Richard Markert
@thegeekchef.bsky.social
An accursed wÿrdsmith. Definitely not 3 gorblins in a chef coat. Under a Pale Sun, Gloomwych: Widdershins Hollow & That Blood Sucking Bastard Must Die crowdfunding soon. Blog: https://ashandink.bearblog.dev/
I’m really loving how this one is shaping up.
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’m really loving how this one is shaping up.
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The HELLSLAYER Solo Rules Zine (for HELLSPAWN) will be available at launch on November 11th! Become the aforementioned HELLSLAYER, chosen from across the multiverse and sent to Dying Worlds to hunt and erase Malefactors!
GO TO HELL HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey...
GO TO HELL HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey...
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The HELLSLAYER Solo Rules Zine (for HELLSPAWN) will be available at launch on November 11th! Become the aforementioned HELLSLAYER, chosen from across the multiverse and sent to Dying Worlds to hunt and erase Malefactors!
GO TO HELL HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey...
GO TO HELL HERE: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey...
Here's the reveal of our HELLTOBER/MORKTOBER offerings, HELLOVER, available in our upcoming Kickstarter campaign!
November 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Here's the reveal of our HELLTOBER/MORKTOBER offerings, HELLOVER, available in our upcoming Kickstarter campaign!
HELLTÖBER DAY 31: PUMPKIN
Hell told a joke, and the world split its cheeks laughing; the Gourd of Grinning Rot blooms where joy and rot are one flesh.
Thank you for another MÖRKTOBER!!
Hell told a joke, and the world split its cheeks laughing; the Gourd of Grinning Rot blooms where joy and rot are one flesh.
Thank you for another MÖRKTOBER!!
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
HELLTÖBER DAY 31: PUMPKIN
Hell told a joke, and the world split its cheeks laughing; the Gourd of Grinning Rot blooms where joy and rot are one flesh.
Thank you for another MÖRKTOBER!!
Hell told a joke, and the world split its cheeks laughing; the Gourd of Grinning Rot blooms where joy and rot are one flesh.
Thank you for another MÖRKTOBER!!
HELLTÖBER DAY 7 & 8
Shard and Wizard
Shard and Wizard
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
HELLTÖBER DAY 7 & 8
Shard and Wizard
Shard and Wizard
HELLTÖBER Day 6: HUSK
October 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
HELLTÖBER Day 6: HUSK
HELLTÖBER Day 4: Howl of the Ash Wolf.
A sound like teeth on iron. The air tears. Things remember fear.
Drop this Torment when your table needs to shiver. HELLSPAWN is coming.
A sound like teeth on iron. The air tears. Things remember fear.
Drop this Torment when your table needs to shiver. HELLSPAWN is coming.
October 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
HELLTÖBER Day 4: Howl of the Ash Wolf.
A sound like teeth on iron. The air tears. Things remember fear.
Drop this Torment when your table needs to shiver. HELLSPAWN is coming.
A sound like teeth on iron. The air tears. Things remember fear.
Drop this Torment when your table needs to shiver. HELLSPAWN is coming.
HELLTÖBER Day 3: Daggers.
Meet The Black Writ: mortal, masked, twin knives, silence for a creed.
Meet The Black Writ: mortal, masked, twin knives, silence for a creed.
October 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
HELLTÖBER Day 3: Daggers.
Meet The Black Writ: mortal, masked, twin knives, silence for a creed.
Meet The Black Writ: mortal, masked, twin knives, silence for a creed.
HELLTÖBER DAY 2: MAW
October 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
HELLTÖBER DAY 2: MAW
HELLTOBER opens. Day 1: FROG
A warted oracle of the sump, iron red and patient as rust. It smells a life and writes a route to it. Tongue like a chain. Eyes like wet coins.
New HELLSPAWN drops arrive daily all month, fit for your Borg-table.
A warted oracle of the sump, iron red and patient as rust. It smells a life and writes a route to it. Tongue like a chain. Eyes like wet coins.
