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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My top 9 games, in no real order with no serious rigor. ( my9games.net/en )

9 games in a grid:
Granny's Garden
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon explorers of Time
Bicycle 16 Board Games
Minecraft
Slay the Spire
Wii Sports Resort
Hades
Oblivion
Unpacking

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

stop panicking i have saved them and their little dice

a kakapo bird wearing a dashing hat and rolling dice, illustrated in the style of a medieval manuscript (by Tallulah Cunningham)

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I have an incredibly motivating new background image

A desktop, with a picture of a cat meowing. A speech bubble has been drawn over it saying "WHY DON'T YOU WRITE"

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

designing Fiction in the Space Between was a lot of fun, translating a body of songs into games / game pieces. And also the booklet! Flipping it so that you cut up and tear bits off my hometown was great, and then to use a map of the Aboriginal exclusion zone made it better (if only detail I notice)

A photo of a ttrpg zine, titled Fiction in the Space Between. It is a collection of games and game materials inspired by Tracy Chapman songs.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Zine storage coming along nicely!

A kallax bookshelf. A 5-section divider is set up in one portion of the shelving, storing reams of A3 paper and various A5 and A6 bunched zines

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Well I printed Stonetop out but the maps didn’t print ; ; Guess I’m doing them by hand

Three sheets of paper from the tabletop rpg Stonetop; there are map keys and labels but no map

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Dealing with the pokopia FOMO.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

As part of my Tracy Chapman inspired games anthology, I made a safety tool based on the song ‘Open Arms’. It’s not doing anything revolutionary but I like making the pause & play process explicit, it helps everyone at the table. Also the anthology came as a CD booklet and that’s very fun ahaha.

3. Open Arms
When you declare you are using this move, the game pauses. Choose as many of the below as you’d like. Play resumes when everyone confirms they are ready.

There is a list of options, such as go to the toilet or talk out of character, including a blank line.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

My blood moon contribution :)

A pine tree and power poles frame the night sky. The moon sits between the powerlines, big and blood red. The photo is all a little grainy.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Some of my favourite dice :)

An iron d6, a wood and bone spinning d6, a frosted d6 with gold pips, a d6 with a fish in it, a d10 with glittery sand and a skull in it, a triangle agency d4 and a tiny d20

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A (draft) preview of one of the sillier minigames in Veritable Tales, in case you missed it! The noble could be describing a mythological creature, a dinosaur, a Pokémon... have fun with it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sun...

Image Description
Beasts Abroad: One player is an Arrogant Noble who has recently returned from abroad. The rest are the Hapless Artists commissioned by the Noble to depict the bizarre beasts encountered in faraway lands. They will need drawing materials.
Unfortunately the Noble is a poor wordsmith. They describe a creature encountered on their travels as terribly as they can, whilst touting their own valour. Purple prose is encouraged: invoke the senses, cast aspertions and sprout allegories.
Once the Noble is satisfied with their description the Artists present their works of art. Discuss, extol, flatter, then the player to their left becomes the noble. Repeat until everyone has played the arrogant noble. Then transfer your favourite drawings to the margins and write in the annals:
"...STRANGE BEASTS WERE SIGHTED ABROAD."

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Veritable Tales of Folly in the Realm is funding now for #ZineMonth! Play medieval minigames & record that year's activities in your illuminated manuscript. That way you can pick up where you left off in a couple weeks - or with completely different players! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sun...

Illustrated by Tallulah Cunningham, the corner of a manuscript illumination frame with a Numbat

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Tear-aways in TTRPGSs :)

A page labelled ‘Mountain O Things’ with strips cut out of it

The next page over, titled ‘All that you have is your soul’. The cuts made over the page have cut through a picture of money and Oscar’s.

A page titled ‘Baby Can I Hold You’. Tearaway strips have been cut out, some pre-filled with loaded emotional questions.

The next page, with a map of the South Western Australian Aboriginal exclusion zone.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I need to head to bed but instead I've spent way too long doodling a sample Veritable Tales manuscript (not an illuminated manuscript - no gold ink). Was fun! For ease in actual play I'd probably go with a printout medieval border instead and we'd all colour it in during play.

A notepad with a thick border full of doodles. It reads:
"The Veritable Tales
In the first year of Empress Ai's reign... she was crowned with her father's crown. The people called her kind, scrupulous, marriageable and weak.
In the second year of Empress Ai's reign... a nobleman returned from strange lands and employed all the notable artistes in depicting the beasts sighted there. (A picture of a strange two legged beast with three eyes and no ears is here).
In the third year of Empress Ai's reign... there was a great pestilence and many died. Their eulogies filled the streets.
In the fourth year of Empress Ai's reign... the nobles competed in a great hunt. Lord Go won -- he caught a tiger.
In the fifth year of Empress Ai's reign... nothing of note happened so we turned our hands to filling the margins. (A doodle of a simple fish on legs)."

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

this #ZineMonth: A medieval minigame TTRPG Carefully craft a beautiful illuminated manuscript OR make a quick note in between chaotic play with new players every round. Both work! Veritable Tales suits an intro RPG or a flexible option for your regular game night. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sun...

Text: "Veritable Tales of Folly in the Realm: An illuminated Manuscript Party TTRPG"

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Post a game you remember that nobody else remembers:

A screenshot from Granny’s Garden, an old video game. There’s a pixelated witch, and below her a text box reading “Ha ha! Now I’ve got you! I will send you home at once.”

A screenshot from Granny’s Garden, an old video game. There’s a pixelated figure of a girl, and the text “Well done! You have found Esther. Remember this password: snow. Key S to start again”

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Way hey hey I’m stacked

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hah, two kinds of people and all that:

Nova says: I sneezed and none of y’all said bless u
Pidj says: Bless you!!!
Viditya says: glad you noticed

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Look what arrived! Growing Thylacine zines, beautifully risograph printed by Ashley at Heliopress

A box full of zines. One is opened to a striped thylacine, also called the Tasmanian tiger, alongside bubbles labelled “teeth” “limbs” “stripes” and “pouch”

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I now understand books localising to other markets ahaha. Just need to redraw this and change some text and I can make millions!!!!

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

They have a way with words at this writer’s festival.

An urn labelled HOT HOT HOT HOT CAUTION HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Got some triangle earrings to match my Triangle Agency dice!

A box labelled “Playwalled Dice”, d4s, and some triangle earrings which match the aesthetic of both

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

pre-markup of game bit #6 (All That You Have is your Soul), an inventory system! Text obscured, you'll just have to back the campaign to see it :P

A zine page spread. 6. All That You Have is Your Soul. Has money and golden idols (Oscars), some obscured text, and then a box labelled 'your soul'. Over the page is a 4x4 grid labelled 'inventory'.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Hey you could use that in my Fast Car two-player game based on the song! It and other games like it available in my currently crowdfunding zine. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

A mock album case booklet cover. It is called 'Fiction in the Space Between', is a Tracy Chapman fan zine, and has pictures of Tracy Chapman on the front and back. The back shows there are games or game materials based on Fast Car, Baby Can I Hold You, She's Got Her Ticket, Open Arms, Mountain O Things, All That You Have is Your Soul, Talkin' Bout a Revolution, and one more secret song!

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just about ready to send to the printer

The yellow under-layer of a roleplaying game print file. Includes some Thylacine silhouettes.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Growing Thylacine was written to be a camping trip game, a 50% attendance games night game. It’s no prep, self contained, and approachable for a first roleplaying game. Only 8 hours left to back it, funding now for ZineMonth / ZineQuest! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sun...

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This isn’t my cat. And no, she isn’t helping!

A black cat lain on my desk and open laptop’s keyboard. The Kickstarter page for Growing Thylacine can be seen in the background.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Not weird! Off the top of my head, I know Logan did it in Preparing for Paris:

Text: Preparing for Paris (P4P) is a game without a Facilitator
or Game Master (GM) that uses elements of the Powered
by the Apocalypse system and the Firebrands Framework
by Meguey and D. Vincent Baker.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you see this QRP with your #portrait #art

The drawing of a man with long dark hair in a bun. There’s a club pushed through the bun and coins hang from one end of it, and also from an earring.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

my high quality gatefold pamphlet zine diagram ahaha

A diagram showing a gatefold zine that, when folded, is sized to an A4 sheet of paper. when unfolded there are three panels on each side.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

this, but risograph printed!

Art of a Thylacine, bubbles floating around it

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Oops I lost track of a whole lot of time. But enjoy more Thylacine.

A scanned sketch of a thylacine, also called Tasmanian tiger. Bubbles are coming out of its mouth.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Plesiosaurs! I drew them so much in my teens (and beyond, to be honest).

A tiefling lounging with a plesiosaur inspired dragon nearby

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Zine making in progress. Drafting, drafting, drafting.

A pamphlet document, with a picture of a Thylacine, headings 'SETUP', 'TEETH', 'LIMBS', 'STRIPES' and 'POUCH', and other unreadable text.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I regularly consult the graph ahaha

A grid of alignments, from lawful to chaotic and good to evil. Each entry in the alignment grid is a pun.
“Chefs kiss? Do… do they really?”
“The bird flu? Yeah they tend to do that.”
“You’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?”
“What’s upstairs? They can’t talk”
“Based? Based on what?”
“Apartment complex? I find it quite simple.”
Road works ahead? Yeah I sure hope it does.”
“Wood fired pizza? How’s pizza gonna get a job now?”
“You’re telling me a ginger bred this man?”

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

hand drawing the map from A Mending for my friend who moved out bush. (Got a set of two cotton napkins for $2.25, although I was tossing up whether a tote bag better as its practical)

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

game design at its finest

a hastily drawn picture of a thylacine, surrounded by circles, with four boxes at the bottom

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The Station: Train Stations and Worldbuilding A GMless worldbuilding game where players take turn answering prompts about an approaching Train, a long-abandoned Station and expectant People. It's beautifully illustrated by @mellific.bsky.social and uses playing cards or a custom deck!

A whimsical train station, with overgrown tracks, fish swimming through arch ways and a cat asleep on the bench.

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The Sun's Ransom: Vampires and big fistfuls of dice! The sun has vanished. Bringing it back has fallen to unlikely heroes: vampires. Cover the zine with d6s and relive your mortal moments of joy to remove dice. The game ends when the sun is uncovered - but at what cost? pidj.itch.io/the-suns-ran...

The roleplaying game The Sun's Ransom, which has a sun on it's cover, is surrounded by dice. There is an itch.io review - "Visually gorgeous, creative and engaging to read!"

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I was gift browsing for my sister on the New York Times website - look how ridiculous the shipping prices to Australia are!

A screenshot of the order summary. Shipping for a mug, wrapping paper and a mini crossword calendar is $102!!!!

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Pidj @pidj.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

I just died in Dread. Love this game.

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