iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 24/09/2026

The book is fine, but tech broligarchy have run with it. A company I worked for started promoting “systems thinkers” as the go-to term after growth and fixed mindset was shown to be a farce.

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Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 24/09/2026

The last bit of the screenshots there is just cargo culting Donella Meadow’s “Thinking In Systems” book, too.

Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo 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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Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 15/09/2026

It’s the kind of stuff they constantly hear in their echo chamber. (The echo chamber is the inside of their own ass.)

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

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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 ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 27/08/2026

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

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

*Rotring enters the pencil cage match*

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Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo 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 ⧊ SSTOh nooo 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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Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 19/08/2026

Ya, but they have to live in the US. Pros and cons, you know?

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

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Keep hating AI. We can stop this.

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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

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

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

Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 12/08/2026

For sure. It’ll be exceptionally deadly with 2 and 3 max wounds. I’m thinking this could play nicely with a game focused on heavy weapons.

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

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Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 07/08/2026

Show me a reddit screenshot without telling me it’s a reddit screenshot.

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

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

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

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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 ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 31/07/2026

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

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

If not munch-able then why munch shaped?

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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!

composedreamgames.com

CDG Marketplace

Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace

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Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo 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 ⧊ SSTOh nooo 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 ⧊ SSTOh nooo 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.

Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 20/07/2026

I think the damage die steps up to d8 I’m also worried about my impending 1d10 damage

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

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

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

A reading informed review of Eco Mofos!!

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Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo 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.

Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 30/06/2026

Once I started using tabular numbers in lists and tables, I started missing their absence in all kinds of published work. Feels like forbidden knowledge.

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

You’ve cabbed your last death, cutie.

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

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

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

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

Carson ⧊ SSTOh nooo Press @ssto.press · 20/06/2026

I would love to collab with you again on a future project!

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

When is the game jam to design each room?

I’m happy with the filters, page layout, and other store features at RPG Trader. I think larger rulebooks could be a great fit for POD, but the booklets and pamphlets from Mothership’s giant third-party community aren’t compatible with the POD options there right now.

Escape the Henkō Acquisitions Correctional Complex before the prison and its inhabitants destabilize.

I keep a list of those shops on the Itch page, as well as new RPG Trader listing. DriveThruRPG doesn’t allow external links, and I’ve not yet put my newer stuff there. rpg-trader.com/products/150...

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Emergence on RPG Trader

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Unfortunately, Lulu’s print cost is high enough that the margin on selling it (with PDFs) would have a lower margin than the digital-only version. Even with a compromised print quality. If you want this kind of module from me, the online retailers kind enough to list my work are still the best bet.

Emergence is a 32-page saddle stitched booklet, and I put some work into the layout to give @chaoclypse.bsky.social’s amazing illustrations the room they needed for maximum impact. So the book is quite colourful. The official print version sells for US$20, I think POD should be less.

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