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Tim Obermueller

@timogames.bsky.social

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hey, I'm Tim, a ttrpg designer from Nebraska, USA.

I write adventures and supplements primarily for Mothership and Liminal Horror, but I also sometimes write weird little games. Check out my stuff on Itch; there's free stuff there, too.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 17h

which made two of the investigators lose so much sanity they were erased from existence.

Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 17h

That is not great. On the flip side, in a Call of Cthulhu game that was a time loop and a player said "Fuck it. I'm gonna do a Sweet Jump." Ramped their car into a house, and failed so aggressively that no cultists were hurt and it shattered a statue causing Azathoth to appear in the sky

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 17h

"When you enter, the floor and walls are covered in blood dusted over with black powder, y-"
Player: "Nope. I leave."
"Well, this has been an amusing... several minutes."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 18h

It's almost his time.

Nosferatu stands in a door in black and white movie. He's holding a card that reads "Say it's Carol Singers"

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 8d

They are very good, thank you! Added to my rotation

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MagnumGalaxy @magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io · 8d

Yippee-ki-yay, Mothershippers, Hardlight Station is back!
Check out the free preview now on Itch here: magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io/preview-dyin... (also available on DTRPG). Happy hunting and see you in Q1 2026 when the Kickstarter goes live!

Preview - Dying Hard on Hardlight Station: NS-1365 Anthology Edition by Magnum Galaxy Games

Return to Hardlight Station in this free Mothership RPG preview with expanded locations and new Sector 1365 adventures.

magnum-galaxy-games.itch.io

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Chris Airiau @chrisair.itch.io · 10d

In this month's Rokaner Report, I talk about Flatline on the Blocks, games I'm runnning for the ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS digital convention, and my work with @chaoclypse.bsky.social on All Roads Lead to Rome

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Magenta card for 5 Million Worlds Rokaner Report #21, September 2025. The 5MW spaceship is headed to Prospero's Dream.

Free Flatline on the Blocks "Spinal Crux" patch in the first 48 hours for all physical backers.
The patch is a purple-y cyborg eyeball with wires going into the orbit around it. Art by Scragend.

All Flesh is Surplus, The Lost Bay Reborn Digital Convention, Second Edition: Found Footage of the Bay. October 2025. A jawless skull sits in the middle of the text.

Cover mockup for All Roads Lead to Rome with fungal strips spreading from a skull. Four creepy, muscled alien sketches off to the left. One's a fungal squid-shark like thing, one's a square-ish flesh blob. One's a suit(?) made of meat(?). The last and biggest one is an early drummer sketch, with a huge face like a drum kit.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 12d

If you have any recs, by all means

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 12d

Friendship ended with Sad Girl music, Now Angry Girl music is best friend.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 12d

One of my most anticipated upcoming games!

Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved (ADV/VN) @traindetective.bsky.social · 12d

When our adventure game launches on November 26th, we will support...

- Steam, including Steam Deck 💻
- Nintendo Switch, and Switch 2 via backwards compatibility 2️⃣
- English and Japanese languages (see our Japanese version in action below) 🗾

Spread the word!
store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 17d

Have you seen our upcoming Mothership Month zine, Flatline on the Blocks? Well, you should! My block, The Faucet, includes one of the district's four cargo lifts, strictly controlled by a new Teamster splinter faction - The Order of Free Labourers.

Follow it HERE: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Prepare for wetwork in Flatline on the Blocks, a 20-block space station district at death's door from a team of veteran creators, for Mothership RPG

From Spinal Crux Warriors - Prepare for wetwork in Flatline on the Blocks, a 20-block space station district at death's door from a team of veteran creators, for Mothership RPG

www.backerkit.com

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 20d

We may have *lightly* collapsed the entire Paris Catacombs.

Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 20d

TTRPG Out of Context: "My apologies to the French and those who may be of a French persuasion."

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · 26d

A Fey Trickster gets your true name by dating you & getting your name from the marriage certificate but due to fey law, has to sign their true name as well. So you're in this weird cold war of being able to entirely undo each other but also genuinely in a loving relationship. Get tricked loser!

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 26d

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · Aug 26

I like turtles

Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · Aug 26

men only want one thing

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sheeb @shiiocha.com · Aug 25

magnum opus lupin meme drawing

Based on a photo. Shiiocha art. Zenigata is walking through the ocean in the background in nothing but his hat and speedo, whilst in the foreground is Fujiko in a wedding dress, holding a bouquet, smiling at the camera oblivious to what is behind her. Next to her, Lupin is in a suit with a flowery tie, looking directly at Zenigata, face flushed.

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Dan Phipps @itsdanphipps.bsky.social · Aug 22

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blark @blarkblarkblark.bsky.social · Aug 17

push to standardize RPG classification

a four quadrant grid.
right side reads “WET”
left side reads “DRY”
top reads “GUN”
bottom reads “SWORD”

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Kaden "No to Al Art" ☕️ @kadenramstack.bsky.social · Aug 15

Pspsps you all want to go play Galatea so bad, go do it goooo

mirror-lock.itch.io/galatea

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MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · Aug 13

Mutuals and Mutual-adjacents Folks: Does anyone I know have a mostly finished TTRPG they are looking to get across the finish line and into print that otherwise can't make that happen themselves (especially on the print/selling front)? Let me know!

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · Aug 6

Tim Lore Drop: For Curse of the Hat Man, I made ghosts less scary for myself by making one a Terminator/Mr X type thing.

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Amanda P. ➡️ PAXU @weirdwonder.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today I'm releasing The Eternal Empress, a short location-based adventure for the Appendix N. jam. #osr

Special thanks to @explorersdesign.bsky.social and Gus L. for the great cover and map!

weirdwonder.itch.io/empress

The Eternal Empress by Amanda P.

An adventure for Cairn and old school roleplaying games

weirdwonder.itch.io

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RA Creedon(She/her)🏳️‍⚧️ @raccomputing.bsky.social · Jul 28

It's here!

Straight Arrows by RACcomputing

Kick down the door and drag your target out of whatever drug den they’ve ended up in. For a hefty price, that is.

raccomputing.itch.io

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Tim Obermueller @timogames.bsky.social · Jul 25

I fully agree with you. My money would be on the brief saying "Something more modern" and GW bought the lowest risk option.

Stuff like this makes me glad I'm out of marketing.