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Summoning Circle Press ➡️ PAXU
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TTRPG Zine Publishing Co-op | Queer-run | We make Splat Magazine ft. inclusive gaming advice & intersectional relationships to games. 😷🍉🏳️‍🌈✊

Rituals For Dead Games out now!

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Obligatory Booth Pic from PAXU. Have you been by?
Booth display from PAX UNPLUGGED that has our Splat zines on a rotating rack and Rituals for Dead Games displayed by itself at the front (next to all the wonderful Starlight Grove games)
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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FIND US AT PAX, booth hosted generously by @goodluckpress.co

Booth 4059!
Summoning Circle Press logo on a torn paper background with PAX Unplugged logo above and text "booth 4059" below Same background but text "with friends!" Summoning Circle Press logo, photo of J Strautman, Starlight Grove logo, and logo plus text for the One True Ryan Khan. Booth 4059 A map of the PAX Unplugged expo Hall and directions for finding booth 4059 in the top right of the map. Good Luck Press logo and PAX logo above.
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Hey GTA, tell your friends about this art show/zine fair!!!!!

Share to let a local know #Toronto #GTA #ttrpg
Poster for Grafficker Alley, a comic, mange and zine show. A raccoon, dog, and pigeon cling to a photocopier on wheels racing through the city with the CN tower in the background. Details on the poster include: Saturday September 06 from 11-5pm. Free Admission. Hundreds of artists. Small Arms Inspection Building at 1352 Lakeshore Rd East in Mississauga. Graffickeralley.ca Jupiter holding the printed copy of Rituals for Dead Games outside.
September 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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They're reeeeeal!!! Print copies are in hand for Grafficker Alley this weekend.
Jupiter's hand holding a printed copy of Rituals For Dead Games outside near a black fence
September 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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NEXT WEEKEND: Find us at graffickeralley.ca in Mississauga! September 6th.

If everything goes to plan we will even have a few print copies of RITUALS FOR DEAD GAMES. Come be the first person to own a print copy.
Poster for Grafficker Alley, a comic, mange and zine show. A raccoon, dog, and pigeon cling to a photocopier on wheels racing through the city with the CN tower in the background. Details on the poster include: Saturday September 06 from 11-5pm. Free Admission. Hundreds of artists. Small Arms Inspection Building at 1352 Lakeshore Rd East in Mississauga. Graffickeralley.ca
August 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I think only 5 copies of this sold at Breakout Con, but if you have one, the secret sale URL is live!!! Enjoy 50% off the final project.
The cover of "Where You Still Find Me" that mentions a url for a discount when the full project goes live.
July 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I had a font crisis.

Rituals for Dead Games will be available THIS WEEKEND! Tell a friend. Five rituals, just for you.
Updated zine cover. Half the title: "Rituals for" is now handwritten on torn brown paper in the top left corner. The blue roses remain as the background image. The rest of the title "Dead Games" is now stylized where the word dead is faded and wavy.
July 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Here is the cover! We're adding the finishing touches and the zine will be available on itch in early July.
Cover for a zine called Rituals for Dead Games. Black text in two different fonts over an edited photograph of roses and petals that has been recoloured blue
June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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My video thank you! Feel free to tag us in your hauls and please let us know how you like your zines if you get around to reading them. Your feedback is the thing that motivates us to make more of them.
March 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Tomorrow is your last day to share your epitaphs/final messages of love to your dead characters and games at our @breakoutcon.bsky.social booth! Your submissions will be included in our upcoming project.

We're in the hall just next to registration. Come say hi!
An open box labelled "The TOMB! Write epitaphs for dead characters" with index cards placed inside
March 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Come see us at @breakoutcon.bsky.social this weekend! We have magazines and other goodies for you. Plus an exclusive sneak peak at Rituals For Dead Games!
Splat Magazine display at Breakout Con vending table.
March 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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I'm just really excited about these stickers, okay? I don't draw much so I'm really proud of how these turned out. I drew everything from scratch! That's my handwriting!!!
March 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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They're here! They're real! Enjoy this picture of them in the late afternoon sun.
A sticker sheet of drawn illustrations about zines and a claw over books and the Summoning Circle Press logo. The printed sheet sits on a colourful box.
March 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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We made stickers for the first time! Here's the mock up. They'll be for sale at Breakout Con!
A digital proof of a sticker sheet. there are 6 stickers. One is how to fold a zine, one is a dragon glaw over a stack of books that says "own your media", three are zines with slogans on them. the slogans are "Archive your life", "Doesn't have to be 'good' to matter", and "Make weirder art". The last sticker is the Summoning Circle Press logo which is the words curled around a sparkling orb.
March 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Introducing our ritual writers for our first game zine!

