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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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/projects/mottok… […] [Original post on social.mottokrosh.com]

Thumbnail view of the 28 pages of the Wolden Quickstart.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

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

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Mottokrosh Machinations is at NEXUS Nerd Rock Festival in Leipzig!

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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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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.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

The fine folks from Shadows of Archonia recently played Knightcore! Check our their #ActualPlay recording at www.youtube.com/live/fFPVTEHQg_g #ttrpg #knightcore

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

RE: social.mottokrosh.com/@bircon/11709… Mottokrosh Machinations will be present of course with books and running some games!

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on social.mottokrosh.com]

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.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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 […]

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

The #Troika initiative deck from the always excellent @melsonianarts 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.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

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

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

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Good progress on laying out Wolden 3 tonight. If all goes to plan, a Kickstarter for Wolden issues 2 (the big adventure) and 3 (two new cults/classes and other stuff) is coming this summer. Really love writing these cults. #ttrpg #woldenrpg #indierpg

Thumbnail of two spreads, a chapter opener with big bold graphics and text and one with a lot of tables. Great graphic design.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Happy #freerpgday! Our entry this year is Attack of the Fly Folk, a flycanthrophic standalone adventure, originally first published in Ultracosmic 1. Written and illustrated by the awesome Wind Lothamer! Grab it here: rpg-trader.com/products/5606/attack… Or as part of […]

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herbert @hvdsomp.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

I want to take a moment, here, to highlight the very short yet utterly to-the-point blog post by my long time hero, David Rosenthal, in which he explains to his old boss, Eric Schmidt, why he and his ilk are getting booed at college commencements, and why laws […] [Original post on w3c.social]

Picture of J.P. Morgan hitting a photographer with a cane. The image is featured in David Rosenthal’s blog post, which I promote in this toot.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Just uploaded a new product to RPG Trader, 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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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Mottokrosh Machinations is now on the new RPG Trader site: rpg-trader.com/creator/1005/mottokr… Jttrpg #rpg #indierpgr now as I'm exclusive with DriveThruRPG but more will undoubtedly follow. Let's see how that site shakes out, it's massively more modern than either DTRPG […]

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Good time at the Hussitenfest in Bernau yesterday.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Currently digging through this excellent bad boy from the fine folks at @TMushmen. I feel an extended afternoon session in beer garden coming up. (So much great art in it too.) #ttrpg #osr

Cover of Dungeon Inc, showing monsters and maintenance workers in a pastiche of the famous old D&D cover with the red demon statue having its gem eyes stolen.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

RE: me.dm/@anildash/116493908828951478 Beautiful accounting of Flickr and its cultural impact and importance. “That might be legal by most readings of the licenses, but if you have hundreds of billions of dollars and don't think you should at least have a conversation with the […]

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Congratulations to Hilmar on being the very first person to get their Knightcore zine. Not at all because I was meeting him anyway to give him back his fog machine from the Knightcore photo shoot, no. Anyway, #knightcore #ttrpg #castlecore #indierpg […] [Original post on social.mottokrosh.com]

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Proud to announce that the third year of BIRCON, Berlin's premier international RPG convention, is going even bigger than before. With a bigger venue, not one but TWO DAYS, and a ton of games, vendors, and side quests. Full details and tickets […] [Original post on social.mottokrosh.com]

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Despite my pleas and essays about why it would be a terrible idea, my dayjob have gone ahead with their grand experiment to replace humans with the plagiarism machine. This is crushingly demoralizing. Somehow it seems it's mostly the rich who are into that. I wonder why that is...

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Arguing that vibe coding is going to replace software engineering is like saying I used to want the best, but now I’m okay with like maybe average. This is where innovation goes to die.

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/11627… If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil. It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who […]

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/1162598… Of course the AI tells him what he wants to hear, but this is still great.

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beeps @beeps.gay · 17/03/2026

★ New blog post: A newbie's guide to designing good web forms Hopefully the first of a series covering the basics of web forms that are nice (or, at least, not horrible) to use. beeps.website/blog/2026-03-17-newbi…

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 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/mottok… #ttrpg #rpg #castlecore #zinequest #zinemonth

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

A lot of social media services do not like the aspect ratio of this picture, I realize now. But I finished a few more pages of layout and wanted to show them off. Including a hastily placed original illustration from Isa. To be tweaked […] [Original post on social.mottokrosh.com]

Several open spreads of the Knightcore zine, showing a modern take on illuminated manuscripts, with both photos and illustrations.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

New reward tier is up for www.kickstarter.com/projects/mottok… - I run a game for you and your group, you get 5 PDFs, and your regular, overworked GM gets a printed zine too. #ttrpg #knightcore #rpg #zinequest #zinemonth

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Knightcore the RPG is 75% funded! Can we make it all the way? Complete TTRPG with knightcore/castlecore aesthetics, starting adventure, no AI, original photography and art. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mottok… #ttrpg #knightcore #rpg #zinequest #zimo #castlecore #dnd

Physical zine and PDF on iPad of Knightcore on a wooden chest with a piece of crushed velvet, metal dice, and a metal helmet.

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Knightcore the RPG work in progress. A lot of photos currently, but original illustrations are incoming soon too. Rules sections complete, the adventure is coming up next! Currently crowdfunding, search "knightcore" on Kickstarter. Please share if you […] [Original post on social.mottokrosh.com]

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Frank // Mottokrosh @mottokrosh.social.mottokrosh.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

RE: tabletop.social/@e_eric/11604552764… I came across it randomly, and it wouldn’t leave my brain, so I did what any reasonable person would: a big photoshoot and an RPG.

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