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Galen Pejeau

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Illustrator & Occasional Game Designer (Not taking commissions at the moment) Find my games at https://nightjargames.itch.io/

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · Apr 15

We're doing the thing again, folks! Anyone reading this who's a fan of games that are bit cozy and bit dark, this is for you!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

Midnight Muscadines - The Cozy-Dark TTRPG of Magical Jams

Midnight Muscadines is a cozy-dark tabletop roleplaying game of dice, playing cards, and magical jams. Magic is waning. Find, collect, and preserve the last sources of magic into highly coveted jams t...

www.backerkit.com

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The Stillfleet Studio ☉ more than play 🇵🇸 @stillfleet.bsky.social · 5d

Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying is LIVE on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyt...

Preorder the rulebook and settings books today and get your name in the credits!

Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying

Explore the mysteries of a world beyond death. History, mutant madness, and old-school combat meet at the end of humanity.

www.kickstarter.com

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 21h

I've been talking on and off with Mikey Hamm about this forever, and I always stall out at the conflict part.

I get that there's already Monster Care Squad, but the desire to have a pocket full of little weirdos is strong.

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 21h

Me drinking leftover curry right out of the tupperware: "Ith thif Kanban?"

Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 22h

POV: you've just had some of the best cochinita pibil in Quintana Roo, and may be about to explode.

A wreckage of a plate of soft tacos at a plastic table in a Mexican market, along with a bottle of coke.
It is Sunday morning, and a Spanish language cover of Harry Niellsen is playing over the bustle and chatter.

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes your partner is out of town, and that time has to be spent efficiently (watching Godzilla movies).

a cartoon of a robot eating grapes with hulu written on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon of a robot eating grapes with hulu written on the bottom

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 1d

I don't recommend that into your 40's, but when I was a kid through my teens, it was pure fuel on shredded wheat.

Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 1d

Anything that you would eat off of a plate can also be eaten off of the cutting board, or out of the skillet.

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 2d

Will do! As usual I'm starting to stumble on Nihei's predilections, alas.

Me: Give me more crazy architecture! Draw the pipes!

TN: Sure, but first, how about waifs and buckles instead of character development?

Me: ?

TN: Also, I rlly like the word "placenta". Get ready for a whole lotta placenta.

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 3d

Next up after Aposimz, then. This is the year of JobstRecs.

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 3d

So good. Though I'll always be a Dispossessed kid.

How was CHAS? I've heard so many good things.

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 5d

Looks so good!

Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! The way the plot lines evolve if left alone, and also that there's so much going on that you have to leave some things alone?

The way the writing shifts in tone, depending on the area?

The eye-searing color?

Good stuff.

Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 5d

It's good to be back in America's heartland.

One week of incredible food, and then back to the art mines.

It's Mexico. A sunlit street, cinderblock buildings, and street dogs.

Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 5d

I've had to strip down some of those more eclectic mechanics for this version, but the payoff is more worlds, more rockets, and more ways to die heroically in space!

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 5d

Last call for rays of hope among dark stars, y'all!

Josh Fox 🔜 Ex Tenebris coming to Kickstarter @armadajosh.bsky.social · 6d

There's 48 hours (ish) left on the Ex Tenebris Kickstarter - if you're on the fence and have questions, now's the time to ask them!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Ex Tenebris: A star-spanning gothic investigation TTRPG

Unravel mysteries, battle horrors, protect the stars

www.kickstarter.com

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Eric Lazure @ericlazure.bsky.social · 5d

Needs some final tweaks, but here is the Hope Springs Eternal cover! Exactly 9 weeks from launch... let the real marketing push begin! 😜#daggerheart

cover for a Daggerheart supplement called Hope Springs Eternal, shows a montage of 5 scenes, one for each campaign frame in the book

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 5d

Oh hell yes. Pound of Flesh is a top five of all time campaign module.

Will buy.

Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 6d

wip

Work in progress cover of an upcoming boxed set for Mothership RPG entitled Prospero's Dream. There's a cyberpunk crime lord named Yandee on the cover, along with various other NPCs from the award winning adventure, A Pound of Flesh.

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 6d

SOLARCRAWL: Fifth planet out from the sun is Scintil, a bast world tree of green canopy that shrouds a steaming, thriving jungle with a freshwater lake glinting at its heart.

Lots of climbing for the Astronauts who land here.

I'll be posting more maps as I make them.

A Little Prince style planet that's a big mangrove-like tree. roots trail after a spherical green canopy that encircles a globular lake of water at its core.

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 6d

I've had two of my prior players reach out to me this weekend to.. just hang out and chat.

People need other people, and we all have to do our part. (They've been dragoon into my upcoming campaign, and are bringing brownies and such).

This is how we keep it all running.

Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 6d

START PLAYING ROLE PLAYING GAMES TO MAKE FRIENDS AS AN ADULT

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 8d

Someone's going to have to be the first elected executive to risk being jailed for this, and I don't know if any of us can predict the follow-on effects from that.

Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 8d

A bespokepack.

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Dyson Logos @dysonlogos.bsky.social · Apr 22

Session Report from my first evening of playing Siege Perilous.

dysonlogos.blog/2025/04/22/s...

(I dig it, and I'm already planning to add a bunch of cards from the Arcane Bullshit oracle to the Major Arcana deck for my next, weirder, playthrough)

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Galen Pejeau @nightjargames.bsky.social · 11d

Purchased VoF last night and am following your footprints down the hallway.

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Blackwell Games - Going to Tabletop Scotland! @annablackwell.bsky.social · 11d

Hey, did you hear that I'm making an asian fantasy Apothecaria where you make tea in order to get spirits to help people? Well now you have!

Come follow me on Patreon to stay up to date with its development :)

www.patreon.com/posts/spirit...

Spirit Tea - Devlog #2 | Anna Blackwell

Get more from Anna Blackwell on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Not Writing Games @notwritinggames.bsky.social · 11d

Celebrating The Fall (of the old world) with a TTRPG bundle featuring work with creators who have birthdays this month.

Support indie art, get a game about the old world dying, living forever, or being a bunch of bros trying to capture ghosts on film.

itch.io/b/3295/celeb...

Image with art of a crow on top of a guillotine, with an execution anda crowned victim below. Text at an angle next to the guillotine reads "The Fall (of the old world) bundle, October 2020. The crow is saying "celebrate indie creators!" and the executioner says "only $9.99)

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