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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This week’s newsletter is for people who are tempted to use LLMs to do their writing. Please enjoy. I wrote every word. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

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How to write it like you told it

What do you say to someone who wants to write but struggles with writing and is tempted to use an LLM-based chatbot?

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Isaac Williams @losing.games · 09/07/2026

Congrat to Matt and the Mausritter community for creating this awesome megadungeon!

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Owen @owenmcg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Still have that book on my shelf!

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Owen @owenmcg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I used to dream about owning Zoidzilla as a kid

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Owen @owenmcg.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Dredge is really enjoyable.

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TheLordChiefRockaNumberOne @natewarren.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Talked to @liberludorum.com and @rugosekohn.com about their freewheelin' NINJA BORG #ttrpg and then to @mattthr.bsky.social about the Golden Age of Fantasy Flight Games — and how his path into that Ameritrash paradise differed from mine. Link to the audio's down there 👇

A ninja in a semi-crouch follows through on bloody decapitation strike vs. a hapless opponent on the cover of the NINJA BORG roleplaying game book.

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Games Omnivorous @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Join me and Sean McCoy, creator of Mothership, as we talk about the zine collaboration between Mothership and Mausritter Month! A celebration of both Mausritter Month and Mothership Month. Starts in 15min!

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Mothership and Mausritter Month Collab Live Stream with Andre Novoa and Sean McCoy

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ENNIE NOMINATED ManaDawn Tabletop Games (Matthew Morris) @manarampmatt.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

(🧵 13/x) @owenmcg.bsky.social is funding my ALL TIME FAVORITE Mausritter project! Rinn has literally been 5 years in the making and I've seen it all along the way, and now you all get to see it as well and it is bigger and better than ever! YOU NEED to back this Mausritter Realm!!!

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Rinn

A Mausritter realm enclosed within an ancient stone wall abutting treacherous cliffs and pounding sea, full of warring factions, curious characters, and untold adventure.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Rinn map detail. Crowdfunding right now as part of #Mausrittermonth : www.backerkit.com/c/projects/owen-mcgauley/rinn #ttrpg #mausritter #osr #backerkit

black and white map fragment showing a lighthouse, a road, a blasted hill, some towers and a swamp

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M. Allen Hall @mallenhall.com · 14/11/2025

New adventure just dropped! A Show of Strength is an introductory heist adventure for The Baron's Grip. As part of Mausritter Month, the pamphlet is free in the itch io jam. Check it out! Art by the amazing @zinesfrombelow.bsky.social

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A Show of Strength by M. Allen Hall

A heist for Mausritter

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Rinn map hand-drawn title and banner. 2022 commission for @owenmcg.bsky.social Crowdfunding right now as part of #Mausrittermonth : www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o... #ttrpg #mausritter #osr #backerkit

the title banner of a map titled as "rinn" where the hand-drawn letters are presented on a ragged scroll.

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Hugh Lashbrooke (Ten Acre Games) @hlashbrooke.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Me and @manarampmatt.bsky.social are livestreaming our development of the final adventure for Rolling Coast! Friday, 14 Nov @ 10am AEST (13 Nov @ 3pm PST) 🗺️ Building the adventure and map 📜 Discussing our creative process and design philosophy 💬 Taking live Q&A www.youtube.com/live/_IwNcof...

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🎢 Behind the Design: Building a Mausritter Adventure Site Live with ManaDawn & Ten Acre Games 🗺️

🗺️ Join Matt (ManaDawn Tabletop Games) and Hugh (Ten Acre Games) live as they design a brand-new adventure site for Rolling Coast, the Mausritter setting boxset currently funding as a part of Mausritt...

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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 08/11/2025

New ep Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of @explorersdesign.bsky.social to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters.

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EP 291 | We Talk SELF-PROMO with Clayton Notestine

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Isaac Williams @losing.games · 05/11/2025

And please check out Mechritter! Created by @laurieoc.bsky.social, @ratwave.uk and @foletto.itch.io. In extends Mausritter's inventory system, using stickers to upgrade your mice into cybernetic warriors fighting to survive in a junk-fueled London. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

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Mechritter: An Expansion for Mausritter

A modular mech-building simulator and urban adventure setting for Mausritter.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🗺️ The complete Rinn map I did for Rinn, created by @owenmcg.bsky.social and crowdfunding right now on Mausritter Month: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o... #ttrpg #cartogaphy #osr #mausritter

a black and white map on a parchment background showing a coastal line full of hills circled by a wall. there are 3 lighthouses in it of different sizes and aspects. the border has native foliage and wheat, and the compass rose is composed of a peregrine falcon. the title of the map is "Rinn".

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Owen @owenmcg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This is great Matt. Thanks for taking the time to promote each project 🙌 And thanks also for the kind words about Rinn!

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ENNIE NOMINATED ManaDawn Tabletop Games (Matthew Morris) @manarampmatt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Going LIVE on YouTube to talk about all the #MausritterMonth project... (its my first time live-streaming myself, but we should have fun!) Join if you want to hear and see all my thoughts! youtube.com/live/f9yj1aV...

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🐭 Mausritter Month Celebration Stream | Junk City, Rolling Coast, & 14 more amazing supplements! 🎢

YouTube video by Matthew Morris

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Diogo Barros @masterconspirator.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Last one before going to bed. Matt has been the #1 champion for every aspect of #MausritterMonth. Force of nature. Just check his stream (and back his and others' projects now). (Mine as well, while you're at it: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/d...)

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Soul Food

A Mausritter adventure where the culinary and the art worlds collide!

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Isaac Williams @losing.games · 01/11/2025

The Junk City map will be my magnum opus.

Map of Junk City. Highly detailed drawing of an overhead view of a junkyard.

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Games Omnivorous @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🐭 Mausritter Month 🐭 Today, featuring Owen McGauley's Rinn. A setting where mice can travel an entirely new fantasy realm from the mysterious and magical Pricklewood to the majestic Bright Tower that sits on the edge of the known world.

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Get Ready for Rinn

From Owen McGauley - Get Ready for Rinn

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Games Omnivorous @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🐭 Mausritter Month 🐭 Today, featuring Charles Ed Pipe Ascent of Wretch-Wing's Tower. A zine containing a fully-mapped vertical dungeon, filled with treacherous obstacles and inhabited by friendly and fiendish critters inspired by the fauna of the American Southwest. LESS THAN 48 HOURS TO KICK OFF!

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Get Ready for Ascent of Wretch-Wing's Tower

From Charles Edward Pipe - Get Ready for Ascent of Wretch-Wing's Tower

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Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🐭 Embody heroic mice in tiny big adventures. Uncover the secrets of TALES FROM BEHIND THE FERNS, a new Backerkit campaign launching in 2 days! ---- Follow it here: ▶️ www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #Mausritter #ttrpg #indiegames #roleplayinggames

Illustration of two mice transporting a cart with nuts, a Japanese stone lantern in the back.

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Owen @owenmcg.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Rinn launches on @backerkit.com as part of #Mausrittermonth this coming Tuesday, 4th November. Here's a small teaser video while we wait 🎥 #rinn #mausritter youtu.be/WNoV2VuO3zY

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Rinn

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Games Omnivorous @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🐭 Mausritter Month 🐭 Today, featuring Antonio Buch @buchplays.bsky.social Mausolympics, a zine containing rules for running a sports competition in Mausritter. It comes with components like paper minis and game boards. You're in for stuff like gecko-amphibian wrestling and beetle jousting!

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Get Ready for Mausolympics

From Antonio Buch - Get Ready for Mausolympics

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Isaac Williams @losing.games · 30/10/2025

Follow along with the creators involved in Mausritter Month with this handy starter pack! go.bsky.app/23a7zzb

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Games Omnivorous @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🐭 Mausritter Month 🐭 Today, featuring Ed Siomacco @edsiomacco.bsky.social Tails and Trinkets. An items centred project that includes item card sheets depicting wonderful new objects for Mausritter and a Crafting System guidebook that includes alchemy, enchanting, forging, tailoring and tinkering.

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Get Ready for Mausritter - Tails and Trinkets

From The SpaceCat Questing Company - Get Ready for Mausritter - Tails and Trinkets

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Daniel Harila Carlsen @danielharila.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Me and @liberludorum.com went on @meandsteverpg.bsky.social to talk about Duginthroat Divided, game design and sausage production. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/2hxK...

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211: Duginthroat Divided w/ Daniel Carlsen & Walton Wood

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ENNIE NOMINATED ManaDawn Tabletop Games (Matthew Morris) @manarampmatt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

@tessa.bogfolk.com Join the Mausritter Month Companion Jam 🐭 Nov 11 – Dec 11 2025 on itch.io No theme. No competition. Just creative mice making cool stuff. If you submitted to Mausritter Month or want to jump in now—this is your chance! 👉 itch.io/jam/mausritt...

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Mausritter Month Companion Jam

A game jam from 2025-11-11 to 2025-12-12 hosted by ManaDawn Tabletop Games, Hugh Lashbrooke, Games Omnivorous & Losing Games. 🐭 Mausritter Month Companion Jam 🐭 November 11 – December 11, 2025 🧀 Welco...

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Games Omnivorous @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🐭 Mausritter Month 🐭 Today, featuring Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social Tales From Behind the Ferns containing two new adventures around an ancient shrine inhabited by small creatures from Japanese mythology, and a quest to find a cure for a spreading curse that turns mice into bluish zombies.

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Get Ready for Tales from Behind the Ferns: Bundle of Mausritter adventures

From Francisco Lemos - Get Ready for Tales from Behind the Ferns: Bundle of Mausritter adventures

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Games Omnivorous @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🐭 Mausritter Month 🐭 Today, featuring Diogo Barros @masterconspirator.bsky.social Soul Food. A darkly humorous setting for Mausritter where the culinary and art worlds collide! Mice will explore a 'provençal-style' kitchen and face its denizens, including a lobster chilling in a slow-burning pot.

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Get Ready for Soul Food

From Diogo Barros - Get Ready for Soul Food

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Games Omnivorous @gamesomnivorous.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

MAUSRITTER MONTH is less than three weeks away! I've been working on and perfecting this campaign with @losing.games for two years. it has a decommissioned crane, a volkswagen casino, a broken grand piano, a stack of shoeboxes and a rusting printing machine as adventure sites. you're gonna like it.

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Mausritter Junk City: Little mice. Big city.

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ENNIE NOMINATED ManaDawn Tabletop Games (Matthew Morris) @manarampmatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🐭⚔️ Get ready for Mausritter Month! A showcase of sword-and-whiskers intrigue from top publishers & third-party creators. Discover thrilling new mouse-scale adventures all month long! 🔗 dlvr.it/TNTGTP Join the fun November 4-December 4

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ENNIE NOMINATED ManaDawn Tabletop Games (Matthew Morris) @manarampmatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🎢🐭 Hold on tight, tiny heroes — the park is open! Rolling Coast is our upcoming Mausritter amusement park setting for Mausritter Month. Created by @hlashbrooke.bsky.social & I 🔗 tinyurl.com/RollingCoast 📆 Launching Nov 4 on BackerKit as part of Mausritter Month Join the excitement NOW!🎡

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Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

From a poisoned forest full of mythical creatures to cursed caves, a bundle of new #Mausritter adventures is coming. "Tales from Behind the Ferns" includes adventure zines, a cozy inn trifold, and paper minis! Follow for the Backerkit launch: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #MausritterMonth #TTRPG

Illustration of a mouse with a backpack and a wheelbarrow full of mushrooms

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 30/09/2025

This was posted on the MÖRK BORG subreddit and it made me very happy. About how MB, some metal tapes and monopoly dice helped a guy get clean. Another commenter mentioned running JAIL BORG from memory. Things like this make me all warm inside.

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Owen @owenmcg.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Something wyrd fell through the letterbox earlier… @wyrdscience.bsky.social

Issue 7 of Wyrd Science magazine with cover artwork by Alexey Gorboot.

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Bogfolk Café @bogfolk.com · 20/09/2025

With the Mordant Arcana being sent to the printers and our backers digital copies filled, YOU THE PUBLIC can now buy a digital copy of everything (at a digital only cost) here! - bogfolk.itch.io/mordant-arcana #tarot

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Mordant Arcana Tarot by Bogfolk

A tarot deck for the most mordant among us.

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Diogo Barros @masterconspirator.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Trying out different styles for the art in Soul Food :D

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Owen @owenmcg.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Seems like the perfect reason for someone to invent lenticular tattoos

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Foletto @foletto.itch.io · 13/09/2025

Hey #selfpromosaturday! We have a crowdfund campaign starting in November during Mausritter Month: Mechritter is about equipping your mouse character with mech parts and exploring an urban scenario! Created by @laurieoc.bsky.social and @ratwave.uk with art by me! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Mechritter: Urban Mouse and Machine Roleplaying

From Twelve Pins Press & Rat Wave Game House - Mechritter: Urban Mouse and Machine Roleplaying

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NINJA BORG @ninjaborg.com · 12/09/2025

Marvel at the wonders of NINJA BORG! Now delivering to homes around the globe in unmarked boxes. Hiya motherfuckers!

All the NINJA BORG goodness a motherfucker could want. The core rules, the collector's edition, the movie poster, ninja pad, soundtrack on cassette, glow-in-the-dark sticker, and a fucking bomb-ass box to hold almost all of it. Swagalicious!

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Shut Up & Sit Down @shutupshow.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Play as outlaws in the wild west that never was, replete with chain-smoking mules, eldritch revolvers and suspicious tonics. Saddle up, rascal. youtu.be/xDmb_JS3ZL0

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Frontier Scum in 1 rule

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Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Grab your needle-swords and follow my upcoming #Mausritter project for tiny adventures. Stay tuned for updates! 🐭👇 www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #osr #crowdfunding #MausritterMonth #ttrpg

Illustration of a mouse walking in the forest, carrying a bundle of flowing insect eggs.

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Levi Combs @planetxgames.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

@joeyroyale.bsky.social and Tiger Wizard from @epiclevels.bsky.social present TAILS FROM THE NIGHT MARKET! Get signed up now to get a heads up when they launch! #mausritter #mausrittermonth www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Get Ready for Tails from the Night Market

From Get Haunted Industries - Get Ready for Tails from the Night Market

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