j strautman

I'm J Strautman, I'm a tabletop game designer, composer, and podcast producer based in Toronto, ON. I've been full time with my art for a few years now, and after putting out a bunch of different kinds of stuff I wanted to have one home for it all! It's rebrand time, baby ✨

The Firmament is live on Kickstarter now! Desperate humans are trying to break into the Chambers of Heaven - and if they succeed, all of creation is at risk. Descend from your celestial realm and stop them in this tarot-based roleplaying game for 1-7 players. ttrpg.fund/firmament

god i'm so excited about this game, a gorgeous little tarot number that does something SO unique with spreads and macro storytelling and i need it funded right the hell now

A Fool's Errand in Rascal !!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

More music for Ritual Deck!!!!! Hell yeah!!

We smashed $17,000, so we are getting music from @yesnogoodbye.ca & Jo Vasinda along with 2 new Mysteries! @carrion-comfort.com will be writing Mirror Match for Ritual Deck. Are you ready to duel yourself? Brian will be unleashing the Children of God! Next up @likethejeans.bsky.social! 28/x!

To Feel Your Warmth is FUNDED!

J’s music always sends me. It was great to finally work with them on a project

Less than $3k to funded!!!! Can we hit it within the first 24 hours??

I'm doing some music for Ritual Deck as a stretch goal ❣️🎶 check it out and back it!!!

i recently got to play this for an upcoming actual play and as someone who goes crazy for an argument generator this game has the juice. it was very vulnerable, full of snipes, full of love, full of tenderness, such a beautiful game. i need to see this get funded immediately

holy mackerel we are eating well this month with new crowdfunding rpgs

To Feel Your Warmth is LIVE on BackerKit! A tragic duet vampire TTRPG about two people in love, one of which has been cursed with vampirism, in the final hours before sunset. A conversation about love, trust, and the decision to move forward together or say goodbye forever. 🩸🚪🌅

The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game is live on Kickstarter now. Make your own murder mysteries with this hybrid board game + ttrpg! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

FUNDED IN 45 MINUTES!! Please enjoy some stretch goals, courtesy of NOBODY.

TOMORROW! Can we get to 600 presaves before launch?? Just three more!

had a chance to play this for an upcoming actual play and this game fucking rules. you need to pre save this and you need to back it on day one. You need to

In just two days, the campaign for To Feel Your Warmth launches on BackerKit! A game about love. A two play vampire game played at an open doorway. Will you reconcile this new change? Will you say goodbye forever? Will you invite them in? Can we hit 600 pre-saves before launch?

@yesnogoodbye.ca’s performance is so so so good and more people should say it! 💖

Finished the new episode of @parkdalehaunts.bsky.social Can I just say @yesnogoodbye.ca is the most diabolical villain imaginable and every episode it's remarkable that they still manage to move the needle for how evil they are. A truly remarkable performance.

New intro post 🎉 Hello and well met! I’m Candace the Magnificent (aka Candace McAfee), an award-winning voice actor, ttrpg performer, and professional weirdo. I’m passionate about diversity, community, pop culture, and so much more. Learn more about me and my work here: linktr.ee/candacethema...

unbelievable honoured to write about my favourite monsters, VAMPIRES, for this absolutely stunning game. do not miss this !!!! look at all these guest contributors !!!!!!

ONE WEEK until the campaign for To Feel Your Warmth goes live! In addition to the core team of myself, illustrator @egallagher.bsky.social, and editor @goblinmixtape.bsky.social, we've got a killer list of TWENTY FOUR incredibly talented guest contributors

look at these beautiful beautiful games !!!!

Look what landed at our doorstep!! All's Fair and Rise, Wizards! are so fucking real baby!!! @captainkrail.bsky.social @moreblueberries.bsky.social

truly disappointed to find out the pomodoro method works really goddamn well for me. i pushed against it for a long time because i always just Get Er Done but unfortunately focus tools are good and i have done better work since implementing them

World premier of some dueling music by @yesnogoodbye.ca if you get here early enough

This is also the first episode with @sirutherford.com as sound designer! Si knocked this episode out of the park and I can't wait for everyone to hear it. It's a real treat to have another excellent sound designer lend their talents to this show.

New Episode of Mythic Bastionland! Episode 3 - Tell Us The Tale At the Feast of the Stars the Knights tell a tale of their heroic deeds. This is our first episode after a time skip and we get a little creative with how we resolve a myth.

Episode 3 of MFD Mythic Bastionland is out today. I did some sound stuff for it! 🎛

It’s October 1st! Have you pre-saved the campaign for your next favorite spooky and sad vampire duet game??

Designs not final but here's a closer look at those cards :)

WE ARE LIVE!!! On lucky post #13. Storm the heavens, shuffle your decks, stop the apocalypse (or not), it's time to DUEL!!!!!! The Kingdom Carved Collab is live on @backerkit.com! Zine Club members don't forget that you will get discount pledge codes shortly! ttrpg.link/KCC

One Shot: Last Train to Bremen took home the award for Outstanding Drama, and I was awarded the William Dufris "Those Who Dare, Win" Achievement Award yesterday and I wrote a big sappy post about it on the pictures app. I'm feeling very good and warm. www.instagram.com/p/Dd1alTwEf6...

NEW EPISODE - Talk of the Table Our second special @gamefound.bsky.social RPG Party episode is a Daggerheart Double-Feature featuring: Hope Dies Last - @infinite-citadel.com + @mikerunderwood.bsky.social Tales & Twists - @jackofalltracks.bsky.social

feral about this actually

To Feel Your Warmth is coming to BackerKit on October 20th. A duet vampire TTRPG about love, trust, and the decision to move forward together or say goodbye forever. It is an evolution of the mechanics behind The Time We Have, but what specifically is changing? ⬇️

Only about 40 minutes into this but it is so goddamn compelling. Huge props to the @projectghostlight.bsky.social team. I love when an AP surprises me with my own game.

Rounding out my Summer Reading posts on Quinns Quest with an absolutely electric final brace of releases. I've been reading Infinite Revolution, City of Espers, Asher's Ridge and Girlframe. They are all SO GOOD. www.patreon.com/qquest/posts...

Beginning to lock in a suite of incredible guest writers and illustrators for To Feel Your Warmth and I can't wait to tell you about them. Want to be the first to know? Pre-save the campaign now! 🩸🚪🌅

please make all this work worth it and follow the bloody project getting a KS page together is a lot of work... www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

psp psp psp in case you missed it all 3 parts of our playthrough of A Fool's Errand is up to listen to now!

It's a damn good game

NOVA 2 is live on Kickstarter! Pilot powerful mechs on a sunless world in this action packed scifi TTRPG. This new edition of NOVA improves on, and adds a ton to the original. Let's get ready to go NOVA! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

!Spoiler Warning! NEW EPISODE! Our characters follow the star into the darkest place they can think of to try to complete the prophecy and bring a little bit of sin back to the world ft @superdillin.bsky.social @yesnogoodbye.ca @bmars.bsky.social @rahrah.bsky.social @tallnerdapollo.bsky.social 🔗⬇️

Not sure who here heard already, but Nic from IPR was in a really bad car crash two weeks ago, and his car is completely totaled. Anything you can give would be immensely appreciated, and even if you can't, please please please spread the word on this! www.gofundme.com/f/support-ni...

In our little session 0, B asked if it was okay to play a character that was a sex worker and I said actually if you don't you have to leave

Y'all, @scenefour.bsky.social is doing *the work* with short form videos in the #ttrpg trenches -- posting truly insightful commentary while parrying and riposting a barrage of nit-pickers every day. Massive respect and glory to his name! Check him out here: www.youtube.com/@scene_four or on Insta.

Bats from @manysidedmedia.bsky.social Wildsea during bathtime