Ty
@mindstorm.bsky.social
I'm just a silly little guy (he/him). Creator of TTRPGs and a follower of all the coolest blogs. Ennie award winner and definitely a person. Was @eldritchmouse on twitter.
https://www.mindstormpress.com/
https://www.mindstormpress.com/
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Ty
@mindstorm.bsky.social
· Aug 26
Sicko Worldbuilding
Question: What does it take to make compelling worlds? Answer: Going sicko mode.
www.mindstormpress.com
📰 NEW MINDSTORM POST! 📰 I've thought a lot about what makes good worldbuilding, and the most consistent throughline seems to come down to one thing: being an absolute sicko about it. Here's a post about it, including some interviews from other designers.
www.mindstormpress.com/sicko-worldb...
www.mindstormpress.com/sicko-worldb...
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VOID_SHIFT PHYSICAL IS OUT and BLACK FRIDAY(ish) SALE IS ON
shop.binarystar.games
Read on for more detail!
shop.binarystar.games
Read on for more detail!
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
VOID_SHIFT PHYSICAL IS OUT and BLACK FRIDAY(ish) SALE IS ON
shop.binarystar.games
Read on for more detail!
shop.binarystar.games
Read on for more detail!
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@directsun.bsky.social Invited me onto his podcast talking about Puzzle Dungeons and it was real fun. Give it a listen.
Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...
Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...
The Tomb of Eight Gates: Puzzle Dungeon Workshop
YouTube video by Direct Sun
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@directsun.bsky.social Invited me onto his podcast talking about Puzzle Dungeons and it was real fun. Give it a listen.
Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...
Youtube: youtu.be/NNiIE3DwChE
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5JyZ...
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Although it was written 15 years ago, I think China Mieville's "Embassytown" can be read as depicting AI psychosis.
Aliens with two voices that always speak in harmony and always speak the truth can only understand pairs of human ambassadors who do the same.
💙📚🪐 1/
Aliens with two voices that always speak in harmony and always speak the truth can only understand pairs of human ambassadors who do the same.
💙📚🪐 1/
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Although it was written 15 years ago, I think China Mieville's "Embassytown" can be read as depicting AI psychosis.
Aliens with two voices that always speak in harmony and always speak the truth can only understand pairs of human ambassadors who do the same.
💙📚🪐 1/
Aliens with two voices that always speak in harmony and always speak the truth can only understand pairs of human ambassadors who do the same.
💙📚🪐 1/
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So which one of yous is the vampire and which ones the vampire hunter?
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
So which one of yous is the vampire and which ones the vampire hunter?
when you're doing princess play with a trad system while running an OSR module remember that rules elide for as long as the system matters and only when your players are in a fiction first actor stance
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
when you're doing princess play with a trad system while running an OSR module remember that rules elide for as long as the system matters and only when your players are in a fiction first actor stance
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The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures.
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The Castle Automatic is a dungeon where you control the time of year, time of day, and the weather to solve puzzles, avoid vampires, and reclaim the world's most magical treasures.
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
Be an Early Worm and back the preorder at a discounted price!
www.exaltedfuneral.com/pages/the-ca...
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Got to finish a super cute pink witch tattoo yesterday! Lines are healed, shading and color fresh.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Got to finish a super cute pink witch tattoo yesterday! Lines are healed, shading and color fresh.
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I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out:
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs
A framework for building powder keg scenarios.
www.mindstormpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out:
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
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Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out:
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs
A framework for building powder keg scenarios.
www.mindstormpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out:
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...
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for someone who's skeptical of any film that comes out in 2025 i really, *really* loved Guillermo Del Toro's take on Frankenstein. Incredibly well crafted and well-performed. So I made some Creature flash 🍁🦋🔥
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
for someone who's skeptical of any film that comes out in 2025 i really, *really* loved Guillermo Del Toro's take on Frankenstein. Incredibly well crafted and well-performed. So I made some Creature flash 🍁🦋🔥
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If you're having #over/under fomo, want a recap, or left mid-game, you can read about what happened on my public timeline here: app.mural.co/t/oneshots51...
O/U Timeline
app.mural.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
If you're having #over/under fomo, want a recap, or left mid-game, you can read about what happened on my public timeline here: app.mural.co/t/oneshots51...
I still regularly use my faction generator to spark ideas and think you might get some use out of it too. Check it out!
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
smoke, fuel, & fire faction generator
perchance.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I still regularly use my faction generator to spark ideas and think you might get some use out of it too. Check it out!
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
perchance.org/smoke-fuel-f...
