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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thought that if I sent something immediately I wouldn’t fall prey to choice paralysis closer to the time. 😄

Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When the Wolden issue 2 and 3 Kickstarter launches you get immediate access to the 28 pages free Quickstart! It comes with rules, pregens, and a big adventure. Sign up to be notified: www.kickstarter.com/... #TTRPG #IndieRPG #OSR #NSR #WoldenRPG #MottokroshMachinations #Witches

Thumbnail view of the 28 pages of the Wolden Quickstart.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We’re officially sold out of Hypertellurians at Mottokrosh Machinations!

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mottokrosh Machinations is at NEXUS Nerd Rock Festival in Leipzig!

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

With the last pregen done, that's the first pass on the Wolden Quickstart complete! Can't wait to get this into people's hands: rules, setting (small as it's drop-in), pregens, & a full adventure! This will be available for free on the Kickstarter and wherever my reach will take me. #wolden #ttrpg

Treated screenshot from a spread of the Wolden Quickstart, showing a glimpse of two character sheets.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@bennjordan.bsky.social My old friend @heydonworks.com has done the craziest thing and created hyperblam.how, a declarative music engine based on HTML, and I thought it might tickle your fancy! Individual, indie, non-AI.

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Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A few updates to mottokrosh.com tonight: added the apps I've recently updated or fixed, including a random fantasy item fetcher from pretty much all of our publications, and the use of AVIF where possible for huge file size savings. The site should be much snappier now. #ttrpg

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Mottokrosh Machinations

Mainstream-adjacent roleplaying games, resources, apps, and blog posts, like the acclaimed Hypertellurians - science fantasy adventure in the future of old

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Mottokrosh Machinations will be there of course with books and running games!

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Calling it a night for today, but I'm really happy with how this adventure for the #WoldenRPG zine 3 and Quickstart has come together. One last pass and it's good to go. It's contemporary and creepy I believe, and very, very open to player agency. #TTRPG #IndieRPG #OSR #NSR #GameDesign #FantasyRPG

Screenshot of 16 pages of adventure directly from the page thumbnails in Affinity, showing a good mixture of text and illustrations, and sharp layout.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Managed to finish the last piece of art required for the new adventure for Wolden Issue 3 and the Quickstart! This will be roughed up in layout yet, and luckily the rest of the art for it comes from the wonderful Wind Lothamer and not me! :D #TTRPG #IndieRPG #OSR #NSR #FantasyRPG #WoldenRPG

Photo of Procreate showing a drawing of a squat tower on a hill with an elevated road amid a backdrop of storm and thunder. A tilt shift blur is applied.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I may have just hit "activate" on the pre-launch page for the Wolden issues 2 and 3 Kickstarter. I've been working full-throttle on this for some time now, and I can't wait to share it all with you. But, you know, we'll need to wait a bit, until I finish it. www.kickstarter.com/... #ttrpg #woldenrpg

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Coming soon: Wolden Issues 2 and 3

Two packed, illustrated zines for the Wolden Forest Cults RPG and other fantasy roleplaying games.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The #Troika initiative deck from the always excellent @melsonian.bsky.social has made it to Germany! Beautiful watercolors on each card. Useful for Troika! initiative, obvs., a regular card deck, or its own little game, House of Troika. #TTRPG #IndieRPG #OSR #NSR

The Troika initiative/card deck spread out amid some Troika books and metal dice on a wooden desktop.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I managed to get some work done on Wolden 2, 3, and Quickstart while on family holiday, but one highlight was the museum of Stéphane Halleux’s fabulous stuff. Inventive kitbashes of reused materials. #wolden #woldenrpg #ttrpg

Robot vehicle with pilot made from reused parts.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’m rather happy with how the maps that I drew came out for the upcoming Wolden QuickStart adventure. Saddled to do it myself because of timings but hey. Would love to tease but it would be huge spoilers. 😅 Soon. #ttrpg #wolden

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

BIRCON crew relentlessly hitting the hard to hit spots in Berlin. In the sun. In the beer garden. #ttrpg #penandpaper #berlincons

Woman with a t-shirt advertising BIRCON, in a sunny beer garden.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don’t think it’s a spoiler when I say Legends of Vox Machina S04 E08 has the most badass fantasy battle ever.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hm, good point. I suppose I could put the pregens from the quick start into issue 2 and the quick start adventure additionally into issue 3 and that should bump them all up to 48.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Will that be ok, or does it look bad to have the page count go down like this? In reality it’s simply variable. Or do I pack the adventure from the quickstart into issue 3 as well? Or that be even more confusing? 😄 2/2

