Ben M | Periapt Games
@periaptgames.bsky.social
🦆 New Zealand indie thing-maker, he/him
🦆 TTRPG, RPG, D&D, art
🦆 I make #devlog posts!
🦆 I blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizards from wiki articles! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Psychic detective puzzle duo game! bit.ly/SMAL
🦆 Games, books, resources! bit.ly/periaptg
🦆 TTRPG, RPG, D&D, art
🦆 I make #devlog posts!
🦆 I blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizards from wiki articles! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Psychic detective puzzle duo game! bit.ly/SMAL
🦆 Games, books, resources! bit.ly/periaptg
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Coming soon: Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
www.kickstarter.com
My latest #TTRPG is Overzealous! It's a solo game where you're a (nice, sensible) elder god who has to rely on a bunch of (distractable, bloodthirsty) zealots to get summoned into reality. Cartoon mayhem ensues!
People can follow along on the preview page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
People can follow along on the preview page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
Got mixed up; nationalised the eschaton and immanentised the public health system
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Got mixed up; nationalised the eschaton and immanentised the public health system
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In Ruins is a TTRPG and dungeon building game. You will tell the story of a castle as it is built, falls into ruins, and then is taken over by rival factions competing to control the resulting dungeon.
Play solo or with a group of up to six players
peregrinecoast.press/products/in-...
Play solo or with a group of up to six players
peregrinecoast.press/products/in-...
November 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
In Ruins is a TTRPG and dungeon building game. You will tell the story of a castle as it is built, falls into ruins, and then is taken over by rival factions competing to control the resulting dungeon.
Play solo or with a group of up to six players
peregrinecoast.press/products/in-...
Play solo or with a group of up to six players
peregrinecoast.press/products/in-...
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Out of curiosity, are there any fellow artists who create art inspired by vintage print/book illustrations? Would love to follow more who share my niche.
June 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Out of curiosity, are there any fellow artists who create art inspired by vintage print/book illustrations? Would love to follow more who share my niche.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Meeting with key stakeholders in the vampire hunting coalition
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Meeting with key stakeholders in the vampire hunting coalition
A pretty good primer on the genAI pragmatics
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A pretty good primer on the genAI pragmatics
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
Argh, I Can't Unsee It Like A State (sequel by James C. Scott)
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Argh, I Can't Unsee It Like A State (sequel by James C. Scott)
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Crimetober 1-31 COMPLETE SET 🧵
Because birds are criminals.
#crimetober 1-9
#birds #art #animals #birdart
Because birds are criminals.
#crimetober 1-9
#birds #art #animals #birdart
November 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Crimetober 1-31 COMPLETE SET 🧵
Because birds are criminals.
#crimetober 1-9
#birds #art #animals #birdart
Because birds are criminals.
#crimetober 1-9
#birds #art #animals #birdart
A decrepit wizard in a flat cap who speaks all his incantations in Cockney rhyming slang
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
A decrepit wizard in a flat cap who speaks all his incantations in Cockney rhyming slang
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ok yes those are definitely skeleton panda sea squirts
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
ok yes those are definitely skeleton panda sea squirts
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This is interesting drama to follow lol
TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works
TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works
The disconnected Apple Pencil? The expression sheet with all the same expression? The art with the footsteps in the snow in front of the characters running? The file with one (1) background layer? Erasing the “hand drawn” background by hand on said one (1) layer file? Where do I starttttttt
November 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is interesting drama to follow lol
TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works
TLDR, the people who made the AI coke commercial are denying it and generating fake concept art, actual concept artists are ripping it all apart as fake because the guy has no idea how any of this works
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The best thing you can do to help your favorite author is to pre-order 150,000 copies of their next book.
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The best thing you can do to help your favorite author is to pre-order 150,000 copies of their next book.
Why is wired dot com threatening me
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Why is wired dot com threatening me
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November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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My latest #TTRPG is Overzealous! It's a solo game where you're a (nice, sensible) elder god who has to rely on a bunch of (distractable, bloodthirsty) zealots to get summoned into reality. Cartoon mayhem ensues!
People can follow along on the preview page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
People can follow along on the preview page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
Coming soon: Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
www.kickstarter.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
My latest #TTRPG is Overzealous! It's a solo game where you're a (nice, sensible) elder god who has to rely on a bunch of (distractable, bloodthirsty) zealots to get summoned into reality. Cartoon mayhem ensues!
People can follow along on the preview page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
People can follow along on the preview page:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
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There's still a week left in the TTRPG Tools Jam! We've had a bunch of neat projects submitted to help make games more easily accessible to folks, including rules summaries, character sheets, and an audiobook! Highly recommend folks look through and see how we're trying to get games to more people
TTRPG Tools Jam
A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-11-16 hosted by Aaronsxl. In the vein of the TTRPG Resource Jam , this jam aims to create tools to bring indie RPGs to a greater number of people. These would likely...
itch.io
November 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
There's still a week left in the TTRPG Tools Jam! We've had a bunch of neat projects submitted to help make games more easily accessible to folks, including rules summaries, character sheets, and an audiobook! Highly recommend folks look through and see how we're trying to get games to more people
Quick PSA that eating an apple is still a good way of getting a cheap, legal high
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Quick PSA that eating an apple is still a good way of getting a cheap, legal high
It's very exciting to have the older comics online. I missed a few bits of John's various series and many of them are very hard to find in print, so I'm excited to fill in the gaps.
Big recommendation from me for anyone who wants to read a lot of delightful British comics.
Big recommendation from me for anyone who wants to read a lot of delightful British comics.
If you want to start reading Solver from the start because you "need to catch up" on my comics, it is running from the start on GoComics from this week www.gocomics.com/bad-machiner...
Bad Machinery: Solver by John Allison for November 7, 2025 | GoComics
Read Bad Machinery: Solver—a comic strip by creator John Allison—for today, November 7, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
www.gocomics.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
It's very exciting to have the older comics online. I missed a few bits of John's various series and many of them are very hard to find in print, so I'm excited to fill in the gaps.
Big recommendation from me for anyone who wants to read a lot of delightful British comics.
Big recommendation from me for anyone who wants to read a lot of delightful British comics.
Building a PC for the first time in a while and it's all "point buy" and "story arc beats" and "multiclassing". Why don't these rules let me play 1 hobbit with 1 hit point
Building a PC for the first time in a decade is making me feel like I time traveled. "Hey, this case doesn't have a rack for SSDs!" I say, like a peasant unaware that 2.5" drives are stone age technology
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Building a PC for the first time in a while and it's all "point buy" and "story arc beats" and "multiclassing". Why don't these rules let me play 1 hobbit with 1 hit point
Although the robot is not in fact remembering correctly, the good news is that Wiki Articles Are Wizards has lots of wizard composition rules and you can get it here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#SelfPromoSaturday
#SelfPromoSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Although the robot is not in fact remembering correctly, the good news is that Wiki Articles Are Wizards has lots of wizard composition rules and you can get it here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
#SelfPromoSaturday
#SelfPromoSaturday
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Appreciate the space! I have some #indierpg I'm pretty proud of, including a one-page RPG that uses Scrabble tiles balianironguard.itch.io/lexis-arcana
Lexis Arcana by Balianironguard
A one-page game about saying the magic word
balianironguard.itch.io
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Appreciate the space! I have some #indierpg I'm pretty proud of, including a one-page RPG that uses Scrabble tiles balianironguard.itch.io/lexis-arcana
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It's #SelfPromoSaturday, so it's time for the #ttrpgfamily to show me what you got.
Remember:
🔥Repost (not quote RP) this post and another of mine to increase their reach
🔥Post your goods
🔥Interact if you've got the spoons for it
🔥If you post AI stuff here, I will find you and skin you 🙃
Remember:
🔥Repost (not quote RP) this post and another of mine to increase their reach
🔥Post your goods
🔥Interact if you've got the spoons for it
🔥If you post AI stuff here, I will find you and skin you 🙃
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It's #SelfPromoSaturday, so it's time for the #ttrpgfamily to show me what you got.
Remember:
🔥Repost (not quote RP) this post and another of mine to increase their reach
🔥Post your goods
🔥Interact if you've got the spoons for it
🔥If you post AI stuff here, I will find you and skin you 🙃
Remember:
🔥Repost (not quote RP) this post and another of mine to increase their reach
🔥Post your goods
🔥Interact if you've got the spoons for it
🔥If you post AI stuff here, I will find you and skin you 🙃
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#SelfPromoSaturday time once again!
Show off your artwork, TTRPG projects, sale, rpg kickstarter or anything you're proud of!
- No GenAI/Tech bro stuff (blocked if you do)
- Like and share
- NSFW = OK but hide/spoiler/etc it!
- Alt-text as much as possible please!
Show off your artwork, TTRPG projects, sale, rpg kickstarter or anything you're proud of!
- No GenAI/Tech bro stuff (blocked if you do)
- Like and share
- NSFW = OK but hide/spoiler/etc it!
- Alt-text as much as possible please!
a cartoon says show me what you got with skulls flying around
Alt: a cartoon floating head from "rick and morty" says show me what you got with skulls flying around
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#SelfPromoSaturday time once again!
Show off your artwork, TTRPG projects, sale, rpg kickstarter or anything you're proud of!
- No GenAI/Tech bro stuff (blocked if you do)
- Like and share
- NSFW = OK but hide/spoiler/etc it!
- Alt-text as much as possible please!
Show off your artwork, TTRPG projects, sale, rpg kickstarter or anything you're proud of!
- No GenAI/Tech bro stuff (blocked if you do)
- Like and share
- NSFW = OK but hide/spoiler/etc it!
- Alt-text as much as possible please!
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I updated the Overzealous preview page!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/overzealous-your-cult-has-no-chill
Profanity. Schisms. Graverobbing. Cultists making nameless tentacled horrors fight like Pokemon. Hordes of the undead. Murder and cannibalism. Lots of candles.
#selfpromosaturday
www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/overzealous-your-cult-has-no-chill
Profanity. Schisms. Graverobbing. Cultists making nameless tentacled horrors fight like Pokemon. Hordes of the undead. Murder and cannibalism. Lots of candles.
#selfpromosaturday
Coming soon: Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I updated the Overzealous preview page!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/overzealous-your-cult-has-no-chill
Profanity. Schisms. Graverobbing. Cultists making nameless tentacled horrors fight like Pokemon. Hordes of the undead. Murder and cannibalism. Lots of candles.
#selfpromosaturday
www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/overzealous-your-cult-has-no-chill
Profanity. Schisms. Graverobbing. Cultists making nameless tentacled horrors fight like Pokemon. Hordes of the undead. Murder and cannibalism. Lots of candles.
#selfpromosaturday
I have summoned
the tarrasque
that was in
your planet's crust
and which
you were probably
hoping
would stay there
the tarrasque
that was in
your planet's crust
and which
you were probably
hoping
would stay there
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I have summoned
the tarrasque
that was in
your planet's crust
and which
you were probably
hoping
would stay there
the tarrasque
that was in
your planet's crust
and which
you were probably
hoping
would stay there