Sam Sy is Suffering the Witch
@outsideusnothing.bsky.social
TTRPG designer, writer, very tired.
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Pitch: Medieval setting, things suck, superstitions, the church, nobility control everything. Yesterday animals started talking, you grew wings, something else bizarre happened. Congrats, you're a witch, strange magic talks to you, tells you to save the world. Good Luck! #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch
Suffer the Witch: Yeah, these witches do sure suffer.
January 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Suffer the Witch: Yeah, these witches do sure suffer.
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I barely think about The Obelisk anymore. Couldn't care less about its strangely oily surface or the gentle hum of its presence
September 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I barely think about The Obelisk anymore. Couldn't care less about its strangely oily surface or the gentle hum of its presence
Sesh1 of the Suffer the Witch playtest. Random char creation makes a coven of a winged man, girl with more of herself, witch who can pull stuff from the future, music witch, storm witch, witch animals follow, and the only true witch. They meet in a grove, learn the world is ending. How? Go find out!
January 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Sesh1 of the Suffer the Witch playtest. Random char creation makes a coven of a winged man, girl with more of herself, witch who can pull stuff from the future, music witch, storm witch, witch animals follow, and the only true witch. They meet in a grove, learn the world is ending. How? Go find out!
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TTRPG design challenge that exists at the crossroads of my interests: Make a game that can be played by one person reading it prior, then fully explaining it to others over a campfire, then played with no supplies not used for camping. Bonus points for involving the fire. Bonus for using the dark.
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 AM
TTRPG design challenge that exists at the crossroads of my interests: Make a game that can be played by one person reading it prior, then fully explaining it to others over a campfire, then played with no supplies not used for camping. Bonus points for involving the fire. Bonus for using the dark.
TTRPG design challenge that exists at the crossroads of my interests: Make a game that can be played by one person reading it prior, then fully explaining it to others over a campfire, then played with no supplies not used for camping. Bonus points for involving the fire. Bonus for using the dark.
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 AM
TTRPG design challenge that exists at the crossroads of my interests: Make a game that can be played by one person reading it prior, then fully explaining it to others over a campfire, then played with no supplies not used for camping. Bonus points for involving the fire. Bonus for using the dark.
Starting the very first playtest of Suffer the Witch at my local FLGS in a week! Exciting stuff in the new year!
December 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Starting the very first playtest of Suffer the Witch at my local FLGS in a week! Exciting stuff in the new year!
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It's just that---maybe when you spend your days actually doing good in the world, spending effort to measure people's hearts against the shape-sorter-toy of "most moral type of elf game" feels faintly absurd.
December 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It's just that---maybe when you spend your days actually doing good in the world, spending effort to measure people's hearts against the shape-sorter-toy of "most moral type of elf game" feels faintly absurd.
I am back on bluesky to promote my BS game about the thankless job of being a really weird witch in the early middle ages and trying to save a world that hates you from some BS weird apocalypse or another. #ttrpg #indiettrpg #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I am back on bluesky to promote my BS game about the thankless job of being a really weird witch in the early middle ages and trying to save a world that hates you from some BS weird apocalypse or another. #ttrpg #indiettrpg #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch
The Axe Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg
August 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The Axe Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg
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nothing personal kid
*force feminizes you*
*force feminizes you*
August 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
nothing personal kid
*force feminizes you*
*force feminizes you*
Not to be full of myself but I honest to god think Suffer the Witch may be the best thing I've ever written. Basic rules bit into a two page spread, nice one-topic per column layout, and there's still room for a little doodle of a witch and for Brother Error to have some commentary.
August 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Not to be full of myself but I honest to god think Suffer the Witch may be the best thing I've ever written. Basic rules bit into a two page spread, nice one-topic per column layout, and there's still room for a little doodle of a witch and for Brother Error to have some commentary.
The Throned Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg
August 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Throned Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg
The Marked Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg
August 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The Marked Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg
The Tempest Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg
July 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Tempest Witch, one of 24 witches you randomly get assigned during character creation in Suffer the Witch. Within the fiction you never chose how you got your strange powers, aches, pains, responsibilities. And so out of the fiction you also don't get a choice. #ttrpgcommunity #ttrpgdesign #ttrpg
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Pitch: Medieval setting, things suck, superstitions, the church, nobility control everything. Yesterday animals started talking, you grew wings, something else bizarre happened. Congrats, you're a witch, strange magic talks to you, tells you to save the world. Good Luck! #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch
July 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Pitch: Medieval setting, things suck, superstitions, the church, nobility control everything. Yesterday animals started talking, you grew wings, something else bizarre happened. Congrats, you're a witch, strange magic talks to you, tells you to save the world. Good Luck! #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch
Pitch: Medieval setting, things suck, superstitions, the church, nobility control everything. Yesterday animals started talking, you grew wings, something else bizarre happened. Congrats, you're a witch, strange magic talks to you, tells you to save the world. Good Luck! #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch
July 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Pitch: Medieval setting, things suck, superstitions, the church, nobility control everything. Yesterday animals started talking, you grew wings, something else bizarre happened. Congrats, you're a witch, strange magic talks to you, tells you to save the world. Good Luck! #ttrpgdesign #sufferthewitch
Outside us Nothing: Fully written, playtested, layout about at 50%, art depending.
