Ettin
@ettin.itch.io
Award-winning TTRPG creator · Twitter moderator · God-fearing snake milker · Wrote Hard Wired Island, Wetrunner, VKILLER, Breakfast Cult, etc. · https://linktr.ee/ettin64
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Ettin
@ettin.itch.io
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Coming soon: Hard Wired Island: Second Gig
A full-length sourcebook for the Hard Wired Island RPG.
www.kickstarter.com
Seems like a good time to announce that when my current project wraps up I'll be crowdfunding HARD WIRED ISLAND: SECOND GIG, a full-length expansion for my retrofuture cyberpunk RPG:
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Realtalk though: I've been debating whether to delay posting this fiction by a week. The point of the experiment was to set up a Patreon, but I needed to ask support to switch me to the monthly model first, and the date I requested was Monday. If it doesn't happen today I'm screwed for the weekend
November 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Realtalk though: I've been debating whether to delay posting this fiction by a week. The point of the experiment was to set up a Patreon, but I needed to ask support to switch me to the monthly model first, and the date I requested was Monday. If it doesn't happen today I'm screwed for the weekend
Pondering which of my TTRPG ideas to plan after my current upcoming projects, and pondering the superhero RPG where a bunch of borders/nations have changed because some of the first people to get superpowers immediately did things to powerful people that you'd get in trouble for posting
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Pondering which of my TTRPG ideas to plan after my current upcoming projects, and pondering the superhero RPG where a bunch of borders/nations have changed because some of the first people to get superpowers immediately did things to powerful people that you'd get in trouble for posting
Guess what I'm doing in less than 24 hours. That's right: getting shot in an alleyway by a cancer and getting reborn as a side character in a weirdly horny fantasy novel I've been reading—wait, no, wrong week of my calendar
Releasing my second experiment in branching into fiction in a little over a week. This one is "what if the Hard Wired Island guy got into litRPG". My third project is also normal
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Guess what I'm doing in less than 24 hours. That's right: getting shot in an alleyway by a cancer and getting reborn as a side character in a weirdly horny fantasy novel I've been reading—wait, no, wrong week of my calendar
WITCH: Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
MACBETH: Haha nice
MACBETH, FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS AFTER BEING STARTLED BY A BIRD AND BREAKING HIS NECK: dah... oofa... ouugh... owie...
MACBETH: Haha nice
MACBETH, FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS AFTER BEING STARTLED BY A BIRD AND BREAKING HIS NECK: dah... oofa... ouugh... owie...
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
WITCH: Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
MACBETH: Haha nice
MACBETH, FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS AFTER BEING STARTLED BY A BIRD AND BREAKING HIS NECK: dah... oofa... ouugh... owie...
MACBETH: Haha nice
MACBETH, FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS AFTER BEING STARTLED BY A BIRD AND BREAKING HIS NECK: dah... oofa... ouugh... owie...
[supposed to be releasing a big fiction project in a few days] If a shopping mall was divided into three big sections with holes in the middle what would you call them. Concourses or plazas or just regions or something
November 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
[supposed to be releasing a big fiction project in a few days] If a shopping mall was divided into three big sections with holes in the middle what would you call them. Concourses or plazas or just regions or something
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Hard Wired Island
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Hard Wired Island
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second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
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Cozy fantasy story about an adventurer who decides to retire and pursue their dream of assassinating the royal family. No gods no masters
March 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Cozy fantasy story about an adventurer who decides to retire and pursue their dream of assassinating the royal family. No gods no masters
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Invented a new genre I call "cozy cyberpunk". It's got all the cool aesthetics of cyberpunk without the uncomfortable political stu—wait a second
November 16, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Invented a new genre I call "cozy cyberpunk". It's got all the cool aesthetics of cyberpunk without the uncomfortable political stu—wait a second
Bond has already battled against another version of himself in Epic Rap Battles of History and people there come back from the dead all the time. I don't see the problem.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Bond has already battled against another version of himself in Epic Rap Battles of History and people there come back from the dead all the time. I don't see the problem.
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SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.
DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
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Cover reveal for Mud Ghost Estate Redux! 👻
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Cover reveal for Mud Ghost Estate Redux! 👻
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
World of Warcraft is doing a rerun event for the Legion expansion but I don't think it can fully recreate my Legion experience (doing an Antorus raid with a streamer friend whose guildmates apparently needed multiple reminders not to shout slurs "ironically")
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
World of Warcraft is doing a rerun event for the Legion expansion but I don't think it can fully recreate my Legion experience (doing an Antorus raid with a streamer friend whose guildmates apparently needed multiple reminders not to shout slurs "ironically")
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I read it, it whips
Releasing my second experiment in branching into fiction in a little over a week. This one is "what if the Hard Wired Island guy got into litRPG". My third project is also normal
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I read it, it whips
Releasing my second experiment in branching into fiction in a little over a week. This one is "what if the Hard Wired Island guy got into litRPG". My third project is also normal
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Releasing my second experiment in branching into fiction in a little over a week. This one is "what if the Hard Wired Island guy got into litRPG". My third project is also normal
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So, I get several scam emails like this a day, but there's something special about a man wanting to write articles about casinos and sports betting whose fake name is Robert Poverty.
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
So, I get several scam emails like this a day, but there's something special about a man wanting to write articles about casinos and sports betting whose fake name is Robert Poverty.
Been playing more Root lately
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Been playing more Root lately
Dick Cheney, Lowtax, and Kanzi the bonobo hugging it out in Heaven 🙏👼🐵
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Dick Cheney, Lowtax, and Kanzi the bonobo hugging it out in Heaven 🙏👼🐵
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You’re a “leftist?” Hold on a minute. It says here you used to offer “running lessons” in EverQuest where you’d convince newbies to /follow you and run them directly into a goblin cave to harvest their gear. I don’t seem to remember Marx mentioning that in Das Kapital
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
You’re a “leftist?” Hold on a minute. It says here you used to offer “running lessons” in EverQuest where you’d convince newbies to /follow you and run them directly into a goblin cave to harvest their gear. I don’t seem to remember Marx mentioning that in Das Kapital
PowerWash Simulator only they get into my ears Fantastic Voyage-style
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
PowerWash Simulator only they get into my ears Fantastic Voyage-style
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heh. more sportsball? uh... i see you're all obsessing over sports ball tonight. oh you're watching the Sports? [puts down gamepad and slides it across the table towards you and raises one eyebrow] Have you heard of a game called Dark Souls 2? Its not actually very good.
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
heh. more sportsball? uh... i see you're all obsessing over sports ball tonight. oh you're watching the Sports? [puts down gamepad and slides it across the table towards you and raises one eyebrow] Have you heard of a game called Dark Souls 2? Its not actually very good.
Made a channel in my Discord called secret-cow-level where you can only post media from the 2000s. I'm celebrating my birthday month in style
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Made a channel in my Discord called secret-cow-level where you can only post media from the 2000s. I'm celebrating my birthday month in style