The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 25/07/202648 minutes until Armansqagulat! And yes that’s Basic Fantasy RPG. If I bring another TTRPG into the house this year, there will be hell to pay. Damned quotas… @3d6downtheline.com #OSR #TTRPG 040
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Wish me luck, I’m going to be taking my group into the horrors of @3d6downtheline.com ‘s The Tomb of Armansquagulat, a quest neither they, nor possibly I, will ever return from! #ttrpg #osr 1111
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The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Finished our third session of @ospreygames.bsky.social’s Paleomythic. I can’t recommend this game enough. An incredibly easy action resolution system with great character options. Our campaign has members of the Salmon Clan searching for a disease that stalks the land. #ttrpg #paleolithic 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 29/01/2026A rare privilege. A whole row to myself! 100
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 28/01/2026It may be a product placement but salvation on a long haul flight. Destroys taste buds to make in flight meals tolerable. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Into an Ottawa snow storm, but currently flying over very sunny Vernon, British Columbia. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Off to work at 7am at latitude 49.3°N... or as I like to call it "Pretty but ugghhh..." 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Running a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one-off tonight called Chimpo's Revenge. Chimpo, the Mad Mutant Chimpanzee, is plotting his revenge on humanity. Can our brave mutant animal heroes stop Chimpo and his gang of misfits before they take out the power plant? Some old school 80s fun! #TTRPG #OSR 130
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Look what came in the mail from @3d6downtheline.com today. Wearing to work tomorrow and gonna let my freak flag fly! 010
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 28/07/20255:30am and at least in that moment all was well. 010
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 11/06/2025When you're out for a walk at 4:30 in the morning. 020
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 27/04/2025A very eventful session 6 in Arden Vul - Part 3 In the commons of the Broken Head, Roger the Rapier introduces himself and his group. Seeing the party has a goblin regiment with them, Roger offers the party partnership with the Five Fingers of Destiny! #TTRPGs #ArdenVul #OSR 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 27/04/2025A very eventful session 6 in Arden Vul - Part 2 Plumthorn's thugs did not pursue them into the ruins, and theymade their way to the Sign of Broken Head. There they paid enough money for Kronos to let the goblins stay in the stables, while the four adventurers paid for rooms. #TTRPGs #ArdenVul #OSR 030
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 27/04/2025A very eventful session 6 in Arden Vul - Part 1 The party and their goblin regiment encountered Plumthorn's Halfling thugs and got into a pitted battle with the Halflings. Halfling reinforcements forced flight up the stairs to the Pyramid of Thoth, finally reaching the ruins #ArdenVul #OSR #TTRPGs 020
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Editing and rewriting is a slog. I'm about a third of the way through, and have run into a chapter I didn't particularly like at the time, but put off rewriting just to keep my momentum going. Even worse it's a transitional chapter between Books 1 and 2, so total rewrite, here I come. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 21/04/2025In Session 5 of the Arden Vul campaign, the party and their ever-growing group of Goblin allies pushed forward to the Great Hall, where they lured a few Beastmen into a skirmish and interrogated them. The session ended before the Statue of Thoth in the Glory of Thoth. #OSR #TTRPGs #DnD #ArdenVul 010
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 13/04/2025In session 4 of our Arden Vul campaign, the players discovered the realm of the Green Hag, met a gaunt and charmed group of starving beast men, fled the green hag and her ogres, found their way to the Halls of Thoth and met 12 more goblin allies! #OSR #ArdenVul #TTRPGs #ODnD 040
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Arden Vul session 3 done, in which our chaotic cleric touched the Accursed Pillar, unleashed the keqemander demon, and the whole party (sans acid-melted goblin henchman) fled into the Fungal Forest. Stealing a boat from the Beast Men, the party find the Seamly Run and safety. #TTRPG #OSR #ArdenVul 030
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Just finished Arden Vul session 2. Our brave adventurers befriended three of King Weskenim's lost goblins, and now are above the Fungal Forest staring down a deep hole while a strange pillar beckons to the south. Our chaotic cleric may find that pillar... interesting. #OSR #DnD #TTRPG #ArdenVul 150
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Finally took the plunge last night and ran my group through the first session in Arden Vul. A brief encounter with bemused Beast Men led to finding the secret entrance to the Halls of Thoth on the Long Stair. Using house-ruled White Box FMAG for that OD&D feel. A carcass creeper awaits! #OSR #TTRPG 160
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The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Out for a run this morning and this fellow was right next to the path. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 26/12/2024The Gates of the Idalakar, beyond which lies the city of Vakorum, most powerful of the independent cities of Mars. The statue that caps the gate is a representation of the Idalakar hiapta, a long extinct raptor that is the royal seal of the Red Princes of Vakorum. 020
