David

@proton31

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David@proton31· 6d

Big robot

A robot sculpture among evergreens. The sculpture is made of scrap metal welded together and has a head like a storm trooper

David@proton31· 26d

We've spent a lot of time making our Cy_borg adventure module, Dead Internet Theory, as good as possible, and it's finally ready to go to print! This means I'll be closing the pre-order store in 7 days, so it's your last chance to get in on this print run! (link below)

Mockups of two Dead Internet Theory zines. over a green hued city night scene

Mockups of the zine, showing the cover and an inside spread describing the Sewer Pope's Chapel and drawings of the mutant congregation and their domain

Mockups of the zine showing the cover and a spread showing a map of the Cult Compound and a description. The pages feature images of MRI scans in the background

Mockups of the zine, showing the cover and a spread of individuals you can meet at the Cadavercore dance club, Club Orbital, with a description of the body part chop shop and a shopping list of back alley brain biomods

David@proton31· Jul 8

😅

The header for a blog post, Who owns the rules? The OGL crisis and the return of the author

David@proton31· Jul 4

I picked up After The Bomb, a collection of adventure modules for the 80s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TTRPG set in a post apocalyptic New England full of mutant animals #OSR

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

The back cover shows the robot's giant hand holding a mutant alligator in the air, who wields an axe and stop sign as a shield. Tiger and dog mutants hide behind a broken wall holding assault rifles

Full page interior art of four humanoid mutant rabbits posing in the grass outside log fort walls topped by barbed wire and watch towers. The rabbits all have rifles and are wearing militaristic gear

Inside a bustling post apocalyptic mutant animal city market place. Multi story buildings surround a makeshift tower seemingly build around a high tech structure

David@proton31· Jul 3

Commission cool and fresh character and monster art from @jaguartony.bsky.social #ttrpg #rpglatam

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

David@proton31· Jul 2

Some of the older one page dungeons are getting hard to find, heres the jpg Also Gus L's Maw of Snails and Thunderhead Manse are excellent

David@proton31· May 22

Anyone know any of these scifi books? Im mostly looking for something easy to read but also original

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

David@proton31· Mar 31

Currently playing

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

David@proton31· Mar 13

I got a mini boom box and took my CDs from the 00s out of storage!

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

David@proton31· Feb 26

This year for #Zinetopia, I am doing a crossover reward with my coconspirator @wilderwhim.bsky.social for people who back both of our campaigns. Here is a little taste of what we are brewing. It will be the IT backrooms of a virtual resort, with sterile bureaucracy crossed with cosmic horror

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

David@proton31· Jan 10

The inspirations I gave Roque for the cover of our Cy_borg module Dead Internet Theory were the D&D Basic Set rulebook cover and Arachnotron from Doom #OSR #Zinetopia

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

A screen shot from the Doom: The Dark Ages video game. A giant quadrupedal brain with cybernetic attachments to its legs, face and a spine like ridge over its back. It has an insect like face but with sharp white teeth. A video game rating of M for Mature is shown on the top right.

David@proton31· Dec 26

Not sure if the solution is to replace the word "serve" instead of "support" as OP does here. But I think the missing context is the sentiment that OSR and Storygames should stop hating on eachother

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?”"

David@proton31· Dec 25

Show me your worst hex crawls

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

David@proton31· Dec 24

Happy holidays and New Year! Time is running out in the Roguelike Megadungeon and holiday sale! Treat yourself in 2026 to a pdf or physical copy!

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

David@proton31· Dec 20

Work smarter, not harder. Roguelike Megadungeon and its accompanying Campaign Workbook are now available in print at 20% off

David@proton31· Dec 17

All this and more could be yours. The only TTRPG book with a skull in the edge pattern! Roguelike Megadungeon is now available in print and on sale until the end of the year. Get yours today!

My zine, Roguelike Megadungeon Campaign Workbook, with its edge bent backward to show a sick edge pattern

My zine, Roguelike Megadungeon Campaign Workbook, with its edge bent forward to show a sick edge pattern

David@proton31· Dec 6

Do your Dungeon26 project with the Roguelike Megadungeon Campaign Workbook. Forty pages of worksheets customized for the various generators in Roguelike Megadungeon: *Overland Maps *Settlements *Relationship Maps *12 Flavors of Dungeon Both zines now available in print! #OSR #TTRPG #Dungeon26

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.

David@proton31· Dec 4

Roguelike Megadungeon is available in print and 20% off until the end of the year. Create and explore a weird planar campaign setting and endless levels of megadungeon. #OSR #TTRPG

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.

An open zine showing two dungeon themes. On the left is the Caves of Ice Time, with art showing a walrus wearing a crown, a sabretooth tiger roaring in the foreground, and other alien and arctic themed creatures. On the right is Decomposition Kindgom, with art showing a giant snail, an angry little fungus guy, and a kappa

David@proton31· Oct 25

The short lived Saturday morning scifi kids show featuring CGI mecha used the same visual effects as Babylon 5. It didnt even make it through the first season, getting canceled before the final 5 episodes aired

Three 90s CGI mecha in from of a space ship on an alien planet

The same four characters as the first image in a starship bridge looking concernedly to the left outside of the image

David@proton31· Aug 23

The test print of the Roguelike Megadungeon Campaign Workbook just came in from Mixam! I love a good edge pattern!

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 -

A staple bound portrait letter booklet held bent by a hand in the opposite direction as the other photo, so that the textured pattern on the edge is easily seen. The cover of the booklet has a title partly visible, reading -eon -kbook

David@proton31· Aug 8

Heres the section on its conception from the wikipedia page, which of these people are you referring to?

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.

David@proton31· Jun 30

This photo is already a bit old but @jaguartony.bsky.social and I have been busy making and playtesting the different types of formats that will go into the Roguelike Megadungeon Workbook. Its getting a bit more of a Dwarf Fortress world generation feel to it

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".

David@proton31· May 23

Cover art by Bob Larkin '80 of a book I picked up at the free market #scifi #startrek

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.

David@proton31· Apr 5

A book is actually just a bunch of zines glued together

Top down photo of a hardcover book showing that it is a series of zine sized booklets glued into a spine

David@proton31· Mar 29

You could do one of those pop culture reference, appendix n type, Mothership bingo cards

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)

David@proton31· Mar 28

This collection of "The OSR is dead" blog posts collected by @prismaticwasteland.com is hilarious.

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)

David@proton31· Mar 4

I'm reading The Incal by Jodorowsky and Mobius right now. Its really got some killer art/concepts

Transparent pyramidal vessels carrying two passengers each approach enormous interconnected space station like structures underwater as small schools of fish swim by

David@proton31· Mar 1

Here is the data for my Itchfunder. Itch is actually not bad for discovery, I dont know how this compares to Kickstarter, etc, but they were a very significant part of my traffic. This is with a more deliberate effort to post updates on itch, and with a decent follower count there.

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

David@proton31· Feb 28

My acorn squash seedlings are going bereserk. Hope its not too early for them

Inside a plastic bag, seedlings sprouting from dirt in a paper egg carton. Some seedlings in the top section are going absolutely berserk

David@proton31· Feb 27

Only two days left in Zine Month! Roguelike Megadungeon is ready to print #OSR #TTRPG #ZiMo25 #ZineMonth2025