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Shawk Games (Syd)
@shawkgames.bsky.social
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#ttrpg creative, AP GM, storytelling nerd, and overall enthusiast

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On the aforementioned stompy walk
A photo of a city street, with valet parking signs in the foreground and historic buildings in the background.
April 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Something Borrowed is in the works! A lost people fight for survival in a world scaled beyond their capabilities, as dreams of a failed, past rebellion nip at their ever-tired heels... #pushpowered #ttrpg #rpg #indierpg Watch this space for news!
A cover photo for a table top roleplaying game - The scenery is a still, nearly sepia photo of an old nine-pane window on the side of a dirty plaster and brick building. Emerging from the bottom window pains are small pine trees. The Title "Something Borrowed" is anchored above the window. To the right of the window, a photo of a green and grey rolling hills landscape - with a logo for "Push Powered" overlaid on top. The photo with the logo is taped to the wall of the aforementioned building. The overall tone is dingy and decaying.
April 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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We're starting our next mystery (Murder Most Fowl by @iamatrex.com) for As It Is Below and as is typical, shock, glee, and horror abound as our mavens contend with their own drama and that of the avian culture. It'll go live later tonight! #brindlewoodbay #actualplay #improv #ttrpg #rpg
A screen grab from an Actual Play for Brindlewood Bay. The background is a lighthouse on a cliffside overlooking a body of water on an overcast day. In front of this, four boxes, one in each corner, depict three players and the game master for As It Is Below. The game master and the player in the top left both look happy/smug, while the two players in the lower half of the screen have hands covering their mouths out of shock and anguish. A black and white video screen-grab. In the background, a lighthouse on a cliffside overlooking a dark and sinister body of water. In the four corners, four video feeds of the players and GM for As It Is Below: A Brindlewood Bay Actual Play. All look confused, shocked, and concerned after a lore reveal.
December 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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TO MAKE A MUENSTER got a long-awaited layout update today, so feel free to go update your copies, purchase on sale, OR snag one of the remaining community copies!

