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Muses & Maenads : Magickal Thinking TTRPG
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Magickal Thinking, darkly whimsical fantasy #ttrpg

Travel the Wyrd as a performer & part of a troupe, along the ever-changing Road. This is a fantasy world unlike any. A joyous, yet dark, world of twisted fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and mythology! #mtrpg
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This #wip is #conceptart for our game. #mtrpg

Abominations wandered in from the Æther to rampage across the Wyrd. They are a bizarre beings with chaotic and varied monstrous forms.

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This is concept art for our game. This image shows an Abomination.
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The Wyrd may be full of heart stopping terrors, but we hope your Halloween is full of wonder fellow Wyrdlings!

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This is concept art for our game. This image shows a swarm of scarecrows coming out of the darkness, eyes glowing red, and toward the viewer.
October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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In the Wyrd, few things are nightmare fuel like a group of Wild Clowns! Best Halloween wishes from the Wyrdlings who survived and don't look behind you.

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Four colorful and murderous clowns. The words "Wild Clowns" are written across the top and surrounded by stars.
October 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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For a place so full of whimsy, the Wyrd can be terrifying. Æther storms can strike the Road with alarming speed and sweep in Daemons or other Phænomenal beasts!

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October 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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We love October fellow Wyrdlings! Watch out for Crooked Man, a Nightmare of Madness, who bends reality of the Wyrd into a prison to terrorize its victims.

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This is concept art for our game. This image shows the crooked man a being of awful angles.
October 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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It's October fellow Wyrdlings! The Dracula are feared and oddly desired in many corners of the Wyrd. The embodiment gothic romance, they thirst for blood.

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White on black drawing of Dracula for MTRPG
October 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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This is the introduction for our recent #playtest session of Muses & Maenads: Magickal Thinking #TTRPG

The sessions will continue so we will not say more at this time. Keep being you my fellow Wyrdlings, see ya!

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This is a screenshot of a notes file. The text seen follows. Fade in... It seems the Road is in a surrealist mood today. It's lined by ranks of trees like set pieces, wood or cardboard cutouts with paper leaves, fading into Mist and Darkness. Overhead dark billowing clouds of fluff-over-plaster sway in front of a yellow circle with red ribbons flapping at its edges. The Road beneath your heels appears like smooth stone with painted lines that seem to represent cobblestones. Up ahead is a crooked signpost, it proclaims "Applewood Landing" and points to the left where a pitch black tunnel opening can be seen. From the Road behind you comes a frightful ruckus, a Swarm of Scarecrow burst into view. They emit a collective chorus of undulating wails. Their pursuit sends wave cold dread dancing over your gut and up your spine.
September 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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In Everstead, just off Jupiter street, sits a field surrounding the Grand Stump. This legendary stage has been the off-season practice stage for generations of performers in the Wryd.

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This wip is concept art for our game. The image shows a towering stump. One so big, part of it has been hollowed out and turned into a grand stage. The red curtains are raised and spotlights brighten the stage. An orchestra pit waits, empty, in front of this stage. Upon the stage are four figures, one at an upright piano, another stands behind a tall drum, while the other two sing and dance in a shower of magical sparkles. Two exits can be seen, one on either side of the stage. This stage is found in the Village of Everstead, a place many traveling performers call home in their off season. It is also a place of learning where young Wyrdlings go to learn how to be a performer and follow their dream of walking the Road. It is said enchanted acoustics allow someone speaking in a conversational tone at center stage, to be clearly heard 65 paces into the crowd.
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Beware the gargoyle my fellow Wyrdlings! These sentinels may be slow to anger, but they're quick to protect! Provoke them at your peril.

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This is concept art for our game. This image shows a gargoyle, mouth open and baring teeth as it comes at the viewer.
August 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Deva blessings have many uses in the Wyrd. The light of Melinoë's Candle illuminates the night, revealing Shades that have lost their way to the UnderWyrd.

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This is concept art for our game. This image show a dark figure with glowing eyes. The shade is what remains in the Wyrd when someone dies. It will pass into the UnderWyrd in short order. Shades sometimes get suck in the Wyrd, they can be seen using the candle of Melinoë, a Deva gift.
August 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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In the Wyrd, many things are possible, including a dog-shaped plant creature. Say hello to the Moss Mutt!

This #wip is #conceptart for our game. #mtrpg

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This is concept art for our game. This wip shows a creature known as a Moss Mutt. It leaps from the undergrowth, yellow eyes bright, skin green, covered in vines, and trailing bits of Spanish moss.
August 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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“Muses & Maenads: Magickal Thinking TTRPG” is the working title of a new #ttrpg in development and testing that takes you through a romantic tour through a psychedelic world of eerie nursery rhymes, dark fairy tales, and ancient myth.

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This WIP is a logo for Muses and Maenads, a Magickal Thinking TTRPG. The image shows "Muses and Maenads" done as if spelled with carved wooden letters above the words "powered by Magickal Thinking" done in two tone purple and pink lettering. All of this is overlay on a wheel with nine spokes. At the center is an icon and each spoke has an icon. Each of these represents one of the ten forms of Magick found in the Wyrd. The wheel itself represents traveling the never-ending Road.
July 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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In the Wyrd, Madness is one of the elements forming all things. When it is high in an area, Swarms can form spontaneously. Beware Swarms young Wyrdling and the eyes that come with Madness.

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This is concept art for our game. A group of bunnies stare at you from the shadows. Their gaze is menacing and some of them have the glowing red eyes that signal they have taken in too much Madness and are about to Swarm. Many more red points of light shine from the darkness behind them. A Swarm is moments away...
July 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Muses & Maenads, a Magickal Thinking #TTRPG is darkly whimsical and, like many fairy tales, it can easily slip into horror. This #wip is a bit of concept art for a flying monkey in the Wyrd. Enjoy!

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This is concept art for our game. It shows a savage monkey like creature emerging from the darkness. Possibly a flying monkey.
July 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Among the terrors of the Wyrd, the Wild Hunt is one of the greatest. Eventually, every Deva calls their Wild Hunt to some corner of the Wyrd. Death runs with the Hunt and the Deva will feast.

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This is concept art for our game. It shows several individuals running through the darkness. Their faces are fearful and they run as if chased by some terror. This is a depiction of a Wild Hunt. While every Deva's hunt is different, many of them are a frightful and bloody affair. Every night, some Village in the Wyrd experiences, and is often wiped out by, a Wild Hunt.
June 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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In the Wyrd, the accumulation of material wealth can damage Wyrdlings leading to the Mortification. The practice of barter is widespread. Every Wyrdling carries a few spare and useful things they can barter with.

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Barter Bag The barter bag, or barter box, is a term that refers to a collection of things the average Wyrdling has and uses to barter. This could be something the Wyrdling can make, or has collected. Knickknacks like spare buttons, pressed flowers, local herbs, stories, or similar “bits and bobs”. It also implicitly includes things the Wyrdling can do in trade, such as knife sharping, playing music, or baking cookies. When making a barter roll these are the things the Wyrdling will use/offer to get what they need.
June 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Road is a dangerous space. Without a Navigator there is no way to know what Village you'll find next. Road rules include:

Never step off the path.
Only travel by day.
Be considerate to and cautious of those you meet.

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A lone wagon on the Road. It's tracks stretch into the distance. The dark forest pushes in for both sides.
June 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Road Diaries of the Wyrd

The Fiery Peppermint Frogs

Sassun - camp manager

Clem - Wyrdographer

Trilby - actor

Frog-Pockets - barker, storyteller

Nell - stagehand, animal manager

Me - narrator, first timer

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Image of a diary entry, it reads: Day 60 Village of Snoopjack I fear something really awful happened here. The place is empty. We found tables set for a meal, food in its place and only just starting to turn. We found no bodies, no blood, and nothing broken or disturbed. It’s almost as if they could show up at any moment. There’s a feeling here, a wrongness. Nell thought he could get some of the farm animals to talk to us, but they seem to have fled into the countryside. If left out there they'll go feral and forget how to speak. We can't let that happen to them so we are going to perform a more exhaustive search. As much as I want to help, I really hope we leave soon. This place gives me the heebie-jeebies!
June 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Road Diaries of the Wyrd

The Fiery Peppermint Frogs

Sassun - hair and makeup

Clem - the acquirer

Trilby - wannabe navigator

Frog-Pockets - drummer, barker

Nell - gardener, story keeper

Me - narrator, musician

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Image of a diary entry, it reads: Day 57 Village of Spindlebottom Tonight's performance was well received! I think the Village was ready for some fun after the past week. Between the Strawmen attacks and old man Jenkins’ Treacle scheme everyone needed a relaxing time. Now that their crops are safe they seemed free to enjoy themselves and our show. We’ll move on in the morning, the Road awaits!
May 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Road Diaries of the Wyrd

