Love these lil guys so much

Photo of the cover for the game The Frog Squad. There are red and green illustrations of Frogs in a data center on a blue background. The text says, "junk Food Games presents The Frog Squad in Hearts Against the Machine. A ttrpg and card game for 3 Frogs."

The Frog Squad is out now!

This is a tiny 3-player ttrpg and card game about Frogs destroying a data center and uses mechanics inspired by the trick-taking game Hearts. I made it for the #LeanGreenZineJam

Check it out! Sharing is greatly appreciated!

junkfoodgames.itch.io/the-frog-squ...

I just posted an interview I conducted with @jimmyshelter.bsky.social talking about Pine Shallows, their current project on Kickstarter! Only a little time left, so be sure to back it now! www.podbean.com/eas/pb-a2gi9... #ttrpg #kickstarter #dnd #indiegame

a spaceship blasting off

a sinister castle ruins

star trek enterprise

[HEXCODE] a being summoning stars

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Carly A-F, freelance illustrator from the UK making textured, dramatic covers, posters, game and ttrpg art and more! Booking projects for May onwards 👍

🎨 carlydraws.com
📧 carly @ carlydraws . com

figure with mace approaching stone tower

figure with blue cloak and sword in forest confronting large wooly komodo

cloaked figure with laser swords standing atop mech rubble

a knight stabbing a giant snake with a spear - snake is screeching

It's #PortfolioDay !

I do mostly fantasy illustrations for rpgs, but would love to expand into other tabletop, music, other book publications, posters or shirts, or whatever!

I work in both traditional and digital!
See more of my portfolio here:
perplexingruins.carrd.co

A linocut of the lonely planet Peles. A dead birch forest stretches across rolling hills, above it a manor-observatory sits, its telescope aimed at the mystical Blood Comet arcing above. In the foreground sits a circle of eldritch channeling stones, a slumbering clockwork guardian ready to awaken at the first sign of intruders.

A monoprint of the cyborg Nicolai Scarlat. Half his face is contorted in suffering, the other half blank, mechanical, seemingly unfeeling.

A linocut of a dense fungal jungle, giant mushrooms forming a canopy over a small fire where alchemical reagents boils in a retort.

A monoprint of Iona, one of the chief pressmasters of Gutenberg, Ink, shrouded in an inky cloak, quietly weaving grand and inscrutable plans.

Hi there #PortfolioDay!

I'm Zosimos, a TTRPG designer and printmaker. These days I'm focused on linocut, monoprint, letterpress, and risograph.

a fantasy map depicting the Aldarin Empire, a land with several provinces with jagged coastlines, two big mountain ranges, many forests, plains, hills, rivers, lakes and islands.

Map of a kingdom crossed by a river that goes from a mountain range in the northwest to swamps in the southeast, with a long lake in the middle. a big forest just southwest of the lake with a mountain in the center. The map is titled "Fellmyr".

a fantasy map depicting a hell. from the top to the bottom: there's a submarine city of strange towers and glass domes connected to a giant computer in the midst of reefs. a river and a lake goes south from this city in the midst of some ruins, ending on a big dam from where a timid river flows through a desert canyon. beyond the desert, there's another stretch of sea separating it from another city at the end of the map. there are planets hovering above this landscape: the remains of mars and a primeval earth covered in lava, fumes, guns and forts.

illustration depicting six different worlds in cut-out stretches of land: one is a post-apocalyptic scenario, the second is an epic fantasy land, the third is a sci-fi landscape, the fourth is a city-noir landscape, the fifth is a fairy tale world and the final one is an submarine landscape with monsters and cities. All these are being drawn to the center of the artwork where a "world under construction" is cut to show its magic demon melting core full of hellfire, circled by a magic dust ring, orbited by dragons, whitchy houses, flying wooden ships and spacecraft, surrounded by scafolding and attached to strange machinery and gigantic pipes and hoses at its bottom.

Hi there #PortfolioDay! 🎨

I'm a Brazilian freelance working on hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and RPGs + items and creatures.

I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs.

💼 cara.app/salvaterra
🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat...
+🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co

#cartography #ttrpg

So glad Matthew's copy of Ephemeris arrived and so exciting to see it getting out into the world!!

Hell yeah! So glad it's arrived and so exciting to see Ephemeris getting out into the world!

Table at the 2026 Zine Pavilion in Chicago!
The Zine Pavilion is a space on the exhibit floor at the American Library Association’s annual conference to display zines, meet zine librarians, and talk about how zines and libraries are a great pair. It’s like a mini zine fair

We are contributing to this campaign as well! If we reach 35k, all backers will get access to Substratum Protocol, our big Breathless hack of scientists delving to the center of the planet.

Descend. Learn. Survive!

Fomoria – Epic Folk Horror Roleplaying YouTube video by The Bread Wyrm

FOMORIA IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER
Brave the Darkness, eat the heart of gods, and purge the filth of the Red Plague in a shifting subterranean world. Fomoria, the epic folk horror RPG by Tania Herrero and Johan Nohr, published by Free League, is live on Kickstarter.
youtu.be/YA5sthyTxGs

fomoria.com

The OSR News Roundup for April 6th, 2026 is now live. Check it out for an overview of last week's releases in the indie and osr #ttrpg spheres. www.sabregamesandcards.com/post/osr-new... #dnd #osr #indiegames

Analysis: Songbirds | daydream club

I wrote about the themes of Songbirds by @snow117.bsky.social:

daydream.club/blog/songbir...

A staged photo of a book that has the working hands of a clock. This book is a light, bright green, and has two arches in orange that create an oval on the cover. At the 12, 3, 6, and 9 positions there are silver squares.

A photo of a book clock made from a purple book. The books leather is stamped with gold foil flowers.

This book clock clearly shows signs of use, the book cloth's pink cover has a black rectangular stamp added to the top right corner with swirling lines in it.

This book clock depicts a blue storm with a small black silhouette of a city at the very bottom. A bright lightning bolt shoots from the top to the bottom center of the cover.

Did you know I had an Etsy? Wow me neither—wait how did these get here?

www.etsy.com/listing/4482...

I've been making book clocks for a couple of years now and finally got around to putting them up online for people to grab even if they don't make it to my in person markets! They really tell time!

My interview with @onlyplaywizards.com is now live, discussing, amongst other things, teaching rpgs to college kids. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-gd4pr... #dnd #ttrpg #podcast

𝕻𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖔𝖉𝖗𝖎𝖑𝖚𝖘✦

April Newsletter Ephemeris Fulfillment Begins, Planning a Pilgrimage to Prismos, and Musings on Articulating Interdisciplinary Art I must remark with awe and horror that we are already a quarter of the way through …

The Studio Zosimos April newsletter is here! ✨

Ephemeris is heading out to backers this week, The Prismatic Oracle is on the horizon, and I'm thinking more about how I navigate the interdisciplinary nature of the game design and printmaking work I do.

libraryofzosimos.com/2026/04/01/a...

The quiet, weird world of solo RPGs My thoughts after interviewing 5 solo RPG designers

Wrote a new article on solo RPGs. I played games by Comprehensible, @smallredrobin13.bsky.social, @breathingstories.bsky.social, and Brandon and Nicholas from @ravensridgeco.bsky.social. Then I interviewed them about how they make solo games and gave my thoughts.

open.substack.com/pub/martianc...

A beautifully ornate schematic structure of Realis as a system of astronomical objects.

COVER REVEAL: With the campaign one day away, @austinwalker.bsky.social & I are THRILLED to finally share @badbucket.bsky.social's amazing cover for Realis. Get excited for plenty more of Conner's work in the interior as well, and sign up to be notified at launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

1 - I once dreamt I was a man. It was as shocking as it was liberating, and one of the rare times I remembered my dream upon waking. I had still used the same name and still felt the same as I was. The only reason I knew I’d been a man was seeing my reflection in a mirror: short hair; bright gold buttons sewn on a dashing coat; and then, with vision prompting my other senses to be curious, the slight pinch of suspenders over each shoulder. I did not fixate on it in my waking hours, although I did revisit that dream on occasion. It was always a pleasant subversion of myself. Lucidity never spoiled the illusion, and each time I was able to enjoy those differences as if they were my every-day. I share this so that you might consider what fantasies of expression and being you would entertain if given the chance. This is not an invitation to impersonate or lampoon, but to embrace. To learn. To feel. Games and stories end, but the feelings & lessons they impart are forever.

An excerpt from "Dreamer Identity" section of The Beckoning Dream to mark this day of Transgender Visibility.

You are seen. You are loved. We hope that one day our shared dream can become a reality.

Thanks so much for having me on!

Had an absolute blast talking with Todd about riso's role in the RPG world. Check it out!

Just in time for the release of Ephemeris, I've published an interview I conducted with @zo51m05.bsky.social about it, risograph printing, and indie rpg publishing. Check out Sabre Rattlings on all major podcatchers. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-bv2ve... #ttrpg #dnd #indierpg #podcast

5 printed and bound copies of Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet, a vampire hunting gothic horror RPG. The books are each printed with letterpress covers, risograph interiors, and have red accent details on the cover painted by hand.

Finished copies of the Hermetica of the New Suns, a manual of alchemy and ritual mechanics for RPGs. The zines are bound by hand with stab stitch bindings.

Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet is officially printed, bound, and ready to ship! 🚀💥

I'll be closing the campaign's pledge manager later today, so it's your last chance to preorder before fulfillment begins this week!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...

Oh damn.
It is happening.
Art by @perplexingruins.bsky.social

DEVOUR
A solo rpg about researching a Forbidden God causing the apocolypse.

Carnage on Cape Cod goodies (stickers, bookmarks, art postcard) with my handwritten note that reads: "Thank you! <3"

Carnage on Cape Cod is funded!

Thank you to everyone who stumbled onto my scribblings and @boramart.bsky.social's art and decided to support us, and this project that means the world to me.

You are LIGHTHOUSES, all of you 🖤

And you still have 15ish hours to get in on it! zoop.gg/c/carnage-on...

my friend maya @cosmic-chill.bsky.social is moving and we are raising funds to help her move via a lovely little itch bundle. with cool games!!

itch.io/b/3590/mayas...

Finding the Play Experience The fundamental question for the game designer What does your game do for its players?  Does it give them the satisfaction of having used their wits to play strategically and defeat a superior…

This week's blog is about crafting the play experience for an RPG.

What a game feels like for its players is a big foundational question I'm asking myself as I begin some new designs, and drives a lot of my decision making as a designer.

libraryofzosimos.com/2026/03/25/f...