Abdul Rahman (He/Him)
@im-big-games.itch.io
DIY maus + elf games | Publishing for & from Indonesia
🏳️⚧️ love and solidarity | AuDHD | 1312 + 161
Dad to a BIG graphic artist
🏳️⚧️ love and solidarity | AuDHD | 1312 + 161
Dad to a BIG graphic artist
TTRPGS are gradually gaining traction in Indonesia despite the huge barrier that language poses to entry. It's essentially closed to everyone except the well educated and reasonably well off. I'm hoping to change that with some translations of minimalist #NSR RPGs over the next few years.
I got the idea to make my 2025 Tabletop RPG Year in Review after checking out my 2025 Spotify Wrapped. A lot of OSR, NSR, POSR, and a few PbtA here and there. I'm glad I still get to play various Tabletop RPGs this year! 23 games!
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Afraid of Encounters' 2025 Tabletop RPG Wrapped
I have played a total of 23 Tabletop RPGs in 2025. That's more than last year or the years before that (not in total). Also, I was FOMO about Spotify Wrapped...
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev
December 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
TTRPGS are gradually gaining traction in Indonesia despite the huge barrier that language poses to entry. It's essentially closed to everyone except the well educated and reasonably well off. I'm hoping to change that with some translations of minimalist #NSR RPGs over the next few years.
Kuntilanak is known as pontianak in Malaysia. So this is what my daughter was pretending to be.
@ghosttropic.org as per your request, Scrap's terrific rendering of the pontianak
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Kuntilanak is known as pontianak in Malaysia. So this is what my daughter was pretending to be.
My daughter was pretending to be a kuntilanak late this afternoon and Mum was busy telling her to stop it by saying "maghrib" (sunset). I got told off for laughing and encouraging our daughter. Kuntilanak will feature in later issues of Mausantara because she's not originally Sundanese.
Indonesian Banget 15 – Kuntilanak, Indonesia’s Most Famous Ghost
It’s October, time for Westerner to celebrate Halloween. We, Indonesian, do not celebrate Halloween. But since October is famous for Halloween, I decided to share Indonesian ghosts every October of…
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December 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
My daughter was pretending to be a kuntilanak late this afternoon and Mum was busy telling her to stop it by saying "maghrib" (sunset). I got told off for laughing and encouraging our daughter. Kuntilanak will feature in later issues of Mausantara because she's not originally Sundanese.
Blood and souls for my lord Arioch.
December 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Blood and souls for my lord Arioch.
I would never have dreamed of games like this existing. It sounds lovely and delightful. A nurturing game that nurtures the spirit.
Critique Navidad, and today I bring you mindfulness in the form of gorgeous tracing and journaling game the Bonsai Diary! An unexpected holiday gift? Find out idlecartulary.com/2025/12/11/c...
Critique Navidad: The Bonsai Diary
Each holiday season, I review different modules, games or supplements as a thank you to the wider tabletop roleplaying game community. All of the work I review during Critique Navidad is either giv…
idlecartulary.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
I would never have dreamed of games like this existing. It sounds lovely and delightful. A nurturing game that nurtures the spirit.
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heyo #portfolioday! I'm a game designer from Brazil and I'm illustrating my own #TTRPG books at the moment. They are all based on elements of Latin America!
Namely my #mausritter adventure, CARCARÁ! and my solo TTRPG system, Dungeons of Galora
foletto.itch.io
Namely my #mausritter adventure, CARCARÁ! and my solo TTRPG system, Dungeons of Galora
foletto.itch.io
January 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
heyo #portfolioday! I'm a game designer from Brazil and I'm illustrating my own #TTRPG books at the moment. They are all based on elements of Latin America!
Namely my #mausritter adventure, CARCARÁ! and my solo TTRPG system, Dungeons of Galora
foletto.itch.io
Namely my #mausritter adventure, CARCARÁ! and my solo TTRPG system, Dungeons of Galora
foletto.itch.io
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Amidst Revolt!'s fantastical politcal arena, which are evocative and entertaining, is a missed opportunity to dig deeper into what follows a tyrant's fall.
Revolt! interrogates power but falters in conversation
Telling stories about violent regime change is cathartic and entertaining, and maybe that's all it needs to be.
www.rascal.news
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Amidst Revolt!'s fantastical politcal arena, which are evocative and entertaining, is a missed opportunity to dig deeper into what follows a tyrant's fall.
Just wow.
And because Munkao is too shy to self promote, here's a handy link to his Patreon.
And because Munkao is too shy to self promote, here's a handy link to his Patreon.
December 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Just wow.
And because Munkao is too shy to self promote, here's a handy link to his Patreon.
And because Munkao is too shy to self promote, here's a handy link to his Patreon.
News From Nusantara is a design diary, along with news about current and upcoming projects. The big news is that I'm going to be in a position to fund a Bahasa Indonesia translation of #Mausritter in 2026. Possibly the first official translation of a TTRPG into the language.
News From Nusantara 01
MZ01 Funded in Mausritter Month, MZ00 crowd funding planned for late 2026, and a very exciting project for TTRPGs in Bahasa Indonesia.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
News From Nusantara is a design diary, along with news about current and upcoming projects. The big news is that I'm going to be in a position to fund a Bahasa Indonesia translation of #Mausritter in 2026. Possibly the first official translation of a TTRPG into the language.
£80 to go.
With 36 hours left to go, Mud Ghost Estate Redux is nearly funded. Just 6 more pledges to the physical book and we'd hit the goal! 👀
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate Redux—A Spooky Tumbling Tower TTRPG
A spooky tumbling block tower-based TTRPG inspired by Hong Kong folklore; now with revised text, new artwork and extra content!
www.kickstarter.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
£80 to go.
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It's been ages since I've played RISK, but I quite like this idea.
I also REALLY like that idea of using inspiration from one kind of game (TTRPGs) to modify another kind of game (board games).
I also REALLY like that idea of using inspiration from one kind of game (TTRPGs) to modify another kind of game (board games).
Toucan’t Blog: “During The War: Risk x Tunnel Goons”
I think I made the classic board game RISK more interesting by stealing some inspiration from a rules-lite TTRPG…
I think I made the classic board game RISK more interesting by stealing some inspiration from a rules-lite TTRPG…
During The War: RISK x TUNNEL GOONS
TUNNEL at your own RISK!
toucant.bearblog.dev
December 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It's been ages since I've played RISK, but I quite like this idea.
I also REALLY like that idea of using inspiration from one kind of game (TTRPGs) to modify another kind of game (board games).
I also REALLY like that idea of using inspiration from one kind of game (TTRPGs) to modify another kind of game (board games).
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Does anyone know of any good posts relating to languages (and/or conlangs) in games? This cry for help goes out to any and all #osr #blog #sages and RPG #cunningfolk who may hear it.
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Does anyone know of any good posts relating to languages (and/or conlangs) in games? This cry for help goes out to any and all #osr #blog #sages and RPG #cunningfolk who may hear it.
Second time at the fortnightly FLGS painting group. Scored these because my glasses aren't up to it. Looking the part of a mad scientist while base coating three minis for Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone and talked to some of the people that I was too shy to speak with last time. 10/10. Will be back.
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Second time at the fortnightly FLGS painting group. Scored these because my glasses aren't up to it. Looking the part of a mad scientist while base coating three minis for Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone and talked to some of the people that I was too shy to speak with last time. 10/10. Will be back.
After talking it over with someone more sensible, I've decided to go full speed ahead with the overall project but forget about the FOMO pushing me to launch the crowdfunding during Zine Month. We're going to have more art and a lot more writing done by the time we hit launch.
After the mild success of MZ01: Pandan Island, I've decided to go ahead with crowd funding more art by @munkao.bsky.social for MZ00: A Guide to Mausantara in February for #ZineMonth.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/imb...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/imb...
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
After talking it over with someone more sensible, I've decided to go full speed ahead with the overall project but forget about the FOMO pushing me to launch the crowdfunding during Zine Month. We're going to have more art and a lot more writing done by the time we hit launch.
I was indeed totally unaware. I treat encounter tables like menus but random characters are essential to NSR style play. I love using dice but enjoy the fact that these generators get deep into the 3d6 down the line ethos. Take the character that appears and run with them, no matter how mediocre
Today I learned there are people unaware of my greatest contribution to the OSR: random character generators! It was 2012 and we finally had the technology to spit out new characters our most cherished of systems.
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save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/random-...
character.totalpartykill.ca/basic/
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I was indeed totally unaware. I treat encounter tables like menus but random characters are essential to NSR style play. I love using dice but enjoy the fact that these generators get deep into the 3d6 down the line ethos. Take the character that appears and run with them, no matter how mediocre
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My instinct is that Something is Wrong, but it's how you deal with it. If you're going to argue that scrappy little RPGs are worthwhile, you need to put your money where your mouth is. You need to actually buy those and talk about them.
There’s this core contradiction in RPG design where the medium is scrappy as hell, and requires little more than some scribbles and a dream, but the commercial products are pricey and tremendously polished.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My instinct is that Something is Wrong, but it's how you deal with it. If you're going to argue that scrappy little RPGs are worthwhile, you need to put your money where your mouth is. You need to actually buy those and talk about them.
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I read the “we worked hard” ai ad agency response and, as someone who went to art school let me tell you, you can work really hard on something and have it be absolute dogshit.
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I read the “we worked hard” ai ad agency response and, as someone who went to art school let me tell you, you can work really hard on something and have it be absolute dogshit.
An excellent thread on DIY aesthetics vs polished products.
There’s this core contradiction in RPG design where the medium is scrappy as hell, and requires little more than some scribbles and a dream, but the commercial products are pricey and tremendously polished.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
An excellent thread on DIY aesthetics vs polished products.
Closing in on the final 48 hours with a few hundred dollars left to meet the finding goal. Let's make this happen.
Mud Ghost Estate Redux is a spooky Hong Kong folklore TTRPG from the creator of May You Fish in Interesting Times. 👻
A tumbling block tower represents the haunted estate, which traps the explorers when it collapses. 💀
The Kickstarter ends in less than 70 hours! ⌛
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
A tumbling block tower represents the haunted estate, which traps the explorers when it collapses. 💀
The Kickstarter ends in less than 70 hours! ⌛
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
December 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Closing in on the final 48 hours with a few hundred dollars left to meet the finding goal. Let's make this happen.
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Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
December 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam
This is where we're at now.
This is where we're at now.
Burninating the countryside.
I think sometimes its important to draw a dragon the way your 9 year old self would have appreciated. Look at her. Shes dreadful. What a splendid beast.
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Burninating the countryside.
I feel like the guinea pigs should be steeds for the mice. But I'll go with this.
Me and the missus, the tag team of PachiPollos Publishing, have launched Cuyrass, our long-in-the-making supplement to play as cuyes (guinea pigs) in Mausritter. With my text and art and her design and layout skills. Come check it out!
#ttrpg #rpglatam #Mausritter #MausritterMonth #MoreMausritter
#ttrpg #rpglatam #Mausritter #MausritterMonth #MoreMausritter
Cuyrass by PachiPollos Publishing
A guinea pig supplement for Mausritter
pachipollos.itch.io
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I feel like the guinea pigs should be steeds for the mice. But I'll go with this.
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i'll stop using em dashes when i am dead in the ground—this will, of course, never happen, as i am an immortal goddess of chaos (both literary and otherwise); i'll be welding together clauses & extraneous asides for my own amusement long after "generative ai" has been washed clean from human memory
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
i'll stop using em dashes when i am dead in the ground—this will, of course, never happen, as i am an immortal goddess of chaos (both literary and otherwise); i'll be welding together clauses & extraneous asides for my own amusement long after "generative ai" has been washed clean from human memory
This better do well in the Bloggies. I'm going to reshare it every single time I see it. I'm convinced it's a Discord.
I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
What is an OSR? - The Garden Below
a post about not knowing what the OSR is.
thegardenbelow.blot.im
December 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This better do well in the Bloggies. I'm going to reshare it every single time I see it. I'm convinced it's a Discord.
I want games with this vibe.
i'm sorry, but I couldn't keep watching this with the wrong music, so here we go:
December 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I want games with this vibe.