The Fiery Peppermint Frogs

Sassun - camp manager

Clem - acquirer of things

Trilby - wannabe navigator

Frog-Pockets - storyteller, actor

Nell - gardener, stagehand

Me - actor, first timer

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Image of a diary entry, in part it reads: Day 45 Village of Bonebiscuit So, it looks like Fortuna is with us. We have arrived in time for the “Night of the Crumbled” ritual. I wanted to stretch my legs before the show. I was hardly out the door when I encountered the strangest procession. All of the villagers were dressed in bone-white robes and carrying enormous spoons. They were marching toward the Agora. I followed them, of course. How could I resist? In the Agora was an enormous marzipan sculpture of a hand clutching a teacup. The villagers gathered around, murmuring words I couldn’t understand, and performed a peculiar dance. When I asked one of them what was happening, she pressed a small moon shaped cookie into my hand and said, “We honor the Great Baker, without whom all would return to crumb! Praise Abundantia!” Then Clem found me and we headed back, it was time to get ready for our show. I hear the celebration will be happening well into the wee hours. Looking at the cookie
May 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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A Wyrdling sweet Sunday. A plan made, they sprang into action! One got several small bags of candy pieces, another got strawberries and bananas, a third got ice cream, the fourth came with homemade chocolate whip-cream. Play on my Wyrdlings!
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We are preparing for a banana split sunday Sunday! This picture shows for bags of candy pieces (to be used as toppings), a bunch of bananas, a pack of strawberries, and a large bowl of homemade chocolate whipped cream. These items sit upon a patterned tablecloth, between an Alice in Wonderland cookie jar and a potted jade plant.
May 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Road Diaries of the Wyrd

The Fiery Peppermint Frogs

Sassun - salty and seasoned

Clem - a fix it person

Trilby - singer

Frog-Pockets - actor, barker

Nell - stagehand

Me - narrator, poet

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Image of a diary entry, it reads: Day 35 Village of Rockbite There’s a Witch convention happening this week! We have joined several other Troupes drawn to perform during the festivities. It’s a great gig, however, Sassun tells me that these Witches can get pretty crazy at these conventions. She performed at one convention where a couple of Witches got into a drunken duel and pretty soon everyone in the place was vomiting frogs and newts. Not my idea of a good time.
May 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Road Diaries of the Wyrd

The Fiery Peppermint Frogs

Sassun Firehair

Clem

Trilby Drybrow

Frog-Pockets Potter

Hempel “Nell” Simplepants

Me - Diary keeper

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Image of a diary entry, in part, it reads: Day 29 Village of Lindenmont This is my first tour. I’ve seen wondrous things, I’ve seen strange things, and I’ve seen dangerous things, but today made me question my decision to leave home. The looks my companions had when we discovered the budding Confection Zone will haunt me forever. They were afraid, and I haven’t seen that kind of fear in them before. We argued about what to do. Clem said he knows Wyrdographers who’d give a kidney for a chance to study a newborn Confection Zone like this one, but his voice was tight and higher than normal. He wanted to study it, Sassun wanted to destroy it with fire, and Frog-Pockets just wanted to go get some lunch at the Longhouse and let the Village handle it. Trilby wanted to leave and get help. Nell said we had to try something, anything. Clem agreed that we don’t know enough about this Phaenomenon, but felt we had to try because if it spreads to the Village it would be the end. After all was
May 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Road Diaries of the Wyrd

The Fiery Peppermint Frogs

Sassun - camp manager

Clem - Wyrdographer

Trilby - actor

Frog-Pockets - barker, storyteller

Nell - stagehand, animal manager

Me - narrator, first timer

#ttrpg #mtrpg #ttrpgsky #indiettrpg #tabletop #worldbuilding
Image of a diary entry, it reads: Day 27 Village of Camelot Tonight’s show in Camelot will be at the King’s Banquet Hall, which is a massive venue a full hundred paces long and at least half that wide. I bet Sassun all the villagers could be seated with room to spare. She just laughed and told me to finish unloading. I talked with some of the folk while handing out flyers. I gather they haven’t seen a real show in months. It sounds like everyone is looking forward to ours. Biggest show of my career so far? No pressure!
April 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The Wyrdlings have a thing for donuts. Refuel and play more!

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A box of donuts. Someone is taking a cream cheese turnover. Many more remain. This box has a lemon Bismark, a raspberry Bismark, a maple bar, a chocolate puff, a maple cruller, an apple fritter, and blueberry fritter.
April 26, 2025 at 5:21 AM