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Ettin (latest fad)
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Award-winning TTRPG creator · Writer · Twitter moderator · God-fearing snake milker · Wrote Zettamall, Hard Wired Island, Wetrunner, VKILLER, Breakfast Cult, etc. · https://linktr.ee/ettin64
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Bluesky let me save drafts
Unpublished skeet: The President, Scott Adams and Lowtax hugging it out in Heaven 😇
January 21, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Why's she laughing at you?
Pink-haired catgirl maid showing you a book with blank pages while laughing. It's a meme template,
January 21, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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I'm doing a new layout for my old time-travel TTRPG Retrocausality because I think it'd look better in A5 size and the print version was a little janky, but this one specific art piece is just missing for some reason. At least I still have Obama high-fiving someone in the President Marx timeline
Obama high-fiving a lady dressed a bit like Bruce Lee in front of a statue of former US President Karl Marx and a US flag with a Communism symbol
January 19, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Desperately diving through my emails because I can't find the original of this art piece. No context
Plato and Aristotle wrestling shirtless in a kiddie pool as a man (probably Diogenes) hangs up a "PLATO & ARISTOTLE PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE" banner over someone's "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" banner. In the background, a man in a party hat is distraught at these philosophers ruining his birthday party
January 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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😢
[tweet with a couple letters removed] World of Warcraft would be substantially improved by having a Night Elf who d a t e ettin
January 18, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Putting this on and claiming I meant there are five Earthlings on the cover when people get mad. Polygon coverage here I come
Corner of the Second Gig cover with a 5E logo on it
January 13, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Soon...
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Just found my old copy of Point & Clickbait. Miss that site
[A magazine cover] POINT & CLICKBAIT The Best of 2016 Patch Notes for the Warcraft Movie Say goodbye to those 27 minutes of harvesting wood and mining gold PLUS! YouTuber Banned Shut down for failing to open one of his videos with "Hey, what's up guys" Milo Yiannopoulos How feminists tricked this GamerGate hero into locking his keys in his car Overwatch: Is Tracer a Lesbian? We look at 25 other convincing reasons why she might have kissed that other girl [photo of a pidgeon] EXCLUSIVE! He flew in an open window - now he's a WARHAMMER 40K DEVELOPER DAMNING! No Man's Sky Creator Sean Murray WE EXPOSE HIS OUTRAGEOUS LIES GREAT POINT! How can I lose myself in a world of magic when TRANSGENDER PEOPLE EXIST? ALSO: Meet the toddler who can't wait to swallow your new Nintendo Switch
January 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Like hanging garlic to scare away vampires, but for going on the computer
[in a very retro Windows style] Androids Yes, AI No Second Gig will not use any gen-AI slip because I'm not a fucking hack.
January 9, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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I've got it. I'm a genius.
Non-Fun Tabletop AU$ 750 None of the above rewards, but I will personally print out a picture of the cover on a sheet of paper and mail it to you. Again, to be clear, you get the paper and nothing else.
January 5, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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Managed to improve the quotes section at least.
(This text with some cool cyber decorations:) Reader Reviews: "It's a game that sells itself as "cyberpunk done right", and it makes a strong case for itself all the way through." "The best cyberpunk rpg I've ever seen when it comes to nailing the street level ethics of the genre." "This game is freaking phenomenal. Everything I could want in a cyberpunk rpg." "This is one of the most gorgeous and also best written RPGs I've ever looked over. It's smart and it's funny and it feels like it came out at exactly the right time." "you are a bunch of commies [...] seem like a good strategy to me" "The game with the [...] attitude [...] written by the commie Paul Matijevic..." "Pure fun. [...] your [...] (Post)modern games [...] know how to be fun [...] progressive [...] It's a golden principal of writing."
January 4, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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The actual tiers (mostly just repeats of the original KS). I'm aiming to add one at the end to catch any scammers, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea to just submit one that says "This is scammer bait" for KS review. Might add more rewards if I think of any (not merch though obviously)
Digital AU$25 A PDF copy of Hard Wired Island: Second Gig, plus any digital stretch goals we unlock. Rewards will be available via DriveThruRPG and itch.io. Soundtrack $AU30 You get the Digital reward above and a copy of the Second Gig OST, 15 minutes of cyberpunk tracks you can use as background music during play. The OST will be available via Bandcamp. Print AU$60 You get the Digital and Soundtrack rewards, and a print copy of Second Gig. If we fund, you'll get this through DriveThruRPG's print-on-demand service. If we hit our stretch goal we'll arrange a full hardcover print run, just like the core book. Shipping will be collected via BackerKit after the campaign, once it's closer to shipping time. Crosser $100 The Print reward, plus you'll get to create a character for one of the game's NPC tables, with a name and a short description. Like being in the credits, but we also tell everyone you're an awesome hacker. Limited: 50. Geared Up AU$125 (Limited) The Print reward, plus the designer (that's Freyja) will create a custom Asset or generic Talent based on your request and put it in the game. If you like we can name it after you or a character of yours. Limited: 6. Space Place AU$150 (Limited) The Print reward, plus you'll get to create a location in Grand Cross—a hangout spot, a shop, or whatever else you have in mind. We’ll give it a writeup, including a description of a connected NPC of your creation. Limited: 4. Season Two AU$200 (Limited) The Print reward, plus you'll get to create a character in one of the book's scenarios! They'll be an NPC with a portrait, a description, and a major presence in the story. Limited: 4. Grand Crosser AU$250 (Limited) The Print reward, plus you'll get to create a pregenerated PC! This includes a portrait, a description, and a character sheet. Limited: 6.
January 4, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Could also still use some quotes from if you're a tabletop dev or something and you want to talk about how good Hard Wired Island is. No pressure though I already got the best ones
Some real quotes that haven't been selectively edited at all: "Frankly I'm impressed with the author's ability to hit every high note [...] of anti-America and anti-Western culture [...] which I do agree with [...] hope is a needed commodity; for the protaganists and for us." "you are a bunch of commies [...] seem like a good strategy to me" "The game with the [...] attitude [...] written by the commie Paul Matijevic" "Pure fun [...] your [...] (Post)modern games [...] know how to be fun [...] it's a golden principal of writing." — Internet comments
January 2, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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It took me years to imagine it, but I think I finally have a decent idea of what 2025 might look like.
A cyborg woman with a cool cropped jacket, a cyber-arm, and a partially cybernetic face leaning against a cracked and graffiti-covered wall. Same woman with longer hair and a different outfit (same jacket though), hanging out by the same wall, but this time she's passing pocky to a purple-haired woman who's hanging out with her. She hasa varsity jacket and a guitar strapped to her back. The wall has been repaired and re-graffiti'd.
January 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Doing some prep for my Spelljammer campaign, trying to figure out a logo for an adventuring party that grew into an interplanetary trade guild. Like Acquisitions Incorporated as old pulp space opera
Zandophus Exploitations Company logo, kind of like a round stamp with a world map on it
December 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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"Ettin, is this a watered-down version of a game you wrote for the upcoming Hard Wired Island microgame anthology"

No,
Six people standing in different slices of a colour wheel: a blonde Haruhi cosplayer, a woman in a maid outfit doing an action pose, an android posing like a ninja, a purple-suited nerd doing the Gendo pose, a black Lupin cosplayer, and a nerd in her jammies with a laptop. The Haruhi cosplayer is standing heroically in the foreground while the Gendo pose guy looms over everyone, sinisterly. Is that a word
December 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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When you do something, draw a random mana card. It's a success if the card colour matches the action and a success at a cost if it's adjacent on the MtG colour wheel. Each PC has a single colour they're good at; with that colour action you can move one step closer on the wheel after drawing
The MtG colour wheel. The colours are White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, and back to White
December 31, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Free him @valvesoftware.com
A YouTube channel with a single video series, "Eating a Banana Everyday until Valve Adds the Strange Second Banana to TF2". Every thumbnail is a man in a balaclava, hat, and glasses preparing to eat a banana. He is up to #596.
December 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Me tweeting "hans. boobie." on Christmas Eve 2021
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Trying to eyeball how much this would be as a stretch goal
Kickstarter draft page: AU$27,000: Grand Cross OP At this level, we'll add an opening theme song to the soundtrack with singing and everything. AU$30,000: It's Not Nerdcore
December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Seen a lot of discourse about TTRPG rankings, possibly because I haven't posted my perfect and unassailable opinions for a few years.
A tournament bracket titled "Tabletop RPGs of the 2010s" which goes like this: Round 1 - D&D Quarantine bracket: D&D 4E beats 5E Dungeon Crawl Classics beats Dungeon World Iron Kingdoms beats 13th Age Ponyfinder beats Zweihänder Worlds of Darkness bracket: Beast: the Primeval beats Lamentations of the Flame Princess Mummy: the Curse beats Shadow of the Demon Lord Night's Black Agents beats Monsterhearts Tales From the Loop beats Vampire: the Masquerade Fantasy Corner: Phoenix Command beats Cypher System 7 Wonders beats Spire 7th Sea beats Call of Cthulhu ("I'm pretty sure John Wick could take Cthulhu in a fight. What do you mean it's not that John") BESM beats PbtA Sci-Fi Corner Leverage beats Blades in the Dark Pokémon RPG beats Eclipse Phase Star Wars WEG beats Star Wars FFG Starfinder beats Star Wars d20 Round Two - 4E beats DCC Ponyfinder beats Iron Kingdoms Beast beats Mummy Tales From the Loop beats Night's Black Agents 7 Wonders beats Phoenix Command BESM beats 7th Sea Pokémon RPG beats Leverage Starfinder beats WEG Semifinal - 4E beats Ponyfinder Beast beats Tales BESM beats 7 Wonders Pokémon beats Starfinder Final - BESM beats 4E
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The real answer is that if I did decide to replace most of the setting, characters, and themes with generic cyberpunk tropes it would be to make it an homage to the mid-2000s webcomic The Pet Professional, about a hitman who only takes contracts on animals, and then everyone would be mad at me
A webcomic strip where a delivery man in a truck labelled "Ron's Lasagna" delivers a box of lasagna to Jon Arbuckle. The last two panels show the tail of a cat lying just offscreen next to an opened box of lasagna and a grinning Jon and Odie. (They killed Garfield with poison lasagna, do you get it)
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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This might be getting a little complicated actually. (Most of the reacts were added by other folks at this point)
(Beer) is higher than (coffee) at time of posting, despite the fact that I didn't offer those as options this time. You are now drunk. 5+ people voted (bowl). You eat a serving of illegal Swedish cereal. The first dose makes you hyper. Reading the label on the present was, like, your fourth thought, but you got there in the end. You turn it over and, look—a clue! There's writing! The label reads "To my dear terrible son, I know you love to commit crimes on Earth, so here's something to help you with that. Lots of love—" Unfortunately this is as far as you get at the moment, because everyone voted for you to read the label and then get into a traffic accident. It said so right there in the thing you voted on. I don't make the rules, I just drive the truck. Image of my VTuber avatar driving a truck with a lot of motion blur After having all your organs instantly obliterated by Herr Truck, the off-brand Swedish Truck-kun, you wake up in a field in an unfamiliar **fantasy world.** *Not again,* you think. This is really inconvenient for your Christmas arson investigation. Well, you investigated your way into this, you can investigate your way out. The first step is to make sure that you didn't just get blackout drunk and wake up in New Zealand again. Luckily you can see a gryphon in the sky, and you're pretty sure New Zealand's birds are famously flightless, so that rules out that. There is a fantasy town to the north. The next step is obviously to learn more about this place. Luckily the chemicals in your body have some great ideas, such as: (Sword) Finding the adventurer's tavern and partying with the locals (or nearest equivalent) (Wizard) Finding a wizard or elf or something and smoking whatever it is they smoke (Dagger) Finding the local thieves' guild or equivalent and seeing if this world has any Finns And what's this place's deal? (Book) It's one of those litRPG settings where everyone has character classes and you got a cool one (Angel) It's one of those isekai settings where a reincarnation goddess gives you an overpowered cheat skill* Bonus: at 15+ (tiger)s, Hans will be isekai'd with you.
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I agreed that if two of the options had a tie I would combine them into one super-answer. Didn't have to this time though.
(Coffee? is equal to (beer) at time of posting. You are now sober, a dangerous thing for a Finnish person to be. You suggest that Hans the Tiger monetise his hobby, milking the venom out of snakes. Hans feels much better now that he's been inspired, and as agreed, he explains his lead: a gift-wrapped present the culprit dropped as he fled. He also gives you a box of Djungelbitar, his illegal Swedish cereal. You've got it. Your first real lead. With the power of alcohol and your huge idol brain, it's time to Sherlock Holmes this shit. Your next step is obviously to: (Beers) Ask about the present at the local pub. Better try more than one pub to be sure (Santa) Run through the streets idol-arresting anyone who looks like Santa (Brain) Sit down with a huge coffee and contemplate the pattern of the gift wrap in your Mind Palace (Gift) Before you run around doing weird shit and probably get into a traffic accident, read the label (The Gift reaction is winning at 26 votes, and also people have been voting on a bowl of cereal reaction without being told what it's for)
December 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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stick figure opening his mouth and raising a finger as if about to say something, then stopping
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM