There are only 17 remaining copies of the HEARTBEAT HIGHSCHOOL SPECIAL EDITION (with exclusive cover art by @areyoshi.bsky.social!) now available on our store.
The standard edition is available now on @tabletopbookshelf.com:
tabletopbookshelf.com/products/hea...
TTRPG about me
First game: D&D 3.5 (a single game in 2006 lol)
Latest game*: Pulp Cthulhu
Longest game: Pulp Cthulhu
Favorite game: Call of Cthulhu 7e
Favorite mechanics: Bonds/Home Scenes from Delta Green
Favorite setting: Roaring 20s or modern day
Favorite art: Anything by @sumrow.bsky.social
NEW: In Heartbeat Highschool from Tidal Wave Games, you play a 17 year old high school senior who has moved to a new American high school in a new town in the late 1990s.
You have schoolwork, a part time job with flexible hours, and several dating partners who are vying for your attention.
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
And no, you probably couldn't headshot a mummy, it works on zombies because you're destroying their brains. You'd need to find the canopic jar with the mummy's brain and shoot that instead!
A mummy is a specific type of reanimated dead, with the whole ritual of mummification. One biting you probably won't turn you into another mummy. Though if in our hypothetical zombie bites are MAGICALLY contagious undeath rather than viral, a Mummy bite might turn you into a Zombie? š¤
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The cover page for the PDF of Cosmic Dark, a rules-lite sci-fi horror TTRPG, featuring a spaceship flying through a lightning-streaked gas cloud in space
The cover page for the PDF of Cthulu Dark, a rules-lite cosmic horror TTRPG, featuring a cephalopod tentacle curling against a dark background
Here's a 2-for-1! As part of that sci-fi kick I mentioned I backed @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social's Cosmic Dark, and I just had to include Cthulhu Dark in my pledge too. I've heard great things about it, and really enjoyed listening to @pushtheroll.com play the scenario Last Summer!
The cover for the PDF of Shadows Over Sol 2nd Edition, a hard science Scifi horror game
Here we have @tabcreations.com's Shadows Over Sol 2nd Edition, another Kickstarter I backed! I actually started following pre-launch after seeing ads and reading good things from people that played 1st Edition. This is another one I'm really excited to get the physical edition of when it's ready
The cover for Goblin Archive's Liminal Horror: Investigators PDF, a rules-lite horror TTRPG
Moving into my digital library! @goblinarchives.itch.io's Liminal Horror is super neat, it's really easy to pick up and great for oneshots. I very much enjoyed getting to play a run of The Mall! I'm excited to eventually get my hands on the Deluxe edition, you KNOW I went for the clothbound lol
"I might be biased" says my partner of 15 years while discussing the book he watched us meticulously toil over for 12+ months. You damn well better be biased ā¤ļø
(ty for the shout out, ket uwu)
The special edition cover Heartbeat Highschool book, a Solo Journaling Dating Sim game, along with the official planner and the Secret Decoder, by Tidal Wave Games
Another Tidal Wave Games production! Heartbeat Highschool is a solo journalling dating sim that I had the pleasure of helping playtest! I might be biased, but I think the art is all incredibly awesome. Shout out to @areyoshi.bsky.social, @slyllama.net, and @demondionysus.bsky.social
Four TTRPG books for the game See You Space Cowboy (abbreviated as C U S C), a scifi bounty-hunting game inspired by 90s anime such as Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star. The core rule book is on the left, with the supplements to the right: Ceres The Planet That Never Sleeps, The Cybernetics Catalog, and the Adventure Anthology
See You Space Cowboy (CUSC) by @tidalwavegames.com! There's a great team of awesome people behind each of these books, if you're into 90s Scifi anime like Bebop or Outlaw Star you should definitely check out CUSC
A book and two box sets for Free League Publishing's Alien Roleplaying Game Evolved Edition. In front are the box set for the Starter Set adventure Hope's Last Day, and to the right is the Core Rules book. Behind the core book is the box set for the Rapture Protocol adventure
Rounding out my physical horror games (I've got other things physical and several different PDFs lol) is Free League's Alien Evolved Edition. Alien is one of my favorite movies, and I was going through a real sci-fi horror kick at the time the Kickstarter was announced, so I HAD to get it
Aw beans, I just noticed the typo in this post lol. Welp, too late now!
The boxset for the TTRPG Mothership, a Sci-Fi horror game by Tuesday Knight Games. Two books are beside the box, including the Warden's Operation Manual and the Player's Survival Guide
I haven't run Mothership, but I did get to play a session! I'm sure it's no surprise by this point that horror games are my jam, so it's only natural that I would get my grubby hands on the Core boxset of this one
On that note, hey @tidalwavegames.com, when are we having our next game? š¤£
The indie TTRPG book "Moonlight on Roseville Beach" by R. Rook Studio. The game describes itself as a "Queer game of Disco and Cosmic Horror," and has the line "It's hard to enjoy your gaycation when there's.... A Mystery to Solve!"
Speaking of art, I adore the illustrations used in @rrookstudio.bsky.social's Moonlight on Roseville Beach. I haven't run this one either, but I like to open and leaf through it. I love the quality of the book, even the paper it's printed on. is great. Zero regrets backing this one on Kickstarter
The TTRPG book 5 Acts: The King in Yellow by Dr. Jason Bowers and Nilhemoth Games
Next is 5 Acts: The King in Yellow by Dr. Jason Bowers (@phdnd.bsky.social) and @nilhemothgames.bsky.social. I haven't run this one yet either, but I REALLY want to. I love the vibes and the art, and the idea of the PCs being unreliable narrators themselves is interesting!
The slip case and four books for Pelgrane Press's The Yellow King TTRPG, using the Gumshoe Quickshock system
Moving right along! Pelgrane Press's The Yellow King TTRPG, using the Quickshock Gumshoe system. Full confession, I haven't run this one and probably won't. But as a huge fan of all things King in Yellow I HAD to own it
Two books, the Handler's Guide and the Agent's Handbook for Arc Dream Publishing's Delta Green TTRPG, fanned out on a grey drop cloth
Next up is my favorite mistress, Delta Green. It's been an absolute treat running some of the DG scenarios, and running this has given me some really neat things to steal for my Pulp Cthulhu game, like the Home Scenes.
Running Impossible Landscapes is my White Whale. I swear it WILL happen one day!
A collection of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu TTRPG books on a bookshelf, along with some card decks. The collection includes the 40th Anniversary box set, the Keeper and Player books, and several other supplements and scenario collections
Starting with my one true love, Call of Cthulhu. I'd played other games before this, but CoC was the first one I ever ran, and the system that really clicked for me. Turns out I really like skill based systems!
I wanna do this too! I've got a few between physical and digital!
1 like = 1 TTRPG in my library (until I run out)
(And quote this, #ttrpgsky. I want to know what's in your TTRPG library too!)
Today is the 2 year anniversary of when my webcomic, Kattabolt, launched! So here's some cool Alex stuff to celebrate.
I still have no idea what was going on. There were so many modifiers and things, if it wasn't for sheet automation I think we would STILL be in that combat!
Loved the vibes, digging the setting and our characters. Hoping we don't get much combat.
...terrified to try the hacking rules next time.
I got to play in my first Shadowrun 3E game last night! It was sorta a Session 0.5, we did some legwork and had a low-stakes combat as practice.
I can honestly say that I had a good time! It was great playing with friends, and I actually liked the way the legwork played out. But the combat....
Hey mom Iām on a billboard in Times Square!!!! @glasscannonnetwork.bsky.social
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[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this
I'm always happy to help! Especially if you keep feeding me pizza lol
Big thanks to apricot, @ketpia.bsky.social and my long suffering wife for all the help. Going to the post office tomorrow!!
Just got the call that my grandma passed away tonight, after a very long rematch with lung cancer. I'm really glad that I got to spend the time with her here at the end that I did, and that she isn't suffering anymore. She HATED having to wear that nasal canula lol