David

@proton31.bsky.social

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Indie TTRPGs, OSR, PbtA, sci-fi, 日本 Games: https://proton31.itch.io/ Blog: https://planetsandmonsters.blogspot.com/ Mastodon: https://dice.camp/@Davidjackson

Mockups of two Dead Internet Theory zines. over a green hued city night scene
Two zine mock-ups of the Cy_borg adventure module Dead Internet Theory. One copy is closed showing the cover, a group of cyberpunks fighting a gigantic brain robot. The other copy is open showing a spread interspersed with MRI images. The left side shows a representative dungeon map of a cult compound. The right is a description of the Elysium intake facility, and its entrance.
The header for a blog post, Who owns the rules? The OGL crisis and the return of the author
A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Supplement AFTER THE BOMB By Erick Wujcik Cover art by Peter Laird is of a giant shiny metal humanoid robot accompanied by two humans in similar shiny high tech armor fighting a humanoid mutant eagle and rat in a post apocalyptic wasteland
Tony Jaguar's 34th Birthday commission July Only 1. Humanoid or Monster 2. Black and white only 3. You can use it in your zine 4. Paypal: antonio.cdasn@gmail.com 5. Only 5 slots !!!!! Only $34
A stack of paperback books, charlie stross the jennifer morgue, first lensman e e smith, downbelow station c j cherryh, the iron dragons daughter michael swanwick, the diamond age neal stephenson
A cardboard CD case of T Rex's Electric Warrior in front of a blue CD player. The cover art is of Marc Bolan playing guitar in front of a double stack of Marshall amps silhouetted in black and bronze
Photo of some CD cases in front of a blue mini boom box. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight, Souad Massi - deb (heart broken), George Harrison - All Things Must Pass, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kocani Orkestar - Alone At My Wedding
The first paragraph reads: "A liminal zone where digital technology has broken down the physical mass of reality. Naturally, Dimensia has stitched itself to all such places. Punks and heroes alike stumble through the digital thresholds in darkened alleyways to this interstitial semiplane." Title: "D8 doors to the dead internet" A list of 8 doors and a graphic of very old macintosh desktop computer window frame showing a spooky endless hall with a strange cartoon monkey The right side of the page shows a line drawing of a monkey god, Hannuman, with some monkey followers at its feet, followed by a description of monkeys roaming the back halls and tempt wage slaves to leave their dull existences behind
The classic Basic BX cover art, showing a dragon emerging from a cavern river in combat with two adventurers, a torch wielding magic user throwing a green energy ball and an eagle helmeted warrior with a spear and shield. An open chest of treasure lies before the magic user
An excerpt from the blog with a highlighted phrase "Instead of drawing lines in the sand around what cultures of play we like and dislike, we can get into the more interesting space of “why do these choices serve my play, and what kind of play do different choices serve?”"
A photo of a poster reading "recreation center" with six hexagons showing scenes of a local rec center. A dogs back is visible in front of the poster at the very bottom
A holiday sale ad featuring art showing a mammilian and an amphibian looking monster in some kind of confrontation. It reads Roguelike Megadungeon, Now Available in Print, and Holiday Sale. Some microscope photos of snowflakes are photoshopped and overlaid
A cheesy high school yearbook photo of a young man with a giant mullet and batman tshirt, with the Roguelile Megadungeon logo over it
My zine, Roguelike Megadungeon Campaign Workbook, with its edge bent backward to show a sick edge pattern
Artwork by Roque Romero made into a holiday sale ad with the words "Holiday Sale!" written in old English font and written in red, green and white, and with images of snowflakes overlaid. The artwork shows a flying fanged monster attacking another monster from above, this one looking like a many limbed demonic tadpole and energy waves emanating from its head.
Two zines displayed on a table, Roguelike Megadungwon and Roguelike Megadungeon Campaign Workbook. The first is a square zine with a black and white cover, depicting chaotic dungeon themed are arranged mostly in tiles. The second zine is a landscape letter zine with a grey cover and clean, simplified icon style tiles.
Artwork by Roque Romero made into a holiday sale ad with the words "Holiday Sale!" written in old English font and written in red, green and white, and with images of snowflakes overlaid. The artwork shows a flying fanged monster attacking another monster from above, this one looking like a many limbed demonic tadpole and energy waves emanating from its head.
Promo image with the logo Hypernauts with four characters, three humans in matching uniforms and one alien. Their pet alien looking like a little dinosaur is at the bottom. Below the logo reads The New Saturday Morning Live Action Show
A staple bound portrait letter booklet held bent by a hand so that the textured pattern on the edge is easily seen. The cover of the booklet has a title partly visible, reading Roguelikemega- Campaign -
The project was conceived by Ajit George, a writer on Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021), who pitched it to Jeremy Crawford, D&D's Lead Rules Designer, and Wes Schneider, a Senior Game Designer. George and Schneider became the book's co-lead designers and by September 2020, they had assembled a team; the entire creative team included over fifty people of color.
A photo of four worksheets, laid out to show that they are meant to be two spreads of a book of 8.5" by 11" landscape pages. The top spread is titled "World Map" and contains a grid with a setting of mountains and coast drawn on it. The majority of the area has Tundra, with three snowy peaks with circled stars at their peaks, indicating megadungeon entrances. There are also two locations that draw the eye, Sky Stone Keep and Bearfolk Settlement toward the center. The spread also has a bit of room for "Notes", describing the tundra setting as connected to sky fortresses by their mountaintops. It also describes a giant yeti and ice dragon that dominate the land to the northwest. The bottom spread sheets are titled "Main Settlement" and "Street Level". It shows maps drawn on grids, one settlement map with a few streets drawn on it, and a few locations with their names written as "Historic Dwelling" and "Cult Temple".
The chilling new star trek novel Death's Angel by Kathleen Sky based on the award winning television series created by Gene Roddenberry a dazzling new full-length novel--never before published, never seen on television The cover art shows a hooded skull holding an hourglass with a fleshed hand with pointed nails. Everything is transparent and overlaid with a starfield with the Enterprise appearing to be trapped inside the top half of the hourglass.
Top down photo of a hardcover book showing that it is a series of zine sized booklets glued into a spine
Bingo card with squares reading: alien (1979) super metroid (1994) event horizon (1997) sunshine (2007) tetsuo: the iron man (1989) haunted cities (2016) prospect (2018) deqd space (2008) solaris (1972) roadside picnic (1972) lotgh (1988) planetes (1999) doom (1993) blame! (1997) diamond dogs (2001) the thing (1982) hellstar remina (2004) pitch black (2000) live at the death factory (2021) moon colony bloodbath (2009) a collapse of horses (2016) 2001: a space oddesy (1968 hypernormalization (2016) the forever war (1974)
This list is not comprehensive. Is the OSR Dead?, The Other Side (August 21, 2012) Is the OSR Dead?, ENWorld poster pretending to be a blog (September 14, 2015) The End of the OSR, Beyond Fomalhaut (August 7, 2019) OSR is dead and I did not know, THAC0 Blog (August 7, 2019) Kill the OSR - OSR is Dead!, Secrets of Blackmoor (August 9, 2019) The Crypt of the OSR, False Machine (March 11, 2021) The OSR Should Die, Traverse Fantasy (June 2, 2022) The OSR is Dead (Long Live the OSR!), Hexed Press (September 23, 2022) My Own Personal OSR, Seed of Worlds (April 22, 2023)
Transparent pyramidal vessels carrying two passengers each approach enormous interconnected space station like structures underwater as small schools of fish swim by
Graphs showing views, downloads and payments over the month of February, with three peaks for the first three weekends and one moderate one at the end of the month. It also gives incoming visits from other sites over the past 30 days. 1373 from reddit, 1339 from itch, 436 from reddit frontpage, 178 from bluesky. Further down is some decent traffic from iwanttoplay.games, rascal, seed of world blog, daisy chase blog, and a few substacks
Inside a plastic bag, seedlings sprouting from dirt in a paper egg carton. Some seedlings in the top section are going absolutely berserk
Photo of the cover of a square zine titled Roguelike Megadungeon. The art behind the title shows many tiles with various dungeon features like stairs, ruins and adventurers drawn on them, and some bizarre monsters large spanning the right side larger than the tiles.
A transparent plastic Chessex case of a block of thirty six d6s, with a few black dice with red pips scattered next to it
Level 12 The Deathlands Necropolis, The Domain of Master Sidoh. This dungeon is extra large, containing 57 rooms. It is a complex network of interconnected rooms. Rooms are keyed here, with no writing like the other dungeons.
Level 8 The Deathlands Necropolis. Necromancers control most of the necropolis, creating an army of skeletons and zombies. A single tower is controlled by reanimators, led by a reanimator who used their power to make themselves unnaturally beautiful. They flood the necropolis with reanimated arms and challenge the power of the necromancers. Both factions are hunted by a few soul drainers who haunt the halls.
Level 4 The Caves of Ice Time, is ruled by Ice Drakes that use a star alter within ancient alien ruins as their source of power. Bear-folk serve them in exchange for magic. The drakes use an ice elemental to create a prison for two walrus kings who could challenge their power if released.
A handdrawn overland map showing a Sea of Monsters in the center being fed by a river coming from a Snowy Peak. At the base of the Peak lies a Settlement with Religious Heritage. To the north and south of the sea are Misty Lands of the Dead, next to Rocky Badlands.
A diagram of isometric white rectangles interconnected in a complicated manner, each one representing a dungeon level. They read, The Abyss, Dwarven Ruins, Astral Plane, Decomposition Kingdom, Uncanny Valley, Goblin Warrens, Forest of the Gods and Hell.
A shimmering dome in the background, in front of it stands a hulking beast-like humanoid, a tree with a spooky face, two goat headed humanoid creatures, and a dwarf skeleton with a helmet and axe
Assassins claims, showing interconnected rectangles, reading things like, lair, turf, envoy, fixer, infirmary and informants
A two page spread showing a 16 by 16 array of tiles, each with a drawing of adventurers, terrain, dungeon features, dice, etc. The right page reads The Campaign Dungeon, and below it is a subheading: The Region Map. On the right side of the page are tables titled Terrain, Perilous Zone, Faction, Settlement, and Treasure
SNOW PIECE Think that snow is falling. Think that snow is falling everywhere all the time. When you talk with a person, think that snow is falling between you and on the person. Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow. yoko ono 1963 summer
A scene from the death note manga, with Ryuk overlooking the blasted interior of a coliseum filled with despondent death gods
A word bubble at the top reads “deathland party time!!!” the bubble comes from a scene of many undead creatures in among graves. Below it reads: Are you sure you want to go there? Roguelike Megadungeon
A description that begins, “If the world is the intersection of form and essence, then the astral is the intersection of essence and divinity.” Five tables give contents for empty, monster, trap, special and treasure room stocking info. Art in the bottom right corner shows abstract geometric triangular shapes. Each has an image in it, a series of factories producing smoke, a starry sky, some obscured faces, a shattered glass surface, the facade of a building with many windows, several concentric heart shapes, a spooky face, and the word “you”)
Thirty-six six sided dice laid out in a six-by-six square
A spread of two pages, one reading Monster Flavor, with tables titles Behavior, Character, Abilities and Drives. Next to it is art depicting a winged, fanged, furry creature flying above and menacing a one eyed, six limbed creature with energy emanating from its head. The right page reads Building a Megadungeon, and shows a diagram of different white rectangles interconnected in a complicated manner, each one representing a dungeon level. They read, The Abyss, Dwarven Ruins, Astral Plane, Decomposition Kingdom, Uncanny Valley, Goblin Warrens, Forest of the Gods and Hell.
At the top a word bubble reads “where do we go from here?” the bubble comes from a 3 by 3 array of tiles each showing a different heroic fantasy character. Below it says Let’s see what the dice build up! Roguelike Megadungeon
A room with a large hole in the ceiling, and a giant intestine running across the ceiling. The room contains fire with tortured faces in the walls. Two figures, one with a horse face and a three lashed whip, and the other with an ox head and a scythe, stand over of pot boiling water filled with more tortured faces.
The words Rogue - Like - Dun - Geon in fluorescent magenta stylized font, are in front of a distorted old public domain image of a demon with three heads, a horse, human and a serpent. Each head has a black bar in front of its eyes as though to hide its identity.
A cell from a Chick Tract comic, showing a dark haired woman asking a girl with an evil expression on her face “Which spell did you cast, Debbie?” Debby responds “I used the mind bondage spell on my father. He was trying to stop me from playing Roguelike Megadungeon.” The last two words are obviously photoshopped in from the logo of my game.
A simple cartoon of a 3 by 3 by 4 block of d6s with an arrow pointing downwards from it to a white rectangle representing a sheet of paper
Uniformly grey dense scribbles depicting barely identifiable buildings, body parts and abstract shapes, with a rainbow peeking out from the top right
A background of gravestones. In front are some figures, a man with a tophat, one with a ghost like form, a skull with a bone in its mouth, a many eyed figure with its arms up in the air.
Strange and distorted creatures bending round each other: a demon, an alligator like creture, a shiny winged creature with a long vertical mouth filled with teeth, and another with several mouths and large almond eyes
A backdrop of a giant mushroom forest with a host terrifying creatures in the foreground. A giant apex predator, a giant snail, a mushroom person, a kappa and an ape
A photo of an unsmiling Slavoj Zizek with a caption saying "I would prefer not to"
A maroon zine cover with a cyberpunk city skyline dominated by a giant building
Two books, the Traveller Adventure has three people with laser guns on a desert planet, Renraku Arcology has two sumo wrestlers standing outside of a room with a spider like robot standing above many corpses