Zedeck Siew
@zedecksiew.bsky.social
Writer of small fictions. Creator of "Creature of Near Kingdoms", "Lorn Song of the Bachelor", and other SEAsian fevers.
Port Dickson, Malaysia. https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/
Port Dickson, Malaysia. https://zedecksiew.tumblr.com/
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Zedeck Siew
@zedecksiew.bsky.social
· Feb 4
A PERFECT WIFE: TTRPG Adventure + Fundraiser!
An urban horror TTRPG adventure zine inspired by Asian ghost films by Zedeck Siew, illustrated by Amanda Lee Franck and Scrap World.
www.kickstarter.com
🌺What happens when a toxic man forcibly marries a murderous vampiress?🌺
You get A PERFECT WIFE, a modern-day TTRPG horror adventure featuring the Malaysian pontianak, set in a terrorised Southeast Asian city.
Back now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
PS: do not search for the baby crying.
You get A PERFECT WIFE, a modern-day TTRPG horror adventure featuring the Malaysian pontianak, set in a terrorised Southeast Asian city.
Back now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
PS: do not search for the baby crying.
In the footnotes of a history of peasants' revolts in the medieval era, a sick burn:
"... we should consider that in the US, which is often viewed as a democratic country, not one industrial worker has yet become President ..."
(Finally reading Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch")
"... we should consider that in the US, which is often viewed as a democratic country, not one industrial worker has yet become President ..."
(Finally reading Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch")
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 AM
In the footnotes of a history of peasants' revolts in the medieval era, a sick burn:
"... we should consider that in the US, which is often viewed as a democratic country, not one industrial worker has yet become President ..."
(Finally reading Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch")
"... we should consider that in the US, which is often viewed as a democratic country, not one industrial worker has yet become President ..."
(Finally reading Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch")
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It’s Bloggies Time! This is a thread of what I’m nominating, so you can, if you choose, read them and nominate them yourself! Firstly, please nominate something of mine that made an impact on you — a series like Critique Navidad or a single post like my Module-Writing Play by Play! Thanks! 1/🧵
January 2, 2026 at 5:59 AM
It’s Bloggies Time! This is a thread of what I’m nominating, so you can, if you choose, read them and nominate them yourself! Firstly, please nominate something of mine that made an impact on you — a series like Critique Navidad or a single post like my Module-Writing Play by Play! Thanks! 1/🧵
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Great post from Gus, looking back and looking forward, about trends in the OSR.
The Future - 2026
A Dyson Logos Classic What is the OSR? What is the NSR … or the POSR even? Where, assuming they exist, are they headed, and what will the fu...
alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Great post from Gus, looking back and looking forward, about trends in the OSR.
🚨IMPORTANT AWARDS ALERT🚨
The second being the Idle Cartulary Awards for Excellence in Elfgames, featuring my favourite things of 2025! What were the best modules? Games? Books? Podcasts? Find out here! idlecartulary.com/2026/01/01/i...
Idle Cartulary Awards for Excellence in Elfgames
Everyone loves an informal end-of-year awards ceremony. This year, everyone’s doing it! I’ll join the bandwagon! Best Single-location Module Gold: Cyro-Siq (review here) is a tiny module, tha…
idlecartulary.com
January 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM
🚨IMPORTANT AWARDS ALERT🚨
Reposted by Zedeck Siew
I’m building an online publishing haven for writers, bloggers, offering digital stewardship, full ownership of content and code, focused on clean typography and accessibility.
If you’re tired AIs content scraping, engagement metrics and a cluttered web, drop a comment I’ll ping you when it goes live
If you’re tired AIs content scraping, engagement metrics and a cluttered web, drop a comment I’ll ping you when it goes live
January 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
I’m building an online publishing haven for writers, bloggers, offering digital stewardship, full ownership of content and code, focused on clean typography and accessibility.
If you’re tired AIs content scraping, engagement metrics and a cluttered web, drop a comment I’ll ping you when it goes live
If you’re tired AIs content scraping, engagement metrics and a cluttered web, drop a comment I’ll ping you when it goes live
🚨THE BLOGGIES ARE BACK🚨
To my mind, the most important awards in tabletop roleplaying games, as it is entirely community-run / -driven; and is really about recognising creators participating in the community, being in conversation with other creators, etc
Go submit your blog posts now!
