Smoggy 🇦🇺

@juggle-bubble.itch.io

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Lifelong GM, part-time game designer. I run Brisbane's (Australia) most active and inclusive RPG group - Brisbane Social RPG. I make games here: https://juggle-bubble.itch.io/

The banner for netherworld creator markets, showing a rustic wagon with merchant supplies and a lantern in a fantasy style. THIS IS NOT AN AI IMAGE. IT WAS MADE BY A REAL ARTIST. I am fairly sure this is another by the amazing https://nelsongibbins.com/
The Queensland Games Festival big screen at the end when the awards were done.
The cover for my game "You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads" with art by Juan Ochoa. It depicts the "Fates" deliberating over the lives of mortals.
The RPG zines "The Gaslight Club" by Stoo Goff and "An Altogether Different River" by Aaron Lim. Sitting on my coffee table with a pair of custom dice from TableTopCon 2026.
The box of the board game "The field of the cloth of gold". A bright yellow box with black text and a stylised dragon icon.
The books "Overzealous" and "Wallace Winkles Tragedy Factory" with a copy of "Defy the Gods". All printed locally which greatly reduces the shipping costs.
Players enjoying Cy_Borg TTRPG at Neon Brisbane.
A poster which indicates that Vietnam is going to have its second car brand launch in 2027, named the "Thaco".
My eldest boy and I setting up for a game of Blood Bowl using the new 2025 rules and pitch.
My face in selfie next to my slide entitled "from play to practice - creativity in tabletop gaming".
Photo of two Blood Bowl team box sets from Games Workshop. Skaven and Wood Elf.
Teaser poster for our Neon Brisbane event on 22nd March. It features Sci-Fi games and their blurbs, including - RARPID, You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads, Stay Frosty, Mekton Zeta, and X-Crawl Classics.
Scrolling through the initial layout for Oppian Wives. It has lots of classical paintings (public domain) depicting ancient Roman women. And a bunch of book text too.
The anti-AI statement from our discord. It reads: This is an AI-free space. To the best of our knowledge, we do not use our promote AI in any way in this group. If you find we have inadvertently done so, please report it. If you find others have inadvertently done so, please report it. Be courteous and kind when doing so - it's getting harder and harder for people to tell the difference. If you actively use AI or promote its use you may be removed from the group. We support creators and respect their efforts.
The cover of the Malandros RPG. A stylistic black, white, and red image of a man in a suit and hat smoking against a black and white striped background.
The starting board for our game of The Slow Knife today.
Players enjoying a TTRPG at our mini-con.
Header for Neon Brisbane, a one-day mini TTRPG con for Sci-fi games centres around Brisbane, Australia. It has neon lights and a starry background and says "Brisbane Social RPG presents: Neon Brisbane".
An unboxing of the (very LIMITED) print run for my indie story game, "You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads". Shows me (with a broken hand after skateboarding injury!) opening the shipping carton from the printer, and then flipping through a copy of the book. Artwork in the book by Juan Ochoa, find Juan here: https://www.juanochoa.co/ or here: juanochoa.bsky.social
The Slow Knife game book. It's a red book with dark figures being controlled on strings by "puppeteer" hands.
The cover of my TTRPG / Storygame book - 'You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads'. It depicts the three 'fates' holding scissors and string among some darkened archways - illustrated by the incredible Juan Ochoa.
Photo of the game Wanderhome by Jay Dragon.
My hand flipping through my book You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads, a one shot narrative / storygame TTRPG.
The physical book of the solo TTRPG "Caught in the Rain".
POD test copies of my book "You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads".
3 copies of my TTRPG book "You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads" on a wooden floor. These are 3 print samples from 3 different printers here in Australia.
Flipping through the pages for the final print proof of my game book "You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads".
Album cover: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins
The keys to drawing - book by Bert Dodson. 30th anniversary edition.
Playbook for Oppian Wives 'The Foreigner' - a woman who is not Roman, operating in Rome. She is the outsider in Roman society, but can also get away with things that 'traditional' Roman women cannot. Her two Agents (men), include her two lovers - a merchant and a street robber. She uses them to take direct action against the issues across the city which impact her.
