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Matt Gomez

@gomezwrites.bsky.social

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Writer, TTRPGs, Regis MFA graduate, former podcast editor @ Metaphorosis Magazine. https://linktr.ee/gomezwritesgames

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Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

I just wrapped up a brand-new introductory adventure for Unworthy! Kick-start your first session with The Djinni's Lair -- a detailed adventure full of mysterious creatures, duplicitous NPCs, and a rich, desert-themed setting.

gomezwritesgames.itch.io/unworthy

#ttrpg #ruleslite #OSR #noAI

Product mock-ups of The Djinni's Lair, an adventure for Unworthy. The mock-ups show two-renders of the tri-fold adventure. The left mock-up features sections with adventure hooks, rumors, village encounters, loot, an adventure map, and room descriptions. The right mock-up features NPCs and the cover of the adventure, showing a blue-skinned djinni. Unworthy -- a TTRPG of Living Weapons and the dipshits that wield them. gomezwritesgames.itch.io

Product mock-up of The Djinni's Lair, an adventure for Unworthy. The mock-up shows a render of the tri-fold adventure. The left panel features enemies, including a fat-tailed scorpion, veiled chameleon, and a horned Viper. The center panel features NPCs. The cover of the adventure shows a blue-skinned djinni looking menacingly at the viewer.

Product mock-ups of the character sheet and enemy card template for Unworthy.

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · 10d

I haven't played Cairn yet, but I'm going to pick it up so I can run this bad boy

BoRyan.Online @gravy.press · 11d

The digital version of my latest cairn joint just dropped! It's got weird little guys, spooky skeletons, and some downright deadly encounters. Stay tuned for physical versions coming soon.
boryanonline.itch.io/beneath-the-...

Beneath the Muckfort by boryan.online

A mud splattered old school dungeon delve, for Cairn 2e

boryanonline.itch.io

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WatcherDM (He/Him) @watcherdm.com · 10d

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...

It's the last 8 hours to back out our high-level 5e heist adventure. We still have some unclaimed sharp-edged dice for physical backers. Come and get them!

#dnd5e #tier4 #heistadventure #crowdfunding #indiedev

A Privatized Little Hell

A 5e Adventure for 4 - 6 Level 16 Adventurers. Corporate hell is waiting for you...

www.kickstarter.com

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · 17d

zo51m05.bsky.social and I collaborated on a risograph-printed edition of Unworthy! Grab a tri-fold of the core rules and The Djinni's Lair for just $5 plus shipping.

If you live outside the US, feel free to DM for shipping options!

gomezwrites.com/product/unwo...

#ttrpg #1pRPGjam

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · 18d

I just added copies of my Liminal Horror adventure, These Waters Run Black, to my website! The zine includes the full eight-page adventure and adds two dotted-grid pages for facilitator notes. Really happy with how these came out! gomezwrites.com/product/thes...

#ttrpg #liminalhorror

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the shout out :)

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oof, this is so tough. I'm torn between Portishead's "Dummy," My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless," Air's "Moon Safari," and NIN's "The Fragile." All of these were so important to shaping my musical taste!

Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · Sep 8

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

Depeche Mode
Violator

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much - that really brightened my day. Appreciate you checking it out 🥰

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sure thing! I'd be happy to swap out the text and put that together if you send along the translation. You just need a plain text of the existing text?

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

No worries at all -- my Spanish is decent, and Google Translate helped with the rest 😆 I would absolutely love a Spanish translation. Let me know if I can facilitate that at all!

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks so much!

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

I did literally the exact same thing when I ran Ypsilon for some friends. Transferring everything to Obsidian really helped me wrap my head around the connections between the NPCs, and made it dead easy to run. Had an absolute blast with that one!

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks a bunch! Appreciate you taking a look! 😊

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Sep 4

I just wrapped up a brand-new introductory adventure for Unworthy! Kick-start your first session with The Djinni's Lair -- a detailed adventure full of mysterious creatures, duplicitous NPCs, and a rich, desert-themed setting.

gomezwritesgames.itch.io/unworthy

#ttrpg #ruleslite #OSR #noAI

Product mock-ups of The Djinni's Lair, an adventure for Unworthy. The mock-ups show two-renders of the tri-fold adventure. The left mock-up features sections with adventure hooks, rumors, village encounters, loot, an adventure map, and room descriptions. The right mock-up features NPCs and the cover of the adventure, showing a blue-skinned djinni. Unworthy -- a TTRPG of Living Weapons and the dipshits that wield them. gomezwritesgames.itch.io

Product mock-up of The Djinni's Lair, an adventure for Unworthy. The mock-up shows a render of the tri-fold adventure. The left panel features enemies, including a fat-tailed scorpion, veiled chameleon, and a horned Viper. The center panel features NPCs. The cover of the adventure shows a blue-skinned djinni looking menacingly at the viewer.

Product mock-ups of the character sheet and enemy card template for Unworthy.

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

Look what just arrived! Can’t wait to dig into this. Congrats on the book release, @thomasha.bsky.social !

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

You are a Living Weapon. Your goal: find someone worthy of wielding you--someone that's strong, agile, intelligent. The challenge: you'll need to suffer at the hands of innumerable dipshits along the way.

Available now! Link in bio!

#ttrpg #ruleslite #onepagerpgjam25 #humanmade

Unworthy by GomezWritesGames

A TTRPG of living weapons and the dipshits that wield them.

gomezwritesgames.itch.io

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Jul 19

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones

All of these were 5/5 for me!

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Jun 27

DNGN CLUB's games and supplements are gorgeous, evocative, and worth every penny.

DNGN CLUB | Jack Panic @dngnclub.itch.io · Jun 27

Only a few days left!

3 days left
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10 PDFS FOR $10
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Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Jun 25

This was really unsettling in a great way. Love that some of the responses had me wondering if the AI had started going off the rails or if it was genuinely programmed by Liam today those things. Well done!

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · May 1

Do yourself a favor and check out The Explorateur if you haven't already! Tons of great design advice, resources, and links to other cool products/events in the tabletop game space.

Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · May 1

The Explorateur is a newsletter crammed, like Beetle from Breath of the Wild's backpack, full of links and tools for rpg designers. Reviews, mechanics, theory, and more.

I'm slowly getting over that 1000-subscriber hump without Substack, Twitter, or Facebook.
www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

The Explorateur: Issue #7

Monthly design discoveries for tabletop rpg designers including jams, critique, theory, and tools. Vetted. Looted. Curated.

www.explorersdesign.com

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Adam Bell @adambell.games · Apr 22

THE FINAL 48 HOURS HAS BEGUN!

Uneasy Lies the Head is 80% funded and has 2 days left to meet its goal! Back now so I can bring the plots and schemes of royal advisors to your table.

Check it out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

screenshot of the kickstarter for Uneasy Lies the Head 2e

$8050 pledged of $10000 goal. 180 backers. 47 hours to go.

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Adam Bell @adambell.games · Apr 19

There's less than a week left on Uneasy Lies the Head and we still got quite a ways to go to fund this thing! Thursday's the last day for you to get this GMless royal court roleplaying game!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

Reposted by Matt Gomez

Panthermouth @panthermouth.bsky.social · Apr 2

U ever get those days
#adhd #executivedysfunction

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Binary @binarystar.games · Apr 2

28 hours left!

binarystar.games/celestial

Celestial Bodies

Pilot your mech to claim the bodies of dead gods in deep space in the complete edition of this GMless mecha TTRPG.

binarystar.games

Matt Gomez @gomezwrites.bsky.social · Mar 30

Just finished my play through of Thousand Empty Light by @alfredvalley.bsky.social -- what an awesome experience. The module had a tight gameplay loop that was easy to break into smaller play sessions, and the Combined Systems Semiotic Standard oracle was pure genius.