The Games I Played at Breakout Con 2026: The Wildsea Playing 8 new (to me) games over 4 days at Breakout Con 2026 was a rewarding but tiring experience. Now that I'm back I'm writing a little bit about each one. Here's what I thought about Brindlewood Bay. Next is my favourite session of the con, which was... ## The Wildsea Game homepage I travelled to Breakout with my good friend Carson, who runs SSTO Press. On the drive back he told me about playing the LotR RPG The One Ring. A particular point he raised was that he quickly felt at home because the game was set in a world with such well-known lore. Lord of the Rings is _the_ lore in many cases. It is the most familiar fantasy format and tropes found there make their ways into almost all fantasy media. The Wildsea is the opposite of that. Every aspect of the setting is novel. The world is a sea of trees that the players traverse on ships that are also giant chainsaws, cutting their way across the canopy. There are humans, but they're joined by cacti, funguses, moths, and sentient colonies of spiders(!) as playable character types. One downside of this is that there is a fair bit of terminology to learn up front. Ektus, Char, Tallshank, The Thrash. It was a little overwhelming looking at my pre-generated character sheet. Standard RPG terms are also thrown out for the most part. You don't have attributes, you have Edges. Injuries become Mires. Rather than an inventory you have Salvage, Specimens, Whispers, and Charts. I still don't understand all of those. Our Firefly (that's what Wildsea calls the GM) was fantastic. She had all the information we needed about our characters and the world at hand and did a wonderful job of introducing us to the game. Ektus? Cactus person. Char? A ship's cook. I learned afterwards that she writes games too, so check out Mint-Rabbit over on Itch. Once over the initial terminology hurdle, the novel setting of The Wildsea means that there's a lot of space for the players to add their own details. Being a narrative-focussed game we spent a lot of time asking and answering questions about the situations we found ourselves in. We made many decisions about the world that would already have been answered had we been in a well-known setting. What we built over the three hour session was ours, and I enjoyed that a lot. My Wildsea session was definitely a high point of the convention. If the opportunity to play again comes up I'll definitely take it.

Two blog posts in two days? Yessir! Here's what I thought of The Wildsea, which I played at Breakout Con. Spoiler alert, it was great!

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Episodes 2 & 3 of "The Verdant Tide," presented by Stories By The Lamplight, are out now.

Come find out more about "Seven The Ironbound" in Episode 2 & "Lottie The Curious" in Episode 3!

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A character sheet for Mugi, an anthropomorphic bat based heavily on a Honduran white bat. She is off white with taupe ears, wings, feet, and a leaf-shaped nose. She wears a burgundy coat with large side slits for her wings to fit through, and holds a green steaming tea mug. Also included on the sheet are multiple expressions and a diagram of her opened wings.

Our TTRPG group is starting a campaign of The Wild Sea in 2 weeks. I had no idea what I wanted to play until I saw that the Mothryn can be reskinned as “batfolk” AND one class is basically a tea barista

Mugi is a Steep who’s new to a ship manned mostly by a bug-like crew
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Cover of the Wildsea. A battle happening aboard a ship on the the canopy of a forest.

Otzetza the Tzelicrae Navigator’s Character Sheet for the Wildsea created using the process outlined in the linked blog post.

#CharacterCreationChallenge Day 20: The Wildsea by @felixisaacs.bsky.social and published by @mythworks.bsky.social

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VotV 06: In Caldermere | Risky Standard Get more from Risky Standard on Patreon

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Risky Standard is back from the winter break with a brand new, giant-sized installment of the 𝑉𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑒.

Our crew has finally arrived in Caldermere. What strange wonders lay inside the bustling freeport? Listen to find out!

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Just an update regarding The Verdant Tide, I've got the titles and status of the next 4 episodes.

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A New Beginning | Podcast Episode on RSS.com The New Beginning starts it's journey. We get to meet the members of the crew of the ship, and deal with some immediate excitement. (Sorry for the pigeon noises in the background, she was cranky)The V...

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The Wildsea Core Rules Reviewed - The Gaming Gang Jeff rings in the New Year with his review of The Wildsea Core Rules, from Quillhound Studios and Mythworks, as The Gaming Gang 12 Days of Reviews continues.

