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“How did you get into TTRPGs” My best friend and I found a copy of GURPS Lite at our LGS after a Mirroding MTG draft when we were 10.

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Spooky Poltergeist Ghouls 🎃 @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 13h

"how did you get into ttrpgs" I was born here, I have been here before you, I will be here after you. There is no beginning, there is no end. There is only The Pug

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 29/09/2026

Had a blast illustrating the NPCs for this! Check it out!

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 24/08/2026

If you're a PIPESONG backer, PDFs should be in the process of going out as we speak!

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Jason (derogatory) @vonskulltaker.itch.io · 18/08/2026

My only regret is that I didn’t order one of everything from @gravy.press.

Diet of worms, murder at murder manor, foxtrot uniform, and Ex Inferis.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 15/08/2026

If you submitted to the Appendix N Jam, I hope you're reading and commenting on other folks submissions! It is so easy to tunnel vision on making, forgetting that the artists and writers that you admire developed their skill and crucial aesthetic sensibilities by consuming and thinking about media.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

Thank you! It's crazy every time I see '23 days, 21 hours before the deadline' on the submission page, I really entered a flow state when I put it together

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

I had the same question thanks for looking this up

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

Spell of the World Weavers is my first project to get over 1,000 downloads on itch! If you haven't checked it out, or the other amazing projects submitted to the Appendix N Game Jam, get after it! There is so much good stuff!

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Doomed pointcrawl for Cairn 2e

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

I kept thinking “it’s like we’re reading different threads,” and we literally were. Wild. If you reduce Cam’s take to how you’ve characterized it, it’s very agreeable, but extremely cold. I didn’t read it like that, and I think I’ve articulated my response to my satisfaction.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

Will, Cam brought up player skill directly in the post that I quoted, and he started the thread by referencing discourse in the OSR.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

I was responding to what he literally said in this thread, but let’s move on.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

Wild how hard it is for some folks to imagine having different rules for Walmart and your small business

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

Ok so I guess I’m saying that in my view, if the dice are deciding whether you get a benefit from your cleverness or RP as Cam put it, you are not exercising skill. If the rules are deciding it, that can certainly be interesting, but it’s no more or less arbitrary than the GM deciding.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

My reading of the principia apocrypha is that rulings replace an abundance of rules in the text, not that they are intended to supersede them where they exist.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

Cam said, “it doesn’t matter how clever my RP is or my ideas are, if the GM is final arbiter of failure or success, none of that matters. The only “skill” is persuading them.” This is my beef. I think your cleverness and RP *only* matter if the GM has the final say. Or else it’s “whoops you botch”

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

They’ve well deserved their opinion, my own work is reflection of the ways I don’t agree with this take 🤷‍♂️

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

It seems like OP’s issue is with games where the guidance is centered around rulings, which they are characterizing as fiat. I think they just don’t like those kind of games, which is fine… plenty of people find the conversation of “this should work” more interesting than rolling d20 + mod

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

Well, no, because everything is GM fiat up to that point. All we can do is roll dice now.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 10/08/2026

Idk, the alternative is, what? The dice are the final arbiter?

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 04/08/2026

The trees on Hawaii were absolutely breathtaking. Stuck with me more than anything else!

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Conor Duffy @youngmrduffy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Spell of the World-Weavers is a beautiful piece of work for Cairn. It’s an adventure set in and on the body of a massive titan. I love the science-fantasy angle! gravy-press.itch.io/spell-of-the...

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nemysisrelapse @nemysisrelapse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

(5/?) Spell of the World-Weavers by @gravy.press Love everything Bo illustrates so I’m biased in saying it’s beautiful front & back. All the art oozes character. Worldbuilding done in such a short space is great. Excellent Pointcrawl with stellar loops and foreshadowing! itch.io/jam/appx-n-j...

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Created Wrongly @creativewronging.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

1. Spell of the World-Weavers by @gravy.press An incredibly unique science-fantasy pointcrawl atop a living Mother machine ⚛ Beautiful art, just enough worldbuilding to tease the imagination, and heartbreaking text delivered offhandedly. PCs want to help these people, players know they'll die

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Doomed pointcrawl for Cairn 2e

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 28/07/2026

If you, or someone you know, is in need of high quality art or layout for your project, please get in touch! If you are in need of affordable black and white illustrations for your smaller project, check out the line art section of my portfolio, then get in touch!

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Portfolio by Bo Ryan Crum

Art and layout portfolio by Bo Ryan Crum.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 25/07/2026

My best friend, and collaborator, did this today too! …he knocked over the lid, which collided with the s-trap, completely shattering it and spilling the contents of the bowl everywhere. Whole toilet must be replaced.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 08/07/2026

This was such a joy to put together. The art and words came easy… more Cairn science fantasy in this cat’s future, I think!

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 19/06/2026

I just added a portfolio section to my website showcasing some recent illustrations. If you, or someone you know, is in need of high quality art for your project, please get in touch! Check it out! Shoot me a DM! Email me like it’s 1999!

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Illustration Portfolio

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 18/06/2026

Forgot bona fides. When reviewing my adventure Beneath the Muckfort, Cairn author Yochai Gal said “he’s the only one who actually used the rules I made!” I’m paraphrasing, but I think I have a particular talent to leverage the rules of a system when writing adventures. I also draw good

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 18/06/2026

They really think this motherfucker is going to live forever. They keep having Vance eat shit, hard to see how he keeps maga rolling. We all just watched Kamala go from border czar to not-the-president.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 17/06/2026

Just finished gradient descent in 13 ~3 hour sessions, every other week. Best campaign I’ve run so far. Excellent pacing for a group of adults. We played on a regular weeknight, which is I think another good strategy to keep folks showing up.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 05/06/2026

Where’s Gravy!? I’ve been in the illustration mines, err… pipes! PIPESONG illustrations are coming along nicely.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 22/05/2026

Is that my boy Sauron, the all seeing eye, in the upper right?

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 20/05/2026

It is worth noting that the tokens lose the ability to make treasures if the king is removed. If that’s not intended, it should be templated as “…token with ‘whenever this deals combat damage to a player, create a treasure token’”

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 20/05/2026

It makes 1/1s that have to connect to generate extra mana, and doesn’t do anything if it dies on the spot. It’s probably bad in modern magic lol (which is not to say I don’t like it!)

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 20/05/2026

6 drop for a 1/3 is crazy town, BBB is already restrictive.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 19/05/2026

In other news, I finally got off my ass and released my latest project, an adventure for #shadowdarkrpg MURDER AT MURDER MANOR! It's a social sandbox adventure, where players will be get plenty of opportunities to fuck over a class of cannibal uber-elites and ruin their party, and try not to die!

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Murder at Murder Manor by Gravy Press

A household of horrors for Shadowdark RPG

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 19/05/2026

Today I'm going to update some stuff on my webstore, pick up my new glasses, and draw.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 19/05/2026

I've been trying to write one of these most every day, and done a shit job the last couple weeks... I'm not the best at posting, by which I mean I absolutely suck shit at it. I'm trying to do better!

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 19/05/2026

Monday's Gravy: - Pipesong layout is nearly done - Got all the art spot assignments figured out - Added our Crews and Entrepreneurs tables (fun NPCs in there!) - Finalized the primary alteration clock

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 17/05/2026

Move over Luka Rejec, I finally have a rival who knows I exist!

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 17/05/2026

I’m excited you’re going to be at B2C! I played in your game of midnight in bonetown at NSR camp 1. I hope you’ll come by my table and say hi!

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 15/05/2026

My entire philosophy of how to be a good person as a white man is “take Ls, but avoid the same L twice”

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 13/05/2026

My friend just released this adventure for Cairn 2e. Great one shot length, where reality warps and crumbles as the players seek to stop incursions by a strange order of extra-dimensional mystics. Prints will be available soon!

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The Hypergeometric Incursion of Heu by warenunförmig, dandelionprocessions

a sad village and dimensional weirdness

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 13/05/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played: - Mothership RPG - Cairn 2e - Old School Essentials - Shadowdark

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 12/05/2026

I'm Bo Ryan, I'm a designer, adventure writer, and Cairnies award recipient. You can check out my work at gravy.press. I provide layout, writing, editing, illustration, and graphic design services, please shoot me a DM if you're interested!

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 06/05/2026

For what it’s worth, I think you should include a sample adventure. You could structure it in a way that helps a blorb enthusiast move towards your preferred style of play.

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Gravy Press | boRyan @gravy.press · 06/05/2026

Mythic Bastionland is probably the most successful recent example of a product that seeks to create this type of “the adventure will follow” type of play experience.

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