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Deathmatch Island, Blades '68, Odyssey Aquatica. Also RPG maps, resources, and illustrated actual plays.

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Old Men re: Old Dog.

What a great read! I am honoured. Do check it out, many fine insights here.
January 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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That’s right, Blades ‘68 is coming very soon.

And while we’re here — this is the cover!
A mock-up of the cover of Blades ‘68. Features concentric circles of black, blue, orange and yellow, with various 60s figures doing various action montage things like shooting guns or driving cars.
January 9, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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Blades '68! It's all go!

Here are some chapter openers I've been working on.
Two opening illustrations for Blades '68. On the left, "Introduction", with a woman wearing a black outfit and polka dot headscarf, firing a pistol. On the right, "Characters", with two figures standing in foreground. Once is a dark-skinned man wearing a double-breasted jacket, and beside him is a woman wearing a sort of poncho thing (I don't know what it's called). Anyway, it's all very 1960s. Two chapter opener illustrations for Blades '68. On the left is "Crews", with five 1960s figures walking across the frame. On the right is "System Changes", with a man in a suit working at a huge room-sized computer system.
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Come visit Doskvol, the jewel of Akoros, in '68. Home of the original bluetime (first and best). Crime rates are better than before*
A tourist map of the city of Doskvol for Blades '68, featuring the 15 districts and key landmarks in each. A zoomed-in section of the tourist map of Doskvol, for Blades '68.
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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A couple more, why not!
A double page spread from Blades '68 showing the Shadows crew. Pictured: Two silhouetted figures standing on stairs. Picking a lock. Handing off a folder. A figure in a catsuit descending through a laser grid. A double page spread from Blades '68 showing the Racers crew. Pictured: Police lights in a rearview mirror. Two bros having a hug. A revometer at 100. A checkered flag waving. A high speed chase with a big rig truck and two cars.
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Blades '68:
Crews
A spread from Blades '68, showing the Militants crew type. Molotov cocktail, raised fist, riot police, a revolutionary in a beret and sunglasses, someone with a megaphone. A spread from Blades '68, showing the Hit Squad crew type. Silenced pistol, playing card, silhouette in crosshairs, suited figure putting on gloves, cigarette in ashtray A spread from Blades '68, showing the Dealers crew type. Lava lamp, LSD tabs, marble bust and stacks of cash, figure opening glowing briefcase, someone opening jacket to show watches. A spread from Blades '68, showing the Utopians crew type. Raised hand with eye in palm, goblet and candle, glowing floating silhouette, dot matrix print out, robed figures holding hands in circle, albino goat eye, and someone pushing a button on an ESP testing machine.
October 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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EXTREMELY my shit, indeed.
"Vindicators" arcade marquee "Bank panic" arcade marquee, showing two cowboys and a western font
September 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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And that's a wrap on the playbook openers. Choose your poison.
Eight spreads from Blades '68, showing each of the eight playbooks; Veteran, Hound, Swinger, Operative, Intellectual, Radical, Paranormalist, and Hull.
September 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Blades '68 playbooks: the Paranormalist, and the Hull.
A spread from Blades '68 showing the Paranormalist playbook. A David Bowie looking person is shown in two poses. On the left, holding a space helmet. On the right, floating in the air, helmet on, crackling with paranormal power. A spread from Blades '68, showing the hull playbook. A robot wearing a shearling bomber jacket looks at the viewer, lit by a red light. A black cat sits on their shoulder.
September 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Blades '68: The Operative, and the Swinger.

If the mood of B68 has two poles, it is these.
A spread from Blades '68, showing the Operative playbook illustration. A person in a waistcoat, shirt and tie is wearing a shoulder gun holster. She holds a whiskey. Behind her is a lava lamp and a discard rubber mask disguise. A spread from Blades '68, showing the Swinger playbook illustration. A woman in an A-Line dress with a bold, circular geometric pattern, and white go-go boots. She's wearing pink glasses and flipping the peace sign. A sporty two-seat convertible is behind her, and some figures dancing.
August 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Especially the great Dante's Inferno poster (Canto XVIII), as seen in Roger's office in the final season of Mad Men.
A screenshot of Mad Men, showing Roger Sterling in his office, with a Seymour Chwast poster in the background. Seymour Chwast poster for Canto XVIII / Dante's Inferno. Depicts a smiling devil figure smoking a cigarette and holding a cane.
August 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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To celebrate finishing the post-playtest revisions on Blades '68 ( 🎉 ), here's an homage to @johnharper.bsky.social's iconic cover in the style of Seymour Chwast / Push Pin Studios.

(this isn't the actual cover, just having fun)
A poster-style image with the title "Blades '68", and "Enjoy life in the bubble - just try not to make a fuss" in smaller text. Depicts a hooded figure holding two knives, same as the cover of Blades in the Dark, but in the style of Seymour Chwast (lots of curvy wavy lines and circles).
August 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Blades '68: Player Principles handout.
A letter-sized handout titled "How to Play Hard and Have Fun in '68". The principles are: 1. Go in boots and all. The campaign will be shorter than you think. Make stuff happen now. Don’t wait, pull the trigger. 2. Dig the other characters. Dial in on the other player characters, pay attention to their narrative, and get your own character involved. Be their fan, or be their foil. 3. Make the GM sweat. Think of the game like a physics toy, and push the levers you have as hard as you can, just to see what happens. Rattle the cage, jump out the window, don’t look down. Move so fast the GM can’t keep up. 4. Sell the punches. Always choose the bigger reaction. Let your character be changed by the world and by the other characters. Let them be upset, emotional, irrational. 5. Fuck around and find out. If your character dies, they can come back as an echo. If they have to retire, you can always make a new character. The crew cannot be stopped. Act first and think later, make bad decisions, let the chips fall where they may. 6: Learn to stop worrying and love consequences. Most rolls are going to have consequences. Wouldn’t it be boring to succeed all the time? Embrace consequences, and create consequences, then roll them up in a giant ball of chaos and surf on top.
August 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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👀 👀 👀

