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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 12h
The time is now, live on BackerKit.
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Rusalka - A tragic fairytale RPG of wishes gone wrong
Get notified when Rusalka - A tragic fairytale RPG of wishes gone wrong launches on BackerKit!
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 12h
The hour of the Rusałka has come. Can you hear the spirits of drowned women moaning in the night? Can you see the trails of desperate mortals seeking the secret pool with a dangerous wish in their heart? They all need you. To recollect and retell their story. Will you head the call?
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm also fairly sure there's a minotaur somewhere in the playwall :P (jk. or not. if you know enough to dispute this you deserve several demerits anyway.)
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy #TabletopTuesday! Today, I invite you to take a look at our upcoming campaign. Rusałka is a tragic fairy tale roleplaying game about wishes gone wrong-- play as the spirits of drowned women, and the foolish mortals who seek them out. What memories will their pleas bring back to the surface?
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Hear the song of the Rusalka
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Help us spread the word. Lure other hapless players to the secret pool and have them speak their wish. Whatever could go wrong? www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Being able to work on a cult classic like Rusałka is a privilege. Nick entrusted us with developing the new edition and Letty @toadlett.bsky.social was the ideal artist for this challenge: she's found the perfect balance between charm and horror to tell an eerie tale straight out of Slavic folklore.
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The song of the Rusałka is ready to echo around the world. The Italian edition paved the way, and the international edition launches on BackerKit starting October 5! Nick Wedig's tragic fairytale RPG about wishes gone wrong will enthrall you with dark, dramatic, card-based play, with no prep or GM.
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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Restocked! Camp Snallygaster Community Radio Sock Puppets The Magus & The Oracle (book+cards) www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
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ᡣ𐭩 Mandi ᡣ𐭩 @613mandi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Dang! @819steph.bsky.social was quick with the overview and review of The Magus and The Oracle! 😜 @momatoes.com youtu.be/UgL77sUtZbo?...
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The Magus solo RPG
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What a great, in-depth review!
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Also @momatoes.com and Magus 🔥
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our Queen Crumbles spotted! (And honorable mention to Fedora Noir and a good chunk of our Italian-language catalog, haha)
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
entre-temps, on se prépare au foulancement en anglais cet octobre ! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Hear the song of the Rusalka
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Merci Frédéric ! Les eaux de l'étang secret sont sombres et dangereuses, c'est donc toujours agréable de croiser un visage ami au cours du voyage ;) nous n'excluons aucune possibilité pour l'avenir !
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Happy to hear it made its way to you! @toadlett.bsky.social did a wonderful job with the art. Getting the chance to work with such great creatives is the best. For people interested in the new edition, you can get a peek on @backerkit.com ! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Hear the song of the Rusalka
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@nessundovelab.bsky.social sent me a copy of their English-language version of Nick Wedig's fantastic game Rusałka, which I have been a die-hard fan of since forever. It is just bananas - very beautiful, very menacing, 11/10. Can't wait to play again.
Components of Rusalka laid out, beautifully illustrated tarot card sized prompts with creepy art.
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Scare-on Lim 林家丰 @ PAX Aus @ehronlime.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Big fan of this format for Barbabianca (sheaf of sturdy pages that can be passed around, collected in a cardboard wrapper) which was also used for Our Queen Crumbles, and would be perfect for Firebrands-style games with all the minigames.
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Camilla Zamboni 🔜 Metatopia @czamboni.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I am back home in Verona for a few days, and back to games. I finally got my hands on the new edition of Rusalka by Nick Wedig: the game is published by @nessundovelab.bsky.social with art by @toadlett.bsky.social, and you can sign up for the pre launch here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... 1/
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nervous demon purveyor 🔥 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 30/06/2026
Your favorite-designers-favorite-designer and Games on Demand stalwart Nick Wedig is getting a fully illustrated box-set version of his dark fairy tale game Rusałka from @nessundovelab.bsky.social! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Hear the song of the Rusalka
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There's A TTRPG For That @mint-rabbit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Barbabianca, by @nessundovelab.bsky.social. Set in the deep Italian countryside, this is a tragedy in four acts. Create a village and flesh out the relationships that live within it - and determine the role of Barbabianca, a character placed at the centre of an old scandal.
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Barbabianca by NessunDove, spacerunnergames
A storytelling game of rumour and silence for 3-4 players, by Cristian Sisto
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Moklo @moklonoguard.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Happy to be the 307th backer 🦜 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for The Roots of Soledad - A Magical Realism RPG by @nessundovelab.bsky.social ! Magical realism with this level of love and detail can be a truly wonderful experience, either as a digital or physical game. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The campaign is still live, until May 28! Go check it out on @backerkit.com . www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...
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The Roots of Soledad - A Magical Realism RPG
A card-based ttrpg by Matthijs Holter and a homage to South American magical realism. Play a whole campaign with zero prep and watch the characters' lives entangle between the mundane and the fantasti...
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Everyone @matthijs1000.bsky.social included has been deep in the Play Bologna vortex, but a nice review of the Soledad preview just came out by the Brazilian YouTuber @solerverso.bsky.social ! Check it out if you want a quick overview of the game. youtu.be/XcqU36hlE0Y?...
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Um RPG fantástico sobre duendes e América Latina
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Indeed. The fact that they have been showing up at conventions in white shirts and red ties with a red triangle logo since 2019 is a perfect example of retroactive causality at work.
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Haunted Table @hauntedtable.games · 23/05/2026
A Triangle Agency megagame happened today at Play Bologna!!! They had people playing NPCs from the game's world, tracked the results of missions across all the tables, and sped to a final ending for their setting all in one big group. I wish I was there, I want to see it!!
Screenshot of a discord message. People in red ties overseeing several tables of Triangle Agency play. Chiara says: Multi-table game going on at Play Bologna 2026, run by The Agency (gaming association, name purely coincidental lol). The rules look extremely interesting but I'm only here visiting cause I'm running the sales booth lol. They're tracking Demerits, Commendation, Chaos and Loose-Ends across all tables to determine the overall ending. And have AgencyOS bots going around for players to speak to and hack.
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Great stuff even! Go support them everyone.
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Our own Maria and Chiara are helping with the layout, after taking care of the Italian edition last year. So great to get under the hood of this wonderful book again!
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
ATTENTION, AGENTS! Our colleagues at Triangle Agency France are crowdfunding the translation of @hauntedtable.games 's stellar <employee handbook/ttrpg>. If you have a French-speaking friend, go bother them about it Right Now!
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A toad @toadlett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Hi it's my birthday! You are strongly encouraged to look at my work and maybe even say nice things if you think it is nice? Physical store: www.etsy.com/shop/Toadlett Digital store: toadlett.itch.io Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/toadlett
ink sketches of a character in armour and a heavy fur cloak. she has a healmet shaped like a stylised boar's head, and holds a bardiche. a smaller sketch shows her doing a little hop to destroy something with her bardiche. the last sketch shows her partway through transformation into a boar. she is unclothed and several scars are visible, as well as her fat body with a significant amounto of body hair.black and white comic page showing a cross section of some small crevice within a living organism in which a little louse has made its home. inset panels show it going through its morning routine - having breakfast, feeding a little pet worm, and going out on errands. text reads "Good Morning Louse by Letty Wilson."box art for the card TTRPG Rusalka, published by Nessundove. in a green pool of water lilies and sedge, a woman with pointed ears, starlike eyes and a pallid complexion smiles up from the water, surrounded by many hands reaching up out of the water.a clown labelled "spectral" drawin in black ink. they wear a tattered pierrot garb hung with bells and ribbons, and their eyes are scratched out.
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Matthijs is a legend to everyone here. 🔥 Great minds-- Soledad, much like The Zone, is very prone to Weird Plant Takeovers.
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Still a couple of hours left to back Soledad and get a free art sticker exclusive to Early Birds! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...
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The Roots of Soledad - A Magical Realism RPG
A card-based ttrpg by Matthijs Holter and a homage to South American magical realism. Play a whole campaign with zero prep and watch the characters' lives entangle between the mundane and the fantasti...
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Matthijs Holter (Hyperfictive) @matthijs1000.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My new game, the Roots of Soledad, launched two days ago and is almost fully funded! So I'm super excited 😄 Soledad is a magical realism RPG, with lots of drama, supernatural weird things, and deeply human relationships. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...
Pictures of two cards from the game Roots of Soledad, describing a relationship and a goal for a character
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
To celebrate launch, we've prepared a freebie for those who back in the first 48 hours: a Kapok Flower sticker, inspired by the great tree that watches over Soledad and by the vibrant colors of the amazing cover, designed by Laura "Soma" Ortiz. Will you be there to watch it bloom again?
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Roots of Soledad is LIVE on @backerkit.com ! @matthijs1000.bsky.social 's GM-less, card-based game will help you improvise a story of magical realism, in the vein of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Watch as every card helps the characters' tales get more intricate and tangled.
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Unearth the Roots of Soledad
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Follow to make sure you won't miss the campaign!
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Unearth the Roots of Soledad
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It is now less than 48 hours to the launch of Soledad. Maria is drawing stickers to keep the anxiety at bay. You too can profit off her nerves: this design will be our Early Bird incentive for those who back the game between May 7 and May 9!
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
What's this game, you ask? Why, The Roots of Soledad will be coming to @backerkit.com 's Pocketopia on May 7! Follow the campaign for a free preview of the rules.
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Unearth the Roots of Soledad
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Curious to see how The Roots of Soledad is going to play? @matthijs1000.bsky.social sat down with a couple of familiar faces for a short demo game. Watch them deal with rebels and art shops, with doppelgangers and strange forest creatures.
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The Roots of Soledad: Actual play
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Roots of Soledad is @matthijs1000.bsky.social 's card-based gmless game and homage to South American magical realism. It's coming to @backerkit.com on May 7, in time for #pocketopia2026. Want to learn more? Sign up to the campaign and preview the rulebook for free.
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Unearth the Roots of Soledad
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
wake up, game trailer for The Roots of Soledad just dropped
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The Roots of Soledad: Game Trailer
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Matthijs Holter (Hyperfictive) @matthijs1000.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I was on Vertshuset, the Norwegian RPG podcast! Talked (in Norwegian) about Soledad, Archipelago, Den Nye Våren, and more. Second podcast in a short while! Well, I do like to talk about my stuff. open.spotify.com/episode/6SZKZ3W9BD…
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Chiara and @matthijs1000.bsky.social got to have a wonderful chat about The Roots of Soledad with Ed Rathke! Go listen to them discuss GMless gaming, magical realism, and so much more. open.spotify.com/episode/7Ecf...
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Episode 062: POCKETOPIA - The Roots of Soledad
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Also check out Ed's own project, Beetle Battle!
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Get Ready for Beetle Battle - Dueling Card Game
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Roots of Soledad will launch on May 7 as part of Pocketopia on @backerkit.com .
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Unearth the Roots of Soledad
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Chiara and @matthijs1000.bsky.social got to have a wonderful chat about The Roots of Soledad with Ed Rathke! Go listen to them discuss GMless gaming, magical realism, and so much more. open.spotify.com/episode/7Ecf...
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Episode 062: POCKETOPIA - The Roots of Soledad
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Côme Martin @comemartin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"A Week with Frog and Rabbit" is my next TTRPG, crowdfunding next month! It features 7 small cozy adventures, all gorgeously illustrated by @maumont.bsky.social; here's a look at Monday's story, "Frog and Rabbit go for a walk". www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #TTRPG #Pocketopia
An illustration featuring Frog and Rabbit in the forest. Rabbit is hanging to a branch while Frog is looking at a snail.
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Roots of Soledad will launch on May 7 as part of @backerkit.com 's #pocketopia2026. Come check it out! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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Unearth the Roots of Soledad
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Curious about what's going on with @matthijs1000.bsky.social and Soledad? We shared a bit more about the campaign on Rascal.
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Master of Nordic TTRPG Matthijs Holter returns with a new game of Magical Realism
The Roots of Soledad is a love letter to One Hundred Years of Solitude, coming to BackerKit for Pocketopia 2026
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NessunDove @nessundovelab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thanks to both for the shout-out! It will take a little longer than the Italian (coming May 2026) because we have a couple other English projects to wrap before launching it, but (spoiler!) it is indeed in the works. 🤫
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