Luke 🦆

@aethercorp

Tabletop board game and RPG creator. Current: aether.click/reducks Past: Field Agent Handbooks, A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG, Double D6, Coiled.Spæce, and Orchidelirium Also a UX designer (and a bit burnt out) www.aethercorp.games

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Luke 🦆@aethercorp· 6d

All the best packaging is hand stamped packaging. Stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp...

Close up of black, unfolded business card envelopes stamped with 'A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG, an ever-expanding card-sized experiment in _ parts, collectors edition' in white ink with the rubber stamps beside them on a wooden table

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Jul 13

I don't mean to brag but I've just found out there's a 'Print as Booklet' option under 'Pages per side' dropdown under the Layout settings when you go to print something in iOS My life will be split in twain with this moment as the mark forevermore

A screenshot of the Pages per Side dropdown with the Print as Booklet option sneakily ensconced at the bottom of a list of selectable numbers (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 16)

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Jun 26

Field Agent Handbook bundles and Calibration Records have made it over to IPR! www.indiepressrevolution.com Get all five Handbooks in a neatly wrapped... well, bundle.

IPR home page with the two newly-arrived Handbook listings clumsily circled in red

A neatly wrapped bundle of Field Agent Handbooks

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Jun 17

Floofs have all disappeared into the night so have a plant I found on the headland the other evening instead— I thought its pink weirds the eyes

Large pink daisy-like flowers with yellow centres

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· May 26

Further...

Watercolour sketch of sun-dappled trees held up in front of the sun-dappled in the sketch

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· May 8

The next three ✨collectors edition✨ cards of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG just showed up! (Obviously it's because I ordered them; the exclamation point is more because I *got around* to ordering them rather than suggesting surprise that they appeared as if from nowhere)

Fronts and backs of three business cards (illustrated worksheets on one side, game rules on the other) labelled 'Relationship Map' (illustrated in a mushroom theme), 'Solo RPG' (illustrated in a snow theme) and 'Tracking All The Things' (illustrated in a retro-digital theme)

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· May 5

Hm...

A small watercolour of fields being held up in front of the fields in the picture

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Apr 25

Went camping, intended to write, did a paint sketch instead... it's like progress! But not. Slightly clearer head though so taking it as a win.

Watercolour painting of a pond and some trees in a sketch book being held up in front of the pond and trees

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Apr 8

A boy looks puzzled at the ground while a man in a black turtle neck side-eyes the kid with the caption 'I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you Warren.'

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Mar 28

Highly suspicious sighting!! Field Agent Handbooks spotted on the @ipr.bsky.social stand at Pax East! Booth 12109 if you're there and would like to go hunting for more suspicious activity.

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Feb 12

Keep chipping away at the to-play list — misunderstood the rules as written but enjoyed Nova Luna: nicely balanced with some light puzzling Do wonder if rule books now expect you to watch a 'how to play' video so they can avoid a couple more rounds of editing (might be a me problem though)

Board game laid out on a table with black& white wooden discs, colourful square cardboard tiles arranged around an illustrated circlular cardboard track

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Jan 17

Thought I'd solved my zine storage problem — I did not. But the theory's sound! Ho hum.

A slim metal magazine rack packed tightly with RPG zines hanging from the end of a set of a set bookshelves packed tightly with RPG books (alongside some fiction books and LPs)

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Dec 31

Chairman Miaow wishes you a happy new year (I do too, HNY you)

Checkered tablecloth with playing cards from Communist Cats lying on it with one being held up and labelled as The Chairman with a picture of a cat

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Dec 30

Arsenic & Lies by Karolina Soltys went down well last night though still unsure how much it's okay just to make stuff up in larps vs what's supposed to be canon... might be that grey space between improv & theatre that throws me. Maybe just need to try more larps to find out? Or read more books?

A playing card tuck box titled Arsenic & Lies with woman pictured dropping poison into a glass in an Art Nouveau style lying on a black tablecloth. Cards, a magnifying glass, gold stars, empty glasses and cocktail sticks surround it. One card has 'secret' emblazoned across the back, another looks a bit like a newspaper with the headline 'You Are The Killer'.

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Dec 27

Strong start in the 'must play more games' game with Gingerbread Towers by @dissentgames.bsky.social

A tower of folded playing cards with pictures of sweets on them balancing on the back of a board game box on a carpeted floor

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Nov 29

We're at Dragonmeet! Just to the right of the entrance. Come see our zine torture device!

Table of books and zines on a stall with Kristen and Kayla behind the table

Shelves full of zines & books with a spinning mobile of zines on top (though you might not be able to tell they're spinning due to this being a photograph but trust me, those zines are thoroughly dizzy)

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Nov 26

Almost finished making the shelves for #Dragonmeet — cat unlikely to be in attendance (sorry) Will be sharing space on the 12 Pins Press stand with @laurieoc.bsky.social, @ratwave.uk and @yanahn.bsky.social so do drop by and say hi

Brown wooden shelves with a ginger cat perched above fake apothecary drawers and a mess of fairy lights in the background

Top down view of map of Dragonmeet hall in a medieval fantasy town style showing 12 Pins Press just to the right of the entrance

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Nov 20

Many of my bobbins (alongside many other excellent works) will be at #PaxUnplugged this weekend on the @ipr.bsky.social booth 3701 for those that like riffling pages and looking at things (woop!). Send your friends!

Map of the Pax Unplugged exhibition floor with the IPR book circled on bottom end in Hall A. Below the map are the front covers of Orchidelirium, Coiled.Spæce, Advanced Double D6 and six differently coloured Field Agent Handbooks

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Nov 14

Woop! 2026 calendars have arrived! Just one-sided this year but! meteor showers are marked up this time around. Will pop 'em up on the shop this evening.

Stack of 12x24" calendar posters with months running vertically in twelve columns showing the phases of the moon in white with a black background and the words 'Observancy Department' at the top. The stack is lying on some open brown paper wrapping.

Close up photo of one of the moons on the calendar with three small shooting stars next to it

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Nov 4

Oh dear, who hurt you WotC? jobs.hasbro.com/job/Renton-G...

Text from a job listing with the words 'and hit deadlines' highlighted. Full text reads: —products. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, can design and write innovative and high-quality RPG material, and hit deadlines, this role is for you.
We're looking for passion and professionalism in equal measure.
What You'll Do:
• Conceptualize and design substantial portions of D&D products, including game mochanice with quidance from...

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Oct 3

Time to break out the seasonal music 🎃 starting with a Mood... kyledixon-michaelstein.bandcamp.com/album/strang...

Record player with a picture disc on the turntable. Photo on the vinyl is a person shining a torch on a field of pumpkins (a shot from Stranger Things)

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Sep 22

Been making props for a play we're running this week... been making silly plane noises too

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Sep 11

These calendars are far more organised than what I've got going on on my filing cabinet

Brown metal door with a brass handle and black pieces of paper with white handwriting in four rows.

First row: BACKBURNER, Cælia & The Malfeasant Mushroom, Secret 'Field Agent' Missions, Orchidelirium Vol. II & III

Second row: SNEAKY SIDE PROJECT, Peepers, A Wonderfully Small & Terribly Unexpected RPG Oracle

Third row: Reducks

Fourth row: NON-GAMES, I Want To Play... Games!, Get books in shoppes, Coiled.Spæce website

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Sep 8

I can absolutely help out with this (so long as you know your elevation (and why wouldn't you?!))

A page of text that reads: Distance
It can be difficult to gauge an exact distance from yourself to the creatures so please use one of the following two simple methods of estimation instead.
DISTANCE TO HORIZON
When at a height of 6 ft horizon is ~ 3 miles away
... Io ft ~ 4 miles
... 25 ft ~ 6½ miles
... 50 ft ~ 9 miles
... 1oo ft ~ 12 miles
...200 ft ~ 19 miles
...500 ft ~ 30 miles
... 1,000 ft ~ 32½ miles
... 2,000 ft ~ 60 miles
... 5,000 ft ~ 93½ miles
HEIGHT ABOVE SEA LEVEL
Split the distance to the horizon into thirds. The first third is NEAR, the second is MID, the third is FAR (as illustrated on page x & x1).
Circle the appropriate distance.
Your perceived distance to the horizon changes depending on your height above sea level (as shown in table).
There is quarter-circle in the top left corner of your page, above the label: DISTANCE.
Use a map to find your elevation (or estimate if confident) and note that number in the quarter-circle.
EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION
When you don't have a clear view of the horizon or are unsure where the creature might be in relation to the cloud, note 'P' for PERCEPTION in the quarter-circle and employ your pendulum:
Hold it over each distance designation: NEAR (N), MID (M), & FAR (F), on the DOWSING BOARD, circling the one that exhibits the greatest swing.

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Aug 27

All these games (and many other wonderful ones too) can be found at Pax West on the @ipr.bsky.social table, #Booth4320, THIS WEEKEND! If you ever felt you should have been a 1920s pendulum-dowsing investigator or an 1860s orchid hunter, now your chance...

Six Field Agent Handbooks and one Orchidelirium lined up on a table

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Aug 13

—and I've never been more worried about getting a package so carefully to its destination before (and I've sent some pretty ridiculous things through the post)

Three very large boxes covered in paper packing tape on a carpeted floor in front of a bookcase. Sadly, no banana included for scale.

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Jul 29

Sneaky sneaky...

A community book exchange in a red telephone box with a copy of Orchidelirium, a copy of Advanced Double D6 and two Field Agent Handbooks nestled on one of the shelves

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Jul 12

Right! since I've *nearly* caught up on my January tasks & so about to get them into US distribution channels— If you'd like to review the Field Agent Handbooks (a play always/everywhere solo larp with pendulum-dowsing) for your channel or blog give me a nudge! They could do with some eyeballs 👀

A whole set of Field Agent Handbooks with ID card, button badge, handbill, red string with key and a red button badge spread out on a grassy mound

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Jun 22

Celebrating six years of Æther Corp's incorporation by packing sixty('ish) boxes of Field Agent Handbooks and having a staff night out (woo!) 🎉

Sixty stacked brown boxes worth Field Agent Handbook labels

An empty bowl that had a delicious Thai red curry in it and a half-drunk glass of red wine on an outside table under a blue evening sky

Luke 🦆@aethercorp· Jun 4

Belated UKGE haul of rampant consumerism (with special thanks to @juunikyuu.bsky.social, @goblincow.bsky.social and @montfordtales.com for extra bobbins!)