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@monodestroyer.bsky.social
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UX Designer & Researcher, Illustrator, TTRPG enthusiast. Experiments in sight and sound.

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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Where can I read more about this RPG? Sounds amazing.
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Here are some thoughts about friction/difficulty in TTRPG design, and a practical UX methodology on how to diagnose and categorise it. townscrier.bearblog.dev/when-difficu...
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When Difficulty Is the Point - Part 1
Recently there has been a lot of discourse on expressionist games, and intentionally frustrating game texts. Reading through it, I kept noticing that words l...
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Magnolia Keep @magnoliakeep.itch.io · 15/07/2026
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane look at some kinda gross stuff! Deathbringer is ENWorld's most-anticipated RPG of 2026, it's currently raising hundreds of thousands of dollars, and also the marketing is kinda full of misogyny. magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
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The Thoughtlessness of Deathbringer's Marketing
As I write this, Deathbringer , the self-proclaimed most anticipated RPG of 2026, is entering day two of its  Backerkit campaign  and h...
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Anyway, I recommend it for any mecha fans out there who don't want to deal with the complexity of something like Lancer, but still like a little bit of crunch. You can grab a download preview from the kickstarter page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bas... 8/8
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Wares Blade
Swords & Sorcery & Mecha. One of Japan's most popular TTRPGs from the 80s and 90s finally arrives in English. Be a part of history.
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm a fan of the class skills and magic system though. While there are powerful sorcerers, laypeople can also gain magic ability by buying the magic skill. They will not be as powerful as the sorcerers, but they will be able to use a few low-level spells. I like this better than D&D's cantrips 7/?
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It also has some flaws, like its own fantasy units of measurement. I’ve never enjoyed having to use these. Be ready to juggle ritts, reets, gurens, and gurans when trying to calculate distance and weights. The starter scenario is also showing its age. 6/?
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The magic system reminds me of xianxia stories . Sorcerers cast ‘seals’ by performing mudra-like hand shapes. You’re also gonna roll a lot of dice. Seriously. All these skills will have you rolling lots of skill checks. There’s also a luck mechanic for boosting your success. 5/?
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Classes are built around skill packages that remind me of Traveller. Skills are levelled up not just by completing mission goals but also from rolling complete successes and total failures. Your PC can literally learn from their failures. 4/?
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Released in 1989, the same year as AD&D 2e, Wares Blade feels ahead of its time. It uses D&D-style attributes but you roll 3d5 instead of 3d6 for stats, and “Base Values” work like ability modifiers. Luck is a resource that you spend to increase rolls. 3/?
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This isn’t a game about mech pilots upgrading their machines. The mechs (called ryudes) are rare ancient relics, given life by a magical mask that they wear. Pilots wear their own mask to link with it. Stronger ryudes resist the pilot’s will, so the PC will need Piloting skill to control it. 2/?
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Lionwing’s Wares Blade kickstarter is currently going gangbusters so I decided to revisit my 1989 box set and share some thoughts. It’s a Japanese mecha TTRPG in a sword and sorcery world, and feels pretty fresh for such an old game... 1/?
1989 box set of Wares Blade TTRPG
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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
CHIMERA for MONSTER CONDO by @tidalwavegames.com There's still a week left in the Kickstarter, go back it!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
英語版の発売を控えて『ソード・ワールド』が海外TRPG勢から注目中。 可愛いイラストに反して意外とダークなテーマに、西洋プレイヤーは驚いている様子。 これからの議論も楽しみにしています。
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Zak H. | Bommyknocker Press @bommyknocker.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
From the team at CAROUSE, CAROUSE! A blog bandwagon special. Do you dare place your arm in the Arm Hole? 🫱🕳️ #osr #rpg #blog
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Bonus Post - What's in the Arm Hole?
A d100 table of consequences, written for the Blog Bandwagon of the theme HOLES.
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 10/07/2025
AI should be the one that has to work an email desk job, and I should be the one that spends all day drawing pictures and hallucinating
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11/07/2025
The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.
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Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
A very cynical and unfair take on what is a universal practice by publishers and IP holders. It makes sense to put all your IP under one department for licensing purposes. E.g., Disney does it; you deal only with DCP for all FRANCHISES (not series). You don’t go directly to Pixar or Lucasfilm.
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
One of my favourite OSR adventures of the year, Sharky, is currently half-price. Great time to grab it 🦈
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This one here: tamasuna.stbbs.jp/ri/pearl/s4l...
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I found a replay for Pearl Seed and this dungeon grid thing has caught my attention. Does it use cards to generate a dungeon?
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I hope you keep refining this. Its a great little system. Roll to attack can sometimes end up as one of those autopilot rolls and this is a nice way to keep it fresh and interesting.
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Here’s a great little dice-rolling system that brings some physicality to attack rolls.
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Hey thanks for checking it out. The HD for the drinks are explained in the brewing section. They’re the number of d6’s to roll and the target for success is in square brackets. The resource score is up with the alewife category, below their age roll. I should probably organise it a bit better…
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Some cool hexcrawl adventures here
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I put together a generator for an early medieval alehouse. townscrier.bearblog.dev/what-it-take...
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What it takes to get a drink around here
A WIP generator for historical alehouses in the 12th Century.
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𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖑 @mudnblood.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
playing around with heraldry
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 12/06/2025
Going to kick back and relax all summer? WRONG! You are going to read and write TTRPG stuff starting right NOW. Here are your assignments #osr #ttrpg
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Your Summer Assignments
Kick back with a cold drink, write some game stuff and read some blogs.
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Some great stuff this issue by some talented writers. Worth checking out!
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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Remember, the TrueRef timed gesture tool is 100% free! 🤍 trueref.art/trueref-gest...
Screenshot of the TrueRef Gesture Tool.
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Llyl ☘️ @llyl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I put some color on my inktober illustration from last year! 【 #art #oc 】
Colored version of the illustration from the quote post.
A ghostly female figure stands in from of a stormy see at night, holding a lantern as the light of a far away dark lighthouse.
The overall colorscheme is green and moody with a yellow light from the lantern and a few touches of bright pink highlights
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Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 30/05/2025
Gather your hot water bottles, drinking chocolate and angry music and snuggle up with this month's Idle Digest! It covers my writing, and the writing, releases and crowdfunding campaigns that I think are noteworthy from the month of May! open.substack.com/pub/idlecart...
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The Idle Digest #7
Idle Cartulary's Digest for May 2025
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Woefully Encysted Creature @forlornencystment.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I wrote about the level of detail I put into my keyed locations when prepping a large, original sandbox for play. What is the optimal amount of information to allow for a big picture view of a region without getting burnt out on the specifics?
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The Village of Hommlet is Too Much: Minimalist Location Sketches for Sandbox Prep
Something I often struggle with when creating a sandbox is the level of detail to give to each location, and at what point in the process to...
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
In the spirit of @prismaticwasteland.com's year of the beta, I’m releasing a playtest of my first OSE Adventure, A Hill To Die On. Grab it here: monodestoyer.itch.io/a-hill-to-di...
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A Hill To Die On - Playtest by monodestoyer
An OSE adventure for Levels 2-4
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spacegooose 🚀 @spacegooose.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
yay it's done! ⭐🪐☕Space Nighthawks 🚀🐱🥞🌃 the print is up too www.inprnt.com/gallery/spac...
an ink line art drawing digitally colored. a few strangers hanging out in a diner at 3am. The inviting light of the diner's interior pours into the cold dark cyberpunk city surrounding it. 
based on the famous painting by Edward Hopper
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The ‘R’ stands for ‘Respect’.
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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
lil tip: draw "ugly" pillows in your character's house to instantly make it 10x more homey. in general add patterns to pillows, it always makes for a more cozy illustration
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Looks amazing. I’m getting ‘Kill 6 Billion Demons’ vibes.
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dillon snook @dillonsnook.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is actually perfect. Thanks for the link!
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Do you know who the creator is? I wouldn't mind grabbing a copy if its available online. Looks like my kinda jam.
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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 16/05/2025
Formless Star is out now! Travel to a mysterious ever-changing planet and gather data on the animals that live there. There's 60 different creatures to find, all with unique behaviours and descriptions! Get the game for free (or pay what you want) here! splendidland.itch.io/formless-star
"formless star", clay models of characters with various propellers on their heads are stood in a row in front of a starry background.Anemo, a red character with a big orange nose and a green anemometer on their head is stood in front of their spaceship.Finding the animal "Lighthorse", which looks like a lighthouse with legs, and a head made out of transparent cones of light.
"Stands at the coastline to act as a beacon, however it has difficulty discerning a puddle from an ocean. said to be proud of its red stripes."Inside the spaceship, the character Turbine, who is green and has buck teeth, is saying "They say if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life. Seems I may be the only worker here."
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
COUNTDOWN: 5 MORE DAYS OF ME BEING ANNOYING ABOUT KNOCK!5 Everyone knows the most important part of Knock! is the bookmark. This issue's bookmark is extremely important: a postcard. A postcard with a dungeon map on it. The Well of Big Stompa. Don't miss it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/896...
Isometric dungeon map of the Well of Big Stompa, detailing a goblin on stilts as the dungeon bossA postcard back labeled "Knock!"
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HODAG RPG @hodagrpg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I cant sleep so I might as well be productive. For the next 2 hours ONLY get a custom simple single character illustration with Background for 20 bucks! Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror or Wargame! Hit me up!
4 simple illustrations of figures with limited background illustrations. One is a Skellingtom
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Woefully Encysted Creature @forlornencystment.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
As a follow-up on my last post (a spiritual successor, if you will), I wrote about the ubiquity of ruined shrines in AD&D's wilderness stocking procedure. What purpose did these ruins once hold? What powers lie dormant within, waiting to make contact with the enterprising priest?
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Dead Gods Waiting to be Reborn: Ruined Shrines and the Syncretist Cleric in AD&D
The AD&D wilderness inhabitation tables have infected my mind . They have wormed their way in , forcing me to make sandboxes I may never us...
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 13/05/2025
From @chasecarter.bsky.social, a piece that maintains relevance. An essay on why “No Politics” is always a red flag, even when defending your tabletop business.
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“No Politics” is always a red flag, even when defending your tabletop business
Bigoted money spends, but not without consequences
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Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 13/05/2025
🚨 Have you heard the good news? My best (both the ones you’ve seen and the hidden gems) posts are now in a beautifully laid out and full color print edition and you can buy it from me! #osr #ttrpg
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Prismatic Wisdom — Prismatic Wasteland
Collection of TTRPG essays tackling a variety of subjects like running hexcrawl campaings, deep readings of the classic Keep on the Borderlands adventure, making shopping sessions less boring, and whe...
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 09/05/2025
this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people
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monodestroyer.bsky.social @monodestroyer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Oh I like the idea of giving the bullywugs a norse raider vibe. This is something to think on, thank you for the suggestion!
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