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@severalseals.bsky.social
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Cat haver. Game designer. Co-host of System Shop Podcast. No access to DMs until certain policies become less ridiculous.

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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There was a jazz festival near me this weekend. There was a jazz festival in the town I visited last weekend, too. With the wide variety of performances on offer, I still only really paid attention to a couple. Jazz festivals are about the plays you *don't* note.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New System Shop: Relationships in play! Featuring very special guest Avery Alder @lackingceremony.bsky.social ! We approach the taxonomic expanse from various different angles - power dynamics, stat(e)s of being, emergent ephemera - with Interesting results! open.spotify.com/episode/2bOk...
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Episode 14: Relationships in Play
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whenever I see a sculpted, shaped, and carefully mowed lawn, I can't help but imagine it as a golf course. My doctor says it's just par-eidolia.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Yeah! The store page says 2-12 (iirc, which certainly would be a very different experience!). Good to know it's "2 players has its own feel and is also an intended experience" rather than "I mean technically you could do this but you shouldn't".
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Did you play entirely as two player co-op? I can't decide whether to do it as a couple or a gaggle so I... simply haven't done either yet.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Foleynauts is a one-track, no-page game game of ecological worldbuilding and subterranean soundscape simulation.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Drake Barcode: Morse Inspector is a nominally-educational comedy gamebook about blundering your way through an investigation in a city full of droids that speak morse code. Unfortunately, you do not speak morse code.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Today is the last day of my Summer Sabbatical and I can at last upload the first fully completed fruits of my unsupervised game design escapades! severalseals.itch.io/drake-barcod... & severalseals.itch.io/foleynauts
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Drake Barcode: Morse Inspector by SeveralSeals
The moderately educational interactive escapades of a dashing detective in a dotty city
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Violet and I realised that this year's Ennie nominees either fell into "I own and have GM'd this" or "I've somehow never heard of this", with little in between, so we made a bonusode to survey the field and each pick something new to try! open.spotify.com/episode/0uBA...
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Bonus Episode: Ennies Exploration 2026
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Imogen Gingell @ilgingell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As I send hundreds of books soaring across the Atlantic, I thought I'd see what folks are interested in next for JourneyMon expansions. Check out the poll in the Kickstarter update to have your say! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ilg...
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Update 18: International Fulfilment Underway - and a poll for what's next! · JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying
Exciting times in JourneyMon HQ - a huge stack of handbooks is now officially On Its Way to our fulfillment partners Indie Press Revolution over in the United States. Everyone's shipping address shoul...
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New System Shop! This one was recorded earlier in the summer but since then we've had another two heatwaves and until recently it was too hot to sit in my office for long enough to edit the dang thing 🥲 open.spotify.com/episode/1Xrh...
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Episode 13: Vehicles
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
*rotates my phone* Hello! *unrotates my phone*
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Glad it's going great, sorry I couldn't be there!
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Tuescon, of course, is the annual BBQ of my online Tuesdays TTRPG group.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ran a surprise game of @unpanny-valley.bsky.social's Shadow of Mogg at Tuescon. One character bartered a curtain for a family sized bottle of strawberry calpol at the blanket fort at Paddington in order to restore his stiff upper lip, then immediately failed the next roll and spiraled into Anxiety.
A character sheet for Shadow of Mogg. It features doodles of tinned beans, a rat, the TARDIS, a mutated praying mantis in a hi viz jacket, a broken pair of glasses, a blanket fort, and an XL bottle of calpol.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Imi has worked so hard on this and I've worked so soft and we're both incredibly proud of the result. And now people can have it! And play it!
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Have you considered that you might be a 🕷?
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I don't have air con, but I do have two fans, a slightly too small tub of water with an ice pack in it, and Nicholas Cage.
A slightly too small tub of water with an ice pack in it (no feet, sorry internet)Nicholas Cage's Con Air
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
9 new games, one copy of Selecting Seven for a favoured friend 😜
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Shout out to the total stranger and certified Bez Fan who was browsing your games at the same time as me, resulting in us both buying stacks of 10 games as the only reasonable solution to our shared enthusiasm!
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
UKGE and high doses of @ava.foxfort.net have done strange things to my brain, but I slept soundly nonetheless.
Ramblings about a brunch powered game that came to me in a dream
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
And the terribly named BattleCon: Devastation of Indines is a companion-expamsion to a *previous* bring & buy gem, which I had no expectation of ever finding in the wild given that it's 14 years old.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The weasel warlock would need no explanation... but it's actually a stoat.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes that's two copies of the same box of tzeench horrors acquired via the corrupting influence of six attempted visits to the b&b. The dunmeshi mousemat will go nicely with the stickers already on my laptop. Imi's just finished Obra Dinn, and Micromacro is the closest to a paper version of that.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I will be running Tool Team at 7pm on Friday (tomorrow!!)
