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
🦆 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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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
Crossed the 100 backer mark for Overzealous! I'm so eager to get this funny little game into people's hands.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
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Make Art (1/4)
February 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Make Art (1/4)
Intelligence is knowing you can just use CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Task Manager. Wisdom is using CTRL+ALT+DEL anyway because it forces an interrupt.
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Intelligence is knowing you can just use CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open Task Manager. Wisdom is using CTRL+ALT+DEL anyway because it forces an interrupt.
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I’m hoping to find a couple more projects to fill out the next month or two - if you’ve got (or know of) a #ttrpg, card or board game, author or other cool thing that needs art, let’s chat!
danenglish.art
[email protected]
danenglish.art
[email protected]
February 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I’m hoping to find a couple more projects to fill out the next month or two - if you’ve got (or know of) a #ttrpg, card or board game, author or other cool thing that needs art, let’s chat!
danenglish.art
[email protected]
danenglish.art
[email protected]
Crossed the 100 backer mark for Overzealous! I'm so eager to get this funny little game into people's hands.
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 12, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Crossed the 100 backer mark for Overzealous! I'm so eager to get this funny little game into people's hands.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
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I keep seeing authors getting duped by AI users pretending to be artists (and then sadly realising it when everyone calls their book AI slop).
These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:
These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:
February 11, 2026 at 9:59 AM
I keep seeing authors getting duped by AI users pretending to be artists (and then sadly realising it when everyone calls their book AI slop).
These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:
These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:
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I bet it feels amazing to dress up in a well-fitted suit of full plate armour and be struck with various archaic weapons for demonstration purposes.
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I bet it feels amazing to dress up in a well-fitted suit of full plate armour and be struck with various archaic weapons for demonstration purposes.
I had a good joke about celebrating the upcoming fiftieth annual RetCon, a convention I just invented, but apparently it's a real thing and for real estate 🤮
February 11, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I had a good joke about celebrating the upcoming fiftieth annual RetCon, a convention I just invented, but apparently it's a real thing and for real estate 🤮
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Just wrote the phrase 'Ablative Myceliarmour'. Oh yeah this magic item list is cookin
February 11, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Just wrote the phrase 'Ablative Myceliarmour'. Oh yeah this magic item list is cookin
In Sanctuary, the mortal world of Diablo, everyone is very careful to live in settlements of between 5,000 and 50,000 people, so that the Scroll of Town Portal works correctly
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
In Sanctuary, the mortal world of Diablo, everyone is very careful to live in settlements of between 5,000 and 50,000 people, so that the Scroll of Town Portal works correctly
"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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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 :))
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,