Ben M | Periapt Games
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🦆 New Zealand indie TTRPG maker, art enjoyer, he/him, tags #devlog posts
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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
There's a couple of days left in the campaign for #Overzealous! In this solo RPG you’re an outsider god hoping to bring your wisdom and benevolence into a new reality... but you’re a poor match for your bloodthirsty pack of overenthusiastic cultists.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
I like the idea of it being a diceless game and the entirety of gameplay is just this series of, essentially, keys and locks
February 11, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I like the idea of it being a diceless game and the entirety of gameplay is just this series of, essentially, keys and locks
"Pointing to prior work that has shown LLMs do not improve the clinical reasoning of physicians, the authors found that LLMs do not help the general public either."
Oh hey you don't say
I for one am staggered
www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/a...
Oh hey you don't say
I for one am staggered
www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/a...
AI chatbots don’t improve medical advice, study finds
: And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right details
www.theregister.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 AM
"Pointing to prior work that has shown LLMs do not improve the clinical reasoning of physicians, the authors found that LLMs do not help the general public either."
Oh hey you don't say
I for one am staggered
www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/a...
Oh hey you don't say
I for one am staggered
www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/a...
If you abandon a post in the dark-limned gap between posting and the drafts, it goes off to live in the woods and comes back years later to exchange its firstborn child with yours
Is there a way to remove the "save draft" option from the menu when I cancel out of a post? I keep hitting it by accident and saving shit I don't want to save
February 11, 2026 at 2:41 AM
If you abandon a post in the dark-limned gap between posting and the drafts, it goes off to live in the woods and comes back years later to exchange its firstborn child with yours
From this weekend's game, rules answers for your pressing D&D questions: No, if you polymorph an efreeti into a worm, the Forge Cleric can't use their domain to sculpt a sealed steel lamp around it, because the object comes into existence in an unoccupied space. It's more humane just to banish it.
February 11, 2026 at 2:31 AM
From this weekend's game, rules answers for your pressing D&D questions: No, if you polymorph an efreeti into a worm, the Forge Cleric can't use their domain to sculpt a sealed steel lamp around it, because the object comes into existence in an unoccupied space. It's more humane just to banish it.
There is a certain aesthetic quality to the tabletop RPG experience not quite reproduced anywhere else
I actually don't think there's anything more beautiful than a group of dorks with varying flavors of neurodivergence pretending to be a group of equally varied little freaks who wander the countryside seeking adventure and justice for a few hours a week.
February 11, 2026 at 1:38 AM
There is a certain aesthetic quality to the tabletop RPG experience not quite reproduced anywhere else
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[SWORDPOSTING]
Okay.
SWORD THREAD!
Since some of u girls seem 2 like this kind of thing...
Mortuary sword with a flamberge blade.
1600's.
See below for what a "mortuary sword" is.
Okay.
SWORD THREAD!
Since some of u girls seem 2 like this kind of thing...
Mortuary sword with a flamberge blade.
1600's.
See below for what a "mortuary sword" is.
February 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
[SWORDPOSTING]
Okay.
SWORD THREAD!
Since some of u girls seem 2 like this kind of thing...
Mortuary sword with a flamberge blade.
1600's.
See below for what a "mortuary sword" is.
Okay.
SWORD THREAD!
Since some of u girls seem 2 like this kind of thing...
Mortuary sword with a flamberge blade.
1600's.
See below for what a "mortuary sword" is.
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Pages from the ancient text known as The Book of Salvation.
If translated and read, its passages will be the only words the reader is capable of speaking for the rest of their lives.
If translated and read, its passages will be the only words the reader is capable of speaking for the rest of their lives.
February 10, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Pages from the ancient text known as The Book of Salvation.
If translated and read, its passages will be the only words the reader is capable of speaking for the rest of their lives.
If translated and read, its passages will be the only words the reader is capable of speaking for the rest of their lives.
There's a couple of days left in the campaign for #Overzealous! In this solo RPG you’re an outsider god hoping to bring your wisdom and benevolence into a new reality... but you’re a poor match for your bloodthirsty pack of overenthusiastic cultists.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
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
February 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
There's a couple of days left in the campaign for #Overzealous! In this solo RPG you’re an outsider god hoping to bring your wisdom and benevolence into a new reality... but you’re a poor match for your bloodthirsty pack of overenthusiastic cultists.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
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TLDR #3: 'Web and digital for graphic designers' (Leonard et al., 2020) is a wide-ranging web design text. Packs plenty into one pedagogical paperback. Full of fun errors like "the Internet was used in WW2", "our closing paragraph is a bullet point", and "a quarter of our index entries are wrong".
