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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 29/09/2026

A mere week out and this lil project has already raised a generous $308! It's a truly humbling amount of support for game I'm barely promoing ~ At this rate I may be writing Dream Diver by the end of the year >.>

Itchfund tracker showing $308.69 towards the Rhythm & Grace Act 1 goal of $2,000

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 28/09/2026

Today's morning included beginning to organize my Grand Archive collection and cooking a little something for my friends cause I had a feeling no one had eaten ~

Grand Archive cards on a table... 5 hours in and I barely made a dent

Some simple rice and eggs in cute bowls ~

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 27/09/2026

You may not like it, but this is what a peak Tech Tree looks like ( from @taliautsch.bsky.social's 20mm - Ft. notes from @joelhappyhil.bsky.social and @victor-el-dm.eurosky.social -- We were stuck in the Ripverse for a while... )

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 23/09/2026

Alright, alright, I'll bite on this trend ~ Many of my favs (Trigun, Getter, Nadesico) don't appear because they didn't so much shape me as resonate with who I already was ~

Godzilla: Planet of Monsters trilogy, Cowboy Bebop, .hack//SIGN, Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0, Gundam 0079, Sweat Punch, Classmates, Ghost in the Shell 1995, Expelled from Paradise

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 23/09/2026

Big Walk continues to be an absolute treasure ~ We got to the final tower tonight! We're hoping to finish next session ~

We tried to get a friend to join... then they had to dip... RIP Clark a dead body with a sign we made for him

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026

I wanted to give some special shout-out thanks to @zedecksiew.bsky.social and @weirdwonder.bsky.social for some excellent writing advice, @explorersdesign.bsky.social for teaching me how make a layout feel /textured/ and @roosterema.bsky.social for writing Blood Red Blossoms (a core TTRPG inspo)

This dewdrop world
Is a dewdrop world
and yet... and yet...

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026

Normally when I make zine projects I attempt to make them as print-at-home friendly as possible but BtFW took the opposite approach! To breathe life into this polychromatic painted world I wanted to go maximum color and maximum texture ~ Taking inspiration from both ukiyo-e art and psychedelic ads

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026

Brindlewood felt like the perfect canvas to on which to ink these horrors. The collaborative storytelling and prose-limits (with most Hauntings being 1 double sided page) lent themselves to something surreal, looming, dreadful. Notable additions are how NPCs (Spokes) hold rumors of one another~

The front of the Garden of Centipedes Haunting

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026

OKOK now that I'm actually awake and nourished let's talk about this dreamscape: BtFW sees you playing exorcists in a surreal fantasy inspired by the arts and culture of Edo Japan, and by extension the hyper-colorful anime Mononoke. Flowering spirits, talking animals, matter and metaphor mixed~

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 22/09/2026

[ ~ Where grief stirs, spirits linger ~ ] Dive into the kaleidoscopic fantasy of Beneath the Floating World, a Carved from Brindlewood game of psychedelic zenpunk exorcism ~ Uncover twisted truths, face supernatural horrors and navigate your mortal woes . . . sandroad.itch.io/restrain-ref...

The cover for beneath the floating world ~ Featuring an onryo-esc figure above two silhouetted exorcists

The beginning of character creation rules

The center fold describing the parallel Day and Night phases of play

The 12 Exorcist Moves that can each define a character

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 18/09/2026

I think my writing for Beneath the Floating World hit another high water mark...

Description for the stand the Big Chili and the Chili Hawker Modisara

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 16/09/2026

I think Beneath the Floating World is gonna release next Tuesday, just in time for the Equinox!! In the meantime, enjoy this Noh theater inspired haunting ~

Page 1 of Beat by Beat - The Noh Theater inspired haunting

Page 2 of Beat by Beat - The Noh Theater inspired haunting

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 15/09/2026

Discourse? Theoryslop? Sorry team I'm eating pizza and playing Outrun with my friend :)

Me on the floor, hair wet, looking terrible, eating pizza with Pepsi perfectly in frame as I play Outrun

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 09/09/2026

This bitch just harmonized with the universe (had an MRI)

Me looking super cute in that hospital gown vibe

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 09/09/2026

Photo taken by a friend before me (right) and my buddy (left) got 'em (iykyk) ~ Big Walk is such a treasure

Two big walk characters, the one on the right triumphantly holds a walkie-talking, the one on the left coyly holds a yellow orb of some kind

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 08/09/2026

Played in @knightattheopera.bsky.social's EXCELLENT Rivers & Lakes - This is /exactly/ what I love to see in a tactics game, and it was so FLAVORFUL too

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 01/09/2026

It's raining, I have a splinter lodged too deep in the web of my hand to pull out, and I've got laser and a date later, BUT I still made time and energy to vote ~~ Ignore how gross I look!! Attempt a civic duty!!

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 31/08/2026

The full list of Masteries an Exorcist can grow into ~ ((Successfully avoided writing 5 paragraphs about the Emptied clarifying the multifaceted nature of its historical inspiration))

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 31/08/2026

Very happy with these Exorcist Masteries for Beneath the Floating World

The Noodle Slurper and Hand-Me-Down Masteries

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 27/08/2026

Beneath the Floating World nears completion (really happy with how the colors came out in print)

Beneath the Floating World cover and back

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 27/08/2026

Discourse? Grindset? Sorry bro, I'm busy giving the Vaporeon my partner gave me a bubblebath

A slightly sudzy and very sleepy Vaporeon plushie

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 26/08/2026

Some other shots from the night ~ Gotta keep rounding out this wardrobe ~

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 26/08/2026

Let my friend design my fit tn ~ I feel like it's giving FFVIII (positive)

a fit with lots of chains, leather and nomura ass details

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 21/08/2026

Alright team, be honest with me, is this the vibe? (2/4 Hauntings done for Beneath the Floating World ~)

Haunting sheet for the "Garden of Centipedes" haunting, detailing NPCs and the Haunting Set-Up

Back of the haunting sheet for Garden of Centipedes, this one describing locales, signs and threats.

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 16/08/2026

Inside you there are two wolves... ( @joelhappyhil.bsky.social and I getting ready to play @taliautsch.bsky.social's 20mm in TTS )

$two players in tabletop sim: "Read Dollhouse on itch.io" and "Nessuno \ [T] / "$

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 05/08/2026

Guess what's entering its editing pass? :^3

Spread from Beneath the Floating World detailing how to read Haunting Sheets

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 04/08/2026

More Floating World progress ~ Does this feel like it gets across the vibes of the city, culture and era in just two pages? (Good lordy IK why I made this zine 16 pages but yeeeeesh)

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 04/08/2026

The gibbon does not concern herself with the little tummy ache when she's working on layout

Excerpt from "Gibbons in a Landscape" by Sesson Shūkei - Ink on paper picture of a gibbon that is very cute thinking

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 28/07/2026

Cover reveal or smth (I'm not hugely pleased on how this came out, but it's workable and it's one step closer to done -w- )

Cover for beneath the floating world featuring an onryo outlined in gold facing off against two exorcists silhouetted... will probably make a few more tweaks before going to print, but at least it works)

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 25/07/2026

Friend got the most exquisite "Saturn Eating His Son" core photo of me

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 19/07/2026

LARP Bar Night was a stunning success ~ (Many thanks to the Quonk team for putting on such a lovely immersive performance and my friends new and old for bringing such amazing characters)

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 17/07/2026

Did anyone else see the resynced cover and just ??? - Surely I'm not the only one who immediately thought of this

Black Flag Resynced cover, featuring a low-angle half-body shot of the protagonist, his sword pointed down at the view, gun by his face

Low-angle shot of a guy drinking beer with chips on a couch, his remote towards the viewer - The compositions are similar IMO

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 06/07/2026

I have gotten more people coming up to me thinking I'm cosplaying on the day where I'm wearing my normal fit than on the days that I cosplayed 😅 Very big fashion ego boost TBH

Photo of someone comparing me to Hetalias America - I also got Peter Parker

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 05/07/2026

Still the best cosplay I saw at AX and I caught them during the perfect lighting

Shinji cosplayer in the chair pose on a perfectly colored rug to match... in the middle of the AX Hall - They were just sitting there, a truly artful exhibit

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 04/07/2026

I GOT TO MEET ANIS' VOICE ACTRESS AND HAD TO BE CHILL ABOUT IT BUT OMG HER VOICE WORK HAS MADE ME LAUGH AND CRY SO MANY TIMES

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 30/06/2026

I'm off to LA for Anime Expo ~ If you're also going HMU!!

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 30/06/2026

!! BLOG POST TIME !! Combat can be a central part of a lot of games! Some people prefer the precise and balanced "Combat as Sport" where others yearn for the tactical infinity of "Combat as War." For me though? I seek out "Combat as Art"... www.failforward.moe/2026/06/comb...

Cloud Strife fighting the Scorpion Sentinel in FF7 remake (one of my all time favorite boss fights) with the headline "Combat as Art"

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 28/06/2026

For reference; Here's the original headband ~ I didn't quite get the lettering right but the spirit feels there:

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 28/06/2026

The final piece of my Commander Cosplay is ready for Anime Expo... ((Also I'll be handing out my Nikke fortune cards to fellow cosplayers and any muts hehehe))

Intentionally scuff / markered headband for TT Star and Anis

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 27/06/2026

Love seeing Free RPG Day busy at my local board game cafe :3

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 15/06/2026

More previews from Beneath the Floating World ~

A list of Motifs used for the Haiku Move

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 13/06/2026

The profile is nice if nothing else ~ I just miss some of my poof ((though it was FAR too poofy before the cut - damn this humidity fr)) Maybe I do add a closet cosplay Amuro to my AX lineup...

Me in a mirror full of finger prints cause I'm constantly moving it

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 11/06/2026

This is probably my favorite layout I've ever done... This collage vibe is definitely something that'll be unique to this project but has been delightful to work with

A page from Beneath the Floating World featuring a lot of colors, textures and public domain abstract art

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 10/06/2026

Finally think I've settled on the 12 Exorcist Backgrounds (cut a few that'll become part of the 12 Exorcist Masteries)

12 Exorcist backgrounds ranging from the violent Revolver to the enigmatic Herbalist

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 09/06/2026

This android lady from Stellar Blade: Blood Rain (a game that's catching a lot of the same boring flak as the original) Been growing out my hair but am quickly hitting a "OK I need someone to actually cut this to give me bangs" point, and this was a vvv good touchstone

Picture of Evie from Stellar Blade Blood Rain - Her cut is all at once tomboy and pixie cut and I WANT IT

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Sandro AD 🔜 PAX Unplugged @sandroad.moe · 03/06/2026

Finally carved some time away from appointments to work on Beneath the Floating World ~

The Exorcist Sheet for Beneath the Floating World

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