Ben Newbon

@bennewbon.itch.io

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TTRPG designer, AP host & performer. Videogames analyst at Rare. Vice Chair of IWGB union Game Workers branch https://bennewbon.itch.io https://anchor.fm/cybertopiaap https://youtube.com/@ben_newbon/videos Say no to genAI

The End Stage Mechaclysm title in sci-fi fonts, coloured kinda cyan with black and white patterning. This time spelled correctly!
The End Stage Mechaclysm title in sci-fi fonts, coloured kinda cyan and black and white
A very small orange-black striped caterpillar wriggling around on the pavement
Teaser trailer for End Stage Mechaclysm Music: Youth Rush by Alex Grohl Clips taken from from GIFs on Giphy of Pacific Rim, Eureka Seven, Gurren Lagann, Knights and Magic, Mobile Suit Gundam, Transformers The Dark of the Moon and Transformers The Last Knight
A screen recording of me editing my Blue sky profile. I modify "Videogame analyst currently looking for work" to "Videogame analyst at Rare. Vice Chair of IWGB union Game Workers branch"
A concrete planter with giant pink poppies, tiger lilies, roses, foxgloves and various green leaves with a wooden fence behind.
The upload screen for Archive.org,showing a progress bar for ReadMe.txt at 10GB/12GB with all other files for CybertopiaAP in the background
Progress bar for the upload of Cybertopia season 1 to the archive. It shows 10GB/12GB and is currently uploading CybertopiaAP-S1-E9-4.wav
A photo of me in a dark blue hammock in my garden, smiling and wearing a black cap, sunglasses and pink fade top
My desk set up for Fallout d20 streamed AP with Would Be Heroes. 1st monitor shows the twitch stream, 2nd has Roll20 showing and small ringlight camera attached above and the 3rd screen (vertical orientation) has Discord above OBS with a Mr Handy avatar. Theres a mic stand and boom shield reaching out between screens 2 and 3 with a mouse on a mouse pad below it. The middle of the black desk has a wooden dice tray containing a few d20s, next to a wooden dice box and in front of a black keyboard.
The logo for the Colorado Webfest on top of the season 2 Cybertopia cover
Teaser trailer for Pantsless Tables presents: Afterdeath May 12th 2026 2pm UTC twitch.tv/pantslesstables
Bento box of Japanese deliciousness with nigiri and futomaki, edamame and other stuff I can't remember what it is but is all yummy
A table at Bentoya in Edinburgh with a bowl of miso soup and pot of green tea in front of a big ol' fridge of fish
AFTERDEATH written in Daemonesque font in red and white colouring that makes it look like roiling flesh and bone and blood
AFTERDEATH written in Daemonesque font, coloured red. Looks like twisted flesh and bones
The start of a document titled "CritCore System Resource Document" with a single heading, "What is this?"
I will of course take into account everything entered into the Lines & Veils sheet and I welcome very liberal use of the X card - tho I recognise that doing that is a very difficult thing for many people. I promise you it will not ruin the show - we will figure out any issue and rectify any problem that makes anyone too uncomfortable in any moment. Any other game I run, I always tell players they can do whatever they need to if they can't abide by something during play: X in discord, cam off, disconnect, visibly run away even! Do whatever you need to in the moment to protect yourself - we will at the very least take a break and potentially end the session or even whole show if we need to and that is no shame on you. However I want to assure you all that I will do absolutely everything I can to make this a fun and happy experience for all of you!
A rough line drawing, blocking out a bipedal 4 armed mech with a flat-top head and backpack visible behind, holding two large revolvers, a large cannon and grenade. It's standing upright with the cannon outstretched, revolvers out but not aimed and the forth arm stretched backwards readying a throw.
LL4 Raleigh mech frame holding a bolt thrower, two hand cannons raised up, a nexus case on the back and small autoloader drone flying above. It's got a teal body with cyan glow and the weapons are blue and red. Made in retrogrademinis and coloured in GIMP
A picture of me taken with my webcam, in my home office with couch and acoustic guitars in the background. I'm weaing a zipped up grey hoodie and holding a glass of red wine up to the camera.
A collection of Fallout characters: a military drill sergeant supermutant a stealthy ninjasuited human with long hair and a powerglove a ragged hooded knife wielding human a bearded man with a backpack and pipboy a winking lady with a camping pack and medkit a Mr Handy robot with labcoat and dr outfit
A grey car that has been crashed into from behind and is covered in goopy white slime
Me playing guitar and singing Whiskey Roll by Cammy Barnes
Itch.io page not found image. A red skeleton shrugging on a black background with 3 blue question marks above its head. Text below it reads: We couldn't find your page
8 people in squares around a central square showing a golden masquerade mask. 6 of the people are wearing masks.
Image of a mech on a white background built using retrogrademinis and colorised in GIMP. It's a Raleigh frame with a bolt thrower, two raised hand cannons, an RPG on its back and mines and grenades hung around it's neck. The chassis is a blue/gunmetal, whilst the weapons are blue with red piping and grenades and mines are red
My hand holding a Vecna themed dungeons and dragons goblet. It is all carved and textured in golds, purples and pinks, with skulls and a skeletal figure of Vecna
A flyer from IWGB Game Workers Union. It reads: FIGHT ROCJSTAR UNION BUSTING Stand in solidarity with workers to demand reinstatement. Thursday 6 November 1pm - 2pm Barclay House 108 Holyrood Rd EH8 8AS Edinburgh
A monochrome tattoo of a bird's wing pointing upwards from my right ankle
My bare lower legs laid out on a plastic clad red bed in a tattoo parlour. A faint stencil of a wing is visible on the outside of the right ankle. A sign is visible in the background "Tattooing is not a spectator sport"
The lobby of St Clair's Tattoo Studio in Portobello, Edinburgh. An open red door leads thru to the artist's parlour. A large red sign displays the name of the shop. Many tattoo illustrations line the walls. My shoes can be seen crossed resting on a box next to some forms on a clipboard
Shop front of Tactics Games on Barrack St, Perth, Western Australia. Visible are many games stocked in the large glass windows and a hanging green sign using "Tactics Games - Game and Hobby Specialists"
Hand-drawn and labeled depictions of an owster, bunnycorn, tigerdon, octeel, and liodragon
Apophis the raccoon-moth hybrid
A mech image made using Retrogrademinis, coloured red, white, blue and green core with a cyan glow, using GIMP.
Stacks of metal shelves full of TTRPG books at Orcs Nest, London
A large screen wraps around the inside of a big open space with people walking through and sitting around. Various woodland creatures controlled by the audience members playing musical instruments
A large graffiti'd set of walls at the back of the London Graphic Centre. Many multicoloured irregular shapes overlap and large white writing reads: CREATIVITY IS IN ALL OF US
A cardboard box filled with print copies of Overgrown, my TTRPG about weird animal hybrids. The cover art visible features several of these hybrid creatures in a rundown and overgrown urban scene
A green hundred sided dice
A screenshot of the Itch.io New & Popular page for Physical Games, showing Overgrown TTRPG by Ben Newbon as second on the list
My hand holding a physical copy of the Overgrown TTRPG book. The cover features the back of a boar-bear's head, snarling at a lion-cockatiel with a winged-pig and parrot-deer on broken buildings in the background.
The new front cover of the Overgrown TTRPG book, art by Valentina Sarin. Features hybrid animals in a broken overgrown urban area: lion-chicken, goat-bear, pig-dove, 3 parrot-deer and a kangaroo-bunny.
Me playing acoustic guitar and singing Arabella from Nathan Evans x SAINT PHNX
A hand holding a physical copy of the new edition of Overgrown, a TTRPG about weird animal hybrids. The cover shows a colourful collection of hybrids in a derelict urban scene.
Goose-jellyfish hybrid creature with human arms - photoshopped goose on water with jellyfish tendrils emerging from its back and human arms attached at the bottom of its neck
Weasel-crab hyrbrid - photoshopped weasel body with crab legs and claws
Chamber: My latest LL3 mech, built on the ISPN Raleigh frame with many missiles, a bolt thrower, lightning launcher and mjolnir cannon, with grenade and mine belts. The image has the weapons coloured dark blue with red and white flourishes, while the frame is a gunmetal grey with cyan hlighlights and greenish core, and everything has a healthy cyan glow of cleaning nanites
A set of polyhedral dice, sparkly white/silver with purple numbering
The Cybertopia rulebook cover art: a silhouetted crowd of people in front of a city skyscape
Tiali, the cat-spider, drawn by an actual child - I did not ask their age but they were very excitable and fun to play with!
The new front cover of the Overgrown TTRPG book, art by Valentina Sarin. Features hybrid animals in a broken overgrown urban area: lion-chicken, goat-bear, pig-dove, 3 parrot-deer and a kangaroo-bunny.
A cherry tree covered in white blossom with clear blue sky and a white house behind
Me playing acoustic guitar and singing: Flow like the river - it's meandering Fall like the rain - gentle on my skin Roll on the waves - the ocean spray is fine Go with the tide all in good time We are the only versions of ourselves Come around, no one else can tell our tales Because they haven't walked out worlds And they never will Float on the wind - stopped by nothing Breathe in the air - this is living Shine like the sun - we can all be one Stars are all special on their own Step out of line - we don't all need to follow the signs Take it in your stride - you shouldn't hold it all inside But don't just take it from me Be who you need to be
Me playing Beer by Reel Big Fish on acoustic guitar with a surprise appearance from my young daughter - don't look at her! :D
A video of my playing Landslide by Fleetwood Mac on acoustic guitar
Me playing acoustic guitar and singing Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues