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Furtive Shambles

@furtiveshambles.bsky.social
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Tabletop games co-operative based in York, UK. 🌿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ AI free, eco conscious, and community minded furtiveshambles.com

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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
see you next soon Edinburgh!
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TAGS Festival @tagsfest.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Board Game Zone signups are opening soon! Our Board Game Zone, run by @ancientrobotgames.bsky.social, will have their board game library to choose from for on-the-fly gaming sessions, but stay tuned for signups for longer TTRPG sessions with experienced Game Masters!
Tabletop & Graphic Storytelling Festival

Board Game Zone signups opening soon!

Fast-paced TTRPG sessions with an experienced Game Master

2 hour sessions of Blood on the Clocktower

Just want to play a board game with pals? No signup required - turn up on the day and pick a game!

17th October at Out of the Blue Drill Hall
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
a vintage illustration of a skeleton riding a winged horse, brandishing a sickle, in front of the full moon
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Ross Cowman @rosscowman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
soft launching UK-based shipping on heartofthedeernicorn.com right now. Free shipping on orders over $200 to the UK and Republic of Ireland. Duty paid shipments to most EU countries. If you want to do me a solid, try ordering something DM me to let me know how it goes.
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Heart of the Deernicorn
Publisher, distributor, and manufacturer of tabletop games including RPGs, Solo RPGs, and Story Games.
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
RYNE is now available for digital download 🍂🍂🍂 The knots which hold Ryne together wear thin, and we don’t know how much longer they will hold. The only thing which stops the world’s threads from snapping are the Remnants—strange colossi, the broken husks of old gods. rpg-trader.com/products/915...
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RYNE on RPG Trader
Life in the footsteps of gods
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I clambered around slippery rocks above the ocean with a deathgrip on the book for half an hour for these photos ✨ marketing ✨
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Something strange is washing in with the tides 🍂🪸🐚 RYNE, life in the footsteps of gods, is available to download now. Physical copies will be available to the UK in October (other territories pending) rpg-trader.com/products/915...
A copy of RYNE perched on the rocks of a tidal pool. The book is an A4 hardcover in red and orange tones, showing a Remnant in the background and a group of characters sat on a floating rock in the centre
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Something strange is washing in with the tides 🍂🪸🐚 RYNE, life in the footsteps of gods, is available to download now. Physical copies will be available to the UK in October (other territories pending) rpg-trader.com/products/915...
A copy of RYNE perched on the rocks of a tidal pool. The book is an A4 hardcover in red and orange tones, showing a Remnant in the background and a group of characters sat on a floating rock in the centre
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You’ll collaborate to tell stories of esoteric landscapes, envoys of indifferent gods, and communities staying steadfast in a world bigger and stranger than themselves. Touchpoints for RYNE include Tales of Earthsea, Shadow of the Colossus, Studio Ghibli and the ever-changing tales of folklore.
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
RYNE is a ttrpg about communities enduring in the footsteps of failing titans. It’s a PbtA inspired game, focusing on emotion and connections. You might play a warrior sworn from violence, the speaker who interprets a titan’s song, or a spirit tethered by memory to your community.
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dreamfeel @dreamfeel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
got my copy in the post!!! I expected good things from this team, but I was absolutely floored by the size and scope of Ryne. it's really beautiful ❤️ more people need to CHECK IT OUT
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
RYNE is now available for digital download 🍂🍂🍂 The knots which hold Ryne together wear thin, and we don’t know how much longer they will hold. The only thing which stops the world’s threads from snapping are the Remnants—strange colossi, the broken husks of old gods. rpg-trader.com/products/915...
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RYNE on RPG Trader
Life in the footsteps of gods
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Spooky Poltergeist Ghouls 🎃 @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If we're gonna survive we give everything away. Every skill you learn and every tool you build, every community you walk into and every dollar you make, if we're gonna make it your first thought has to be how to give the whole world whatever it is you find. How to make yours, ours.
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Dimitri, Dr. Givaca @dgivaca.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New week, new games, this time from a couple crowdfunding campaigns! Legend in the Mist, by Son of Oak Game Studio Ryne, by @furtiveshambles.bsky.social My to-read pile is gonna be plenty busy for weeks to come. Can't wait to see how they've changed since the respective pre-crowdfunding betas!