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
TLDR #3: 'Web and digital for graphic designers' (Leonard et al., 2020) is a wide-ranging web design text. Packs plenty into one pedagogical paperback. Full of fun errors like "the Internet was used in WW2", "our closing paragraph is a bullet point", and "a quarter of our index entries are wrong".
TLDR #2: 'The complete color harmony' (Sutton, 2024) is verbose and somewhat airy-fairy, but full of ready-to-use colour palettes. The book is a primer on the use of colour in – crucially – advertisement, branding, and fashion. Great for that, of limited use for broader artistic understanding.
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
TLDR #2: 'The complete color harmony' (Sutton, 2024) is verbose and somewhat airy-fairy, but full of ready-to-use colour palettes. The book is a primer on the use of colour in – crucially – advertisement, branding, and fashion. Great for that, of limited use for broader artistic understanding.
TLDR #1: 'Typography essentials' (Saltz, 2019) is a visual feast that covers the basics. It does misspell its own title in the introduction, and I almost completely lost my mind trying to read it as an ebook, but these are small matters in the scheme of things.
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
TLDR #1: 'Typography essentials' (Saltz, 2019) is a visual feast that covers the basics. It does misspell its own title in the introduction, and I almost completely lost my mind trying to read it as an ebook, but these are small matters in the scheme of things.
I'm writing about graphic design books I've read throughout #febreviewary!
Here's three: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/mode...
Here's three: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/mode...
Modern graphic design: Three book reviews
It's febreviewary ! During my 2026 design / layout / typography challenge , I picked up a bunch of books around the subject. I've previousl...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I'm writing about graphic design books I've read throughout #febreviewary!
Here's three: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/mode...
Here's three: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/mode...
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A pothos plant I painted to relax between work, work and book two :))
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
A pothos plant I painted to relax between work, work and book two :))
They all have typos and weird grammatical constructions on practically every page. It's really remarkable. Do authors not know that they can pick up 90% of basic errors just by reading their text out loud? Or idk, hire a copy editor?
February 9, 2026 at 5:52 AM
They all have typos and weird grammatical constructions on practically every page. It's really remarkable. Do authors not know that they can pick up 90% of basic errors just by reading their text out loud? Or idk, hire a copy editor?
Of the six graphic design primers I've read in the last couple of months, five of them were riddled with textual errors on the level of "we misspelled our own book title" and "this example doesn't demonstrate what we claim it does". Really stark contrast to their high production value visuals
February 9, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Of the six graphic design primers I've read in the last couple of months, five of them were riddled with textual errors on the level of "we misspelled our own book title" and "this example doesn't demonstrate what we claim it does". Really stark contrast to their high production value visuals
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As for stand-outs, I'm picking these four posters as my favourites of the 31 I made. (See the original posts in the #fantasticaluniquities tag for art credits and font choices!)
February 2, 2026 at 1:10 AM
As for stand-outs, I'm picking these four posters as my favourites of the 31 I made. (See the original posts in the #fantasticaluniquities tag for art credits and font choices!)
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Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,
February 8, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,
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"On the highest steeps of Space he will have his dwelling-place,
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."
-Stephen St. Vincent Benet
View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."
-Stephen St. Vincent Benet
View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
"On the highest steeps of Space he will have his dwelling-place,
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."
-Stephen St. Vincent Benet
View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."
-Stephen St. Vincent Benet
View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.
I don't know what a 'superbowl' is and at this point I'm afraid to ask. I'm envisaging this though
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tit...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tit...
The Titan's Goblet - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I don't know what a 'superbowl' is and at this point I'm afraid to ask. I'm envisaging this though
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tit...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tit...
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It's been less than an hour and we're already more than 10% funded! Help us get the rest of the way there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...
Pilot Episode - Rebooted
A musical, GMless ttrpg about being trapped in a 1950s sitcom.
www.kickstarter.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:58 AM
It's been less than an hour and we're already more than 10% funded! Help us get the rest of the way there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...
Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,
February 8, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,
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