Shouting Crow

Hi! I'm Justin. I make a free zine series about designing print-friendly tabletop games called PRINT IT YOURSELF. Every issue is absolutely chock full of diagrams and sometimes I do interviews with really talented and knowledgeable people. Check it out: itch.io/c/5612213/pr...

I am so absolutely stunned and proud to say that We Wander Beneath Radiant Lights has been nominated for Best Setting in the Indie Groundbreakers! www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

So much love and care to @alamhigo.bsky.social my editor, @jnb.art who did the wonderful cover (and who has also done the work for multi-nominee Little Wolves), @neonrot.bsky.social who did the fabulous layout, and to @shoutingcrow.bsky.social for the original moon game jam.

Make your very own Plato’s Mech, a featherless biped armed with guns and lasers! Color it. Cut it out and customize as much as you'd like. Art by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social! BEHOLD: exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech

What am I reading today? THIS:

Here's a link to the original essay. And if you enjoy this one, I recommend the essay that I wrote to conclude the series, which has had the most traffic. A Defense of Reading (or Reading as Play)🔗👇🧵

REMINDER: WE'RE ON WINTER BREAK! ⚠️THE ONLINE SHOP'S OPEN BUT WE WON'T SHIP AGAIN UNTIL JANUARY 2026⚠️ (You can also find us IRL - our vending machine mini-boutique awaits you during TPK Brewing Co's regular operating hours, 5051 SE Hawthorne PDX OR)

New to the #SoloRPG List: This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social You have to escape a horrible dungeon, armed with nothing but a magic frog! CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

DAY 1, GAME 7: This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social is a silly and fun solo dungeon crawl game where you race to escape a failed dungeon raid, aided (and hindered) by a magical frog. A good quick play mix of story and strategy. @shoutingcrow.bsky.social

Haven't been online much, but here's a doodle I did recently of a CATAPHRACTS character I'm playing. They're... a really different vibe, for me. Usually I play big old dudes. Anyway, I swear I'm still alive!

For MECH WEEK last year, I teamed up with @shoutingcrow.bsky.social to release a Plato's Mech free paper doll coloring page. That's going to be hard to beat for SKIRMISH WEEK this year. Suggestions welcome. Wrong answers appreciated. exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech #skirmish #wargames

This is brilliant

Picking up a pen and drawing something every day is a great way to build yourself up, especially when you don’t think of yourself as an artist. One day, you’ll feel like you’ve earned the title. Eventually you’ll realize you earned it the moment you picked up the pen. I’m proud of you, Exeunt.

A lot will be happening over on my Itch page, including a ton of print at home foldable versions of my games inspired by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social But until they are uploaded, from now you can grab a physical copy of Pirouette and Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto! These are VERY limited, only 7 of each

Been a year. Time to repost this.

Oof, this one’s so heavy, I haven’t been able to commission art for it or finish the work myself. If you wanna feel some kinda way, check out this stream. Good luck, Wyvern!

Interrupting my summer of inactivity to say: oh holy crap, one of our blue pearl neocaridina shrimp is carrying eggs! There’s a little yellow shrimp just below her, to the right. Li’l bonus for ya.

Got a lot of new followers today, but I haven’t been very productive this summer. Please enjoy this (invasive) mollusk shell that my kid found in the river. We spend a lot of time outside this time of year, but I’ll be back to posting bookbinding, publishing, and TTRPG stuff in September!

We bully people into great things in the Plus One discord. Also if you want to support @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's Longsword @hipolita.itch.io's RAD @apesofwrath.bsky.social's Down We Go Tony's Through The Void Or one of our other house systems we would love to help you

I think about this a lot and definitely feel that a game is not truly complete until it has at least one adventure supplement to support it and show what playing that game is actually like. It's like a video game with no story. Cool mechanics but how do I use them?

Plus One is looking for 4 "Zine Weight" #TTRPS to help support next year in a very particular way. We want to run 4 titles by newer creators through 4 different "funding platforms" & track the process for each one. The platforms are: -Kickstarter -Backerkit -Gamefound -Zine Club 1/4

Write an adventure for an indie system you read or played recently. Go on, do it. Even if you don’t think of yourself as a game designer. It doesn’t have to be great— it just has to be playable. One page, back and front. Three pages. An unformatted google doc. A postcard dungeon. Doesn’t matter.

I try not to put spiders into my games, out of consideration for my arachnophobic friends, but I am making a terrarium for my girlfriend and look what I found while misting it today… webs! (This shot was selected because it does not have a visible spider) What a productive little dude.

A long time coming, but Mausritter now has an SRD! There’s a nice website where you can get the rules or download a markdown file, plus they’re now released under a CC-BY license so you’re free to use the rules text in your own projects mausritter.com/srd/

All my friends are running ads for their projects and I can’t be arsed to charge more than $5 for a PDF simply because the rat race takes all the fun out of making stuff. Ho hum.

play games outside your discipline, even if you don't like them. engage with why you do or don't like them. it's great practice! you should try to experience OSR, trad, storygame, gmless, solo, fkr, larp, etc and see how they warp your idea of what our goofy little hobby is

Did you know that you can fit ~40 standard sized playing cards, five dice, and a rules sheet printed on the back of a J-card inside a cassette case without posts? Do something with this knowledge.

It’s summer, so we’re enjoying the best of the season. I got some worm castings for the terrarium, too!

You can draw with shape tools in any layout program. Or sunlight and stencils and vegetable juice. Collage is a legitimate art form. You can paint with coffee. You can burn a stick to make charcoal. You don’t have to be “good at art” to make art. There is no gatekeeper. The process is the point.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Hey TTRPG crew. If you can't afford to hire a great artist like Evlyn (she's worth it, though) and you use Affinity Publisher to lay out your games, I can teach you how to draw this little bird using nothing but shape tools. You don't need fancy equipment to make half-decent art and I'll prove it: 🧵

HELLWHALERS: The Book of Leviathan is live Based on our best selling #ttrpg of dammed sailors on the seas of hell hunting demon whales, this zine expands play with content by the original team! @mossdaggar.bsky.social @boguscheesecake.bsky.social & crew have made something amazing! ttrpg.link/bol

Digital 'What If' rules for tactical skirmish wargaming against the Hellwhale with every backing of the book. A deadly naval combat against hell's foulest sea beast. Entirely tables of procedural events for every roll of the dice. New scraps of horrific lore, and two haunting epilogues.

1/ Pues no había leído todavía 24XX de Jason Tocci, pero la excusa de un artículo sobre tablas para crear acervo, me ha empujado a ello, con más razón teniendo traducción pagaloquequieras de @laesquinadelrol.com y ocupando lo básico un folio por las dos caras... #lodelrol

New review up! A double feature this time: Wands & Laserguns, and This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl by @no-name-games.com and @shoutingcrow.bsky.social Two short and silly little solo zines that helped me enjoy RPGs even when I didn't feel up to my usual games. youtu.be/c8zIN0GGmpM

Genuinely worth checking out, folks. Very much something I’m looking for the right group to play with me.