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Luke / ÆtherCorp Games
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Designer and tabletop games creator of the Field Agent Handbooks, Orchidelirium, Coiled.Spæce and Double D6 aethercorp.games

Runs game directory iwanttoplay.games
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Oh dear, who hurt you WotC?

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Text from a job listing with the words 'and hit deadlines' highlighted. Full text reads: —products. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, can design and write innovative and high-quality RPG material, and hit deadlines, this role is for you. We're looking for passion and professionalism in equal measure. What You'll Do: • Conceptualize and design substantial portions of D&D products, including game mochanice with quidance from...
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Time to break out the seasonal music 🎃 starting with a Mood...

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Record player with a picture disc on the turntable. Photo on the vinyl is a person shining a torch on a field of pumpkins (a shot from Stranger Things)
October 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Been making props for a play we're running this week... been making silly plane noises too
September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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These calendars are far more organised than what I've got going on on my filing cabinet
Brown metal door with a brass handle and black pieces of paper with white handwriting in four rows. First row: BACKBURNER, Cælia & The Malfeasant Mushroom, Secret 'Field Agent' Missions, Orchidelirium Vol. II & III Second row: SNEAKY SIDE PROJECT, Peepers, A Wonderfully Small & Terribly Unexpected RPG Oracle Third row: Reducks Fourth row: NON-GAMES, I Want To Play... Games!, Get books in shoppes, Coiled.Spæce website
September 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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I can absolutely help out with this (so long as you know your elevation (and why wouldn't you?!))
A page of text that reads: Distance It can be difficult to gauge an exact distance from yourself to the creatures so please use one of the following two simple methods of estimation instead. DISTANCE TO HORIZON When at a height of 6 ft horizon is ~ 3 miles away ... Io ft ~ 4 miles ... 25 ft ~ 6½ miles ... 50 ft ~ 9 miles ... 1oo ft ~ 12 miles ...200 ft ~ 19 miles ...500 ft ~ 30 miles ... 1,000 ft ~ 32½ miles ... 2,000 ft ~ 60 miles ... 5,000 ft ~ 93½ miles HEIGHT ABOVE SEA LEVEL Split the distance to the horizon into thirds. The first third is NEAR, the second is MID, the third is FAR (as illustrated on page x & x1). Circle the appropriate distance. Your perceived distance to the horizon changes depending on your height above sea level (as shown in table). There is quarter-circle in the top left corner of your page, above the label: DISTANCE. Use a map to find your elevation (or estimate if confident) and note that number in the quarter-circle. EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION When you don't have a clear view of the horizon or are unsure where the creature might be in relation to the cloud, note 'P' for PERCEPTION in the quarter-circle and employ your pendulum: Hold it over each distance designation: NEAR (N), MID (M), & FAR (F), on the DOWSING BOARD, circling the one that exhibits the greatest swing.
September 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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All these games (and many other wonderful ones too) can be found at Pax West on the @ipr.bsky.social table, #Booth4320, THIS WEEKEND!

If you ever felt you should have been a 1920s pendulum-dowsing investigator or an 1860s orchid hunter, now your chance...
Six Field Agent Handbooks and one Orchidelirium lined up on a table
August 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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—and I've never been more worried about getting a package so carefully to its destination before (and I've sent some pretty ridiculous things through the post)
Three very large boxes covered in paper packing tape on a carpeted floor in front of a bookcase. Sadly, no banana included for scale.
August 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Sneaky sneaky...
A community book exchange in a red telephone box with a copy of Orchidelirium, a copy of Advanced Double D6 and two Field Agent Handbooks nestled on one of the shelves
July 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Right! since I've *nearly* caught up on my January tasks & so about to get them into US distribution channels—

If you'd like to review the Field Agent Handbooks (a play always/everywhere solo larp with pendulum-dowsing) for your channel or blog give me a nudge!

They could do with some eyeballs 👀
A whole set of Field Agent Handbooks with ID card, button badge, handbill, red string with key and a red button badge spread out on a grassy mound
July 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Celebrating six years of Æther Corp's incorporation by packing sixty('ish) boxes of Field Agent Handbooks and having a staff night out (woo!) 🎉
Sixty stacked brown boxes worth Field Agent Handbook labels An empty bowl that had a delicious Thai red curry in it and a half-drunk glass of red wine on an outside table under a blue evening sky
June 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Belated UKGE haul of rampant consumerism (with special thanks to @juunikyuu.bsky.social, @goblincow.bsky.social and @montfordtales.com for extra bobbins!)
An art print of a flying whale and a more impressionist painting of a sky whale chasing birds alongside a selection of RPGs, two board games and one card game: The Long Road Home Which Familiar? MINIGODS Dungeon Delvers! Litter Detective! HAUNTED HEIST Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop GRAB BAG JUNGLE Soulaween COMMUNIST CATS
June 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Oh noes! I dropped my ice cream (edition of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG) in the sand
Two business cards stuck in sand with a melting ice cream design, one titled Role Playing Game, the other Story Guide Front and back of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG stuck in sand at a beach Front and back of A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small Story Guide stuck in sand at a beach (the back one is inexplicably upside down)
May 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Have mounted a couple of my potted orchids onto a lump of wood. Looks great, feels risky. Wish me luck.
A phalenopsis, a dendrobium, and an air plant mounted on a lump of wood with a heavy covering of moss
May 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Happy May Day! You look like you need something refreshing.

First expansion to 'A Wonderfully Unexpected & Terribly Small RPG' is now on Itch—a 'Story Guide' to help you build adventures!

They're ice cream flavoured because it's hot. Do not lick your screen.

#TTRPG #IceCream

aether.click/wuats
Both sides of the business card RPG above a sea background Both sides of the business card Story Guide above a breach background
May 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Erm, I feel like these two might want something...
Two black fluffy, expectant looking cats on either side of a laptop on my lap
April 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Out on Official business
Upward photo of my green checkered shirt sporting a 1" red Field Agent button badge with my face in the background looking off into the sunny distance
April 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Late night last night but tea's on the way...
Close up of a website with a logo at the top that says 'ÆC Tearoom' and two headings visible that say 'Calibration' and '1924 Revolution'
March 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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At Beachhead — nearby gaming con — I got to playtest the thing I'm working on for 'WUAT'S This?'.

This morning I reduced the number of dice needed for (optional) solo/dice play based on the playtest feedback. More to come at some point!

aethercorpgames.itch.io/wuats-this-a...

#ttrpg #microrpg
Two men looking awkwardly at you while start sat at a messy table covered in index cards and zines
March 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Just over 48 hours left to back Reducks on Kickstarter.

That's more time than Jack Bauer ever had. Poor Jack Bauer.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/aet...

#cyoa #chooseyourownadventure #ttrpg #zinequest #zinemonth
February 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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A plant pot with a leafy plant in it that's painted to look like Robert Plant from The Cure
February 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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I made a playlist of Bandcamp tracks for Coiled.Spæce (coiled.space/playlist), *should* I put out an album for Reducks? I feel like the answer is obviously YES (but it'd heavily feature a kazoo)
Mock up of a blue tape cassette and jewel case emblazoned with Coiled.Spæce logos and named 'Sounds from Spæce'
February 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Right, TODAY at twenty-past noon for launch it is!

aether.click/reducks

An EXCELLENTLY illustrated choose your own adventure about YOU, a duck with existential dread, attempting to stop a bomb exploding on the other side of YOUR lake. You get a hat. There may be puns.

#ZineMonth #ZineQuest #Zimo
February 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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FINE, okay, it was me, I'm the disorganised one.

It's coming on though!

Might be your thing if you like ducks, string, bread, time travel choose your own adventures and existential dread.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/aet...

#zimo25 #zinemonth #zinequest
Unfinished painting in a book with sketch of a duck and "re-ducks" emblazoned on it next to a set of watercolour paints
February 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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No, YOU only just started on the front cover for your #zimo25 zine even though you were hoping to launch last week but it now looks most likely that it'll be this Friday, probably around lunchtime assuming you can finish it later or tomorrow evening

www.kickstarter.com/projects/aet...
Corner of a green book with orange tape and a sketch of what is most likely to be a duck but it's a little difficult to tell easily because of the angle of the photo
February 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Right, finally! That's last year's #ZiMo wrapped and ready to post.

(Horrifically behind schedule but still... woot!)
Corner of a cardboard box with an ink stamped rectangle with the letters 'ÆC' and words 'Stay Watchful' in an art deco style. The corner of an international post label is just visible and the box appears to be on top of another in the background.
February 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM