Otterpoet
@otterpoet.bsky.social
Writer. Game Designer. General curmudgeon. ENNIE award winner 2019/ENNIE Finalist, Best Writing (2022).
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Otterpoet
@otterpoet.bsky.social
· Nov 6
KULT: Divinity Lost is offering my quickplay scenario, The Atrocity Exhibition, for free digital download. Perfect for playing with friends you don't like. drive.google.com/file/d/1EZAM...
Had way too much fun playing Thirsty Sword Lesbians at @conventionzero.bsky.social. My utterly shameless and broken TRICKSTER - Señorita Winnebago Arozza Nimon (aka Swan). That awkward moment of being exposed for intercepting and rewriting the romantic correspondence of the PC you're smitten with 😇
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Had way too much fun playing Thirsty Sword Lesbians at @conventionzero.bsky.social. My utterly shameless and broken TRICKSTER - Señorita Winnebago Arozza Nimon (aka Swan). That awkward moment of being exposed for intercepting and rewriting the romantic correspondence of the PC you're smitten with 😇
What a delightful evening at @conventionzero.bsky.social, where an informative seminar on GM-less rpgs by a dear friend turned into a sweet and solemn impromptu game of A Diner at the End. The gaming community never ceases to amaze 💜
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
What a delightful evening at @conventionzero.bsky.social, where an informative seminar on GM-less rpgs by a dear friend turned into a sweet and solemn impromptu game of A Diner at the End. The gaming community never ceases to amaze 💜
GM: Sets up gripping confrontation with misunderstood death priestess deep in the Temple of EverNight, where campaign secrets will be revealed.
Players: Lure her into combat with an eldritch horror and run other way...
GM: "You hear the unspeak-"
Player: "I toss in my trapped djinn flask."
GM: 😑
Players: Lure her into combat with an eldritch horror and run other way...
GM: "You hear the unspeak-"
Player: "I toss in my trapped djinn flask."
GM: 😑
a cartoon of a man with a bald head is standing in front of a purple wall .
ALT: a cartoon of a man with a bald head is standing in front of a purple wall .
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November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
GM: Sets up gripping confrontation with misunderstood death priestess deep in the Temple of EverNight, where campaign secrets will be revealed.
Players: Lure her into combat with an eldritch horror and run other way...
GM: "You hear the unspeak-"
Player: "I toss in my trapped djinn flask."
GM: 😑
Players: Lure her into combat with an eldritch horror and run other way...
GM: "You hear the unspeak-"
Player: "I toss in my trapped djinn flask."
GM: 😑
So, I'm mildly concerned about today's air quality... 🤔
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So, I'm mildly concerned about today's air quality... 🤔
I'll be on a couple panels for @illusionhorror.bsky.social this year. Always love hanging with far more intelligent and talented people than I... smiling, nodding, and praying I sound like what I'm talking about. www.theillusionhorrorcon.events/convention-f...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'll be on a couple panels for @illusionhorror.bsky.social this year. Always love hanging with far more intelligent and talented people than I... smiling, nodding, and praying I sound like what I'm talking about. www.theillusionhorrorcon.events/convention-f...
Currently watching N0S4A2 and I'm torn... genuinely love the dark, nasty stuff. Zachary Quinto is bloody brilliant. Give me just Charlie Manx being cool-creepy 24/7. But damn... I cannot stand the main 'protagonist.' I enjoy flawed heroes, but damn girl - can you make even ONE good decision?!
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Currently watching N0S4A2 and I'm torn... genuinely love the dark, nasty stuff. Zachary Quinto is bloody brilliant. Give me just Charlie Manx being cool-creepy 24/7. But damn... I cannot stand the main 'protagonist.' I enjoy flawed heroes, but damn girl - can you make even ONE good decision?!
Quite enjoyed this very thorough overview of one of my favorite D&D series. In many regards, these modules continue to inspire my game design to this day.
Gary Gygax warned: “This is not for the faint of heart.”
The S-Series modules—Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, Barrier Peaks, and Tsojcanth —pushed D&D to its limits.
New video: From Tombs to Spaceships: How the S-Series Changed D&D
🎥https://youtu.be/1jQMqItGPms
#DnDHistory #OldSchoolRPG
The S-Series modules—Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, Barrier Peaks, and Tsojcanth —pushed D&D to its limits.
New video: From Tombs to Spaceships: How the S-Series Changed D&D
🎥https://youtu.be/1jQMqItGPms
#DnDHistory #OldSchoolRPG
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Quite enjoyed this very thorough overview of one of my favorite D&D series. In many regards, these modules continue to inspire my game design to this day.
Running SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE tomorrow... 'cause what better way to celebrate Halloween than diving into some Lynchian horror?
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Running SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE tomorrow... 'cause what better way to celebrate Halloween than diving into some Lynchian horror?
Hanging out in #GhostofYōtei... Literally left the game running while I took a nap, listening to the wind and the Watanabe Mode music XD
October 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hanging out in #GhostofYōtei... Literally left the game running while I took a nap, listening to the wind and the Watanabe Mode music XD
Well, I saw it in the theatre, and holy hell... what a trip. Worth the price of admission for the sound production alone. The elevator scene was amazing... the shift from growing menace to chest-thrumming violence (chef's kiss). So glad I went.
Well, I know what I'm seeing in October...
PERFECT BLUE Remastered | Official 4K Trailer - In Theatres October 3
YouTube video by GKIDS Films
youtu.be
October 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Well, I saw it in the theatre, and holy hell... what a trip. Worth the price of admission for the sound production alone. The elevator scene was amazing... the shift from growing menace to chest-thrumming violence (chef's kiss). So glad I went.
Easily one of my favorite pieces in my game collection. Actually have it up as art 💙
Looks like old Eppy is going to need a new computer monitor.
In unrelated news, have you heard about Wolfspell? www.worldswithoutmaster.com/bazaar/wolfs... 🐺✨
You know! I bet if I sold five of these puppies, I could easily get that new monitor. 🤔
That's an interesting coincidence.
In unrelated news, have you heard about Wolfspell? www.worldswithoutmaster.com/bazaar/wolfs... 🐺✨
You know! I bet if I sold five of these puppies, I could easily get that new monitor. 🤔
That's an interesting coincidence.
Wolfspell on a Trifold Album Jacket — Worlds Without Master
A prophecy told in your youth dictates that only fang and claw will rend your destiny, so you must be reborn as beast. The tabletop roleplaying game of adventurers who turn to wolf flesh to fulfill ...
www.worldswithoutmaster.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Easily one of my favorite pieces in my game collection. Actually have it up as art 💙
Well, my obsession with Rise of the Ronin finally has come to temporary halt... 'cause, #GhostofYōtei arrived last night. This game is already stupidly gorgeous and cinematic. Will spend half my time in photo mode. Some nice storytelling tricks, and slowly warming to the combat (RONIN spoiled me 😅).
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Well, my obsession with Rise of the Ronin finally has come to temporary halt... 'cause, #GhostofYōtei arrived last night. This game is already stupidly gorgeous and cinematic. Will spend half my time in photo mode. Some nice storytelling tricks, and slowly warming to the combat (RONIN spoiled me 😅).
Any day you get to use 'Squamous' in your writing is a good day...
October 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Any day you get to use 'Squamous' in your writing is a good day...
I needed some serious cheering up today and #Ananta delivered. I swear, it's like every one of my favorite open-world games and animes had a love-child after a night of drunken debauchery... youtu.be/uYejjuRrLzw
ANANTA | Gameplay Trailer
YouTube video by Ananta
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I needed some serious cheering up today and #Ananta delivered. I swear, it's like every one of my favorite open-world games and animes had a love-child after a night of drunken debauchery... youtu.be/uYejjuRrLzw
Well, I know what I'm seeing in October...
PERFECT BLUE Remastered | Official 4K Trailer - In Theatres October 3
YouTube video by GKIDS Films
youtu.be
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Well, I know what I'm seeing in October...
So, for half my last session, I sat back while the players mused over the 'murder board' they'd assembled for the campaign. By the end of it, they were discussing if one of them should become the One True God or allow the world to descend into primordial chaos... these are the moments GMs live for 🤣
August 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
So, for half my last session, I sat back while the players mused over the 'murder board' they'd assembled for the campaign. By the end of it, they were discussing if one of them should become the One True God or allow the world to descend into primordial chaos... these are the moments GMs live for 🤣
LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS is glorious, but I was never in a thousand years expecting to see Marc Laidlaw's 400 BOYS (from Mirrorshades) animated... a short story that's been itching at the back of my mind for forty years. A perfect blend of punk, music, gore, and surrealism.
