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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil was good. When I am president, I will have all the naysayers put in the sewer with rat man. You know the one.

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh hey, there's a PDF for Doomspiral out for backers! It's been an appropriately epic journey to get this heaving, crumbling titan to the finish line but I'm really proud of the world, game, and project as a whole. Please let me know what you think!

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Oh also the soundtrack for the Odyssey was fucking great too. Going to be hearing those lornful flutes for a while

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My Odyssey hot take is that the costumes are fine, actually, I liked them. Nothing special but certainly not bad. Movie good, I had great time with movie. I'd like to see more of that version of mythic Greece. The pacing in the first third was kinda dogshit though, points deducted for that.

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Did I ask for the entire text of Finnegan's Wake to be included in DOOMSPIRAL in size 0.01 font? Was I cruelly mocked and laughed at for this? Are the edits very nearly done? All this and more, next time on - My Life

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As much as it sucks that the rpg subreddit is bad, they don't do design there, so they have no conversations that interest designers, so why would we engage? They're just a bunch of consumers who refuse to be advertised to. Truly a nothing space.

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

a dungeon game is pay what you want grimdark dungeon crawling. Dungeon crawling as survival horror with body horror and violence consequences. Exert yourself to succeed, get weaker, get stronger. All rules free online. dungeon.loottheroom.uk

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A Dungeon Game

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If I flitter between three different projects, one of them will be done eventually? Right? Right!?

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hello #PortfolioDay, I write RPGs! Strange lands, peculiar cruelties, wry humour, and desperate hope amongst hopeless worlds. I've published games with soulmuppet-store.co.uk And my own indie game at nick56730.itch.io/a-heist-game... And contributed to the new Tunnels and Trolls setting book!

Promotional image for Gangs of Titan City, whose cover depicts a group of wretched sci-fi gangers in a gun battle, the book sitting amongs cables, tools, and doohickeys.

Promotional image of Hazar; City of a Thousand Guilds, depicting the usual cover on teh left featuring colourful art of an adventurer gazing out over the city below, and on the right the deluxe cover, rich chocolate brown with the title embossed into the cover in gold, surrounded by a border styled to look like city towers and bridges.

Cover for Doomspiral, which is emblazoned in medieval fonts and surrounded in golden thread, against a background of a giant, salt-crusted knight examining a corpse among rain-battered ruins.

Promotional image for A Heist Game, which is written in white letters on a purple background, as light falls on a golden statuette of a dragon, as a Thief's hand reaches out to pilfer it.

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Its been three days since I watched Angel's Egg. I still don't really know how to feel about it other than obviously it was absolutely gorgeous, and the fishing city is the coolest shit ever.

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wake up babe, its my weekly shout about A Heist Game! Stealing! Crime! Fun for... You! Rules lite, tone dense, discover what sort of wretch has crawled out of the belly of the greatest city ever built and see what they can claw from its gilded grips! nick56730.itch.io/a-heist-game...

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A Heist Game: Full-Score Edition by Nick the Skeleton King

An old-school TTRPG of shameless larceny

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Sometimes you're just trying to bash together something small, bite-sized if you will, and then come up with such a banging name that you simply *have* to make it bigger.

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You heard it here first folks! "fucking rad"

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

No one can stop me, here's the run through of character creation in A Heist Game in 8 handy steps. Let's get the easy stuff out the way. Steps 1 and 2: roll 3D6 for our stats: Agility, Brawn, Cunning, and then 1D6 for Health. In this example, we've got 13 Agility, 10 Brawn, 5 Cunning, and 2 Health.

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hello, my TTRPG about being a wretched reprobate stealing from the rich and then trying to keep those no-good stinking fellow-poor people off your well-earned, hard-stolen loot is available on Itch! Finally! nick56730.itch.io/a-heist-game...

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A Heist Game: Full-Score Edition by Nick the Skeleton King

An old-school TTRPG of shameless larceny

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

You can tell media literacy is dead because tiktok influencers keep saying that Patrick didn't do any of that shit in American psycho because that one guy at the end said he didn't, take that as gospel truth and say they've figured the movie out.

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The age old question; now that the two big projects are (largley) lifted from me - albatross style - where might I roam now?

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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Doomspiral's "weird little guy" index is astronomical. I'm unsure whether to blame creator @nickspence.bsky.social, artist @dwynartist.bsky.social, or actual play performer @jessjewell.bsky.social for altering my brain chemistry on this vital subject.

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Chris B 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Crack out your Tim Curries and your alternate endings! Lets gooooooo

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Well how about that, my name's in there! I'll be honest, the campaign sells it better than I could, and! There's a big skellington in the art. They know how to pick 'em! www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...

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Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age

A bold reimagining of the world's second ever roleplaying game.

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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Mechritter,mine and Kayla's all ages mech system for Mausritter, launches today. Illustrated by @yanahn.bsky.social and @foletto.itch.io . Very excited to share it with the world. Thanks in advance to @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social and @exaltedfuneral.bsky.social for running Mausritter Month!

An image showing a partially assembled character sheet, with stickers resembljng different mecha parts stuck on.

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 06/10/2025

📣STRECH GOAL REACHED!! Doomspiral will now include tips and tricks from @jellymuppet.bsky.social on how to design your own monsters, regions and equipment. UP NEXT: TEAM PAYRISE! See all our stretch goals & the new GM screen from @dwynartist.bsky.social here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

screenshot of Doomspiral Kickstarter page showing £40,829 raised, 693 backers and 10 days to go

Mockup of the player facing side of Doomspiral's GM screen. Features an illustration of three panels like a cathedral murial of several characters praying towards an ancient deity. illustrated by Dwyn

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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 02/10/2025

New ep Ryan chats with @jellymuppet.bsky.social and @nickspence.bsky.social of @soulmuppet.co.uk about DOOMSPIRAL, a new roleplaying game system set in a dying fantasy world featuring desperate battles, mysterious secrets and fearsome monsters, inspired by games such as Dark Souls and Elden Ring 👇

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EP 286 | We Interview SOULMUPPET PUBLISHING

YouTube video by The Weekly Scroll

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 30/09/2025

The image speaks for itself www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

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Epigram Games @epigram.games · 18/09/2025

Always lovely to see Hypersteel Nightmare in the wild. Ever wanted a breakdown of how the game works? Listen here:

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 17/09/2025

Meet the team working on DOOMSPIRAL! Starting with the creator @nickspence.bsky.social, a writer and games designer known for their work on Gangs of Titan City, Best Left Buried and Heist Game. (Bonus points if you get the style of these posts & back the KS 😉) www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

The Creator - Nick Spence
stirring from their slumber beneath Blighted England, creator of such horrors as the grimdark empire-builder Gangs of Titan City, the hideous bestiary The Hunter's Guide to Monsters, and the quirky criminality of A Heist Game. Dread what now they dredge from fathomless depths...

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¡¡ɐuıןɐꓭ @balina.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

COMMANDS FOR GAMERS

A command link in Fallen London, shorn of all context. All that matters is that the button that normally says "go" now says "MILK"

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 06/06/2025

When Summer departed the turning of the year, there was weeping. When the Sun went dark, there was agony. Now, among the peoples and nations of men, Are found the FORSAKEN; those wicked beings without fates, severed from destiny, doomed to deathless despair.

Doomspiral pamphlet featuring art by Dwyn of a hooded figure eyes shrouded.
The text reads "you are forsaken. Your world is doomed"

Back of DOOMSPIRAL leaflet featuring three panel golden art of worshippers and a cracked sun beating down on a beast.
Text reads: endure the unbearable to achieve the unthinkable
Drag the gods from their stolen thrones
Defy your fate
Nick Spence Dwyn D'Alton SoulMuppet Publishing

Doomspiral is our TTRPG homage to Dark Souls, rife with desperate battles in cursed lands to escape a wretched fate.

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 16/09/2025

As you likely know, supporting crowdfunding projects on day one really does help, so even sharing this project with your friends or saying a nice word on social media gives us the best chance at funding. Without you, we couldn't make projects like this!

a team photo of the soulmuppet gang, left to right: Eryk, Mol and Zach

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 16/09/2025

Live now on Kickstarter! Doomspiral a #TTRPG of desperate battles in a dying world. This is our love letter to soulslike games, with dramatic fights, labyrinthine exploration and many laughing shopkeeps. Back now before the cruel spiral of entropy consumes all. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

Illustration by Dwyn showing a many armed monster holding the golden threads of fate. The text reads "Doomspiral where not even an honest death will liberate you"

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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Doomspiral is @nickspence.bsky.social and I's glorious, fervant and feverish loveletter to the gameplay, lore and experience of Dark Souls and Elden Ring. We want to mimick the experience of you cracking open a case for a new game and exploring the incredible setting and gameplay, but in TTRPG form

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 03/09/2025

Doomspiral is our #ttrpg of the ruin, despair, and wonder of a world grown thin with age and suffering. Take back the reigns of Destiny before this crumbling world buries all. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

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Coming soon: DOOMSPIRAL

Venture to the doomed land of Weftenhaal to reclaim Fate and slay the gods.

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 01/09/2025

The hallowed halls of Erzo Aarioch abhor the discord the Forsaken bring, but graciously allow those thus banished to keep their spellbooks. Doomspiral launches soon on Kickstarter, follow now to explore the ruin, despair and wonder of this dying world. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

an illustation of a person in lightly tattered blue and gold robes holding a large deep purple spellbook and golden knife. A small leather bag stuffed with scrolls hangs from them. Their face is mostly obscured by the robes largue hood. They stand in amongst a field of faded leaves and are illuminated by a halo of light.

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Offline for a while / Mol @molomoot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A thousand thank yous to everyone who's supported me in this project! It is honestly kinda wild that 155 people have helped to bring this project to life. With 4 days left, you can still back or adjust your pledge to include the KS exclusive chef hat! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mol...

Screenshot of Serving Up Disaster Kickstarter Page showing £3023 raised, 155 backers, 4 days to go

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 22/08/2025

In the sleeping land of Na’rui, the waking dreams of the smoke-drinking oracles hew close to the threads of fate, and the shapes of the future are said to be glimpsed in their visions. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou... #ttrpg #characterart #DOOMSPIRAL

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Offline for a while / Mol @molomoot.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

If 69 is the funny number Is 169 the cuck number? 1 just laying there while the others have fun

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Offline for a while / Mol @molomoot.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Serving Up Disaster is a chaotic comedy #TTRPG about a fiery TV Chef travelling to various failing restaurants, identifying Problems, and working with the Staff to transform the struggling restaurant into a successful business. Get notified on launch: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mol...

Information panel about Serving Up Disaster a ttrpg of kitchen nightmares showing information about the game and its features.
Serving Up Disaster is a chaotic comedy
Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG) about a famous yet divisive TV Chef travelling to various failing restaurants, identifying Problems, and working with the Staff to transform the struggling restaurant into a successful business.

Featuring:
Streamlined character creation to quickly create new, varied and quirky characters that you’ll love to hate.
Characters that begin as a mess and a failure, but have the chance to improve their skills over the session.
Episodic Structure, each session following the same five act structure, mimicking classic reality TV.
Unique twist on the Brindlewood Bay game system by Jason Cordova.
Design that emulates the feeling of overstimulating takeout menus.

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 17/07/2025

DOOMSPIRAL is a #TTRPG of desperate violence in a wasted land, of gods no better than people and people with the potential to be gods, and of wrestling the future from chains of fate. Get a taste of our labyrinthine love letter to Dark Souls and Elden Ring now soulmuppet-store.co.uk/pages/doomsp...

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A real nice run-over of DOOMSPIRAL, and essentially everything Andy has inferred is what I wanted! Which is very validating. Have a gander if Dark Fantasy with deep exploration Big Boss Fights is your cup of tea! The campaign we're doing with the core book is gonna be something special!

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Andy Raff is Definitely Not the Werewolf in this Scenario @wulfboyraff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Given it is way too hot and I still have a millionty words to write for Tuesday I'm going to do a "Raff Reads Through It" #ttrpg thread. My target tonight is Doomspiral from @soulmuppet.co.uk Going in fresh. Might go quiet randomly if I have to have an opinion on work stuff. So be patient 🧵

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“This land though, it is too old for gods.If any were here, surely they too must have diedIn ages long gone,Or they have lost themselves to time and madnessAnd thus be good as dead.”- Reuben, the Heat...

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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

“Look, all it comes down to here is You must be willing to kill, or be killed yourself. There is no middle ground. Fate leaves no room for hesitation.” - Vycrum the Nomad This is DOOMSPIRAL. Art by @dwynartist.bsky.social. Words by @nickspence.bsky.social. Game from @soulmuppet.co.uk

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Nick S -> HEIST GAME HEIST GAME @nickspence.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

There's no such thing as a job, only a thing you can do. Don't worry about about being a game designer, just design games, and write adventures if you like. Be happy. Capitalist success is a bottomless pit into which you can pour as much blood as you like and it will never fill.

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