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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just received my copy of the wonderful #PorkMort! A great production all around, and it was a pleasure to edit. Support the Cap de Pork team by purchasing this #MorkBorg based #ttrpg, inspired by the folklore of the Balearic Islands, where and when you can! #OSR #rpg #folkhorror

Photo of the Pork Mort book and accompanying map, character sheets, intro adventure and character cards.

Photo of a spread from the Pork Mort book, detailing the Mysterious Islands, home of the great spider Balanguera, knitting the fate of the Island's inhabitants.

Photo of a spread from the Pork Mort book, showing art of Tramuntana, the majestic, serene feline who is probably the oldest inhabitant of the Island.

Photo of a spread from the Pork Mort book, showing the evil King Pork.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Technically, this project launched before Kickstarter's AI policy that would require that, so that angle probably won't get backers anywhere. However, this does seem to violate another rule: www.kickstarter.com/rules

Screenshot of Kickstarter rule: "Information must be honest and clearly presented.
Our community is built on trust and communication. Projects can't mislead people or misrepresent facts.

Projects should be clearly and fully presented at the time of submission. Making substantial edits or additions that change the core of a project after submission may result in the project being canceled.
Projects must solely contain materials that the creator has rights to using. Stealing content or using it without permission is illegal and may lead to intellectual property disputes."

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure. What's yours?

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Just received my copy of @spellbookgaming.itch.io's Bite the Hand, a lightweight cyberpunk #ttrpg based on #MothershipRPG! It was fun to work on this one. Check it out at www.spellbookgaming.com/bite-the-hand #rpg #cyberpunk #scifi

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Very proud of the #indieRPG crew we've pulled together for Devil's Due. It's been a long, slow road to making this book a reality (since about 8 months before Mothership Month 25), but we're excited to finally be prepping the files for our printer!

Screenshot of the credits page of Devil's Due.

Screenshot from the crowdfunding campaign page for Devil's Due, listing our many contributors. (1/3)

Screenshot from the crowdfunding campaign page for Devil's Due, listing our many contributors. (2/3)

Screenshot from the crowdfunding campaign page for Devil's Due, listing our many contributors. (3/3)

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It's the last day to preorder Devil's Due, our 200-page hardcover space pirate setting for #MothershipRPG! With writing & art from 16 MoSh creators, it's got 10 missions and frameworks, 10 pirate crews, 50+ roll tables, a hub city, and lots more! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t... #ttrpg #rpg #osr

Thumbnails of the pages within a preview version of the book.

Art spread of characters around a table at a bar called the Pressure Cooker.

Sample spread of a pirate crew: The Ragtag Rustlers.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Glad to be contributing some #games to this immense #TTRPG #charity bundle for immigrant legal support in #Minnesota!

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The teaser page for Dead Internet Theory is now listed in the @backerkit.com collection for #Zinetopia. Check it out alongside all the other indie #TTRPG zines aiming to fund next month: www.backerkit.com/c/collection... #CY_BORG #ZineMonth #OSR

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

25% off holiday sale on all my #TTRPG books! If you want modules for #MothershipRPG or #TrophyDark or #OSR, or a #OnePageRPG or two, you need to check these out if you haven't! You can even get physical copies of my Mothership modules and one-page games! itch.io/s/174290/win... #rpg #dnd #sale

Product mockup for an RPG module book called Fear of a Daily Planet, styled after newsprint.

Banner art for an RPG module book called Roseate Growth, an x-ray shows purplish waves emerging from the brain of someone eating a glowing leaf.

Product promo photo of an RPG module book called The Stone-Flesh Gift, the title made of veins in front of a large black oval blocking a starfield. Yellow eye-like lights glow along its surface.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It's getting close to the wire, so don't forget to back @spellbookgaming.bsky.social's new #cyberpunk Panic Engine #RPG, BITE THE HAND! #TTRPG #MothershipRPG #scifi #osr #BackerKit

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

If you haven't already, support this #charity #ttrpg bundle for the PCRF: $10 for over 200 games! Included are my #trophydark incursions and my satire journaling #sologame about irrelevant opinion columnists. itch.io/b/3299/pales... #rpg #ttrpgcommunity #charitybundle #indiegames #itch #bundle

Image promoting the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund TTRPG charity bundle on itch.io. The header reads "Games for Palestine," and the footer reads "itch.io bundle, $10 for 243 games." Watermelons and a Palestinian flag border the logos of three games in the bundle: The Pried Eye, Penumbra, and Serious Reading.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Another wonderful #ttrpg charity bundle for a great cause! Over $900 worth of tabletop #rpg products for a $10 min. donation to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. Full games plus lots of modules and supplements for #MothershipRPG, #Cairn, #5e, #TrophyDark, and more. itch.io/b/3299/pales...

Screenshot of some of the many offerings in the PCRG ttrpg charity bundle.

Screenshot of more of the many offerings in the PCRG ttrpg charity bundle.

Screenshot of even more of the many offerings in the PCRG ttrpg charity bundle.

Screenshot of still more of the many offerings in the PCRG ttrpg charity bundle.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Very happy to have worked on this book. I really love how its quest hooks threaten to lure your players into the ripples and riptides of these seven creatures' self-destructive lives. Flesh these out into major actors in your #osr campaign, or just let them stoke your imagination: thebreadwyrm.com

Photo of a random spread from The Pale Death portion of the book.

Photo of a random spread from The Silt Saint portion of the book.

Photo of a random spread from The Last Light portion of the book.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Just got my copy of @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social's wonderful Menagerie of Unbearable Things, a very unique and poetic #ttrpg bestiary bursting with art, where false relationships and the loss of love create the monstrosities that haunt the #rpg world. Get it now from Tania's shop: thebreadwyrm.com

Photo of the cover art for Menagerie of Unbearable Things

Photo of the credits of the book and the patrons who support the author, Tania Herrero.

Photo of a random spread from The Scorched King portion of the book.

Photo of a random spread from The Blooming Lord portion of the book.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Another great #rpg charity bundle deal from HELLO//GOODBYE, benefiting legal aid services in Virginia to combat The Horrors: itch.io/b/3276/hello... Over 200 #ttrpg PDFs and digital games, including Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, Magic of Inventorying, DNGN + DRGN, Rosewood Abbey, Arkyvr, and much more!

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Canadian #ttrpg fans can now get my #MothershipRPG modules and one-page #RPGs from Compose Dreams, just in time for this sale! Check them out here: composedreamgames.com/marketplace/... Unfortunately, there's a customs hold-up for the UK stock I sent to them, but hopefully that'll clear up soon!

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

You're bound to recognize some of the talented folks working on Flatline on the Blocks, especially if you've been following Devil's Due. So learn more about it here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

It's Sartre's Portrait of the Anti-Semite all the way down. For fascists and for reactionaries of most stripes, politics is about wielding power. Not taking argumentation and fact seriously, ignoring the pursuit of truth and communion, is a display of power that makes them feel superior.

A text quote from Sartre's Portrait of the Anti-Semite: “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I've finally released my latest sci-fi horror adventure! Like ink that smells of campfires and petroleum, or cultic knowledge beyond your ken imparted through the printing presses? Get Fear of a Daily Planet in print or PDF from the link below. #selfpromosaturday #MothershipRPG #rpg #ttrpg #osr

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

How will you handle the competing faiths, craven cultists, powerful priests, violent creatures, and starving workers to be found within Burgom's Haven?

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Damn, guess it's not a great day to be an indie ttrpg designer working on a multiverse game called VERSE for years...

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Checking some print proofs for Fear of a Daily Planet this weekend! This lost colony crawl through a festering, faction-dense print facility for #MothershipRPG is getting close to finished, so be sure to get your preorders in now: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #selfpromosaturday #ttrpg #rpg

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This sketch is almost 7 years old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNF6...

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Got Return to Perinthos today! This megadungeon book is a great charity project by @rvgames.company to honor ‪Jennell Jaquays and to support both her family and @translifeline.org. My dungeon is Tonkk's Fairy Barn, a fantasy theme park struggling to keep it together. #ttrpg #osr #ose #ttrpgfamily

Photo of the book's front cover: a Greek-style statue of a person holding a curved blade beneath two columns. A banner reads "Return to Perinthos."

A photo of the first spread in the book, with the credits, a portrait of Jennell Jaquays, and a touching dedication to her contributions to game design and to LGBTQ+ rights and support.

A photo of the spread for my dungeon in the book, "Tonkk's Fairy Barn," showing a dungeon key on the left page and the map on the right page.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Light at the end of the Devil's Due editing tunnel, reminding me of how much #MothershipRPG awesome our writers are bringing. Here's an overview of 2 of our 5 indexes: 64 roll tables and 96 ships. (Many of the ships are due solely to @chrisair.itch.io's wonderful roll tables!) #ttrpg #WIPWednesday

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Gradually bouncing back after losing power in the May 16th tornado for a week (still have to borrow the landlord's wi-fi), and signs reveal that I'm getting right back to #MothershipRPG editing... #ttrpg #rpg

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

#PAXEast attendees and #MothershipRPG fans, my living ship module The Stone-Flesh Gift will be available at PAX East at Booth TT63 from Indie Press Revolution (@ipr.bsky.social). Like sci-fi body horror? Check it out! More info: atypicalfaux.itch.io/the-stone-fl... #ttrpg #rpg #PAX #PAXEast2025

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Think any of my stuff is rad? (So You've Been Chump-Dumped, The Stone-Flesh Gift, SkelJW, Serious Reading, The Pried Eye, Penumbra, etc.) Please consider giving them ratings! It really does help boost visibility: atypicalfaux.itch.io #ttrpg #rpg #ZineMonth #ZineQuest #MothershipRPG #TrophyDark

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Just got my awesome Dirtbags! #ttrpg swag from @thedungeonskey.bsky.social! It's a great production, and I was really excited to edit this #ZineQuest project. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the... The quickstart is free here: www.thedungeonskey.com/product-cate... #ZineMonth #rpg #scifi

Photo of the Dirtbags! RPG book with a R.I.P. skull patch

Photo of the Dirtbags! RPG book, three additional trifold adventures for the game, and a R.I.P. skull patch

Photo of the Dirtbags! RPG book, three additional trifold adventures and a pad of character sheets for the game, two Dirtbags! stickers, and a R.I.P. skull patch.

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Interested in #indie #ttrpgs like Liminal Horror, Eco Mofos!!, Runecairn, 2400, Rosewood Abbey, and so much more? Donate just 5€ to flood relief for Valencia, Spain and get all these and 750+ other #rpg items! itch.io/b/2858/amor-... #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgfamily #charity #bundle #selfpromosaturday

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

In other #SelfPromoSaturday news, I have <10 copies left of The Stone-Flesh Gift, my #MothershipRPG living ship module from #ZineMonth 2024! A reprint won't happen until Fear of a Daily Planet is ready. Wanna support an #indie RPG publisher? Check the link below! #ttrpg #rpg #osr #scifi #ZineQuest

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Very happy to get @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social's system-neutral adventure The White Horse of Lowvale in the mail! It looks great. The hardcover gloss is a nice touch. It was super exciting to work on! Check it out here: thebreadwyrm.com/products/the... #SelfPromoSaturday #dnd #ttrpg #rpg #5e #osr #ose

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

For Trans Day of Visibility, @ilananight.bsky.social has once again assembled an awesome #ttrpg #charity bundle, supporting TransOhio and the Kaleidoscope Youth Center. Over 450 #rpg items for a $5 min donation, with lots of nice stuff, including my #MothershipRPG releases! itch.io/b/2946/ttrpg...

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Now they're just openly claiming that US national security relies on every artist and writer sacrificing the entirety of their creative output to the machine gods. Capitalism cannot abide a limit, even one that traditionally serves capital. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Screenshot of an Ars Technica news headline and article: "OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use
National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says. OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race."

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The preorders for Fear of a Daily Planet, my new #MothershipRPG dungeoncrawl, are open, and you can add any of my previous print products to your order that you like, to be shipped when the campaign is fulfilled in Q3 this year: foadp.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... #rpg #ttrpg #ZineMonth #ZineQuest

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

DriveThruRPG has just announced their US printing partner, Lightning Source/Ingram will increase prices again, leading them to increase print-on-demand pricing starting April 1st. B&W Books: +20–50% Standard Color Books: +12–13% Premium Color Books: slight decrease #ttrpg #rpg #dnd #5e #dtrpg

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The #ttrpgcommunity is gonna charity bundle until the end of time. Here's a new one to support flood/storm relief for the people of Valencia, Spain, organized by @rolerosnorep.bsky.social! 771 items for just 5€. Games, adventures, supplements, assets, and more: itch.io/b/2858/amor-... #ttrpg #rpg

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

An inside source tells me folks are excited about my next #scifi #horror #ttrpg adventure. Want to dungeoncrawl through an employee handbook printer colony? The Fear of a Daily Planet campaign closes in 10 hours: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #osr #rpg #ttrpgcommunity #ZineMonth #ZineQuest

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

40 generations live, work, die in a lost, cult-riddled printer colony. Their only paper, shredded microplastic pulp. Ink the soot of ever-burning cedars. 2 days left to back Fear of a Daily Planet, my dungeoncrawl for #MothershipRPG... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #ttrpg #ZineQuest #ZineMonth

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Are you forever connecting disparate dots into obvious sense like the Subtext? Or hoping to destroy Dolorem Ipsum, the Pain Itself, with the Ward? Does radioactive aqua fortis flow in your veins like the Asemics? Perhaps you trust Inside Source, that publishing news of hell will summon our savior...

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Thanks! I'm funding a sci-fi horror dungeoncrawl for the Mothership RPG, exploring Burgom's Haven, a printer colony cut off for 1,000 years. The colonists' now starving descendants are split between four bleak cults searching for their god, and the lowly Smudge workers are caught in the middle. 🔗👇

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Found room in the layout, so I'm resurrecting a monster cut two drafts ago! Fair-All microplastics have gained the sentience of all that lurks for ages long, becoming Bioaccumulator, a beast malformed of poison solid. That's 5 creatures + 4 print cults in this #MothershipRPG #zinemonth dungeoncrawl

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Only a week left to back Fear of a Daily Planet, my new 36-page #MothershipRPG #ttrpg dungeoncrawl through an ancient printer colony for #ZineMonth! The colonists' starving descendants are stuck between 4 print cults searching for their hidden god Etaoin Shrdlu. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

Worn text on creased, colorful, but faded paper: "Clouds of plastic paper in a faded rainbow of colors litter local space out here. Flyers, posters, books, pamphlets, and more, all printed in black ink that smells of a burning forest."

"The pages are filled with everything from amateurish prose and Dada-tinged nonsense to eloquent poetics and studied design. The only recurring elements are newspapers intimately describing the misery of working for the weapons manufacturer Taiyang-Macht and alluding to sabotage and assassinations by the company, with all claims made by one "Inside Source."

"Whether tracing these prints, hunting a corporate blackmailer, or responding to a strange distress call, your crew's arrival signals the beginning of the end for the ancient printer colony of Burgom's Haven."

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Was very excited to be able to edit this. Definitely check out this great adventure! #ttrpg #rpg #horror #folkhorror

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I had the pleasure of editing The White Horse of Lowvale, and this is a damn fine #folkhorror #ttrpg adventure. It launches tomorrow with incredible art, writing, and adventure design by @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social. Well worth your support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tan... #ZineQuest #ZineMonth

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JayEmBosch @jayembosch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Thanks for the space! I'm funding a Mothership sci-fi- horror dungeoncrawl through a colony built to print employee handbooks, cut off for 1,000 years, now fractured into 4 printmaking cults searching for their hidden god Etaoin Shrdlu to bring salvation. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

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