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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 18/09/2026

Systems: Monolith 2e Mothership Delta Green Forbidden Lands Adventures: VR Dead Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays The Screaming on the Alexis Derelict on Arrival

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Compose Dream Games @joshuakitz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Last couple days of our #ttrpg store in the Byward Market! Appreciate all who have come out, and all who helped make it possible. This afternoon they'll be a bunch of RPG designers, writers and publishers networking and talking pitching games. See you round.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 27/08/2026

Imagine trying to rename a lake that’s had the name longer than your country has existed.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 25/08/2026

wake up bb, a new ttrpg campaign setting just landed in my spam thanks patrick!

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 20/08/2026

Stopped in to visit @joshuakitz.bsky.social’s pop-up in downtown Ottawa today. It’s open through the rest of August. I’m chuffed to see my projects alongside some local greats.

Downtown Byward Market, two white shipping containers are stacked on top of one another. The bottom container has glass walls, with “Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace” decals. Inside is full of brightly coloured TTRPG books on display from Canada and abroad.

A wooden bookcase, signed “Local Designer” and a collection of TTRPG products sit colourfully on the shelves. Left to right, top to bottom: Rated R for Raccoon, Simple Superheroes, Noir World, Palanquin, Torq, Widdershins, Emergence, Burying Grounds on Pavel Theta, The Flora on Acyx, Fabrication, Sig: City of Blades, Sig: Manual of the Primes, After the War, Dirtbags!, Big Dog Big Volcano, Here We Used to Fly, The Hourglass Sings, Monsters Unleashed, Sock Puppets, Once More Into The Void, Humblewood Tales, Clockwork and Claws, High Plains Samurai.

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Geoff Gander @geoffgander.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Keep hating AI. We can stop this.

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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

REACHER rolled LIBRARY USE (55%). resultis=44. REACHER succeeds!

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 14/08/2026

My age of bronze is collapsing. (I’m turning 40 tomorrow 😨)

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Robin M. Rondel @sadslut.club · 11/08/2026

— — YOU CAN PRY THE EM-DASH FROM OUR COLD DEAD HANDS — — — — GET YOUR 100% HUMAN EM-DASHES BADGE FOR FREE ON MY ITCH, LICENSED CC-BY-SA 4.0 — — — — SHOUTOUT @pestoenthusiast.bsky.social FOR BEING FULL OF SPITE — — — — MADE BY A LOUD TRANS SCOTTISH WOMAN — —

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100% Human Em-Dashes Badge by Robin M. Rondel

You can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead, human hands!

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 06/08/2026

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Luke Gearing @lukegearing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

a machine that promises to contain everything but in fact contains nothing. a box that promises to contain one thing but in so doing contains everything

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 31/07/2026

Turns out that 5e Neopets RPG was just too early?

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 31/07/2026

I’m so excited to make attacks of opportunity on sith lords when they move 5 feet away from me

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Compose Dream Games @joshuakitz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hi Bsky, it's my birthday! A great present is for fine folks like you to leave reviews of RPG books on the marketplace I run. composedreamgames.com/marketplace/ (Canada) or composedreamgames.co.uk (UK) You can also share your review here. Both I and our 80+ publishers would appreciate it!

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CDG Marketplace

Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 29/07/2026

They can take the rule of three, em-dashes, and semi-colons from my cold, dead hands.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 28/07/2026

Another newsletter I subscribe to has switched away from Substack. You love to see it.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 22/07/2026

I *love* it when rooms on a map link to the pages they’re described on. I found that especially tricky to implement but it was rewarding once I figured it out.

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Personable | Markus @personable.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New blog post, in which I review the really cool Eco-Mofos!! personable.blog/qlbb-eco-mofos

personable.blog

A Quick Look at a Big Book: Eco Mofos!!

A reading informed review of Eco Mofos!!

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 11/07/2026

I hope in a few days seeing that others feel the same will give me hope. But today, I am so tired.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 26/06/2026

You’ve cabbed your last death, cutie.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 26/06/2026

This site was a fantastic resource when I was shipping my most recent project. Great (domestic!) alternatives.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 26/06/2026

Summer on the surface, and summer underground, but all my #Mothership modules are on sale at both Itch and RPG Trader itch.io/s/189486/sum... rpg-trader.com/products/342...

Three modules for Mothership. The booklet Emergence, and two pamphlets: The Flora on Acyx and Burying Grounds on Pavel Theta

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 25/06/2026

Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

The NDHQ Carling in Ottawa. An aerial photo of the campus amongst greenspace. It’s a collection of connected buildings, formerly the HQ of Nortel Networks until they went bankrupt. Now it’s used by national defence.

It was allegedly full of bugs and wires from international industrial espionage that helped kill Nortel, but DND said they didn’t find any…

The building’s surrounding greenspace is full of Canada Geese nests. They aggressively attack anyone nearby. I wish I was making this up.

Ottawa has backrooms full of ‘90s-era Chinese surveillance tech, surrounded by cobra chickens. The RPG setting writes itself.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 22/06/2026

Huh. I guess Backrooms is the last A24 flick I’ll be (paying) to see.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 18/06/2026

When is the game jam to design each room?

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 10/06/2026

I’ve looked into trying to make the print-on-demand format work at @rpg-trader.bsky.social for my mid-sized booklet module, but I can’t get the economics to work out. Lulu (their printer) isn’t a spot I’ve used before. It looks like it’s meant for much larger, perfect bound titles.

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Chris Airiau @chrisair.itch.io · 09/06/2026

I made the RPG Trader 20% off launch sale! Good time to grab Not Enough Scoundrels, my space trucker & smuggler supplement for Mothership RPG

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Not Enough Scoundrels on RPG Trader

For Mothership RPG, a guide to running space truckers, smugglers, and the spaceships they live and die by.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 09/06/2026

The newest TTRPG marketplace, @rpg-trader.bsky.social, is now live! As part of the launch celebration, pick up all three of my Mothership modules in a discounted bundle, now through the rest of June.

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SSTO Module Pack on RPG Trader

All three of my releases in a discounted bundle

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Green Moon Games @greenmoongames.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Hi Bluesky! To celebrate the launch of @rpg-trader.bsky.social, I'm offering my entire collection for just $22.40! This week only! It's definitely worth taking a look 👽 rpg-trader.com/products/342...

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Mothership Bundle on RPG Trader

Get all my publications for Mothership!

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 09/06/2026

The newest TTRPG marketplace, @rpg-trader.bsky.social, is now live! As part of the launch celebration, pick up all three of my Mothership modules in a discounted bundle, now through the rest of June.

rpg-trader.com

SSTO Module Pack on RPG Trader

All three of my releases in a discounted bundle

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 04/06/2026

I joined in! My adventures are part of the launch sale on @rpg-trader.bsky.social. It was definitely the easiest to set up of the marketplaces I’ve joined. I like that I can use a GIF for shop logo.

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Single Stage to Orbit Press on RPG Trader

I make TTRPG adventures, especially for Mothership.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 03/06/2026

I've been digging through the whole Organ Failure sister zine to Flatline on the Blocks, and that adventure is a banger. The whole zine is a trip. I can't wait to bring this to a table.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 01/06/2026

41% of 2026 is over. So far, I’ve had 49 ttrpg sessions. Some stats: - I gm’d 20% - 47% in 1 of 5 campaigns - 30% at 1 of 3 conventions - 19 systems - Most frequent: Mothership (20%), Forbidden Lands (16%), Classic Traveller (12%) - 10 systems played once I’d love to reach 100 sessions by year-end!

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 01/06/2026

Wait so they added drafts but didn’t add autosave? Umm?

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 28/05/2026

It ruled and looped at the most dramatic moment entirely by chance.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 21/05/2026

The company that hired the Pinkertons doesn’t like unions? No way! No one could have predicted this.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 21/05/2026

Sometimes I wonder if knowing the opt+shift+- em-dash shortcut—or even opt+[ and opt+shift+[ for smart quotes—means my writing is suspect. I took the time to memorize these special characters; I hate that the enemy is using my tools. wil.to/posts/llemda...

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LLemdashes

It was only a matter of time before I caught a stray — you know, considering.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 18/05/2026

I attended the Can Games TTRPG convention this past weekend, and as soon as an LLM generated portrait was put down on the table, I began to wonder if any of the session was created without AI. Totally took me out of the experience. I really hope they update con rules. www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 15/05/2026

Bop it Twist it Pull it Spin it Flick it Shake it

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 14/05/2026

Catching up on yesterday's Eurovision. While I'd a change to the attendee list, I also can't help but watch. Lithuania was a *big surprise.* A character at home in the new Dune movies.

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 12/05/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played (or run)! Fallout 2d20 Forbidden Lands Mothership Classic Traveller

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 07/05/2026

“You merely adopted the dark.”

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Carson ⧊ SSTO Press @ssto.press · 02/05/2026

Reading Roach Motel by @norgad.bsky.social tonight. Page 3: huh Page 4: oh shit Page 5: oh fuck Page 9: daaaaaaaamn My players are going to hate this 😈

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Michæl Hudson @hexshaped.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I miss replyall's yes yes no segment. Is anyone doing that or something similar in podcasting? Someone should.

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