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Chris Airiau
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🇫🇷 sci fi til i die. game writer, ttrpg designer, cyclist, neurodivergent (ADHD/BP-III). he/they.

As 5 Million Worlds Press, I publish modules for Mothership RPG, The Lost Bay RPG, Cloud Empress, and my WIP space game 5MW RPG.
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Chris Airiau @chrisair.itch.io · Jun 2
Twisting Unseen Pre-Launch is live on BackerKit!

Awaken underground(?) inside a superstructure twisted by Gate technology. The Crew must build a path forward, creating the dungeon, and face the Underthings from other realities to escape to their own spacetime.

For @mothership.bsky.social
Get Ready for Twisting Unseen
From 5 Million Worlds Press - Get Ready for Twisting Unseen
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12:30pm-9pm door-to-door return trip today gave me enough 5MW RPG writing time to get this done today:

5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/5mw-...
5MW RPG: Sectors, Serpents, and Gameplay Phases
Sectors contain one or many Systems. Systems consist of one or more stars, brown dwarfs, or black holes, and their orbiting bodies which alw...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I hear there's lots of new folk, so might be a good time to pass around this Mothership Creator starter pack again:
go.bsky.app/QZnMevN
December 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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did you know I have a new short game you can have? probably not cause I always forget about the part where you tell people about that
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#ttrpg #osr
December 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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New Generator: I've taken the dozens of tables I've produced over the years for Magical Items and finally loaded them into a generator to produce new wonders with a single click! blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/12/magi...
#osr #ttrpgs #randomtables
Magic Item Generator
W ith a little bit of digital elbow grease, I’ve finally managed to create a Generator that produces Magical Items from the dozens of d10...
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December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Board game night with the Player of Games
Skull glass with orange-pink liqour, and board game in the background
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"The Harvest Beast of Sekot Runs Amok!"

Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year!
I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year.
Happy holidays!
Southeast Asian Fantasy: 5 men tries to stop this huge lion-dance/barong looking thing. Inside the puppet has 4 pairs of feet.
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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yochaigal.bsky.social
I've created a list of cons in New England (2026).
Please let me know if I'm missing any cons, or event details! I'm still working at it.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
New England Cons
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December 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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10 games (or modules) I want to make (or finish) in 2026:

1. Twisting Unseen
2. Flatline on the Blocks
3. 5MW: CIN Sector
4. All Roads Lead to Rome
5. Paramour
6. Strings of the Puppetmaster
7. Robotnik Museum
8. The House of Light
9. Tears of the Gorgon Queen
10. Rise of the Carvers
meatcastlegameware.com MeatCastle GameWare @meatcastlegameware.com · 5d
10 is way too much given my past output so I'm saying:

5 Games I Want to MAKE (or finish) in 2026!

- Tacticians of Ahm (Tactical Fantasy)
- Stranger Stars (Mothership Total Conversion)
- Voidbreakers (Horror Investigation)
- 1,000 Miles from Home (Road Trip)
- Astral Command (Solo PbtA Trek-like)
dngnclub.itch.io DNGN CLUB | Jack Panic @dngnclub.itch.io · 5d
10 games I want to MAKE in 2026

- RatCatchers
- SkateSword
- Advanced DNGN + DRGN
- Fight Knights: World Tour
- Recon:Recon
- SmorgasBorg
- Defective Detectives
- Punkass Supers
- Broken Fixer
- The Puppets Variety Hour with Hermit the Crab

And yes I WILL be taking questions at this time...
December 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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MeatCastle GameWare - Annual #3 is coming in next week's Missive! 6 TTRPG freebies all in one 24-page zine. I'll be taking pre-orders at that time as well for the physical print run (which will be super limited). Pre-orders will be open for two weeks and then I'll order prints and get them shipped!
back cover of the zine showing it has 1 microsetting, 2 mothership supplements, 2 Cairn 2e supplements and a one page TTRPG in it
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Flatline on the Blocks has been such a fun project! I hadn’t written for Mothership in a while after writing Resonant so it was a good time to work with everybody. #osr www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
FLATLINE ON THE BLOCKS: A dicey district for Mothership RPG
Eighteen Mothership veterans tear open the Spinal Crux District, a 56pg zine detailing the EYE and its twenty Blocks on Prospero's Dream.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I am behind, but just listened to the Ansible Uplink episode with @unenthuser.bsky.social talking about WEG Star Wars and damn it was a good one. Love that system, even if the modules aren't to modern standards.

Hyped to have more of those coming later by the sounds of it.

#osr #sci-fi #podcast
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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'you can't just not play any game that uses AI in any way at all'

Fuckin' watch me, bitch
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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More from The Hands That Feed.
Interior spread of The Hands That Feed. Header reads Dry Docks. Boxed text designed with yellows and gold.Interior spread of The Hands That Feed. Header reads Dry Docks. Boxed text designed with yellows and gold.
December 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Holy hell, what a no-brainer deal.
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Strong reminder that rights granted are rights that can be stripped. Just because we currently have a pretty favourable legal framework with regard to LGB rights, they aren't irrevocable. It's vital to understand the current attacks on trans rights as a stand-in for a broader attack on LGBQ rights.
December 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Great pair of essays for thinking about writing anti-colonial ttrpgs and adventures.
isaacisafraid.bsky.social Afraid of Encounters @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 8d
My friend Habeeb made a blogpost a few days ago titled "the default dungeon is colonial", which prompted me to finally finish this blogpost.

"Anti-colonial Dungeon"

I guess I should finish my Anti-colonial OSR Tabletop RPG adventure/setting/game.

afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/anticolonial...
December 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Lore lives in the tables, as @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social has talked about recently.

What memento does your Avatar carry with them across the 5 Million Worlds?
5MW RPG, 1d100 Mementos
As the companion to the 1d100 Past Life table I posted earlier this week, here is the 1d100 Mementos table. As David Blandy talked about, l...
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December 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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My complaint about Metroid Prime 4: it is not Jayquaysed, at all.

Analysis provided for comparison.
Node map of Super Metroid's zones. Crateria is split by "Wrecked Ship" into two nodes. A nice loop with Crateria 1 to Brinstar (with detour to Norfair) to Maridia back up to Crateria 2, and a lil Tourian off of Crateria. Metroid Prime 1 node map. Again a split overworld, Tallon, this time by a crashed space station. The node loop is Tallon 1 to Chozo Ruins to Magmoor Caverns (detour to Phendrana) to Phazon Mines to Tallon 2. Tallon likewise has a lil shoot off to the endgame Crater. Metroid Dread Map. The nodes are all interconnected like crazy, here. Plus there's at least five different teleporters in this game that I didn't mark. All zones loop (sometimes with two branches), except for weird lil Elun, and the endgame zone Itorash. Metroid Prime 4 map. Dead center is Sol Valley. The five main areas all connect to Sol Valley. None of them connect to each other. Also, the endgame zone (which I jokingly call "Big Ben" when its real name is Chrono Tower) is off of Sol Valley. Sol Valley is also a hex map. On the hexmap, you can find six boring Zelda BotW knock-off Shrines and a fuckton of green crystals.
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I'm not the only one dreaming in games, it seems, 😂
adamstation.bsky.social Adam STATION 🔜 PAGE @adamstation.bsky.social · 10d
Brain at 4am: WAKE UP, you NEED
to write a game called "The Expense"
in which you play as an Accountant
in the Expanse, trying to balance the books
and get the crew to file timely expense reports.
This game will take 1 year to make and will
earn you literally tens of dollars.
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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This tool is pretty fun. Apparently I am very offline which is a great laugh.

Funny bit was my Top Posts list. The top three were for my birthday itch sale, the Twisting Unseen (premature) Pre-Launch, and a random, thoughtless post last week about Flatline development work.
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing my 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "game" (58×), "haha" (45×), "mothership" (41×), "folks" (30×), "games" (27×), "ttrpg" (26×), "check" (25×), "adventure" (24×), "album" (24×), "unseen" (23×) Activity patterns, shows line graph between Online / Balanced / Offline, and my account is near the end at "Offline" with the title Grass Touching. Empirical evidence of my lurking. Image alt text stats for 2025: 187 total images, 100% have alt text, 0 missing alt text, 145 character average alt text length Engagements Received. Monthly bar graph shows 500+ engagements for Jan-Mar, with a huge dip in April and May when I was deep in Not Enough Scoundrels layout. June & September are 500+, but the rest is between 350-450.
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Well shucks, for a starting in late October, this is a pretty fabulous start for Ansible Uplink:
A 2025 Most Shared Show. You received more shares than 89% of other shows. A 2025 Instant Hit Show. Your debut season was more popular than 72% of other new shows.
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I want to join this, but I also got the Year of the Beta challenge to finish for 5MW RPG.

Gotta pick my battles, and outer space wins, hahaha
prismaticwasteland.com Prismatic Wasteland @prismaticwasteland.com · 11d
New Dungeon (in blog form): Castle Claus, or The Keep on the North Pole

A Rankin Bass Christmas-themed dungeon for the Merry Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. Possibly one of my more high effort blog posts to date
#osr #ttrpg
Castle Claus: The Keep on the North Pole — Prismatic Wasteland
A Merry Hexmas location: dungeoncrawl through Santa Claus’ castle. Whether you lead an elf and reindeer uprising is up to you!
www.prismaticwasteland.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Give me a 1d100 roll, and I'll give you a Past Life:
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/12/5mw-...
5 Million Worlds Space Adventure RPG: Far-Future Transhuman Contact. A spaceship approaches a megacity planet.
December 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I woke up with a system in my head, from my dreams, called Gamebreaker.

Turns out I can't trust the maths of my dreaming brain's game design, 😂
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Relevant today
chrisair.itch.io Chris Airiau @chrisair.itch.io · 24d
Oh hey, I published this blog post yesterday about how to build a #MothershipRPG campaign based around a search and rescue ship trawling a few star systems for distress signals.

Totally my own initiative, and not for any other reason that will become apparent in a future Ansible Uplink episode.
Search & Rescue Mothership Campaign
Loads of Mothership distress signal adventures ping out in the void, so here's a way for folks to get those to table as a cohesive string o...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM