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AwkwardTurtle
@awkwardturtle.games
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I make TTRPGs and mead, mostly.

See the former here: https://awkwardturtle.games/
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Also the bear face!

And I forgot @dcponcho.bsky.social is on bluesky now!
A 3d printed bear face as a lid.
December 8, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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A friend of mine printed fish dice for my little PnP board game: Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble!

They're so good! Look at these little guys!
Pocket mod of Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble, illustrated with a bear trying to catch fish. On the table next to it is a bear shaped box filled with fish shaped dice. A bunch of fish shaped dice sitting in a bear shaped box lid. A blue 3d printed six sided fish die. A yellow 3d printed four sided fish die.
December 8, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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I do love my bird key caps!
A computer keyboard (POK3R) where the letter keys are labeled with birds whose names start with the associated letters, rather than the letter characters themselves. Many of the other keys are replaced with unlabeled wooden keycaps. Next to the keyboard on the desk is a kobo with art of weird goblins on the sleep screen, and a raspberry pi.
November 2, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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This is what came with mine. No idea where you'd get a hold of one though. If it's ever helpful, ping me and I can try and measure the exact dimensions of the ring.
Bulova Accutron watch face down with battery cavity opened. Next to it is the battery itself, a small nylon adapter ring for the battery, and the battery packaging. Package indicates the battery is an Energizer 394/380 Multidrain 1.55V.
October 29, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Darien's hard work on the packing continues.
A tuxedo cat with a skinny tail is balanced precariously atop an open cardboard box, legs splayed to both sides of the top. Light from the window behind illuminates him, and makes his nearly hairless translucent ears practically glow.
October 23, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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Darien is hard at work helping us pack.
A scrungly tuxedo cat is sprawled out, fast asleep on top of a stack of banker boxes. This skinny tail is curled up beside him, and a patch of sunlight is illuminating his tummy. Behind him is an empty board game shelf (previously where the contents of the banker boxes were stored).
October 19, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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Interdimensional Goblins!

(Art by @n8hps.bsky.social layout by @brstf.games in my adventure Wizard Trash, Goblin Treasure.)
Inner spread of the zine Wizard Trash, Goblin Treasure. The zine is titled GOBLINS and features a half dozen goblins wearing and wielding various items of clothing and accessories from our real world. Such as a goblin with a stack of different baseball caps, holding a computer keyboard. Or a goblin wearing a trenchcoat and sunglasses throwing whole cans of beer from a six pack
October 19, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Welcome to bluesky. I don't post very much (which makes me a great follow, imo) but when I do it's usually about TTRPGs, game design, mead making, and maybe some data analysis stuff on occasion.

Here are pictures of my extremely doofus tuxedo cat Darien, and my extremely normal tabby cat Desdemona.
A doofy looking tuxedo cat lying in patches of sunlight and scratching at a cardboard cat scratcher. His ears have little enough hair that sunlight shining through them makes them appear to be glowing, and his tail has little enough hair on it to look a bit like a rat's tail. A quintessential tabby cat is snoozing soundly on a warm heating pad.
October 17, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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I have successfully early voted!
An "Ohio Voted" sticker stuck to the front of a jacket.
October 10, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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You take on the role of bears at Katmai National Park in Alaska trying to consume as many fishy calories as possible before winter. Roll dice, compete with other bears, and don't get too greedy or you'll loose all the fish you've caught!
A small zine made by folding a single sheet of paper. The cover of Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble shows a delightful drawing of a bear desperately trying to catch salmon from a river, while the salmon it's already caught wriggle out of its grasp. Interior pages of a small zine made by folding a single sheet of paper. Shows the rules for Catching and Gobbling Salmon, and a delighful drawing of a bear happily monching on some salmon. Unfolded backside of the zine, showing a doodled river with fishing bears alongside. A handful of colorful dice are scattered across the page.
October 9, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Just in time for the tail end of #FatBearWeek I am pleased to announce CHUBBY BEAR SALMON GOBBLE: a push your luck #boardgame about preparing for hibernation.

The PDF is free here, you'll just need a load of dice: awkwardturtle.itch.io/chubby-bear-...

Bear artwork by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social
CHUBBY BEAR SALMON GOBBLE A Push Your Luck Game About Preparing For Hibernation One delightfully chubby bear frantically tries to catch salmon from a river, while already caught fish slip from their grasp. A second chonky bear sit and happily monches on fish.
October 9, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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Trying to get some last minute play testing in for my print and play #boardgame so it can be released for #fatbearweek.

Art by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social .
A small pocket mod zine titled Chubby Bear Salmon Gobble: A Push Your Luck Game about Preparing for Hibernation. The cover shows a bear frantically trying to catch fish while already caught fish slip from his grasp.
September 30, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Desdemona sleeps in the most normal ways.
A tabby cat snoozing on a heating pad, with her face smooshed into the corner of the window frame. One front paw is pressed against the glass, and the other is bent at a 90 degree angle.
September 19, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Some very exciting #TTRPG mail lately.

I am already running Ave Nox out of the PDF, making plans to run Goblin Mail (a perfect tie in with my own goblin based adventure), and stealing all the excellent ideas from The Electrum Archive.
Three RPG books arrayed on a desk next to a glass mug of coffee and a keyboard with wooden and bird themed keycaps. The books are Ave Nox, The Electrum Archive Issue 2, and Goblin Main.
September 10, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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OCEANS 2400 is a cinematic heist #TTRPG hack of @jst.bsky.social's 24XX series of micro games and inspired by Blades in the Dark.

I'm pretty proud of the extremely rules light flashback mechanics, and the "alarm die" used to track alertness.

Includes some tiny generators for heists (and twists)!
A red, black, and white stylized illustration of a man hanging from a wire interacting with a large, chunky computer. Directly lifted from that one Tom Cruise scene in Mission Impossible.
September 4, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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Lady Luck's Traveling Gachapon!

A couple years into my current #TTRPG campaign my pack-rat players have accumulated backpacks full of magical nick-nacks with questionable utility.

Being the benevolent GM I am, I created this friendly NPC to give them the opportunity to gamble the items away!
Lady Luck's Traveling Gachapon Lady Luck is a enigmatic figure cloaked in scarves and loose fabric, while her head is a clear gachapon capsule with a happy face floating within. Her Traveling Gachapon is a claw machine with four mechanical legs, a crystal atop its body, and a gaping toothy maw hungry to feed on magical items.
September 3, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Toss a handful of dice onto a table to instantly generate a forest complete with features, paths, weather, and elevation. On each visit locations appear and old ones are rearranged.

Day 4 of my #TTRPG stuff and the text is CC-BY 4.0. The core die drop system would be very easy to reskin or hack!
The Water Feature spread of Echelon Forest, showing a variety of types of points of interest that can be generated. The text is opposite a wood block illustration of a waterfall. Example of a die drop being turned into a Forest Crawl. Arrows are drawn between each die showing connections, and each die is labeled with the location's name.
September 2, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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A Traveler's Guide to the Echelon Forest is a #ttrpg die drop zine about traveling a forest both magical and mundane in the style of a national park guidebook.

DTRPG: awkwardturtle.itch.io/echelon-forest

Itch: awkwardturtle.itch.io/echelon-forest

Riso Zine: store.cairnrpg.com/products/a-t...
Two copies of the Echelon Forest zine outdoors on fallen leaves with the shadows of tree branches stretched across them. One zine shows the cover, the second is open to a spread showing an example forest created from a bunch of dice.
September 2, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Found on Itch and DTRPG:

awkwardturtle.itch.io/soverkalt

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

There are usually some community copies on the itch page if you'd like to take a look for no money!
A mouse gestures to images of weapons and an allen wrench drawn in the style of an IKEA manual. A dead mouse is crossed out, and several happy mice carry a block of butter. A diagram of a stone henge like structure assembled from salami sticks and cheese surrounding an upright butter obelisk. Spaghetti spills from a styrofoam take out container like the tentacles of an elder god.
August 30, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Day 3 of posting my #ttrpg stuff is SÖVERKALT, an IKEA themed pamphlet adventure for #mausritter.

Steal past Mold Gremlins and Rot Golems, and avoid waking the Slumbering Spaghetti to make off with the final piece of unspoiled food: a giant Gold Butter Bullion sufficient for a mouse to retire on.
SOVERKALT: An IKEA themed fridge-crawl for Mausritter. An illustration of a mouse in the style of an IKEA instruction manual, holding an allen wrench as a weapon.
August 30, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Yesterday's post of Wallet Dungeons: bsky.app/profile/awkw...
Translucent dice stacked together into a dungeon layout, next to printed copies of Wallet Dungeons cards.
August 29, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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As before, if you want a pdf, text file, or to add to digitial libraries it's on itch and DTRPG.
Also as before, it's CC-By 4.0 so steal, change remix and reskin!

awkwardturtle.itch.io/wallet-stati...

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...
Translucent dice stacked together into the shape of a space station, surrounded by Wallet Stations business cards.
August 29, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Day 2 of posting my #ttrpg stuff is Wallet Stations!

It's a sci fi version of yesterday's Wallet Dungeons, where dice are dropped then assembled to generate a space station to visit!

This was trickier to write than Dungeons, since Space Stations need to make at least a modicum of "sense".
The front side of the Wallet Stations business card. It uses colors and shapes reminiscent of the computer layout used in Star Trek. Contains these rules: Create a space station by rolling a handful of six sided dice, then assemble as follows: 1. End Points: Connects to 1 die 2. Connector: Connects to 1 or 2 dice 3. Splitter: Connects to 1, 2, or 3 dice 4. Crossway: Connects to 1, 2, 3, or 4 dice 5. Core: Stack all, must connect to 2+ dice 6. Bay: Merge all, connects to 1 die For each room, add its value to all connected dice to find its contents. Bays are one room with all dice summed. See back for the Core. 3. Scanning Array 4. Capsule Hotel 5. Hydroponics 6. Spacer Bar 7. Med Clinic 8. Holo VR Room 9. Bio-Processing 10. Auto-Diner 11. Meat Extruder 12. Research Lab 13. Neural Uplink 14. Nano-Forge 15. Terrarium 16. Cloning Tanks 17. Condominiums 18-19. Salvage Shop 20-21. Auto-Factory 22-25. Fuel Refinery 26-30. Repair Dock 31+. Hangar Place a docking point on an extremity The backside of the Wallet Stations business card. Shows a diagram of assembled dice plus a map of a space station that corresponds, and the following rules: The Core’s size indicates power supply, sum the value of all connected dice for contents. No Core: Solar Panels One Die: Fission Pile Even Sum: Artificial Intelligence Core Odd Sum: Corporate Headquarters Two Dice: Fusion Reactor Even Sum: Magnetic Accelerator Odd Sum: Hyperspace Beacon Three+ Dice: Hyperspace Tap Even Sum: Ansible Relay Odd Sum: Hyper-Scanning Array
August 29, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Wallet Dungeons is my business card sized dungeon generator for your fantasy #TTRPG. It's been surprisingly popular amongst solo players!

Drop a handful of dice, stick them together based on some simple rules, and then read them off to get a place to explore!
Create a dungeon by rolling a handful of six sided dice and assembling based on results: 1. Dead End: Cannot touch more than 1 die 2. Passage: Cannot touch more than 2 dice 3. Split: Cannot touch more than 3 dice 4. Crossroads: Can touch up to 4 dice 5. Tower: Stack all, must touch at least 2 dice 6. Hall: Merge all, can touch up to 4 dice For each room, add its value to all neighboring dice to find its contents. Halls and Towers are single rooms with all dice summed. 3. Quarters 4. Jail 5. Sepulchre 6. Statuary 7. Store Room 8. Courtyard 9. Kitchen 10. Forge 11. Armory 12. Garden 13. Guard Post 14. Library 15. Arboretum 16. Crypts 17. Shrine 18. Gallery 19. Workshop 20-22. Temple 23-25. Throne Room 26-28. Laboratory 29-31. Menagerie 32+. Labyrinth Use the difference in values of the two dice where each room connects for the type of doorway. 0: Fully Open 1: Open Doorway 2: Unlocked Door 3: Locked Door 4: Trapped Door 5: Hidden Door Finish with an entrance where it makes sense Business cards containing the rules of Wallet Dungeons, a method to generate a dungeon by rolling dice and assembling them. The back of the card gives an example of assembled dice with a small dungeon interior illustrated to show what it represents. The rules text is in the other attached image's alt text.
August 28, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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It's since been replaced by Five Dollar Footlong Jesus.

Fun fact, it's only about an hour's drive from this statue to the iconic HELL IS REAL billboard.
A very tall statue of jesus in front of a church. Jesus is roughly in the classic "five dollar footlong" pose, holding his arms before him as though to show the size of the sandwich.
August 21, 2024 at 5:01 PM