Ben M | Periapt Games

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Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· 8h

Now this is just to say all about how I went to the icebox looking for chow And I'd like to take a minute so just stand on your feet I'll tell you about how your plums were so good to eat

Will & Carlton Williams in a still from the popular TV show, The Fresh Plums Of Bel Air.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· 7d

I mean Fantasy Football and TTRPGs are both just excuses to get excited about stats, right

Seven high fantasy figures superimposed over a diagram showing the positions involved in a play in sports.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· 24d

A bit of collage for my dragon slayer clean up crew supplement. Art by: Roque Romero, Fernando Salvaterra, Chaoclypse, Kim Holm, Felipe da Silva Faria.

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

Clean-up crew characters. A mixture of heavy labourer, butcher, and chef. A team drags away a rapidly-decomposing dragon corpse.

A chapter title page. "Dragonspill". A bloody red dragon roars against a grisly background and a ring of yellow caution tape.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 28

Variations on a theme of 'tuatara' (made with GMIC / @gmic-eu.bsky.social) #digital #art

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

Artwork of tuatara reptile made into a grid of dots. Original via Wikimedia Commons.

Artwork of tuatara reptile re-rendered with a network of meshes, grid squares overlaid. Original via Wikimedia Commons.

Artwork of tuatara reptile turned into geometric cells like a stained glass window. Original via Wikimedia Commons.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 25

Wizardly astrologer on medieval steps. Painting by Wyeth.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 19

Now, with this rediscovery of a trove of early Tuatara Deliquescence work, we can get some insight into: 1. Designer Laura Khang's favourite gameplay structure, the "Floorcrawl", which models Single Planar Travel and depends on game / real-world values like "Carpet Friction" and "Tile Hardness"

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

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 19

Tuatara Deliquescence was completely unlike Khang's previous game, "15 Hours In The Oort Cloud With Ferdinand Magellan". The new project was inscrutable, complicated, and incredibly broad in scope. Characters had powers like "Nihilogony", "Reverse Entropy", and "Become Imperfect".

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 strange character power card called Reverse Entropy. Metallic gold card art of a small featureless figure presenting a star to a larger one. The card has the "Imbrication/Transience" affinity.

A strange character power card called Nihilogony. Metallic green card art of a hat wearer unearthing a huge book in a desert. The card has the "Germination/Phototaxis" affinity.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 19

If you were around the tabletop games hobby twenty years ago, you probably remember the infamous game-that-never-was, Tuatara Deliquescence. A "success" of early forays into crowdfunding, the game's production flared out and the developer disappeared in bizarre circumstances. Nothing was released...

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

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 15

Do people still remember Tuatara Deliquescence? The metaphysics TTRPG which Laura K was developing in 2007? Unclear if it really had legs as a game, but the idea of the inevitable agglomeration of a cosmos-wide consciousness struck me as a pretty compelling premise at the time.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 9

👉 I've updated A Fistful Of Curiosities with some nice artwork for each site-based mystery! 20% off at: periapt-games.itch.io/a-fistful-of... or rpg-trader.com/products/309... or bit.ly/RPGoddities

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

Text extract from A Fistful of Curiosities. "Clues and encounters" table for the abandoned camp of a fossil-hunting wizard. Tents, skeletal lizards, magical circles, water barrels with animated fossil ammonites, etc.

New facing page artwork for A Fistful of Curiosities. The river that flows with saltwater, from a strange portal. Traces of an illusionist's hideout flickering in the forest. Ghosts giving battle for centuries, flinging spears in the night.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 8

Apropos of nothing, my upcoming submission for the You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam contains errata for a hypothetical RPG about metaphysics that supposedly funded on a nonexistent crowdfunding site.

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.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 4

Please urge your Fellowship to read important water safety notices. #fantasticaluniquities Art credits: Texturelabs. Fonts: Bagnard, Gaeilge. Today's #design dabbling: Vector practise! I was struck by the eye/kayak motif and had to think of a joke to put around it.

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.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Jun 1

Companies rainbow-washing their business for Pride Month like www.modernillustration.org/archive/poly...

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

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· May 27

'Ugla' is Old Norse for 'owl'. #fantasticaluniquities Art credits: Steven Colling, Adobe Stock. Fonts: Lithos Pro, FS Sinclair, Floki. A little #design dabbling with monochrome, stone textures, and reworking a photograph.

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.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· May 19

Overzealous! Come for the robes, stay for the immanentisation of an unthinkable power! #TTRPG #selfpromo www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... or periapt-games.itch.io/overzealous Want the physical book? Enjoy 30% off with the special discount link! www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?d...

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.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· May 18

internet age

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.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· May 15

The fonts: Kobata, The Void, Womb Script, Wreckage, Jester, 4 Fromages, Teranoptia, Amakan, Trickster, Lobular, Roubaix Industrielle. With art by @alderdoodle.bsky.social, @garin.bsky.social, and @silverglass.bsky.social. Most of these fonts I found through @jeanverne.bsky.social's latest article.

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

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· May 15

Type specimens are all well and good but I want to see how fonts look in use. Trying to get in the habit of making a little picture each time I install one.

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

Text boxes with abstract, rune-like, and medieval bestiary glyphs. Fonts used: Jester, 4 Fromages, Teranoptia. Card images by Alderdoodle.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· May 14

version of helvetica typeface with tabi for some reason (but to me they look more like claws) so,

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

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· May 7

Get in the half shell, Shinji

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· May 1

When the treeline walls off golden hour, the full moon rises above the persimmons

Photograph of the full moon above two persimmon trees.

Photograph of the full moon framed by the red leaves of two persimmon trees.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 30

Playing around with Hitomezashi stitching effects in G'MIC

Pixelated/stitched effect in warm orange tones.

Pixelated/stitched effect in spring green tones.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 20

♾️

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"

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 19

"Ambient" bakery items

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)

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 17

(The wētā. It was cold out and it was very sluggish and didn't want to cede use of the tire swing.) CW insect, bug, grasshopper, weta

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 16

In this game, you'll use your limited reach into reality to navigate the dooms your cultists bring about. Manage your cult's Divergence, Fervour, Cultists, Monstrosity, and Imminence to prevent everything devolving into knives and tentacles, and hopefully blaze a trail to your manifestation.

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

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 16

It's a chaotic game about putting out fires and striving to achieve your manifestation. You can grab the digital edition through itch or DriveThruRPG, or the physical book through DriveThruRPG. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... periapt-games.itch.io/overzealous

Book cover, front. Title. White on black.

Book cover, front. Author and publisher. Hellmouth illustration by Gordy H. Black on white.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 16

It's manifested in our reality at last! #Overzealous is a solo pen-and-paper TTRPG revolving around tactical cult management and coping with heretical hijinks.

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

Cultists getting themselves into trouble ranging from "schism" and "mayhem" to "undeath" and "cannibalism".

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 15

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.

Ben M | Periapt Games@periaptgames· Apr 9

There are entire categories of patterns I can now make with really simple lines instead of complicated vector shapes.