Xander, the Epithetless

🚨 Surprise Halloween Release!! I decided to drop SQUIRE - my "order 66" solo survival game. Blends Star Wars & 40k into a dark, challenging solo survival TTRPG. On sale for the week of Halloween! bardlight.itch.io/squire

Current mood

October Mists

consumer space base photo by @breebird33.bsky.social thank you!!

"The problem with describing eldritch entities is that the special effects are very bad. Bilocated entities existing on multiple planes reflect light that's not present; they look pasted-in. They move like a cross between bad puppetry and claymation... The effects are BAD, and it makes it worse."

this is so perfect, so pure

Local theater

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pumpkin

Salty skeleton pirates for #swordtember. One thing I’ve learned about practicing art over the years is to follow the inspiration while you have it. I started on the daily prompts but then hit “crustacean” and it sent me back into these salty caverns and tide pools to see what else I can uncover.

On a roll with the crusty pirate ghosts, so I’m skipping around the Swordtember prompts a bit to dig into these characters. For the “tidepool” prompt, Here’s Fang the anglerfish cursed pirate wight. Another piece for Curs of the Humpback Coast from the 2025 Appx N Jam.

Swordtember 10: Crustacean This pirate lobster wight is a character from The Curs of the Humpback Coast, my submission to the 2025 Appx N game jam on itch. The space was limited so I didn’t get to really fill out the illustrations, so this was a great excuse to bring him to life.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.

Nautiloid spearfisher

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

Fungus centaur

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Our next double-feature: ROLLIN' WITH IT 🛼 The mechanical mailbag is open from now until the end of October!! Watch our upcoming movies & submit a related TTRPG idea (a thematic dice mechanic, overall elevator pitch, module, table...) & we might discuss it on the pod! 🔗 forms.gle/n3eBBJbT6HeQ...

Speaking of toxic miasma... :) (work on the Breathless hack continues!)

In the deathlands, abandoned material and unstable electroplasm sometimes becomes a spawning ground for the vile Wiremen.

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

This November we're hosting our first solo RPG game jam at @itch.io! Solovember 2026: All flavours of solo TTRPG welcome: tactical, journaling games, dungeon crawls, experimental, etc. A fun alternative to NaNoWriMo or to do as part of NaGaDeMon 🧡 itch.io/jam/solovemb...

halloween time

funeral rites

Star Trek is great because one episode it'll be like "one horror of fascism is how it makes regular people complicit in genocide" and the next is like "uh oh don't touch the bleep blorps or they'll turn your spleen to goop!"

Trying to quit games for movies but some days all I can do is sit around and think about games.

mmygod

this is so important it needed its own clip actually

Game where you propose an action, the GM tells you the basic outcome, you nod, then you roll on a table for weirdness. Table goes 1-20, with petty stuff at low numbers, major swings (good AND bad) at high numbers. You decide what size of die to roll.

masking is cool. cool people are masking

The original games at the core of Order of the Sinking Star are: * The Heroes of Sokoban series: by @ostroffj.bsky.social * The Promesst series: by @nothings.bsky.social * Mirror Isles: by me * Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes: by me

“⁠Take The Shot⁠” by Xander Hinners (@meanderxander.bsky.social):

yooooo my game is featured in a podcast?!? thank you Tabletop Book Club, I'm honored to be discussed alongside such cool creators 😊😊😊

A puppet performing a puppet on the radio!! Yes please… #behindthescenes

⚠️ Accessories are here! RPG Trader just got a big upgrade. Creators can now offer print-on-demand physical accessories for their games - alongside digital downloads & print books. Cards. Dice. Maps. GM screens. Tiles. Character sheets. Game boxes. And it all happens directly through RPG Trader.

The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia

Weekly one-page comic: Abandoned

Ranger

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.