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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this is how I tried to convey to my backers why the book took longer than anticipated to arrive. (the odyssey of new tariffs, fees, regulations, shipments through the seas of logistics and islands of administrative nightmare)

still from the movie odyssey showing Odysseus with his men arriving on an island, except his face is the cover of my book Weird, Whimsy & Wonder.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How about some more art reveal? This time a fantastic autumnal scene at golden hour by Rafael R. Sinnott. Check this out!

Illustration of two mice traversing autumn leaves falling and golden light from the left. They are next to an abandoned car.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Been using it to journal in a cipher I developed. Quite a meditative activity. Recommended.

Photo of a grid paper page with a lot of squiggly lines that look like gibberish, but are actually a cipher.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now that was fun! They decided that their settlement is a tipped-over grandfather clock! 🕰️🐭 One of them created a pub using part of the clock face as a gambling table 😄 They started investing in a communal garden and preparing for the Midsummer Festival 🎊 It's working, y'all! 🌟

Picture of a table with character sheets and a settlement sheet. Two players are working on index cards, drawing their favorite places on the mouse settlement. We see pens, asset cards, and smartphones laying around.

Picture of one of the players drawing a communal kitchen inside a grandfather clock on an index card.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Time to playtest this bad boy! Let's see what my players come up with Do their mice live in a rusted tractor under a willow tree? A cow skeleton with platforms made of tin lids? We'll find out!

A picture of the printed version of the current settlement sheet for Mausworn. It tracks seasons, endeavors, assets, tiles, market, fortune, shelter, and hope. There are a lot of fields for item tokens. A mechanical pencil is on top of it.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Heard you like some base-building to go with your TTRPG? 👀 Current WIP of Mausworn's Settlement Sheet: Build your home, trade your wares, improve your community, endure the seasons 🐭🍂

Current draft for Mausworn's settlement sheet.

The sheet contains three tracks for shelter, hope, and fortune; a space for a market; a season tracker; a list of ongoing endeavors; a space to upgrade it with assets.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New art reveal for Mausworn 🐭 This piece was made by the amazing João Garin Ain't that awesome?? 🤩

Illustration of three mice hiking through a sunflower field and climbing over an abandoned human boot. One mouse is already on the top, while the other two look around suspiciously.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First strong hit with a match in Mausworn history! After nearly being trampled by a stampede of hogs, the party took refuge in a hollow beneath a rock. The Storyweaver shared a tale so moving it lifted the spirits of every mouse!

Picture of a Mausworn's character sheet. It shows four dice on top of it: two d6s displaying a six and a three, and two d10s displaying two and two.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Maybe this is the notebook that will finally fix me. Just this one more.

Man holding a colorful notebook with the title Vintagey and patterns that try unsuccessfully to emulate 1970s vibes.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Now Mausworn has move cards! All 13 moves in an easy-to-reference format for the players. I'm ready for playtest session #02 🐭⚔️

Picture of 13 home-printed and sleeved move cards for the game Mausworn. They present all the game's moves.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just learned that a peculiar geological feature (fajã) that names many places here in Madeira is quite common in this part of the world (Azores, Canary Islands...) They look so cool, and are created from collapsing cliffs or lava flows! Take notes, worldbuilders! 😊

A view of some of the Fajã dos Vimes in the municipality of Calheta (Azores). Fajã is a flat portion of land at the foot of coastal cliffs. Source: Wikimedia

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And so it begins 🐭⚔️ Can't believe I'm finally playing this game!!! (And my experiment of using blu tack to attach item tokens to the inventory was a huge success)

Photo of Mausworn's character sheet with item tokens and paper clips next to a few asset cards, 2d10 and a d6.

Photo of a mouse warrior miniature next to a few dice. A person is blurred in the background.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

First character creation playtest session of Mausworn coming up later today. Been cutting and sleeving these bad boys for a while now. And loving every second of it. (I wish I already had the final icons for each asset, but we make do)

Photography of a hand holding a deck of sleeved asset cards. The readable ones are Whisperer, Pathfinder, Lookout, and Skygazer.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Three years ago I tweeted this. Never got to tackle the challenge; way beyond my skillset. Not saying that this is it, but I am so glad a game sorta like this exists now, and it is so unapologetically ambitious. And well made.

I feel like creating a tactical story building game.

I want the crunch of an euro board game and the narrative depth and implications of The Quiet Year or For The Queen.

Am I out of the line?

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And here it is! 😍🐭🦎 This book is gonna be gorgeous. Art by Ray Olli

Colorful illustration of two mice traversing a branch over a stream. One of them is riding a panther chameleon. The sun is rising in the background.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Fun fact: the cover art started as a grotesque amalgamation of photos that I bashed together and then hand drew over! (Marked as graphic media because it’s a bit unnerving I guess 😄)

A horrid mashup of an anglerfish, two frogs, a star nosed mole, a naked mole and a tongue. Also a dude with a torch.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My submission to the One-Page TTRPG Jam is live! A dungeon crawler that takes you down the belly of a leviathan to retrieve the gold it consumed! capacle.itch.io/down-the-belly

Banner art for the game Down the Belly of the Leviathan, showing a picture of a monstrous creature and a delver about to enter it. On the top left, it reads: “A dungeon crawler by Cezar Capacle.”

Mockup for the game Down the Belly of the Leviathan

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you're attending GenCon this weekend, stop by the Critical Kit’s booth (Booth #2763) and check out some of my games: - Triple‑O - Random Realities - Everspark and more!

A picture of Critical Kit's booth at GenCon, portraying a bunch of very cool indie games and beautiful posters on the wall.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Go check the fine folk of @critkituk.bsky.social at GenCon and check out some of my games! Still not this time that I'll be there, but one day. One day.

Picture of Critical Kit's booth on GenCon, showing a variety of indie games and posters.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sent this sketch to an artist I commissioned for Mausworn. Can't express how excited I am to see the final result 😊

A very rough sketch of two mice traversing a branch over a stream. One of the mice is riding a chameleon. The environment is supposed to look like a forest.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I am pleased to announce that my game 'Load the Simulation' is a finalist in the GMless category, among other fantastic games! Go cast a vote in the link below ☺️

CRIT AWARDS FINALISTS:
Best GMless TTRPG
"Bonds Between" by Jon Boyle, Bri de Danann, Emily Entner, Lucas Zellers
"The Goodest Girls"
by Brigitte Winter
"What Dust Remains"
by momatoes
"Load the Simulation"
by Cezar Capacle

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I mean, isn't it brilliant? I love how they captured the scavenger nature of the Mausworn, with nature reclaiming the scraps of humankind. Look at this mouse fella, I love him! And now I have a game with a custom Penflower Ink piece of art. A dream come true! 6/

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m feeling a bit disheartened by people thinking my cover art was made with AI. I get it. It looks a bit generic, but this is due to my limited set of skills. So I’m making the PSD files available for anyone to download and scrutinize. 1/

Cover art for Mousehorn, and it's NOT MADE WITH AI.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yes! I do everything in Canva. As RP said, spreads or text flow are not supported. My way to do it is when I have a illustration that I want to flow from one page to the other, I lay it out on the left page, then paste it on the right page, and crop the other half, aligning it to the left.

Screenshot of two pages of a book with a random table. Illustration in the middle is cropped on both of them with some repeated parts for the bleed.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Yet another fun one for my browser history collection. Suffice to say, you now have a new pet option in Mausworn.

Screenshot of a Google search that reads, “Is an oak toad poisonous?” with a few results from Wikipedia and A to Z Animals.

Picture of a tiny oak toad on a human thumb.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fun things you accidentally discover about your country when doing research for ttrpgs:

Map showing Legality of brass knuckles:

Green: Possession only legal
Teal: Possession legal in many local subdivisions
Blue: Possession and bearing legal
Red: Illegal

Brazil is in blue

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Itch is hosting its Summer Sale, and I have all my games at 30% off, or in a giant bundle at 40% off. Check it out: itch.io/s/188974/sum...

Picture of a man emulating the Elmo on fire meme. Red tones over a fire background.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

How do you like my Summer Sale announcement?

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Petsitted some cats for the first time this weekend. They were adorable. Now I want a cat.

Picture of an adorable black and white cat lounging in bed

Picture of an adorable American wire hair cat (or so google tells me) lounging on a couch

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Currently working on the "Area Builder" for Mausworn. This is how you come up with a "room" and its contents when delving ruins with your mouse. Loved this result: - An indifferent gecko basking on a rusted bracket inside an engine block, surrounded by the scattered remains of its insect meals.

Screenshot of a spreadsheet called the Area Builder. There are columns for tone, connection, focus, variation, dressing, flavor, and passages.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Tried something like 7 years ago to help me understand how I thought about games. It did help at the time.

A series of diagrams showing arrows point towards a circle and dividing colors by fiction and mechanics

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Working on Playsets for Mausworn. Today dedicated to Travel procedures

Picture of a notebook with very bad handwriting, with bullet points and notes on travel procedures for a tabletop RPG.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Triple-O currently sits at #1 on itch! Thanks to everyone that is recommending my little player character emulator around 💞 It's always a good reminder that, no matter how weird and niche you think your project is, there will be people out there who will resonate with it. Go make weird stuff!

A screenshot of the top physical games on itch.io showing triple-O in the first spot.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Strawberries are luscious today.

Picture of strawberries. They are luscious.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Why have a random encounter table when you can have a d100 x 8 EVENT BUILDER!!! Jokes aside, this started as an ad hoc table to help me visualize the structure of encounters in Mausworn. But I think it might end up in the game 👀🐭

Partial screenshot of a d100 table showing entries for types of encounters with numerous modifiers

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Gotta say, @rpg-trader.bsky.social integrated print-on-demand feature powered by Lulu is such a nice addition. If I were starting out publishing today, this would be a game changer!

Screenshot of RPGTrader, showing a game with PDFs and Print on Demand options available side by side.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Y’all watched this cartoon growing up? I wonder if it stills holds up.

Poster for the cartoon the Dream Stone, picturing a wizard, a flying dog fish, and two green furry characters

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Two months without you ❤️‍🩹 Damn, I miss you so much, buddy

Picture of a man walking into a beach, accompanied by his beloved fluffy black and white dog Haroldo

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Second edition of one of my favorite Brazilian TTRPGs is now funding and I am so stoked! You play as a cat thief! Influences: Blades in the Dark, Ironsworn, Mythic GME, Burning Wheel, Urban Shadows and Cthulhu Dark.

Cover art for Gatunos RPG, showing a cat burglar on a ledge

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Sunset at the Brazilian countryside has its charm

Picture of a golden sunset with silhouette buildings

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’m back in my home town so that means mandatory capybara pictures

A bunch of capybaras hanging out by a lake

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Escaped? Meanwhile the central park back in my hometown:

A group of capybaras leisurely enjoying a lake at a park

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

See you at the rainbow bridge, buddy It was an honor having these 10 amazing years together ❤️‍🩹

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Mausworn’s current iteration of the character sheet. I like how you can clearly see the DNA of Mausritter and Ironsworn combined, with the new stuff I’m adding to it. Can’t wait to playtest this.

Mockup of a character sheet for Mausworn showing tracks and inventory slots

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

AAAAAAHH (I’ve achieved the non-verbal phase of crowdfunding)

Screenshot of triple-o campaign page, showing 70 minutes left and 997 backers

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I'll be there!! Come hang out, it's gonna be fun! www.youtube.com/live/sDalXw_...

YouTube thumbnail for “Zine Month Showcase Live.” A strip of zine covers across the top and the text “& 23 MORE.” Large headline reads “WITH SPECIAL GUESTS.” Left side shows “FEB 25TH 12PM–8PM EST.” Bottom row features five framed guest images/logos labeled Bob World Builder, JP Coovert, Tiger Wizard, Ray Chou, and Many Sided Media. Right side includes a “Weird Place” badge and a “+ Residue Launch Party” box.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I’m tempted to reply. Mainly because I have a total of zero titles on Amazon.

An email that reads:

Hello Esteemed Author,

While reviewing fantasy titles listed on Amazon, your book surfaced for a reason that isn’t typical.

This isn’t about prose quality or promotional activity, and I’m not reaching out to offer a service. It concerns how the book is positioned relative to the stage it appears to be in.

Rather than assume intent, I wanted to ask one question first.

Would you be open to hearing the observation?

Kind regards,
Manuscript Structure Analyst

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