Eric Farmer wrote half of Sword Opera
@ericfarmer.bsky.social
Sword Opera
Itch: https://mythicgazetteer.itch.io/sword-opera
DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/533188/sword-opera
Game designer and mail fighter. He/him.
Co-author of Sword Opera RPG
Author of Trash Pandas RPG
Itch: https://mythicgazetteer.itch.io/sword-opera
DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/533188/sword-opera
Game designer and mail fighter. He/him.
Co-author of Sword Opera RPG
Author of Trash Pandas RPG
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Sword Opera - Mythic Gazetteer, LLC | DriveThruRPG
The daring drama of the clash of steel.
The thrill of the rubber meeting the road.
The forlorn silence of a decadent garden after a lover's quarrel.
In Sword Opera, you play as skilled paragons bala...
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SWORD OPERA SUPER THREAD
Digital + Print: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
San Mercurio Map: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Digital: mythicgazetteer.itch.io/sword-opera
How to Play: youtu.be/4mAekodbIcI?...
Actual Play:
1️⃣ youtu.be/nNs7478Gj2Y
2️⃣ youtu.be/TmjbbSUVfFk
Digital + Print: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
San Mercurio Map: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Digital: mythicgazetteer.itch.io/sword-opera
How to Play: youtu.be/4mAekodbIcI?...
Actual Play:
1️⃣ youtu.be/nNs7478Gj2Y
2️⃣ youtu.be/TmjbbSUVfFk
City crawls are a real PITA, especially in sci-fi, so Clark's got me thinking!
New blog post on using the Cairn Dungeon Events rules as a model for city crawling in Traveller. #Traveller #ttrpg
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Creating a Dynamic City Crawl for Traveller: Stealing from the OSR and Mothership
This screed contains spoilers for my currently unpublished adventure The One with the Horses and the adventures Beneath the Muckfort, A Pound of Flesh, and Last Call at Eneri’s Cantina. Havin…
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January 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
City crawls are a real PITA, especially in sci-fi, so Clark's got me thinking!
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With the holiday break almost over, I finally kicked into gear and got a cover onto this copy of Sword Opera!
#TTRPG #Bookbinding
#TTRPG #Bookbinding
January 4, 2026 at 2:23 AM
With the holiday break almost over, I finally kicked into gear and got a cover onto this copy of Sword Opera!
#TTRPG #Bookbinding
#TTRPG #Bookbinding
Dickens-era Gin Punch
It was too warm on Xmas to make this, so I'm busting it out on NYE.
Tiny Tim did NOT die, and he had a healthy serving of this concoction of GIN and SHERRY.
It was too warm on Xmas to make this, so I'm busting it out on NYE.
Tiny Tim did NOT die, and he had a healthy serving of this concoction of GIN and SHERRY.
January 1, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Dickens-era Gin Punch
It was too warm on Xmas to make this, so I'm busting it out on NYE.
Tiny Tim did NOT die, and he had a healthy serving of this concoction of GIN and SHERRY.
It was too warm on Xmas to make this, so I'm busting it out on NYE.
Tiny Tim did NOT die, and he had a healthy serving of this concoction of GIN and SHERRY.
One of the things that I'm proud of in Sword Opera is: we took what in Blades or FitD games would be Downtime actions and turned them into Vignettes which occur during the main phase of play.
You use Vignettes to heal, train, mend, etc.,and they come with some narration. It lets the story breathe.
You use Vignettes to heal, train, mend, etc.,and they come with some narration. It lets the story breathe.
Random #ttrpg design tip:
How you recover points in a resource may be just as crucial and interesting as how you spend it.
If it's very far from that, should it even be that kind of resource? Would you prefer rolling for it?
We can always look at boardgames for infinite ideas of mechanics.
How you recover points in a resource may be just as crucial and interesting as how you spend it.
If it's very far from that, should it even be that kind of resource? Would you prefer rolling for it?
We can always look at boardgames for infinite ideas of mechanics.
December 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One of the things that I'm proud of in Sword Opera is: we took what in Blades or FitD games would be Downtime actions and turned them into Vignettes which occur during the main phase of play.
You use Vignettes to heal, train, mend, etc.,and they come with some narration. It lets the story breathe.
You use Vignettes to heal, train, mend, etc.,and they come with some narration. It lets the story breathe.
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I posted a not fun update to my GoFundMe. I fell and broke my back. I'm almost certainly paralyzed for life. I'll start a new GoFundMe when I know more what my life will look like in the future, but until then donations will help with lost income and my mom to pay for gas and VERY expensive parking.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I posted a not fun update to my GoFundMe. I fell and broke my back. I'm almost certainly paralyzed for life. I'll start a new GoFundMe when I know more what my life will look like in the future, but until then donations will help with lost income and my mom to pay for gas and VERY expensive parking.