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Question for #ttrpg folks. The first Wolden zine had 48 pages. Now I’m gearing up for a double feature Kickstarter of issues 2 and 3. As it stands they have 44 (big adventure) and 32 pages (new cults) respectively. There will also be a free quickstart with a brand new adventure. 1/2

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Happy Free RPG Day! Our entry is Attack of the Fly Folk, a flycanthrophic adventure, originally first published in Ultracosmic 1 from Wind Lothamer! Grab it at rpg-trader.com/products/5606/attack… or as bundle at rpg-trader.com/products/1025/free-r…

Black and white illustration of a horrific fly person. The words "Attack of the Flyfolk" in big, green letters.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yes, and the root of all evil is capitalism. Please visit my page to help buy guillotines.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Got my prints of @yochaigal.bsky.social’s Cairn 2e today, both because I finally wanted a physical version of it and because I wanted to try @rpg-trader.bsky.social’s POD quality (well, Lulu’s), and they’re looking good! Glass of absinthe because I’m back from work travels and it’s hot and it’s yum.

The two Cairn RPG books on a wooden desk near a glass of absinthe.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just uploaded a new product to @rpg-trader.bsky.social, and added it to the Free RPG Bundle that's coming next week. It's going to rock. 🤘 #ttrpg #osr #nsr #hypertellurians

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Bircon Berlin @birconberlin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Lara and Lena shamelessly being used to bring awareness that the #BIRCON Early Bird Ticket sales will end on 22nd June 2026. #Berlin #event #ttrpg

Photo of Lara a black and white cat sleeping through the BIRCON early bird ticket sale

Cats Lara and Lena investigate an empty Hedgehog box. Thus missing out on the early bird BIRCON ticket sale.

Photo of Lena, a tiger tabby sleeping through the BIRCON early bird ticket sale.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Mottokrosh Machinations is now on the new RPG Trader site: rpg-trader.com/creator/1005/mottokr… Just my free stuff for now but more will undoubtedly follow. Let's see how that site shakes out, it's massively more modern than either DTRPG and Itch.io. #ttrpg #rpg #indierpg

Screenshot of the Mottokrosh Machinations page on RPG Trader.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Knightcore—steel and silk—the TTRPG is now on general sale, following a successful Kickstarter. Get the PDF on DriveThruRPG or the physical zine (48 A5 pages, with PDF) on our website: mottokrosh.com/machinations/knightc… #ttrpg #knightcore #rpg #castlecore #osr #nsr

Three copies of the Knightcore zine on wood, two open, amid dice, a book, a metal helmet, and velvet.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

You can also go the Cairn way and fill the inventory with fatigue. Swords of the Serpentine also goes wild with things and concepts in inventory. In Hypertellurians I had a creature that added “emotional baggage”! 😄

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I figured with the weight of ages it had plenty of time to ponder it, and knowledge is treasure… 😄

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Can’t remember whether I needed an extra example of limb armor and thus landed on codpieces or whether I just just really wanted to mention them.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Thanks, I can’t wait to have the printed product myself. 😄

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Drawing an isometric staircase for a #knightcore map is kicking my butt tonight, but it'll be worth it. 33 hours left on the Kickstarter—get in while you can! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mot... #ttrpg #rpg #castlecore #zinequest #zinemonth

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Knightcore the RPG

An aesthetic that combines gleaming armor, soft, flowing fabrics, and ethereal, haunting radiance, now as a tabletop roleplaying game.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It would obviously be much easier if everyone was on Mastodon. 😄

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

So sorry, but as a one-person team forced to do marketing, I’m using a service that lets me post to multiple platforms at once but some of them don’t allow links. I’m sure there’s a better way but I’m still working on it.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Priorities, ey? Seven days to go on the Kickstarter. Don't miss out! Search "knightcore" on Kickstarter. Illustrations by Isabella Spitznagel. #ttrpg #knightcore #castlecore #indierpg #rpg #zinequest #zinemonth #zimo #ladyknights

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Battle Queen Kara ready to bring the light to the forces of chaos. Search "knightcore" on Kickstarter for the zine. Now with a new reward tier to game with the creator. #ttrpg #knightcore #castlecore #rpg #zinequest #zinemonth #dnd #indierpg

Battle queen in damask gown, fur shoulders, looking at you with determination, clasping a large sword. Her hair blows in the breeze, and she is lit with red and blue light on opposing sides. Knightcore the Roleplaying Game is written in large, ornate letters.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

It was a pleasure chatting with Todd!

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