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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In today's Precipice Fiction Primer, read about how various worlds power their giant robots and stick around for a hint about our next world and its own very familiar power source... www.wildplumgames.com/fiction/fiction-primer-sources-of-power

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Off going mad with power in TinkerCAD again...

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And with Chapter 4: Possibility, we come to the end of Part 1 of Michael Gernes' Harness stories. As the sweat of battle dries, Orlondo meets again with his mysterious patron, and they speak of the broken sky ahead. www.wildplumgames.com/fiction/harn...

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Once again I unleash my crude renderings into the world. Don't worry, someone really talented will draw the better version of this eventually!

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can I offer to you: Renaissance mechs with cannons? www.wildplumgames.com/harness

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excited for more medieval/renaissance mecha action from Michael Gernes' Harness setting? In Chapter 2: Raised Up, Orlondo weighs his oaths and his desires as he dons the great harness Gatewatcher for the first time, and faces his first test as champion. www.wildplumgames.com/fiction/harn...

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From this weekend's Precipice playtest, the fleeing convoy narrowly escapes my mech! This week's Mechanics Update will get into the scenario I was testing, and the ways it worked (and didn't). Stay tuned!

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Humidity's low for a minute, so that means it's time to prime some Precipice miniatures!

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Amazing concept art provided by Anka Sep. Their spectacular work really helped cement the visual identity of Michael's unique take on what is perhaps my favorite subgenre period (fantasy mecha).

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm thrilled to present Michael Gernes' Harness. In a land of rolling hills and sunlit ruins, wars are fought with spears, cannon, and massive armor called great harnesses. As war looms over Premonta, the aspiring artisan Orlondo is called to act. Read Ch. 1: www.wildplumgames.com/fiction/harn...

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Awesome concept art for Arbelos provided by @cosmicflotsam.bsky.social, with key illustration by @budger.bsky.social.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Kicking this one out for public discussion: This is the Leg part of a mech in Precipice. Do you prefer the information minimalist (left) or maximalist (right) approach to card layout?

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I won't be at GenCon this year, but keep your eyes out - there will be a couple of Precipice Preview Packs there in my absence!

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have enjoyed reading this story every time I've had the pleasure of doing so, and I'm incredibly pleased to present such great work today! Also, it contains more amazing concept art by @javiroque.bsky.social! His rendition of the coilguns really helps me get a good mental picture of them.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The first (annual?) Wild Plum Game(s) Jam went really well! It was a really nice creative refresher. We made Save Scum Superstar (which really ended up more as "Roguelite with One Retry"). I'll give a full rundown in this week's dev update! In the meantime, enjoy more Horrible Max Art.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today, I'm holding the first Wild Plum Game(s) Jam. My partner got me some wild plum jam (well, jelly) to go with the event.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Plus, more of @javiroque.bsky.social's amazing concept art within. I especially love his designs for the human settlements (recycled from the spacecraft on which humans reached Arcturus)!

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Did @pikorito.bsky.social's first story leave you hungry for more information about Swarmworld Arcturus? Read more about the mysteries of the swarm and its mechfauna inhabitants, on the world homepage, here: www.wildplumgames.com/swarmworld-a...

A sketch of a giant robot dinosaur and a crystal

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Swarmworld Arcturus is a very different setting from Arbelos. Where Arbelos is retro, Swarmworld Arcturus is futuristic. Where M-Traks are bulky and difficult to drive, mechafauna (fauns) are lithe and almost eerily intuitive to control. Also, fauns are quite a bit more massive than traks.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Today's a very exciting day for Precipice fiction. You can read Chapters 1-5 of the Arbelos stories now! I'm also incredibly excited to present Chapter 1 of @pikorito.bsky.social's Swarmworld Arcturus! Join Maris as she explores past the safe bounds of her village and into the unknown. (Links ↓)

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Continuing the previews of @pikorito.bsky.social's setting Swarmworld Arcturus, not every robot in the Arcturus Swarm is giant. Biots may not tower over people like the massive mechafauna, but they are no less mysterious (design courtesy @javiroque.bsky.social). Learn more next week!

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Another day, another weird little drawing for internal use.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It was being used to illustrate the range of Precipice's mechanics, but everyone can all disagree over whether I placed Voltron: Legendary Defender correctly vis-a-vis Pacific Rim and Evangelion. I'm not sure I even agree with this order.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Incendiary posts in the work Discord.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm catching the tail end of March of Robots here.

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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Max Brooke @maxcbrooke.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

In the last month or so, I have made the extremely dangerous discovery that, while I still cannot render an object intelligibly from my mind's eye to 3d, I *can* sculpt it in hobbyist clay and then make a reasonably passable 3d "sketch" of the physical object (now that I can observe it directly).

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