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
*handshake meme* Me --> [Excited about seeing Adrian] <-- Rocky Hailmary
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
...also, this month's System Shop bonusode went unsung, by which I mean, I forgot to herald it. It's a good un, though! open.spotify.com/episode/35xn...
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Bonus Episode: Violet's Conpulsion Con-trived Title
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
@ilgingell.bsky.social and I will be wandering the halls of UK Games Expo next week! Spot us, as usual, in our white JourneyMon t-shirts! I'm also hopefully going to run at least one demo of severalseals.itch.io/tool-team - more details to follow...
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Tool Team by SeveralSeals
A wormhole-hopping inventory management TTRPG
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I'm having a pretty awful time right now, but my Amaryllis flowered yesterday and it's reminding me that there's still good in this world, Mr Frodo.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Afflicted by an amnestic framing device, our only hope of salvation is that one paragraph on page 4 of your favourite RPG.... whatever one of those is. open.spotify.com/episode/7jaK...
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Episode 12: What is a Roleplaying Game?
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Featuring, among others: - Tournament Arc by @spitemoth.bsky.social and @plumtreechloe.bsky.social - @keith-baker.com's Phoenix: Dawn Command - more raving about the emergent Elf psychology of @uncannydice.bsky.social's inhuman game jam.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Plus, I discuss seven games I played, two games I ran, and one I designed (!) at this year's Contingency! open.spotify.com/episode/5JzX...
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Bonus Episode: Freya's Contingency Con-Return
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Iiiit's time for two slightly belated episode announcements! First up, Violet and returning guest Roz talk about making hunger mechanics feel meaty, in Worlds (plural) of Darkness and more: open.spotify.com/episode/2YNY...
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Episode 11: Hunger feat. Roz Leahy
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Just in time for a big sale on drivethrurpg! I'm gonna buy and immediately misplace the contents of my wishlist 👌
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I am back from Contigency 2026, and full of love for Friends and Games. Mostly, I'm full of shitposts about the impossibly complicated Elf Game we made for @uncannydice.bsky.social's inhuman game jam. Which included a design phase where we just. Went outside and sketched trees to study their vibes.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Well well well! 💖
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Imi and I are currently listening to the audiobook! We have been enjoying mimicking Ana's voice to praise and/or chastise one another for ordinary household tasks.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If you know me, you'll probably have heard me rant about Tchaikovsky's flagship bugworld series. They're all here! All ten of them! And also some mammalworld if that's your thing I guess.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It's the final sprint! Let's gooo 🏃‍♀️
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
@ilgingell.bsky.social joins me and Violet to talk about bringing monster training to the tabletop, discussing existing games in the space and how JourneyMon tackles the design puzzles of the genre! We even dig up a monster catching TTRPG that predates Pokémon... open.spotify.com/episode/2VLl...
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Episode 10: Monster Taming feat. Imogen Gingell
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Differing seasons and month names etc can be flavourful, but giving your story "months" and "years" of a different length to the real world equivalents is always a massive headache and never worth the confusion imo!
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Also the most stackable component is the camels from Camel Up, but that might be cheating because that's what you're meant to do with them.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
A fun listen! I'm delighted to hear you guys reach for "magical girl" as an example genre, because I have been (affectionately) bullied for always using it as my go-to genre in discussions 😜
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
(W)hat is (t)hat? 🎩
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Oh hey that's me! You may be wondering about the photo. You see, I was mimicking a mimic.
Freya and a chimerical sculpture stand in an alpine field, both alike in dignity.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
JourneyMon is live on kickstarter now! Imi has been working hard on it for many actual years, and even your humble Freya has been working... soft(??) on it, too!
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
One small advantage of the curse of changing clocks is that the playtest & discussion ran for five hours and ended well after midnight, so I'm glad for the extra hour's sleep.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Got some delicious feedback from the first playtest of my current project: "this is 170% of a game and now you need to focus it in" and "this dice system wouldn't work in any other context but it's perfectly on-theme here".
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Imogen Gingell @ilgingell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm excited to announce the Kickstarter campaign for JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying will go live on October 28th, in just 3 weeks from today. The big day is nearly upon us! Are you ready for your next #ttrpg journey? Follow the campaign here: kickstarter.journeymonrpg.com
Banner for the JourneyMon: Monster Trainer roleplaying game, showing a girl playing a guide with her flaming axolotl monster, and a copy of the JourneyMon hardcover book. The image reveals the launch date for the Kickstarter campaign: 28th October.
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Freya @severalseals.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trapped in a vault deep beneath the earth, RIP
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