@rthorm
TTRPG map maker, designer, game maker Antherwyck Games - DragonQuest (SPI) Mastodon: @rthorm@dice.camp ++ or follow my Mastodon posts here on Bluesky by following: https://bsky.app/profile/rthorm.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy rthorm.itch.io
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they're very sorry they got caught
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Antherwyck retrospective (25/26) https://www.antherwyck.com/2026/01/10/antherwyck-retrospective-25-26/
I had not seen this before, but this is cool to find:
Check out this slick #GOZR font based on my hand-lettering from the #TTRPG.
Yes, I am OK with this. I love it!
An ugly dude in a red helmet with horns smiling. "GOZR" lettering in bubble gum pink. Top and bottom text "long live the ugly!"
I've got gooz on my mind lately.
This is one of the button designs that went with the crowdfunding campaign in 2022.
GOZR is my favorite thing I've ever done, to be honest. I mean, Black Pudding is right there too. But this is special in a different way.
Black and white dungeon map with different kinds of rooms and passages and different styles of background hatching
Another dungeon map for the end of the year
Black and white dungeon map on dotted grid paper. Some sections are implied stonework construction, and other areas are more cavern like.
Traveling, so for now this is just a phone photo rather than scanned flat. And no cleanup, either. But it was fun to do this; felt like it's been a long time since I have posted one of these.
#DungeonMap
A little bit of dungeon map on a dotted grid page.
It's a tiny map fragment! Haven't done anything like this here for a while. Got a couple hours upcoming where I might be able to do something more.
Isn't his company Squarehex?
Note to self...
I really gotta start scaring up more traditional fantasy work.
That's where my heart is.
Thanks to @iheartfargo.bsky.social this book has been glued to my brain for the last 2 months.
Damages to date,
10-15 pages on setting, 15 pages of hack notes plus a huge Xls.
Working on Twilight : 2,100, NYC climate dystopia.
When the ALA recognizes one's work, that's pretty dang cool.
"The games recognized as 2026 Platinum Play Classics are Clue, Jenga, Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Apocalypse World, Call of Cthulhu, Mario Kart 8, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater."
#ApocalypseWorld #AW3rd #PBTA
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
Anyone who bought a copy of my DQ adventure, The Sentinel Chapel, should now have gotten an email from DriveThru RPG with a link for a draft regional map for that adventure (and a note about a new adventure I'm working on in the same region and context). It's rough and sketchy, but it's […]
In a cooperative hobby like ours, let us raise each other up, pierce Obscurity's sorcerous mists, and push back the Juggernaut of Indifference.
We talk. We share. We play. We take breaks, but we never stop creating.
#TTRPGs
Evergreen post
Apparently this week is the 100 year anniversary of the BBC broadcasting The Shipping Forecast.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/11/nx-s1-5561083/opinion-the-shipping-forecast-reminds-us-of-the-power-of-the-human-voice
As such, I ought to get an update out for my #ShipCrawl rules under that title […]
idk I don’t think any game jam or competition should allow AI art. I have a billion other reasons why I’m against using that stuff to make games but it especially seems to go against the spirit of making something for a jam where things can be messier and more personal
For about the last 5 years on and off, I've checked to see if HexFlower.com was free.
Yesterday, it was free ... and now it is not
😄
Needs work ... but I thrown something up
😶🌫️
Red robot with pew pew pistol
Pew pew
Hodag RPG fantasy sci fi supers Horror pulp war cyberpunk modern List of games ive worked on like Errant/His Majesty The Worm/Yazebas!
450 usd gets you 2 full page, 4 half page 8 quarter page 36 spot illos
HEY! DOG DAYS OF SUMMER ARE HERE! I HAVE 6 SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR NEW PROJECTS!
If you hire me for an "Old School/Dungeon Crawl/OSR" style project, I'll throw in a bonus sheet of quarter pagers!
Non package rates start at 25usd/hr!*
*a 35 dollar value!
🏅🥈🥈🥈
Colorful poster map (upside down) with character sheets and an open GOZR rulebook lying on top all spread out on a table.
Getting ready to run the Chrome Messiah adventure (Appendix N Jam) for GOZR at RFT con.
One week until I'm running a session of GOZR for RFTcon 2025. If it stays with just a couple people for the event, I'm thinking about having them each play 2 characters, to have a chance to mess around with more stuff. Presently making pre-gens with crib sheets.
White dome roof (observatory) on brick tower sticking up from dark, shadowy woods with twilight blue sky and wispy clouds above
Wizard's tower
An Appendix N wrapup https://www.antherwyck.com/2025/08/16/an-appendix-n-wrapup/
Results table from itch.io. A thumbnail image of the cover spread in the top left corner, and then results listed: the Chrome Messiah by RThorm Ranked 150th with 17 ratings Followed by table with criteria categories, rank and score
Appendix N Jam results for the public voting are in.
Not being oriented towards 5e was almost certainly a detriment for it, so I can't complain about the ranking.
I do note that the art was ranked #60, so considerably higher than the overall ranking, and I will definitely take that.
Happy birthday, Hodag! Welcome to grognardia... grognardness... grognarddom... being old!
One is Fast drug, the other is Slow drug; I can never remember which one I'm supposed to take when.
I've not been very active here, but if there's an uptick from things like this I'll have to do more
rthorm.itch.io/chrome-messiah