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The Wildsea Core Rules Reviewed - The Gaming Gang Jeff rings in the New Year with his review of The Wildsea Core Rules, from Quillhound Studios and Mythworks, as The Gaming Gang 12 Days of Reviews continues.

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Gasp! Check out this sneak peek of me and @beawritingbooks.bsky.social in a TTRPG liveplay podcast!

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Watch for the full release of The Verdant Tides, everyone, for there will be hijinks!

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Today’s cool deliveries! #FlowersOfAlgorab for #CoriolisTheGreatDark & #TheWildsea #ttrpg! Look for unboxing videos soon 😊

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My favourite spider colony
Their name is Kolling

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Good Lord! Would you believe me if I said there has been a a metric ton of #nightmaretiger visuals (the illustration trend from a while ago) in my #TheWildsea assets folder, patiently waiting for my players to trigger the quest. Admit it, you're the world's greatest mesmer @felixisaacs.bsky.social !

The Wildsea RPG Hits the Airwaves With A Brand New Adventure We head back into the endless green of Mythworks’ The Wildsea RPG with a new adventure entitled “Tigers on the Wire” which you can back now on Gamefound.

We head back into the endless green of @mythworkshq.bsky.social's The Wildsea RPG with a new adventure entitled “Tigers on the Wire,” which you can back now on Gamefound. ttrpgfans.com/the-wildsea-... #thewildsea #mythworks #ttrpg #TTRPGCommunity #rpg #rpggames #RPGCommunity

The Wildsea Core Rules Live First Look on The Gaming Gang Dispatch #1226 - The Gaming Gang The Gaming Gang Dispatch, Jeff dives in for a first look at The Wildsea RPG core rules from Mythworks. Plus the latest TTRPG news.

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The Wildsea Character Creation The book presents many, many options in each step, and that’s even using the Quickstart kits. Without the Quickstart rules, you can really choose any options from any bloodlines, origins and posts,…

New post on the dice pool dot com! We made our ship, now for a crew (member.) the Wildsea character creation process is lengthy, but it certainly built a unique and memorable Wildsea sailor #rpg #ttrpg #wildsea #thewildsea #charactercreation

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The Wildsea Ship Creation Felix Isaacs has suggested that you start by creating your ship and only then move on to the creation of the characters who will crew it. And who am I to argue with Mr Isaacs?

New post on the dice pool dot com! Taking a break from character creation for a bit. Gonna build a ship to sail the Wildsea instead. #wildsea #thewildsea #rpg #trrpg

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Fake Labubu dolls scattered around a desk, some disassembled.

Finished up running the extended one shot of #thewildsea last night.

The players managed to save the crew and most of the ancient treasure (fake Labubu dolls) and get back on the ship before it collapsed into the trees below. Now they have two predators chasing them down.

I think they enjoyed it 😃

Ric Heise Talks Mythworks at Gen Con 2025 (Audio Only) - The Gaming Gang Ric Heise, of Mythworks Games, joins Jeff to discuss The Wildsea, CBR+PNK, The Last Caravan, Slugblaster, and more at Gen Con 2025.

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Discord post: To clarify. Really enjoyed running that, but feel like I need to re-read the rules in a few areas. Hope session 2 let's the other mechanics shine, and folks enjoy the fun setting. I enjoyed session 1 TBF. Looking forward to more Bonk time will quite likely be happening

Ran #theWildsea #ttrpg last night and feel like I flaked out and fudged stuff.

Players didn't notice, and really enjoyed it. Lots of praise for the twist mechanic and setting.

Still suffering from imposter syndrome and feel like I've not grasped the rules enough. I think I can still work with it.

It's always a lot of fun to sketch ideas for the Wildsea TTRPG. I feel like I can really go for unusual ideas and discover new things.

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a man in a plaid shirt is saying i am a dungeon master ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is saying i am a dungeon master

So it's been agreed, I shall put on my Firefly's cap (Dungeon Master) and I'm running a one shot for The Wildsea this Friday.

I've not DM'd in many years now, and I've never run this system before. I'm sure it'll go super well 😅 #ttrpg #thewildsea

My player's characters in a game of The Wildsea that I'm running.
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Some characters from a Wildsea campaign I used to play in

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Citizen Sleeper + The Wildsea = Citizen Gau

A crossover idea I had in my mind for a while now..

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