The Rogue Stands Alone!

Join @epidiah.bsky.social this coming Sunday, November 9, to try out the many-player, one-Rogue version of Swords Without Master. Drop-ins and new players welcome!

Join our Discord: discord.com/invite/cgJa5...

Scheduling Post: discord.com/channels/130...

Here's the digital mockup from @ndpdesign.com for his "Big Lore" game, hearkening back to an old fantasy/weird west mashup world that never made it out of the desk drawer. Locations, factions and character development have card decks that reveal lore and guide growth in play.

Here's the cards @epidiah.bsky.social made for his exploration x legacy adventure board game concept. Go to places, meet some draculae, help some urchins, all in the context of a generative location-based game concept.

Play some spooky Swords Without Master!

Join @epidiah.bsky.social this coming Sunday, Oct 26, to tell a sword & sorcery tale of Horror, Dark Magicks and Beauty. Drop-ins and new players welcome!

Join our Discord: discord.com/invite/cgJa5...

Scheduling Post: discord.com/channels/130...

No episode Wednesday! However, the Symposium is in session to deliver the Adventure & Hobbyist Annual 2025 to Kickstarter and Patreon Scholars. Last wave goes in the mail today. Thanks again to our Scholars, and a limited amount of the print book will be available to order soon.

Thanks to @printinkling.bsky.social for bringing our Wizard to scintillating life. These will go out with physical copies of the Annual when they're ready to ship (should be next week).

Venture within the Perpetual Library seeking wisdom, and see what you can bring back out with you in this stand-alone minigame and adventure map. It can be used as a side quest for any game of adventure or occult knowledge, or played on its own. Map illustration by @tonydowler.bsky.social

Investigate your new neighbors and discover the curses they labor under, and perhaps confront the Devil's Realtor herself, in the horror-scenario-building HOA crawl Escrow of the Damned! Approaches include thrilling, chilling and spilling (blood, of course). Artwork by @megacarter.bsky.social

Venture through a portal in space to a lost land of dinosaur-people and rival wizards seeking power in Mission Beyond the Moon! Approaches include sword-and-planet adventure, escape thriller, strange exploration and problem-solving drama. Art by @gnarlyghost.bsky.social

Join a roster of indie wrestlers broken down in a small town, unaware that to get back on the road they will need to contend with the resident interstellar gladiators who now call Ballowton home! Supports wrestling, comedy, cozy, horror and adventure games. Artwork by @sobcomix.bsky.social

It's the last day for late pledges! Once PDFs and books are out to backers we will have them available for sale, but this is the only way to get the Perpetual Library Map (illustration by @tonydowler.bsky.social) / Cover Art (by George Sellas) poster.

New ep Wednesday!

In The Annual 2025 Episode, @ndpdesign.com and @epidiah.bsky.social go through the contents and design considerations of the Adventurer & Hobbyist Annual 2025, on Kickstarter now!

Listen: unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/12
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...

In the Convention Slot episode, we find arcane gems within @willjobst.bsky.social's Black Mass and the Marvel Universe RPG, and then talk about how the convention timeslot has influenced our design work and different ways we approach "running a demo."

unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/10

Our latest episode is out now! In the Constraints episode,
@ndpdesign.com and @epidiah.bsky.social talk about games we would play with our moms, what's up on the Discord and finding productive constraints on design and play.

unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/08 - or wherever you get your podcasts!

Our latest podcast is out now! In the Groundhog Day episode, @ndpdesign.com and @epidiah.bsky.social talk about a Groundhog Day con concept, designing setting, where we're at with tricking each other to make games, and start on some listener questions.

share.fireside.fm/episode/bswL...

Our new episode is out now! In this Purple and Yellow episode, we do our color-guided homework including the great Necronautilus by @worldchamp.bsky.social, explore non-rpg rpg fiction, and talk about "The Night Writer" @epidiah.bsky.social's handwriting strategy.

unwrittenearths.fireside.fm/06