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Ardwulf the Traveller @ardwulf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Traveller is the greatest of sci-fi RPGs. It has maintained its enduring legacy for almost 50 years. Elite, EVE Online, and Starfield were influenced by Traveller.

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Mongoose Publishing @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Want to try the Traveller RPG? What to try it for free? The Traveller Starter set includes the core rules, and two free adventures for you to dive right into - Stranded, and the classic Death Station. Start rolling up your Travellers now! www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/sta... #ttrpg #RPG

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is kinda cool: $467 worth of items for $15 in the System Neutral Kit rpg-trader.com/products/927... (I have one book in there. If you wanted it, I'd just give it to you, but there's 466 other neat things in there) #ttrpg

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System Neutral Kit on RPG Trader

A bundle of 75 modules for use in any TTRPG

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#ttrpg Coming up on Travellers 50th anniversary and I have to say I’ve never felt excited about other gaming anniversaries.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Traveller Technobabble is your instant generator for convincing sci-fi jargon, engineering excuses and incomprehensible technical problems. Perfect for referees who need the engineer to say something clever right now. Available now on DriveThruRPG. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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DriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!

Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wrapped on SHORE LEAVE - what happens at a Starport when the big ships arrive. That’s a month of effort folks. I’m loving the Classic Trav vibe. Bringing back stuff from my childhood. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #ttrpg

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DriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!

Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sale on of almost all my books at RPG-Trader ##ttrpg rpg-trader.com/creator/1777...

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A wee preview. Dyte Punks - a micro-game about being a street kid in Ardoth. #ttrpg #jorune

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Active Noise Cancellation really helps me function in a busy open-plan office.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just saying: Skyrealms of Jorune was doing a surprising amount of Avatar decades earlier. Floating islands. Human colonists with advanced technology. Indigenous peoples tied to an alien world humans barely understand. Ecological weirdness. Pandora: we’ve seen some of this sky before. 🌙 #ttrpg

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Classic Traveller isn’t OSR. It’s one of the original Old School games from which we can recognise an OSR style. Classic Traveller arguably demonstrates that many things subsequently identified as “OSR principles” weren’t really D&D principles. They were 1970s #ttrpg design principles.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The draft of Jorune 2D (the Traveller conversion for Skyrealms of Jorune) is progressing nicely. Some great work from my pals at Seven Moons Workshop. It’s a joy to be working in a team on something. #ttrpg #traveller #osr

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Me, and the very erudite folks at Seven Moons Workshop would be interested in anyone who is an expert on the native Joruni wildlife (and alien life) and may have their observations notebook filled with examples. Human artists only for this project, thanks

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My side project is Skyrealms of Jorune for the 2D/Traveller system.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today I released WE GO IN for Traveller #ttrpg. It’s a non-violent career and mission generator (and includes a new ship). I wanted a story that was not about violence and all about saving people. legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5826...

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We Go In - rescue crews in the far future - Mongoose | Travellers' Aid Society | DriveThruRPG.com

WE GO IN Someone is trapped. Everyone else is leaving. You go in. We Go In is a rescue-focused supplement for Travel

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My Traveller stuff is all PWYW at the moment. So yeah, you can get it for free www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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DriveThruRPG - The Largest RPG Download Store!

Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m a big fan of Jorune. Jorune came to be through the talents of Andrew and Amy Leker and the pencil of Miles Tevez. I was in the joruni facebook group and it’s all grey-hairs. That made me sad because at some point these old grey-haired men will die and that will be the end of it. Jorune dies.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I make a lot of rpg stuff. And some I sell, some is free and some is “pay what you want” with a suggestion

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

From our mailing list. Announcements and discounts stats.sender.net/browser_prev...

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Arcane Manifold News

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5777... Runtime is a rules-light science-fiction RPG inspired by TRON, Portal, Mirror's Edge, The Matrix. It combines elegant mechanics, resource management and investigation with a luminous world of impossible architecture and existential mysteries.

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RUNTIME a game of unsigned software - Late Gaming Company | DriveThruRPG.com

The current version is being presented without art, pending raising funds for an artist. Buy the book and the art arrive

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... CONTRACTORS v2 is now available with even more content, with even more equipment, specialties and missions. Before the Twilight War, before the nukes, before civilisation breaks under the weight of its own bad decisions, there was still money to be made.

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CONTRACTORS for Twilight 2000 - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | Late Gaming Company | DriveThruRPG

CONTRACTORS is a supplement for Twilight 2000 4th Edition detailing the operations of private military contractors in the years leading up to the Twilight War. It provides a slightly different backdro...

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

BLACK RAIN (legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5738...) The first drops struck the road like ink. They landed on helmets, headscarves, canvas awnings, flour sacks, the backs of animals, the face of a child looking up before her mother dragged her under cover. Someone said it was only rain.

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BLACK RAIN - an environmental adventure for T2K - Free League Publishing | Free League Work Shop | DriveThruRPG.com

The first drops struck the road like ink. They landed on helmets, headscarves, canvas awnings, flour sacks, the backs of

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

www.patreon.com/Lategaming/p... Pre-Release Draft for The Resolute Society.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Supergirl (2026) mini review: 9/10 I really enjoyed this. The actress embodied a lot of range and it really felt like a coming-of-age story. It loses 1/2 point because I think while Superman holds back, Supergirl had no reason to. It loses the other 1/2 point for Lobo. I don’t like edgelords.

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Arcane Manifold @arcanemanifold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Here's an ultra-light guide to the Arcane Manifold Engine, the underlying system we use and adapt to each of our games. arcanemanifold.com/2026/06/24/u...

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Ultra-Light AME – Arcane Manifold

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Mister Valiant @mistervaliant.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I am *instantly* interested. Character sheets can tell you so much about a game. I already want a copy.

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Arcane Manifold @arcanemanifold.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Currently play-testing our upcoming game: The Resolute Society. Pulp superheroes face off against Mythos/eldritch horror, in the 1920s. Here’s my character sheet - Kit Ashwood, an heiress who came back from the dead. I was inspired both by Katherine Hepburn and Amelia Earhart when making her.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We just launched our @arcanemanifold.bsky.social Mailing List. arcanemanifold.com/mailing-list/ We will be using it for news and giveaways. So I encourage you to join. #ttrpg #ttrpgnews

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Step into the Manifold – Arcane Manifold

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Time Killers isn’t about killing people. Not really. It’s about history. Making people aware of who historical figures were and the impact they could have had on the timeline. MLK, Karen Silkwood, Marilyn Monroe, Emily Wilding Davison. Also Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Time Killers, my new game about travelling through time, finding interesting people and killing them is now live on DTRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... Cc @arcanemanifold.bsky.social

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

open.substack.com/pub/lategame... The war is not the only story on the Burning Frontier. A new TTRPG coming from Late Gaming covering the moment before the most important event in American history.

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Burning Frontier: Beyond the War

There is a tendency in games about the frontier to narrow the lens.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

open.substack.com/pub/lategame... Time Killers is a new mini-game I’m writing. The name is a play on words. Obviously.

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Time Killers: Temporal Deployment

Temporal Deployment

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

As a homage to Sinners (though it’s set decades later), I included European vampires and Native American vampire hunters in my Encounters from the Burning Frontier book.

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Matt Johnston - Writer @sailingirishwriter.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I added four extra (supernatural) encounters to my Burning Frontier d66 Toolkit. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... What movie inspired this?

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