Har·bowoputra

Har·bowoputra

@diceless.club

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EVERYONE PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT OUR NEW GAME IT IS BEAUTIFUL AAAAAARGH You play as a translator of divine language, translating newly revealed verses of God. Three competing noble Houses want to steer your translation to legitimize their claim to power. DICTUM demo out now on itch! 🔗⏬

At the end of Paregreg in 1406, shortly before his decaptitation, the Duke of Wirabhumi secreted away his wealth somewhere around the eastern salient of Java. Half a century later, a written account by Ming translator Ma Huan surfaced during Majapahit’s interregnum: a clue to the Duke’s treasure.

You are gunslingers hell-bent on securing this fabled treasure. The clue points to a water temple just outside the court city of Blambangan. Could it be a coincidence that the headless body of the Duke is also buried within?

Late 15th century “weird west” campaign set in the eastern salient of Java, titled Eldritch East. All gun abilities are named after art photographs because both of them are shot. Horses are named after discontinued photographic films.

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We will be launching Bastion Elysium in Indonesia at a local ren fair 🔥 Hopefully we can launch it internationally soon 🙏 44 pages (incl. covers), four political factions, a murder mystery, an apartment crawl, weird & quirky NPCs, and heavily inspired by Disco Elysium! #ttrpg #osr

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social

BASTION ELYSIUM An Electric Bastionland apartment crawl adventure for 3–5 players. What if Disco Elysium were set entirely in an apartment building? Coming soon! Cover art by Citaaticat #osr #ttrpg

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"The kind of world that mainstream TTRPGs are too afraid to publish"??? Brother you are not even brave enough to give the Kreen a second pair of arms! At least WOTC does that! You are literally more cowardly than the corpo mainstream!

JellyMuppet@jellymuppet.bsky.social

dog idk how i tell you this, but "no warning label" is a warning label. i love this project has to warn people there won't be trigger warnings so they don't get triggered

EVERYONE PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT OUR NEW GAME IT IS BEAUTIFUL AAAAAARGH You play as a translator of divine language, translating newly revealed verses of God. Three competing noble Houses want to steer your translation to legitimize their claim to power. DICTUM demo out now on itch! 🔗⏬

UD REEEEEEAAAAAAAA

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social

Ea-nāṣir Must Die! is out now! Thanks @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Copy/Paste Co-op and @plusoneexp.bsky.social for making this full release happen! A Bronze Age sword & sorcery house crawl adventure for 3–5 players, inspired by the historical figure and meme, Ea-nāṣir. Links below! #ttrpg #osr

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You cannot design a game against bad faith just like you cannot cook a meal so delicious it teaches diners how to be polite

Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus@riseupcomus.bsky.social

Rereading old blog posts, and Grognardia reminded me of this essential truth: "don't design rules with bad players in mind. Any rule, no matter how well written, can and will be abused by players looking to find a way to take advantage of a situation."

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It's convention season again here in the Indonesian scene 🙌 Here are the list of games that we will have for a TTRPG con that my friends and I are organizing! This one will be the biggest Indonesian TTRPG con! 2 days and 14 games!

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15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

Kieron Gillen@kierongillen.bsky.social

WHAT HAPPEN?

wow this cover is peak appendix N

Galactic Journey@galacticjourney.bsky.social

Who doesn’t love some Sword&Sorcery? Turns out loads do, which poses a challenge titling new collections of such #Fantasy stories. Cora Buhlert looks at the 1st of 2 anthologies called Warlocks and Warriors, today’s edited by L. Sprague de Camp, & it’s a good un! galacticjourney.org/september-28...

We even ended the chapter with a kaiju battle! This is peak Pulp Cthulhu

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social

Finished the London chapter of Masks of Nyarlathotep. If we didn't use the Pulp rules to avoid certain death, @diceless.club's character would've died. No one has died. Two characters have retired. Peru and New York are also done. 15 sessions in. At this rate, we might end it in 40-50 sessions.

̶G̶E̶M̶ BAD COPPER ALERT

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social

Ea-nāṣir Must Die! has a release date: 13 October 2026! We are collaborating with @plusoneexp.bsky.social and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social Copy/Paste Co-op for a full release on both digital and physical. An OSR (Mark of the Odd) adventure for 3–5 players set in Ancient Mesopotamia! #ttrpg #osr

LOUDER 🗣️

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social

If the way you play TTRPGs is basically how a lot of people play, then you shouldn’t go “woe is me” when someone challenges or debates you simply because they play differently. afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/a-ttrpg-play...

i was actually in tears after watching this last night, like legit i cried ugly during the frozen lake dialogue

I reviewed TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, a movie that struck so close to my heart I found it hard to put my feelings about it into words. Weird, personal, intimate, sleazy, and beautiful. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

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Surprise! After Gamescom, @agnivillage.bsky.social is heading to the Tokyo Game Show! Come say hi to the team in the Indie Game Area - play the latest WIP demo, and give us all of your valuable feedback! You can find AGNI at : Booth: 09-E100 Pavilion: Games from Jakarta #TokyoGameShow

By learning ignarics, one can deny parts of reality. Suppose someone mastered fire ignarics. They can no longer perceive any fire with their senses, nor can fire harm them. But they also forget that fire exists. Nobody can even talk about fire with them. Ignarics is virtually irreversible.

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One way to ignarite an individual is to deliberately induce limerence of your target person in your mind until it reaches a state of apotheosis. Your mind ascends them from just a person into an imperceptible being. This is highly dangerous! Failed ignarity gives the person too much power.

Ignarical pioneers exist, those who ignarite intangible ideas. One such person mastered noun ignarics: erasing nouns from their linguistic process. They founded a city named Tlön, where everyone shares the same ignarics.

No space is safe. Inside one, everything cannot affect you. Your existence is undetectable within no space. Not even time can affect you there. Its imaginary nature only permits mathematical information to pass at FTL without breaking causality. There is no safer space than no space.

I wanna write one more for this tomorrow!

Afraid of Encounters (He/Him)@isaacisafraid.bsky.social

These are the blogposts made for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon, from 17th of August to 10th of September. I used the opportunity to rally the Indonesians and international TTRPG hobbyists to create gameable blogpost related to Indonesia. Enjoy! afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-t...

I am so flattered and touched that you made this alternate cover 😭 thank you, thank you very much!

Jonas-Merlin Schumacher@jonasmerlin.bsky.social

4/100 of "doing design 100 times to get better at it" This time with an alternative cover for harbowoputra.itch.io/four-years-l... by @diceless.club More grid exploration. Still a bit tame though.

By learning ignarics, one can deny parts of reality. Suppose someone mastered fire ignarics. They can no longer perceive any fire with their senses, nor can fire harm them. But they also forget that fire exists. Nobody can even talk about fire with them. Ignarics is virtually irreversible.

Achieving full ignarity of something or someone is not instant. One would experience partial ignarities first, where their perception is jumbled and memory inconsistent. There are people who offer ignarical guidance services to make this smoother.

Some achieve it by overwhelming their senses, "asking fish what water is" kind of deal. Flooding their perception with the ignaric object until their mind erases it from reality. For obvious reasons, this method can't be used for ignarities of individual person.

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Just published a devlog of my Appendix N. submission - Craters of Kerameikos. It discusses the main inspiration of the module itself, recent happening that moved me to write this, a little rant about the current situation here in my country, and inspiring words for you to be a creator!

explodingcongee.itch.ioThe Terrifying and Magnificent Forces of Nature - How Craters of Kerameikos came to be"Mother nature is terrifying" This sentiment has been at the back of my mind since I learned about the eruption of the Krakatau Volcano as a young child in primary school (and I learned of it through....