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Plays TTRPGs & bloodbowl, draws a bit, runs now and again. Once swam with a shark. https://linktr.ee/tomtremendous

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 19h

Properly MB, lovely stuff.

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 20h

Paulie is very much the brains of the operation and has saved Fibber from the mob more than once!

tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 21h

#mörktober day 08. Meet the magician formerly known as Fibber Jenkins and his most handsome assistant... Wizard-adjacent? #morkborg #pirateBorg #OSR

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 1d

Correction! Only day 07... must lay off the ash.

tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 1d

Day 08 of #mörktober, fancy a SHARD of crystal ash mate? #pirateBorg #morkborg #osr.

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Infinite Citadel ➡️ PaxU @infinite-citadel.com · 2d

#mörktober Day 6 - Husk

One Husk is bad. A few are worse. But what happens when the end of one Husk is indistinguishable from the beginning of the next? Even in death, Skavs survive (and kill) together.
#ttrpg #morkborg #art

Mörk Sol - Mörktober - by Infinite Citadel. Day 6 - Husk. Learn more at morksol.com A hulking behemoth of pathwork spacesuits and artificially preserved flesh looms. Massive claws reach as withered limbs teeter from above. The glow of the eyes, peering out from the electronics that labor on despite its occupants’ deaths, seem to create a crown of light. The Huskking. Even in death, Skavs survive together. Micro-gravity binds the suits of the dead, AI mimics what remains of their souls. HP 24 | Morale - | Patchwork Suits -d6. 4x Punch d3+2. Decaying Suit: lose one tier of armor and one attack every time it takes 5 or more damage. Preservation Instincts: Incorporates killed Skavs into its body, restoring one lost armor tier and one lost attack.

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Mars Strocks @marsstrocks.bsky.social · 2d

FIRST SIX dungeon rooms created for #mörktober

This month, I'll be completing a randomized dungeon for #mörkborg. Each time you enter a door, roll d66 to reveal the next room... Here's the first wave of rooms!
#morktober #Mork #Borg

Sixth dungeon room: Treasure hoard. A shambling husk of flesh rolls near three crooked friars. Prompt: Husk

Six dungeon rooms: Swamp, Maw, Campfire, Forest, Writing desk, and treasure Hoard. Full-text document will be provided when complete.

Room one: Swamp. Disgusting slop lies below a rickety bridge, where giant frogmen wildly scream and hack at you. Prompt: Frogs

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 2d

Cheers! Trying to keep it simple this year, using a mix of CC images & my own photos.

tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 2d

More #mörktober #morkborg mayhem on day 06 with the HUSK of a long forgotten god. #OSR #pirateBorg

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 3d

One for the road? with day 5: STAIN in #mörktober.

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alex @alexcj.bsky.social · 4d

Morktober Day 4: HOWL

#morkborg #morktober #MÖRKTOBER #Mörktober

Raised by Wolves
A CLASS FOR MÖRK BORG
Abandoned in the wilderness by impoverished or dead parents you were nursed by a she-wolf and raised as her own. Brought up red in tooth and claw you saw no difference between yourself and your fanged and furred siblings. Now, entering a world of supposed law and civilization you note the smell of blood on the breath of priests and lords is no less thick than on the breath of wolves. Hunt or be hunted.
Begins With 1d6x10s and d4 Omens.
HP: Toughness + d10
Introduced to the Human World (d6)
1. Captured by poachers
2. Abandoned by the pack, adopted by a carnival
3. Possessed by a ghost—the knowledge of language stayed after the spirit moved on
4. Found and taken in by the twin your parents didn’t abandon
5. Urban sprawl consumed the woods—your pack was left begging for scraps but you learned how to hunt in this new territory.
6. After killing and eating a hunter you gained their memories and knowledge.
Abilities
Your bestial experience and custom has limitations, roll 3d6-2 for Presence. You grew up hunting naked in the woods running on all fours, roll 3d6+1 for Toughness and Agility. Roll d6 on the weapon table and d2 on the armor table. You begin with one of the following traits earned as a member of the pack:
1. Bestial Presence
Humanoid enemies are discomforted by your animalistic bearing and must check morale each round.

2. Hunter’s Instinct
You know prey—you know how they move, how they think. DR of tests relating to tracking, interrogating, or stalking your prey is reduced by 4.

3. Pack Tactics
You’ve fought as one of many all your life. When you and an ally are both in melee range of an enemy, DR of your combat tests related to that enemy are reduced by 2
4. Iron Jaw
You know how to bite and not let go. When you succeed on a melee attack against an enemy you may make a follow-up bite attack against that enemy. DR10, d6 damage. 1-2 on a d6 the enemy gets a free attack
5. Packmate
ETC - sorry ran out of chrctrs

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 3d

The sense of euphoria on realizing your mistake! Did you punch the air? Or simply sink back into the warm embrace of a duvet?

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 4d

#mörktober day 04 - howl... a cautionary tale never to cross the god of cats.

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 5d

#mörktober day 03: Daggers!

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 5d

The audiobook is next up on my running l reading/listening list.

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nemysisrelapse @nemysisrelapse.bsky.social · 6d

Day 2 - Maw.

I wrote a little description in Scots for ‘The Maw’. A mother of spiders. Once again unsure of what I’m doing. Pardon my rusty Scots #Mörktober #Scots

The Maw. A spiders pincers covers the top left of the image.

Scots fills the top right of the page “O aw the wickit hings nae mair a ill-deedy unbeast thare’s ‘an her. Mammie tae aw sort a oagin beast. Mither crimson, dame o the Yerl o Hell. The Maw o aw ‘at clammers an claws wean frae breest”

The bottom left of the image contains all the stats for the creature

“HP: 12 | MORALE 10 | HARDENED CHITIN - D4 | SHARPENED PINCERS D4
The Maw calls forth her ill brood. Each round roll ido on any result lower than a 4 summon 1d4 Spider-like beasts.

Desire - Wishes for nothing more than to spread her brood. Shall seek for a host for her next brood to feast upon

Lair - The Forgotten places on the outskirts of villages

Loot - Maws Tooth”

On the bottom right is the image of a spider woman holding a dagger. A white halo surrounds her head

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 6d

#mörktober day 2; a beach in paradise is home to something quite unpleasant.

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 6d

#mörktober day 2: Maw

Chris Bissette 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · 6d

#MÖRKTOBER DAY 2: MAW

"Those who first settled here pledged to guard it, to prevent the tumorous, writing things that emerge from it from spreading across the land."

Words by me. Art by @nohr.se

A two page spread with text on the left and an illustration on the right.

Text reads: "The village of MAW is built around a deep pit, a gullet into the depths of the earth. Those who first settled here pledged to guard it, to prevent the tumorous, writing things that emerge from it from spreading across the land.

Those who dwell here now have made it a tourist attraction. For a mere 5s you can prick your finger on the jagged barbs of the razor fence that encircles the maw, feed your blood to the lands below for luck. In the fighting cages beneath the Grappled Goblin you can make your name by taking up a flail against the things that crawl up out of the hole into the light - or chase riches by betting on the fates of those braver (or at least more foolhardy) than you.

MAW LURKER
HP 5 Armor -d3 (calcific growths) Claws D4 + infection
1-in-6 chance they have wings, in which case they grapple their enemies and lift them from the ground, dropping them onto the hard stone floor of the arena (Test Strength DR 14 to escape, 1d6 damage per 10’ fallen)

The illustration shows a crowded village surrounded by looming trees, with a dark pit ringed by spikes at the centre.

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 7d

Having another stab at #mörktober. Going to try and keep them short and pithy this year.

tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 7d

See you went with the OTHER gif... For such a seminal work, surprised there were only two gifs to choose from.

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 7d

MAN V FLUSH

They said it couldn't be done, they said 'get a plumber in!' But no! After much swearing and repeated trips to the plumbers merchants, I have a fully functional toilet that DOESN'T LEAK.✋🪵

The mysterious workings of... the TOILET!

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 7d

If you see this, quote your first anime... assuming this counts?

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 9d

He really enjoyed it... remarking afterwards that he was much better than the YouTube clips I'd forced him to watch beforehand.

tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 11d

The boy and I settling in for an evening with Stewart Lee.

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tomtremendous @tomtremendous.bsky.social · 11d

No no no. Those tomatoes belong in a SALAD! No beans? Epic fry up fail.

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