Personable | Markus
@personable.bsky.social
Liker of things, RPGs, literature, video games, art, food, craft beer, post-punk.
Scandinavian in Germany, previously Australia.
Sometimes I make things: https://personable.itch.io/
I also sometimes blog:
https://personabler.blogspot.com/
Scandinavian in Germany, previously Australia.
Sometimes I make things: https://personable.itch.io/
I also sometimes blog:
https://personabler.blogspot.com/
Pinned
Hello! I'm Markus AKA Personable, I like thinking (and talking) about tabletop RPGs almost as much as I like playing them. Occasionally I also make them.
I also maintain the RPG blogposts feed, let me know if you want your blog included.
I also maintain the RPG blogposts feed, let me know if you want your blog included.
Reposted by Personable | Markus
Y'all know beefstink wrote Orphans? #over/under
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Y'all know beefstink wrote Orphans? #over/under
Reposted by Personable | Markus
I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got.
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
Dare to Play it Straight
The rarest tabletop genre is the simplest one. A call for more anti-mashups.
www.explorersdesign.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got.
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own.
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
How to Replicate Over/Under
A Guide to Live Text Roleplay
www.valerialoves.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#over/under was not one of a kind. I have been playing similar games for the last EIGHT YEARS. Today, I give this medium a name - "Live Text Roleplay" - and help you build a community of your own.
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
www.valerialoves.com/how-to-repli...
Licked a weird mushroom, ate some guy's brain (he asked for it), and got radiation poisoning. Had a great time!
CanyonHeavy Cowboys (and friends) ride again - in an entirely different world in entirely different bodies! Keeping the #OVER/UNDER enthusiasm alive, we're playing A Dungeon Game, led by @loottheroom.bsky.social. Will we live? Will we die? Will an even worse third thing happen? Probably!
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Licked a weird mushroom, ate some guy's brain (he asked for it), and got radiation poisoning. Had a great time!
I've got the previous edition of this, and I recommend picking up this reprint in the strongest possible terms.
Snow's writing is her greatest strength, and this is a fantastic showcase for it.
Snow's writing is her greatest strength, and this is a fantastic showcase for it.
Lilancholy has launched! Help me bring my weird, lyrical, traumatic collection of spells, poetry, and games to play when a fae corners you, to paperback form!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I've got the previous edition of this, and I recommend picking up this reprint in the strongest possible terms.
Snow's writing is her greatest strength, and this is a fantastic showcase for it.
Snow's writing is her greatest strength, and this is a fantastic showcase for it.
Reposted by Personable | Markus
Hey - if you're a Denizen of The Dream in #OVER/UNDER and want to follow more of the fun and cool people you've met over there over here then this is a darn good place to look: go.bsky.app/2dTRvz3
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hey - if you're a Denizen of The Dream in #OVER/UNDER and want to follow more of the fun and cool people you've met over there over here then this is a darn good place to look: go.bsky.app/2dTRvz3
Reposted by Personable | Markus
KIT SPEAKS
For those who were playing #over/under, here's a recap of my part in it all.
kitmarlowe.me/post.html?id...
kitmarlowe.me/post.html?id...
Kit Marlowe - Writer
Literary erotic fiction by Kit Marlowe
kitmarlowe.me
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
KIT SPEAKS
Tonight in #Over/Under, I did a drinking contest with nasty drinks. If you want to put the nasty drinks in your Mothership (or other RPG) game, here's the menu: personabler.blogspot.com/2025/11/ten-...
Ten Nasty Drinks for Mothership or other RPGs
I have recently been playing a lot of Over/Under (and hence not been writing any blog posts), and I was recently asked to provide my servic...
personabler.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Tonight in #Over/Under, I did a drinking contest with nasty drinks. If you want to put the nasty drinks in your Mothership (or other RPG) game, here's the menu: personabler.blogspot.com/2025/11/ten-...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
$11,000 raised so far for the PCRF is great
More would be even better
More would be even better
The Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF is live! Come support Palestinian children and get a ton of TTRPG and Pring/Play titles for $10! itch.io/b/3299/pales...
Free Palestine!
Free Palestine!
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF by Molgannard Press and 102 others
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF: 243 items for $10.00
itch.io
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
$11,000 raised so far for the PCRF is great
More would be even better
More would be even better
Reposted by Personable | Markus
I conducted mini-interviews with seven new @mothership.bsky.social designers last week. Find them all here:
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I conducted mini-interviews with seven new @mothership.bsky.social designers last week. Find them all here:
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
5millionworlds.blogspot.com/2025/11/moth...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
Of the different types of dungeon rooms, "Special" can be one of the hardest to write towards. This list of sub-categories of special rooms has great prompts!
In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)
In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)
The 10 types of special rooms
"A Special is anything not exactly a trap, but placed for special reasons." Moldvay Basic pg. B52 Traps, monsters, secret doors, and treas...
traipse.hexarcana.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Of the different types of dungeon rooms, "Special" can be one of the hardest to write towards. This list of sub-categories of special rooms has great prompts!
In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)
In a🧵 below, I delve into examples from CASTLE AUTOMATIC for each sub-type of special rooms. (Warning: Spoilers for the dungeon!)
Reposted by Personable | Markus
The Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF is live! Come support Palestinian children and get a ton of TTRPG and Pring/Play titles for $10! itch.io/b/3299/pales...
Free Palestine!
Free Palestine!
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF by Molgannard Press and 102 others
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF: 243 items for $10.00
itch.io
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF is live! Come support Palestinian children and get a ton of TTRPG and Pring/Play titles for $10! itch.io/b/3299/pales...
Free Palestine!
Free Palestine!
Reposted by Personable | Markus
I contributed a game to this! Go play "Kingdoms of the Valley version 0.1" and over two-hundred more TTRPGs today!!
The Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF is live! Come support Palestinian children and get a ton of TTRPG and Pring/Play titles for $10! itch.io/b/3299/pales...
Free Palestine!
Free Palestine!
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF by Molgannard Press and 102 others
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF: 243 items for $10.00
itch.io
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I contributed a game to this! Go play "Kingdoms of the Valley version 0.1" and over two-hundred more TTRPGs today!!
Reposted by Personable | Markus
I've just started reading the famous Magic of Inventorying by @rolistespod.itch.io. I love how the game itself throws you in media res while it is usually a DM choice. Grab it in TTRPG Bundle for Palestinian Children's Relief Foundation for $10.00 along with +200 other games!
itch.io/b/3299/pales...
itch.io/b/3299/pales...
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF by Molgannard Press and 102 others
Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF: 243 items for $10.00
itch.io
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I've just started reading the famous Magic of Inventorying by @rolistespod.itch.io. I love how the game itself throws you in media res while it is usually a DM choice. Grab it in TTRPG Bundle for Palestinian Children's Relief Foundation for $10.00 along with +200 other games!
itch.io/b/3299/pales...
itch.io/b/3299/pales...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
i wish people would be substantially more careful with their choice to dismiss art/games they don't like as "not art / not a game"
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
i wish people would be substantially more careful with their choice to dismiss art/games they don't like as "not art / not a game"
Reposted by Personable | Markus
I'm here with a very exciting announcement: The Awards 2026 is happening! The SEO-friendly TTRPG awards show has had a refreshing year off and is back with a vengeance.
To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Awards 2026 Design Diary #1
Inspired by Clayton Notestine's debrief on his participation in the 2025 Ennie Awards and Split/Party's "What awards do for us?" articl...
ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I'm here with a very exciting announcement: The Awards 2026 is happening! The SEO-friendly TTRPG awards show has had a refreshing year off and is back with a vengeance.
To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
To kick this off, take a look at the first Design Diary for The Awards 2026: ttrpg-spider.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes my entry to this year's Christmas Blog Bandwagon: An entry in a hex crawl inspired by Rankin/Bass! We've got orcs, we've got labor disputes, and boy howdy we've got pop culture references galore!
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...
Blog Bandwagon: Orcish Toy Factory
Definitely a lawyer and allegedly a blogger Prismatic Wasteland has issued a new Blog Bandwagon wherein everyone comes up with a hex an...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes my entry to this year's Christmas Blog Bandwagon: An entry in a hex crawl inspired by Rankin/Bass! We've got orcs, we've got labor disputes, and boy howdy we've got pop culture references galore!
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...
magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2025/11/blog...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
(PLEASE REPOST!) Reviewers, journalists, content creators, YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, and TTRPG people of all kinds : WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
(PLEASE REPOST!) Reviewers, journalists, content creators, YouTubers, podcasters, bloggers, and TTRPG people of all kinds : WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
This month we're sending out the press preview version of GALLOWS CORNER - A PEASANTS' REVOLT RPG, and we want to add you to our media distro list!
Reposted by Personable | Markus
Reposted by Personable | Markus
I enjoy Halloween! I blog about it somewhat frequently so have eight (8) blogposts that are appropriately spooky for you to enjoy on this Hallows Eve. I shall collect them here for you #osr
1/8: Do the Monster Mashup! Combining different classic monsters to make new, weirder monsters
1/8: Do the Monster Mashup! Combining different classic monsters to make new, weirder monsters
Do the Monster Mashup — Prismatic Wasteland
I mashup several classic Halloween monsters to create ten new spooky monsters, and discuss how I would use them in games.
www.prismaticwasteland.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I enjoy Halloween! I blog about it somewhat frequently so have eight (8) blogposts that are appropriately spooky for you to enjoy on this Hallows Eve. I shall collect them here for you #osr
1/8: Do the Monster Mashup! Combining different classic monsters to make new, weirder monsters
1/8: Do the Monster Mashup! Combining different classic monsters to make new, weirder monsters
Reposted by Personable | Markus
Happy Halloween!
In the mood for some Sci-Fi Horror? Wanna slot in some Ghostly encounter for an existing adventure? Then I have the thing for you!
wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com/2025/10/runn...
#ttrpg #scifi #rpg
In the mood for some Sci-Fi Horror? Wanna slot in some Ghostly encounter for an existing adventure? Then I have the thing for you!
wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com/2025/10/runn...
#ttrpg #scifi #rpg
Running Psychic Ghosts
Running Ghost Encounters for scifi / space games
wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Happy Halloween!
In the mood for some Sci-Fi Horror? Wanna slot in some Ghostly encounter for an existing adventure? Then I have the thing for you!
wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com/2025/10/runn...
#ttrpg #scifi #rpg
In the mood for some Sci-Fi Horror? Wanna slot in some Ghostly encounter for an existing adventure? Then I have the thing for you!
wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com/2025/10/runn...
#ttrpg #scifi #rpg
Reposted by Personable | Markus
Cooked up this harebrained idea while making holiday gifts! Curious if it's been done before.
tbr.bearblog.dev/objects-as-r...
tbr.bearblog.dev/objects-as-r...
Objects as Random Access Memory
This afternoon I was working on some Christmas gifts in my woodshop while listening to an episode of the Yes, Indie'd podcast with of Backwards Tabletop, ta...
tbr.bearblog.dev
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Cooked up this harebrained idea while making holiday gifts! Curious if it's been done before.
tbr.bearblog.dev/objects-as-r...
tbr.bearblog.dev/objects-as-r...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
Along with the game itself, I wrote a short retrospective on the Minimalist Jam itself and all of the lessons I learned. I had a great time, but I definitely think this was an ambitious game to write for a jam.
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
minimalist jam post-mortem
On every level except physical, I have been destroyed by the Minimalist TTRPG Jam. A thunderhead of mistakes have led to this state, and we’re gonna unpack them so at least we learn something for the ...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Along with the game itself, I wrote a short retrospective on the Minimalist Jam itself and all of the lessons I learned. I had a great time, but I definitely think this was an ambitious game to write for a jam.
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
Indie ttrpg creators!
It's already Nov 1 and a new Carouse! Carouse! has dropped!
Check it out over your morning coffee:
#nsr #ttrpg #indiecreators
www.carouse.blog/november-202...
It's already Nov 1 and a new Carouse! Carouse! has dropped!
Check it out over your morning coffee:
#nsr #ttrpg #indiecreators
www.carouse.blog/november-202...
November 2025 - Jacked In
We're approaching the end of the year, and the northern hemisphere is getting properly gray and wet now (the perfect weather to stay in and play RPGs). Perhaps the southern contingent will play outsid...
www.carouse.blog
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Indie ttrpg creators!
It's already Nov 1 and a new Carouse! Carouse! has dropped!
Check it out over your morning coffee:
#nsr #ttrpg #indiecreators
www.carouse.blog/november-202...
It's already Nov 1 and a new Carouse! Carouse! has dropped!
Check it out over your morning coffee:
#nsr #ttrpg #indiecreators
www.carouse.blog/november-202...
Reposted by Personable | Markus
aww yeah! i took a look at @evlynmoreau.bsky.social's all-gas-no-words joint Gormand's Larder for this one and really adored it. the cover art here goes crazy also lmao i feel like i'm in this pic and i don't like it
New Carouse, Carouse!
This time featuring, among other things, me writing about Over/Under, AI in games (not like that) from Patchwork Paladin, a review of Gorman's Larder by @giantrobottackler.bsky.social and a selection of blog posts, as always!
www.carouse.blog/november-202...
This time featuring, among other things, me writing about Over/Under, AI in games (not like that) from Patchwork Paladin, a review of Gorman's Larder by @giantrobottackler.bsky.social and a selection of blog posts, as always!
www.carouse.blog/november-202...
November 2025 - Jacked In
We're approaching the end of the year, and the northern hemisphere is getting properly gray and wet now (the perfect weather to stay in and play RPGs). Perhaps the southern contingent will play outsid...
www.carouse.blog
November 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
aww yeah! i took a look at @evlynmoreau.bsky.social's all-gas-no-words joint Gormand's Larder for this one and really adored it. the cover art here goes crazy also lmao i feel like i'm in this pic and i don't like it