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We’re a small group of aspiring, indie TTRPG designers from Australia. Queer, sci-fi enthusiasts hoping to share our projects with the world. Anything we post is not permitted to be used for any AI related purposes. hacksandslashes.itch.io

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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Forgot to mention it here, a couple weeks ago we put up a small update to age of metal’s core rulebook. A couple rule tweaks, faction NPCs, etc. If you want some more info on those I made a small post about it here:
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Age of Metal V1.1
Hi everyone, hope you're all well. Lets go over the few changes we've made for the core rulebook, shall we? Lore: I've added a small section talking about the gateways within Ventrum's debris field, n...
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
So I’ve been working on a smaller ttrpg, with mechanics inspired by liars dice, I’m calling Fateweavers. Normally I’ll use word on my phone to write while I’m on break at work. It’s real convenient and helps me keep focused on what I’m trying to get done. But now the app’s freaking out, which is fun
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A little delayed, I’ve been organising going to housesit for another family member, wrapping up on some changes and additions to Age of Metal and more. But episode 2 of our Masks campaign is up and ready for listening.
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A little delayed, I’ve been organising going to housesit for another family member, wrapping up on some changes and additions to Age of Metal and more. But episode 2 of our Masks campaign is up and ready for listening.
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Masks 1: The Curious Case of the Briefcase 2
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Having fun looking into the price of using Apple Podcasts, RSS feeds, etc. But in the meantime, I’d like to announce that our first episode and session 0 of our Masks campaign are now available on Spotify to listen to! For now I’m going to aim to get an episode out fortnightly and we hope you enjoy
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Having fun looking into the price of using Apple Podcasts, RSS feeds, etc. But in the meantime, I’d like to announce that our first episode and session 0 of our Masks campaign are now available on Spotify to listen to! For now I’m going to aim to get an episode out fortnightly and we hope you enjoy
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Masks 1: The Curious Case of the Briefcase 1
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📢 ISO OF BI/PAN CREATIVES 📢 I’m making a starter pack for bi/pan folks in art, games, music, writing &/or voice acting! 🩷💜💙🩷💛🩵 🗣️If you’re a bi/pan creative, reply with what you do 🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁 #BiVisibilityMonth #GameDev #IndieDev #VisualNovel #TTRPG #Music #Artist #Author #VoiceActor
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Been staring at our Masks session recordings for our potential podcast. We’ve done around 10 sessions now but I worry about maintaining a proper schedule for recording and uploading. Plus I’m so lacking in confidence with my editing. I don’t want anything to come out terrible but I’m still learning
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I watched Upgrade back when it first came out but honestly forgot a lot about that movie. After rewatching I realise I totally should’ve been including it as a comparison for pitching Age of Metal. Such a good movie
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just checked in on our Itch page and we’ve hit 100 views for Age of Metal and over 250 views for the Parasites. I know it’s nothing crazy but I’m pretty stoked by that.
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Hivekeepers. Definitely some of the more devoted members of the Confluence. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, it’s hard to know how common they are among their ranks, their appearance isn’t exactly subtle enough to be a public presence.
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Making some progress on descriptions for the NPC sheets. I’m enjoying still writing them from the perspective of an in-world character rather than flat out description. I wonder how people feel about it tho
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Anto | Icarus Games @icarus-games.co.uk · 10/07/2025
It's #TTRPGRising which means it's time to help those smaller accounts find a wider audience and rise up! If you're under 1000 Followers: 🧡 Like/retweet 💬 Post your stuff below More than 1000 Followers: 🧡 Like/retweet 📣 Shoutout those below 🚫 No AI though!
A screenshot of nosferatu rising from his coffin with the caption "waking up to shout out fellow creators for #TTRPG Rising".
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Praise the notes app for letting me keep all of my trains of thought about metal from disappearing into the aether. Currently planning out some basic NPC classes for each faction. Gonna try aim for 2-3 for each.
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Ian Johnson @redshiftedgame.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Attention #TTRPG community: If you found an indie game or supplement you like, take a moment to tell the creator on social media. Unlike big companies, indie devs WILL notice and often greatly appreciate you taking the time to reach out. Sometimes it's the only way we know anyone likes our stuff!
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
It’s nice to see Edge of Eternities heavy Sci-Fi story and art getting so much love so far with spoilers. There always seemed to be so much ‘not in MY high fantasy game’ mentality going around so it’s good to see that there’s still plenty of appreciation for Sci-Fi, even if fantasy seems to dominate
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’ve realised I might’ve missed a rules clarification in the Metal rulebook that makes a weapon bonus obsolete so I’ll have the check on that. Might write up another little lore entry and the statblock for another animal species I’ve been thinking about while I’m at it.
