Erica Bridges

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she/her. Chicago-based TTRPG Designer and Classical Studies PhD. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/honeycupgames/nostos work email: ericabridgesphd@gmail.com

"Tropaia Station" by Isabel Vasich. A quiet, grassy countryside. Three paths intersect here, at a roadside station similar to a rural Italian rail station: a railroad, a paved road, and a dirt path. Each trails off into the horizon, meeting wide fields of swaying grass. The station has a small coffee shop, branded "Coffee!"; a sturdy wooden bench facing the railroad, on which a gruff old woman sits and works through sudoku; and an antique vending machine that sells glass bottles of soda and cigarettes. In the distance, an elk the size of a skyscraper sits at ease, staring lazily off into empty space.
A photo of a painting by Kaysha Siemens, depicting the maelstrom at the Center of the Sea of Irreality — one of the possible final destinations a campaign's PCs can set out to reach in their quest to find a way home.
An illustration from the TTRPG Nostos by Rosario Mendez. A nighttime scene on the island of Lefka, whose citizens tear down and rebuild the entire city each day and celebrate their hard work each night. In the scene, four young visitors to Lefka dressed in mecha-style flightsuits speak with the locals, learning about their customs and culture. Meanwhile, the fifth member of their party sulks above, perched on a construction beam and angstily staring off into the distance.
Cover image for HIT! The Blackjack-Powered Space Heist TTRPG. Two silhouettes flee, pursued by a third figure, in front of a futuristic city skyline.
A teaser poster for Nostos, a TTRPG coming to Kickstarter in early April. Impressionist stormclouds thunder over a roiling sea. Caption text reads "Let's find a way home" above the central word, "Nostos". Illustration by Kaysha Siemens.
An illustration by Helena Ramos for the TTRPG zine Hit!. The scene depicts two characters in a shootout in a sci-fi casino. Using an overturned roulette table as cover, an anthropomorphic bat clumsily tries to reload his revolver. To his left, a pink-haired woman dives into cover behind the roulette table and narrowly dodges a hail of bullets rippling across the casino floor, presumably from some security guards these would-be thieves have alerted.