shawkgames.itch.io/to-make-a-mu...
Two flyers - both golden, cheddar yellow with a noodle/cheese puff like border. Blocky text with a darker-orange motif says 'To Make a Muenster' on the second page, the title 'Events' is legible at the top.
December 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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and that's *including* the newly laid out singles version of FUNERAL FANTASTIQUE - a mystery revolving around a toxic orchestra culture.
two single pdf pages, a darker and lighter. The darker one is in the foreground, with block text that says 'FUNERAL FANTASTIQUE' under that, 'AN UNOFFICIAL BRINDLEWOOD BAY MYSTERY' The dark page has a warped orange grid-like table, and a paper cutout of a vague violinist shape. At the bottom, the text 'COMPLEXITY 6' The lighter page in the background consists of mostly body text, but three titles can be read: PRELUDE: Presenting the Mystery (up top) ESTABLISHING QUESTION (in orange mid-way) and MOMENTS (in mauve in the lower third, on the maroon paper image.) Music note motifs are present throughout.
December 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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A sneak peek!
two pages of a booklet, with a background of crinked paper. On the left page, a scrapbooking like montage with flowers, blood splatter, and ripped paper detailing a special condition, special move, and camp experiences as a part of the supplement. On the right, a blank space with 'Notes' up top, and some monochromatic grey trees in the footer.
December 8, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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What, we're not all sometimes sad, queer, and obsessed with murder mysteries??
Spotify wrapped. Primarily black text on yellow background. Top 5 songs: 1. What Was I Made For - Billie Eilish 2. Red Wine Supernova - Chappell Roan 3. The Thrombey Family Theme (solo piano) - Nathan Jackson 4. Midsomer Murders Theme - Jim Parker 5. Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
December 4, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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You too, can get locally sourced murder for your #brindlewoodbay mavens over on itch at the link below! There are SO MANY good brindlewood bay mysteries as third party content by wonderful writers out there in the world! (and for Carved from Brindlewood games in general. Top Tier stuff!)
A diner style menu in cream and scarlet laid on a flat white table. A steel ruler to the eight and a cup of espresso and brown pen to the left. On the menu, the title states 'Country Fried Stakes' with subheadings in vintage script of 'presenting the msyery, locally sourced murder, and establishing questions. Each heading has text under, but it isn't legible in this photo. A graphic of a burger in the top right corner and fries in the bottom left corner are black and cream style-ized line art. On the right side of the menu, under the burger, a title with the word 'moments' with bulleted text underneath. The top and bottom of the menu have a scarlet and cream checkerboard pattern.
December 1, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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You all simply aren't ready for [redacted] Steve Texas - our perhaps NEW favorite NPC in AS IT IS BELOW - a brindlewood bay actual play. The LOVELY @pbangelli.bsky.social whipped this up mere hours after our session last week! STAY TUNED. #brindlewoodbay #actualplay #improv #ttrpg #campaign
a rustic outdoor scene in black in white. To the left, a an elderly woman with short hair and filipino features, a jacket, and a shirt with a broken heart emoji is crouched. To the right, a giant man with a sumo-wrestler physique, black pompadour, and embroidered western shirt is also crouched, holding a cowboy hat. Both are crouched around an ant-hill.
November 19, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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OUR NEXT EPISODE HAS A SECRET ENDING. IT INVOLVES NEWTS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. (Also thank you @pbangelli.bsky.social for the SCENE!) @lookingformom.bsky.social #brindlewoodbay #actualplay #ttrpg
a storyboard scene of an older woman, hair in a bun, standing in a pond in an outdoor scene. In the background, a woman with large curly hair smiles happily, reading a magazine called 'newt fancy', and newts surrounding her on a bench.
November 15, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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yes my eyes are closed but my PLAYERS are being wrecked by the horrifying ordeal of not being able to change their pasts... sometimes the horrors aren't cosmic at all. Episode 13 coming soon to AS IT IS BELOW - a #brindlewoodbay #actualplay on @lookingformom.bsky.social! #ttrpg #pbta #improv #dnd
A creen grab of an upcoming actual play episode of As It IS Below - three female ttrpg players portray various degrees of anguish through their video feeds while the ggame master has her eyes closed in the upper right corner. In the middle, a picture of an npc with blonde hair, glasses, and a white button down shirt, labeled Champlain Bellows
November 12, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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With no games this upcoming week due to holidays, anniversaries, and the like, I'm taking the time to dive into a few games I've been eyeing. I've ran Perils&Princesses and Slugblaster so far, so need to get back in the saddle for Girl by Moonlight and Bump in the Dark! #ttrpg #rpg #fitd #osr #dnd
cover art for perils and princesses book, features pink and brown motif, two fantasy princesses, one carrying flame and the other an ax, with the title "Perils & Princesses" [A fairy tale adventure rpg] in medieval-esque script. Girl By Moonlight cover, featuring a woman reaching upward with one hand to touch light with dark braids, a tiara with a gem aglow. Her eyes also glow with the same light, while a larger, looming face stares angrily from behind. black background with white, graffiti-like text "SLUGBLASTER", underneath, on a white background with black text "Kickflip over a quantum centipede" Partial cover of BUmp in the Dark - features the heads of two hunters holding makeshift weapons, battling a smoky dark eldritch creature on the outskirts of a mining town setting. Many dark red/orange/brown hues.
October 26, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Working on a new Brindlewood Bay Mystery set in a corporate cookie-cutter gym. What are your favorite/most uncomfortable gym moments?

#ttrpg #brindlewoodbay
October 19, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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This week's DM Log:

8/20 - GM Boy Problems, a Carly Rae Jepsen Cyberpop Heist
8/21 - GM Session 21 of The Lost Druid 5e!
8/22 - GM/Record As It Is Below - a Brindlewood Bay Actual Play for @lookingformom.bsky.social
8/24 - GM Brindlewood Bay 3-Shot, Country Fried Stakes

#ttrpg #tabletop #dnd
August 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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This week's DM Log consists of two games - a potentially penultimate session of a LVL 10-16 homebrew adventure, and session #15 of our run of The Lost Druid by @hitpointpress.bsky.social - both I'm running with @alchemyrpg.bsky.social and I've been pretty impressed with the VTT. #ttrpg #dnd
An Alchemy VTT Screen grab. Player chat down left side, and party details on the right. In the center is a rainy old cabin scene with the words 'The Edge of the Clan' atop. a VTT Screengrab of the scene 'Broken Top Bay' from The Lore of Aetherra: The Lost Druid on Hit Point Press. Depicts a Boat on water scene with craggy, dangerous rock outcroppings on both sides, rough waters, and a glowing grotto in the far center.
May 27, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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LOVED playing a old fool in the west with this Solo Game. Already thinking through how to also do a duo experience using the prompts - Keith Stetson really brought the western grit, religious trauma, and inner turmoil of this time period to the door a'knockin'!

kstetson.itch.io/gods-gonna-c...
Kickstarter Cover for God's Gonna Cut You Down
May 14, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Peter Hopkins does NOT do impurities, what can I say? :)
April 23, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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@signalstation.bsky.social we finished our playthrough of Good Buy Cruel World and wanted to share their final theory!

Mavens had a blast (were attacked by a midwives member, tricked EMS workers into retrieving clues for them - and tried to speak with rats (occult move!) Thank you for writing this!
brindlewood bay theory outlining clues used.
February 23, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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Pre-Work Prep this week is planning a Slugblaster Turbo 2-shot while listening to an interview with TTRPG/Mothership Scenario writer, Joel Hines on The Panic Table!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucvN...
split screen grab - left half is 'See You Space Cowboy | The Panic Table: Mission Control', right half is the Slugblaster 1.2 PDF introduction page!
February 20, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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GM Log 2/11-2/17
- 2/12 Play in 5e Playtest Stream (Undying Corruption)
- 2/13 GM Mothership 1e
- 2/15 GM Brindlewood Bay 3-Shot Conclusion
- 2/17 GM 5e One Shot - OSW

Slow week with a few cancelations and one game on its 3 on 1 off break - means lots of prep and research time for March adventures!
Cover art for Undying Corruption Player's Guide from Nine Heavens Press Cover from One Shot Wonders by Roll and Play Press Back Cover for Good Buy Cruel World by Michael Van Vleet, a mystery for Brindlewood Bay Promotional Art for Decagone, a Mothership Module on DrivethruRPG
February 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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The new Zen Mode on Alchemyrpg VTT is SO useful - the difference in screen usage will be excellent for toggling larger maps.

Gearing up for another session of The Lost Druid, the first adventure in the Lore of Aetherra series from Alchemyrpg and Hit Point Press!
a VTT screen featuring a boat. Gameplay chat, scenes, and players dot the outskirts. a VTT scene from AlchemyRPG when Zen Mode is engaged, clearing nearly all areas of the screen for wider view.
February 7, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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Tonight's DM prep is on Slugblaster by @mikeyhamm.bsky.social! Excited to take 5 brand new players through a double-tap two shot here at the end of the month!
Slugblaster - Kickflip over a Quantum Centipede Cover Art
February 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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We do stars and wishes after every session! Missing a player tonight but here are some from the two mavens, Mabel and Maxine!
February 4, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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GM Log 2/4-2/10
- 2/4 GM Curse of Corpsewood Forest Session #5 (5e)
- 2/5 Character creation chat for Slugblaster Turbo (FitD)
- 2/6 GM Session 2 Homebrew (5e)
- 2/7 GM The Lost Druid Session 3 (5e)
- 2/8 GM Good Buy Cruel World 3-shot Session 2 (PBTA/CfB)
- 2/9 GM Homebrew Underwater Campaign (5e)
Underwater world 5e homemade map 1995 Mall Home Video Aesthetic Alchemy RPG screencapture showing a river map Waterleaf Book Shoppe art from the Lost Druid 5e Module
February 4, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Following up last night's 5e bandit-chasing dog-dice-rolling extravaganza on Alchemy with mall-walking, book-clubbing, mystery-solving geriatrics! Running Good Buy Cruel World tonight (for Brindlewood Bay by Michael Van Vleet) for some BBay Players who have graced my one-shot schedule recently!
February 1, 2024 at 4:53 PM