www.instagram.com/p/DMs3-u7sEhT/
An instagram promo post for the Glass Cannon playing Blades '68, 8/2/25, 12pn ET. Youtube Premiere. Ross Bryant, Mary Lou, Joe O'Brien, Jared Logan. Youtube.com/theglasscannon
July 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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What’s the cover art that got you started in the TTRPG hobby? Here’s mine:

(The first into playing, the second into GM'ing)
The cover of AD&D 2nd Edition Player's Handbook Cover of Deadlands player's guide
May 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Deep Cuts is amazing -- AND ALSO this campaign lets you get physical printed copies of my Detailed Doskvol Street Maps, for the very first time, in a nice 12x18 foldable dry-erase format.
May 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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19 mentions of Austin Powers in the Blades '68 open playtest feedback surveys 🤔
The "find" UI in google docs, showing a search for "Austin Powers", with 19 results.
May 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Rebel Twilight -- a guide to reskinning Twilight:2000 to the Star Wars universe.

Deeply, deeply unofficial in every way!

The Galactic Civil War. Rebel soldiers stranded on a planet where civilization is collapsing. Tracking food, water, blaster charges.

drive.google.com/file/d/1sgJt...
A cover mockup for Rebel Twilight. Greyscale imagery of a rebel soldier holding a blaster rifle, with a moon in the background, on a black cover. The text "Rebel Twilight. Twilight 2000 reskinned to a galaxy far, far away".
May 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Blades '68: Radical, and Intellectual.

Playtesting has closed and the feedback is in. Full steam ahead, choo choo.
Double page spread from Blades 68, showing the Radical playbook. A woman in a jumpsuit, wearing a bandolier and beret, sitting on a rooftop. She's reading a book in one hand and holding a detonator in the other. There's a huge explosion in bright red behind her, causing two pigeons to take off in fright. A double page spread from Blades 68, of the Intellectual playbook. A bearded man in a nehru suit and slippers sits in an egg chair. He's wearing big, chunky late 60s glasses, and holding a pipe.
May 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Deathmatch Atlantis, a major new island for Deathmatch Island complete with its own competitor sheet with custom acquisitions. Available now!

The Paragon System comes, of course, from AGON, so it was a lot of fun making a Deathmatch Island island as a love letter to that game.
May 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Blades '68: Veteran and Hound (and the hound's hound).
Double page spread from Blades 68, showing the Hound playbook. A noir figure in a trench coat, holding a snub-nosed gun, stands in the glow of a restaurant window. He has a bloodhound by his side. Double page spread from Blades 68, showing the Veteran playbook. A woman with an afro and a headband, wearing a military jacket with an assault rifle slung across her shoulder. The jacket has various pins and badges. A scar runs down her face, across one of her eyes.
April 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Something's afoot within the Doskvol City Council.

(Thanks to Sean Nittner for the copy!)
Fictional meeting minutes for the Doskvol City Council, year 968. Present: Clelland Penderyn Strangford Bowmore Tyrconnell Motions: Cllr. Bowmore, proposal to extend Nutriwafer program outside of Coalridge. Vote suspended, pending feasibility study in Dunslough for Ironhook prisoners is complete. Strangford-Michter Financial bond proposal at 12.5% compounding interest to fund metropolitan development in Six Towers, including historic building preservation. Motion carried by vote 4-1. External motion from Ministry of Stability Chief of Operations, H. Dunvil, proposal to extend the Patrol Hull pilot program into regular deployment. Motion declined 3-to-2. Future vote pending demonstration of patrol hull capabilities. Motion to secure an off-budget allocation intended for confidential strategic engagements, to be overseen by a restricted internal review committee (Cllrs. Clelland and Tyrconnell), with limited transparency to ensure operational flexibility. Motion carried by vote 3-to-2. Proposal to review zoning changes in Silkshore, to accommodate mixed-use developments along Taffeta Road. Motion carried by vote 5-0.
April 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Blades '68 continues ✌️
An illustration from Blades '68, featuring the Veteran playbook. The text reads "Core playbook one of nine. Veteran." The illustration shows a woman with an afro, machine gun over her shoulder, wearing a military jacket adorned with 60s badges including the peace sign, a lightning bolt, an eye, and a flower. She's wearing dogtags.
April 4, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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For those with the means, a wide range of high cuisine is on offer in Doskvol '68. Are you more of a Golden Plum person, or Velvet & Vine?
A fictional menu for the Golden Plum restaurant, for Blades '68. Classic high cuisine A fictional menu for the restaurant Velvet & Vine, for Blades '68. Modern nouvelle cuisine.
March 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Market Day menu at the Egg and Spoon diner in Charhollow.
A fake menu for the "Egg and Spoon" diner in Charhollow, for Doskvol 68.
March 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM