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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ivory Tower’s currently $339 away from reaching its first stretch goal!! Come be a fantasy city planner! All backers will get to vote a new district of the Ivory Tower into existence, along with the NPCs and factions that will populate it Claim your vote here: gamefound.com/en/projects/...

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And just like that, in a little over 7 hours, Ivory Tower: World’s End Edition is funded 😤

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It is a momentous day in my household (Ways & Means came in the mail) Thank you, @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social, for this beautiful game and all the great things you make to go with it

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Deeply excited by the two-page spread @emilygreymoore.bsky.social sent my way today 😌

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

All hail the Rat King, here to point you to the link in bio #ttrpg #dnd #rat #art

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Prefer plants to most people? Think Gotham would be better with Poison Ivy running it? The Botanist might be your Ivory Tower archetype! With the botanist you will: - craft cures to all ailments - collect and cultivate plantà from all over reality - let your garden feast on Ivory Tower citizens

A satyr woman wearing a dress made from a lab coat and leaves while wearing thorn vine accessories brandishes a flytrap staff in front of a wood grain background.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

[IT]s “a deliciously devious game of political machinations, where tense relationships between player characters are more likely to end the world than the ongoing apocalypse.” — Millie Odegard [IT] arrives this September. Link in bio. #apocalypse #ttrpg #gamedesign

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“[IT] gave me a fantastic competitive outlet that felt like playing high-stakes chess. If you love games that deeply reward mechanical mastery and strategic foresight, this is it.” @maiasgameroom.bsky.social [IT] arrives this September. Link in bio. #apocalypse #ttrpg #gamedesign

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just got one of the most exciting crowdfunding packages I’ve ever received!!! @evilhat.bsky.social this game is gorgeous, I simply cannot wait to be 60s spies with my friends

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“Playing a dysfunctional pantheon with world-ending stakes has never been more accessible or fun.” @thekojiishere.bsky.social [IT] arrives this September. Link in bio. #apocalypse #ttrpg #gamedesign

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

[IT]’s the “most fun I’ve ever had in a meeting.” @pcperini.com [IT] arrives this September. Link in bio. @gamefound.bsky.social #apocalypse #ttrpg #gamedesign

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Once [IT] has its claws in you, it’s all you can think about.” @soyouwannabeadm.bsky.social [IT] arrives this September. Link in bio. @gamefound.bsky.social #apocalypse #ttrpg #gamedesign

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Many stories ask who will live when the world ends. In IVORY TOWER, you decide who will rule its ultrafantastic wreckage. Follow it on @gamefound.bsky.social 😌 gamefound.com/en/projects/...

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’m gonna put forth Vulture Sam, my favorite character in BANG! when I was a kid

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Blades ‘68 is another game I’ve got to gab about—prototype cover or no. I’ve never encountered a game that makes me feel groovier, personally. Band of Blades once changed my perspective on what good design was. I feel like reading 68 will be another turning of the design corner for me

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Two more likes = two more games! It feels fitting to talk about Legend in the Mist next. Finished a campaign this week. We’re playing this “dragon killer” next, I couldn’t be more excited. Its intuitive core dice mechanic, its versatility, and its ART means this game has a place at any table of mine

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I got another light so I must post another game! This one simply must be Eat the Reich. I just wrapped up work on a game for the Havoc Engine Jam this week and that’s had me spending a lot of time with it. EtR’s art style and layout design is legendary and its mechanics are a high-octane romp.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Made a lil first draft Ivory Tower character sheet this week and I'm pretty proud of it! Gonna put it up as a free PDF included with Ivory Tower purchases on Itch, thought I'd share on here

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Did a lil work on the first draft of the R.A.T. System’s character sheet, pretty proud of it Hacking some cyberpunk #mausritter fun

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Me when one of my 5E games agrees to pivot to Mythic Bastionland for awhile:

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Zhukov’s drip and general vibe obviously sprang full force into the game’s imagery, helped heartily by Mendelsohn’s immaculate look as Director Krennic in Andor and Rogue One

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Finished these flows up today! These updated visuals are going inside Ivory Tower real soon to help folks understand how to build and roll the game’s dice pools and to help walk them through the fallout process

