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Creator of the ENNIE-nominated Exclusion Zone Botanist. Writer at Skeleton Code Machine: www.skeletoncodemachine.com 💀 #MÖRKTOBER 🩻 Get TUMULUS: tumulus.exeunt.press 🎲 Buy printed games: shop.exeunt.press 👀 Behind the scenes: omnes.exeunt.press

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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 16h
I should have made "Invader Nim" puns and jokes throughout this article, but I didn't. Big miss on my part.
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What can Nim teach us about game design?
Follow me down the rabbit hole from trick-taking games to the Sprague–Grundy theorem. Nim, impartial games, perfect information, and Grundy values! Oh my!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 29/09/2026
Working on a table runner for when I do in-person events (vendor tables). Front drop. Would this make you approach the table or run away in fear?
Weird & Wonderful SOLO GAMES HUMAN MADE, knobbly anatomy beast art by me. He looks so happy!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 29/09/2026
Some kind words for Tumulus! ☺️
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 29/09/2026
Need to stock a dungeon and not sure where to start? Maybe try one of these 8 proven methods, or give THORCS! a try...
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8 ways to stock a dungeon: monsters, traps, and more
Exploring the many dungeon stocking methods. From Gygax's original tables to my own THORCS! system.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 29/09/2026
Neighborhood Robots is a solo journaling game with a strong mechanical core. I wrote about it a while back at Skeleton Code Machine: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/neighborho...
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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · 29/09/2026
A fun take on my paper on antagonistic game design!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 29/09/2026
What is antagonistic game design? I try to answer that question in this week's Skeleton Code Machine.
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The (implied) author of this game hates you.
Exploring the concept of antagonistic game design and the (implied) author as player. Games that include frustration as a core element and why people play them.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 29/09/2026
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Apiary Heavy Industries Ad on paper
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 29/09/2026
Oooh, this is a really interesting and helpful post about the different ways to describe a room in an adventure. Lots to think about here.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/09/2026
Your periodic reminder. There's even a typo in my post about it.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/09/2026
The Walden Paradox EXPANDED!!!!! omnes.exeunt.press/p/the-walden...
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The Walden Paradox expanded
The Walden Paradox has been expanded into a 36-page zine with more content, more prompts, and new mechanisms. Available in print now at the Exeunt Press Shop.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/09/2026
One of my favorite things about writing Skeleton Code Machine is that it motivates me to play games that (a) I wouldn't normally play and/or (b) games that have been on my shelf of shame for far too long.
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Deb Fuller @bigpuffingames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Me and @exeunt.press have games in this book. Go check it out!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/09/2026
MÖRKTOBER uses Central European Summer Time (CEST) for start/end times because MÖRK BORG is from Sweden. That’s 6:00 PM ET on September 30 if you are on the US East Coast.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/09/2026
New stuff at PIT TRAP SHOP! (Not PITT RAP SHOP which sells music in Pittsburgh.)
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/09/2026
Packing orders. 📦 💀
TTRPG books in paper
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/09/2026
Escort a live streamer into the G0 wasteland in search of an underground cryovault! More action means more viewers, and viewers are creds. So remember to smile for the cameras while the nanophreaks shred your face!!!! HEADS FROZEN IN VAULTS ENDURING: exeuntpress.itch.io/heads-frozen
FROZEN HEADS LIVE LIVE LIVE
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 28/09/2026
MÖRKTOBER begins Thursday 10/1! 🔥🎃🔥 Read the FAQ: www.morktober.com Remember: It's chill, not a challenge. Start late. Skip days. Take breaks. Post whenever. #MÖRKBORG #MÖRKTOBER #TTRPG #PROMPTS #DARK #WEIRD #PUMPKINS #FALL #INSPIRATION #GOAT
1	Goat
2	Curse
3	Glyph
4	Marrow
5	Cape
6	Fog
7	Effigy
8	Wail
9	Flag
10	Arrow
11	Ear
12	Pyre
13	Relic
14	Frail
15	Fiber
16	Ship
17	Bird
18	Hollow
19	Demon
20	Crab
21	Walls
22	Poison
23	Map
24	Miasma
25	Moth
26	Dice
27	Tunnel
28	Carcass
29	Goblin
30	Dance
31	Pumpkins
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 27/09/2026
Same! www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/asymmetric...
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What's the difference between asymmetry and variable player powers?
Exploring games with variable player powers and asymmetric victory conditions, including Dracula vs Van Helsing.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 26/09/2026
Knave of Cups pitches for my games are better than my pitches. I should have them write my marketing copy. 😅
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 25/09/2026
Last day to use code PARADOX1846 to get 5% your order with The Walden Paradox!
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The Walden Paradox (Print + PDF) — Exeunt Press
You are Henry David Thoreau. You came to the woods because you wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if you could not learn what it had to teach, and not, w...
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 25/09/2026
The artists are still dead. Their art is still free.
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Public domain art resources
Using public domain art in tabletop game design
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 25/09/2026
🎃 MÖRKTOBER 🎃 October 1 - 31, 2026
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MÖRKTOBER IS HERE.
YouTube video by Exeunt Press
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 25/09/2026
Curious about Tumulus? You can probably find the answers you need here: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/tumulus
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TUMULUS
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 24/09/2026
In case you missed it Tuesday
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 24/09/2026
Every mech needs a pilot. I wrote about that in the context of HOME: MECH x KAIJU at Skeleton Code Machine: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/mech-week-...
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MECH WEEK: Pilot
Exploring the role of pilots in HOME: MECH x KAIJU
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 24/09/2026
98 days left in 2026
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 24/09/2026
Need some inspiration when making dark and weird things? TENEBROUS! Made for MÖRK BORG but mostly system neutral, and I'm told it would work great with Shadowdark too.
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Tenebrous for MÖRK BORG by Exeunt Press
Make weird things for MÖRK BORG
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 24/09/2026
Swamped with orders (positive) and I hand pack each one myself (while Murphdog supervises from under the table). Working through the backlog. More going out today and tomorrow! 📦💀
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 24/09/2026
This will be available at @ipr.bsky.social soon! Shipping a box of Walden Paradox out to them today. IPR makes it easy for your FLGS to stock a copy or two of each Exeunt Press game! 😊
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 24/09/2026
The Walden Paradox began as a little one-page trifold. Now, it's all grown up! 🥰 36-pages, A5, more prompts, more content, more art, and new Time Anomalies in addition to the Time Paradoxes. A ton more replayability. Edited by @lydiarogue.bsky.social!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 24/09/2026
If you chose Tumulus Issues 09, 10, 11, 12 as your 4-issue subscription, remember that Issue 9 won't ship until December. The current issue is Issue 8 and ships right away. Details: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/tumulus
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TUMULUS
Subscribe to TUMULUS
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 23/09/2026
You are Henry David Thoreau. And you are being observed. The Walden Paradox, a solo journaling game (expanded): omnes.exeunt.press/p/the-walden...
The Walden Paradox
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 23/09/2026
8 DAYS REMAIN
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
TUMULUS A print-only tabletop quarterly delivered to your door. Packed with articles, games, and design exercises that never go stale. Issue 8 is shipping now, completing two full years of Tumulus! This quarter's theme is "Insert coin to continue." 🕹️💀
Insert coin to continue.   Get TUMULUS at shop.exeunt.press.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
But how, if that fly had a father and mother? How would he hang his slender gilded wings, And buzz lamenting doings in the air! Poor harmless fly, That, with his pretty buzzing melody, Came here to make us merry! and thou hast kill’d him.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
Packing orders! 📦 💀 Someone is getting a pile of Mörk Borg / CY_BORG compatible stuff! And adventure-making things too!
TTRPG books in paper
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
What's inside Tumulus Issue 8? The theme is "Insert coin to continue." Dead malls, abandoned arcades, and soulslike roleplaying games. Contributions by @junkfoodgames.bsky.social and @gregisonthego.bsky.social. Take a peek! #ttrpg #boardgames #gamedesign #rpg
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Tumulus 08 “Insert coin to continue.” 🕹️
The latest issue of Tumulus is shipping now, packed with game design inspiration and hands-on exercises. Dead malls, abandoned arcades, rogue-likes, and the influence of video games on tabletop games.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
What is zonecore, you ask? Here's how I'd describe it: omnes.exeunt.press/p/what-is-zo...
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What is zonecore?
Creating Exclusion Zone Botanist led me to search for the origins and critical works of the genre. Here are five common elements of zonecore and a list of zonecore tabletop games for inspiration.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
Interesting alternative to HP in RPGs. www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/demon-ship
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Taking damage as more dice
Exploring the Pulse Rate system in Demon Ship and how it creates escalating action in the game. Additive vs. subtractive damage systems.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
Use code PARADOX1846 for 5% off the new The Walden Paradox expanded zine! #ttrpg #solorpg #rpg #walden #timetravel #scifi #paradox
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The Walden Paradox expanded
The Walden Paradox has been expanded into a 36-page zine with more content, more prompts, and new mechanisms. Available in print now at the Exeunt Press Shop.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
With EU shipping!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
The Walden Paradox... EXPANDED!!!
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The Walden Paradox Expanded!
The Walden Paradox has been revised and expanded! It's available now as The Walden Paradox (Print + PDF) at the EP Shop as a 36-page A5 staple-bound zine. The same core concept is there, but with a fe...
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
It's mockup-makin' time!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 22/09/2026
The horrors persist, but so do The Mountain Goats.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 21/09/2026
It's sort of like the Exeunt Press Stoop Sale but by an absolutely amazing artist! Very unfortunate cause, but I'm excited to see what I get in the mail!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 21/09/2026
Mail you’ll actually be happy to receive!
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 21/09/2026
Research for an upcoming Skeleton Code Machine article.
Minis and a hand made grid map.
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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 21/09/2026
Cast a spell and put some bees in their pants. 🐝 #wizard #duel #1v1 #ttrpg #cards #silly #unserious
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Wizard Fuel Duel by Exeunt Press
ABSURD SPELL WIZARD BATTLE
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