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Shawk Games (Syd)
@shawkgames.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 she/her - singlehandedly keeping the cough drop empire in business

#ttrpg creative, AP GM, storytelling nerd, and overall enthusiast

Check out what I'm up to - https://shawkgames.my.canva.site/
On the aforementioned stompy walk
April 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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!
April 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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
December 25, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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...
December 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM
and that's *including* the newly laid out singles version of FUNERAL FANTASTIQUE - a mystery revolving around a toxic orchestra culture.
December 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
A sneak peek!
December 8, 2024 at 5:06 AM
What, we're not all sometimes sad, queer, and obsessed with murder mysteries??
December 4, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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!)
December 1, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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
November 19, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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
November 15, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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
November 12, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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
October 26, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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
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
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
May 27, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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...
May 14, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Peter Hopkins does NOT do impurities, what can I say? :)
April 23, 2024 at 6:23 PM
@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!
February 23, 2024 at 4:37 AM
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...
February 20, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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!
February 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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!
February 7, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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!
February 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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
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)
February 4, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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