New HELLSPAWN drops arrive daily all month, fit for your Borg-table.
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
HELLTOBER opens. Day 1: FROG
A warted oracle of the sump, iron red and patient as rust. It smells a life and writes a route to it. Tongue like a chain. Eyes like wet coins.
New HELLSPAWN drops arrive daily all month, fit for your Borg-table.
A warted oracle of the sump, iron red and patient as rust. It smells a life and writes a route to it. Tongue like a chain. Eyes like wet coins.
New HELLSPAWN drops arrive daily all month, fit for your Borg-table.
A first look at the core economy of damnation we have in place for HELLSPAWN:
ABYSSAL DEBT
ABYSSAL DEBT
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A first look at the core economy of damnation we have in place for HELLSPAWN:
ABYSSAL DEBT
ABYSSAL DEBT
I am nearly done with this first zine issue conversion of my Cairn campaign setting.
Here ‘s the cover. Art by @shaferbrown.com and layout by me.
Just have the maps and some stats to finish and little bits to tweak, then it’ll be ready to release into the wild.
Here ‘s the cover. Art by @shaferbrown.com and layout by me.
Just have the maps and some stats to finish and little bits to tweak, then it’ll be ready to release into the wild.
September 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I am nearly done with this first zine issue conversion of my Cairn campaign setting.
Here ‘s the cover. Art by @shaferbrown.com and layout by me.
Just have the maps and some stats to finish and little bits to tweak, then it’ll be ready to release into the wild.
Here ‘s the cover. Art by @shaferbrown.com and layout by me.
Just have the maps and some stats to finish and little bits to tweak, then it’ll be ready to release into the wild.
Instead of creating a setting, I’ve decided to create a toolkit for Wardens to develop their own weird, sci-fantasy, post-apocalyptic dying earth setting, using my implied setting within my adventure, Emeralds from the Braying Beast.
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Instead of creating a setting, I’ve decided to create a toolkit for Wardens to develop their own weird, sci-fantasy, post-apocalyptic dying earth setting, using my implied setting within my adventure, Emeralds from the Braying Beast.
Yay, we’re winning
April 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Yay, we’re winning
Growing up on the Moldvay B/X set ,the AD&D books, and the super fun Star Frontiers (the OG, not the recent racist abomination), it was GAMMA WORLD, that really stood apart to me. While at Gary Con, I purchased this to give my table a wonderful facsimile of that fun.
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Growing up on the Moldvay B/X set ,the AD&D books, and the super fun Star Frontiers (the OG, not the recent racist abomination), it was GAMMA WORLD, that really stood apart to me. While at Gary Con, I purchased this to give my table a wonderful facsimile of that fun.
Big, BIG changes are happening! Since I've extended the scope of the game, I decided to both shrink the name but make it more expansive. Under a Pale Sun is dead. Long live Pale Suns!
March 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Big, BIG changes are happening! Since I've extended the scope of the game, I decided to both shrink the name but make it more expansive. Under a Pale Sun is dead. Long live Pale Suns!
My not-so-clever in-joke I submitted to the Mörk Borg lore jam.
March 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
My not-so-clever in-joke I submitted to the Mörk Borg lore jam.
Goofing on Affinity for my game, Under a Pale Sun.
January 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Goofing on Affinity for my game, Under a Pale Sun.
This is South Louisiana
January 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is South Louisiana
I think I'm gonna get off my butt and do zine quest. I want to do a series of zines based on my upcoming sci-fantasy/dying universe game, Under a Pale Sun, but usable for other games. Also, I want to write it as I'm translating a manuscript from some other time/place, ala Gene Wolfe. Too corny?
January 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I think I'm gonna get off my butt and do zine quest. I want to do a series of zines based on my upcoming sci-fantasy/dying universe game, Under a Pale Sun, but usable for other games. Also, I want to write it as I'm translating a manuscript from some other time/place, ala Gene Wolfe. Too corny?
Time to get this ready for some Mothership.
December 24, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Time to get this ready for some Mothership.