Jay Ottersong
@jayottersong.bsky.social
I write about RPGs at https://jayottersong.substack.com and also wrote a book, Diary of a Grey Witch: Spring (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRLWMZSC/ref=sr_1_1?) based on my playthrough of Once Upon a Thyme.
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Jay Ottersong
@jayottersong.bsky.social
· Nov 12
RPG Otter | Substack
RPG Otter is a substack about TTRPGs. Mainly solo and journaling RPGs, but other systems as well. Click to read RPG Otter, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.
jayottersong.substack.com
Hello! I'm Jay Ottersong, writer and player of games. I write about RPGs, mainly solo stuff, at jayottersong.substack.com
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The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year (box set)
The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:43 PM
The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
One Page Monday #13: Vampires & Claymores. Play a Vampire in an effective fast system while inventing your own history and lore. #ttrpg #solo #vampire #onepagerpg
One Page Monday #13: Vampires & Claymores
Bloodsuckers and Highlander do mix
jayottersong.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:06 AM
One Page Monday #13: Vampires & Claymores. Play a Vampire in an effective fast system while inventing your own history and lore. #ttrpg #solo #vampire #onepagerpg
One Page Monday #12: Tricube Tales - Tales of the City Guard. Channeling the Pratchett and trying to arrest the wizard that put a tower right in the middle of the market! #solo #ttrpg #tricubetales #pratchett
One Page Monday #12: Tricube Tales - Tales of the City Guard
When you can't help but bring the Pratchett
jayottersong.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:40 AM
One Page Monday #12: Tricube Tales - Tales of the City Guard. Channeling the Pratchett and trying to arrest the wizard that put a tower right in the middle of the market! #solo #ttrpg #tricubetales #pratchett
One Page Monday #11: 31 Floors Up. Like Dread, but another PC dies? Played this solo so can't vouch how it'll play with more players, but the rules are kind of confusing even though there's some good prompts. #ttrpg #solo
One Page Monday #11: 31 Floors Up
Dread... but another PC dies
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January 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Trying out my entry for the Bookmark RPG Jam with Ken Liu's novel All That We See or Seem. Lots of inspiration for a cyberpunk campaign. #ttrpg #bookmark #bookmarkrpg #scifi #oracle
Words You Carry: All That We See or Seem
Joining the Cartographers Obscura
jayottersong.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Trying out my entry for the Bookmark RPG Jam with Ken Liu's novel All That We See or Seem. Lots of inspiration for a cyberpunk campaign. #ttrpg #bookmark #bookmarkrpg #scifi #oracle
One Page Monday #10: Michigan Dogman. Hunt the infamous cryptid. Or is it hunting you?
One Page Monday #10: Michigan Dogman
Hunting for a cryptid without falling into the Great Lakes
jayottersong.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 AM
One Page Monday #10: Michigan Dogman. Hunt the infamous cryptid. Or is it hunting you?
One Page Monday #9: Spindlejack - Drifting and delivering in the Citizen Sleeper Universe. #solorpg #boardgame #ttrpg #citizensleeper
One Page Monday #9: Spindlejack
Drifting and Delivering in the world of Citizen Sleeper
jayottersong.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:26 AM
One Page Monday #9: Spindlejack - Drifting and delivering in the Citizen Sleeper Universe. #solorpg #boardgame #ttrpg #citizensleeper
A great interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky, and how his RPG experience helps his writing. And that voice... #rpg #scifi #adriantchaikovsky
How to Write Absurdly Well — Adrian Tchaikovsky
YouTube video by David Perell
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 2:24 AM
A great interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky, and how his RPG experience helps his writing. And that voice... #rpg #scifi #adriantchaikovsky
Made something for the Bookmark Jam and a Kal-Arath supplement. Then it’s off to a dungeon with my kobold princess(?) in a barrel! #rpg #ttrpg #solo
One Page Monday #6: Princess with a Cursed Sword, TTRPG Bookmark Jam, and The Lost Archipelago
Can a kobold in a barrel find her purpose? Also a bookmark to carry words and a Kal-Arath supplement
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Made something for the #bookmarkJam this year. The Words You Carry is a bookmark where you save words or short phrases from the books you've read and use them as an oracle for future games. PWYW. davechua.itch.io/the-words-yo... #bookmark #rpg #words #books
The Words You Carry by Chaos Drake Press
Save the words from books you read to create an oracle for future games
davechua.itch.io
December 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Made something for the #bookmarkJam this year. The Words You Carry is a bookmark where you save words or short phrases from the books you've read and use them as an oracle for future games. PWYW. davechua.itch.io/the-words-yo... #bookmark #rpg #words #books
Ooh this looks interesting!
Been a hectic couple of weeks but I was able to create a little one-page game, free and new on my itch page! #solojournaling #ttrpg
maggiefrench.itch.io/cursed-be-th...
maggiefrench.itch.io/cursed-be-th...
Cursed Be The Pen That Cannot Rest by Maggie French
A Princess Sword game about an author with a cursed pen.
maggiefrench.itch.io
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Ooh this looks interesting!
A 100% off 11 games sale from Pandion Games. Reminds me that I need to do my writeup of Whisper in the Walls. #ttrpg #sale #solo
Holiday Thank You Sale by Pandion Games
A sale by Pandion Games, 100% off 11 games
itch.io
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In the far future, there is only war... and trying to keep two factions from destroying the planet you've just conquered. Can Kurgan of the Ghost Bears be nice and keep the peace? A solo playthrough of Grant Howitt's Nice Marines.
jayottersong.substack.com/p/one-page-m... #ttrpg #rpg #solo
jayottersong.substack.com/p/one-page-m... #ttrpg #rpg #solo
One Page Monday #5: Nice Marines
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war... and bureaucracy.
jayottersong.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
In the far future, there is only war... and trying to keep two factions from destroying the planet you've just conquered. Can Kurgan of the Ghost Bears be nice and keep the peace? A solo playthrough of Grant Howitt's Nice Marines.
jayottersong.substack.com/p/one-page-m... #ttrpg #rpg #solo
jayottersong.substack.com/p/one-page-m... #ttrpg #rpg #solo
A web implementation of Eleventh Beast.
eleventh-beast-web-implementation.onrender.com
Makes me want to try it again. My playthrough of the game for Spooky Season jayottersong.substack.com/p/solo-spook... #ttrpg #solo #medieval #spookyseason
eleventh-beast-web-implementation.onrender.com
Makes me want to try it again. My playthrough of the game for Spooky Season jayottersong.substack.com/p/solo-spook... #ttrpg #solo #medieval #spookyseason
Solo Spooky Season #9: Eleventh Beast
Here we go hunting the Black Banshee of Southwark
jayottersong.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A web implementation of Eleventh Beast.
eleventh-beast-web-implementation.onrender.com
Makes me want to try it again. My playthrough of the game for Spooky Season jayottersong.substack.com/p/solo-spook... #ttrpg #solo #medieval #spookyseason
eleventh-beast-web-implementation.onrender.com
Makes me want to try it again. My playthrough of the game for Spooky Season jayottersong.substack.com/p/solo-spook... #ttrpg #solo #medieval #spookyseason
Wonderfully informative video! More countries should support young people's clubs. #ttrpg #morkborg #rpg
We need to talk about Swedish TTRPGs
YouTube video by Weird Place
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
One Page Monday #3: The Cat in a Horror Movie by The Horned Sphinx. Kitty takes on an alien and plays blackjack to protect its owner.
#solorpg #rpg #blackjack #cat #alien #catvsalien
#solorpg #rpg #blackjack #cat #alien #catvsalien
One Page Monday #3: The Cat in a Horror Movie
Kitty takes on alien and plays poker
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November 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
One Page Monday #3: The Cat in a Horror Movie by The Horned Sphinx. Kitty takes on an alien and plays blackjack to protect its owner.
#solorpg #rpg #blackjack #cat #alien #catvsalien
#solorpg #rpg #blackjack #cat #alien #catvsalien
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This play-through really warmed my heart, and I’m so honored and pleased that @jayottersong.bsky.social chose to play it!
One Page Monday #2: Simple Walks by Maggie Mahoney @magathachristie.bsky.social . You've RPed as a space marine, wizard, but have you RPed as a bridge? A lovely journaling game about a day in the life of a bridge. #rpg #solo #journaling #cozy #onepagerpgs #cozyrpg #comfort
One Page Monday #2: Simple Walks
A day in the life of a bridge
jayottersong.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This play-through really warmed my heart, and I’m so honored and pleased that @jayottersong.bsky.social chose to play it!
One Page Monday #2: Simple Walks by Maggie Mahoney @magathachristie.bsky.social . You've RPed as a space marine, wizard, but have you RPed as a bridge? A lovely journaling game about a day in the life of a bridge. #rpg #solo #journaling #cozy #onepagerpgs #cozyrpg #comfort
One Page Monday #2: Simple Walks
A day in the life of a bridge
jayottersong.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
One Page Monday #2: Simple Walks by Maggie Mahoney @magathachristie.bsky.social . You've RPed as a space marine, wizard, but have you RPed as a bridge? A lovely journaling game about a day in the life of a bridge. #rpg #solo #journaling #cozy #onepagerpgs #cozyrpg #comfort
I'm starting a new series, posting play reports of One Page RPGs every Monday. First up is a wonderful journaling game from the perspective of a Pokemon, or rather, Wildkin, called Wildkin. jayottersong.substack.com/p/one-page-m...
One Page Monday #1: Wildkin
Pokemon journaling and guess my favourite Pokemon
jayottersong.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I'm starting a new series, posting play reports of One Page RPGs every Monday. First up is a wonderful journaling game from the perspective of a Pokemon, or rather, Wildkin, called Wildkin. jayottersong.substack.com/p/one-page-m...
Hello! I'm Jay Ottersong, writer and player of games. I write about RPGs, mainly solo stuff, at jayottersong.substack.com
RPG Otter | Substack
RPG Otter is a substack about TTRPGs. Mainly solo and journaling RPGs, but other systems as well. Click to read RPG Otter, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.
jayottersong.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Hello! I'm Jay Ottersong, writer and player of games. I write about RPGs, mainly solo stuff, at jayottersong.substack.com