Ben M | Periapt Games
@periaptgames.bsky.social
🦆 New Zealand indie thing-maker, he/him
🦆 TTRPG, RPG, D&D, art
🦆 I make #devlog posts!
🦆 I blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizards from wiki articles! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Psychic detective puzzle duo game! bit.ly/SMAL
🦆 Games, books, resources! bit.ly/periaptg
🦆 TTRPG, RPG, D&D, art
🦆 I make #devlog posts!
🦆 I blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizards from wiki articles! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Psychic detective puzzle duo game! bit.ly/SMAL
🦆 Games, books, resources! bit.ly/periaptg
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Coming soon: Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
www.kickstarter.com
In my latest test game of #Overzealous I amassed quite the heap of psychic imminence despite ongoing schisms. In the end, my cultists got too distracted making tentacle monsters fight Pokemon-style to actually summon their god into the world.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
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All dukkha flows from Doing A Thing, and so we attain nirvana by completely sublimating all decision-making capacity
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
All dukkha flows from Doing A Thing, and so we attain nirvana by completely sublimating all decision-making capacity
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
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Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
Two ogres sprawled out in a cave with a huge squirming bag, smoking mids
This is already growing on me, because I can ABSOLUTELY see everyone shortening it to "mids", which makes it even better.
“Midfolk” is such an on-point name for fantasy humans.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Two ogres sprawled out in a cave with a huge squirming bag, smoking mids
When some sort of one-issue Batman villain named 'the Doubler' gets to be in charge of binomial taxonomy
huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
When some sort of one-issue Batman villain named 'the Doubler' gets to be in charge of binomial taxonomy
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"And this is one of the strangest intelligent species we've recorded so far. They live in tunnels, and their bodies are long, serpentine stalks. Lacking limbs, they use robotic prosthetics; how they built them or who provided them remains a mystery."
#MothershipRPG #ttrpg #worldbuilding #scifi #art
#MothershipRPG #ttrpg #worldbuilding #scifi #art
September 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"And this is one of the strangest intelligent species we've recorded so far. They live in tunnels, and their bodies are long, serpentine stalks. Lacking limbs, they use robotic prosthetics; how they built them or who provided them remains a mystery."
#MothershipRPG #ttrpg #worldbuilding #scifi #art
#MothershipRPG #ttrpg #worldbuilding #scifi #art
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Soliciting suggestions for solo journaling TTRPGs for someone who isn’t fully sold on the idea of journaling! They do enjoy strategy games and puzzles, so I’m looking for similar gateway games.
I’ve already recommended SPINE by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social & Dead Belt by @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social.
I’ve already recommended SPINE by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social & Dead Belt by @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social.
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Soliciting suggestions for solo journaling TTRPGs for someone who isn’t fully sold on the idea of journaling! They do enjoy strategy games and puzzles, so I’m looking for similar gateway games.
I’ve already recommended SPINE by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social & Dead Belt by @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social.
I’ve already recommended SPINE by @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social & Dead Belt by @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social.
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“How did you get into ttrpgs?”
Using a pair of tiny silver scissors, I unpicked the hem and climbed inside, where I proceeded to refashion the various pieces until they became a comfortable nest for my own dreams, then I cut star-shaped holes to let my dreams fly. Sometimes there’s a flamethrower.
Using a pair of tiny silver scissors, I unpicked the hem and climbed inside, where I proceeded to refashion the various pieces until they became a comfortable nest for my own dreams, then I cut star-shaped holes to let my dreams fly. Sometimes there’s a flamethrower.
“How did you get into ttrpgs”
After receiving a full pardon from the governor I found a great deal on a trailer in Malibu and just haven’t had a good reason to get a real job yet.
After receiving a full pardon from the governor I found a great deal on a trailer in Malibu and just haven’t had a good reason to get a real job yet.
"how did you get into ttrpgs"
i got hit by a truck and woke up here
i got hit by a truck and woke up here
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“How did you get into ttrpgs?”
Using a pair of tiny silver scissors, I unpicked the hem and climbed inside, where I proceeded to refashion the various pieces until they became a comfortable nest for my own dreams, then I cut star-shaped holes to let my dreams fly. Sometimes there’s a flamethrower.
Using a pair of tiny silver scissors, I unpicked the hem and climbed inside, where I proceeded to refashion the various pieces until they became a comfortable nest for my own dreams, then I cut star-shaped holes to let my dreams fly. Sometimes there’s a flamethrower.
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there's a holiday sale going on on INPRNT you know what to do
www.inprnt.com/gallery/katt...
www.inprnt.com/gallery/katt...
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
there's a holiday sale going on on INPRNT you know what to do
www.inprnt.com/gallery/katt...
www.inprnt.com/gallery/katt...
Always doing air quotes when I talk to neighbourhood cats so that I don't give the impression that I think it's an actual conversation
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Always doing air quotes when I talk to neighbourhood cats so that I don't give the impression that I think it's an actual conversation
40K Martian adept lighting some incense to conduct the Turing Test (a ritual to determine whether this computer is haunted by the legendary machine spirit of pre-Imperium Earth techpriest Alan Turing or whether it's a regular Imperially Condoned haunting)
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
40K Martian adept lighting some incense to conduct the Turing Test (a ritual to determine whether this computer is haunted by the legendary machine spirit of pre-Imperium Earth techpriest Alan Turing or whether it's a regular Imperially Condoned haunting)
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Kneesvember 2025 Day 15
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Kneesvember 2025 Day 15
A mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, only 1 player,
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, only 1 player,
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Do not go gentle into that good night
July 9, 2023 at 11:48 PM
Do not go gentle into that good night
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To whichever Cenobite designed my laundry basket with sharp edges: I hope you never step on a Lego brick ever again
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
To whichever Cenobite designed my laundry basket with sharp edges: I hope you never step on a Lego brick ever again
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We are told: the product now has Gemini. We added Rufus. You can talk to Bixby. We've integrated Alice. Chat with Poob. Log on to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
When teams don't understand their own product
A usable product starts with the conceptual model, but designers have "optimized" that work out of the profession. It's time to bring it back.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We are told: the product now has Gemini. We added Rufus. You can talk to Bixby. We've integrated Alice. Chat with Poob. Log on to Poob right now. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
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We are never told "so what." Even the teams working on these products don't know anymore.
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Nine Hundred Grandmothers.
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Nine Hundred Grandmothers.
I'm going to make a game about being a wizard and dealing with the catastrophic failure of whatever it is that keeps your floating island floating
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'm going to make a game about being a wizard and dealing with the catastrophic failure of whatever it is that keeps your floating island floating
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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.
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
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.
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.
I ended up buying more neat art tools than I ought to have. I might now owe it to myself to learn how to draw The Rest Of The Damn Owl
True Grit make some great brushes and textures. I just saw they have a big sale on:
www.truegrittexturesupply.com/collections/...
www.truegrittexturesupply.com/collections/...
BLACK FRIDAY 2025
Our Black Friday Sale is on now, so whether you've been eyeing that big bundle for months or want to load up your stash for a future project, there's no better time to step up your texture game with p...
www.truegrittexturesupply.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I ended up buying more neat art tools than I ought to have. I might now owe it to myself to learn how to draw The Rest Of The Damn Owl
It's been three hundred years, we need another Bloodborne Pope
Part 36 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Coach of the Oceans”, the elaborately ornate carriage of Pope Clement XI, in the papacy from 1700-1721
Coach of the Oceans”, the elaborately ornate carriage of Pope Clement XI, in the papacy from 1700-1721
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It's been three hundred years, we need another Bloodborne Pope