Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙

@maatlock

Engineer, TTRPGs, Trekie, Superman, Thundercats, he/him, LGBTQ/ bi, woodworker, GM for DnD 5e, Shadowdark, and OSR, 💗 drawing old-school maps, liberal, optimistic but trying to stave off dread. I love America and what it can be but is not yet. Views my own

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Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· 9d

I ❤️including the Goddess of the Moon & Tides in my games. This is her Herald, Pathiel, an NPC from my GenCon2026 adventure, Tides of the Forgotten. Gives info & heals from an underground pool, infused w/ platinum & teal light. Loved running this adventure, light 5e, OSR driven. Will share soon.

Black and white marker art. An androgynous figure in sweeping, flowing robes radiates magical power from their head. Created in Procreate using a brush set that emulates Micron markers.

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· 25d

A cute lil Federation starship. Credit to Armus, Star Trek poster from Twitter

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· 25d

“Dad… let’s get the F outta here and go on a road trip!”

A black Scottish terrier forced to share his bed with two cats who don’t give a F

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· 25d

These cats are so cinematic 🍿 Can you hear the music? I can

A black cat and a striped gray cat having an epic cat-saber duel on top of a fridge

Anakin and Obi Wan light saber dueling in front of a lava burst

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Jun 21

Photos from the Big Island, Hawai’i! Here’s a couple of shots from the Bay View Farms coffee farm in the town Captain Cook, HI in the Kona area. Small farms like this are where world famous Kona coffee comes from. I tried some… I’m sure it was wonderful, but it was wasted on this tea drinker!

A red Kubotu tractor against a lush backdrop dominated by greenery (coffee trees), a blue sky, and the sea in the distance

An elevated shot of a coffee farm. We see little coffee trees, and then a back drop of the sea

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Jun 2

QRP with your Pride flags!!

Progress pride flag masked by the Star Trek delta

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· May 22

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Apr 29

New TTRPG GM crafted tool! Same OSR aesthetic. New take on game tokens. Ring is solid walnut; images etched into clear cast acrylic from behind. Gives a great depth effect, and then high contrast against black. Premium feel. Tons of iteration on these! Will be making boxed sets of 12-16 tokens.

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Apr 23

Mayor Pete reminding us all that Stephen Colbert’s time on CBS State Media is coming to a close soon. I’m sad about it. The day I heard about it, I made this magnetic pin design and 3d printed it. I hope to see Stephen go on to do great things after this.

A 3d printed, circular black and white pin with Stephen Colbert making a welcoming gesture and smiling. The text reads, “Stick Around, Won’t You?”

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Apr 19

Video shows the depth and other qualities better than the picture. Next time will use registration dowels to help with alignment, cuz I'm off by about half a mm. No bueno! But pretty good for a prototype!

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Apr 19

Working on a new TTRPG / OSR project! A layered build of a @dysonlogos.bsky.social commercial map (link in alt), laser engraved onto maple veneered plywood, then overlayed with hatching etched and cut on black acrylic. Some imperfections, but I'm going to iron out the workflow! Video in reply

A Dyson Logos dungeon map laser etched on maple hardwood ply and black acrylic. https://dysonlogos.blog/2022/09/16/the-idol-pit/

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Apr 15

Another cutting board done! This is a smaller one, but endgrain walnut with a chaos trim (paduk, purple heart, maple, wenge). Lotsa work went into this one!

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Apr 14

Working on a new TTRPG / OSR hobby project. This is my take on Professor DM’s Ultimate Dungeon Terrain. Gonna laser etch this onto a lazy Susan… I think it’s gonna work great. Will update!

Concentric rings of cobblestone of two types, surrounded by hatching. A circular battle map in the style of “ultimate dungeon terrain” inspired by Professor DM

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Mar 22

Hey TTRPG / OSR / D&D 5e / Shadowdark friends! Been working on a map annotation app for my site, and I was just able to make this with it! Nice little dungeon if you wanna GM some goblin / cult craziness at the table! Thanks @dysonlogos.bsky.social for your awesome commercial maps!

An annotated dungeon map depicting a cave with goblins and cultists. It's a gridded, black and white map created by Dyson Logos, and then annotated with all the locations by Maatlock.

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Mar 14

Kitty cuddle puddle

A gray tabby cat and a black cat sleeping together on an IKEA Poang chair

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Feb 26

From the Amazon page 😅🤣 Cracked me UP

Book overview
Katie is thrilled to score tickets for the USA men’s hockey finals, but after a strange turn of events, she’s even more excited to find herself up close and personal with the team’s T-Rex star player, Flonto Breem.

The two set off on a first date, and things are going well, until questions about Flonto’s political affiliation start bubbling to the surface. It’s not long before Katie realizes that all the goodwill she’d felt for this dinosaur hockey player was misinformed, and that Flonto is a full on MAGA dork.

Looks like there won’t be any pounding tonight! Unless, of course, the USA women’s team and their star triceratops are somewhere nearby!

This tale is 4,100 words of sexless disappointment that the T-Rex you thought was cool is actually an authoritarian bootlicker.

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Feb 18

ParamountPlus is cancelled after 8 yrs. Hard because I love Star Trek (and even NCIS, don’t judge me hahah)! But I love my country more. These people believe we don’t care about our rights. We care about them more than TV shows from companies like CBS who couldn’t care less about America.

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Feb 13

These are my seat mates on tonight’s flight. Amazing

Two empty seats on a passenger aircraft row

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Feb 12

Just delivered another set of ceramic hex tiles with flexi connectors for a GM running a Shadowdark hex crawl! If u need some great GM tools (more like GM swag) for your OSR or D&D campaign, please stop by my Etsy store! Also check out my PC and Monster tokens 🤘 🚫AI www.etsy.com/shop/maatloc...

Ceramic white hex tiles with hand drawn terrain art laser etched in. Lack. A keyring containing red and blue 3d printed tokens for monsters and PC

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Feb 9

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” Bad Bunny (giant digital billboard), Super Bowl LX

Bad Bunny at Super Bowl LX, billboard: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love”

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Jan 13

Didn’t know about the electrical grid and dirty (literally) tricks the mining companies play! One thing I will never forget about living near SLC is the mining and refining industrial skyline. Always made me think of The Fright Zone from She-Ra. Also the smell.. both pollution and rotted krill

The Fright Zone from the She Ra cartoon. An industrial skyline with spider like structure stretching out over a polluted hellscape

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Jan 5

Microsoft 365 cancelled. Inciting event was their rebranding of "Office" to "CoPilot." Throwing this (formerly) trusted brand in the 🗑️ shows their priorities. Happily there are many alternatives I'm already using. I. Don't. Want. Your. AI. SLOP. Polluting. Or Stealing. My. Work.

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Dec 16

What time is it????

It’s Pi o’clock somewhere!

Computer that says 3:14 o’clock

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Dec 13

And now they are both in there 😅

A black cat and a green and white striped cat are investigating a cabinet

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Dec 13

Human opens this for human treats! Must jump in and search for the cat treats!

A white and gray striped cat in a cupboard behind some plates and underneath some nice chocolate bars

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Nov 29

Made this 9x5.5 in plaque for coworker planning to climb Mt Kilimanjaro on 50th birthday! Not TTRPG related, but a great experience. Dimensioned wood, hand draw the map from the unusable image he gave me, then sanding, chamfer, and finishing w beeswax / mineral oil. ☹️Underpriced but was learning!😄

A topographical map of Mount Kilimanjaro engraved on maple, a very light colored hardwood. The wood grain pops out, but there is a nice contrast with the very dark engrave lines. The map is hand drawn

Angled shot of Kilimanjaro plaque to see the thickness

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Nov 26

Got a couple of orders in for my TTRPG / OSR hex tiles! Sending those out today with lots of love to some fellow GMs. They said they’re gonna be playing some Shadowdark! I’ll be running some D&D 5e and Cairn 2e this weekend with these myself www.etsy.com/shop/maatloc...

Ceramic hex terrain tiles for playing TTRPG‘s, a simple hand drawn terrain style that is etched onto the tile, all held together by flexible, connectors, and arranged in a honeycomb pattern

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Nov 18

Making progress on this board! Too bad I don’t have a drum sander… but at least I know where I can go use one!

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Nov 17

Prototyped this for a couple weeks. Friend needed to store jewelry they sell on Etsy… had to fit in a Kallex shelf cube. I designed the shelves to slide. They are clear acrylic, but still have a lot of the masking on for shipping. Held together by friction, will glue up. Super happy with this! 😺

Maatlock 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙@maatlock· Nov 17

Cutting board glue up…. just scraped the squeeze out off. Next week, gonna try to get 4 more boards in the pipeline. Will continue to update as these come together. Only problem is that these parallel clamps are so $$$!! I need at least 4 per board. Gonna need more if I’m gonna batch these