August 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS is glorious, but I was never in a thousand years expecting to see Marc Laidlaw's 400 BOYS (from Mirrorshades) animated... a short story that's been itching at the back of my mind for forty years. A perfect blend of punk, music, gore, and surrealism.
Rereading James Herbert's THE RATS and realizing I may have been a little too young for reading this at age 11... how did I forget the baby? 😐 Ah well, formative years, am I right?
August 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Rereading James Herbert's THE RATS and realizing I may have been a little too young for reading this at age 11... how did I forget the baby? 😐 Ah well, formative years, am I right?
It's so utterly surreal to think I started playing Traveller back in 1982... and now I have articles in #13 and #14 of the JTAS (The Mewey and The Mewey Empire). My old Referee would be proud 🤩
The new JTAS (13-18) books are released tomorrow - but today, we have posted a free download of the JTAS Index that catalogues every article published in them.
Ordered alphabetically and by category, find articles you need quickly!
www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/jta...
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
Ordered alphabetically and by category, find articles you need quickly!
www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/jta...
#ttrpg #TravellerRPG
August 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's so utterly surreal to think I started playing Traveller back in 1982... and now I have articles in #13 and #14 of the JTAS (The Mewey and The Mewey Empire). My old Referee would be proud 🤩
Not going to lie, for me, this is one of the most important cinema essays in the last while... and one of the reasons I continually find myself yelling at the movie screen.
(Although, I do wonder if Conclave slipped on under the radar and is far bleaker than people realize... I hope so!).
(Although, I do wonder if Conclave slipped on under the radar and is far bleaker than people realize... I hope so!).
New video out now! Hollywood liberalism is ready to save the world, or at least; in their own self-constructed fantasies. In reality though, the tropes that have emerged in these movies are actually precisely those that we need to get rid off: youtu.be/sJjODY-PyJY
August 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Not going to lie, for me, this is one of the most important cinema essays in the last while... and one of the reasons I continually find myself yelling at the movie screen.
(Although, I do wonder if Conclave slipped on under the radar and is far bleaker than people realize... I hope so!).
(Although, I do wonder if Conclave slipped on under the radar and is far bleaker than people realize... I hope so!).
Received my copy of #LastSabbath - The Witches' RPG yesterday. Little damaged because the mail decided to just fold the package and stuff it in my mailbox. But, this thing remains a work of art... looking forward to delving into it deeper and playing with the #tarot.
August 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Received my copy of #LastSabbath - The Witches' RPG yesterday. Little damaged because the mail decided to just fold the package and stuff it in my mailbox. But, this thing remains a work of art... looking forward to delving into it deeper and playing with the #tarot.
After how many years, I've finally started watching STRANGER THINGS. While the show is pretty cool, it's the nostalgia that's getting me. That was my generation, my town, my arcade, my music, my rpgs... just drinking it all in. Already pausing S2, E1 so I can get my Oingo Boingo CDs out XD
August 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
After how many years, I've finally started watching STRANGER THINGS. While the show is pretty cool, it's the nostalgia that's getting me. That was my generation, my town, my arcade, my music, my rpgs... just drinking it all in. Already pausing S2, E1 so I can get my Oingo Boingo CDs out XD
This Admin wants to built a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030... what could possibly go wrong? 🤔
August 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This Admin wants to built a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030... what could possibly go wrong? 🤔
My players can be a finicky lot, sometimes... 🤷♀️
August 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
My players can be a finicky lot, sometimes... 🤷♀️
My god, they did the impossible... they actually pulled off Death: The High Cost of Living. I'm just sitting here gobsmacked. Kirby Howell-Baptiste is a freakin' revelation. Time to break out my copies from 93' and read (and cry to) them again.
August 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
My god, they did the impossible... they actually pulled off Death: The High Cost of Living. I'm just sitting here gobsmacked. Kirby Howell-Baptiste is a freakin' revelation. Time to break out my copies from 93' and read (and cry to) them again.