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 25/12/2024I'm spending a little time Christmas Eve while the potatoes boil to work on the fourth draft of my book. Originally called "Swift Versus The Russians" (hey, don't mock me, the new working title is "Mars Ascending"), an alternative science fiction-fantasy version of Mars set during the Cold War. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Wind warnings for Christmas Day in my neck of the woods, so now we're having Christmas Eve Dinner! 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Me, having caught up on all the 3D6 Down The Line Podcasts! @3d6downtheline.com #OSR #ActualPlay #TTRPG 190
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Ugghhh. Woke up at 3:30 this morning with serious monkey brain. Ended up finishing work on a new draft of the fourth draft of my novel. I wish someone would have told me editing a book is about as pleasant as a root canal. On a side note, I expect a visit from the grammar police any time now. 030
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 11/12/2024An OD&D/White Box FMAG Goblin class I developed in preparation for an Arden Vul campaign. #OSR #TTRPG 080
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The largest bird on Mars is the hiapta, found mainly in the southern hemisphere. Its wingspan measure about twenty five feet, and it has bas been known to hunt people. 010
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024This is an ancient painting, recently rediscovered, but dating back thousands of years, showing Mars it once was; green, verdent, blue-skied and hospitable. 010
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024This is the Temple of the Goddess Aranae in the city of Adar-Alka in the great rift valley of Hazaram. Aranae is the Queen of Destruction and Mistress of Chaos. Adar-Alka is unique in having such a dark god as its patron. The Temple of Jalpar, Maker of Nightmares and her spouse, is in the distance. 010
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Vakorum is an ancient city on the great equatorial plateau of Noromith. An ancient city, it is one of the only places on Mars with a large natural surface lake; the Kufal-nerokos. The ruler of Vakorum, the Red Prince Miktam XX, holds out against all Terran encroachment. 010
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024This is the god Nuvakath, King of the Underworld, Spouse of Galaki, the Torturer of Souls. Among the Enitari (the gods of darkness) he is the most feared. His realm is a place of eternal twilight where the souls of the unrighteous dead sing in an eternal choir of anguish and unending despair. 020
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024A tablet written in the ancient Idarian writing system. The Idarian civilization, which rose some 17,000 years ago, and is the mother civilization of many modern Martian cultures. This is a proclamation from Zurpak Kur decreeing a day of feasts for the god Nuvakath, King of the Underworld. 010
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024A Manirik tribesman looks down on the great rift valley of Hazaram (Valles Marineris). Hazaram has a large number of aquifers, and thus has been able to sustain civilization without the benefit of any canals. It is a tenuous existence, and when an aquifer dries, whole cities can disappear overnight. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024A US Marine and a Martian woman, near the city of Burat. Burat is the capital of the Dathian City States, a US-sponsored confederation of cities and towns that is a direct rival to the Soviet-backed Merekian confederacy. The woman is likely a priestess of Nasai, bride of Zophar and Queen of Heaven. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024A Soviet officer and a Merekian soldier. The Merekian Confederacy is a federation of Martian city states allied with (some say is a puppet of) the Soviet Union. The Merekian Army is primarily led by Soviet officers, as training a Merekian officer corps is ongoing. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Around 2003 I started a world building project called Alternate Mars, largely inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom and Leigh Brackett's Martian stories (in particular The Last Days of Shandakor). I have completed the first draft of a novel set in that world; Mars Rising. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This is a small Martian town, next to a tributary canal. Martian towns are typically governed by a Narmat (roughly the equivalent of a mayor) who is either elected or inherits their position, often with a Council of Elders to advise them. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This is the entrance of the Temple of Zophar at Lathal-numfar. Flanking the golden statue of Zophar, Lord of the Enitari, are his heralds, the Kurat-al-karak. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Lathal-numfar is one of the two great holy cities of Mars, host to the chief temples of some of the chief gods (such as the gods Zophar and Tûr). It is also home to the Gardens of Lathal-numfar, which preserves some of the species lost in Mars' ecological collapse thousands of years ago. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Mars, a planet of canals and city states, of lost civilizations and ancient ruins, and the nomadic peoples that make the vast southern hemisphere, the Southern Wastes, their home. And, with the arrival of the Americans and Soviets, a new Cold War battleground. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The spires of Fardak-kur; mysterious ruins on the great plateau of Noromith on Mars. The builders of these spires are lost in time, and only myths and legends remain. 000
The Mighty Martian @mightymartianca.bsky.social · 29/11/2024A Terran ship slips into orbit around Mars, as the ancient civilizations and secrets of the Red Planet await... 000
