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Yanahn

@yanahn.bsky.social
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Hi there! I am Yanahn (or Kristen) - Malaysian RPG designer & artist in the UK - the whalefall dungeon (or whungeon) zine is PUBLISHED - see new pinned post (system adaptation doc is pending) My tabletop work can be found at yanahn.itch.io

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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finally holding the award in person with @ginkgogoes.bsky.social. 🎣 #gamedev
Photo showing Carol and Arthur holding the indie groundbreaker award.Photo of the indie groundbreaker awards (best art) for May You Fish in Interesting Times.
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Worked so hard on PTM that I kimd of forgot to make any money in rpgs this month so if any of you want to.... www.patreon.com/TwelvePinsPr...
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Laurie O'Connel — slow-release storygames
Get more from Laurie O'Connel on Patreon. slow-release storygames. Support Laurie O'Connel and get exclusive access to their work.
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
a solo memory game I initially made for an exhibition about medieval life. It never made it into the actual exhibition due to practical concerns (a custom card deck just wasn't going to work) but at least I can share it here. www.patreon.com/posts/170660...
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The Herbalist's Garden: A Repurposed Game for Historic Learning | Laurie O'Connel
Many months ago, I worked on an exhibition at the Bonington Gallery in Nottingham entitled "Weird Hope Engines." The exhibition was about r
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“If we interpret a 'traditional' GM’s authority over storytelling as being similar to that of a Rakugoka to their 'banashi', then perhaps we can consider the traditional Rakugoka’s structured training in empathy to be a useful lens through which to understand safety in TTRPGs.”
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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Doodled a logo for my "business". #NoAI
Logo for W.H. Arthur RPG, with the "A" of Arthur being a seagull.
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Even before tori emailed offering to produce a piece for the magazine, I had already envisioned their art on the cover. I just knew it would be perfect for the magazine. If I could have only them do the covers forever, I would. They have a project on at the moment so take a look at their profile.
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New article by @nsorvis.bsky.social Theatre is an art of re-presentation, of displaying a world... for a spectator; RPGs are about inhabiting one. By disentangling the way the two forms are like and unlike, we can expand the horizons of possibility for both." playtestmaterial.org/spectating-p...
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Spectating Play: Theatre, RPGs, and Critical Spectatorship
Nicholas Orvis discusses the links between theatre and role-playing; what it means to perform and to watch others performing.
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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Woke up today and thought that more people should know about Hamlet: A one-letter RPG. 🅱️ aryl-ether.itch.io/hamlet
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Hamlet: A one-letter RPG by W.H. Arthur
One-letter Business Card RPG
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thank you all so much for such an impressive subscription drive so far! We are at 49/75 subs: Nearly two thirds of the way to what we need, and we've more than quadrupled our original subcriber base in less than 24 hours.
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...
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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive
Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I spent a long time thinking through the best way to write this editorial. I think that what I landed on *is* worth your reading time, at least, and would be grateful to hear if anything resonated with you.
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Burhan @burhanplays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Love the art style in Metronomik's games. I'm happy they're still going with this Double Fine-esque look.
Screenshot from Ondeh Ondeh showing a gigantic man smiling.Screenshot from Ondeh Ondeh showing a big muscular man giving the main character a bowl of food.Gameplay screenshot of Ondeh Ondeh.Vista screenshot of Ondeh Ondeh showing a beach level.
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 08/09/2026
raichu bangin out the tunes (2024)
2024 limited color commission of a raichu playing a modular synth. behind him are stereos amps and speakers, to his right a gameboy running LSDJ
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's Solo September, and Play Play Asia is running a Solo Journaling Game Workshop this weekend, using What Should We Have Tomorrow? Unfortunately I won't be there this weekend, but you should give it a try and come check out the store too :) Sign ups here: forms.gle/xa8J9T4WHjzA...
Poster for Solo Journaling Game Workshop at Play Play Asia in GMBB KL this Saturay 12 September 2026, 2-5 pm, RM50 per person.Photo of the book for What Should We Have Tomorrow? along with some card decks, sticker sheets, and washi tape.
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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today, we played CONVICT-ION at The Arcanist's Tavern. 🦋 Our characters investigated a cult in the prison, got into a cage fight, and had a group therapy session with a creepy therapist. 🧑🏻‍⚕️ The photo also depicts a working Chinese translation of the game. 👀 #belongingoutsidebelonging
Photo of two copies of CONVICT-ION depicting the full butterfly from the front and back cover. The butterfly wings have the colours of four different gender identity pride flags. There is also a bag of rune stones as tokens for the game, and copies of the working Chinese translation of the game.
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our next first look into the pages of Playtest Material 1 is from Benjamin Klug ( @silkandstone.itch.io ). Mimesis and diegesis may be fairly trod ground, but Klug takes us back to their classical routes and argues for the pursuite of a linguistic turn in RPGs. playtestmaterial.org/polyhedral-d...
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Polyhedral Diegesis: Mimicry, Narration, and the Linguistic Turn in TTRPGs
Benjamin Klug writes about classical concepts of mimesis and diegesis, applying them to analyse the language games played during a TTRPG.
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vintage @vintagecoroika.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
meet your fate without fear #ffxiv #ff14
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
hello proofreaders, early readers and artists. We are putting the final touches on issue one in the next two weeks. If anybody would like to spare some time to proofread or early read a few articles, or provide an editorial illustration, we are looking for volunteers. Please get in touch!
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Playtest Material has relaunched our website and is now open for subscriptions! You can: 1) Sign up to our FREE digital tier to receive the magazine. 2) Join as a print subscriber to get the mag sent to you each quarter. 3) Join as a supporter for comment access and perks. playtestmaterial.org
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Playtest Material
publishing critical writing about roleplaying games
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Dr. Fount - Comms Open 🏳️‍🌈 🔞🍵🧙 @fountscribbles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I can't believe the bear Ozempic epidemic hit the Eight Immortals and now Zhongli Quan is a twunk. #八仙 #allwishescometrue #宾权 #钟离权 #watercolour
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Fenrishion || MSQ SG B33 || MCM UK @fenrishion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
YOUR COUNTRY CAN ONLY BE 69 YEARS OLD ONCE HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY MALAYSIA I LOVE YOU...
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Kaden 🥩 Stranger Still - Out Now!🥩 @kadenramstack.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#KadenPlayed 158 Tower of Art #SoloTTRPG by @yanahn.bsky.social You are an artist, lost within the Tower, a place between places, an ever changing, ever moving, surrealist landscape of Dreams and Art. Find out why you are here and find out how you can escape. yanahn.itch.io/tower-of-art
Tower of Art by Yanahn Instruments: Deck of Cards, Token, 1d6
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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'll be at the Rose Tinted Spectacular Zine Fair in Newhaven this Sunday (30th August)! ✨✨✨ Come visit us at the Sidings if you're in the area! 📚
Poster for Rose Tinted Spectacular Zine Fair. Newhaven Sidings 12-5pm 30/8/2026
Graphic of the poster shows a person with an upper body of a human in pink hair and glasses, and a lower body of octopus with tentacles. They are holding a pen and a book.
The words "Optimism! Solidarity! Zines!" are displayed at the bottom of the poster.
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tor-in-the-mud @toothandshore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
new design log on tumblr! talking about how and why i designed a card-driven mudlarking simulation system, and the concept of getting your eye in www.tumblr.com/toothandshor...
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Kraldum design log: how do you make a tabletop mudlarking simulator? · Hello! This is the second instalment of my design notes as I work on Kraldum, my solo mudlarking RPG. You can…
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Montford Tales @montfordtales.com · 26/08/2026
Asher's Ridge has made it into IPR's "What's Hot!" List 🔥 It's making its first convention debut in the United States at PAX West next weekend. Go find it at IPR's booth (4104, Summit Hall) and take a pic for me! 😄 Channel some Twin Peaks vibes for me while you're there, too 📺
A hardcover copy of Asher's Ridge on a leaf-strewn wooden floor. "A paranormal drama TTRPG" is spelled out next to it in letter tiles. A screenshot of the What's Hot list from Indie Press Revolution's website. Asher's Ridge is #2 (but note the list is organised alphabetically.)
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Peregrine Coast Press @shop.peregrinecoast.press · 26/08/2026
Full Send is a game about mountaineering for three-to-five players. Part freeform slice-of-life and part tactical sports RPG, play to find out if make your name as a climbing legend, or die trying. peregrinecoast.press/products/ful...
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kej ✨✨✨ @kejart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
for @inesvisual.bsky.social who is the biggest white rabbit enthusiast ✨
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Tickson B. Head ♿ [comm slots: 4] @tickyhead.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sammy had to take another trip to the vet today (he should be ok soon, he's on antibiotics now after a potential fight w/ a stray) and I'm DEEP in the red on bills. If anyone could spare a few $$ or a 🔄 we'd both be grateful. PP: tickyhead(at)gmail.com ven: @tickyhead Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tickyhead
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Get on the bus, it's Playtest Zero time again next week! For our SEA-friendly session, join us next Tuesday, 25 August at 8 pm (GMT+8) over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)
Photo of a bus with the destination sign display saying "NO? ?? ???????"
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tor-in-the-mud @toothandshore.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I am so excited to share the preview for KRALDUM, my solo mudlarking RPG coming this autumn to Gamefound for RPG Party 2026. lots, lots more to come, but you can read a bit about the project here and click follow to see how it develops. I'd appreciate it grandly! gamefound.com/en/projects/...
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Kraldum: Solo Fantasy Mudlarking RPG by tooth & shore - Gamefound
Go down to the shore below the city. Collect what you can. Survive what lurks there and beat the rising waters to make it home.
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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 17/08/2026
Head down as I work on the illustrations for PONDUS. (idk why i always save illustrations for last, it's the part that always gives me most pause as I'm a slow artist and don't wanna redo anything) THE MAP is a big focus in pondus. It's backdrop. it's the table. It's revealed as you play.
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lalage @lalage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
tears actually welled up in my eyes when i was thinking of ardert and seto.. ilu shadowbringers....... thanks to @/connietarte for the template
a diagram of ff14 expansions on the left and my favorite characters / moments from each drawn on the right.. moenbryda, haurchefant and ysayle, zenos, ardbert and seto, venat, and the cornservant
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Yanahn @yanahn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bluesky is acting up, but I will be at Norwich Games Con this Saturday (22nd August) Come find me at the 12 Pins Press stand with @laurieoc.bsky.social next to Rat Wave Game House @ratwave.uk We have lots of cool #ttrpgs and zines!!
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Robin Charm Password @rondoofblood.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this is my brand new wonderful son zip file he is 15.94KB
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W.H. Arthur RPG @wharthur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'll be at Norwich Games Con this Saturday! (22 August) 🎲 Come check out the convention at the Norfolk Showground if you're around the area! 🎣 Get your tickets here: www.norwichgames.uk
Image showing the cover of May You Fish in Interesting Times. The border shows the logo of Norwich Games Con and W.H. Arthur RPG.
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UnfamiliarArts @unfamiliararts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It’s that time again! I have another shop update coming! This time on August 28th. I’ll have a lot of new pieces ready including this little forest dragon.
A photo of a small ceramic dragon. It has a long body, is painted with leafy designs. And has a pale green glaze.
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Only available in print: The Rat Line is a new solo roleplaying game by Laurie O'Connel. Using a pack of playing cards and your own wits, play as an investigative reporter looking into the secret rat-line of arms operated by the CIA and MI6 during the Syrian Civil War (2012-15).
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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ah man, they're doing a huge museum exhibit about Chinese single-player games in Shanghai! Look at that giant wall of games the West knows nothing about! How I wish I could visit! D: Only issue is that it's a political statement as well, since many (if not most) of those games are from Taiwan...
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Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It's the very final Widdershins Wednesday..! all's well that ends well. www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august... #comics #webcomics
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dee 方传嫣 @hellenus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
there was a typo in the earlier poster so I'm just sharing again lmao
Poster for Malaysian games panel with Aaron Lim (TTRPGs), Sophie Azlan (video games), Poon Jon (board games)
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Lovely interview just went up :) I really enjoyed this one!
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Paco GMS Magazine @pacogmsmagazine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Interview with @laurieoc.bsky.social about Full Send, To Honor and Obey and a lot more! www.gmsmagazine.com/podcast-inte...
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Podcast Interview: Twelve Pins Press with Laurie O'Connel - GMS Magazine
Twelve Pins Press is a small indie publisher run by Laurie O'Connel with a terrific bunch of games, one of the most recent ones being Full Send, a game about mountaineering for three-to-five players.
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Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New! Asher's Ridge is a GM-less zero-prep RPG of paranormal drama television for 1 to 4 players. www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you're in KL this weekend, come to the grand opening of Play Play Asia! Play Play Asia is a tabletop game store focusing on Asian games, where I work heh. We are open every day from 11 am - 8 pm, and we're located at shop GM1-13 on Level 1 at GMBB KL in Bukit Bintang.
Poster for the opening weekend promotion for Play Play Asia on 15-16 August 2026, a tabletop games store at GMBB in KL (GM1-13, Level 1).
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FinleyJinley (they/he) ╰⁠(⁠ ⁠・⁠ ⁠ᗜ⁠ ⁠・⁠ ⁠)⁠➝ AdventureX @finleyjinley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i did it!! ٩(。•́‿•̀。)۶ Woe, a 1 page game be upon thee finley-jinley.itch.io/old-friend-u...
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Old friend, Unfamiliar face by FinleyJinley
A solo game about talking to something pretending to be your friend.
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Laurie O'Connel (is looking for ttrpg work (in Dublin)) @laurieoc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Rat Line is a new game coming out in August 2026 (that's this month!)
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today, it's hard to fully appreciate the fact that each manuscript in pre-modern Europe was written, decorated, and bound entirely by hand—the result of painstaking, collaborative labor by numerous talented artisans.
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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hello we have a pop-up table at Tsutaya Books Bukit Jalil showcasing and selling RPGs and accessories from a group of local designers and creatives. The Imaginary Friends exhibition runs from 4 August - 1 September 2026, featuring: me, @munkao.bsky.social, @najmizes.bsky.social, & Nightshade Tavern.
Table displaying a bunch of tabletop RPGs and accessories for sale at a bookstore.Display of a journal and sticker set for What Should We Have Tomorrow?Table displaying a bunch of tabletop RPGs and accessories for sale at a bookstore.Display of a map, character sheet, pencils and dice.
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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Arco currently on Steam sale. Afaik it did not sell super well, and this is a shame because it is gorgeous, sincere, and a super interesting rpg to boot. store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
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Save 60% on Arco on Steam
A Mesoamerican fantasy RPG that blends turn-based and real-time combat. Explore the world through three handcrafted stories forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge.
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