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jex thomas

@lastpinepress.com

*Great* mail day today featuring the absolutely beautiful Crescent and Exile by @ema-acosta.com and published by @mythworks.bsky.social

(I also got all my Alien: Evolved Edition stuff today but none of it is as exciting as these!)

Jex holding Crescent 2e: Feelings-Delving Role Playing by Ema Acosta. The cover features a full-color illustration of several children climbing on a big red T-Rex on the shore of a lake. The kid on the dinosaur's snout has a fishing rod. Another child, on the dino's back, is ensnared in the fishing line. Another child jumps triumphantly off the tail. In the background, a mermaid dives off a waterfall and a snake hangs over the whole image. In the foreground, an alligator rises from the lake carrying a skull. The text of the title is embossed with gold foil.

Jex holding a copy of Exile: Dark Fantasy Role-Playing by Ema Acosta. The cover is black and red and features a young person with bat wings holding a sword that drips blood. A tendril of green smoke or flame rises from the figure's other hand. The text of the title is embossed with silver foil.

November 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev.bsky.social

Sun and moon in pageant, from a 1596 manuscript about the eight lavish pageants held for the christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, 1596.

One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/sun-and-moon-in-pageant/

November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM

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Mythworks ➡️ PAXU 4242

@mythworks.bsky.social

Hey it’s me, Graham, again. I’m back! The other half of the RPG dyad with Crescent is Exile! We’re teens in a dungeon of the soul, cast out by our people. Time to do some hard growing up with a LET’S MAKE A CHARACTER THREAD!

October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Mythworks ➡️ PAXU 4242

@mythworks.bsky.social

Graham here! The upcoming Crescent TTRPG is full of imagination and adventure, big themes for what roleplaying is all about. And character is the key to investment and excitement. So LET’S MAKE ONE.
CHARACTER CREATION THREAD INCOMING!!❤️‍🔥😮😶‍🌫️

Cover for Crescent 2e. Kids jumpin on a big red dino.

October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM

Ema Acosta

@ema-acosta.com

Hendrik’s game is smart, spine-chilling, and moving. It left me eager for more carefully authored scenarios like these. I can’t wait to play it again.

Hendrik is a sad Dutch cowboy @napel.itch.io · Oct 14

🔪Welcome to the Genziana Hotel🏔️

Crowdfunding for my gothic horror mystery rpg is live! Investigate the hotel, meet unnerving guests and creepy staff, find dreadful clues, answer horrible questions and discover what happened to Marga, the boyish girl with the wild curls.

The Girls of the Genziana Hotel by Hendrik ten Napel - Gamefound

Play as chambermaids in a 19th century alpine hotel investigating the disappearance of their friend.

gamefound.com

October 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM

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Brian Britigan

@brianbritigan.bsky.social

#currentlyreading “Umbra” by Jordan Speer (AKA @beefstrong.bsky.social ) ✨ Published by @mcsweeneys.net

Interior page from “Umbra” by Jordan Speer

May 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM

Ema Acosta

@ema-acosta.com

My tabletop fantasy dyad, Crescent and Exile, is now available for preorder at the Mythworks store. 🖤 www.myth.works/pages/cresce...

All orders (along with crowdfunding rewards) will be shipping in November. Stay tuned. 🌜💫⚔️

Two hardcover books. Left book reads "CRESCENT 2E: Feelings-Delving Role-Playing" and depicts five children running away from a dinosaur. The mood in the picture is light-hearted, playful, and fantastic. The right book reads "EXILE: Dark Fantasy Role-Playing" and depicts a winged figure thrusting a blood-soaked blade out of a horned monster. The mood is mysterious, emotional, and fierce.

October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM

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Alex Tomlinson

@alextomlinson.com

Flat illustration from 2022 of owls perched on a branch at night against a dark blue sky. The owls decrease in size as they get close stacked in front, while also growing bright orange. The effect resembles a flame. The owls, back to front (large to small) are Great Gray, Great Horned, Long-eared, Screech, and Saw-whet.

September 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev.bsky.social

"Chladni figures" from 1787 created by German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni, showing nodal patterns made by drawing a bow along the edge of a sand-covered plate. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-1787

September 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM

Ema Acosta

@ema-acosta.com

Crescent and Exile have been sent to print. Now published by Mythworks. Stay tuned for delivery by late Summer. 🌙

June 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM

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Maratycznie

@maratycznie.bsky.social

Inspired by Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

April 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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Kellan jett

@kellanjett.bsky.social

New Painting. Gouache on Paper. Feels good to be making fantasy work again.

April 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Ollie

@olliemnjones.bsky.social

Questionnaire

oil painting of a man in a chair showing a black and white photo of a woman's face to a younger man in a chair.

March 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM

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John Tedrick

@tedrick-art.bsky.social

Canopy Gargantuan

New card for Magic the Gathering's upcoming Tarkir: Dragonstorm set.

AD Ovidio Cartagena
Copyright Wizards of the Coast, 2025.

March 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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chelsea 🖤

@cheseely.bsky.social

sacred heart

February 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM

Ema Acosta

@ema-acosta.com

I went on an episode of WRTA and had a lovely chat with Alex :-) We talked about asymmetric design, interrogating player behaviour through playtesting, and whatever in the world is happening on 5E's Dungeon Master's Guide. 🎲

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

February 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM

Ema Acosta

@ema-acosta.com

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Not Writing Games @notwritinggames.bsky.social · Feb 1

A few weeks ago @charliehall.bsky.social wrote an opinion piece on @polygon.com saying indie #TTRPG designers shouldn’t be wringing our hands when it comes to our games as #D&D fumbles the bag.

So here it is. The Get Loud TTRPG Bundle. 36 games from 20 designers.

itch.io/b/2864/the-g...

Painting of a dragon vomiting dice with rough textured text that say “Introducing the GET LOUD tabletop rpg bundle, 20 creators, 36 games, $344 in value, $20, Feb 1st to Feb 28th”

February 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM

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Jason Raish

@jason-raish.bsky.social

Happy year of the snake! In Korea the snake was the god of fertility, abundance, fortune and happiness, and represented immortality, regeneration. We grow heirloom Korean peppers on the roof and save the seeds to plant each year, a cycle of regeneration, fertility and abundance. 새해 복 많이 받으세요!