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yanahn.bsky.social
Hi there! I am Yanahn (or Kristen) and I make art and write TTRPGs - Currently working on the whalefall dungeon (or whungeon) zine (see pinned post) My tabletop work can be found at https://yanahn.itch.io/
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I haven't been talking about it but TWO MORE reviews have gone up on my blog: one for @n8hps.bsky.social's Tunnel Goons and one for @diwatamnl.bsky.social's Lutong Banwa. Both of these are older reviews but the old place they were on no longer exists. So! Go read them and send love to the games <3

I can't stop looking at these coins. They did such a great job! Love how my little illustrations turned out!

I’ve finally made it as a game designer; a TTRPG of mine was played on @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social ! Jeff and Jen make me look good, their responses to The Station’s prompts are endlessly creative. Check it out if you like trains or worldbuilding or fun! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...

Crescent and Exile have been sent to print. Now published by Mythworks. Stay tuned for delivery by late Summer. 🌙

Reprints for May You Fish in Interesting Times has arrived! 🎣

I'm with the Damned & Other Games is a compilation of unsettling TTRPGs, played with music and tarot. On my blog I preview the project in more detail the motivations behind it (ratwavegh.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/i...) Please follow the pre-launch page here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/rat...

WAKE UP!! PLAY MY #TTRPG OF KITCHEN NIGHTMARES Serving Up Disaster takes a twist on the Brindlewood Bay system by finding the Problems of your failing restaurant & having characters work together to solve them in a desperate attempt to save their buisness molomoot.itch.io/serving-up-d...

Hey, we're at the @dungeonsandflagons.bsky.social Geek Fayre today, so if you're around Manchester, come say hi! Its in the Sacha hotel, just off Picadilly Gardens.

Also, rules are available online for FREE! The Universe always needs more Harvesters.

A long time coming, but Mausritter now has an SRD! There’s a nice website where you can get the rules or download a markdown file, plus they’re now released under a CC-BY license so you’re free to use the rules text in your own projects mausritter.com/srd/

It's late night in my timezone, but maybe it's early in yours. Maybe it's early enough to... wake up and start doing farm chores. Simulated farm chores! In this bundle of farming ttrpgs! itch.io/b/3073/farm-...

My very first book I ever self-pubbed has a new lease on life and will be available in print for the first time!

Thanks @igdn-official.bsky.social for sending us this beautiful trophy! 🏆

Written by the author of Skeleton Code Machine, ADVENTURE! covers the essential TTRPG adventure-making elements such as hooks, encounters, maps, NPCs; everything you need to become a full fledged game designer with 10 adventures under their belt. Get yours at peregrinecoast.press/products/adv...

If you've enjoyed my games, or hired me as a writer or editor before, let me know if you have a testimonial you'd like to provide! I'm putting together a new website and would love to include some.

New Crow Time [1/5] This, too, is yaoi...

NEW ARRIVAL: Crush Depth Apparition is an eerie survival horror stand-alone adventure by @amandalee.bsky.social! It includes rules for running and repairing a experimental submarine, hundreds of things that can go wrong, and a crew that depends on you tabletopbookshelf.com/products/cru... #ttrpg

If you need art for your TTRPG, I've found the submissions to the TTRPG Art Asset Jam to be a great place to start looking: itch.io/jam/ttrpg-ar...

Illustrators who release stock art packs for TTRPGs are ROYALTY 👑 as far as I'm concerned. Truly improving humanity. Please drop your links here (or the links of any of your favorite artist who release stock art).

Long time no game dev! Working on some new stuff but I recently updated the cover art for my Twine game, "I Am A Pencil (Aku Sebatang Pencil)". I commissioned the incredible Sincostine (on Instagram/Twitter) who is a Malaysian artist. You can play the game 👉 rinoaskyes.itch.io/i-am-a-penci...

started reading YOU WILL DIE IN THIS PLACE by @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social‬ and realized i should be live-posting my reactions so im gonna do that while i go through (the game is currently available for PWYW, an absolute steal, and i recommend ppl go read) liz-shrikestudio.itch.io/you-will-die...

Someone asked if May You Fish in Interesting Times is a good game. I told them only if they don't mind ruffling some feathers. 🐦

Did you miss the June Mecha ttrpg newsletter? Featuring interviews with Aaron Lim of Spectres of Brocken and artist Ben Fleuter. Plus some pretty sweet community content. 👇 Catch up at the link below! And sign up before the July newsletter hits your inbox!

!!! Well, this is very, very exciting—think it's the first AP of one of my games! Looking forward to listening in on Tuesday 🤩

Bad days, bad nights, sworn rivals malfunctioning worlds. Four Rat Wave Game House titles will be available to buy from booth 1204 at Origins. PSYCHODUNGEON! The Ballad of the Bastard and the Tinkerer! The Infinite Dancefloor! Terminal!

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

Out now on my Webstore: Out of the Fold & Other Games! A collection four TTRPGs playable with a single deck if cards. Break outs, break ins, last stands and great unknowns. United by their utensils and a focus on group storytelling. The Rat Wave Hit of UKGE!

The next paragraph talks how I found the constraints of the book (self-contained games playable with only a deck of cards) an interesting challenge when putting together Once again, we are defeated; a new version of a game which originally had more playing utensils

I am not good at self-promotion and haven't made many sales on itchio in the past month. Maybe you can check out my games? 👉👈 aryl-ether.itch.io

🌹 Our closure, Our compromise 🌹 For the ffxiv DRK zine #art007 | #ffxiv

Just a little friendly Shaymin pokemon

I spent years of my life studying how people bury their dead (or burn them, or what have you), and it was nice to revisit that a little bit for my zine The Tome of Tombs. It's not really a tome, but I love alliteration. It may be a sickness. james-holloway.itch.io/the-tome-of-...

Hey guys, respectfully, please consider following this KS and sharing it with a FRIEND www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...

The Farm And Garden TTRPG bundle is live! Agriculture! Adventure! 80% off! Featuring works by K Petker, TTRPGkids, SmallRedRobin13, ChubbyCrowGames, anniedisaster09, PsychHound, HughLashbrook, Tomas Gimenez Rioja, and Koke RPGs. itch.io/b/3073/farm-...

What Eryk is doing is really valuable for the UK TTRPG scene. This is a great write up and you should absolutely be 1) buying from PCP, and 2) talking to Eryk if you're a publisher/designer!

Miss out on "Brother, Why?" at UKGE this year? Don't worry: it's available on my webstore! Desperately talk your way out of trouble, and throw your fellow monks under the bus in this game of genuine historic Marginalia! buff.ly/crYNrFm

Girlfriend haul vs boyfriend haul

Follow the link! Join the discord! Feel the impact! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

You can now pick up Outliers at Tabletop Bookshelf! Outliers was created with @farhorizonscoop.bsky.social. It's a W&A game and was a winner of The Awards in 2023.

This is it, folks. This is where I jump the shark. This is me at most maximalist. There's nowhere to go but down from here.

Decided that the TTRPG industry should big up our artists more, so every day I'm gonna be shouting out one of the fantastic artists we've worked with. First up: the impossibly brilliant Cael Lyons - @kingcael.bsky.social

Oh - Sad Arthurian Western game Inevitable is currently on Bundle of Holding. I wrote a character for it, who is a sad dead cowboy who leaks sand, as I understood the brief. bundleofholding.com/presents/Ine...

ko-fi.com/lalage/shop put some of my old gnshn hsr fancomics up as digital downloads (pdfs). Zenos is there too. All free pls dont buy me coffee i need to turn the button on to use the shop feature. ty ily have a good weekend

This is something that saddens me so much, especially because commissioning artists is, like, the best fucking part of doing this! Swear to god matching a talented illustrator's style to a game is so amazing: "Is this what you were thinking it looked like?" "No, it's so much better!"

Hire artists. Hire writers. Hire your friends. Even if what you're giving them is shared ownership over the project or your business. Working with others is THE VERY BEST PART of doing this. I mean it.

Death Road Services is a solo journaling game about running a service station in a Mad Max style post-apocalypse. It is ridiculous, crude, and so much fun to write events for. I can't wait to play it myself cause its a journalling game intended to be played on actual rubbish XD

I was born, on this day, thirty strange years ago. I have chucked a sale on online, and you could also celebrate the special occasion (my birthday) my picking something up from the Webstore (ratwave.square.site)

So! Reflections on a Biscuit Fund #UKGE 2025 now that we've reformed from puddles of melted jelly. In short, the best con we've ever done, if in many ways the hardest.

I'm absolutely going to be that queer and say that on top of Pride, it'll be my birthday tomorrow. 👀 Turning 40, absolutely feeling it. Toss a coin (or a sub!) to this freelancing dark knight, she needs it. I also have a Substack: thedovetailor.substack.com And games on Itch: thedovetailor.itch.io