To my mind, the most important awards in tabletop roleplaying games, as it is entirely community-run / -driven; and is really about recognising creators participating in the community, being in conversation with other creators, etc
Go submit your blog posts now!
The Bloggies 2026 submissions are now open!
Submit your favorite posts, series, and debut blogs via the official Bloggies page between now and Jan 31st!
Please share this around. I'll be making regular Bloggies-themed announcements throughout the month.
www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/
Submit your favorite posts, series, and debut blogs via the official Bloggies page between now and Jan 31st!
Please share this around. I'll be making regular Bloggies-themed announcements throughout the month.
www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-2026/
The Bloggies 2026
A yearly celebration of blogging in tabletop roleplaying games.
www.explorersdesign.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 AM
🚨THE BLOGGIES ARE BACK🚨
To my mind, the most important awards in tabletop roleplaying games, as it is entirely community-run / -driven; and is really about recognising creators participating in the community, being in conversation with other creators, etc
Go submit your blog posts now!
To my mind, the most important awards in tabletop roleplaying games, as it is entirely community-run / -driven; and is really about recognising creators participating in the community, being in conversation with other creators, etc
Go submit your blog posts now!
Came across this piece of advice I saved for myself, on world-building.
Do you build a world like you build a doll's house? Or do you build a world at a person's size, for people to live in?
From Le Guin.
"... the pattern is incomplete ... Let the heart complete the pattern."
Do you build a world like you build a doll's house? Or do you build a world at a person's size, for people to live in?
From Le Guin.
"... the pattern is incomplete ... Let the heart complete the pattern."
January 1, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Came across this piece of advice I saved for myself, on world-building.
Do you build a world like you build a doll's house? Or do you build a world at a person's size, for people to live in?
From Le Guin.
"... the pattern is incomplete ... Let the heart complete the pattern."
Do you build a world like you build a doll's house? Or do you build a world at a person's size, for people to live in?
From Le Guin.
"... the pattern is incomplete ... Let the heart complete the pattern."
RINGS OF REMINDER
Here's practice I started in 2024, to balance out my severe insecurities: every time I finish a personal project and it is fully out in the world, I get a ring to wear.
Here are all the projects I've finished, in the last two years:
1/
Here's practice I started in 2024, to balance out my severe insecurities: every time I finish a personal project and it is fully out in the world, I get a ring to wear.
Here are all the projects I've finished, in the last two years:
1/
December 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
RINGS OF REMINDER
Here's practice I started in 2024, to balance out my severe insecurities: every time I finish a personal project and it is fully out in the world, I get a ring to wear.
Here are all the projects I've finished, in the last two years:
1/
Here's practice I started in 2024, to balance out my severe insecurities: every time I finish a personal project and it is fully out in the world, I get a ring to wear.
Here are all the projects I've finished, in the last two years:
1/
Post is visible, which is a relief. (Thank you everybody!) Apparently Tumblr's anti-porn prude-bot really hates skin?
This reminds me of a story I heard, years back, about the sexualisation of hands.
1/
This reminds me of a story I heard, years back, about the sexualisation of hands.
1/
Folks seeing this: is the link below visible to you?
It's about the stuff I've made in the last (two) years, with a photo of my hand. Tumblr hit me with a "Potentially mature content: This post may contain content not suitable for all audiences" warning! WTF?
slowlorispress.com/post/8044233...
It's about the stuff I've made in the last (two) years, with a photo of my hand. Tumblr hit me with a "Potentially mature content: This post may contain content not suitable for all audiences" warning! WTF?
slowlorispress.com/post/8044233...
Rings Of Reminder
It wasn't an existential threat like it was for many---but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been.
I am still not over stuff that happened in 2023. Maintaining friendships...
slowlorispress.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Post is visible, which is a relief. (Thank you everybody!) Apparently Tumblr's anti-porn prude-bot really hates skin?
This reminds me of a story I heard, years back, about the sexualisation of hands.
1/
This reminds me of a story I heard, years back, about the sexualisation of hands.
1/
Folks seeing this: is the link below visible to you?
It's about the stuff I've made in the last (two) years, with a photo of my hand. Tumblr hit me with a "Potentially mature content: This post may contain content not suitable for all audiences" warning! WTF?
slowlorispress.com/post/8044233...
It's about the stuff I've made in the last (two) years, with a photo of my hand. Tumblr hit me with a "Potentially mature content: This post may contain content not suitable for all audiences" warning! WTF?
slowlorispress.com/post/8044233...
Rings Of Reminder
It wasn't an existential threat like it was for many---but 2025 was for me still quite a wrestle. The past two years have been.
I am still not over stuff that happened in 2023. Maintaining friendships...
slowlorispress.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Folks seeing this: is the link below visible to you?
It's about the stuff I've made in the last (two) years, with a photo of my hand. Tumblr hit me with a "Potentially mature content: This post may contain content not suitable for all audiences" warning! WTF?
slowlorispress.com/post/8044233...
It's about the stuff I've made in the last (two) years, with a photo of my hand. Tumblr hit me with a "Potentially mature content: This post may contain content not suitable for all audiences" warning! WTF?
slowlorispress.com/post/8044233...
🚨HISTORY OF TTRPGS ALERT🚨
My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025
YouTube video by A.A. Voigt
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
🚨HISTORY OF TTRPGS ALERT🚨
Reposted by Zedeck Siew
In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor
My wife had a single line in Kung Fu Panda 17 years ago and still gets checks every few months. Most are way smaller than this, but devs get $0 even though the games we work on will likely be sold for 10+ years soooo yeah.
December 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In Tabletop Roleplaying Games the idea of royalties is still relatively new; more of us at the publishing level need to be thinking about ways to undermine the existing paradigm and build to sustain our comrades and collaborators in the long term and give them the fruits of their own labor
Reposted by Zedeck Siew
The WIP of what I’m working on now is up on my blog if anyone cares to check it out while it’s still in development:
blog.catshavenolord.page/beta-twiligh...
blog.catshavenolord.page/beta-twiligh...
BETA: Twilight Reef (Solo Mothership)
Welcome Salvager\!
Oceanic Reclamations Corporation (ORC) congratulates you on your decision to accept a 6-month contract with our Sa...
blog.catshavenolord.page
December 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The WIP of what I’m working on now is up on my blog if anyone cares to check it out while it’s still in development:
blog.catshavenolord.page/beta-twiligh...
blog.catshavenolord.page/beta-twiligh...
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did you know I have a new short game you can have? probably not cause I always forget about the part where you tell people about that
amandalee.itch.io/local-heroes
#ttrpg #osr
amandalee.itch.io/local-heroes
#ttrpg #osr
December 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
did you know I have a new short game you can have? probably not cause I always forget about the part where you tell people about that
amandalee.itch.io/local-heroes
#ttrpg #osr
amandalee.itch.io/local-heroes
#ttrpg #osr
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oh ALSO im on the everyday anarchism podcast to discuss my complex feelings around "agency" and how games can be used to untangle political philosophy www.everydayanarchism.com/174-rules-ga...
174. Rules, Games, and Anarchy -- Jay Dragon
Ever since C. Thi Nguyen appeared on the podcast, I've been trying to use games to understand more about the relationship between rules and life. Jay Dragon, whose game Wanderhome is almost ruleless, ...
www.everydayanarchism.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
oh ALSO im on the everyday anarchism podcast to discuss my complex feelings around "agency" and how games can be used to untangle political philosophy www.everydayanarchism.com/174-rules-ga...
In TTRPGs I've met:
labour organisers, worker-coop & affordable-housing advocates; lawyers working in immigration & human rights; card-carrying communists; etc
The Venn diagram between them and the folks who go: "If you like a certain style of game you are a Nazi" are two separate circles.
labour organisers, worker-coop & affordable-housing advocates; lawyers working in immigration & human rights; card-carrying communists; etc
The Venn diagram between them and the folks who go: "If you like a certain style of game you are a Nazi" are two separate circles.
December 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
In TTRPGs I've met:
labour organisers, worker-coop & affordable-housing advocates; lawyers working in immigration & human rights; card-carrying communists; etc
The Venn diagram between them and the folks who go: "If you like a certain style of game you are a Nazi" are two separate circles.
labour organisers, worker-coop & affordable-housing advocates; lawyers working in immigration & human rights; card-carrying communists; etc
The Venn diagram between them and the folks who go: "If you like a certain style of game you are a Nazi" are two separate circles.
Yochai going full-time writer and publisher should be headline news in TTRPG land!
Cairn Press 🔥🔥🔥
Cairn Press 🔥🔥🔥
I wrote about my plans for 2026, both under the @cairnrpg.com umbrella and Between Two Cairns.
newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/
newschoolrevolution.com/cairn-in-2026/
Cairn in 2026
Every year I try and write a little post about what folks should expect from me in the coming year. I suppose a small part of me feels that once I've announc...
newschoolrevolution.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Yochai going full-time writer and publisher should be headline news in TTRPG land!
Cairn Press 🔥🔥🔥
Cairn Press 🔥🔥🔥
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I've been talking about Castle Automatic a lot, but I want to make sure I pull the camera back and talk about the game system it's built for, HIS MAJESTY THE WORM, too. Gonna make a 🧵 about the core game's principles and add to it over the coming week.
(First post below!)
(First post below!)
December 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I've been talking about Castle Automatic a lot, but I want to make sure I pull the camera back and talk about the game system it's built for, HIS MAJESTY THE WORM, too. Gonna make a 🧵 about the core game's principles and add to it over the coming week.
(First post below!)
(First post below!)
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brilliant seraphina strikes hot with an iron, challenging the paradigm of how people talk about rpgs and what people mean when they criticize d&d for "not supporting xyz" seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...
What do we mean when we say a game “supports” play?
What do we mean when we say a game “supports” play? This is the first in a series whose placeholder title is “Lunch Break Lectures”. I’m trying to create an avenue for putting my thoughts ou...
seraphim-seraphina.itch.io
December 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
brilliant seraphina strikes hot with an iron, challenging the paradigm of how people talk about rpgs and what people mean when they criticize d&d for "not supporting xyz" seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...
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A thought on RPG location design ... I am so so tired of tombs and ruined castles. The real world in infinitely more inventive. Consider instead the first "modern" observatory in Europe - Uraniborg - a pre-telescope astronomy island, including the "underground observatory" Stjerneborg ...
December 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A thought on RPG location design ... I am so so tired of tombs and ruined castles. The real world in infinitely more inventive. Consider instead the first "modern" observatory in Europe - Uraniborg - a pre-telescope astronomy island, including the "underground observatory" Stjerneborg ...
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Why are there no "My Dinner With Andre" action figures? 😭
December 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Why are there no "My Dinner With Andre" action figures? 😭
Reposted by Zedeck Siew
Welcome Twitter Refugees! Enjoy this OSR/NSR Starter Pack with no Jabronis!
go.bsky.app/666yWeT
go.bsky.app/666yWeT
December 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Welcome Twitter Refugees! Enjoy this OSR/NSR Starter Pack with no Jabronis!
go.bsky.app/666yWeT
go.bsky.app/666yWeT
If Christianity was truly treading in Jesus's footsteps us Christians would all be tuning in to a sermon from Palestine tonight.
Bethlehem being in the West Bank, and all.
Peace on earth and bread and roses, dearly beloveds.
Bethlehem being in the West Bank, and all.
Peace on earth and bread and roses, dearly beloveds.
December 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If Christianity was truly treading in Jesus's footsteps us Christians would all be tuning in to a sermon from Palestine tonight.
Bethlehem being in the West Bank, and all.
Peace on earth and bread and roses, dearly beloveds.
Bethlehem being in the West Bank, and all.
Peace on earth and bread and roses, dearly beloveds.
SEX AND THE SPACE MARINE
So feedback on CHAPTER SERF (fan RPG where you play as peons that wait hand and foot on Space Marines) has been pretty positive. The one critique of it I've seen?
"OMG this has space marine sex??? That's against all established lore! You'll make fans angry!"
1/
So feedback on CHAPTER SERF (fan RPG where you play as peons that wait hand and foot on Space Marines) has been pretty positive. The one critique of it I've seen?
"OMG this has space marine sex??? That's against all established lore! You'll make fans angry!"
1/
December 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
SEX AND THE SPACE MARINE
So feedback on CHAPTER SERF (fan RPG where you play as peons that wait hand and foot on Space Marines) has been pretty positive. The one critique of it I've seen?
"OMG this has space marine sex??? That's against all established lore! You'll make fans angry!"
1/
So feedback on CHAPTER SERF (fan RPG where you play as peons that wait hand and foot on Space Marines) has been pretty positive. The one critique of it I've seen?
"OMG this has space marine sex??? That's against all established lore! You'll make fans angry!"
1/