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Lyme

@lymerpg.bsky.social
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TTRPG Writer & Game Designer. Known for Dawn of the Orcs, Fear and Panic. lymetime.itch.io brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/blog linktr.ee/lymerpg

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Chris | Junk Food Games @junkfoodgames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
all set up for tomorrow! look at all these artisanal, locally-crafted, independently-designed analog games!
Photo of the Designed in the DMV booth at RisuCon. It shows a blue white and yellow tablecloth with the Designed in the DMV logo. On top of the table are various indie ttrpg's made by local DMV designers
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Resident Evil '26 was a very fun movie.
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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another interesting pickup this weekend: Wraithlands. I love these hexcrawl adventure books even when I am less found of OSR systems generally. But what i find interesting about Wraithlands' Outcome system is that it points directly into (instead of heavily inferring) fictional positioning.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's a pretty cool game collection.
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Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A big step forward for Cthulhu Eternal. After much lobbying, DriveThruRPG has added CE as a fully-fledged Rule System in its own right. That makes it MUCH easier to find the 50+ Cthulhu Eternal items that we've made but more importantly also find stuff by others. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?or...
A screenshot of DriveThruRPG showing the Cthulhu Eternal category, which shows over 60 different titles
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm thinking of doing something at Everwinter game convention in downtown Boston this year. Anyone have experience tabling or running games tere?
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm answering the important questions: what makes an rpg heavy metal? brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/what-makes-a...
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What makes an RPG heavy metal?
Lots of RPGs describes themselves as heavy metal. Today I will dare the task known to be impossible, but which every metalhead is drawn inexorably to do: I w...
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nic has always been incredibly helpful when I'm working with IPR. He's a pillar of RPG publishing.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey, this is the third project I worked with Plasmophage on! She's been great to collaborate with.
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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Update on my next petite game project: The kickoff date for THOMAS JEFFERSON’S SPEEDWAY HELL Kickstarter is September 16! Mark your calendars! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre... #gaming #TTRPG
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Coming soon: THOMAS JEFFERSON'S SPEEDWAY HELL: Dangerous Playtest Edition
It's a tabletop RPG where sinners race through Hell to win brief moments of peace. It's handled with tremendous silliness.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Honestly just needed to talk to someone about Game Wizards but I had a lot of thoughts so I wrote a blog post about it: brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/a-book-revie...
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A Book Review of Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons
I recently read Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons by Jon Peterson, a nonfiction book about the struggle for ownership of D&D between Gary ...
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🅳🅴🅰🅳🅻🆈 🅵🆁🅴🅳🅻🆈 @deadlyfredly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There's also a related topic to be had here: how dangerous it is to do crowdfunding at the point where you don't have the text (text; not artwork, layout, other pieces of finishing) finalized including editing. Evil Hat has been jokingly calling our crowdfunds "kickfinishers" for years for a reason.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another interesting post from the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon! Magic as spirit-bargaining is common in traditions around the world. I suspect magic-as-craft is an Enlightenment thing or later. Stormbringer (1981) has an early spirit-bargaining magic system and Shadowrun might be the most famous.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was disappointed to find out that TTRPG wiki uses AI to write their game descriptions. I've asked them to remove my games and delete their posts.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just tinkering with my horror game a little. brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/design-diary...
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Design Diary: Streamlining Fear and Panic
I like to think Fear and Panic is a pretty streamlined game: it has shorter, simpler rules than almost every other game in the d100 horror space, not count...
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just finished watching Widow's Bay. This show is the opposite of everything you normally think of when you hear horror comedy. It uses the comedy of mundane life to make us attached to the characters, so their perils and dilemmas feel more true. There's so much care in the acting and cinematography.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is a great philosophy for playing RPGs.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here's an original setting for my horror game Fear and Panic, although you can probably use it as inspiration for a modern horror campaign in any system. brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/time-of-mons...
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Time of Monsters: A Setting for Fear and Panic
Time of Monsters is an original, pre-apocalyptic setting for horror game Fear and Panic. "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born:...
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This was a really interesting read. It's about playgroups that use English for all IC talk and Indonesian for all OOC talk.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Prison Book Program is a nonprofit that mails books to prisoners. They get lots of requests from prisoners for RPGs, but not many RPG donations. Most prisons ban hardcover books like the D&D corebooks. If you have any softcover RPGs to donate, the info is here: prisonbookprogram.org/donate-books/
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Donate Books – Prison Book Program
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Does anyone remember the name of te metal song that used bits from Cthulhu's 2nd edition D&D statblock as lyrics? It was intended to be parody, I remember that.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Someone recommend me an interesting oneshot adventure to run at a game store event in a month or two. Any system. Just anything I haven't run before. Looking for variety.
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thoughtcrimegames @thoughtcrimegames.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
There are community copies of the Griot Anthology available! If you don't have the means to buy one, grab your copy of this zine celebrating the brilliant work of black #TTRPG game designers for FREE while they last! (If you've already got one, give it a review!) thoughtcrimegames.it...
Griot Anthology cover from Thoughtcrime Games.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Ran Cairn for the first time. At a con. Someone asked me if they could play their Githyanki necromancer. We homebrewed a new background in five minutes and got to adventuring. The Horrendous Hounds of Hendenburgh were victoriously laid to rest. It was a great time!
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I'm going to be running four RPGs at #FanExpoBoston this weekend. Anyone else headed there?
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Prisoner is on the criterion channel ⚪
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
IPR truly are the best.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Born to write RPGs, forced to resize thumbnails for multiple platforms.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I love everything about this and want to see more like it. "The cost of paying an unlikely company of heroes to deal with the dragon is cheap when compared to hiring a competent group of specialists to deal with the aftermath."
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If I had a nickel every time I went to a free afternoon concert at the town park and some guy played the fiddle faster and more furiously than Yngie Malmsteen shredding I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's cool it happened twice.
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Óskar Ghoti @oskarghoti.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
After complaining for years that there are no font managers around, I found out last night that font managers have been around for years
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New blog post about what the world of sea shanties can teach the world of RPGs: brackish-draught.bearblog.dev/five-things-...
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Five Things RPG Players Can Learn From A Sea Shanty Festival
I recently had a good time at a sea music festival. I’ve listened to a variety of nautical music on YouTube and Tidal, and even seen the Longest Johns play a...
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Less than two days left to back Dawn of the Orcs on Backerkit. Build and mutate your own army of homunculi in this Ennie-nominated dark fantasy RPG. Pick up an open-source horror game or a GMless falconry game on the side. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
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Dawn of the Orcs - ENNIES EMPORIUM!
Dawn of the Orcs is an Ennie-nominated GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war, modify and improve them ...
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Does anyone have numbers on the average words in a modern one-shot horror adventure (CoC, ToC, Mothership, Delta Green, etc?) I'm running word counts on the PDF adventures I have, but they're definitely not an exhaustive collection.
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Magnolia Keep @magnoliakeep.itch.io · 11/07/2026
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane review of @lymerpg.bsky.social's Dawn of the Orcs! Lyme wrote one of my favorite blogposts of 2025, and with it came my "Holy shit Orcs are clone troopers" revelation. And it's also a whole game! magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/07/revi...
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Review: Dawn of the Orcs
It's no secret I'm into Orcs. Lyme's  Why Orcs?  was my favorite post in last year's Lizzies , because it dug through the history of The Orc...
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Zak H. | Bommyknocker Press @bommyknocker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Patchwork Paladin is not here on bsky to promote it, but are people wise to her newsletter? Great picks for the cream of the blogosphere each week, a swift rundown of what’s in the discourse and my personal favourite, a weekly poem. #osr #ttrpg #blog #newsletter
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Patchwork Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 28
This week’s Discord discussions, blog posts to read, projects to download, arrivals, a ton of play reports, and of course a poem.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I had to change jobs and move homes a couple times since the last Ennies, so I haven't had as much time for gaming. I'm not familiar with a lot of the nominees this year - which is okay! A good set of awards helps people discover new things! Here are a few games I can say nice things about:
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Araukana Media LTD @araukana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
THE ZEPHYR X ENNIES EMPORIUM CAMPAIGN IS OUT! Set into a wandering,sentient landmass as the Windfolk - beings made of the raw stuff of feelings, in a grand adventure to fulfill sacred obligations. Get it at a 25% discount, as well as the new backpack add on, here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...
