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Zin Never Dies | A Roleplaying Game of Masks & Spirits
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A darkly charming tabletop roleplaying-game.
Download the Quickstart PDF for FREE here: https://znd.gumroad.com/

More here: https://www.zinneverdies.com/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/zinneverdies/

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Happy #WIPWednesday!
What are you working on?

✨️Drop whatever you're working on
✨️Or any #ttrpg project you're excited about
✨️Or anything nice really 🌈

🚫noAI
A masked angler sitting on a tree branch with the text # WIP Wednesday behind them
February 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Tsum-Mothers are birdlike in behavior and rodent-like in appearance. They carry an egg with them until shortly before their death. The life of a Tsum-Mother is spent looking for the perfect hiding spot for her egg.🥚

('Tsum' is the Old-Lehrean word for egg)

#znd #ttrpg
Art of a yellow/brown-haired creature wearing a white mask and holding a large egg.
February 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Hey you! Have you tried Zin Never Dies yet? It was funded in 48 hours!

Dicebreaker magazine called it "the perfect roleplaying game for Ghibli & Hollow Knight fans. Grub it while you can!"

Free Quickstart PDF: znd.gumroad.com
Core rulebook & more: www.zinneverdies.com
A promotional mockup showing the physical and digital rewards for Zin Never Dies, the roleplaying game on Kickstarter. The text reads: "Zin Never Dies - the roleplaying game. Funded in 48 hours. Preorder now on Backerkit - crowdfunded projects you can trust -
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Shamelessly promote yourself! Now's the time!
💖💖💖
~ Like & RP for visibility
~ Comment on one other post
~No A|i
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#selfpromotionsaturday
#ttrpgcommunity
#selfpromosaturday
A small masked person basking in flames. The text reads #selfpromosaturday
February 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Hey you! Have you tried Zin Never Dies yet? It was funded in 48 hours!

Dicebreaker magazine called it "the perfect roleplaying game for Ghibli & Hollow Knight fans. Grub it while you can!"

Free Quickstart PDF: znd.gumroad.com
Core rulebook & more: www.zinneverdies.com
A promotional mockup showing the physical and digital rewards for Zin Never Dies, the roleplaying game on Kickstarter. The text reads: "Zin Never Dies - the roleplaying game. Funded in 48 hours. Preorder now on Backerkit - crowdfunded projects you can trust -
February 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Bluesky’s growing, quote one art to promote yourself

#art #ghibli #ttrpg #znd
A small cloaked masked figure walking across a log over a river in a green forest.
January 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Finally found a word that describes this game:

Grimcharm.
A Masked cultist sitting in a ritual circle which is glowing in a dark forest. Smoke is rising from a bowl near a knife and book. The text reads: Zin Never Dies.
January 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Heyo!

This week I'm proofreading the final print of Zin Never Dies' hardback edition!

A mononoke-ish, hollow knight-ish, grimcharm fantasy rpg! Grub it while you can: zinneverdies.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Happy #WIPWednesday!
What are you working on?

🧡Drop whatever you're working on
❤️Or any #ttrpg project you're excited about
💚Or anything nice really ✨️

🚫noAI
A Masked angler sitting on a branch. Text: #WIP WEDNESDAY
January 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Sessions since 2020:
The video conference scene from avengers. Man in black coat conversing with four figures on hologram screens.
January 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Kinai Pendant, uncommon item
#znd #ttrpg #dnd
Art depicting a pendant in the shape of a sharp bird's eye made from a hard red material. Under the eye there are signs in Lehrean, spelling the word Kina. Text: Kinai Pendant, uncommon item TEXT: Kinai Pendant uncommon item Modbeko, also known as "blood-stone" and "sunset-stone," makes this pendant more than just a pretty trinket. Wear this around your neck and you'll see doors open before you anywhere in the Eastern Alliance. From Kina-Szek to the mountains of Nicolo, you'll stand a head above the crowd. Unfortunately, this also means you'll be a target for robbers and assassins. Some people don't take a kindly view of the Kinai nobility...
January 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
What do you wish more #ttrpg books included?
I'd have to say... political maps!
A map of Djin-Za divided into darker and lighter green, dark representing the new world and light representing the old world. A map of Djin-Za showing the different political powers that exist among the different nations. Each nation is marked with its name in english and its vertical banner. The division is: -To the west, marked in orange, is the Wolan pact (including Wona, Nakula, Luina, and Fena). -To the north and south, marked in light green, is The Kas or "the lights" (including Luka and Lunas). -To the east, marked in yellow, is The Eastern Alliance(including Kina, Kanua, Umina, Uminoa, and Nicolo). -In the middle of the continent is a gray area marked with a luminous eye. This area belongs to no one. -To its immediate east and west are Wildlands (including the eastern and western Balinas). -Nala, the petty kingdoms, and dawna (marked neon green) are all independent.
January 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Do you like
👉Ghibli movies?
👉Hollow Knight??
👉TTRPGs???
👉Fun????

"Zin Never Dies looks like the perfect roleplaying game for Ghibli & Hollow Knight fans. Grub it while you can!" -Dicebreaker Magazine

Free Demo: znd.gumroad.com
Core rulebook & more: ZinNeverDies.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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We all have those days...
January 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
If someone calls out a detail in your worldbuilding as ridiculous or unrealistic just remember...
A world map showing China and Australia highlighted in pink and the rest colored gray. Below, the text reads: Gray - "countries that have not declared war on birds" Pink - "countries that HAVE declared war on birds, and have lost"
January 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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"That day, earthquakes shattered the empire’s eastern shore; the capital sank into the sand, leaving a desert with only the tallest tower jutting; Flaming rocks burst from the tops of mountains. In the chaos, rebels thrived and enemies invaded. The age of humanity ended."

(from Zin Never Dies)
Art depicting an antlered human looking up at an erupting volcano and a red-clouded sky. In the background and foreground, people are running around. The people and buildings are all dark against the flaming view.
January 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
I NEED to base a #ttrpg campaign on this
A picture of some corgis play Fighting on a beach, but with medieval weapons added on in photoshop to make it seem like they are wielding them. One is holding a war hammer in its mouth, one is wielding a double-sided ax with both paws mid jump, and one is wearing a horned helmet and wielding a shield. The text reads "adding medieval weapons to dogs playing on the beach needs to become a thing"
January 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Safety tip
Art of a small, horned, pigeon-sized green dragon being held by a child's hand. Underneath it, the text reads "Hold dragon gentle like hamburger."
January 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
The cover of Zin Never Dies, a role-playing game by Eiko Nemo Dowme. The art depicts a small masked wanderer walking on a log to cross a river in the forest. There's a small stone shrine on the riverbank, and long grass leaning over the water. The text at the top reads "there are no fairy tales here..."
January 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
#MouseGuard by David Peterson ( @mouseguard.bsky.social ) is one of the major stylistic inspirations for Zin Never Dies.

The mixture of cute and scary, small and large, gritty and whimsical. What a classic 🌻
Art by David Peterson of 3 mice knights walking along a mossy tree branch holding a sword, staff, and shield respectively. They are wearing capes and pointing ahead to the right.
January 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
What's the most obscure #ttrpg you've ever enjoyed?
The cover of The Green Knight, A Fantasy Roleplaying Game, the game master's guide. The cover art illustrates a large green knight with tree-bark for skin, wielding a two handed axe, swinging it at the human figure in the foreground.
January 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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This odd fella
January 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
It's #selfpromosaturday <3

Time to share your #ttrpg projects.
Get excited! Be shameless!
What you're proud of?

[RULES]
[NO A*I CONTENT]
[RT AT LEAST 1 OTHER POST]
[BE KIND]

Aaaaaaand go ❤️
January 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
zinneverdies.bsky.social
Fun fact:
There's no list of Skills to pick from. In #ZND, players make their own skills, then invest XP to level them up.

"Swimming"? Yep.
"Eating fast"? Valid.
"Emotional relationship with one specific chipmunk"? that's a skill, baby!

Write it down, drop some XP, and you're on your way
#ttrpg
Art of a Masked (a playable species from Zin Never Dies) playing an string instrument. They are wearing a brightly colored purple and blue outfit, a purple hat with a feather sticking out from it, and puffy medieval-looking sleeves. They have one leg up on some rocks, one hand picking the strings, and the other making a chord on the neck of the instrument.
January 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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[Plot Hook]

"There are rumors about a nearby cave. They say if you shout into it, the echo answers with different words.

Some are convinced this is the spirit of the mountain speaking, but many are suspicious. Spirits are rarely that direct.

Then it begins to make demands."
#ttrpg #dnd
Text: "Plot hook: There are rumors about a nearby cave. They say if you shout into it, the echo answers with different words, still in your own voice. Some are convinced this is the spirit of the mountain speaking, but many are suspicious. Spirits are rarely that direct. Then the echoes begin to make demands." Art: To the left of the text box there is a Masked angler sitting on a tree-branch holding a fishing rod in one hand and a bucket in the other. They wear earth-tone colored clothing and a brown tattered hat. In the background is a watercolor illustration of a green forest.
January 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM