/2023
watt had me on the Cloud Empress newsletter and we had a chat about Outer Rim Uprising and The Lost Bay RPG - check it out there are also exciting news and a freebie from Cloud Empress itself worldsbywatt.substack.com/p/10-new-rel...
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10 new relics, Cloud Empress: Rulebook release, and Outer Rim: Uprising interview
The Cloud Empress: Rulebook, free on DriveThruRPG! This week I released the Cloud Empress: Rulebook on DriveThruRPG. In the last three days, over 700 hundred people already downloaded a copy and Cloud...
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.bsky.social and I are joined by @betterlegends.bsky.social in another Gamer Blast from the Past to review N1: Against the Cult of the Reptile God, and answer a mailbag question! www.buzzsprout.com/2042709/1364...
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N1: Against the Cult of the Reptile God - Between Two Cairns
Yochai & Brad are joined by Sam Mameli aka Skullboy in another Gamer Blast from the Past to review N1: Against the Cult of the Reptile God, and answer a mailbag question.Mailbag: What do you think of ...
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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
Today’s filmmakers are COWARDS who don’t know the value of a wet monster puppet
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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 29/09/2023
🤟Thank you Sean McCoy for making such an inspiring game, and for fostering a welcoming and creative community ❤️ Outer Rim Uprising wouldn't exist without your support! ORU megabundle for Mothership goes live on Kickstarter October 3 Follow ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...
Mockup of the Outer Rim Uprising boxed set and quote by Sean McCoy, designer of Mothership, saying: Raw. Riveting. Revolutionary. The beating heart of the Mothership community. Highly recommended.
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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 29/09/2023
ITS TONIGHT! Episode 2 of SIDEQUESTS featuring MAUSRITTER! Our meeses will be Hunter, Ryan, and special guest Nick aka Goblin Archives (of Liminal Horror fame), and our GM will be @manarampmatt.bsky.social running the shocking adventure SHATTERED RAIN by @brstf.games
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
We're four days in and we're at 36% funded. I'd love to see us hit 40% by end of the week. If you know someone interested in comic book goofiness and troika share and/or support! Look at this wonderful art by Mark Conway of the Techno Tinkerer kck.st/46p3dib
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World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Got a nice dicebreaker breakdown of the Trick or Treat Suite this morning! I simply love these games. www.dicebreaker.com/categories/r...
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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
I love when tabletop games ask silly questions such as "Hey, what's daily life like for immortal soldiers in a forever war?" And then they dive directly into the nuance, humanity and existential mess that arises from such questions.
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Planet Fist smashes Edge of Tomorrow and slice-of-life drama into a satirical combat wargame
Planet Fist is a narrative wargame that takes the forever war of Edge of Tomorrow and melds it with slice-of-life sitco…
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World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
NO FUTURE is a punk timeloop horror where you die over and over as you attempt to mosh your way out of a hellacious hardcore show. 3-5 players, Carved in Brindlewood. This release is a split with @loottheroom.bsky.social 's Heavy Steps on Hollow Ground.
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Spectacle is now live! If you like comics and rpgs give this a look! #RPG #Troika #Comics #JackKirby #Spectacle kck.st/46p3dib
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Diogo Nogueira - Lead Game Designer - White Wolf @diogooldskull.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
First episode is out now! WEIRD GAMES & WEIRDER PEOPLE is a podcast about exploring and celebrating the weird ruins inside and outside or ourselves and how all of this relates to role playing games! anchor.fm/diogo-noguei... #TTRPG #Podcast #Weird #IndieGame #Inspiration #Art #DnD
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01 Ahimsa Keep by Weird Games and Weirder People
First Episode! I sit down with Ahimsa Kerp from Knight Owl Publishing and talk about the weirdness in ourselves, in the world, and in the things we love. Knight Owl Publishing: https://knightowlpubl...
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Seth Ian @boltneckopossum.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
For those who missed it, here is some wonderful art by Mark Conway www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #RPG #Comics #Kirby #FourthWorld #Troika
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Diogo Nogueira - Lead Game Designer - White Wolf @diogooldskull.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Incredible artist!
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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 08/09/2023
🔥The Lost Bay RPG lands on Dicebreaker🔥 Thanks for the love folks Article here twitter.com/joindicebrea... Game here the-lost-bay.itch.io/thelostbayrpg
Screenshot of Dicebreaker header article saying: The Lost Bay is a fever dream of '90s suburban horror channeled through dice and slick mechanics
Subtitle says: Play in the weed-choked graveyard of the neo-liberal American dream.
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Space Penguin Ink @spacepenguinink.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
We're pleased to announce that Space Penguin Ink books now participate in the Bits and Mortar program! If you've picked up any of our physical books in person, you can pick up a PDF version for free.
The Space Penguin Ink logo above the words "has partnered with Bits and Mortar. Buy the book, get the PDF free."
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