Spread showing a Moonfolk in awe of the sight of a FleetlingSpread showing a Windfolk making an offering at a fungal altar, surrounded by wheatfiendsSpread showing several Wind Clan Windfolk going across a narrow cliffside, overlooked by birdsSpread showing two Windfolk attempting to hunt a night creature
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Cooking with the Orcs was just supposed to be a joke, but I got way too into it. I ended up with a completely playable game based on actual classical alchemy. The PDF is still free on itch, but you can get a physical copy as an add on to the Ennies Emporium: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
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Dawn of the Orcs - ENNIES EMPORIUM!
Dawn of the Orcs is an Ennie-nominated GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war, modify and improve them ...
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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
About to run this as a paid ad on Facebook. Wondering about the level of interaction from people who do not like the idea of rejecting AI and embracing puppet. We'll see. Anyway. Embrace puppet: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/h... #ttrpg #maskwitches
An image of a Maskwitch with overlaid text saying "reject AI. Embrace puppet

Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland
Storytelling game of the psychedelic mesolithic
Ennies Emporium Backerkit"
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Dawn of the Orcs is back on Backerkit for 10 days, as part of the Ennies Emporium! Play wizards and mad scientists. Build your own orcs. It's a GMless game with just the right mix of strategy and storytelling that everyone who plays it has a good time. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...
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Dawn of the Orcs - ENNIES EMPORIUM!
Dawn of the Orcs is an Ennie-nominated GMless dark fantasy worldbuilding and roleplaying game. You play as the magical technocrats who create the first Orcs as weapons of war, modify and improve them ...
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This person is one of the best qualified people in the world to say something about a game about orcs. It means a lot to me.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
5 hours until the Ennies Emporium backerkit campaign for Ennie-nominated RPG Dawn of the Orcs launches. If you didn't get the game the first time, now's your chance! I'm also offering a couple games that will probably never see physical printing any other time. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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ENNIES EMPORIUM - Get Ready for Dawn of the Orcs: An Orc-Building Game
From Lyme and Plasmophage - ENNIES EMPORIUM - Get Ready for Dawn of the Orcs: An Orc-Building Game
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I've been to Third Kingdom once and it really is an incredible game store. Four shelves of indie RPGs right up front! Run by some very nice people.
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An actual play of Dawn of the Orcs by Donog McCarthy and @openhearthrpg.bsky.social! They took this game in a neat direction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBf_...
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Dawn of the Orcs
YouTube video by Donogh McCarthy
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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm very excited that this year, the ENNIE Awards added a new category to recognize the explosion of solo games. Solo RPGs and journaling games have so much potential to explore topics, experiences, and feelings that are much harder in group settings. 1/▶️
sheet of paper with the "ENNIES" Tabletop RPG Awards logo and, handwritten below, the words "solo games." it's tucked into a journal with a pen lying nearby
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Some great nominees for the Ennies this year! It's good to see they're still bringing attention to lots of weird independent creators who are doing fun and interesting stuff!
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Dyvers Hands Productions @dyvershands.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In her article on TTRPG worldbuilding, @beckyannison.bsky.social writes: "there are almost no games GMd or GMless which wouldn't be improved by asking good questions." Yes — and I design GM-less games that run entirely on questions. Here's what I've learned about making one do three jobs. 1/🧵
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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Appx. N Jam 2026 by @dankdungeons.bsky.social and @jorphdan.bsky.social is starting next week! So I wrote something about the Appendix N and why TTRPG can be weirder. I wasn't expecting it to be a manifesto, but here we are 😂 afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/appendix-n-m...
Preview of my blogpost, "Things Can Be Weirder in TTRPG: An Appendix N Manifesto"
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Interesting study that finds spoilers don't actually make people enjoy stories any less: bear.warrington.ufl.edu/brenner/mar7...
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