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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 1d

Day 10: Beetle. Ok. Hear me out. Mörkship Trööpborgs. Starborg Morktroops? Giant insects have been hibernating underground for a thousand years and make the hellscape of Mörk Borg somehow worse when they wake up. #mörktober #morktober

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 1d

Day 9: Thorn. The word association involved with the genesis of this idea is wild, might write about it later. Had a lot of fun with this one writing the poem in iambic pentameter (see Alt Text). #morktober #mörktober

He hails from Wästland thornéd coat array'd,
He did betray his liege with turncoat blade.
A lessor grown too fat, his oaths betray’d.
Trust not the man In thornéd display,
If thou dost let the land and let greed sway.

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 2d

Yoooo 🔥🔥

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Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 2d

Place an order at shop.exeunt.press this month and get a free #MÖRKTOBER sticker!

Sharpie for scale.

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 3d

Day 8: Wizard. Had a wild idea for today’s prompt and made a weapon for wizards. Or is it a weapon to use against them? Wait… #morktober #mörktober

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 4d

Day 7: Shard. Featuring art by @perplexingruins.bsky.social we've got a series of temples devoted to mysterious crystal shards. #morktober #mörktober

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 4d

Day 6: Husk. Couldn't help myself, I am from Nebraska, after all. A character class for the laborers out there who don't like being taken advantage of, and the
🌽🤘👹CORN DEMONS👹🤘🌽
who help them seek revenge. Part manifesto, part children of the corn, all me. #morktober #mörktober

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 4d

the punishment was the game falling apart the day before we scheduled.

mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 5d

Day 5: Stain. Rolled up a Map from @exeunt.press Creator Kit. Had fun with some stock textures to create a coastal area and islands. Might be good for Pirate Borg. #morktober #mörktober

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 7d

Day 4: Howl. The Howling Helmets were an army of such ferocity, such ruthlessness, such barbarity that they have been erased from every history book but this one. #morktober #mörktober

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 7d

A pleasure to partner in poetic palaver

mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 7d

Day 3: Daggers. The deranged duchess did depart, dead by doleful darlings' dart.
A specter for your spooky spots.
This author adores alliteration. #MORKTOBER #MÖRKTOBER

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 9d

Day 2: Maw. Rolled up a weapon. A skull that bites your hand and holds on while you wield the machete stabbed through it. Fucking metal 🤘. Naming it I kept thinking "Knife Bite", "Denture Dagger", but ultimately the obvious pun delighted me. #MORKTOBER #MÖRKTOBER

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9d

I've got Michael Shannon's voice in my head on an endless loop saying "It’s time for the urn." www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta... (from 2016, right after the election)

Michael Shannon: 'If you’re voting for Trump, it’s time for the urn'

'I don’t want to live in a country where people voted for Trump. I want to live in some other f*cking country'

www.the-independent.com

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Mol is Serving Up Disaster👨‍🍳 @molomoot.bsky.social · 12d

A comment on itch reminded me of this idea for creating #TTRPG dungeons I had a while back. I still think its neat and I don't think I've actually shared it here on bsky.

So bsky.. meet Crossword Dungeons!
Do a crossword, use the answers and designs as inspiration for the rooms, get creative!

a how to guide for creating crossword dungeons. Step 1 - Find and Do, do the crossword. Step 2 - See Beyond, find the inspiring words and start to see the shape. Step 3 - Extrapolate, ditch words you dont like, create walls, you contol the dungeon. Step 4 - Draw the rest of the owl (make the dungeon from the inspiration). Step 5 - BE NOT AFRAID. Its just a dungeon created from a crossword, they wont always work.
Useful tips: Metro for daily free crosswords. CrosswordSolver, for tricky clues. DungeonScrawl, for making maps. LootTheRoom - for more random ideas

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 9d

Day 1: Frog. Using the Morktober Creater Kit fro @exeunt.press I created a Class of Dark Fairy Tale realness. #morktober

Digital Collage of a Public Domain image of a warrior with a stock photo of a frog crudely superimposed over the head, with an illustrative gold crown. Titled "Prince of Frogs" it is in the style of the TTRPG game Mork Borg.

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 9d

Going to collect peeks at my #morktober creations in this thread. Will collect them all in one volume and release on my itch at the end of the month. Follow along, won't you?

a woman in a black dress is walking down a street with #schitts creek written in the corner

ALT: a woman in a black dress is walking down a street with #schitts creek written in the corner

media.tenor.com

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 10d

People tend to know me for old school art i guess, but I love Science Fantasy too and try to make neat pieces available to my patrons!

I think I work pretty hard and offer a good value - my work has been used in quite a few publications - you can support me here!
www.patreon.com/perplexingru...

colorfur figure in helmet and gear cloak, colorful background, markers

colorful figure with mechanical eye piece and upside down city in background

orange glowing figure floating in desert beneath green floating pyramid

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 15d

Honestly there’s a version of your game and mine combined out there somewhere. Glad I wasn’t the only one who took the concept and went with a music/band theme.

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 15d

a woman wearing a pearl necklace and a white shirt

ALT: a woman wearing a pearl necklace and a white shirt

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 16d

Exactly what I was going for. After all, who doesn’t want to make their own goth band and fight vampires? I have also been working on a Punk and a classic fantasy style re-skin of the system.

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · 17d

Got a new RPG out for @axiomdelver.bsky.social 's Cassette RPG Jam. Green Room meets Queen of the Damned.

First time making my own system. 😅https://noseatbelts.itch.io/vampires-at-the-goth-show

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · Sep 10

Credit to Gideon Industry on Tik Tok for some of these picks and spurring on the conversation.

Who did I miss?

mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · Sep 10

And to round it out, Statler and Waldorf are Denethor, which is an excellent subversion of expectations because they love Fozzie.

Saruman is the Swedish Chef. Elrond is Hugo Weaving. Galadrial is Cate Blanchett. Tom Bombadil is Dr Teeth with Janis as Goldberry.

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mike j @noseatbelts.bsky.social · Sep 10

Which, of course, brings me to Kermit. To pay off Piggy as Eowyn, he has to be Faramir. Hate to leave him out until the end of the story, but it just works for me on so many levels. Plus, him and Fozzie being brothers is a running Muppet gag.

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