@qrowscant.bsky.social
@quinnbeckham27.bsky.social
@jexewizabee.bsky.social
and Anna George ✨

The writing is underway and we look forward to sharing more in the coming weeks.
Promo image of text on a dark purple background. Text reads "Rituals for Dead Games" in an all caps bookish font with "spring 2025" in a sketchy handwritten font. There are orange sparks floating around. The Summoning Circle Press logo sits in the bottom left corner.
February 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Pitch call but a video this time! Please help us spread the word about our new project "Rituals for Dead Games" ✨

Tell us about your ideas ➡️: forms.gle/viyMcGfVTsvg...
January 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Write for us! We are now accepting pitches for "Rituals for Dead Games", our latest zine, and we want GAMES. Pitch us your little rituals for the grief of losing a creative outlet. Full details on the submission form.

⛓️ below ⬇️
A Pitch Call announcement of white text on dark purple. The Summoning Circle Logo of the words around a sparkling sphere appears in the top left corner. Text reads as follows: Pitch Call: “Rituals for Dead Games” What: New, small, playable games/rituals that address the grief and loss of a game/campaign that is no longer. Who: You! No experience required. We are prioritizing QTBIMPOC writers. All are welcome to apply. When: Applications open until Feb 2, 2025. Work due in late March. Pay: $100 USD for ~500 words. Other: ISO 3-4 writers. If there are many strong pitches, we will consider a Volume II for later in the year.
January 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Here's my 15 second PSA as a burnt out millennial trying to save your life before zine month.

I got concussed one week into our two week campaign last year and having pre-filmed our content saved so much grief.
January 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Do you own a copy of Splat magazine? Do ya love it? Would you let us know? You can comment on the KS/itch, email us, tag us in posts, rate it on itch.

We've had many loyal supporters over the past 6 years and we only ever hear the faintest whispers of feedback. We'd love to connect w our readers!
The cover of Splat 5 against a golden border. The illustration is a ladder to the moon starting from a dice pile planet. A stick figure climbs the ladder. The sun of Dice world is flat and almost pencil drawn, there the moon and starry sky of Moon world is 3D and more digital. There's our logo in the bottom left corner with the tag "History" and "#5 - 2024" sandwiching the logo in the box.
October 23, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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Splat 5 will feature @megueyb.bsky.social & @lumpley.bsky.social (Apocalypse World) and @temporalhiccup.bsky.social (Apocalypse Keys) in conversation about designing the apocalypse over the years.

We're so excited to interview our favourite PBTA designers and learn all their secrets!
A selfie of Meguey in a cornfield. She has a grey knit witch hat on, a blue and pink patterned scarf, and a chunky orange sweater. She smiles knowingly at the camera. This is a drawing of Rae by Alex Reeder. Rae is a fat man with curly greying dark hair cut short and tortoise shell glasses, he is wearing a light coat adorned in a traditional Filipino pattern of dark purples and reds. Behind him is a flowering orchid plant, and forming a border around him are gingko leaves.
February 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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It's the ✨Splat 5: Golden✨ money thread for updates on our progress!
The Splat zine logo which is an illustrated gelatinous cube full of miscellaneous game pieces and the word SPLAT.
February 6, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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We reached 100 followers! Behold the promo art for Splat 5: Golden. @jessethebard.bsky.social snuck in all the Summoning Circle Press easter eggs into this image and we love it!
A drawing and text on a goldenrod coloured background. The illustration is a tarot card featuring a sword made of different materials up the blade. The bottom block is covered in dragon scales, the next block is a gelatinous cube full of bones, the third block is a computer chip, the fourth block is a spooky face in a ghostly form, and the top, pointed block is covered in thorny vines and has rose petals drifting from it. These are callbacks to former zine covers. There are mountains, clouds and the sun in the background. The card border lists Splat as the card title at the bottom and has card number 5 at the top. Text next to the image reads: Summoning Circle Press Presents: Splat 5 - Golden. The fonts are art deco inspired and the word Golden has a curly flourish underneath it to separate it from the logo. The bottom corner of the banner has the Summoning Circle Press logo (which is the three words placed around a sparkling orb).
January 31, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Are you at Pax U today? The first person to find Hotch around the con between 4-6pm today will get a FREE ZINE! Just mention this post.
Hotch takes a mirror selfie. He wears a yellow shirt w pizza and a white N95. He shows a peace sign.
December 2, 2023 at 8:47 PM
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Hello world!

Summoning Circle Press is a little indie zine publishing co-op. Our zines feature advice and personal essays about TTRPGs, playing them, designing them, running them.
Copies of 3 issues of Splat on a retail table with other TTRPG products. On cover has a person reading in a spaceship, one has two women dancing, one has a gelatinous cube melting into 3 people's heads.
August 4, 2023 at 1:57 PM