Bläckfisk Publishing

@blackfiskpub.bsky.social

A Swedish duo of brainstormers, dreamers, and workhorses creating tabletop role-playing games. Heroes of Cerulea, Blood Feud, Windsoul, Knight Forlorn, Slaying Dragons, Leopards Eat Your Face, In Orbit, Godtale. https://linktr.ee/blackfiskpublishing

This week on Dice Exploder it's four mini episodes in one! @gigantic-spider.bsky.social and I talk about The Awards, the niche indie rpg awards show they facilitate. We get into why ranking things is dumb but fun, and then some of our favorite mechanics from the last The Awards' winners.

Transcript: The Awards 2024 with Nico MacDougall - Dice Exploder

Listen to this episode here. The Awards are back! The rpg awards show with a bent towards indie games and the guaranteed worst SEO of all time is back for...

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TYRANT TIMES 2026, A new Stockholm Kartell zine. 80 pages of adventures, magic items, monsters, games, and album reviews by the makers of MÖRK BORG, CY_BORG and DEATH IN SPACE. 50% of the 2026 profits are to be donated to Amnesty International. Available at Gothcon, Gothenburg, or in Pit Trap Shop.

Black-and-white zine with a guillotine on the cover. “New zine from Stockholm Kartell”. “50% of profits donated to Amnesty International”. 
“Adventures, games, monsters, magic items, potions, scrolls, reviews, tyrants, monkeys, locations, plot hooks, origins, lethality, debt”

3. Heroes of Cerulea by @ceruleanfive.bsky.social is one of my latest acquisitions. I had the pleasure of playing it live as a promo to the kickstarter in the Victory Condition Gaming channel. It is heavily Legends of Zelda themed and is a dungeon crawl rpg that is a gigantic NES nostalgia bomb.

A gold copy of Heroes of Cerulea by Lucas Falk. The book and box give a nod to the gold Legends of Zelda NES cartridge. It features pixelated adventurers at the top above the name and credits

Cheers to a drop weekend! New stuff's in the shop, like... Knight Forlorn by @blackfiskpub.bsky.social ☾ A collaborative dark fantasy storytelling game for 1-3 players, alternating through the roles of The Lead (the Knight's thoughts and actions), The Narrator (the world), and The Chorus (the mood)

The cover of Knight Forlorn: A storytelling game about a lone wanderer on a futile quest in a withering world, by Lucas Falk and Bläckfisk Publishing. The title is stark white calligraphy agains a pink image of a knight in standing in fog, their sword drawn, approaching a bunch of crumbling buildingsAn interior example from Knight Forlorn. On the lefthand page, an image of a large full pink moon looming beside the character. The heading says Ending The Game and includes a short description. The righthand page begins the list of possible Encounters. This page lists encounters for drawing the suit of hearts - Ace, two, and three. The encounters are all with NPCs/people (Puck the Jackal, Wolfram the Hunter, Frieda the Pilferer)

IT'S A DROP DAY! NEW STUFF'S IN THE SHOP! A bonanza of sci-fi world building. Bonsai and bees and forlorn knights. Skateboard witches and wild roommates. Tiny dice, tiny dice trays, badass motorcycle babes who live in your mind. Heisting pigeons and Texas Hold 'Em monster fights Check it all out ⬇️🧵

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