Swordfish Islands
@swordfishpress.bsky.social
I write, layout, and publish table top RPGs.
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“…if you don’t know you are making a decision then the tension around making that decision is lost.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“…if you don’t know you are making a decision then the tension around making that decision is lost.”
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November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Why didn’t anyone tell me about Weatherstar sooner? You can even turn on the music!
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
WeatherStar 4000+
Web based WeatherStar 4000 simulator that reports current and forecast weather conditions plus a few extras!
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Why didn’t anyone tell me about Weatherstar sooner? You can even turn on the music!
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
weatherstar.netbymatt.com
Kids these days. SMH.
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Kids these days. SMH.
Swing a long sword in here why doncha
November 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Swing a long sword in here why doncha
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🎃Happy Halloween!🎃
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🎃Happy Halloween!🎃
“But RAW says we can travel 24 miles per day no sweat.”
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“But RAW says we can travel 24 miles per day no sweat.”
“This calls to mind the trap of layout/publishing guidelines. They exist to add clarity, not to be followed rigidly in to the abyss. If the guidelines say to bold monster names, and you do so and it looks like that is MORE confusing, then don’t do that.”
Yes.
Yes.
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“This calls to mind the trap of layout/publishing guidelines. They exist to add clarity, not to be followed rigidly in to the abyss. If the guidelines say to bold monster names, and you do so and it looks like that is MORE confusing, then don’t do that.”
Yes.
Yes.
Large creature, slowly but steadily advancing, feels like an under utilized TTRPG encounter.
Pre-game that roll for initiative.
Pre-game that roll for initiative.
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Large creature, slowly but steadily advancing, feels like an under utilized TTRPG encounter.
Pre-game that roll for initiative.
Pre-game that roll for initiative.
If real birds can look like this, your goblins probably aren’t cool enough.
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
If real birds can look like this, your goblins probably aren’t cool enough.
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I have never once wanted to talk to my computer
October 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I have never once wanted to talk to my computer
Have any bloggers compiled a list of TTRPG’s “eternal September” questions? You know, things like:
“Are orcs people? (And what monsters aren’t?)”
“Are orcs people? (And what monsters aren’t?)”
October 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Have any bloggers compiled a list of TTRPG’s “eternal September” questions? You know, things like:
“Are orcs people? (And what monsters aren’t?)”
“Are orcs people? (And what monsters aren’t?)”
Well said.
The type of story I like is similar to life, it’s an emergent one that arises out a series of events informed by PCs’ choices that align/conflict with other groups all in a cool place; the only true grand goal or “arc” is that set by the PCs- Megadungeons provide this
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Well said.
Think I’ve found my hobby that doesn’t scale.
September 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Think I’ve found my hobby that doesn’t scale.
Dungeon entrance
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Dungeon entrance
Oh wow these are great!
It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
www.emilyhare.co.uk
www.emilyhare.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Oh wow these are great!
Ugly question: but if AI “art” is so reviled, isn’t it being “a nail in the eye, a spike in the flesh, gravel in the shoe”, and by Ai Weiwei’s definition: art?
Or is the rub that it only has that effect on artists and not the common man who consumes it happily/unknowingly?
Or is the rub that it only has that effect on artists and not the common man who consumes it happily/unknowingly?
September 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Ugly question: but if AI “art” is so reviled, isn’t it being “a nail in the eye, a spike in the flesh, gravel in the shoe”, and by Ai Weiwei’s definition: art?
Or is the rub that it only has that effect on artists and not the common man who consumes it happily/unknowingly?
Or is the rub that it only has that effect on artists and not the common man who consumes it happily/unknowingly?
“But who will help them write the blurbs?”
September 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“But who will help them write the blurbs?”
Wangechi Mutu, 'MamaRay, 2020
September 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Wangechi Mutu, 'MamaRay, 2020
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Sample page layout from the upcoming Altaina Galffa magazine for D6 space adventures. There will be a few more pages for each world for the GM, but this should be enough to hand the players and say here you go, this is where you're heading.
#AltainaGalffa #StarWarsD6RPG #StarWarsRPG #StarWars
#AltainaGalffa #StarWarsD6RPG #StarWarsRPG #StarWars
September 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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