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Archon's Court @archons-court-games.itch.io · Dec 13

My #mothership #rpg social adventure, Owe My Soul to the Company Store, is out now on itch. Become a giant bug, smuggle illegal spraypaint, and get tormented by 16 NPCs and 5 factions.

Layout, development, and editing by @samsorensen.bsky.social, art by Locheil, text by some "Archon" guy.

Owe My Soul to the Company Store by Archon's Court Games

A transhumanist social adventure for Mothership.

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Ridwan Chandra | MeganeRid @meganerid.bsky.social · 1d

More early year art repost!
Some kind of explorer airship 😬 Also did a sketch for the internal layout
#illust #イラスト #scifi

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · Apr 19

'Princess Joveta sends her grateful thanks to her friend the great Khan for his kind gift of her new pet Velociraptor, with whom she is delighted. Isambart now responds to his name, is taking well to training, and bids fair to becoming a very fine hunter.'

Brown pencil drawing of a lady in fine robes and a headscarf walking a feathered Velociraptor on a leash.

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qntm @qntm.org · 1d

THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION made it onto the American Booksellers Association's Indie Next List for November 2025, which is legitimately pretty major!

The November 2025 Indie Next List Preview

Here are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the November 2025 Indie Next List flier.

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Benton | Incunabuli.com @incunabuli.com · 2d

New lore, just in time for the supermoon:
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A Moon for Every Season – INCUNABULI – Adventure Gothic

Over a crown of mountains, a wind drew open the benighted sky. And through the parting veil, diffusely orange at the separating edges, there bloomed the –

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🇺🇳Tharsis13🇦🇶 @tharsis13.bsky.social · 2d

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 7d

god - it turns out when you try and rip off a panel from akira, its an incredible amount of work

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Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 7d

Appropriate for today's #MÖRKTOBER prompt, here's a classic @chaoclypse.bsky.social video on how to easily photomash muscle arms onto a frog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYrU...

How to Photobash Art for your Zines!

YouTube video by Chaoclypse

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garin 🌿 comms open @garin.bsky.social · 9d

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Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 9d

This week in the Bathtub it’s Empire of Hatred, a sprawling hexcrawl in a doomed empire filled with ominous, cackling NPCs, plague saints and dead gods. Is it full of soul or the subject of hatred? Find out! idlecartulary.com/2025/09/29/b...

Bathtub Review: Empire of Hatred

Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…

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sam “logistics” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 13d

discord user Phlox (an old internet friend of mine) wrote and posted a complete Cataphracts campaign setup called "Testudis," with maps, factions, objectives, spells, strongholds, and a ton more. it's got everything you need to play, and it's rad as hell!! whosemeasure.blogspot.com/2025/09/test...

Testudis (Cataphracts Setting, Hexmap, Rules)

In describing his logistics-based army game Cataphracts , Sam Sorensen had an interesting problem. It's hard to fully describe a game in wh...

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Alex Jay Brady @alexjaybrady.bsky.social · 14d

Colossal Wreck, pen sketch t.co/1CdW9AQq5R

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Archon's Court @archons-court-games.itch.io · 14d

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I've run it - great if you want a community-focused game and aren't worried about a fast pace. Fun with imperial gold coins - someone might want a few to make jewelry but if you have 300 you'll have to hike to the Foreign City States where they use "money"

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 15d

hudsoni religious procession (honoring their posthuman patrons, the devas) - from the encyclopedia pages of SHARP EYE #1

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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 15d

L'shana tova. If you follow me for nerdy game design things and not dank leftwing takes, I have been writing again and posting to ye olde Hill Cantons blog. Links follow.

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Archon's Court @archons-court-games.itch.io · 16d

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H. Jay Watson @hjaywatson.bsky.social · 16d

Mothership Month 2025 is coming to steal my heart and snatch my wallet

Among the projects I'm especially psyched for: Another Day in Paradise by @samsorensen.bsky.social, who made the next-level time-travel zine Time After Time

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ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE for Mothership RPG

From Sam Sorensen - ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE for Mothership RPG

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · Jul 25

was gonna mic-drop there but actually i just thought:
34) finishing creative projects is a skill in and of itself. if you want to be able to finish large, complex projects, you have to _practice finishing things_. which usually means doing smaller projects.

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Archon's Court @archons-court-games.itch.io · 16d

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sam “logistics” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 16d

what's up gamers, the teaser page for my new Mothership Month '25 project, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, is up on backerkit now—this one's about space trucking!!

check it out: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

orange poster with text reading "What lies beyond Prospero's Dream? / Who feeds its denizens? / Supplies its luxuries? / Satiates its hungers? / Ordinary people." with a mockup of a Mothership booklet, also orange

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Archon's Court @archons-court-games.itch.io · 17d

"Inherited by the captain of the HMS Auckland, which went down with all hands at the Battle of Jutland. Said to summon angels to rescue drowning men."

You know, I have a feeling that this might not work as advertised.

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Idle Cartulary @idlecartulary.itch.io · 20d

Sam’s right, and I’ll take this opportunity to recommend yall submit your game to Critique Navidad this year forms.gle/pb6KAKDGarKZ... where I, a reviewer of primarily modules, will review absolutely anything, once a day, for the month of December. There are still slots available!