Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)

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Game Dev (Narrative Designer/Game Writer), Tabletop RPG Designer, 2025 Appx. N Jam's Audience Pick, 2026 Bloggies finalist. Writer of "The Knight Errant". https://isaacisafraid.itch.io/ https://afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/ Indonesia

Cover of Ea-nāṣir Must Die! It shows Ea-nāṣir, just like the meme. Art by citaaticat.
Ea-nāṣir is a copper merchant from Ur. Ea-nāṣir sold bad copper. Ea-nāṣir received many complaint tablets. Ea-nāṣir made many enemies. Ea-nāṣir Must Die!
Appx. N Jam 2026 itch.io page. Starts today, ends exactly next month.
Preview of my blogpost, "Things Can Be Weirder in TTRPG: An Appendix N Manifesto"
Cover for Deep Dive, a Mark of the Odd project, by Kerisian Kult. The cover shows a deep diving equipment being chained down into the abyss, where tentacled creature awaits.
The photo of the Knights standees (The Riddle Knight, The Dove Knight, The Dust Knight, The Tome Knight, and The Coin Knight), the cheat sheet, and the rulebook.
A photo of my Mythic Bastionland table before my players arrived.
The four Mythic Bastionland tables recited The Oath: Seek the Myths Honour the Seers Protect the Realm
22 participants (Referees and players) of our local Indonesian Mythic Bastionland event
The pamphlet for the adventure, Siblings of the Sweet. The cover is a two children (a boy and a girl) standing in front of a gingerbread house, with a loominng evil face on the sky looking down on them.
Faction Leaders in BASTION ELYSIUM: Sutan (in red, top left), leader of The Tenants Union Innocentia (in black, top right), leader of The City Congregation The Leader Knight (in gold, bottom left), leader of The Knights of Bastion Stella Gulwin (in blue, bottom right), leader of The Bastion Landlords Association
Cthulhu aka Lulu and Nyarlathotep aka Lala. Lulu on top of the basket. Lala on the floor.
Photo taken by our Daggerheart Gamemaster, Habib, showing the props for the session: 1. Our characters' employee ID cards 2. Top secret documents 3. Company brochure
The view of the Discord call when we played Chris McDowall's Q&A video
Cairn 2e Warden's Guide, Cairn Barebones, Monolith
My game ad for "Ea-nāṣir Must Die!" an Into the Bronze (into the Odd-hack) adventure
Dialect Table, with the Dialect rulebook, the reference cards, and my character name (Felix aka Bung)
A photo of me (with my face hidden by the smiling purple devil emoji) sitting behind my personal GM screen. The GM screen has six A4 panels, with the illustration being a shoggoth, a spinosaurus, a knight, a little green alien, and a kuyang chasing me (IsaacIsAfraid) and Nyarlalulu the Cosmic Horror cat as we run towards a door with a trap at the other side. There are two purple dice sets in front of the GM screen.
A shoggoth, a spinosaurus, a knight, a little green alien, and a kuyang are chasing IsaacIsAfraid as he runs towards a door with a trap at the other side.
Hang Selok, my TTRPG character, inspired by Han Solo. He wears a white shirt and a black vest, a tengkolok headgear, and is holding a bedil (handgun).
THE CORRUPTED Story: Citaaticat, IsaacIsAfraid Illustration: Citaaticat The cover is like a frame of a painting with different sections. The upper side shows a Dutch colonial manor. The center shows a feminine-looking entity with rice paddies as hair and tree bark-like skin, wearing a green and yellow kebaya. The lower side shows eldritch palm trees, with tentacles and eyes.
Most of the participants of LFGcon SESSION 2!
Cover of Bastion Elysium. An Electric Bastionland adventure for 3–5 players. The cover shows an apartment building with several silhouettes and a burning corpse.
Landscape photo of my Mythic Bastionland group. Five players. We played in my friend's cafe.
A curug (small waterfall) in Purwokerto, Central Java
For context, the screenshot is from a clip of the #2 most popular actual play in Indonesia. It's a generated ai video of an NPC that is shown when the GM is roleplaying that NPC. WHY WON'T YOU JUST SHOW THE GM'S FACE AND EXPRESSION ROLEPLAYING THAT NPC?????
My wife's session note for Topeng (Mask), a homebrew Call of Cthulhu scenario made by Fauzan Anindya
Flip through video of The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition
First eid without Charlie Kirk
The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition is #1 Popular on itch.io's Physical Games
The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition is at #2 on itch's Physical Games category
Cover of The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition. The Knight Errant is holding a sword, frozen in place. Behind him are two astronauts, a ghoul, and a shoggoth. Written by IsaacIsaAfraid Art by Citaaticat Published by Copy/Paste Co-op Made for Mark of the Odd
Esoteric Ebb title splash at the beginning of the game
My Liminal Horror table with Abdul Rahman (Mausantara/I'm BIG Games)
Best Debut Blog Valeria Loves The Garden Below To Be Resolved This Vorpal Coil Afraid of Encounters Dungeon Scrawler in lowercase fluorite guillotine The Play Reports Birdmilk’s Cafe
Anti-colonial Dungeon has reached the final of Gameable Category. It is facing RANDOM ENCOUNTER TABLES as ADVENTURE RAM: Adding "Memory" to Encounter Checks.
the default dungeon is colonial moves to Round 3. It is facing Close and Distant Playstyles.
Anti-colonial Dungeon moves on to Round 3. It will face Just Use Bears... Or Wolves, Dragons or Spiders.
Habeeb's "the default dungeon is colonial" beats "Sam's Three Question Taxonomy". It is facing "The Five Laws of Roleplaying" in the next round.
My "Anti-colonial Dungeon" blogpost beats "Castle Claus: The Keep on the North Pole". It will face [HMTW] Using Divination to Generate a Character in the next round.
A picture of my Electric Bastionland's character sheet and character standee. I'm playing Cuno (yes, the one from Disco Elysium) whose Failed Career is a Rollocker Club Alumni.
Black and White photo of a Gentlemen Bicycle Club
"Javanese matrons, it is not a lie that they are so preposterous that they kill themselves with a kris if anything displeases them, and they sometimes kill their husbands; and it is a custom in Java for a woman to be searched before she goes to her husband, because they carry secret krises. This is the custom among the nobles.
Anti-colonial Dungeon is nominated in the Gameable category!
Screenshot of my Foundry VTT set up for my late friend's Call of Cthulhu scenario
A screenshot of my Roll20 post, looking for a session of Call of Cthulhu, D&D, or other fantasy games. I shared my preferences in that post, and someone replied asking if I'm interested in steampunk. That person became my first Game Master, and my first game was Iron Kingdoms.
40+ participants of Indonesia's LFGcon SESSION 1!
Cover of Zedeck Siew's Lorn Song of the Bachelor, illustrated by Nadhir Nor. It shows the title, "Lorn Song of the Bachelor". At the center, there's an illustration of The Bachelor, a white crocodile and its various internal organs.
My Mothership table in a cafe. Five players. My GM screen is a laptop.
One of my cats, Lala aka Nyarlathotep. Grey and white fur.
Call of Cthulhu Starter Set
Fox (?) fur child crying because their parents are fighting
Race Your Pardon. A Troika! adventure.
The table for our Troika! session
The table that we used for our Mausritter: Honey in the Rafters one-shot. My wife, Cita, played Callista the Merchant. Her eldest niece played Kimberly the Doctor. The youngest played Lisa the Princess. Cita drew the mouse portraits.
Big catfish
Reddit post titles "OSR rules & modules for Southeast Asia colonization" "I am currently developing a 17th-century campaign focused on the colonization of Southeast Asia (including Indonesia, Indochina, Philippines). Most modules and rule systems connected to this region tend to focus on medieval Southeast Asia, where themes of early modern colonization feel somewhat out of place. Are there any modules set in Southeast Asia during this period, or modules that engage directly with colonial expansion? I am especially interested in material that could provide inspiration for colony building or offer mechanical frameworks for establishing and managing colonies."
Creatures of Near Kingdoms. Written by Zedeck Siew. Illustrated by Sharon Chin.