Ben M | Periapt Games

@periaptgames.bsky.social

883 Followers 1005 Following

🦆 New Zealand indie TTRPG maker, art enjoyer, he/him, tags #devlog posts 🦆 Blog! bit.ly/periaptb 🦆 Weird wizard/wikipedia zine! bit.ly/weirdwiz 🦆 Cartoon cultists solo RPG! bit.ly/overz 🦆 Dungeon archaeology! bit.ly/dundig 🦆 Other games! bit.ly/periaptg

Dice tables to determine which curse follows when the dragon's body is burned, dissolved, preserved, or stuffed. Slashed red background.

Artwork of tuatara reptile made into rounded melted squares. Original via Wikimedia Commons.

Wizardly astrologer on medieval steps. Painting by Wyeth.

Photocopied errata pages, tuatara logos, and a card labelled ‘Understand the Scope of Infinity’.

A strange character power card called Become Imperfect. Starry blue card art of a moon floating over a pool of water inside a head. The card has the "Dissolution/Dissipation" affinity.

A tuatara reduced to a grid of coloured dots.

Scattered and tattered pages of esoteric artwork, metaphysics references, and tuatara logos.

A Fistful of Curiosities cover image. A scarred thief and a handful of gold-edged oddments.

Extract of errata for "Chapter 14: Preparations" and "Chapter 15: Definitional conflict". The errata correct entries in a Mental Equipment Table, and sections called: Playthings Of The Senses; Cosmic Instability; Theoretical Combat; Metarhetoric and Loops; Creation From Conflict; Tactical Epistemology.

Poster titled Be a Watcher on the Water. Text reads:
Enjoying a paddle beneath the boughs of the Golden Wood? To prevent a loss, please be on the lookout for miscreants:
Pale lamplike eyes may be watching your pockets.
Some wretches might skulk about on floating logs.
Be mindful of your possessions while camping.
Don't let a thief make off with your jewellery!
Notice posted February / Coirë, Third Age 3019.

Old Polylina advertisement. Now it's easy to hang gay wallpaper in kitchens, bathrooms - anywhere!

Poster titled Ugla. A woman stands holding a sword and an owl, in yellow. Text reads: Judge of the trolls. Presiding over the Trollmoot, she keeps the wilds and farms in grim balance. Ugla's mandate: The Weregild will be paid, the oaths kept, or the sword will be sated. Caution +2. Dudgeon +3. Justice +5. Strength +1. Wisdom +3.

Gru's plan meme. 1. Be a kind-hearted outsider god. 2. Have grand plans for being summoned into the world. 3. Your cultists are all bloodthirsty maniacs. 4. Your cultists are all bloodthirsty maniacs.

The western zodiac minimally redesigned to evoke twelve specific characters from modern media; I can't quite put my finger on who. There's twelve of them though.

Text boxes that say "Batlike Nocturnal Weirdoes", "GATE", "SMOG", and "GUT". Fonts used: Amakan, Trickster, Lobular, Roubaix Industrielle. Images by Alderdoodle, Kattapulka, and SilverGlass.

Text boxes that say "Mordant Quivers", "Load Snake / Play", and "Begone, Foul Imp". Fonts used: Kobata, The Void, Womb Script, Wreckage.

Carcinisation: Time to get crabby. Crab motifs abound in black and white. The font has little claws on it.

Photograph of the full moon above two persimmon trees.

Pixelated/stitched effect in warm orange tones.

Spiral droste applied to the sticker design in green, black, red, and tan; base image depicts a knife over the "women's" bathroom symbol (itself holding a knife) surrounded by the text "GIRL IS A TYPE OF KNIFE IS A TYPE OF"

Text:
when you spend $10 or more on bakery items. In-store or online. Offer can be redeemed once during the promotional period. Bakery offers exclude pre-packaged sliced bread, all other ambient bakery items including rolls and buns (e.g., burger buns, hot dog rolls, sliders, brioche buns), flatbreads (e.g., pita, naan, tortillas, wraps), breakfast items (e.g., crumpets, English muffins, pancakes), snack breads (e.g., fruit bread, pizza bases, garlic bread)

A wētā on a tire swing.

Floating character with devil tail in stylish robe and hood, giggling. Art by Evlyn Moreau.

Book cover, front. Title. White on black.

Sticky notes. Remember to check on cult. Things to do: Manifest.

A random snippet of Python set in JSL Blackletter and Rothenburg Decorative on a parchment background. A wax seal in the corner denotes quality, as it does in every circumstance.

The same pattern of dart-like shapes repeated with different asymmetric line profiles.

Text page for Android Developers titled "Get Android 17".

Advertisement for the IBM Model 6705-B01 "Selectric" III typewriter.

Image 1: A fantasy scene of a wilderness with cyan and blue-green palette with cooler shadows. Image 3: A forest branch in a yellow-green palette with warmer shadows. Image 2: Application of image 3's palette to image 1.

Image 1: A fantasy scene of a wilderness with cyan and blue-green palette with cooler shadows. Image 3: A forest branch in a yellow-green palette with warmer shadows. Image 2: Application of image 1's palette to image 3.

A fantastical landscape field of swords, with one enormous sword. Six variations with increased contrast and black values, crunchy pixel values, and edge highlighting.

Five horn peppers of different sizes arranged in a curve. One is unripe.

Dune movie poster. Text reads "Dune it and dune it and dune it well / I represent House Atreides, was raised out in Caladan"

January 1905 Mucha poster for Vienna fashion magazine, 'Wiener Chic'.

Look me in the face and tell me that it says "BH" in uppercase, not "AI" in lowercase. I dare you.

The two infallible powers. The Pope & Bovril. Black & white advertisement.

The Ambassadors. Painting of two men. The skull is visible only as a greyish diagonal slash at the bottom of the painting.

Atkinson presents his book without apology and wishes to state that the "work" was not inspired by any latent egotism nor a desire on his part to pose as an author. The intent has been to present his experience of twenty years in as short and concise a manner as possible, omitting nothing that will aid the energetic and determined student to acquire greater knowledge and ability.
There are no "experiments" in the book, the practical and technical matter reflects the methods in vogue with the foremost "talent" of the present day. Nor does he wish to supplant other previous and meritorious works upon the same subject. His advice is, "Get them all.”
The book as you find it is an every day record of experience and association with foremost contemporary talent. Aside from the designs and alphabets in the book there is no credit due him.
With these few remarks he respectfully dedicates the book to the Craft in general.
He has purposely compiled the text in a rather disconnected way — making it necessary to consult the index at all times. He also repeats some phases under different headings, which he thinks an advantage.
The Reviews and Test Questions in back of the book are for the beginner's guidance and help, if he desires to study closely and systematically. Atkinson feels that the book will be gladly welcomed by the Craft in general. No book extant contains as much text or as many Alphabets.

Read this aloud: We're in this together. Fellow encumbered player to my right (awkward if you're trying this alone), why do you think this Item is worth so much (or little) to us emotionally?

100 years of science fiction illustration. Battered book cover with 'Amazing Stories' cover inset.

The gland superman by Ed Earl Repp. A man awakens nude on a Frankensteinesque table.

Art by M C Escher. A centipede-like creature with human feet curls up upon itself, set diagonally in a page of text.

The 'Shrink' poster with square serifs added to the foot of the majuscule 'I'.

Poster titled Shrink. Text which itself is slowly shrinking reads:
A spell of diminution.
Should thy foe merit preservation, let this charm be thy recourse.
Dwindling to the stature of the humble mouse, thy subject may be redomiciled in a mead-jar. But a recipient reduced to smallness unrivalled may in faith never be found again.

IBM meme sign edited to read 'a computer can never be held, ever'

Photograph of avenue flanked by sphinxes. Wadi es-Sebua temple.

Possum walking on pavement. Text: Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

Old black-and-white science fiction illustration of a chase scene with futuristic motorcycles. The title reads "PLANET OF THE KNOB HEADS - astounding new book length novel".

Landfall title text. The F is plummeting like a stone. Pastel cloudscape.

A flamingo with the colours wrong. It stands, pale, in a blood-red pool of water. The land is blue-tinted, the sky red. The 80s live here and they hunger for new life.

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. Machinery running into a cross-section of the pit in question.

Square diagram labelled Bottoms/Tops on one axis, Up/Down on the other. Entries: 'The devil laughs', 'The devil's in your hair', 'The wind laughs', 'The wind's in your hair'.

Poster reproduced in The Fundamentals of Creative Design. A red silhouette with a bag and headphones stands below a graphic eye in a spiral of yellow and teal. The figure wears a T-shirt with a frog labelled Freddy.

A cyan-magenta-yellow colour wheel with red-blue-yellow labels. Many of the labels are put on the wrong segments. Some are duplicated. Cyan is labelled a secondary colour.