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Ben M | Periapt Games
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🦆 New Zealand indie TTRPG maker, art enjoyer, he/him, tags #devlog posts
🦆 Blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizard/wikipedia zine! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Cartoon cultists game! bit.ly/ovze
🦆 Dungeon archaeology! bit.ly/dundig
🦆 Other games! bit.ly/periaptg
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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...
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...
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
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November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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 #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 #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
I'm writing about graphic design books I've read throughout #febreviewary!

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
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A pothos plant I painted to relax between work, work and book two :))
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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
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
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August 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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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
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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
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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.
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 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...
The Titan's Goblet - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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February 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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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
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
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June 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Sitting at The Computer and inadvertently hunching my shoulders so hard that my spine starts retracting into my neck and my legs into my spine
February 7, 2026 at 12:54 PM
I saw a pair of quail with a whole wagonload of baby quail chicks a few weeks ago and was hoping to come back with photo evidence but they've proven very wily
February 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Pixelated ham is to dancing skeleton gif as actual historical round black bomb with lit fuse is to memento mori
February 7, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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It's #SelfPromoSaturday which means I want to see the #ttrpg stuff you've got available today, whether it's #dnd #pathfinder or #indierpg

As always, don't forget;

👍 Like cool stuff

🗨 Engage with folks

🔃 Repost your favorites

🚫 No A.I Though
February 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Cheers all!

Make wizards out of Wikipedia articles using my zine bit.ly/wikiwiz

Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...

And my crowdfund is almost over for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult! bit.ly/ovze
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.
bit.ly
February 7, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Nontraditional play!

Turn Wikipedia articles → wizards in this zine bit.ly/weirdwiz

Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...

And my crowdfund running for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult bit.ly/ovze
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.
bit.ly
February 7, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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It’s #SelfPromoSaturday

Show us your creative work - and boost other people’s
a bunch of blue rabbits holding hearts with the words " spread the love " below them
Alt: a bunch of blue rabbits holding hearts with the words " spread the love " above them
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February 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM