Ante's Company

@antescompany.itch.io

Braden M. Hansen. Game designer and illustrator 🏳️‍⚧️. Creator of PLEASE DON'T DIE: A Pro-Wrestling RPG. Also made Wizardman: Queer and Chaos and DIVINATION SLUDGEDEATH MANIFEST. Check out my games here: https://antescompany.itch.io/

Wow the response to my first post was so nice, thank you all! I doubt I'll top that manifesto, but for my sophomore slump, here are some rules for playing elves and dwarves and shit, adapted from my best recollections of that campaign barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/elves-and-ot...

PRETENDING TO BE AN ELF AND OTHER INHUMANS

Played a game inside. The rules were scraped together from a fading memory of B/X and scratched onto the back of commissary receipts. The dice were made of f...

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every single wrestler is like 'pro wrestling has been my dream since i was a kid, there's nothing else like it, it's the most important thing in my life. don't ever become a wrestler'

I just noticed that this excellent #indywrestling RPG has an open license. Theoretically, would anybody be interested if I was to work on a UK indie supplement? Reasonably minor project; no crowdfunding and art probably public domain unless anyone wants to profit share.

Ante's Company@antescompany.itch.io · 2mo ago

PLEASE DON'T DIE - A Pro-Wrestling RPG OUT NOW on ITCH! antescompany.itch.io/please-dont-... Please check it out and share it around, I'm so incredibly proud of this game! #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #indierpg #prowrestling #wrestling

Here are two dungeons in the Middle-earth Hexcrawl! Minas Anghen was once a home to a line of seers, but is now occupied by bandits who don't understand the magical defenses and treasures. Setmaenen is a grotto under a hill that was once a place of healing, but has been corrupted by Sauron.

Two Haunted Ruins (Middle-earth Hexcrawl)

My colleague Warren of ICastLight was kind enough to send me a copy of the MERP module The Haunted Ruins of the Dunlendings .  MERP modules ...

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Delighted to see some of my work on queer play and TTRPGs show up in @lincodega.com's excellent coverage of Defy the Gods!! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎲

Rascal News@rascal.news · last mo.

Defy the Gods by @hecticelectron.bsky.social proclaims itself to be a game of "Queer Sword & Sorcery." A strong Epithet that naturally invites the question: what makes a game "queer?" @lincodega.com does a close read of the text, parsing queer structures that encourage explicitly queer play.

THE DRACONTINES are a Sect of sky-flying spear-wielding warriors blessed by the Dragon Buddhas turned exterminators of the Dragons. in Post-Calamity they perform their final atonement: the Skewering of Heaven new polearm and jumping SECT for 10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN!

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MAKAPATAG 👺☭@makapatag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

10,000 SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN is a southeast asian esoteric marxist-leninist technoccultic tropical gothic science fantasy take on xianxia and spirit cultivation. play as kung fu commies, daoist grenadiers, buddhist gunwitches, digital devil wizards, all against the heavens

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"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!