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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good versus evil, law versus chaos? Whatever, give me the real eternal struggle

White text on a black background reads: Sunny Delight vs. Purple Stuff

Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It felt pretty dang good to get a pull quote like this about an RPG I created from @stevekenson.com, a designer whose name is on a large number of the games I've played, run, and loved over the years. You can find out more here: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our latest update gives you a glimpse of what a GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition character looks like. Special thanks @milonogiannis.com for making Hyperlynx look as cool as she does. gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Promotional image of a GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition character called Hyperlynx, including illustrations of young woman in a makeshift futuristic superhero costume by Giannis Milonogiannis. Game statistics are on the left of the page. Layout and graphic design by Chris Vermeren, game stats and text by Paul Vermeren.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When in doubt, all I have to do is go back to the source

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It'll pass, but right now all I want to do is make something for Dragonbane or maybe even convert something to it

Summoner with orb and little friend (Danny Willis, from ad for Quest, a computer moderated PBM roleplaying game by Peter Read's Dynamic Games of Kanahooka, in Australian Realms magazine 8, Nov/Dec 1992)

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Talking about characters in GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition. Cover artwork by @simonroy.bsky.social and featuring additional artwork by @greywizard.bsky.social

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition game design research stack, AKA the steal pile

A stack of tabletop roleplaying games on a yellow table: Mutant Year Zero, The Electric State, Coriolis: The Great Dark, Invincible, Marvel Super Heroes, ICONS, and GRIDSHOCK 20XX.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Didn't realize they signed to a major. Explains the jump in ticket prices

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Just did an interview where I explained that my game's not about superheroes, but you might be able to channel a dead Power Ranger or have a Dial H for Hero gadget that lets you do magic, but no, I wouldn't say it's superheroes, exactly. 🥴 Anyway, please buy GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition when it comes out

Illustration of an Ultra-Knight by Steven De Waele, from GRIDSHOCK 20XX

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@exaltedfuneral.bsky.social put GRIDSHOCK 20XX in a Blood Tournament of Death!! on Instagram and Facebook. If you're on one of those go check it out and play, it's fun and you can win free TTRPG stuff

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Terminal State is going to print and is now open for late pledges/preorders. Terminal State is a cyberpunk TTRPG powered by the Year Zero Engine - used in Free League games like Alien, Coriolis, and Blade Runner. A new vision of the genre rooted in our present, rather than an 80s retro-future.

Promotional image for the Terminal State core edition rulebook, a $55 USD 300+ page hardcover available for late pledges/preorders.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A clearer look at @simonroy.bsky.social's cover artwork for GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition:

A mockup of the cover for GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition, without trade dress applied. An illustration of various post-apocalyptic, post-superhero characters by Simon Roy.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

With Terminal State about to go to print, and another project about to be announced, I will now be entering super duper extra hyper magna TTRPG project shilling mode. Thanks for the reshares and support. They do help.

An image (source unknown) of the phrase "IT'S UP TO YOU" in white text, with a multicolored blue and red trail visual effect.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Terminal State is open for late backers! Terminal State is our cyberpunk TTRPG powered by the Year Zero Engine from Free League - used in games like Alien, Forbidden Lands, Coriolis, Vaesen, and Invincible. More info at link in bio (and on Kickstarter, below): www.kickstarter.com/projects/cve...

Front and back cover images for Terminal State, a cyberpunk tabletop roleplaying game powered by the Year Zero Engine, now available on Kickstarter for late backers.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It is not easy to find illustrators who really "get" the mix of influences and genres at play in GRIDSHOCK. Yes, it starts with the superhero genre as the main building block, but there's a lot of other stuff in the worldbuilding pile. It doesn't play exactly like a "supers" RPG either, I hope.

Black and white illustration by Steven De Waele from GRIDSHOCK 20XX Zine 3: Regions. A depiction of the interior of a Sunrise Sector arcology.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

GRIDSHOCK 20XX is a post-superhero-apocalypse TTRPG setting I crowdfunded and released as a set of zines in 2023. Now you can get it for 40% off at Exalted Funeral, print or PDF. Automatically apply the discount code: www.exaltedfuneral.com/discount/gri... Or enter GRIDSHOCK40 at checkout.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I have been gaming exclusively via VTTs for the last few years, and while that has resulted in some of the most consistently satisfying sessions of my life, I miss rolling dice at a table with people who know me and are interested in what I'm running

A black and white image of a distressed grid with "REAL PRESENCE" in bold type above it

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I am of the opinion that the Terminal State interior pages look good. (Terminal State is our dystopian future TTRPG powered by Free League's Year Zero Engine. Kickstarter reopening for late backers soon.)

Interior spread from the Terminal State core rulebook: the first two pages of the Setting chapter. Graphic design, layout, and text by Chris Vermeren.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Dammit, Dave, did you leave the computer on again? There's a little Merlin guy raising hell in here.

Very 80s painting of a computer on a grid background, with various fantastical figures emerging from the monitor, including a wizard with a glowing rod, a caveman, and a rocketship.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Speaking of jet black hair, I'm not sure but I think this photo might be current

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Terminal State is our cyberpunk TTRPG, powered by Free League's Year Zero Engine. Enter a vibrant and violent vision of an augmented future rooted in our present day, not the 1980s. Successfully Kickstarted, in final editing, and open to late backers very soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cve...

The cover of the standard edition of Terminal State, an upcoming cyberpunk TTRPG powered by the Year Zero Engine. A forlorn black-and-white figure with a heavily augmented arm looks skyward, with a dark cityscape bathed in orange light in the background.

The "Corporate Web of Intrigue" diagram from Terminal State, an upcoming cyberpunk TTRPG powered by the Year Zero Engine.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Turned almost 50 yesterday and was rudely reminded of this

Highly pixelated image of a Lord Humongous-type character with text below reading YOU WILL DIE, from the ZX Spectrum version of the video game Pit Fighter

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Forget April Fool's. The Terminal State beta is live for Kickstarter backers, who are already finding typos (which both I and spell checkers somehow missed). Which is good! We're finally nearing the finish line. After final edits and finishing touches, we'll open the Kickstarter to late backers.

Mockup of the back and front covers of the standard edition of Terminal State, a corporate dystopian future RPG powered by the Year Zero Engine.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Free League, I challenge you to make a mecha game out of the Twilight: 2000 rules when that license lapses (or sooner)

A cutaway drawing of the Guges-D landmate, a suit of powered armor, from the Appleseed manga series by Masamune Shirow

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I don't want to speak for Chris, the game's creator, but he's still hard at work on Terminal State. It is, frustratingly, very close to being finished, but various issues unrelated to the game are slowing us down. We're on Game Dial Level 1 (Warning/Stressful).

Table 14.5.1, Game Dial Levels for Surveillance and Survival, from the upcoming Terminal State TTRPG rulebook.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I found a handful of reviews of GRIDSHOCK 20XX I had forgotten about. They're from a few years ago, when the zines came out. It sure feels nice to see people excited to open a box, look at, and read something you made. Once we get Terminal State done, it'll be time for me to make something again.

A vintage photo collage image of a golden laser grid receding into the horizon. In the distance hills can be seen in black outline. A fake-looking moon hangs in the night sky, illuminated by two arcing bolts of pink lightning.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I feel like the "mirth" part of Dragonbane is overstated. Sure, goofy stuff can (and does) happen, and you can play a duck person, but I don't feel like comedy is that prominent in the rules, or that the game is inherently sillier than similar fantasy TTRPGs tend to be at the table.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I posted this the other day on Free League's Year Zero Worlds Discord server. I've been saying this for a while, but am I right?

"I feel like superhero games require a bit more buy-in, in terms of accepting what the genre is like. If a player (or the GM) isn't on board with that, it can easily become a bad time, perhaps more easily than with something more constrained like a dungeon fantasy game."

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Me whenever I try to listen to someone talk about their game

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

GRIDSHOCK 20XX's vision of the future was supposed to be satirical

Artwork from GRIDSHOCK 20XX Zine 3: Regions by Steven De Waele, depicting masked, militarized police beating a helpless man on a city street. In the foreground, a young person defaces a poster that features the yassified woman in charge of the aforementioned masked thugs.

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

When somebody I follow just reposts all damn day

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Paul VX2: Back GRIDSHOCK on Gamefound @letsdamage.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

THE RUNNING MAN (Glaser, 1987) is my go-to when I need to get in the GRIDSHOCK mindset. Just waiting for Free League to drop the Invincible RPG Beta and/or add superpowers to the Year Zero Engine SRD...

Dystopian cityscape from THE RUNNING MAN (Glaser, 1987)

Grainy black and white promo image from THE RUNNING MAN (Glaser, 1987) depicting Amber Mendez (Maria Conchita Alonzo) fleeing from assorted menacing scumbags

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