sketchbook page photo with the drawing of an island underneath a floating stream of water with sea life inside.
This is Kirathia, originally illustrated for These Stars Will Guide you Home, an amazing solo journaling RPG by @albi13.bsky.social
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#indierpg #hexcrawl #solorpg #art
It's time for update 1 in The Words We Leave Behind zine quest campaign
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MAPPA MUNDI - AN EXPLORATION + ECOLOGY RPG IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!
For those with curious minds, adventurous spirits, and a desire to save a world and Do No Harm - Back us now on Kickstarter!
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It's only a few days until I hit launch on The Words We Leave Behind as part of Zine Quest 2025. The goal is £500 but what does that go towards?
In short the bits I can't do myself: editing, art and printing.
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If you are leaving Threads because of the recent moderation decision from Meta, here's a starter pack of amazing TTRPG creators, designers, and artists to get you started.
Enjoy and spread the word!
The Royal Cartographer by Albi. Zine Month 2022
4 = The Royal Cartographer by @albi13.bsky.social. I'm being a little selfish with a game I helped edit lol. This was the first map-labeling game I introduced my mostly-D&D table to, and they had a blast.
🍂 Our Autumn Sale kicks off this Wednesday! 🎉 Don’t miss amazing deals on games, tools, & more 🌟
PLUS: Creator Day returns this Friday—100% of your purchases go directly to creators! 💖
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A collection of 9 RPGs arranged in a 3x3 grid layout on an MDF stand
#Dragonmeet is fast approaching so here's a preview of just some of the games we'll have on the LunarShadow Designs / Ickbat Games stall in the lower trade hall, stand C6. Featuring work by @ickbat.bsky.social, @floaker.bsky.social, @ksandrarpg.bsky.social, @albi13.bsky.social and myself.
Oh so this is where all the cool kids went!
This year's #Zinequest, I am the translator for Red Borg, a Mork Borg #ttrpg about revolution against capitalist regimes (or any kind really of revolution really!) It launched today, have a look!
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🔥The Lost Bay RPG pre-launch page is live! 🔥
The Lost Bay RPG pre-launch page is live! The Lost Bay is a dark fantasy urban RPG set in alternate 90s In it you play young, wild, powerful characters, fighting their way through a weird, uncanny world
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Last year, as #dungeon23 was kicking off, I came up with a #worldbuilding alternative: draw a smaller dungeon in Jan, then in Feb re-draw it like 100 years had passed. This was the dungeon chronicle. I've made some tables to define events and spruced it up to a pamphlet.
These Stars Will Guide You Home by @albi13.bsky.social is a solo TTRPG about exploring an archipelago to find your new home and the epic poem about the voyage written a century later. Inspired by the Aeneid and the Odyssey and illustrated by #fersalvaterra. albi13.itch.io/these-stars-...
a picture of the These Stars Will Guide You Home zine (night sky background, with constellations, and a lonely orange ship sailing at the front, near a small island), along with the Atlas zine (night sky background, but in lighter tones, filled with constellations and the same boat and island). also, an island print depicting a star-filled night sky, some clouds and a lighthouse.
Once I came back from Dragonmeet, I found something awaiting me in my mail box 👀
@albi13.bsky.social's These Stars Will Guide You Home, along with a beautiful island print, which I'm hoping to play during the vacations!
I don't often post "teaser" images but this #solo #journaling #ttrpg system, if you can call it that, has been living rent free in my head for months... and it might be close to finally having a game come out?
Here's some OTHER folks to go get games from on Itch's creator day:
capacle.itch.io
paulczege.itch.io
luckynewtgames.itch.io
fari-rpgs.itch.io
hatchlingdm.itch.io
the-lost-bay.itch.io
chrishopper.itch.io
marx-of-high-water.itch.io
ttrpgkids.itch.io
Zine sale!! Get 10% off all my print zines through Monday using the discount code: SupportIndies
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So yeah, this was my first foray into journaling games. The feedback I got gave me the courage to make Superstition, which is in the creator day sale. itch.io/s/109688/bla...
It is super simple but I think that's why I like it so much - it gives the player so MUCH space with such a universal experience: losing stuff you care about. It also plays with themes of memory and hidden information which feature in all my games.
So I figured a good way to deal with all that was make a game. My Life In Cardboard has you write down your belongings on post-its, each representing a box in your move. Some are destroyed, some are lost. Some make it through the move.
I was thinking about all the things I'd left behind, and some that were destroyed in the move. Did they really matter that much? The rugby ball, the towel grandma gifted me, the table I built with my wife... the move had made large feelings that barel registered before.
I literally dreamt this game up - or rather, I was in that half-asleep state as my first child was only 10 months old and having trouble sleeping. We had just moved house too, so the feelings of packing everything up were fresh in my mind.
I have an itch creator day sale organized - my 3 Zinequest games will be on discount - but I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about my other games too. Dtarting with "My Life in Cardboard" because it was my first game, and possibly my favourite albi13.itch.io/my-life-in-c...
I've got a sale on for all my zinequest journaling games! itch.io/s/109688/bla...
hey does anyone want to interview me (podcast, article, blog, stream) about When Crowdfunding Fails? i think it's a really important thing that happens that we never really talk about (because of the hype cycle) and i would like to turn our recent experience into something useful.
@stoutstoatpress.bsky.social Wow... Just wow.
it is jaw-droppingly gorgeous and just opening the game gets me all excited to play and explore!
Marketing is difficult, so here goes: My two bigger #solo #journaling #ttrpg, Superstition and The Royal Cartographer, are both on sale for Halloween! 30% off becoming an atheist oracle or a beleaguered cartographer! itch.io/s/105843/sol...
Now that the physical copies are here and fulfilment has begun, I can finally promote These Stars Will Guide You Home, my Aeneid-inspired solo journaling game for Zinequest 2023 albi13.itch.io/these-stars-... ! #solo #journaling #ttrpg
The process seems linear enough, I wouldnt say that's too much choice! Lends itself well to scaling depending on how much you want to play too? Like if you want a short game, stack 4 cards, longer game stack all 7?
Not sure if applicable, but in These Stars Will Guide You Home I also wanted to shuffle hexes about each playthrough. I did by having a coordinate system, and instead of moving the hexes, you move the coordinates. So hex A is always at coords 2-3, but you can shuffle the coords around on the axes
