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Zachary Elliott-Hatton
@zelliotthatton.bsky.social
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Artist, musician, writer, creator of RPGs, occasional social media poster.

https://www.zacharyelliotthatton.co.uk
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Zachary Elliott-Hatton @zelliotthatton.bsky.social · May 5
I Could Do This In My Sleep #PocketQuest2025

A tiny cyberpunk RPG about bodily autonomy, labour, and resistance, available now:

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Banner for "I Could Do This In My Sleep," with the tagline: "They stole your every waking hour, now they want the rest." A outline of a head tipped back with mouth flopped open. In place of the eye, a disc radiating beams of red, white and blue light. A two page spread. On the left-hand page, a selection of superhuman cybernetic powers, followed by a red and blue highlighted art work of a delivery biker performing the Akira bike slide. On the right-hand page, a similarly styled image of a armed and armoured security guard walking by a man lying on the ground, and a girl in the background making a derogatory two-fingered gesture. A two-page spread featuring short descriptions and icons for several factions in the game. The left-hand page is brightly coloured and describes anti-authoritarian groups, while the right-hand page is dull and describes a combination of government entities and supporters. A character sheet filled in with a variety of skills and equipment, suggesting a combat medic role.
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I've really been enjoying the speed and simplicity of the core dice mechanics I designed for I Could Do This In My Sleep, So much so that I've tried working them into other genres of #ttrpg.

And I'm pleased to say that it just doesn't work.

1/...
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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😌🤌
A screenshot of DriveThruRPG's "Silver Best Seller" medal.
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Oh hey, it's me!
watchwellgames.com Watch Well Games @watchwellgames.com · 20d
⚔️ Sneak peek #8 ⚔️ System-agnostic adventure "Battle for the Chronoscape" from our creators coalition, writer & artist @zelliotthatton.bsky.social, will be featured in our upcoming indie #ttrpg zine The Quintessential Curios. All in good time (as in next month!)🕰️
Text reads "Special sneak peak from 'Battle for the Chronoscape' by Zachary Elliott-Hatton. 'I will bring the Mechanomancer's Castle to you,' he states, offering very little explanation of exactly what moving an entire castle entails. 'You may be familiar with the ruins. What's less well known is how they came to be. They are the remains of a town that does not yet exist. As a time-traveller myself, I cannot set foot inside without... consequences. But I will take you as far as I am able.' Coming soon! A Watch Well Games creators coalition zine."
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Protomancer is included in the #DriveThruRPG Halloween #TTRPG sale!

If you like your horror cosmic, unfeeling, and delivered through a deck of cards, you know what to do.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Protomancer - Zachary Elliott-Hatton | DriveThruRPG
With furrowed brow and stony gaze we soldiered on into the night, that endless night that blankets all we have ever known, for surely the light must follow the dark... Surely... And yet the light whic...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reposted by Zachary Elliott-Hatton
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This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."
October 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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While we're 🤠giddy🤠 over here about our upcoming indie #ttrpg zine w/adventures, art & maps by @zelliotthatton.bsky.social @wazza70.bsky.social @dusky-creative.bsky.social @randomflashbang.bsky.social @johnthehedge.bsky.social & others - we wanna hear from YOU #selfpromosaturday!

🚫No AI |✔️SFW only
A meme where in the first panel an excited customer talks at great length about their upcoming indie tabletop roleplaying game zine. In the second panel, an employee at a popular fast-food chain flatly replies, "Sir, this is a Wendy's."
September 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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*Opens WIP British cyberpunk game document*
*Find and replace "dystopian fiction" -> "documentary"*
*Closes document*
tacc.org.uk TACC @tacc.org.uk · Sep 20
We can not stress the importance of resisting this.

Share and sign this petition:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
September 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Got bored waiting for a phone call earlier. If all else fails I've got a good chance as a Geoguessr streamer...
Two overlaid browser windows. The window on the right shows a photograph on Facebook of chicken nuggets spilled on the pavement. Visible in the photograph are double red lines and the markings of a pedestrian crossing, dark grey "blister" paving slabs forming an L shape, iron gratings in the ground, and decorative iron railings. The window on the left shows google street view, positioned at the north-east corner of Grosvenor Gardens, London, and matches the features shown in the photograph.
September 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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✨ Sneak peek time ✨ "The Black Bell" by @dusky-creative.bsky.social with maps by Schalu of LiD Gaming (www.patreon.com/c/lidgaming/...) will be featured in our upcoming #ttrpg zine The Quintessential Curios.
A white tower stands tall. Within its walls, a spiraling staircase leads upward to a black bell. Text next to the tower reads: "Mists enshroud the temple grounds, piling behind the rubble of an ancient fence. Thorny groundcover, trampled by carts and boots, chokes the yard. Looming over the Courtyard, is the Bell Tower, it black bell hanging in contrast with the whitewashed bricks of the temple. The banded double doors to the temple are shut fast against the creeping fog."
September 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Trying out a different art direction for a revised, second edition of Protomancer (which is still very much WiP).
A hand of cards with abilities belonging to different player classes. The cards are black with stark white text and icons, and a coloured border indicating each class. "Infiltration Gear": A pair of night vision goggles. "Particle Shield": Radial waves reflecting an incoming projectile. "Blood, Sweat and Tears": A single drop of liquid. "Death From Above": A skull being violently struck by a descending arrow.
September 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Alright then, you can have another. I hope you all like things in 7/8.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=05P0...
Nefarious - Opening Theme
YouTube video by Zachary Elliott-Hatton
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September 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.
A photograph of a crow sitting atop a dead tree in front of woodland. In the far distance is a city skyline set against an overcast sky.
September 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The setting guide for I Could Do This In My Sleep is coming along nicely.
The Trent Reznor "We're here to have a bad time" meme, except that "band" is replaced with "TTRPG" and "synthesiser playing" is replaced with "Britain appears", in red white and blue text.
September 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Any reason to post this piece of music that I created.
Today's reason? I like it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkD...
On Another Wavelength Series 4 - Overture
YouTube video by Zachary Elliott-Hatton
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September 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Better late than never, I'm designing printable custom cards for Protomancer.
A hand of four playing cards, each with a name and special power. From left to right: "Stim Pack", a used syringe. "Auto-Pistol", a metallic pistol being fired, with ejecting case. "Hazmat Suit", a rigid gas mask. "Exploding Ammo", a projectile trail exploding into bursts of flame. A hand of playing cards with names and powers. Some of the text on each card is obscured by the card in front. From left to right: "Pulse Blaster", a chunky, double-barrel pistol firing two beams and crackling with electricity. "Scanner", the screen of a motion tracker, with a grainy display. "Cannon", the muzzle of a hefty, industrial flamethrower. "-walk", a blank space in the shape of a person, surrounding by radiating beams.
August 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Honestly the person I saw the other day having a full-on, profanity-laced argument with a self-service checkout might be the most sane of us all.
August 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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It's possible that I've designed this system entirely around the fact that I usually have precisely three sets of dice easily to hand.
July 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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It's #PortfolioDay? Well then, I make stuff that has on occasion been referred to as art. Some illustration, some video, lots of music and a sizeable helping of game design too.

🔗 www.zacharyelliotthatton.co.uk
3D render of an open washing machine with glowing red drum, in the midst of two rows of stacked arches. The scene is rendered in dithered, pixelated style, with harsh shadows and vibrant colours. Photograph looking straight down an angular, spiral staircase. Cables run from top to bottom, ending at a bass loudspeaker pointed vertically up the staircase. A two-page spread from a tabletop roleplaying game book, in bright, neon colours against dark backgrounds. The left page lists special powers the player can use and features a delivery moped rider sliding their bike. The right page shows an armed and armoured guard striding past two civilians, one pushed to the floor and the other making a rude gesture. A photograph of a wall with sculpted panels in the form of bricks, concrete slabs, and metal fragments. The whole wall is projection mapped and overlaid with fleshy pinks and reds, as a single drop of some unknown fluid pours from a hole.
July 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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If there's a feeling better than someone choosing to pay "full" price for your Pay-what-you-want title, I don't know what it is.
June 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The Playtest Adventures of Level 1 Thief Dude vs The Filth-Dwelling Wyrm!

"Something stirs at the far side of the room: a mound of what first appeared to be mouldering sewage unfurls to reveal stubby legs protruding from a tubular body, serpentine eyes, and a maw of needle-like teeth."
June 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Beanjackers, Minimal Impact and Impsomnia are all included in this free bundle.

An excellent opportunity to try out a new game, tell your friends, and consider leaving a review!
An illustration of a colossal beanstalk growing high into the air, lifting a mountain range with it. A zeppelin draws near to a structure built into the side of the beanstalk. Below, a small industrial settlement sits by a river. In the distance there is a second beanstalk, and a golden castle nestled in a cloud. Title art for "Minimal Impact". A number of furry, bat-eared creatures cling to the letters. Part of the text are embellished with a forked tongue, an outstretched wing, and a barbed tail. Line art illustration of a tiny volcano, an axe-wielding orc, a ghost, and a slime with skeletal remains and an arrow stuck in it, marching from left to right. A map, or layout diagram of a factory with parts roughly labeled such as a circular saw, conveyor belt, and explosive barrels.
June 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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You: Exhausted, knee-deep in javascript, wrestling the hottest new VTT to work with your favourite system.

Me: "Hang about, gonna screen-share my spreadsheet."
Two pages of TTRPG rules, a note pad tracking statistics, and a handful of vector sprites used to display a battle. The battle is between a knight represented by a black helmet, and a now dead character shown as a purple humanoid figure lying in a pool of blood. The battlefield is six squares in a line, shown orthographically.
June 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I'm getting old, my back hurts, and I need a lighter guitar.
June 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Do I skip the sex ghost episode, or suffer through it for completeness's sake?
June 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Quick sketch while waiting for a call.
Digitally coloured pen illustration of a knight, drawn from behind. They are armoured, wearing a red cape and clutching a cruciform sword in their right hand. They are stretching to climb a short staircase towards a gothic-arched doorway, filled with shadow. Drooping from it, a long forked tongue can be seen. A trio of dice rest on the page. Uncoloured version of the original image.
June 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM