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watt (is making Rust Wings)
@worldsbywatt.bsky.social
Queer indie tabletop roleplaying game publisher making Cloud Empress & Rust Wings.
New "Mega Arm" for Rust Wings by Theo Cox. Each PC gets one keepsake card during character creation. With the Mega Arm, you'll be able to pass any Strength Save once per game session. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wat...
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here’s the card backs for the item deck in my upcoming TTRPG Rust Wings. I’m trying to capture this decaying playground for the teenage PCs to explore while avoiding the military state that regulates their lives.
October 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
On Tuesday, I received the first copies of Cloud Empress: Life & Death from the factory. The limited edition skull boxes are thick and beautiful (they have a lot of content to hold)!
August 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Working on the covers of the spring Cloud Empress zine collection. This one is called “Bodyhopping in Polite Society.” What do you all think?
March 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I made a new cantankerous couple of old winter lovers to answer PCs' questions about the world in the new Cloud Empress newsletter expansion. Download a copy here: open.substack.com/pub/worldsby...
January 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
First Cloud Empress Winter Jam entry submitted today! You can see the game entries as they come in here: itch.io/jam/cloud-em...
January 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Here's a pic of the cover template available for the 'winter-themed' January Cloud Empress game jam! Stay tuned for more information and 3rd party assets.
December 18, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Bitter Knight charts the slow path between change and decay. It holds a revered place having lived hundreds of years. Part fungal growth, part embalmed corpse, symbiotes like Bitter Knight grapple with fragmented memories while attempting to live in harmony with more fragile human neighbors.
December 3, 2024 at 3:16 PM
If folks want something fun to do today instead of ruminating (or at least want to ruminate while playing a solo TTRPG), I just made Hot Stuff on Shore Leave free. Download your copy of a Mothership module full of hot sauce and hookups on DriveThruRPG. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
November 5, 2024 at 8:14 PM
An unusual group of zealots called Spiderlings devote themselves to the King of Cobwebs. They wait in a spore spire called the Desolate Daughter. Disorganized and distant, a few enterprising members sell spiritual visions of the landscape from a bird's eye view to travelers for provisions.
October 24, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Hey all I’m watt. I make ttrpgs about climate change, queer identity, and science fantasy. You can follow me here for weekly Cloud Empress artwork and news about upcoming projects! bsky.app/profile/worl...
October 19, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Bravo City's Wardens still guard the fallen sky prison they once operated. Abandoned for death by an absent Emperor, the BC Wardens extort travelers for their most precious possessions as a matter of right.
October 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Lexicon the Bodyhopper is a font of information in the Living Lands. She trades secrets for fresh corpses used to extend an unnaturally long lifespan. Lexicon patiently hunts travelers who break deals, standing over enemies in the dim midnight with a smile of an unrecognizable face.
October 9, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Slip Riders travel to and from the Living Lands through tears in timespace returning with secrets from pasts, futures, and times that will not come, burdened with what they have witnessed. Art by @pbbeta.bsky.social
October 2, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Got this treasure in the mail recently! Cloud Empress won a (highly biased) 2023 meatie award from @meatcastlegameware.com The Meatcastle stickers are chrome icing on the cake!
March 11, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Gaspar the Hungry, makes an appearance in the upcoming adventure "Funeral for the Anti-Saint." A pragmatic leader in the Order of the Broken Bread, Gaspar knows victory will be paved in Farmerling and Cloudling blood alike.
January 31, 2024 at 1:32 PM
The Land of the Dead, will be a 50-page, stand-alone setting hexcrawl expansion where players will explore a landscape of ash navigating the destruction from the impact of a fallen cloud city.
January 9, 2024 at 3:24 PM
The Land of the Living, will be a 50-page, stand-alone setting hexcrawl expansion where players will explore a shifting landscape pushed and pulled by huge spore towers and endless rifts in time and space.
January 9, 2024 at 3:23 PM
The books take place a few months after the events of the setting book Land of Cicadas as we follow the Cloud Empress West and North.
January 9, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Wandering Judges in the Lowland Wastes are called on by villages to resolve petty arguments and more serious harms. Far from legal figures, judges hold authority based on their reputation and wisdom alone - and are consequently well-fed and cared for between difficult miles on the road.
December 14, 2023 at 1:35 PM
Tonight, my first group of playtesters for Cloud Empress 2024 content will meet Luffi the Wise. Luffi was Genevieve, the Anti-Saint's former apprentice, but never managed to master chalk magic like her mentor. She panics when the news comes Genevieve has died.
December 7, 2023 at 2:51 PM
The free Cloud Empress introductory adventure "Last Voyage of the Bean Barge," is live on DriveThruRPG. Make your way from above the acid clouds through the heart of the Century Brood to the polluted farmland below on wobbly bean barge.
October 11, 2023 at 1:38 PM
The Cloud Empress: Rulebook is live, free, and ready for you to download on DriveThruRPG. Cloud Empress is a stand-alone Nausicaa-inspired fantasy setting compatible with the Mothership 1E RPG rule set. Please help me get the word out!
October 5, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Today I posted ten new relics in the Cloud Empress newsletter. My favorite has to be the Blackpowder Bullet Teeth, but you can never go wrong with a magical Fish Bauble, or Haunted Harmonica.
September 29, 2023 at 7:07 PM
The Bone-Skin Giants’ legacy is obscured in horror and mystery, only untangled in scraps strewn about the Lowland Wastes.
September 20, 2023 at 2:57 PM