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A new platform for indie TTRPGs. Reviewing games you've probably never heard of. indie-vault.ghost.io Email your weird games to indievault.ttrpg@gmail.com

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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Scary Cave ✨👪 Your friend Suzie is missing, she's in the scary cave! Adults can't see the scary cave, but you can! Armed with a trusty flash light and some spare batteries, you delve into the scary cave behind the school. by @friendly-ghost.bsky.social indie-vault.ghost.io/scary-cave/
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Scary Cave ✨👪
Your friend Suzie is missing, she's in the scary cave! Adults can't see the scary cave, but you can! Armed with a trusty flash light and some spare batteries, you delve into the scary cave behind the ...
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
We've had a slow week at the Indie Vault, but there's still a ton of #indiettrpg news going on. Have you got news to share? Tell us about it for #SelfPromoSaturday. We especially invite #Pocketopia creators to tell us about their games Share your game, then interact with another post to boost it!
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Hatchlings Games ~ Shop opening soon! @hatchlingdm.itch.io · 19/03/2025
To those content creators who spread the word about #ZineQuest / Zine Month / #ZiMo, please consider covering the #Pocketopia event currently running on @backerkit.com. There are such a diverse range of small games, and a handful are still to fund! www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
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Pocketopia 2025 on BackerKit
🎲 WELCOME TO POCKETOPIA —a celebration of portable easy-to-learn tabletop games featuring 50+ creators launching together on BackerKit from March 13 - April 3! 🏆 Here’s how you can earn exclusive...
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A Fool's Errand 💡✨ by @uselessties.bsky.social A solo-journaling game about the futile effort of trying to warn a king about their inevitable destruction. indie-vault.ghost.io/a-fools-erra...
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A Fool's Errand 💡✨
A solo-journaling game about the futile effort of trying to warn a king about their inevitable destruction.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Gentleman Bandit | Western Cantos I 💡✨ by @arthograph.bsky.social A solo roleplaying game exploring violence, woe, and dissociation, set in the American Old West. indie-vault.ghost.io/gentleman-ba...
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Gentleman Bandit | Western Cantos I 💡✨
A solo roleplaying game exploring violence, woe, and dissociation, set in the American Old West.
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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Pocketopia has been live on @backerkit.com for a little under 48 hours and a bunch of the people making games for it are here on Bluesky, so here's a quick thread pointing you in their direction. But first, please go and check out Blood In The Margins! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
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Blood In The Margins
A dark academia solo journaling game from the creator of The Wretched, bringing new mechanisms and methods of storytelling to the Wretched & Alone engine.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We published 4 reviews this week and have a pile of about 50 to look through! But on #SelfPromoSaturday, we celebrate every single #indiettrpg title that we see. So post your game below, and then comment on someone else's game to help get them noticed! #ttrpg #rpg
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🪰 Hatched Games 🪰 @hatchedgames.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We funded in 30mins! Thanks for the support everyone. tinyurl.com/ycx9tkdz
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GAST: Horror Zine Collection
Season One of GAST: A collection of solo folk horror RPGs.
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Memories of Sunshine @memoriesofsunshine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
What's the next #ttprg you are thinking of buying/trying? We've got out eyes on Free League's Electric State. It's just so pretty..... 🎨
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Rebels of the Outlaw Waste 💎 🗺️ You've been tussled out into the Outlaw waste, abandoned by the last dredges of civilisation and told to go it alone. When suddenly, a voice from the last independent radio station crackles to life, sending you cryptic instructions, and a new purpose in life.
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Rebels of the Outlaw Waste 💎 🗺️
You've been tussled out into the Outlaw waste, abandoned by the last dredges of civilisation and told to go it alone. When suddenly, a voice from the last independent radio station crackles to life, s...