RPG design zine 1 and 2 by Nathan D. Paoletta, in my dinner table.
Our TTRPG table with some dice and printouts of the art from the game Grok from our game table.
Playtest for the game Oppian Wives, showing a couple of 'world cards' which are just printed paper. The text describes strong, lateral, and weak moves for the roman concepts of Family and Military, using principles from the 'Belonging outside belonging' or 'No dice, no masters' games.
The image "conferring the toga" from 'A pictorial history of the world's great nations' by Charlotte Mary Yonge, 1882. It depicts a classical Roman scene where a young boy is given his toga at his coming of age. He is surrounded by men and women of his family. The image has been edited from the original etching to a more stylised "comic book" look using digital (non-ai) tools.
Myself and four playtesters (Mac, Dave, Vish, and Tom) at the first playtest session of my new PbtA game - MoonAge, a retro sci-fi game of scenery chewing pulp silly space adventure.
Me holding Egads!, Cartograph, and Kaiju Creator TTRPG titles.
A picture of me standing in Netherworld Arcade and Bar holding Egads! RPG along with Cartograph and Kaiju Creator.
Snippet of the cover for You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads #ttrpg with art by Juan Ochoa- this bit showing a woman (a Fate perhaps?) In a white dress. The font is part of the title of the game, using the "one slice" font from Chequered Ink.
A snippet shared by Juan Ochoa of the painting he created for the cover of You'll Meet the Devil at a Crossroads #ttrpg #storygame It shows one of the Fates, a seemingly youthful woman wearing a white dress.
An RPG table with the game The Warren and some player sheets on it. At Netherworld Bar and Arcade in Brisbane Australia.
Poster for "Apocalypse 4000". A tabletop miniature and roleplaying game event at Netherworld Bar and Arcade in Brisbane Queensland. It's for games themed "post-Apocalyptic" of all kinds. Midday to 4pm.
A brightly coloured poster for my game "Moonage". Two rockets streak up into a starry space sky towards a pair of moons, above a pink rocky outcrop above a golden Sci-fi city.
A brightly coloured poster for my game "Moonage". Two rockets streak up into a starry space sky towards a pair of moons, above a pink rocky outcrop above a golden Sci-fi city.
A highly stylised scene of two rockets or spacecraft streaking towards twin moons in a starry sky above a pink planetoid with a city on it.
A thumbnail of the RPG art - A Roman woman approaching the crossroads shrine to Hecate by @juanochoa.bsky.social - https://www.juanochoa.co/ A black and white digital ink, depicting the woman in dress trailing smoke / incense from her offering while approaching a small shrine, under the shade of some trees. At crossed paths with her is a Roman farmer leading a bull, headed in a perpendicular direction.
6 people around an RPG table playing Ech0 in a karaoke room.
Gamers playing TTRPGs across several tables at the Neon Brisbane Sci-fi event.
Poker dice and some other d6 on a desk.
Game summary for "Another Bug Hunt" Details Another Bug Hunt Mothership GM Bryn Rating: MA 15+ NOTE: This is a PM session, running from 1pm to 5pm. Due to a minor communications bug, Greta Base (a minor research outpost) has been unable to deliver their samples/research notes for this month. The SS Metamorphosis requests its greatest workers (that are expendable) for the job! Mothership is an award-winning sci-fi horror RPG where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space!
Alas for the Awful Sea RPG cover showing a selkie woman holding her seal skin.
Vanilla orchid in my back yard, having grown up a big tree. It used to reach about 5 or 6 meters high, but I have cut it back.
List of Neon Brisbane ttrpg games from humanitix. 15+ Sci-fi, space, future, cyberpunk, and post-Apocalyptic games being run over a day in Brisbane Australia. Over 60 tickets were originally available. Very few (5 or 6) tickets remaining.
A gaming table covered in dice, cards, pens and tokens. Lots of the cards have (difficult to read!) handwritten notes on them in the middle of the table. We are playing Fate, in a setting called Kerboros Club, about an alternate history Victorian London where strange powers and weird science mix.
A list of afternoon games and descriptions for the Neon Brisbane (Australia) Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG) event scheduled for 22nd March 2025. Games include: Beyond the Supernatural, Mothership, Memory Hunter, They Came to Play Ball, Bliss Stage, and License Hell. Please forgive any image issues, as a community event we have no budget for art so have taken images from google that seemed appropriate, using official images for the games where possible in the first instance.