Nikita Lapkov
@coppershaman.com
TTRPG writer
Made OSWOR: a hopeful game about dismantling sun-powered oppressive tyranny https://laplab.itch.io/oswor
Goodies and updates: https://coppershaman.com/
Made OSWOR: a hopeful game about dismantling sun-powered oppressive tyranny https://laplab.itch.io/oswor
Goodies and updates: https://coppershaman.com/
Dungeon, Inc.
A reverse dungeon TTRPG by the Merry Mushmen
www.kickstarter.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Dragon Warrior (NES - 1989)
March 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Dragon Warrior (NES - 1989)
The Burden of Sin in Tom Bloom's CAIN
"In this talk of sin, what about forgiveness?"
www.rascal.news
January 24, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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Unity War III is over.
Electroplasmic fusion is here.
The future... is now.
Blades '68.
An official expansion for Blades in the Dark from the subversive mind of @olddog.games
Find out more and download the free 40-page preview here:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Electroplasmic fusion is here.
The future... is now.
Blades '68.
An official expansion for Blades in the Dark from the subversive mind of @olddog.games
Find out more and download the free 40-page preview here:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
January 22, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Unity War III is over.
Electroplasmic fusion is here.
The future... is now.
Blades '68.
An official expansion for Blades in the Dark from the subversive mind of @olddog.games
Find out more and download the free 40-page preview here:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Electroplasmic fusion is here.
The future... is now.
Blades '68.
An official expansion for Blades in the Dark from the subversive mind of @olddog.games
Find out more and download the free 40-page preview here:
www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Reposted by Nikita Lapkov
My local bookshop understands their audience.
January 22, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My local bookshop understands their audience.
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This is the kernel of truth at the heart of every business investigation we've published or considered. At best, crowdfunding allows a tabletop creator to be good at bad business.
But the way that the TTRPG industry uses it, as a high-profile, boom-or-bust product launch strategy that leverages flashy upsells and manufactured urgency to try to make number go up, that stakes 6-18 months of work on how big that number gets, structurally produces precarity and volatility.
January 21, 2026 at 9:21 AM
This is the kernel of truth at the heart of every business investigation we've published or considered. At best, crowdfunding allows a tabletop creator to be good at bad business.
Reposted by Nikita Lapkov
Reposted by Nikita Lapkov
>Artists! Quote with your most detailed art.
cockpits yo
cockpits yo
January 20, 2026 at 2:12 AM
>Artists! Quote with your most detailed art.
cockpits yo
cockpits yo
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Delightful. Anyone can draw a little guy, don't be afraid. AI is for people that are dead inside
join a ttrpg game jam where you doodle around
itch.io/jam/dungeons...
itch.io/jam/dungeons...
January 18, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Delightful. Anyone can draw a little guy, don't be afraid. AI is for people that are dead inside
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There's already been some great additions to the TTRPG inspirations wiki I've been working on for the past week! If you have copies of games that aren't included yet, please add them!
ttrpgtree.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
ttrpgtree.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
The TTRPG Tree
ttrpgtree.miraheze.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
There's already been some great additions to the TTRPG inspirations wiki I've been working on for the past week! If you have copies of games that aren't included yet, please add them!
ttrpgtree.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
ttrpgtree.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
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I'm relaunching THE MEAT GRINDER, my TTRPG writer's group, and structuring things to let us support 16-20 total members. For more info on how it all works and to let me know if you're interested, check out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
THE MEAT GRINDER - Interest Form
Hello! THE MEAT GRINDER is a designer/writer's group for TTRPG and TTRPG-ish games organized by Christian Sorrell of MeatCastle GameWare (that's me!). The group is intended to give TTRPG creators in t...
docs.google.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I'm relaunching THE MEAT GRINDER, my TTRPG writer's group, and structuring things to let us support 16-20 total members. For more info on how it all works and to let me know if you're interested, check out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
As a person who owns 7 books from Goodman Games, I unfortunately have to agree with Ben’s conclusions
I ran DCC once and it’s very unlikely I’ll do so again. The amount of parsing required to download everything into my brain is just too much :(
youtu.be/s9w8YVqYs5I
I ran DCC once and it’s very unlikely I’ll do so again. The amount of parsing required to download everything into my brain is just too much :(
youtu.be/s9w8YVqYs5I
January 8, 2026 at 3:14 PM
As a person who owns 7 books from Goodman Games, I unfortunately have to agree with Ben’s conclusions
I ran DCC once and it’s very unlikely I’ll do so again. The amount of parsing required to download everything into my brain is just too much :(
youtu.be/s9w8YVqYs5I
I ran DCC once and it’s very unlikely I’ll do so again. The amount of parsing required to download everything into my brain is just too much :(
youtu.be/s9w8YVqYs5I
I wasn’t around to witness G+, but I’m so grateful to witness the community now
@aavoigt.bsky.social thank you for making such a monumental piece of work!
youtu.be/dm0dnjbQzD4
@aavoigt.bsky.social thank you for making such a monumental piece of work!
youtu.be/dm0dnjbQzD4
The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025
YouTube video by A.A. Voigt
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I wasn’t around to witness G+, but I’m so grateful to witness the community now
@aavoigt.bsky.social thank you for making such a monumental piece of work!
youtu.be/dm0dnjbQzD4
@aavoigt.bsky.social thank you for making such a monumental piece of work!
youtu.be/dm0dnjbQzD4
So happy to see my Babbling Baboon there! It was my first time participating in a blogwagon, I had lots of fun.
Thank you Kati for putting all the posts into single nice map🙌
Thank you Kati for putting all the posts into single nice map🙌
RELEASE: The complete #hexmas map is now available for you to peruse! Download the pdf version to see all the bloggers who contributed to this awesome blogwagon by @prismaticwasteland.com.
#blog #ttrpg #bloggers #blogosphere
bakenshake09.itch.io/hexmas-map-2...
#blog #ttrpg #bloggers #blogosphere
bakenshake09.itch.io/hexmas-map-2...
Hexmas Map 2025 by Bakenshake
A hexcrawl of all the hexes created by Bloggers for Hexmas 2025
bakenshake09.itch.io
January 6, 2026 at 7:52 AM
So happy to see my Babbling Baboon there! It was my first time participating in a blogwagon, I had lots of fun.
Thank you Kati for putting all the posts into single nice map🙌
Thank you Kati for putting all the posts into single nice map🙌
This, a thousand times.
one of my long-running campaigns finally died. as an intermezzo before the next one, we've decided to to play a few sessions of Triangle Agency set in 1974
January 6, 2026 at 7:42 AM
This, a thousand times.
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A dangerous cavern bees have settled in the nearby, preventing the village from their food sources. Starvation is imminent and something needs to be done. Trouble in the Bee Cavern by @coppershaman.com is one of the entries for the #FunWithFang Jam.
https://laplab.itch.io/trouble-in-the-bee-cavern
https://laplab.itch.io/trouble-in-the-bee-cavern
January 5, 2026 at 8:26 PM
A dangerous cavern bees have settled in the nearby, preventing the village from their food sources. Starvation is imminent and something needs to be done. Trouble in the Bee Cavern by @coppershaman.com is one of the entries for the #FunWithFang Jam.
https://laplab.itch.io/trouble-in-the-bee-cavern
https://laplab.itch.io/trouble-in-the-bee-cavern
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probably bc it looked sick as hell
January 5, 2026 at 7:16 AM
probably bc it looked sick as hell
I found this classification really helpful. Thinking lots about story telling/problem solving games division lately. Adding two more axis did the trick for me
samsorensen.blot.im/sams-three-q...
samsorensen.blot.im/sams-three-q...
Sam’s Three-Question Taxonomy - Sam Sorensen
When I sit down to read a new RPG book or play at a new RPG table, I’ve got three questions in mind. Basically all of my behavior at the table is
samsorensen.blot.im
January 2, 2026 at 10:26 AM
I found this classification really helpful. Thinking lots about story telling/problem solving games division lately. Adding two more axis did the trick for me
samsorensen.blot.im/sams-three-q...
samsorensen.blot.im/sams-three-q...
Late stage capitalism sucks for art. Is there a way out? I think so!
coppershaman.com/selling-rpgs...
coppershaman.com/selling-rpgs...
Selling RPGs doesn't work
Or, at the very least, I don't think it solves the core problem.
Late stage capitalism sucks. It sucks especially hard for folks who try to make a living through art. By "art" I mean any of its forms...
coppershaman.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Late stage capitalism sucks for art. Is there a way out? I think so!
coppershaman.com/selling-rpgs...
coppershaman.com/selling-rpgs...
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My favourite response to when players private message me about campaign stuff is "who could say?" (Me) (I won't say)
December 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My favourite response to when players private message me about campaign stuff is "who could say?" (Me) (I won't say)
Soviet asteroid-launching station, cult controlled by a mental parasite and leaky nuclear reactors. Call the #FIST!
coppershaman.com/zvezdochka-l...
coppershaman.com/zvezdochka-l...
Zvezdochka: Lunar Geo-Artillery Platform
💡This is an in-progress adventure module for FIST RPG.
Introduction
What is Zvezdochka?
Zvezdochka (Russian for "little star") is a geo-artillery platform. It digs the lunar substrate and forms m...
coppershaman.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Soviet asteroid-launching station, cult controlled by a mental parasite and leaky nuclear reactors. Call the #FIST!
coppershaman.com/zvezdochka-l...
coppershaman.com/zvezdochka-l...
*putting on my tech wizard hat*
How on Earth does my website get 11k requests per month? According to analytics, there are like three visitors on a good day.
Are all of these bots or do most folks just use adblocker (as they should) to block analytics? 🤔
How on Earth does my website get 11k requests per month? According to analytics, there are like three visitors on a good day.
Are all of these bots or do most folks just use adblocker (as they should) to block analytics? 🤔
December 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
*putting on my tech wizard hat*
How on Earth does my website get 11k requests per month? According to analytics, there are like three visitors on a good day.
Are all of these bots or do most folks just use adblocker (as they should) to block analytics? 🤔
How on Earth does my website get 11k requests per month? According to analytics, there are like three visitors on a good day.
Are all of these bots or do most folks just use adblocker (as they should) to block analytics? 🤔
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Yochai going full-time writer and publisher should be headline news in TTRPG land!
Cairn Press 🔥🔥🔥
Cairn Press 🔥🔥🔥
I wrote about my plans for 2026, both under the @cairnrpg.com umbrella and Between Two Cairns.
newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/
newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/
Cairn in 2026
Every year I try and write a little post about what folks should expect from me in the coming year. I suppose a small part of me feels that once I've announc...
newschoolrevolution.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Yochai going full-time writer and publisher should be headline news in TTRPG land!
Cairn Press 🔥🔥🔥
Cairn Press 🔥🔥🔥