Josh D | Vaulted Pyramid
@unenthuser.bsky.social
He/They | Engineer by day, TTRPG Writer & Designer by night | Liminal Horror | Afterthought Committee | occasional actual play host | I dev edit too | Unenthuser.itch.io
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If you are a writer, artist, editor, or designer in the TTRPG scene that is LGBTQ+ or a POC, please send me your portfolios/resumes and rates. This isn’t for a specific project, but I have some opportunities for paid work coming up and my goal is always to have a diverse project team where possible.
If you have a blogpost discussing Over/Under, I want to read it! Please sent me a link!
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
If you have a blogpost discussing Over/Under, I want to read it! Please sent me a link!
So there’s this band Castle Rat. They formally have five members, but only four of them play instruments. The fifth member is called the Rat Reaperess, whose role is to walk around on stage in fishnets and a rat mask while carrying a scythe. That rocks. I think that’s what I want out of life.
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
So there’s this band Castle Rat. They formally have five members, but only four of them play instruments. The fifth member is called the Rat Reaperess, whose role is to walk around on stage in fishnets and a rat mask while carrying a scythe. That rocks. I think that’s what I want out of life.
It physically pains me knowing Guillermo Del Toro has finished screenplays for At the Mountains of Madness and “a western adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo” that have gone unproduced.
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It physically pains me knowing Guillermo Del Toro has finished screenplays for At the Mountains of Madness and “a western adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo” that have gone unproduced.
Crimson Peak may have one of the best narrative devices in all of horror films with its setup of a house slowly sinking into the ground, causing blood-red clay to "bleed" through the walls.
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Crimson Peak may have one of the best narrative devices in all of horror films with its setup of a house slowly sinking into the ground, causing blood-red clay to "bleed" through the walls.
If you've ever been confused by the idea that "race is a social construct", know that in the US in the early 1900s, the Supreme Court decided that folks from the Middle East were White for the purposes of immigration because they did not want to legally declare that Jesus Christ was not White.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you've ever been confused by the idea that "race is a social construct", know that in the US in the early 1900s, the Supreme Court decided that folks from the Middle East were White for the purposes of immigration because they did not want to legally declare that Jesus Christ was not White.
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New ep
Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of @explorersdesign.bsky.social to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters.
Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of @explorersdesign.bsky.social to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters.
EP 291 | We Talk SELF-PROMO with Clayton Notestine
YouTube video by The Weekly Scroll
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November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
New ep
Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of @explorersdesign.bsky.social to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters.
Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of @explorersdesign.bsky.social to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters.
If you’ve ever been doubtful of climate change, note that the olive, a middle eastern and Mediterranean fruit, is now a viable crop in Oregon. While still a risk, the last hard freeze in the Willamette Valley was in 2013.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Oregon’s fledgling olive industry celebrates ‘Olio Nuovo Festival’ throughout November
Oregon is on the northern edge of where olives can grow. But the state's olive oil sector is beginning to establish itself, and Willamette Valley farmers are celebrating this year’s first olive oil pr...
www.opb.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If you’ve ever been doubtful of climate change, note that the olive, a middle eastern and Mediterranean fruit, is now a viable crop in Oregon. While still a risk, the last hard freeze in the Willamette Valley was in 2013.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
I can never* be mad at the Duffers for their management of Stranger Things, because if Netflix wrote me a blank check I’d be doing the same shit. Each episode of the last season basically being a movie? Sure! A broadway show that’s directly canonical? Hell yeah. A cartoon? Fuck it, let’s do it!
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I can never* be mad at the Duffers for their management of Stranger Things, because if Netflix wrote me a blank check I’d be doing the same shit. Each episode of the last season basically being a movie? Sure! A broadway show that’s directly canonical? Hell yeah. A cartoon? Fuck it, let’s do it!
It’s one of my favorite things when there’s an artist, writer, or actor that creates this wonderfully brilliant and nuanced work, but then you listen to them on an interview or podcast and they’re kinda stupid. On one hand, it’s a little frustrating, but on the other it is absolutely interesting.
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It’s one of my favorite things when there’s an artist, writer, or actor that creates this wonderfully brilliant and nuanced work, but then you listen to them on an interview or podcast and they’re kinda stupid. On one hand, it’s a little frustrating, but on the other it is absolutely interesting.
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genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
I love voting in the PNW, as every election, the candidates are largely:
- Let’s give the cops a billion dollars; or
- Complete fucking psychopath
- Let’s give the cops a billion dollars; or
- Complete fucking psychopath
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I love voting in the PNW, as every election, the candidates are largely:
- Let’s give the cops a billion dollars; or
- Complete fucking psychopath
- Let’s give the cops a billion dollars; or
- Complete fucking psychopath
Anxiety is fun, because my life would be materially better if I properly organized the office where I spend like 85% of my time, and yet I am for some reason unable to do that!
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Anxiety is fun, because my life would be materially better if I properly organized the office where I spend like 85% of my time, and yet I am for some reason unable to do that!
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Happy Halloween to #playdate owners because we just dropped a new FREE game for Halloween featuring a ton of heavy hitters from the #pulp dev community.
Get it on itch: ledbetter-games.itch.io/ware-wolf
Get it on itch: ledbetter-games.itch.io/ware-wolf
Ware-wolf Campfire Stories by Ledbetter Games
A night around the campfire...
ledbetter-games.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Happy Halloween to #playdate owners because we just dropped a new FREE game for Halloween featuring a ton of heavy hitters from the #pulp dev community.
Get it on itch: ledbetter-games.itch.io/ware-wolf
Get it on itch: ledbetter-games.itch.io/ware-wolf
I was spoiled with a “90s movie” style Halloween as a youth, so if I went through the trouble of buying a house just to not get trick-or-treaters, I’d probably end it all.
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I was spoiled with a “90s movie” style Halloween as a youth, so if I went through the trouble of buying a house just to not get trick-or-treaters, I’d probably end it all.
It’d sure rock if things weren’t just continuously getting worse for no reason.
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’d sure rock if things weren’t just continuously getting worse for no reason.
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We will be live at 8pm est tonight. Join me @sneakernetmusic.bandcamp.com @theonlyhelena.bsky.social @rjustice282.bsky.social and @cgdannyb.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We will be live at 8pm est tonight. Join me @sneakernetmusic.bandcamp.com @theonlyhelena.bsky.social @rjustice282.bsky.social and @cgdannyb.bsky.social
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Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.
October 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.
I just want to play a Bass VI in a jazz-punk/garage rock band. Is that too much to ask for out of life?
October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I just want to play a Bass VI in a jazz-punk/garage rock band. Is that too much to ask for out of life?
The inconsistency in quality of X-Files episodes makes a lot of sense when you learn that they didn’t exactly have a proper writer’s room. They’d basically fight a battle royale over their episode pitches, then worked independent of each other to develop them, generally only interfacing with Carter.
October 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The inconsistency in quality of X-Files episodes makes a lot of sense when you learn that they didn’t exactly have a proper writer’s room. They’d basically fight a battle royale over their episode pitches, then worked independent of each other to develop them, generally only interfacing with Carter.
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New for October: Liminal Horror module The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow by @goblinarchives.itch.io + @unenthuser.bsky.social + @spacepenguinink.bsky.social
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BODY HORROR AND BEE CULTS! It's the first hardbound LH module, a fully-stocked sandbox for Investigators - 56 locations, 89 NPCs, +more
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BODY HORROR AND BEE CULTS! It's the first hardbound LH module, a fully-stocked sandbox for Investigators - 56 locations, 89 NPCs, +more
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New for October: Liminal Horror module The Parthenogenesis of Hungry Hollow by @goblinarchives.itch.io + @unenthuser.bsky.social + @spacepenguinink.bsky.social
🐝
BODY HORROR AND BEE CULTS! It's the first hardbound LH module, a fully-stocked sandbox for Investigators - 56 locations, 89 NPCs, +more
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BODY HORROR AND BEE CULTS! It's the first hardbound LH module, a fully-stocked sandbox for Investigators - 56 locations, 89 NPCs, +more
Do you think anyone has successfully pulled a Scooby Doo and got away with crime by pretending to be a ghost or ghoulie?
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Do you think anyone has successfully pulled a Scooby Doo and got away with crime by pretending to be a ghost or ghoulie?
Ran Public Access tonight after not having got it to the table since completing a months long campaign a couple years ago, and boy does this feel like coming home. Absolutely adore that game. Highly recommended, especially if you're typically into PbtA games.
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Ran Public Access tonight after not having got it to the table since completing a months long campaign a couple years ago, and boy does this feel like coming home. Absolutely adore that game. Highly recommended, especially if you're typically into PbtA games.
I wrote a Cairn adventure a while back called Cairnevale, which details a strange carnival that popped up out of nowhere in the forest. Now you can get it in print!
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Cairnevale (for Cairn 2e RPG)
The carnival has come to town! Which is quite impressive given the complete lack of announcement and their ability to have apparently set up in the forest at night when everyone was sleeping. Regardl...
spacepenguin.ink
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I wrote a Cairn adventure a while back called Cairnevale, which details a strange carnival that popped up out of nowhere in the forest. Now you can get it in print!
spacepenguin.ink/products/cai...
spacepenguin.ink/products/cai...
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Hi #PortfolioDay!
I’m Zach and I’m available for work starting in December (so get in touch now).
TTRPGs, Video Games, Books, Comics, Albums, Whatever!
🕸️https://emo-sludge.com/ for full portfolio and contact info
I’m Zach and I’m available for work starting in December (so get in touch now).
TTRPGs, Video Games, Books, Comics, Albums, Whatever!
🕸️https://emo-sludge.com/ for full portfolio and contact info
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hi #PortfolioDay!
I’m Zach and I’m available for work starting in December (so get in touch now).
TTRPGs, Video Games, Books, Comics, Albums, Whatever!
🕸️https://emo-sludge.com/ for full portfolio and contact info
I’m Zach and I’m available for work starting in December (so get in touch now).
TTRPGs, Video Games, Books, Comics, Albums, Whatever!
🕸️https://emo-sludge.com/ for full portfolio and contact info
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Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Public Access - The Gauntlet | DriveThruRPG
A roleplaying game of analog horror, based on the Brindlewood Bay mystery system!
Public Access is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of people in 2004—the Deep Lake Latchkeys—who find themselv...
www.drivethrurpg.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Big announcement: Public Access is now Pay What You Want on @drivethrurpg.com! Public Access is our hit game about analog horror and childhood trauma, Carved from Brindlewood. Pick up a copy today!
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...