Outside us Nothing setting and campaign supplement: 2%
Outside us Nothing setting and campaign supplement: 2%
TTRPG STATUS CHECK!
QRT with your current TTRPG projects!
Perihelion: third Case nearly finished while I procrastinate on Agent playbook revisions
BRICK BUCKET: 1/6 done with the GM-facing/setting materials
QRT with your current TTRPG projects!
Perihelion: third Case nearly finished while I procrastinate on Agent playbook revisions
BRICK BUCKET: 1/6 done with the GM-facing/setting materials
TTRPG STATUS CHECK!
QRT with your current TTRPG projects!
Needlestitch collab with @alexrinehart.bsky.social: Playtesting and polish, then visual identity and layout. 70%
HELLWHALERS: Book of Leviathan: More writing, filling out tables, etc, then layout. 30%
QRT with your current TTRPG projects!
Needlestitch collab with @alexrinehart.bsky.social: Playtesting and polish, then visual identity and layout. 70%
HELLWHALERS: Book of Leviathan: More writing, filling out tables, etc, then layout. 30%
January 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Outside us Nothing: Fully written, playtested, layout about at 50%, art depending.
Outside us Nothing setting and campaign supplement: 2%
Outside us Nothing setting and campaign supplement: 2%
More tentative layout! #outsideusnothing 's own hellish devil. To create a character you choose an alien then a background and a ship's roll to create your Freetraveler. Layout and writing by me, art by @arachnophonia.bsky.social
Click-bait bit: In this #ttrpg a devil is just another alien.
Click-bait bit: In this #ttrpg a devil is just another alien.
January 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
More tentative layout! #outsideusnothing 's own hellish devil. To create a character you choose an alien then a background and a ship's roll to create your Freetraveler. Layout and writing by me, art by @arachnophonia.bsky.social
Click-bait bit: In this #ttrpg a devil is just another alien.
Click-bait bit: In this #ttrpg a devil is just another alien.
Let's we go! #outsideusnothing 's own first alien, which you then combine with a background and a ship's roll to create your character. Everything is still we go. Layout and writing by me, art by @arachnophonia.bsky.social . Attention-grabbing bit: In this #ttrpg you can be a vampire in space!
January 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Let's we go! #outsideusnothing 's own first alien, which you then combine with a background and a ship's roll to create your character. Everything is still we go. Layout and writing by me, art by @arachnophonia.bsky.social . Attention-grabbing bit: In this #ttrpg you can be a vampire in space!
Bein into rpg design will have you saying bonkers shit like "does this font effectively represent a giant monster living in the walls as a PC?" or "why shouldn't I have an exclamation mark after Space Wizard?" I love it. #ttrpg #ttrpgdesign #outsideusnothing
January 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Bein into rpg design will have you saying bonkers shit like "does this font effectively represent a giant monster living in the walls as a PC?" or "why shouldn't I have an exclamation mark after Space Wizard?" I love it. #ttrpg #ttrpgdesign #outsideusnothing
In #outsideusnothing players manage their characters with a dicepool that began as a #nodicenomasters system before it fairly quickly diverged. Vulnerable actions, focused on roleplaying or relying on your ship mates, award dice which be rolled later to fuel far more heroic and psychedic moves.
January 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
In #outsideusnothing players manage their characters with a dicepool that began as a #nodicenomasters system before it fairly quickly diverged. Vulnerable actions, focused on roleplaying or relying on your ship mates, award dice which be rolled later to fuel far more heroic and psychedic moves.
Hmmm how best to tickle the sensibilities of the #ttrpgcommunity with #outsideusnothing bits? Something about the (I think, humbly) genuinely new dice mechanics? Tables of the many different locations you can visit? Or just contextless playsheets with trivia about how you can be an angel in space?
January 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Hmmm how best to tickle the sensibilities of the #ttrpgcommunity with #outsideusnothing bits? Something about the (I think, humbly) genuinely new dice mechanics? Tables of the many different locations you can visit? Or just contextless playsheets with trivia about how you can be an angel in space?
This isn't one of my more formal, "hey, look at my RPG system plz" posts, but if a giant cancerous mass of organs that used to be an office worker and is now confined to a spaceship keeping a buglady warm by wrapping her in a giant beating heart sounds fun to you maybe check out Outside us Nothing
January 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This isn't one of my more formal, "hey, look at my RPG system plz" posts, but if a giant cancerous mass of organs that used to be an office worker and is now confined to a spaceship keeping a buglady warm by wrapping her in a giant beating heart sounds fun to you maybe check out Outside us Nothing
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You can tell Isle of Hex (SOON™️) is gonna be cheery, can't ya?
January 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
You can tell Isle of Hex (SOON™️) is gonna be cheery, can't ya?