Sword Opera
Itch: https://mythicgazetteer.itch.io/sword-opera
DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/533188/sword-opera
Game designer and mail fighter. He/him.
Co-author of Sword Opera RPG
Author of Trash Pandas RPG
Help me love Dracula (1931)!
It's spooky season so once again, I turn to this classic film, only to be bored stiff.
For such a short film, its pacing is leaden and its dialogue bad. Bela is great, and the weird details are fun (possums and armadillos), but it's not enough.
What am I missing?
Hey #PortfolioDay! My name is Jack Emmett Taylor, I'm a queer fantasy illustrator that specializes in vibrant colors and expressive characters. I love all fantasy, sci-fi, & historical!
Contact me for: ttrpg, tcg, covers, comics 💚
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🎥 HAPPY [RECORDED] DAY!! 🎞️
My anthology of found media stories has been whisked off to all backers and authors (in ebook form)... AND NOW EVERYONE ELSE CAN PRE-ORDER IT!
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If you like found footage? 👀 You will LOVE the 21 stories in this book—I am SO proud of this!
💀 The RPG Trader Spooky Season Bundle is now LIVE! 🎃
Get 168 modules from 168 different creators, worth a combined $1,112.22, for just $25!
Available from 10-31 October 👻
And while you’re there, we’ve got a site-wide sale on most of our spooky games and products!
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Based on my estimates, I'm going to be broke at the end of the month. And my savings will only last that long because I've started putting my groceries on a credit card (which was how they all got maxed out last year). Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.
On Christmas Day 2025, I fell in my kitchen baking cookies for Santa and broke my back, leaving me paralyzed.
I'm currently in a long-term care facility with my benefits severely cut and could use financial help with bills and groceries.
You can donate to my GoFundMe or see links in the reply.
My 🎂 birthday sale 🎂 ends TONIGHT at 1AM PST, now is a great time to pick up a fresh illustration of your OC or TTRPG character! (Or get them designed!)
vgen.co/jackemmettart#commissions#TTRPG#OCs#vgen
Finished The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson for my third time, and it is more and more of a masterpiece every time I read it.
Now I have to rewatch The Haunting (1961).
Games I Want to Run but I'm Sure Nobody Will Want to Play:
- WEG d6 Star Wars 1st Edition, based solely on my memories of the original trilogy and nothing else, just vibes and 1970s space
- Burning Wheel, Gevaudan terrorized by the Beast
- B/X D&D, but we hack the shit out of the game every session
Games I Want to Run but I'm Sure Nobody Will Want to Play:
- BattleTech using A Time of War for roleplay and the tabletop wargame rules for 'Mech combat
- Shadowrun 1st Edition going through the iconic adventures. Yes, using the 1e rules (though with the VR decking options)
Mars Watch is now LIVE on Kickstarter!
Re-skinned 2nd edition of The Watch - an award-winning TTRPG about women and NB people literally destroying patriarchy.
📚 Revised rules, incl. new playbook
🚀 New setting & art
✨ Future genders
🔪 Destroy space capitalism
Back now: www.kickstarter.com/...
I hate to do this again on the heels of his kidney obstruction but Onion got into a dangerous amount of garlic powder and I have to take him to the emergency vet. If you’re able to help us out a little, my Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim, and my PayPal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com
All right, here's the first call out. Within hours of me publishing an incredibly in-depth piece on CMON's finances, which covers a multitude of stock exchange filings from across several weeks, this article appeared on @tabletopgamingnews.bsky.social:
www.tabletopgamingnews.com/cmon-is-suff...
It's become hugely dispiriting how frequently I'm having to contact other tabletop news sites asking that they -please- cite BoardGameWire as the source of the story they've just directly lifted, slightly reworded or run through ChatGPT before slapping it on their site without attribution.
