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Norton Glover

@nortonglover.bsky.social
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Enthusiast of tabletop RPGs, old and new. This account is just for gaming stuff. I make character sheets Mostly on Mastodon: ng76@tabletop.social Other stuff at nortonglover.carrd.co

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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've been running some Mutant Crawl Classics adventures, and I've created some monster reference sheets for two of the official modules: polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/10/03/s... #TTRPG #MonsterCrawlClassics
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Some more monster sheets for Mutant Crawl Classics
I’ve been running a few one-shots of Goodman Games’ Mutant Crawl Classics. It’s basically just a post-Apocalypse version of Dungeon Crawl Classics, heavily inspired by the old Gam…
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you're in NYC in the next week or so, and you like occult stuff, it's worth visiting the Morgan Library for their Tarot exhibit. www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/... #MorganLibrary #Tarot
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm not sure this game jam is a good idea, but it's certainly an interesting idea. In the Minimalist TTRPG Jam 5, you create a TTRPG with no art, fonts, or layout of any kind. itch.io/jam/minimali... #TTRPG #gamejam #MinimalistJam
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Minimalist TTRPG Jam 5
A game jam from 2026-09-01 to 2026-11-01 hosted by Binary Star Games. Make a Thing Right Now V: How are there 5 of these This, for the FIFTH year in a row somehow, is a jam all about primal, elemental...
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For the recently ended Black Hack game jam, I thought I'd start posting little mini-reviews of some of the entries. Here's the first batch: polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/09/02/a... #TTRPG #BlackHack #BlackHackRPG #OSR
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A bunch of reviews for Black Hack’s 10th birthday – Part 1
The Black Hack 10th Anniversary Jam is a game jam that just finished up over on itch. It was designed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Black Hack RPG. There are 22 entries. I thought I&#821…
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Black Hack 10th Anniversary Jam is finishing up within the hour, and I just put in my entry under the wire. I made a bestiary of evil clowns. It was a little rushed, so I will probably expand it and tidy it up later. ng76.itch.io/apocalypse-c... #TBH10th #TTRPG #TheBlackHack #BlackHack #OSR
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Apocalypse Clown by Norton Glover
A bestiary of Evil Clowns for the Black Hack
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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's that time again. An all-color, rootin-tootin public domain stock art pack. These are all color images clipped and cleaned up a little from magazines and books in the public domain. We have cowboys and knights and castles this time around. markfelps.itch.io/public-illus...
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Public Illustration Pack 8 by Mark Felps
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I've been slowly adding all of my #TTRPG stuff to RPG Trader. Here's my PWYW collection of character sheets for dead, mostly-forgotten RPGs: rpg-trader.com/products/482...
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Dead Games, New Sheets on RPG Trader
A collection of character sheets for old, forgotten, or out-of-print TTRPGs
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Turhan's Bey Company @turhansbeycompany.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I think that my most widely known and used contribution to the GURPS corpus after writing for the game for close to 30 years now (first published contribution was a Pyramid article in 1997) is the phrase "TL Olden Tymes" to describe the technological milieu of the Dungeon Fantasy series.
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I've made an updated version of an existing cheat sheet for the Gardens of Ynn depthcrawl adventure. Very useful at the table. polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/08/04/g... #TTRPG #OSR #GardensOfYnn
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Gardens of Ynn: An updated Cheat Sheet
One of the absolute best OSR adventures ever published is Emmy Allen’s Garden’s of Ynn. It’s the original depthcrawl adventure. A depthcrawl is an adventure in which the environme…
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Chris Maka @chrismaka.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Here's a thread on tabletop roleplaying games #ttrpgs that I would love to see get a new edition. Let's start with the game I most desperately wish would get a new edition: Chaosium's Superworld. I love superhero rpgs, and while Champions is my first love, I'm too old for that much math now. 1/
cover to the Superworld rpg
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Starshine Scribbles @starshinescribbles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
TTRPG peeps, I'm begging you. If you release TTRPGs digitally, make sure your document file names contain the game's title (at minimum). It makes it really hard to keep track of the games I have and find the ones I'm looking for when the documents are called stuff like GAME DRAFT.pdf
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American Century of BOO-miliation @johnperich.com · 17/07/2026
The "kombucha girl" meme, depicting a blonde white woman grimacing in one panel and then reacting pensively in the second.

First panel headline: "SPENDING $20 ON A VIDEO GAME I MIGHT NOT PLAY FOR 20 HOURS"

Second panel headline: "SPENDING $20 ON AN RPG SUPPLEMENT I MIGHT NEVER PLAY AT ALL"
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I stopped by at NYC's oldest gaming store over the weekend, The Compleat Stratgeist. After decades, it looks like they've updated the floor layout a bit. (1/4)
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Appendix N 2026 Game Jam started today. Each participant is assigned a book title of a fake fantasy novel, and they have to make an adventure based on it. Mine is "The Toadstone Fens at Last Light", which is a pretty cool one. #TTRPG #gameJam #OSR #appxnjam
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I've put together some notes for my entry for the Vaults of Vaarn Summer Jam. I'm creating a decadent, dying arcology: #TTRPG #VaultsofVaarn
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The Dying Arcology of Ariael – some notes for a Vaults of Vaarn setting.
I’ve been working on an entry for the Vaults of Vaarn Summer Jam 2026. My idea is to detail a decadent, dying arcology, called Ariael. if you’re not familiar with Vaults of Vaarn, it&#8…
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yet another game jam I shouldn't join, The Black Hack 10th Anniversary Jam, starts in August: itch.io/jam/the-blac... #TBH10th #TTRPG #OST #BlackHack
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The Black Hack 10th Anniversary Jam
A game jam from 2026-08-01 to 2026-09-01 hosted by pikliz. Ten years ago David Black caved our heads in when he released The Black Hack into the world. Providing a hyper-streamlined ruleset, TBH is a ...
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Don't need to join another game jam, and yet... In the Appx. N Jam 2026, you're given the name of a fictional fantasy book at random and you have to make a RPG adventure based on it. itch.io/jam/appx-n-j... #TTRPG #gamejam #appxnjam
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Appx. N Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-01 hosted by Dank Dungeons. A list of fantasy and science fiction literature that inspired Dungeons & Dragons. Featuring authors such as Robert E Howard, Fritz Li...
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Signed up with RPG Trader, the new online gaming store, sort of a itch specifically designed for RPGs. So far, I'm liking it lot. It's got a lot of RPG-specific tags and categories. #TTRPG #RPGTrader
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I finished my second entry for the You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam - a full 3-page character sheet for a fictional grimdark cyberpunk game. ng76.itch.io/cybergrim-ch... #TTRPG #FakeTTRPGJam
A character sheet for a fictional RPG.A overly complicated armor sheet for a fictional RPG.A overly complicated weapon sheet for a fictional RPG.
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I enjoyed making my entry for the You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam, so I thought I'd also make a character sheet for my fictional grimdark cyberpunk game: #TTRPG #FakeTTRPGJam
A character sheet for CyberGrim, a fictional RPG.
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I couldn't sleep last night, so I threw together an entry for the You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam, in which you produce material for a fake RPG. My submission is an Errata sheet for a fictional grimdark cyberpunk game. It's really dumb. ng76.itch.io/errata-for-c... #FakeTTRPGJam #TTRPG
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Errata for CyberGrim by Norton Glover
Fixes for a nonexistent RPG
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Wish I knew about this game jam before it started. It's the *You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam*, where you create material for a nonexistent RPG itch.io/jam/you-cann... #FakeTTRPGJam #TTRPG
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You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam
A game jam from 2026-04-12 to 2026-06-21 hosted by Michelle Jones. This is a game jam for games that do not exist. They won't ever exist. They will never be playable. They will suggest a game, create ...
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Just got my POD copy of Sprawl Goons, the cyberpunk hack of Tunnel Goons #TTRPG #gamehaul #SprawlGoons
Cover of Sprawl Goons RPG
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam is nearing completion, so I've posted some rambling thoughts on the games I chose to include in my entry: polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/06/04/s... #TTRPG #GameJam #charactercreationjam
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Some Thoughts on 31 RPG systems
So I joined in on the 2026 TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam over on itch. The idea is that throughout the month of May, you post a single TTRPG character. I decided, as a few participants did…
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 02/06/2026
With the release of Umdaar, we might be at the end of Fate www.rascal.news/with-the-rel...
With the release of Umdaar, we might be at the end of Fate
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Finished up the TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam where I created an unique RPG character for every day in May. It was exhausting. ng76.itch.io/31-guys-in-3... #TTRPG #gamejam #charactercreationjam
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31 Guys in 31 Days by Norton Glover
31 Pregen RPG Characters for 31 Different Systems
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
For those of you who might try play the sadly out-of-print Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai RPG, based on the 1999 Jim Jarmusch movie. I've taken the official character sheet and made it fillable. "power, equality." polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/05/31/g... #TTRPG #CharSheet #GhostDog
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Ghost Dog: A fillable character sheet for a one-player arthouse gangster RPG
There a lot of RPGs based on media properties. There are a few based on obscure media properties. I’m not sure there’s a RPG based on something odder or more obscure than Ghost Dog: The…
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My plan was to avoid joining any more time-consuming #TTRPG game jams this summer. Then this Vaults of Vaarn game jam was announced, and those plans went straight out the goddamn window. itch.io/jam/vaarn-su... #VaultsofVaarn #gamejam
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VAARN SUMMER JAM '26
A game jam from 2026-06-01 to 2026-09-30 hosted by graculusdroog. Vaults of Vaarn is a science-fantasy tabletop RPG. It draws inspiration from novels like Dune , Hyperion , The Book of the New Sun, an...
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Here's a fan restoration of the 1938 adventure serial "The Spider's Web", based on the pulp character The Spider. It's been cleaned, restored, and looks lovely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvAS... #Movies #Pulp #MovieSerials
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The Spider - Master of Men! (1938) The original Noir Spider
YouTube video by RobotGangster
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I've taken two of the old character sheets for the RPG #Fringeworthy and made them fillable. polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/05/23/f... #TTRPG
2 character sheets for Fringeworthy RPG
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Completed my third week of the TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam. This week, I did Dicey Tales, Vaults of Vaarn, Cepheus Deluxe, Tiny Supers: Fallen Justice, Traveller: Mercator, Numenera, and Fringeworthy ng76.itch.io/31-guys-in-3... #TTRPG #gamejam #charactercreationjam
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31 Guys in 31 Days by Norton Glover
31 Pregen RPG Characters for 31 Different Systems
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Playing around with making a custom character sheet for the underrated #TTRPG Summerland Still a WIP #Summerland
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I've had a fillable version of the character sheet for Dicey Tales, the 2d6 based pulp adventure #TTRPG for a while, but forgot to post it. I've rectified that. Free to download here: https:// polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/05/18/a-fillable-character-sheet-for-dicey-tales/ #EveryWhen #DiceyTales
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A fillable character sheet for Dicey Tales
Dicey Tales is a pulp adventure RPG using the same system as Barbarians of Lemuria and Everywhen Everything is a 2d6 roll where you add a attribute and career. If you get a 9 or higher, you succeed…
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I made fillable versions of all of the official character sheets for Sprawl Goons, the cyberpunk hack of Tunnel Goons. polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/05/15/s... #TTRPG #SprawlGoons #Charsheet
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Sprawl Goons: Fillable Character Sheets for a cyberpunk RPG
A few years ago, Nate Treme put out a RPG called Tunnel Goons. It’s a simple, light 2D6 system. You roll a 2d6 and add the value of an attribute to beat a Difficulty Score (DS). It’s a …
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'm two weeks in on the 2026 TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam. I've gotten to revisit some old games in my collection (Over The Edge, Mechanoid Invasion), and get to some unread games on my shelf (Night of the Ninja, The Terror Beneath) ng76.itch.io/31-guys-in-3... #charactercreationjam
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31 Guys in 31 Days by Norton Glover
31 Pregen RPG Characters for 31 Different Systems
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I made through the first week of the TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam. It's a bit more time-consuming than I thought, but it's been nice revisiting some older games I haven't looked at in while. My stuff is all at ng76.itch.io/31-guys-in-3... #gamejam #TTRPG #charactercreationjam
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31 Guys in 31 Days by Norton Glover
31 Pregen RPG Characters for 31 Different Systems
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
For the TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam, I needed a fillable character sheet for Dark Conspiracy, the 1991 GDW horror RPG. It didn't exist, so I've made one. Free to download. polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/05/05/c... #TTRPG #charactercreationjam #DarkConspiracy #charsheet
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Character Sheet for Dark Conspiracy
I’ve been keeping up with the TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam over on itch. The idea is that for each day in May, one creates a RPG character. My project is called 31 Guys in 31 Days. …
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I've begun the 2026 TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam, in which one creates a new #TTRPG character for every day in May. My first one is for Nexus: The Infinite City ng76.itch.io/31-guys-in-3... #gamejam #charactercreationjam
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31 Guys in 31 Days by Norton Glover
31 Pregen RPG Characters for 31 Different Systems
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Got a head start on the TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam itch.io/jam/ttrpg-ch... I've got 3 so far: A fieldwarden for Cairn An occult detective for Nexus: the Infinite City A disgraced self-help guru for Over the Edge #TTRPG #gamejam #charactercreationjam
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TTRPG Character Creation Challenge Jam
A game jam from 2026-05-01 to 2026-06-08 hosted by Courtney 🌻 The Sunflower Court. Inspired by, by which I mean ripped entirely off of, the annual RPG Geek challenge of the same premise— 2025's is her...
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A Trio of Game Jams polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/04/28/a...
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A Trio of Game Jams
Itch.io runs the occasional game jam for game designers. A lot of them are for video games, but there are regular TTRPG game jams as well. Here’s a few upcoming ones that I’m considerin…
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Lyme @lymerpg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hear me out: Carcosa Borg. Every time 3 Acts have passed, the play ends and the PCs emerge from their reality into an even more surreal world.
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Added a new world to my #Traveller campaign - New Syroe, where the desire for healthy lifestyles has gotten a little out of control. polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/04/07/b... #TTRPG
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Building a Galaxy 11 – The excessively healthy world of New Syroe
As I create worlds for my ongoing Traveller campaign set in the Foreven sector, I’ve been creating the details of new worlds just ahead of my players’ explorations (my previous Foreven …
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Dan Hawkins @daniel-hawkins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
pitched some friends on a game of Traveller so I spent a whole weekend rolling up this entire sector using the Mongoose 2e rules
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Organizing my #TTRPG zines. I've had the 9.5x6x3'' gift boxes for a while, but I've added some nice labels.
4 white carboard gift boxes. Each has a label - "OSR", "Mothership", "Science Fantasy", "Other RPGs"
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If, like me, you're constantly downloading and printing out #TTRPG booklets and zines, I'd recommend getting a booklet stapler. This one's a Bostitch B440SB, but I'm sure there are others. It's saved me so much time and effort.
Booklet stapler and some completed zines.
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🍁 Wendigo Workshop 🍁 @wendigoworkshop.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If you need art for your TTRPG project, we have made this small list of affordable places to look (we even update it from time to time)!
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Art Resources for Broke TTRPG Creators! by WendigoWorkshop
A small document with a bunch of resources for TTRPG creators on a budget
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Mongoose has added some updated Traveller character sheets for 2026, including some much-needed printer-friendly options. It's at the "2022 Character Sheet" link www.mongoosepublishing.com/pages/downlo... #Traveller #TTRPG
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Free Downloads
Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022 Title Notes Download link FAQ & Errata  Tweaks and changes to Core Rulebook Update 2022 Download (763 KB) Ship Record Sheet The ship record sheet from Core Rule...
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Burrowing through some boxes of my old gaming stuff, I found these 1980s Call of Cthulhu adventures that I apparently took out of issues of Different Worlds magazine. I may try running them, though maybe not with CoC. I'm thinking possibly The Cthulhu Hack or Trail of Cthulhu.
Two Call of Cthulhu adventures - The Lights of Madness and The Eye of Sitar, both on thick brown paper.
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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 09/02/2026
The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle
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Norton Glover @nortonglover.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
After a long hiatus, I'm continuing my project of converting all of the characters from the 1981 Thieves' World setting to Savage Worlds. polyhedralnonsense.com/2026/02/09/t... #SWADE #TTRPG #savageworlds #thievesworld
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