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My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025
YouTube video by A.A. Voigt
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December 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
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...there's a LOT of games I want to run/play:
- Girl Frame
- Praise the Hawkmoth King
- Rapscallion
- Threadcutters
- Fallen Blades / Endless Stars
- Girl by Moonlight
- Dragon Reactor
- His Majesty the Worm
- ARC
- Sword Opera
- Steel Hearts
- Mutants in the Now
- Trespasser
- Girl Frame
- Praise the Hawkmoth King
- Rapscallion
- Threadcutters
- Fallen Blades / Endless Stars
- Girl by Moonlight
- Dragon Reactor
- His Majesty the Worm
- ARC
- Sword Opera
- Steel Hearts
- Mutants in the Now
- Trespasser
December 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
...there's a LOT of games I want to run/play:
- Girl Frame
- Praise the Hawkmoth King
- Rapscallion
- Threadcutters
- Fallen Blades / Endless Stars
- Girl by Moonlight
- Dragon Reactor
- His Majesty the Worm
- ARC
- Sword Opera
- Steel Hearts
- Mutants in the Now
- Trespasser
- Girl Frame
- Praise the Hawkmoth King
- Rapscallion
- Threadcutters
- Fallen Blades / Endless Stars
- Girl by Moonlight
- Dragon Reactor
- His Majesty the Worm
- ARC
- Sword Opera
- Steel Hearts
- Mutants in the Now
- Trespasser
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Games I want to play/run in 2026:
01. Exile
02. Crescent 2e
03. Girls of the Genziana Hotel
04. Draw Steel
05. Apocalypse World: Burned Over
06. Alien RPG (finally!)
07. The Between
08. Sword Opera
09. The Time We Have
10. MORE BLADES '68
01. Exile
02. Crescent 2e
03. Girls of the Genziana Hotel
04. Draw Steel
05. Apocalypse World: Burned Over
06. Alien RPG (finally!)
07. The Between
08. Sword Opera
09. The Time We Have
10. MORE BLADES '68
10 #TTRPG s I want to play/run in 2026:
1. Eat the Reich
2. iHunt
3. Good Society
4. Swords of the Serpentine
5. Apocalypse World 3e
6. Starscape
7. Outgunned
8. Flying Circus
9. Space 1999: The RPG
10. Against Time and Death
1. Eat the Reich
2. iHunt
3. Good Society
4. Swords of the Serpentine
5. Apocalypse World 3e
6. Starscape
7. Outgunned
8. Flying Circus
9. Space 1999: The RPG
10. Against Time and Death
10 Things I want to play/run in 2026:
1. White Mountain Rescue
2. Cosmic Dark
3. Beach Blanket Body Bag
4. The Girls of the Genziana Hotel
5. The One Ring
6. The Between: Court of Wolves
7. Starforged
8. Perils & Princesses: Sweet Revenge
9. Things in Trophy Gold
10. Something in the FitD family.
1. White Mountain Rescue
2. Cosmic Dark
3. Beach Blanket Body Bag
4. The Girls of the Genziana Hotel
5. The One Ring
6. The Between: Court of Wolves
7. Starforged
8. Perils & Princesses: Sweet Revenge
9. Things in Trophy Gold
10. Something in the FitD family.
December 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Games I want to play/run in 2026:
01. Exile
02. Crescent 2e
03. Girls of the Genziana Hotel
04. Draw Steel
05. Apocalypse World: Burned Over
06. Alien RPG (finally!)
07. The Between
08. Sword Opera
09. The Time We Have
10. MORE BLADES '68
01. Exile
02. Crescent 2e
03. Girls of the Genziana Hotel
04. Draw Steel
05. Apocalypse World: Burned Over
06. Alien RPG (finally!)
07. The Between
08. Sword Opera
09. The Time We Have
10. MORE BLADES '68
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My stamp order ✉️ just arrived, and they are fresh. Some of them are new from the postal service just a few months ago, and I am eager to put them to use. So if you would like a zine mailed to you with fresh stamps I have some good ones in my pinned thread:
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December 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
My stamp order ✉️ just arrived, and they are fresh. Some of them are new from the postal service just a few months ago, and I am eager to put them to use. So if you would like a zine mailed to you with fresh stamps I have some good ones in my pinned thread:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Man, we should have stories about rich fucks getting tormented for every holiday.
December 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Man, we should have stories about rich fucks getting tormented for every holiday.
Sword Ballet? 🤔
I'm going to make an RPG of The Nutcracker, and it's going to be two entirely disparate halves: the first part is a tactical maps and minis wargame about the battle of the mice and the tin soldiers, and the second part is a melodramatic romance game about the sugar plum fairy and the cavalier
December 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Sword Ballet? 🤔
I'm just tickled thinking about explaining to Edvard Munch or some 15th century woodcutter that we were inspired by their art to make a game about writing a horror-tinged diary or a little goblin that's actually a sky-pirate.
... long dead, because if someone were inspired like this about something I made I'd be excited to see it, and I feel I want to send them the games (when they're done) so they can see how they inspired me.
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I'm just tickled thinking about explaining to Edvard Munch or some 15th century woodcutter that we were inspired by their art to make a game about writing a horror-tinged diary or a little goblin that's actually a sky-pirate.
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I'm doing my best!
I send every game/zine someone buys from me as stamped letter mail. It has been several thousand dollars in stamps over the past three years.
Tell me you notice and love them among your deliveries?
I send every game/zine someone buys from me as stamped letter mail. It has been several thousand dollars in stamps over the past three years.
Tell me you notice and love them among your deliveries?
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I'm doing my best!
I send every game/zine someone buys from me as stamped letter mail. It has been several thousand dollars in stamps over the past three years.
Tell me you notice and love them among your deliveries?
I send every game/zine someone buys from me as stamped letter mail. It has been several thousand dollars in stamps over the past three years.
Tell me you notice and love them among your deliveries?
is this Traveller
December 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
is this Traveller
With every corner of the internet getting worse, 2026 might be a good time to see if we can dramatically increase the use of first class postage stamps.
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
With every corner of the internet getting worse, 2026 might be a good time to see if we can dramatically increase the use of first class postage stamps.
aaaaaaron
Me, @ehronlime.bsky.social, and @aaronmfking.bsky.social have stepped from the shadows to make the Council of Aarons public. We pass judgement on 3 Harvests, and evaluate the course of 2025--at least in tabletop games.
2025: Harvest | Aaron on Aaron on Aaron
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December 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
aaaaaaron
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Thanks for everyone's support, Mud Ghost Estate Redux have reached 100%! ✨
With under 24 hours left, can we push it a bit further? 🙏
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With under 24 hours left, can we push it a bit further? 🙏
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate Redux—A Spooky Tumbling Tower TTRPG
A spooky tumbling block tower-based TTRPG inspired by Hong Kong folklore; now with revised text, new artwork and extra content!
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December 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Thanks for everyone's support, Mud Ghost Estate Redux have reached 100%! ✨
With under 24 hours left, can we push it a bit further? 🙏
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
With under 24 hours left, can we push it a bit further? 🙏
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
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Thanks for the support, we've reached 69 backers! 👻
December 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thanks for the support, we've reached 69 backers! 👻
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In the middle of binding a personal copy of the #TTRPG Sword Opera by @ericfarmer.bsky.social et al.
Spun some of my own thread from existing strands of burgundy, blue, and grey. It felt like it fit the San Mercurio setting without being stereotypically associated with any Italian city.
Spun some of my own thread from existing strands of burgundy, blue, and grey. It felt like it fit the San Mercurio setting without being stereotypically associated with any Italian city.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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In the middle of binding a personal copy of the #TTRPG Sword Opera by @ericfarmer.bsky.social et al.
Spun some of my own thread from existing strands of burgundy, blue, and grey. It felt like it fit the San Mercurio setting without being stereotypically associated with any Italian city.
Spun some of my own thread from existing strands of burgundy, blue, and grey. It felt like it fit the San Mercurio setting without being stereotypically associated with any Italian city.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
Hell yeah, Hearts of Wulin is incredible!
Soup drama, relationship drama: Road to Empress' success as a streaming game phenomenon tells us there's a lot of potential Hearts of Wulin lovers out there.
Hearts of Wulin is a parade of over-the-top feelings and action at the same time
I love a game where the best thing to do is also the worst one.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hell yeah, Hearts of Wulin is incredible!
1 like = 1 TTRPG in my library
(And quote this, #ttrpgsky. I want to know what's in your TTRPG library too!)
(And quote this, #ttrpgsky. I want to know what's in your TTRPG library too!)
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
1 like = 1 TTRPG in my library
(And quote this, #ttrpgsky. I want to know what's in your TTRPG library too!)
(And quote this, #ttrpgsky. I want to know what's in your TTRPG library too!)
Krampus AND Bump in the Dark??!
This coming weekend, I will be running a session of Bump in the Dark at Milwaukee's annual Krampusnacht event, along with some other cool games run by other folks. Come if you can!
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Krampusnacht Gaming 2025
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December 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Krampus AND Bump in the Dark??!
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My comic Relic is set to premier next year and I'm busy doing scripting now! Art is def way easier for me than the more tedious business of stuff like "making things make sense"
(Updates available here: cesious.blue/relic)
(Updates available here: cesious.blue/relic)
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My comic Relic is set to premier next year and I'm busy doing scripting now! Art is def way easier for me than the more tedious business of stuff like "making things make sense"
(Updates available here: cesious.blue/relic)
(Updates available here: cesious.blue/relic)