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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs
@opensketchbook.bsky.social
Magical Girl. RPG designer & author. Milhist nerd. Buckling spring keyboard shill. Made Flying Circus that one time. Now working on Torchship.

https://opensketch.itch.io/
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making the wrecker (the jetpack-equipped juvie) was going well, i had a cool dynamic midair pose where she's sort of descending toward the ground, and then i was like

wait shit

probably...

probably shouldn't go jetpacking in a skirt
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
*enormous* torchship progress today. as of right now, the core rules section (all the foundational rules everything else keys off of) is *done*. It's 36 thousand words!

We've been hitting our heads against it for a long while because it has to carry *so much game* but it's finally, *finally* done
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Colliding headfirst into a Goliath juve who is similarly late, as is the tradition.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"oh no! i'm late for my first day of hive war!"
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This is what it's like in our house anytime a balance dataslate looms
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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she got bottom surgery! i'm happy for her
8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller for Analogue 3D, Switch, Switch 2, Windows, and Android (Grey) up for preorder on Amazon ($44.99) buff.ly/Gq5q2ct #ad
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
the gang keeps its members in line with a strict code and an even stricter set of punishment, typically involving hazing, ostracization, restitution theft, or burns with lho sticks. the penalty for the worst offense, stealing another member's boyfriend, is to carry the group's plasma gun
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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They used to make fuckin MOVIES
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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a movie set where you're from

i shit you not, I took my friend @opensketchbook.bsky.social to my high school and she was like, "holy shit dragon, we are going to be killed by vampires"

(this counts as a movie cause there's a movie too, and my girlfriend says the movie is better than the show)
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
the gang has formed an alliance with another group of juvie criminals in the distinct based on a gendered division of labour. the girls practice racketeering, mugging, chem-dealing, and drive-by shootings, allowing the boys to focus on shoplifting hair gel, noise violations, and loitering
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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In "Eric's Ultimate Solitaire", entering your name as "Weasel" changes every single card face into a Joker. They still retain their ranks and suits, though, so this effectively blindfolds the game.

For years I thought this was a bug. It'd literally only happen to me.
July 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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The armour designs in Legend of the Galactic Heroes is top tier.
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the gang's arms master is a transfer from saint deddog's school For thinkin' good, having been mistaken for an ogryn due to her unnatural height of 5'6"
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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game design 101
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
the gang has been making heavy use of ranged weapons ever since their hive schola banned bringing chainswords to class
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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ran @opensketchbook.bsky.social 's Double or Nothing tonight! Fun game, very breezy and silly, was actually kind of a fun challenge for me to not get bogged down in the minutiae and just come up with shit on the fly. It was a cross between MegaMan and Reboot and Dot and Slash got the job done.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
when not engaging in running gun battles, shaking down pilgrims for spare thrones, or selling chems to the wage-serfs, the gang can usually be found smoking behind the local Family Martyr
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
by the way, Lexie has been doing incredible work in Oath of Moment; she reworked all the weapons recently!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Oath of Moment
【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...
docs.google.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
the gang will proxy for Orlocks, so of course they need a big gun and somebody suitably insane enough to use it

she is of course the shortest member of the gang
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
sometimes my brain is just like "hey erika make a sukeban necromunda gang" and i just have to be like "... okay"
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
i now have a squad of sternguard! printing appears to have gone perfectly. everything is getting airbrushed later today and i'll have pictures
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Sorry for the break in art. Here's a Flying Circus commission for @coffeelati.bsky.social #art
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM