Reposted by Swordfish IslandsRoger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't know if this is a direct inspiration - it lacks the "beating you half to death" step - but it's certainly a fine example of the old nat-20 on Intimidation. from Lord Dunsany, The Hoard of the Gibbelins (1912) 2271
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Obviously I’m biased, but I think he’s really outdone himself on this one! :) 030
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New system neutral micro setting I did with Alex of Beyond the Borderlands launching soon on Kickstarter. Follow along! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pan... 1196
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsLone Archivist @lonearchivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bookings now open for logo / brand design, editorial layout, crowdfunding graphics, and more! Hit the CONTACT button on lonearchivist.com. 07028
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A system neutral RPG Micro-Setting. Coming Soon. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pan...kickstarter.comComing soon: Echoes of MnarethA System Neutral RPG Micro-Setting 0101
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Elsewhere someone said: “A level 1 character is probably an adult with a profession…” I don’t think that’s true. If you have a profession, you’re part of society. Maybe you had one, but it’s all 17 year olds, bastards and 6th sons, etc. Or that’s what happened on earth, why would fantasy differ? 011
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsDr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Going to open up a chippy called The Chip of Theseus. Every week I replace one item on the menu with something slightly different – halloumi bites for mozzarella bites, etc. – until you're not sure whether we really still serve the same food we did last year 510327
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 25/07/2026You think it’s pirates. And I mean, it is, but it’s Planescape. 060
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Making gods is like making conlangs. I mean, yeah, you can do it, but it’s always better if the idea’s been chewed in by hundreds of generations of humans. 020
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Counter Point: more campaigns need to use ancient earth pantheons directly so Bropollo can give your ladies snake hair when they spurn his advances. No one ever remembers his plague arrows either. Or the PCs can go quest for Brosiris’s chopped off weenie or whatevs. We forget their weirdness. 140
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsTabletop Sentinel @tabletopsentinel.com · 24/06/2026Marlo's Mire packs 12 points of interest, an extradimensional palace and a sixty-foot albino crocodile into 10.5 square miles. Swordfish Press's Shipwrecked in the Swordfish Islands is system-neutral, with a 1-hour quickstart, out now. #rpgs #rpgPdfSpotlight #osr l.d20.ninja/TBNHD6 032
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsCassandra Nine-Toes @acassdarkly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Well well, look what has shown up on my doorstep after four years… 0131
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsAngus Abranson @angusabranson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026(RPG PDF Spotlight) Shipwrecked in the Swordfish Islands is a system neutral sandbox and RPG toolkit built around Marlo’s Mire. This 10.5 square mile island is thick with danger, 12 points of interest, 7 mapped locations, and an interwoven network of NPCs. angusabranson.com/2026/06/19/r...angusabranson.com(RPG PDF Spotlight) Shipwrecked in the Swordfish IslandsShipwrecked in the Swordfish Islands OSR Setting by Swordfish Islands The timbers of the mighty ship squeal in futile protest as the drowned peaks of ancient mountains split her oaken belly. Desper… 111
Reposted by Swordfish Islands𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Came across these little goobers and I adore them. They're replicas of misericord carvings from the Lincoln Cathedral in England 391687418
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsZac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Pictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door. 1604419941
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsJez Gordon @jezgordon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Holy shit check out this ent! 2213
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The world always needs more rock operas. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qatn... 010
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Hi Jeff, what’s this announcement based on? AFAIK they don’t have the rights to do a reprint. 110
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The new island in the Swedish Islands archipelago is making it into people’s hands. People say it’s pretty, and feedback on the main NPC calls her “a hyper-competent NPC that rides that morally gray line while still having a lot of personality.” 070
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsGoblin Archives @goblinarchives.itch.io · 14/06/2026I guess everything makes it's way back to The Thing. Using the dramatis personae from the script as a template for the 70+ NPCs I'm writing for Nemesis. (I keep a notes app on the phone to scrawl down ideas and then transfer them to the manuscript). Also using Traveller 08: Prison Planet for inspo 1195
Reposted by Swordfish Islands𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I love when people do exercises like this with OD&D. Be it just monsters or a whole campaign.The variance around a common ruleset interests me & I delight twists of the well known. OD&D by its nature is an excellence clay. 1172
Reposted by Swordfish IslandsStephen King’s KAYLEIGH @ronchronchronch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026This is also canon, as far as I’m concerned 28118
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Those bowls are so beautiful and such a good idea. 030
Reposted by Swordfish Islands𝖂.𝕯. @icastlight.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Feel like expensive chalk would be a way a MU could lay magic traps or wards- each stick could cover a 10ft area. 121
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Now *that* is an infectious idea. Salt “chalk” sticks to keep demons at bay. Elemental chalk Luminous chalk Oof 010
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I legit thought about responding to my own post with “hmm I’d want some chalk” 100
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Today I learned there’s a band called Mac Sabbath. 130
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 12/04/2026This is a quartz torch. Search for some videos. Crystal dragons should be next level terrifying. 030
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I had not realized that you can make handouts from Scriptorium. Been watching this a while and very excited. 020
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I can just hear the painter muttering to himself: “the head of a dog? The head of HIS dog? Oh come on. Head of his dog. If he comes back in here one more time and says ‘make it pop,’ I quit.” 1268
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026The world really missed out on Peter Klúcik’s fat little Bilbo. 030
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I put pages like this in my RPG books because I love and appreciate you. 160
Swordfish Islands @swordfishpress.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Update your blogs people! illustrated-manuscript.vercel.appillustrated-manuscript.vercel.appIllustrated Manuscript 020
