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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Soldiering is the most common non-menial job across Erda. Between quelling revolts, guarding settlements and fighting in wars, Erda has no lack of demand for the services of soldiers. But why fight for someone else, when you can use your sword arm to carve out your own fortune in this wartorn world?

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE US GO THROUGH A SECOND ROUND OF APPROVAL FROM THE PUBLISHER RELATIONS TEAM!!!!! OKAY GIVE IT LIKE FOUR MORE DAYS BEFORE THE STORE PAGE IS BACK UP I GUESS LMAOOOOOOO

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Hello I would like to take some time today to tell people that there have been strange issues going on with TUSC: Mechanized Warfare's store listing on DriveThruRPG. For some reason, the file uploaded to the website keeps being taken off the listing, causing errors when people try to download it.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

We've just sent off our latest book, TUSC: Mechanized Warfare, to DriveThruRPG for their approval process. That'll actually take a couple days to get done, so I wanna spend that time to tell you what's inside this book and why you should buy it, because it's our best publication yet!

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

You can now purchase TUSC and its two major expansions in a discounted bundle on Itchio from the following link: swordnboard.itch.io/the-tusc-bun...

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Sword & Board Games' latest publication, TUSC: Mechanized Warfare is now available on DriveThruRPG and Itchio from the following links: swordnboard.itch.io/tusc-mechani... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Windlass @windlass.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The nomad who stepped up #art #sword&sorcery #bronzeage

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SJ Klapecki (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 24/01/2026

hello everyone, I am leaking EXCLUSIVE content from the TOP SECRET up and coming release from @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social as we go into the new year look at this lil fucker @zackonline.bsky.social did such a good job

A very small bipedal mech with two sets of cannons on the sides and two missile launchers. It is mid-run, with cartoon sweat-drops flying off of it as though it's doing the 'late running to school' trope

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

We here at Sword & Board Games would like to say that we're geared up to have an amazing 2026 and that we'd like to wish everyone a happy

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

We here at Sword & Board Games have spent a very long time working on the next expansion of TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine. We've achieved what we hope to be our new standard of production quality and visual presentation going forward. TUSC: Mechanized Warfare will be coming early 2026.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

We here at Sword & Board Games would like to remind you: 1) Yes! We do still exist! 2) Our next major release is going to be coming very soon! 3) 2026 is going to be a very busy year for our company. 4) We are in your walls.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Despite rumors to the contrary, we would like to remind everyone that the working conditions here at Sword & Board Games are perfectly humane according to games industry standards and the writer's room is only locked from the outside for Serena's own protection.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The 1.1 update for TUSC: Medieval Warfare is now available. It's a highly extensive update that adds new content to the expansion. Its the most expansive update TUSC has ever received. Download it from from the following links: swordnboard.itch.io/tusc-medieva... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

For transparency, none of our titles got deindexed or delisted from Itchio as far as I can tell. However, as a predominantly queer-operated and queer-owned game studio we're collectively quite shaken in our trust in Itch as a platform and are currently investigating pathways forward.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

[Wakes up, bleary-eyed, confused, dehydrated] Man, we picked the *worst* possible time to do this, huh?

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ZackONLINE 💀COMMISSIONS OPEN💀 @zackonline.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

WERE OFFICIALLY ITCHY!!! CHECK US OUT ON ITCH.IO

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We here at Sword & Board Games have a very special announcement: We launched an Itchio page that you can check out from this link. There's also a few cool things going on with this Itchio page that we would like to share! swordnboard.itch.io

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The Akshenim are a proud, ancient people, whose history stretches back tens of millions of years. They are physical manifestations of the magic which flows throughout all existence, wandering the stars in search of the Artifacts of Ruin aboard their arcanotek colony ships known as Dragon-Arks.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

During the Tetrarchy's Era of Unification, the Haagenti were the alchemically and cybernetically augmented shocktroops who formed the spearhead of the Army of Unification. Only operating alongside baseline soldiers in the most desperate of campaigns, they formed a highly insular and elitist mindset.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

It's Pride Month and our founder just used their share of last month's royalties to pay for their estrogen. If you've bought one of our games, know it's going to a good cause.

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SJ Klapecki (should be writing) @sjklapecki.itch.io · 16/04/2025

exciting times at the @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social group chat

Three Discord users

Forge Director Zachary: what the hell is a trauma doll

Tetrarchy's Strongest Soldier: oh right you're cishet

Salamander: oh yeah Zack isn't TRAAAAANS

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

An example warband created with a 1k points limit, featuring the titanic dragon Valathrax the Incorruptible, and his retinue of human, elven, and dwarven followers. This warband is going to feature in an upcoming Battle Report showcasing the rules for the Medieval Warfare expansion.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We already know what the next expansion for the TUSC Engine is gonna be, btw! I won't confirm anything yet but work has already begun on the actual mechanics of the expansion!

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

EVERYONE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! THE EXPANSION IS OUT!!!!! TUSC's first expansion, Medieval Warfare, is now available for purchase from the link below: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Bit of an addendum, the game is being delayed to be released the first week of April. Our DriveThruRPG publisher account remains 'unverified' because we've yet to publish enough materials to become verified, which means we need to wait to get personally verified by DTR's Publisher Relations team.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We here at Sword & Board Games are happy to announce that our first game is receiving it's first expansion, TUSC: Medieval Warfare. This supplement book adds an expanded roster of historical arms and armor, an expanded spell list, and rules for fielding truly titanic monsters like dragons.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

We've been dormant for a while. We can say with some certainty, we've been quiet because we've been making a few really cool things that we'll be very happy to share with you in the coming weeks.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

TUSC's gotten a fancy new logo drawn by our team's excellent art director, Zack Viola. @zackonline.bsky.social

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The Anvil Pattern Main Battle Tank is what's known as a Tomb Engine, a gargantuan vehicle kept in the armor columns of a Household's Haagenti Legion piloted not by a living crew, but by the quarter-living carcass of an undead Haagenti warrior.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The 1.1 update of the TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine rulebook has been released, which contains a small number of changes mostly geared toward further polishing the game and fixing known issues. Full patch notes below:

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The primary weapon of the Haagenti legions is the Radgun, a devastating anti-infantry weapon designed to agonizingly melt soft targets in a cone in front of the legionnaire with radioactive waves. Often deployed to brutally put down seditious demonstrations, a practice known as crowd clearance.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We'd like to hear from people who've played games of TUSC: The Universal Skirmish Combat Engine. What did you think of the game? If you haven't, what are your impressions from reading the rulebook? We're interested to hear what our players think of the game in its current state.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

WE'VE SOLD OVER 50 COPIES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The true strength of the Tetrarchy is in its legions of Haagenti terror troops. Prisoners, street scum, or those who exemplify a shocking eagerness to commit violence find themselves turned into hulking cybernetic monsters unleashed on human population centers to make an example of the rebellious.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Sword & Board Games' resident artist, @zackonline.bsky.social, has been deep in the concept art mines for our next game. We present: some guns and some goons.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

We've had a HUGE influx of players after our game made a cameo appearance in the most recent episode of @snipethesorrow.bsky.social & @wib.bsky.social's Codex Compliant series, we wanted to give a huge thank you to them for telling their fans about our game. We could not be more thankful.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Sword & Board Games' resident artist, @zackonline.bsky.social, has been deep in the concept art mines for our next game. We present: some guns and some goons.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

TUSC started development in 2022 as a solo project by Sword & Board Games' lead games designer. SJ Klapecki was brought onto the project in early 2024 once Sam Keshetovah began contemplating the idea of creating a sci-fi setting to attach TUSC to. Ultimately TUSC kept its setting agnosticism.

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Fun fact, before TUSC had the to-hit system it has today, you used to determine the to-hit value of an attack by comparing the weapon's strength to the opponent's toughness. The system was based off of Warcry and I liked it because it was simpler, but when we decided late into development to add...

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We're already deep in development of TUSC's first expansion. We're all really pleased to have heard literally nothing but good things about the game since it came out, and we're really excited to create and release expansion content for the game to give people even more options!

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Sword & Board Games @swordnboardstudios.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

The game's not been out a full week and it's already sold 12 copies. We're predicted to sell one tuscillion copies by the end of 2024.

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