Legend in the Mist - slipcase with the two rulebooks and the setting book, action grimoire, gm screen, pregen folios, dice, tracking and theme cards, and so much more!The beautiful cover of the Ryne: Life in the Footsteps of Gods hardback.
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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yoooo something really cool and special arrived today from @furtiveshambles.bsky.social !!!
A picture of the rulebook for Ryne, the ttrpg from Adam Dixon and Thryn Henderson
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The Hearth Magazine 🌈💜🖤🤍 @thehearthmag.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Having Rascal in the TTRPG space is incredibly important, please give them whatever support you can.
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Folks who have card based solo ttrpgs: do you rewrite them for digital versions (like with rollable tables) or just ask folks to print and cut? We have two solo card games we sell at in person events but have never made digital. Thoughts?
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Spooky Jack-o'-lantern, KeganExe @keganexe.com · 24/06/2026
Instead of a What is an RPG section in your book, include a What Isn't an RPG section with an exhaustive list of everything that an RPG is not, so that potential players can understand the shape of a game through its absence
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
They're arriving 🍂🧡💛
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just got our first message about a RYNE book arriving in the wild 🥲 off you go you funky little book!
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Peregrine Coast Press @shop.peregrinecoast.press · 17/08/2026
Hail! We have re-enabled shipping to the EU and timed it with a review of how we handle shipping. We handle *a lot* of fulfilment for TTRPG crowdfunding projects so, in the interest of transparency, here is an abridged email we sent to creators we work with. peregrinecoast.press/blogs/news/t...
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The State of Shipping in 2026
2026 has been an absolute ride for us - both as a business and as a fulfilment and shipping provider for multiple independent producers. We sent an email out to the folks we work with to inform them o...
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
we are, as you know, usually scrabbling around in the mud instead of Online so this sounds extremely cool and good actually
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As RYNE makes its way into the hands of backers, we would LOVE to chat to folks about the game before it hits general sale. We've been offline for some time though! Who are your favourite channels, reviewers, podcasts, general Cool Folks who might want to talk to us? We're interesting I promise!
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 18/08/2026
Our buddies at @rascal.news do great work and need help to continue doing so. Here's the details. www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
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State of the Rascal: August 2026
An earnest appeal and radical honesty.
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Games You Should Play Before Playing Fiasco, in no particular order. * Play whatever you like * Even games that suck teach you stuff * Also play games that scare you sometimes * Distrust taste-makers * As a taste-maker I highly recommend Rusałka by Nick Wedig
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ryne has been a huge labour of love - it would mean the world to us to see people as excited about it now as we have been this whole time. We're very tired, but it's been worth it 🧡
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ryne is shipping! It's real! It's going to be in people's hands! This is absolutely wild
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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hi all, I am looking for articles, posts, podcasts about: - GMless/GMfull games - worldbuilding games - the practice of hacking in TTRPGs/ LARP Note: I am not necessarily interested in specific games, but rather in pieces that talk *about* these kinds of games and practices. Links are appreciated!
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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 complexityA 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 complexityA 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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Caelyn @caelyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I'm sad to say that I'm no longer working with the team at Rascal. It's been a great couple of years, but circumstances have dictated that it's time for me to move on. That does mean that I'm now (quite desperately) looking for freelance work, so if you need words for/about games, my DMs are open.
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We'll have RYNE for sale for the FIRST TIME AT A CONVENTION at @tagsfest.co.uk this October! And a bunch of other neat stuff too!
An orange poster featuring a robot reading a comic on a hilltop. The text reads "we are tabling at TAGS (tabletop & graphic storytelling festival)"
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
hey, hey! look! we got our books printed!
A pallet of RYNE ttrpg books in a warehouse
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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
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Seven-Part Pact
A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.
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Never Mind the Dice Rolls Magazine @nmtdrzine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There is always art you can use without ripping off artists.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 27/05/2026
Today is the last day of our collective Bundle! If you've been waiting on this deal (50% off one month's subscription to six independent websites), now's your final chance. A huge thank you to everyone who already supported. Y'all are our lifeblood.
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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
new post on Hark At Them!, check out my review of ONE FOR SORROW by @furtiveshambles.bsky.social. it's a #solo #ttrpg of a fellowship of seven companions travelling in a dangerous woodland. it's small and cute but like a robin it packs a punch, with interesting themes and clever mechanics. check it!
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One For Sorrow, by Adam Dixon
is a solo journalling game by . It's a small deck of hand cut, hand-trimmed cards, which put together with a map you draw tell the story of a dangerous jou...
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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
yeah we'll take our fancy game design awards any time now, thanks
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TAGS Festival @tagsfest.co.uk · 19/11/2024
📢 Exhibitor announcement: FURTIVE SHAMBLES @furtiveshambles.bsky.social “An experimental game design co-op based in North Yorkshire. Our games blur the line between fantastical and mundane, occult and homely, absurd and sincere.” 🏷️ Learn more about TAGS Fest at tagsfest.co.uk
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
We're going backt to TAGS! We had an absolute blast last year, can't wait to see you all again next month ❤️
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Far Horizons Cooperative @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
If you want a copy of @goblinmixtape.bsky.social's amazing #solo #journaling #TTRPG of weird workplaces and weirder research, you've got until the end of the month to get it from @backerkit.bsky.social. It's a beautiful wire-bound frosted-cover zine, on sale there at just £12 plus shipping.
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Pre-order Outliers: the award-winning solo TTRPG of weird research on BackerKit
Play a research assistant recruiting participants, collecting data, and performing weird tasks, before the study runs out of funding.
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
We're looking forward to this one! We'll be there with ghosts and ghouls galore
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Bog Witch Riley @sicksad.games · 05/03/2024
I'm kinda staggered by the response to the TTRPG Bundle for Trans Youth. I'd hoped we'd get to $3k, and it's almost at 3 times that! Thank you all so much! There's a couple of days left, so if you haven't been able to grab it yet, there's a link below 👇
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 20/02/2024
Hi, We’re Rascal, a new, independent, reader-supported, worker-owned outlet for journalism about TTRPGs, actual plays, and the people who make them. We strive to sustainably publish compelling, deeply-reported, and fearlessly honest journalism We’re also a little cheeky.
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
New logo! lookin' sharp
a logo for Furtive Shambles, with the name in white over a greyscale collection of witch-like objects (plants, keys, moths, ropes, etc)
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
We had to reprint Small Town Skeletons today!💀 Thanks for being such excellent teenage skellies, it's fantastic to see the game resonating with so many of you. Remember you can buy STS as a pdf, with community copies available for folks short on funds 🖤 furtiveshambles.itch.io/small-town-s...
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
delighted to inform people that our amazing editor @tenpenjenn.bsky.social has informed us we are "legally required to include a disclaimer about fire safety"
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
All the edits are in! We're working on layout, waiting on the last outstanding art piece, and putting together character & territory sheets - we're almost there!
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thryn|shem @bonemade.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
I have to pay my taxes and its not looking good for my bank account! Do you want a hand stitches book of victorian era style parlour games but for the year 2023? Good news! You can buy A POCKET BOOK OF CHRISTMAS GAMES today, for £4 including UK shipping ✨️ www.paypal.me/thairyn
the inside of A POCKET BOOK OF CHRISTMAS GAMES, showing a tree decorating game called THE STAR AT THE TOP.an a7 zine called A POCKET BOOK OF CHRISTMAS GAMES. it's black and white risotto printed and there's a Robin in a top hat on the cover.
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Furtive Shambles @furtiveshambles.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
TAGS was a very good games fest and we can't wait to go back next year, but with maybe twice as much stuff so we don't sell out of everything? We underestimated you, Edinburgh. Never again.
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