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’ve been checking in on our itch page pretty regularly and the other day was our first since we uploaded The Parasites where we’ve gone without a view of any of our games. Which is around 3 months, pretty big for us.
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
My brain feels so on the fritz at the moment. Work leaves my brain idle so it races around and makes me feel like I need to be doing something for Metal or Shadows or any of those things. But of course I don’t have access to all that while working and I don’t know what is or isn’t worth doing rn
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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Just want to put it out there that if you are an indie TTRPG designer wanting to self-publish your game (under 100 pages & non-D&D related), I am happy to provide advice and guidance. This applies to veteran designers who wants someone to discuss ideas or rant about the industry with.
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a man in a dark room with the words want some help on the bottom
Alt: a man in a dark room with the words want some help on the bottom
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Thinkin about getting some people together to record a play through of Metal’s quickstart guide for people to listen to. Could link it to the Itch page for people to listen to if interested. I wonder if it’s a worthwhile idea.
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Our first major project is finally here. Age of Metal and it’s playtest materials are now available for free Become a bounty hunter doing what’s necessary to make ends meet in a world caught up in a turbulent era of trans-humanism where people augment themselves with strange, alien biology.
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Age of Metal by Hacks and Slashes
A biopunk TTRPG set in a dangerous world reshaped by the presence of a mysterious, alien being
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Our first major project is finally here. Age of Metal and it’s playtest materials are now available for free Become a bounty hunter doing what’s necessary to make ends meet in a world caught up in a turbulent era of trans-humanism where people augment themselves with strange, alien biology.
hacksandslashes.itch.io
Age of Metal by Hacks and Slashes
A biopunk TTRPG set in a dangerous world reshaped by the presence of a mysterious, alien being
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louis @mccorgi.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Excited to release my very first game! It's for @jdragsky.bsky.social's Jam in Silence and currently free/PWYW. Using tarot cards and a metronome, two players retrace their steps leading up to a sudden, tragic death. Can also be played as a solo journaling game!
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The Tell Tale Ticking by mccorgi
metronome & tarot duet TTRPG about being your own Unreliable narrator
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Anto | Icarus Games @icarus-games.co.uk · 05/06/2025
It's #TTRPGRising which means it's time to help those smaller accounts find a wider audience and rise up! If you're under 1000 Followers: 🧡 Like/retweet 💬 Post your stuff below More than 1000 Followers: 🧡 Like/retweet 📣 Shoutout those below 🚫 No AI though!
A screenshot of nosferatu rising from his coffin with the caption "waking up to shout out fellow creators for #TTRPG Rising".
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I’ve been slowly working away at the cover for Age of Metal and it’s definitely becoming something we’re happy with. I’ve gotten a bit of feedback and I think I’m satisfied with this as something for the early/playtest versions of the game and then we can go from there.
A silver hand sits, palm open to the sky, in the foreground. Four spheres of metal float above it, portraying a bustling nighttime cityscape, an elemental wandering through a forest, a busy factory line collecting scrap metals, and a brighter, lush cityscape. Behind it lies a dirt landscape with dark, glowing cracks running through the ground from the horizon, along with some small plants and rocks along the ground. The title Age of Metal sits above in the night sky.
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Moon Blight 🫀 @cuntmoney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We stand together or we all fall. - NO AI audiobooks - NO AI covers - NO AI book trailers - NO AI character drawings - NO AI marketing copy - NO AI “research” - NO AI editors - NO AI translation - NO AI at all
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
For our previous little games, the views have petered out pretty quickly. So I’m really happy to see that The Parasites has continued to have views and downloads since uploading Dunno if it means we’re doing something right or it’s just the natural progression of things. I’m happy either way.
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I am super late on this but we recently released another one-page TTRPG Humanity has fallen victim to an alien invasion, weaponising us and forcing us to turn against each other. Will you be your own downfall or will you fight against their influence, and fight for your survival, in The Parasites.
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The Parasites by Hacks and Slashes
A One-Page TTRPG where you struggle to survive in the midst of an alien invasion
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I am super late on this but we recently released another one-page TTRPG Humanity has fallen victim to an alien invasion, weaponising us and forcing us to turn against each other. Will you be your own downfall or will you fight against their influence, and fight for your survival, in The Parasites.
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The Parasites by Hacks and Slashes
A One-Page TTRPG where you struggle to survive in the midst of an alien invasion
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
we really do
The Chaser headline: Aussies miss when morning routine didn't involve finding out whatever the fuck this cunt did today. Photo of Trump.
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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 08/04/2025
Failing forward has never gone this hard. Be catastrophic heist arts, who turn disaster in wins. Come back Hits The Fan. Every roll guaranteed to have plans go wrong and/or chaos intervene, but also pivot to make it all work! crowdfundr.com/HitsT... #TTRPG #IndieGame #Crowdfunding #Crowdfundr
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Hits The Fan: TTRPG Heist Hilarity by Thought Punks
Secrets in the Static is a tabletop roleplaying game about surreal dread, unstable identity, and small town horror, written by Rev Casey the author of No Angels Live Here and NEVER Stop Smiling.
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👻 ⛧ Victor J. Frankenstein ⛧ SCARY SEASON ⛧👻 @victor-el-dm.eurosky.social · 31/03/2025
I super recommend SLAYERS because each monster hunter character class has it's own differentiated mechanics, brilliant read for game designers and fun to play for players! If you like subsystems, this game is made of them! #TTRPG
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Underground Oracle Publishing @undergroundoracle.com · 25/03/2025
The whole crew didn't show? Someone else wants to run a game? Need a quick side quest? Grab one of our Cypher Shorts TTRPG volumes for hours of adventure! Store: undergroundoracle.co... Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com... #ttrpg #CypherSystem
A sci-fi illustration of the space station crashed on the outer planet with a lot of mutated mushrooms. Art by Asanee Srikijvilaikul
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Stop, Drop & Roll @sdrgames.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Theres still an hour left to back Resistance is Required! We need more uncivil disobedience in this world at the minute... Let's see if we can push them to that 5k mark #TTRPGcommunity 🤘✊️ #indiettrpg #punk
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Resistance is Required RPG
A Table-Top Role-Playing Game for the Modern Revolutionary
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 06/03/2025
Against my better judgement, I wrote a short story. In English. It's called 'The Goblin' and is about a gang of scum in the MÖRK BORG world unlucky enough to be attacked by curse-spreading goblins and have one of them run away. It was written as part of the Nameless Scriptures lore jam.
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The Goblin by Johan Nohr
A MÖRK BORG short story
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Elliot Davis | Pre-Save To Feel Your Warmth @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Have you backed THE post-fantasy worldbuilding game of your dreams aka A LAND ONCE MAGIC?? Help @vidityavoleti.bsky.social and I make this the most special little book it can be now!
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A Land Once Magic - Pocket-sized Worldbuilding TTRPG
Infinite worldbuilding in your pocket! A Post-Fantasy game by Viditya Voleti, award-winning designer of Bloodbeam Badlands, Space Between Stars, and more.
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Stop, Drop & Roll @sdrgames.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"...The decisions you make force past and present to collide in a single day. Within the 24 hours of an attempted eviction, class spontaneity will be anything but spontaneous!" Pledge now and help us hit @darkforestpress.bsky.social's stretch goal to unlock his Adventure, titled "Optics" 👀
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Why We Fight - a solarpunk narrative TTRPG
Why We Fight is a 1-5 player narrative TTRPG where you play a crew of eco-punks fighting fascism to build a brighter, greener future. But most of all, it’s about learning about each other, and the thi...
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AuthorIan @ianthealy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
CALL FOR ARTISTS! My superhero TTRPG book funded on Kickstarter. If you are interested in having your work considered for inclusion in the book, or know an artist who would be, here is the link for proposals: forms.gle/9dKjE63cL2ZN...
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(Donp🏳️‍🌈) Visual Novelty @dondonpatapon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Cheeky self-promotion time but if you want to do something sweet for my birthday I would love to see you try out my Games and maybe if you're feeling extra kind leave a lovely comment thank you~ dondonpatapon.itch.io
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DonDonPataPon [Visual Novelty]
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I know I linked some posts about Temporal here, and that had my shoddy iPhone drawing of the cover But this is my most recent iterations. I might go back and work on the sand but otherwise I’m really happy with it. Current plan is some boss art and then hopefully the early playtest version uploaded
The current concept for Temporal’s cover art.
An hourglass sits in space, it’s centre shattered and the pieces floating around it. The grains of sand within are flowing back and forth between either side of the hourglass in the shape of the infinity symbol
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I feel like I’m still improving with digital art, I’ve at least been happier overall with what I’ve been making lately This one was a concept piece for detailing around any small logos or pieces of art in the rulebook, the idea being they’re being constructed and displayed in a ball of Metal.
The logo for a faction of Age of Metal that features the theatre masks of comedy and tragedy fused together, with curtains draped behind them. The logo sits within a sphere of Metal that has pulled open at the front for viewing.
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Satanic Panic | DNGN CLUB @dngnclub.itch.io · 17/03/2025
Ended up making a #microrpg
QUANTUM NOBODIES a microrpg by DNGN CLUB GAMES:

You starts as a nobody and have no dice.
Describe your vibe.
Choose a signature item, you always have it.
Tell us about the last embarrassing thing you did.

Doing Stuff.
When you take an action, roll your dice with relevant tags:
0-1: You fail and die.
2-5: You succeed with a complication.
6: You succeed and gain a free one-use d6.

Roll.Die.Repeat.
When you die:
Gain a skill/talent/ability/resource tag that would have  prevented that death.
Then gain a d6 and create a tag for this new feature.
You are thrown back to the last publicly embarrassing moment you experienced.

This is a game about nobodies entangled in a quantum mystery.
One players is the GC [God Complex]. It is your job to:

Set the scene, show the stakes, narrate the action, and end the scene.

Give fair but brutal rulings.

Create paradigm-shifting complications and new clocks.

Unleash the full force of the GOD COMPLEX, a trans-dimensional bureaucracy whose job is to snuff out quantum nobodies who populate space/time.
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ChariTTRPGs @charittrpgs.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Hey y'all, we're ChariTTRPGs and we'll be using this space to boost TTRPG charity events. Stay up to date with our charity efforts by joining our newsletter charittrpgs.substack.com and our discord community discord.gg/RFWUbBHN2G
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ChariTTRPG’s Substack | Jes | Substack
Where Charity and TTRPGs intersect. Click to read ChariTTRPG’s Substack, by Jes, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
So, the Blood and Iron short story hasn’t had much success on Itch. Does anyone have any recommendations for other places to upload it that are more focused on short stories?
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
So, the Blood and Iron short story hasn’t had much success on Itch. Does anyone have any recommendations for other places to upload it that are more focused on short stories?
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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Glad I never bought into Terraforming Mars. The vibes were always bad and the CEO of the company has come out as racist and transphobic. Here’s a link to some alternatives: www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...
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From the rpg community on Reddit: Some alternative RPGs about colonizing Mars
Explore this post and more from the rpg community
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Monster Hour Pod @monsterhourpod.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
S3 E1 - The Case of the White Knight Welcome to Arborealis, a dense urban jungle full of secrets and schemes. Through its streets flows the Mist: an otherworldly force that keeps Sleepers unaware of the awakened Rifts that walk amongst them. Listen here! 🕵️ monsterhour.podbean.com/e/s3-e1-the-...
Monster Hour season three logo
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Hacks and Slashes @hacksandslashes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I know it’s been a hot minute since an actual post, but last night I uploaded the first of my Age of Metal short stories: Blood and Iron. It gives a glance into the world of Ventrum from a more removed and casual perspective than in depth and analytical, but I hope it’s still found enjoyable.
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Age of Metal: Blood and Iron by Hacks and Slashes
Follow two young bounty hunters as they come up against more than they bargained for
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