Redux edition of Mud Ghost Estate is now available digitally! 🌐
Mud Ghost Estate is a spooky tumbling tower TTRPG inspired by Hong Kong folklore and urban legends, about a group of daring teenagers exploring a haunted public housing estate in the 1990s. 👻
aryl-ether.itch.io/mudghost
When Zeppo, Chico, Harpo turn a corner to find a microphone, a piano, and a harp - that's Sword Opera.
Just exchange those for a sword, a sacred flame, and a loose cobblestone.
This skeet brought to you by A Day at the Races (1937).
Want the world to see your Sword Opera Underworld?
Want to embellish the underworld of San Mercurio? Hot Town? A Lingering of Lilac? (breathlessly now) Heart's Haven? San Dimas 2190?!
Now you can! The Underworld License lets you create and sell Sword Opera works of your own!
Tony Hawk is selling decking materials. Not cool cyberpunk decking, buy like a deck on a house decking.
Honestly? Good for him.
Where's my Tony Hawk's This Old House to accompany me into senescence?
Czege & Son are tabling at Denver Zine Fest in just over a week‼️
Come check us out if you like comics, journaling, tarot, games, or metaphysical journeys 😮
#ttrpg#journalGaming#zines#DenverZineFest
A little rainy day game for Alfred! I stuff bags with paper and treats (the organs) and stuff those into a bag (the carcass) with more paper and treats. It gives his brains and instincts a nice workout.
I had a FANTASTIC time sketching out these lil pistols for a #TTRPG client. (I'm aware there's overlap in these aesthetics- mostly I wanted to nail down art direction early for a bigger project!)
Give me some more projects where I get to design shit, this was so fun. 😁
What do you do when you're burned out on being the leader, the person who organizes things that folks enjoy, that makes the plans?
I stepped back from all of that, and now I'm just burned out AND lonely.
Ain't no cure for the summertime blues, I guess.
Today on Between Two Cairns, @bradkerr.net, @betterlegends.bsky.social and I are joined by A. G. Cook to review The Expedition to the Barrier Peaks by Gary Gygax!
www.patreon.com/posts/166592...
I encourage anyone who designs games to look at early works like B&B. It's fascinating! There are so many ideas in it, and so many of them could have spun off into other games.
It refuses to tell you explicitly what you do, or how it is "meant" to be played.
It has dueling rules!
Aldsworth, 1811 by @tenpenjenn.com is about five Regency women and the men they might marry - as ladies act to secure their futures in the countryside of Regency England, love is a luxury some cannot afford. It's all the crack! #TTRPGs#RPGs#gamesjennmartin.itch.io/aldsworth-1811
My character for a few different oneshots/twoshots: Valencia!
This is her look as a hot-shot rookie swordswoman in the Shakespearian Underworld of San Mercurio ( in a dramatic game of Sword Opera!)
[ #SwordOpera is a great game by Eli Kurtz & @ericfarmer.bsky.social ! ]
#TTRPGSky#OCSky#Art#OC
I published a new adventure for Old School Essentials! It's five connected dungeons beneath a "town with problems." Get it as a PDF on itch (everweird.itch.io/the-corrupti...) or in print from Lulu (www.lulu.com/shop/everwei...) #osr#ttrpg#bxdnd#dungeoneering
My first published RPG, Trash Pandas, is the Deal of the Day on DTRPG! The very first¹ raccoon themed heist game!
¹ citation needed
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A fun game to play when you watch an old TV show is trying to figure out which side character the Internet would be horny for if it aired today.
For McMillan & Wife, it would be Sgt. Enright as played by John Schuck.
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only
Doctor Who
Columbo
The Golden Girls
Knight Rider
Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
Batman TAS
Gargoyles
Kolchak the Night Stalker
Supernatural
Ghosts (UK)
Taskmaster
Chōjin Sentai Jetman
Midsomer Murders
Kamen Rider
Wishbone
I'm having a sale all month to raise money to help save my teeth.
I got new dental health insurance, which means I could afford to see the dentist, which means I cannot afford to fix my teeth. Funny how that works huh?
75%-off everything, or $20 for every game I've made.
itch.io/s/185305/sav...