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Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Stepladder Tables
I am not certain that I am the first to have this idea. In fact, I most certainly am not; there's nothing new under the sun (especially in R...
riseupcomus.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some new (?) tech to track persistent states via random tables with memory. Like Ladder Tables, but simpler in execution.
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
Behold, the Stepladder Table!
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protagonist (chapter one) versus protagonist (chapter two) #webcomic #marakethschosen
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
protagonist (chapter one) versus protagonist (chapter two) #webcomic #marakethschosen
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Seven new pieces of flash and some placement ideas
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Seven new pieces of flash and some placement ideas
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NEW BLOG BANDWAGON
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas
During this interregnum between High Halloween and Mighty Christmas, a call goes forth to all the world that bloggers shall band together to collectively create a hexcrawl across the blogosphere, themed around those hokey claymation Christmas specials of yore!
#osr #rpg #hexmas
Blogwagon Announcement: Merry Hexmas — Prismatic Wasteland
A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. This announcement has all the information you n...
www.prismaticwasteland.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Fuck it up, drink blood, Blood Borg is free to download today only, happy Halloween.
worldchampgameco.itch.io/bloodborg
worldchampgameco.itch.io/bloodborg
Blood Borg by World Champ Game Co.
Scumbag punk vampire ttrpg
worldchampgameco.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Fuck it up, drink blood, Blood Borg is free to download today only, happy Halloween.
worldchampgameco.itch.io/bloodborg
worldchampgameco.itch.io/bloodborg
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Talking to @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social is always a delight. Their work is inspirational and also so much damn fun. Burned Over is worth getting excited about.
"The time for a softer, gentler Apocalypse World was gone."
Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.
Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.
Apocalypse World: Burned Over is kinder and much angrier
The end of the world isn’t what it used to be. It might be better.
www.rascal.news
October 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Talking to @lumpley.bsky.social and @megueyb.bsky.social is always a delight. Their work is inspirational and also so much damn fun. Burned Over is worth getting excited about.
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next update is Tuesday 11/4 (newsletter 'scribers get it early on 10/28)
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
next update is Tuesday 11/4 (newsletter 'scribers get it early on 10/28)
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Now that AWS isn't being stupid:
Devlog 1, in which the Developer begins to understand the extent of the work ahead of him.
binarystar.games/posts/origin...
Devlog 1, in which the Developer begins to understand the extent of the work ahead of him.
binarystar.games/posts/origin...
Devlog Has Come to This Town
Content warning: This is a game about a plague. There’s basically no way I can’t talk about the current, ongoing one. I try not to look directly at it, here.
Every year I try to do a little something ...
binarystar.games
October 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Now that AWS isn't being stupid:
Devlog 1, in which the Developer begins to understand the extent of the work ahead of him.
binarystar.games/posts/origin...
Devlog 1, in which the Developer begins to understand the extent of the work ahead of him.
binarystar.games/posts/origin...
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Hey folks, my laptop needs fan replacements, but I am currently having financial struggles. Need my device for some freelance work, so any help to get them repaired is appreciated.
itch.io/s/162117/hel...
itch.io/s/162117/hel...
Help John Erwin repair his laptop by John Erwin
A bundle by John Erwin, $11.00 for May Project Na Naman Si Kapitan?, Life of the Poultry, 24XX: A Goon's Guide to the Galaxy
itch.io
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hey folks, my laptop needs fan replacements, but I am currently having financial struggles. Need my device for some freelance work, so any help to get them repaired is appreciated.
itch.io/s/162117/hel...
itch.io/s/162117/hel...
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I haven't been posting much on here because I've been busy with work! Here's some tattoos I've done in the past month
October 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I haven't been posting much on here because I've been busy with work! Here's some tattoos I've done in the past month
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Preview sketch of a map by Guy Pradel for my upcoming big dungeon CASTLE AUTOMATIC.
Five levels, each ruled by different factions, with pathways between them.
Being very careful to make sure that the flows, chokepoints, gates, and keys between the different levels are interesting and varied.
Five levels, each ruled by different factions, with pathways between them.
Being very careful to make sure that the flows, chokepoints, gates, and keys between the different levels are interesting and varied.
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Preview sketch of a map by Guy Pradel for my upcoming big dungeon CASTLE AUTOMATIC.
Five levels, each ruled by different factions, with pathways between them.
Being very careful to make sure that the flows, chokepoints, gates, and keys between the different levels are interesting and varied.
Five levels, each ruled by different factions, with pathways between them.
Being very careful to make sure that the flows, chokepoints, gates, and keys between the different levels are interesting and varied.