Gabriel Robinson
@glowingroots.bsky.social
he/they. Glowing Roots Press.
TTRPG designer: The Silt Verses RPG, Token, Candlelight.
Contributor: Trophy, Brindlewood Bay, The Between, & more.
In progress: The Bramble Gate, Bestow, The Piper’s Call, Trust Fall & more.
https://glowingroots.carrd.co/
TTRPG designer: The Silt Verses RPG, Token, Candlelight.
Contributor: Trophy, Brindlewood Bay, The Between, & more.
In progress: The Bramble Gate, Bestow, The Piper’s Call, Trust Fall & more.
https://glowingroots.carrd.co/
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I’m Gabriel, a writer and TTRPG designer from the Pacific Northwest, living in coastal Virginia.
I wrote The Silt Verses RPG, Token, Candlelight, and contributed to Trophy, The Between, Brindlewood Bay and other games — with several more in the works!
Find out more at:
glowingroots.carrd.co
I wrote The Silt Verses RPG, Token, Candlelight, and contributed to Trophy, The Between, Brindlewood Bay and other games — with several more in the works!
Find out more at:
glowingroots.carrd.co
The Devourers will change you.
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Devourers will change you.
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Not saying I would be caught by sirensong but I would definitely crash my ship straight into a rock if I heard this
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Not saying I would be caught by sirensong but I would definitely crash my ship straight into a rock if I heard this
We never left the Forest
Happy Friday! We're getting hyped for an upcoming project, looking to crowdfund physical copies in March 2026! That's right, we're getting MORE (unofficial)TROPHY! In partnership with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social, with a stellar list of writers! #TrophyTTPRG #Trophy #TTRPG
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We never left the Forest
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"Wretched Escapees From Gisang's Forsaken Comedies"
This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.
This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"Wretched Escapees From Gisang's Forsaken Comedies"
This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.
This illustration thematically previews my next theatre adventure, which I've just sent to print. Yasss.
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In the Bleak Midwinter: Tales from Gast features stories by
@finleyjinley.bsky.social @glowingroots.bsky.social @loremistress93.bsky.social @mirror-lock.bsky.social
We hope to keep you warm ALL HOLIDAY LONG with these episodes and streams!
@finleyjinley.bsky.social @glowingroots.bsky.social @loremistress93.bsky.social @mirror-lock.bsky.social
We hope to keep you warm ALL HOLIDAY LONG with these episodes and streams!
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In the Bleak Midwinter: Tales from Gast features stories by
@finleyjinley.bsky.social @glowingroots.bsky.social @loremistress93.bsky.social @mirror-lock.bsky.social
We hope to keep you warm ALL HOLIDAY LONG with these episodes and streams!
@finleyjinley.bsky.social @glowingroots.bsky.social @loremistress93.bsky.social @mirror-lock.bsky.social
We hope to keep you warm ALL HOLIDAY LONG with these episodes and streams!
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And lastly, in partnership with @hatchedgames.bsky.social, enjoy four spooky solo tales with IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER: TALES FROM GAST
Ft. @zoupmachine.bsky.social @shaghik.com @grantorwhatever.bsky.social @4evergmjustin.bsky.social
Coming Wednesday in December starting on Dec 3!
Ft. @zoupmachine.bsky.social @shaghik.com @grantorwhatever.bsky.social @4evergmjustin.bsky.social
Coming Wednesday in December starting on Dec 3!
November 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
And lastly, in partnership with @hatchedgames.bsky.social, enjoy four spooky solo tales with IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER: TALES FROM GAST
Ft. @zoupmachine.bsky.social @shaghik.com @grantorwhatever.bsky.social @4evergmjustin.bsky.social
Coming Wednesday in December starting on Dec 3!
Ft. @zoupmachine.bsky.social @shaghik.com @grantorwhatever.bsky.social @4evergmjustin.bsky.social
Coming Wednesday in December starting on Dec 3!
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We made a game where everything wretched about the holidays and everything joyful about them smooch under a mistletoe of horror.
And we keep pulling more people into the maelstrom.
Find out more about what’s going on with all that in my chat with @plusoneexp.bsky.social
And we keep pulling more people into the maelstrom.
Find out more about what’s going on with all that in my chat with @plusoneexp.bsky.social
Interview with Mike Martens
Mike Martens is the creator of holiday games The Wassailing of Claus Manor and Black Mold of Claus Manor, as well as the upcoming Tourist Hole. Hi Mike, thanks for talking with us today! Let’s jump ri...
plusoneexp.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We made a game where everything wretched about the holidays and everything joyful about them smooch under a mistletoe of horror.
And we keep pulling more people into the maelstrom.
Find out more about what’s going on with all that in my chat with @plusoneexp.bsky.social
And we keep pulling more people into the maelstrom.
Find out more about what’s going on with all that in my chat with @plusoneexp.bsky.social
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Also, thanks @glowingroots.bsky.social for getting me out to go see GDT's Frankenstein, especially since I could make jokes like "See, this is why you can't shoot the monsters in Trophy" with someone who gets it 🤣.
Very much recommend the movie. GDT did a fantastic job.
Very much recommend the movie. GDT did a fantastic job.
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Also, thanks @glowingroots.bsky.social for getting me out to go see GDT's Frankenstein, especially since I could make jokes like "See, this is why you can't shoot the monsters in Trophy" with someone who gets it 🤣.
Very much recommend the movie. GDT did a fantastic job.
Very much recommend the movie. GDT did a fantastic job.
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I love this so much.
Here, let me see if I can demonstrate:
| ---------------- love measurement -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
it's not scientific, but I think that's pretty close
Here, let me see if I can demonstrate:
| ---------------- love measurement -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
it's not scientific, but I think that's pretty close
"Hijacking of Agor's Savage Avatar"
This is my 3rd Southeast Asian medieval mech!
Also, hello! I'm back for a bit, trying to post weekly until the end of the year, which is like 8 weeks? I can do this!
(lol probably not)
This is my 3rd Southeast Asian medieval mech!
Also, hello! I'm back for a bit, trying to post weekly until the end of the year, which is like 8 weeks? I can do this!
(lol probably not)
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I love this so much.
Here, let me see if I can demonstrate:
| ---------------- love measurement -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
it's not scientific, but I think that's pretty close
Here, let me see if I can demonstrate:
| ---------------- love measurement -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
it's not scientific, but I think that's pretty close
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Plus Hole EXP.
TONIGHT! BRAVE ENOUGH? YOUR FRIENDS WON'T BELIEVE YOU.
Hear about emergent narrative, deep theme, and whether this game of bar dice and disposable life journeys is an expressionist game or not!
It's going to be interspectacular!
TONIGHT! BRAVE ENOUGH? YOUR FRIENDS WON'T BELIEVE YOU.
Hear about emergent narrative, deep theme, and whether this game of bar dice and disposable life journeys is an expressionist game or not!
It's going to be interspectacular!
Sitting down tonight w/@clearkeep.bsky.social to talk about Tourist Hole, the stories it makes & the mechanics that drive it on this month's episode of Procedures at Play
Tourist Hole is a #TTRPG that is designed to fill the gaps between games, on road trips, or at the bar.
1/2
Tourist Hole is a #TTRPG that is designed to fill the gaps between games, on road trips, or at the bar.
1/2
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Plus Hole EXP.
TONIGHT! BRAVE ENOUGH? YOUR FRIENDS WON'T BELIEVE YOU.
Hear about emergent narrative, deep theme, and whether this game of bar dice and disposable life journeys is an expressionist game or not!
It's going to be interspectacular!
TONIGHT! BRAVE ENOUGH? YOUR FRIENDS WON'T BELIEVE YOU.
Hear about emergent narrative, deep theme, and whether this game of bar dice and disposable life journeys is an expressionist game or not!
It's going to be interspectacular!
Congratulations New York 🔥
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Congratulations New York 🔥
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It's the games that we make for ourselves that are the most interesting and most powerful, ime.
I’ve reached a point in the design process for The Lands Remaining where I realize the world doesn’t need another fantasy TTRPG, and I’m just making this for me. I’m not even sure it has legs in The Gauntlet, tbh.
Doesn’t matter! It’s gnawing away in my brain and I have to exorcise it.
Doesn’t matter! It’s gnawing away in my brain and I have to exorcise it.
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It's the games that we make for ourselves that are the most interesting and most powerful, ime.
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A quick highlight of some of the awesome stuff in this issue in the thread below!
I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!!
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A quick highlight of some of the awesome stuff in this issue in the thread below!
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Happy Halloween!
For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch!
Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya!
signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...
For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch!
Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya!
signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...
A Warm and Pleasant Hum: A One-Shot for Trophy Dark by Michael Van Vleet
A bee-filled scenario for Trophy Dark
signalstation.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy Halloween!
For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch!
Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya!
signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...
For today only (unless I forget to change it back), my Trophy Dark incursion A Warm and Pleasant Hum is FREE on itch!
Now get off my porch, a'fore I set the bees on ya!
signalstation.itch.io/a-warm-and-p...
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It’s my BORTDAY! 🥳 6was post op so I am off on an excursion to Kilmainham Jail! If you’d like to celebrate ME today I’d love it if you checked out my weird folk horror miniseries! podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/u... Or read this alt-history Irish horror I wrote! giganotosaurus.org/2020/10/01/d...
The Devil's Chair - Part 1
Podcast Episode · Undertow: Familiar Haunts · S11 E1 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It’s my BORTDAY! 🥳 6was post op so I am off on an excursion to Kilmainham Jail! If you’d like to celebrate ME today I’d love it if you checked out my weird folk horror miniseries! podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/u... Or read this alt-history Irish horror I wrote! giganotosaurus.org/2020/10/01/d...
Continued Slugblaster by @wilkiescandylab.com last night with the home group. It’s a real testament to the game’s strong vibes and design that we can pick it up, on and off, with zero prep, not entirely remembering the rules, and still follow the fiction to a fantastic episode every session.
October 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Continued Slugblaster by @wilkiescandylab.com last night with the home group. It’s a real testament to the game’s strong vibes and design that we can pick it up, on and off, with zero prep, not entirely remembering the rules, and still follow the fiction to a fantastic episode every session.
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I've sung its praises before, but @munkao.bsky.social 's SE Asian fantasy setting is DRIPPING with flavor & irresistible character details, like: players are members of a Meddler's Guild ("nosy aunties" but for adventuring).
It's early access, but worth it already!
plusoneexp.com/products/kal...
It's early access, but worth it already!
plusoneexp.com/products/kal...
Kala Mandala Playbook
Spices, rivers, magic, gods. More gods than people, more monsters than gods. And very few shoes. Kala Mandala is a 44 pg rules-lite, flavour-heavy fantasy roleplaying game centred on medieval Southea...
plusoneexp.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I've sung its praises before, but @munkao.bsky.social 's SE Asian fantasy setting is DRIPPING with flavor & irresistible character details, like: players are members of a Meddler's Guild ("nosy aunties" but for adventuring).
It's early access, but worth it already!
plusoneexp.com/products/kal...
It's early access, but worth it already!
plusoneexp.com/products/kal...
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🩸 Laissez Couler le Bon Sang 🩸
#COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social.
Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover.
#trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood
#COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social.
Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover.
#trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🩸 Laissez Couler le Bon Sang 🩸
#COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social.
Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover.
#trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood
#COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social.
Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover.
#trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood
For my second #hauntslong, I’m talking about Noroi: The Curse, a film by Kōji Shiraishi from 2005. It’s a masterpiece of a slow burn, found-footage documentary that patches together a series of seemingly unrelated events. I also have some thoughts on how it relates to mysteries and world building.
October 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
For my second #hauntslong, I’m talking about Noroi: The Curse, a film by Kōji Shiraishi from 2005. It’s a masterpiece of a slow burn, found-footage documentary that patches together a series of seemingly unrelated events. I also have some thoughts on how it relates to mysteries and world building.
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The #hauntalong continues! Tonight I'm talking about love, patriarchy, and family annihilation in...
The Vourdalak (2023)
The Vourdalak (2023)
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The #hauntalong continues! Tonight I'm talking about love, patriarchy, and family annihilation in...
The Vourdalak (2023)
The Vourdalak (2023)
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Token by @glowingroots.bsky.social for sure!! It's so good - "TOKEN is a game about a hero and monster circling each other in a haunted forest, offering gifts and signs of their intent—the story ends when they meet and face one another at last."
glowingroots.itch.io/token
glowingroots.itch.io/token
Token by Glowing Roots Press
A duet game of tragic fates entwined in the dark woods.
glowingroots.itch.io
October 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Token by @glowingroots.bsky.social for sure!! It's so good - "TOKEN is a game about a hero and monster circling each other in a haunted forest, offering gifts and signs of their intent—the story ends when they meet and face one another at last."
glowingroots.itch.io/token
glowingroots.itch.io/token
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heyyy everyone! it's my first ever #hauntalong entry, and it's indigenous peoples day, so we're gonna talk about PREY (2022), the coolest movie in the predator franchise
Weeeeeee're baaaack.
#hauntalong has a group of ttrpg wrting/arting/playing friends chatting about their favorite horror movies.
This year, we've got a full month of recos, and we'll truly push Bluesky's threading feature well beyond the black rainbow.
Come haunt along with us.
#hauntalong has a group of ttrpg wrting/arting/playing friends chatting about their favorite horror movies.
This year, we've got a full month of recos, and we'll truly push Bluesky's threading feature well beyond the black rainbow.
Come haunt along with us.
October 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
heyyy everyone! it's my first ever #hauntalong entry, and it's indigenous peoples day, so we're gonna talk about PREY (2022), the coolest movie in the predator franchise
OH NO 😱
October 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
OH NO 😱
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No Fear is part of @speakthesky.itch.io ‘s Dark Tidings anthology of amazing Trophy Dark incursions-check out the collection speakthesky.itch.io/dark-tidings and our AP below!
October 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
No Fear is part of @speakthesky.itch.io ‘s Dark Tidings anthology of amazing Trophy Dark incursions-check out the collection speakthesky.itch.io/dark-tidings and our AP below!
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Playing a tabletop game is making an agreement. I think the scariest thing a game can do is make players feel like they have no choice but to break that agreement. I want a game that disorients and betrays its players - that promises one thing and delivers something much worse.
October 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Playing a tabletop game is making an agreement. I think the scariest thing a game can do is make players feel like they have no choice but to break that agreement. I want a game that disorients and betrays its players - that promises one thing and delivers something much worse.