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CALVIN Core by @dcbradshaw.com Playing Calvin Core feels like a university drinking game - simple at first but quickly spiralling into delightful chaos. indie-vault.ghost.io/calvin-core/
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CALVIN Core 💡📖
Playing Calvin Core feels like a university drinking game—simple at first but quickly spiralling into delightful chaos.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Can't get enough #indieTTRPG? @chaoticanwriter.bsky.social covers indie games in his Dungeon Delve newsletter.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We can only get through a limited number of #indiettrpg titles per week. But there’s no limit to the number of times you can post up your games for #SelfPromoSaturday. Share your game in the thread below and comment on someone else’s title to help them get noticed!
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Leopards Eat Your Face 📖 "It's hard to understand the subtle creep of fascism. Those who regularly vote for their governments to get rid of waste rarely realise that they are the 'waste' the fascists are talking about." indie-vault.ghost.io/leopards-eat... by @ceruleanfive.bsky.social
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Leopards Eat Your Face 📖
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. – Adrian Bott
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If we didn't reply to you today when you sent in a request to review your #indiettrpg, it's either because we're a bit swamped by the outpouring of interest or we hold a deep dark grudge against you for some imagined slight. And there's no way for you to know which.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Do you want someone to review your weird little #indiettrpg? We want to review your weird little indie #ttrpg Drop us a DM, comment here or light a signal fire to get our attention. We'd appreciate reposts from anyone who sees this to get the message far and wide
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If You Loved Me 💡✨ Inspired by Goncharov: A 2-player GMless game where the characters are trying to kill each other. indie-vault.ghost.io/if-you-loved...
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If You Loved Me 💡✨
Inspired by Goncharov: A 2-player GMless game where the characters are trying to kill each other.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
indie-vault.ghost.io/hit-the-road... Hit the Road, Jack ✨ "You fucked up. You fucked up something big. And now the big house, the law man, the devil and all his little hellions are chasing your sorry ass down. Time to hit the road, Jack, and get gone."] by @percypropa.bsky.social
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Hit the Road, Jack ✨
"You fucked up. You fucked up something big. And now the big house, the law man, the devil and all his little hellions are chasing your sorry ass down. Time to hit the road, Jack, and get gone."
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Where are all the people that want to play weird #indiettrpg games? We want to connect with you, review stuff for you and generally uplift all the cool little games we can find.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Fancy getting a short review of your #indietrrpg? Send a copy to indievault.ttrpg@gmail.com and we’ll (hopefully) publish a short review on indie-vault.ghost.io (Or just DM us) We review games you’ve probably never heard of.
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Indie Vault
Indie TTRPGs, set centre stage
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Read/Play 🎨 How extreme can you take the concept of a lyric game? indie-vault.ghost.io/read-play-2/
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Read/Play 🎨
How extreme can you take the concept of a lyric game? Or perhaps, even, a game? In this short collection, Sean Patrick Cain isn’t aiming to create something that’s necessarily playable. Instead they a...
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Hardcore Badass 💡✨ Who hasn’t fantasised about being an over-the-top action hero at least once? Hardcore Badass fulfils that fantasy in this easy-to-pick-up-and-play TTRPG indie-vault.ghost.io/hardcore-bad...
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Hardcore Badass 💡✨
Who hasn’t fantasised about being an over-the-top action hero at least once? Hardcore Badass fulfils that fantasy in this easy-to-pick-up-and-play TTRPG
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John Hedge @johnthehedge.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In my new venture @indievault.bsky.social we're going to be reviewing #indiettrpg titles. Reviewing games you've probably never heard of. I'm going to be taking it further and just actively going out of my way to review really *weird* stuff. My new goal is to be the oddest TTRPG reviewer around.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Forsaken 💡🎨 By @percypropa.bsky.social Play as the Forsaken, nameless children of the city, tell the story of their triumphs, through a grim-dark exploration of their lives or as their heroic alter-egos in this illuminated by LUMEN storytelling game. indie-vault.ghost.io/forsaken/
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Forsaken 💡🎨
Play as the Forsaken, nameless children of the city, tell the story of their triumphs, through a grim-dark exploration of their lives or as their heroic alter-egos in this illuminated by LUMEN storyte...
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This Person Should Not Exist 💡✨ Solo TTRPG; "An artefact-making game of Where's Wally defacement and surveillance weird horror." indie-vault.ghost.io/this-person-...
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This Person Should Not Exist 💡✨
Solo TTRPG; "An artefact-making game of Where's Wally defacement and surveillance weird horror."
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
It's always kind to leave a review of a game on @drivethrurpg.com or @itch.io whenever you can. It helps the creators, and a few kind words can make the experience of self-publishing feel really special.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Risus - The anything RPG ▶️💡✨ A game full of cliches, both literally and figuratively. Designed for when you just need a system at a moments notice, this slim, rules-lite system would feel home in a modern discussion of Indie RPGs, though it was first published over 20 years ago.
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Risus - The anything RPG ▶️💡✨
Risus is a game full of cliches, both literally and figuratively. Designed for when you just need a system at a moments notice, this slim, rules-lite system would feel home in a modern discussion of I...
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Mission Impawsible 💡🎨✨👪 indie-vault.ghost.io/mission-impa... By: T-rex Games You’re all playing a top secret agent who also happens to be three (or more) raccoons in a trench coat...
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Mission Impawsible 💡🎨✨👪
The premise of the game, is that you’re all playing a top secret agent who also happens to be three (or more) raccoons in a trench coat.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We are looking for #indiettrpg games to review! Interested in getting your game reviewed by our brand new blog? Email: indievault.ttrpg@gmail.com with a copy of your game or how to get it and keep an eye on this page! Share your games below and repost this for visibility!
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
HYPE THREAD 📢🔥🔥🔥 Are you a small TTRPG creator running a project for #ZineQuest / #Zinemonth ? Pitch your game and drop a link in the replies below 👇
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a starfield hype-o-meter with giraffes on it
Alt: A meter labelled "HYPE-O-METER". The needle is dancing wildly in the maxed-out red area on the right.
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
#Bloggers of Bluesky help us out! We're hoping to release hundreds of review of #indiettrpg titles over the next few years and are looking for a good blogging platform. Our #1 concern is a good system of tagging for the blogs. We'd rather not use Wordpress. Anyone got any good suggestions?
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Sylvan Lawrence Is Carfunding @lonelamplighter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Hey TTRPG Bluesky! I made a starter pack of some of my favorite indie designers and artists. Give them a follow!!! go.bsky.app/UZEN91K
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We want to find all the #indiettrpg creators out there in order to keep abreast of new releases, cool projects and what's going on. If you have a good starter pack for indie #ttrpg creators, drop it below!
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Behind the scenes, our little Elves are tinkering 🔨 with the review process, trying to come up with something that will be mostly positive, celebrating the good about indie, while sill leaving a bit of space to highlight valid issues. What do you want to see out of a review of an #indiettrpg?
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Let's talk #SciFi. What is your favourite #indiettrpg with a sci-fi setting or style? Bonus points if it's a crossover genre (because we miss Firefly) ✅ Bonus bonus points if it's your own game and you can tell us all about it. ✅✅
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a woman in a blue jacket is sitting under an umbrella with her legs crossed and smiling .
Alt: A woman in a blue jacket is sitting under an umbrella with her legs crossed and smiling. The word shiny appears. It references the TV show Firefly.
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Lucas Falk @ceruleanfive.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I’d have to say Dragonfly Motel. It’s in French though… thomas-munier.itch.io/dragonfly-mo...
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Download Dragonfly Motel by Thomas Munier
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So what’s the absolutely weirdest or wackiest little #indiettrpg you’ve ever come across? Bonus points if it’s your own and you’d like us to review it. ✅ Bonus bonus points if it’s entirely unplayable. ✅✅
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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
it's fucking ZINEQUEST y'all. I'm a story game head, what should I look at? Self-promo encouraged (in fact mandatory).
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Nick Gonzo @nickgonzo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If anyone has started making zines in the last few years and would like to talk about why they started making them, please message me here. I really want to get a perspective on why people have started recently. If you could signal boost this too, this would be great.
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Nimaël 🍉🌱🏳️‍⚧️ CHECK PIN FOR NSFW TTRPG CROWDFUND!! @nimael.itch.io · 05/02/2025
Hey bsky! It's Zine Month, the moment when #ttrpg creators release their cool games via crowdfunding! here's a thread of the games i loved and backed 🥰 (probably at the lowest level cause i also need to eat next month...i know, what a loser! but they still deserve the world 🔥) #ZiMo #ZineQuest
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Evil Sorcery @evilsorcery.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
hello — we are out here trying to reinvent frost giants & help inspire new worldbuilding around them. Liam is our writer and resident GM, and he has cooked up some wonderful lore and new mechanics (he’s even learning how to draw so we can completely avoid AI) kck.st/4hHAydI
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Rumbling of the Giants: A TTRPG Worldbuilding Zine
Inspire brutal giants for your game world, or incorporate the physical zine into your sessions as in-world lore.
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Zosimos @zo51m05.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hi there! Here's Retrograde, a retrofuturist RPG of blood, ink, and unraveling the secrets of the cosmos! It's heavily inspired by analog printmaking, and all 4 of our zines will be printed with letterpress covers and risograph interiors! www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
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Retrograde: A Retrofuturist Letterpress RPG
A Retrofuturist TTRPG of investigation, exploration, and survival, created with and inspired by letterpress
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Indie Vault @indievault.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
For us, February is going to be about supporting #Zinequest. There are over 1600+ TTRPG projects on kickstarter tagged with #Zinequest. We hope to find the diamonds in the rough, the weird, the wacky, and the wonderful. Are you participating? Comment below so we can follow you!
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Ethan @glyphtide.games · 01/02/2025
PREQUEL is a tactical storytelling game of heroic sacrifice. Play as the doomed heroes of legend who sacrificed themselves for the chance that the next generation can prevail. Build the world. Discover The Evil's weaknesses. Shape your legacies. You will fall, but you are not The End.
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Coming soon: PREQUEL RPG
A tactical storytelling game of heroic sacrifice.
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Tanuki Games JP - TRPGs and Language Learning Games @tanukigames.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Development Hell is a tabletop role-playing game where you and your friends play filmmakers under pressure from pernicious studio forces. It has a unique storyboarding mechanic to help make your movie - will it be enough for you to escape creative purgatory? www.kickstarter.com/projects/toi...
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Coming soon: Development Hell! A storyboarding TRPG
Escape from the creative purgatory of trying to make the 'perfect' film while dealing with the horrors of terrible studio demands!
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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thanks Lone! I'm dropping A Heist Game on Wednesday the 5th! Its an OSR game of shameless larceny and criminal acquisition! Including a cheeky bit of Art and Layout from @loottheroom.bsky.social for good measure. www.kickstarter.com/projects/a-h...
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Coming soon: A Heist Game: an RPG of Criminal Acquisition
A Heist Game is an OSR RPG of shameless larceny in a pseudo-medieval setting grown strange and cruel, for Zinequest '25!
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Michael - InnocentGoblin TTRPGs @innocentgoblin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hello! My project this zinemonth is Pirouette, a solo horror ballet TTRPG Play as a dancer performing for an eldrich horror as exhaustion and fear begins to creep pushing you towards those vital mistakes the show must go on - even if it kills you! Crowdfundr.com/pirouette
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Pirouette - A Ballet Horror TTRPG by InnocentGoblin TTRPGs
A solo horror TTRPG where you play a ballet dancer performing for an eldritch horror - The show must go on - Even if it kills you.
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Lone Archivist @lonearchivist.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy #ZineMonth / #ZiMo25! Are you working on a project? I want to hear about it. Use this as your soapbox.
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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Mum Chums, my slice of life #ttRPG about the people who care for kids, is now live on Kickstarter. If you like your gaming with a strong emotional core, back it today!
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Mum Chums
A slice of life RPG about the people who care for kids
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