Gravy Press | boRyan

If you, or someone you know, is in need of high quality art or layout for your project, please get in touch! If you are in need of affordable black and white illustrations for your smaller project, check out the line art section of my portfolio, then get in touch!

From the Solar Ruins Field Guide. In the Solar Hegemon's fury after the destruction of Ceres, he unleashed the imperial atomics on Green Mars. It's atmosphere was stripped away, undoing the greatest technological achievement in human history.

From the Solar Ruins Field Guide. Let me know if you want a lore explanations for sci-fi swords in the comments. Dying for verisimilitude, or rule of cool?

From the Solar Ruins Field Guide. Successful pirate crews barter with Federation aliens for access to advanced tech and bioengineering. It’s believed that wearing intimidating masks gives one an advantage when dealing with aliens. Works on humans too.

The Audience Pick for #appxnjam26 is in! Congrats to Spell of the World Weavers by @gravy.press! gravy-press.itch.io/spell-of-the...

*Diabolical cat themed laughter*

Thank you to everyone who participated. The quality of the entries was superb, I’m deeply honored to have been voted #1 out of such an incredible field of entries.

From the Solar Ruins Field Guide. The Mobile Judiciary is a private court system, issuing summary judgments against claim-jumpers, illegal salvage operations, and pirates. Judgments are carried out by their bailiffs, outfitted in the best armored exo-suits company smart-scrip can buy.

From the Solar Ruins Field Guide. Reclaiming the derelict ships from the wars of the Collapse is a generational endeavor. For the shipbreakers of the spacers union, buying their ticket to leave ruined Sol looks like decades of hard labor swinging a demolition maul.

From the Solar Ruins Field Guide. Nimble exo suits, powered by federation technology, are favored by corporate operators and high-end freelancers. This pattern boasts 6-axis impulse thrusters and personal shields.

From the Solar Ruins Field Guide. The Federation flesh farmers of 8 Flora pay real Fed Credits for fresh protein, giving crews like the Gargant Cluster Organ Stealers a reason to live up the pirate reputation.

From the Solar Ruins Field Guide. Not all pirates are bloodthirsty reavers. Some are folks brave enough to imagine Sol free of capitalism, and don’t mind breaking a few eggs along the way.

Bulky clothes have always been a huge challenge for me, and since my next project is space-suit based, I’ve been diligently practicing. It’s a bit of a divergence from my normal clean lines style, but I’m very happy with this Spacer from tonight’s drawing session.

“How did you get into TTRPGs” My best friend and I found a copy of GURPS Lite at our LGS after a Mirroding MTG draft when we were 10.

"how did you get into ttrpgs" I was born here, I have been here before you, I will be here after you. There is no beginning, there is no end. There is only The Pug

Had a blast illustrating the NPCs for this! Check it out!

If you're a PIPESONG backer, PDFs should be in the process of going out as we speak!

My only regret is that I didn’t order one of everything from @gravy.press.

If you submitted to the Appendix N Jam, I hope you're reading and commenting on other folks submissions! It is so easy to tunnel vision on making, forgetting that the artists and writers that you admire developed their skill and crucial aesthetic sensibilities by consuming and thinking about media.

Spell of the World Weavers is my first project to get over 1,000 downloads on itch! If you haven't checked it out, or the other amazing projects submitted to the Appendix N Game Jam, get after it! There is so much good stuff!

Spell of the World-Weavers is a beautiful piece of work for Cairn. It’s an adventure set in and on the body of a massive titan. I love the science-fantasy angle! gravy-press.itch.io/spell-of-the...

(5/?) Spell of the World-Weavers by @gravy.press Love everything Bo illustrates so I’m biased in saying it’s beautiful front & back. All the art oozes character. Worldbuilding done in such a short space is great. Excellent Pointcrawl with stellar loops and foreshadowing! itch.io/jam/appx-n-j...

1. Spell of the World-Weavers by @gravy.press An incredibly unique science-fantasy pointcrawl atop a living Mother machine ⚛ Beautiful art, just enough worldbuilding to tease the imagination, and heartbreaking text delivered offhandedly. PCs want to help these people, players know they'll die

This was such a joy to put together. The art and words came easy… more Cairn science fantasy in this cat’s future, I think!

I just added a portfolio section to my website showcasing some recent illustrations. If you, or someone you know, is in need of high quality art for your project, please get in touch! Check it out! Shoot me a DM! Email me like it’s 1999!

Where’s Gravy!? I’ve been in the illustration mines, err… pipes! PIPESONG illustrations are coming along nicely.

In other news, I finally got off my ass and released my latest project, an adventure for #shadowdarkrpg MURDER AT MURDER MANOR! It's a social sandbox adventure, where players will be get plenty of opportunities to fuck over a class of cannibal uber-elites and ruin their party, and try not to die!

My friend just released this adventure for Cairn 2e. Great one shot length, where reality warps and crumbles as the players seek to stop incursions by a strange order of extra-dimensional mystics. Prints will be available soon!

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played: - Mothership RPG - Cairn 2e - Old School Essentials - Shadowdark

I'm Bo Ryan, I'm a designer, adventure writer, and Cairnies award recipient. You can check out my work at gravy.press. I provide layout, writing, editing, illustration, and graphic design services, please shoot me a DM if you're interested!

Monday’s Gravy: Been really struggling with my demand avoidance the last couple days, and didn’t get anything done for Pipesong. I did provide detailed feedback to four different TripTech Jam 3 participants, a mothership trifold game jam. This post is for accountability: I will work today.

Today's Gravy: PIPESONG work continues! - Edited the Overview / What's in this Module spread - Wrote and laid out the faction pages: Pipefitter's Union, Sunny Labs, Molvo Crime syndicate - Added phase alterations for the four Pipesong platforms - Edited Chin Molvo's (main shithead) page

Today’s Gravy: Another real job workday. Partner was out for the evening, so I was able to work on the Pipesong faction spread. I also spent a few minutes working on the “crazy board” for a Liminal Horror adventure I’ve got in the pipe, using elements cut from Beneath the Muckfort.

Reminds me of session one of Tomb of the Serpent King. Two players, a couple irl, nodded to each other, and triggered the first door trap. One miraculously survived, the other was turned into paste. Hilariously, his trinket was a gem that reforms when shattered, discovered on the next visit.

Today’s Gravy: Did a ton of really hard work on the tangle map for Pipesong. I’d made a cool map, but realized that it wasn’t going to support the layout the way I wanted. I made some extensive revisions to the map layout, and grouped a bunch of locations into sub-nodes. I’ll share it tomorrow