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I drew a cover for my game Then I made a cheeky lil alternative color scheme to put on a t-shirt I am proud of both of them

an illustration with "Ivory Tower" written in calligraphy and an abstract representation of the titular flying city's seven districts drawn above it. Ornamental decorations sit in each corner. The bottom two represent archmages' public-facing personas: the crown/scepter/orb in the bottom right represents their prestige as rulers and the wand/ouroboros in the bottom left represents their power as practitioners of the magic arts. The top two, meanwhile, represent the lesser spoken-of realities of the position of archmage: the bloodied, stabbing knife in the top right represents betrayal, dishonor, and the literal violence archmagi use to attain and maintain power, while the coin purse in the top left represents financial corruption as archmagi are bought off, buy others, and make less literal exchanges of power, assets, and favors hidden far from the prying eyes of the public

an alternative color scheme of our illustration with "Ivory Tower" written in calligraphy and an abstract representation of the titular flying city's seven districts drawn above it. Ornamental decorations sit in each corner. The bottom two represent archmages' public-facing personas: the crown/scepter/orb in the bottom right represents their prestige as rulers and the wand/ouroboros in the bottom left represents their power as practitioners of the magic arts. The top two, meanwhile, represent the lesser spoken-of realities of the position of archmage: the bloodied, stabbing knife in the top right represents betrayal, dishonor, and the literal violence archmagi use to attain and maintain power, while the coin purse in the top left represents financial corruption as archmagi are bought off, buy others, and make less literal exchanges of power, assets, and favors hidden far from the prying eyes of the public

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

📺 Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know ✍🏻 openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It’s a Sparked by the Resistance game of my own design! Currently going through playtesting and editing, but should hopefully come out this year! Here’s some of the art I drew for the game’s different Archmages

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Share the last 4 games you played and expose your gaming habits. Night Witches Ivory Tower 5E Mausritter

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Mind if I toss my hat into the ring? Attached is a bit of an assortment of drawn maps from the past

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Also, made dice pool and stress/Fallout flowcharts for Ivory Tower to help players remember the game’s core processes and keep the game’s momentum moving. Pretty proud of ‘em!

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Finally, here comes the Voice! Made by the people and (allegedly) for the people

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Second to last, here is the Commander of the Undying Legions! Died the Four Deaths to command the Four Armies!

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A few days later and the Legend is ready

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Just added in rules for Chairs (Ivory Tower game masters), including some tables for making enemies and Factions and a list of ready-made ones already in the world! This is one faction I’m pretty proud of but haven’t gotten to use in a game yet:

Ayrolett the Sleep-Seer, Matron of the Coven of Bones and Rot (Weave, Streets)
Deep within the Grave-City, the Ghoul God sleeps. First to feed on the dead, the Ghoul
God only wakes to gorge itself on a fetid feast provided by the Circle of Bones and Rot.
When it sleeps, it dreams of the lives lived by those whose bones it’s crunched.
Ayrolett was the first to learn how to mine the God’s sleeping mind, and formed the
Circle to keep it well-fed.
Resistances and Protections
Defenses, Esoterica 1
Approaches
Kill the Ghoul God +1. Tamper with the rites of the Circle of Bones and Rot.
Arsenal
Ghoul God d4 Assault
Secrets Divined from Dreams d6 Negotiate/Study
Ghoul God’s Dreaming Mind d4 Study Catalyst
Drives
Plumb the depths of the Ghoul God’s mind. Uncover why Unkillable Jen’s Bone Boys
attack the Circle.
Favor/Disfavor
The Commander +1, The Rat King +1, Unkillable Jen -2.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Now comes the Treasurer, and the barb-tailed goon that’s never far behind them

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Don’t mind me, just drawing up the Ivory Tower character classes

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

@balatro.bsky.social liked the post! If I hadn’t already shouted out our shared love Hellboy, I would here. Instead, I’ll shout out the incarnedine. I already talked abt Heart classes in general, but I think this one is my dearest. Not many games let you get your existence repossessed by a debt god

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

@dngnclub.itch.io liked the post, so I’m gonna put the iconic dropcoffin page spread from Eat the Reich to this thread. It’s just so good.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I love the classes in Heart and Spire. I think Heart’s might take the cake for me, but I could never turn my back on the ever-drunken Knight, the Azure, or the Bound.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I simply cannot overstate how much I adore Smallwood’s art and design work on DC’s Human Target miniseries. There are so many valid criticisms of this comic book, but you simply cannot knock its visuals. Count on Smallwood to always be pushing the borders of what’s expected in comic book art.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Get in, loser, we’re posting lock screens. I have about like a dozen I cycle through, but this is the one I’ve got today. It’s been on this for 2 weeks, think it’s time to change.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Forgot to send this along to you. Idk if any comic can touch Human Target’s graphic design.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hellboy: The Storm and the Fury. Simply beautiful. All of the grandiosity and bittersweet beauty of classic myth, wrapped in a gorgeously drawn pulp comic book

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The comic book series Once And Future. Dan Mora and Kieron Gillen KILLED with that one.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Get ready to meet my character, resident divorced dad Reed! Hopefully nothing bad happens to him.

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Video editing: finished Thumbnail of questionable quality: made Intro to Dragonbane YouTube video: ready to air today!

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Mason @ RiftKid Games @riftkidgames.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Hey there you fantastic folks! I’m in the Annual TTRPGTok MSF Charity Drive! You could get a hand-drawn fantasy map made by yours truly (see examples below) or PDF copies of my 5E class supplement The Professor’s Comprehensive Collection of Character Classes! tiltify.com/+second-annu...

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