Jay Ottersong
@jayottersong.bsky.social
I write about RPGs at https://jayottersong.substack.com and also wrote a book, Diary of a Grey Witch: Spring (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRLWMZSC/ref=sr_1_1?) based on my playthrough of Once Upon a Thyme.
One Page Monday #29: Lagomorpha - A Solo Journaling Adventure. You've been transformed into a hare. Document your journey back to becoming human. A One Page RPG Jam entry for 2026. #onepagerpg #solo #journaling #rpg #bunny jayottersong.substack.com/p/one-page-m...?
One Page Monday #29: Lagomorpha - A Solo Journaling Adventure
Another medieval bunny adventure
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One Page Monday #28: 5-min-e. A 5 minute micro-RPG when you're swamped by deadlines #solo #ttrpg #microrpg
One Page Monday #28: 5-min-e
Got five minutes? Then play this micro-RPG and go on a quest!
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Starting my bsky journey with a share on art of Russ Nicholson. #fantasyart #fantasygaming www.threads.com/@koireadswri...
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Fantasy art was a big part of my love of fantasy growing up. One of my favourite artist was Russ Nicholson. His black and white illustrations were filled with details, the kind that makes you linger o...
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One Page Monday #27: Polaroid by Myrmidont. A solo sketch and stick solo journaling game from this year's One Page RPG Jam. Can Joe find out what's going on in his town? #onepagerpg #solo #journaling #1pRPGJam
One Page Monday #27: P.O.L.A.R.O.I.D.
Joe goes looking for spooky stuff, but the spooky stuff finds him...
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Always satisfying when you have a physical product in hand. And do you know what an Ecdysiast is? open.substack.com/pub/jayotter...? #bookmark #rpg
The Words You Carry: House of Leaves
Trying out my bookmark oracle
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One Page RPG Jam 2026 starts on Monday, so here's a look at my recommendations for the games I played from previous iterations of the Game Jam. #solo #ttrpg #onepagerpg
My favourite games from the One Page RPG Jam 2020-2025
Looking back on the games I've tried and seven games I'd recommend
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The council has spoken. The name has been chosen. The dragon has been introduced...🐉 After much deliberation, we are delighted to reveal the official RPG Trader guardian dragon: Reginald P. Goodfellow (though you, his friends, may call him Reggie) As for the "P", let your imaginations run wild!
One Page Monday #25: Styx. Can Eurydice escape Hades in this excellent one-page RPG from Ravensridge Press? #onepagerpg #rpg #hades #solorpg
One Page Monday #25: Styx
Eurydice decides to go it alone
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⚠️ IMPORTANT BUSINESS! ⚠️ Our RPG Trader dragon mascot needs a name. Hit us with your best (or most ridiculous) suggestions. 🐉👇 Props to the amazing @penflower-ink.bsky.social for this ^epic^ creation.
I LOVE a good game loop. I think they are ESSENTIAL for a fun solo ttrpg session! 😄 Here, I cover a couple tips: 1. You won't find the "perfect" system out there. 2. Take inspo from other games you enjoy! 3. YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN. #solottrpg youtu.be/a4hanDda01A?...
Stop Searching for the "Perfect" Solo TTRPG for a "Perfect" Session | How I build Game Loops!
YouTube video by SOLOIST VENTURE
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🎲 Initiative rolled. The bundle is LIVE!💥 This ^EPIC^ bundle is free to claim. If you find value in the bundle and want to support the creators behind it, you can contribute any amount. Earnings shared equally amongst creators featured in the bundle.🫶 rpg-trader.com/products/102...
Free RPG Day 2026 Bundle on RPG Trader
Over $1,000 worth of digital and print content from more than 250 creators all across the RPG Trader community.
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One Page Monday #23: Victory Garden. Grow plants and send them to war. Uh what? A One Page RPG that's surreal and poignant. #onepagerpg #solo #journaling
One Page Monday #23: Victory Garden
Raise plants. Send them to war. Say what?
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I posted the first (early) alpha playtest for Ironsworn: Legacies (Ironsworn 2e-ish). Playtests are limited to the Discord for now, but you can join us: discord.gg/8bRuZwK The lovely (but preliminary) sketches shown below are by @joshmeehanart.bsky.social. The rest is a bit of a mess. Early days!
Playtesting the Alpha of Ironsworn Legacies, a followup to Ironsworn. Lots of stuff to like about the system, even at this early stage. #ironsworn #rpg #solo
Ironsworn Legacies Alpha Playtest: A priest, a healer, and a donkey travel to a village...
Back to the Ironlands and tempting fate
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The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
The Quiet Year (box set)
The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...
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One Page Monday #13: Vampires & Claymores. Play a Vampire in an effective fast system while inventing your own history and lore. #ttrpg #solo #vampire #onepagerpg
One Page Monday #13: Vampires & Claymores
Bloodsuckers and Highlander do mix
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One Page Monday #12: Tricube Tales - Tales of the City Guard. Channeling the Pratchett and trying to arrest the wizard that put a tower right in the middle of the market! #solo #ttrpg #tricubetales #pratchett
One Page Monday #12: Tricube Tales - Tales of the City Guard
When you can't help but bring the Pratchett
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One Page Monday #11: 31 Floors Up. Like Dread, but another PC dies? Played this solo so can't vouch how it'll play with more players, but the rules are kind of confusing even though there's some good prompts. #ttrpg #solo
One Page Monday #11: 31 Floors Up
Dread... but another PC dies
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Trying out my entry for the Bookmark RPG Jam with Ken Liu's novel All That We See or Seem. Lots of inspiration for a cyberpunk campaign. #ttrpg #bookmark #bookmarkrpg #scifi #oracle
Words You Carry: All That We See or Seem
Joining the Cartographers Obscura
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One Page Monday #10: Michigan Dogman. Hunt the infamous cryptid. Or is it hunting you?
One Page Monday #10: Michigan Dogman
Hunting for a cryptid without falling into the Great Lakes
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One Page Monday #9: Spindlejack - Drifting and delivering in the Citizen Sleeper Universe. #solorpg #boardgame #ttrpg #citizensleeper
One Page Monday #9: Spindlejack
Drifting and Delivering in the world of Citizen Sleeper
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A great interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky, and how his RPG experience helps his writing. And that voice... #rpg #scifi #adriantchaikovsky
How to Write Absurdly Well — Adrian Tchaikovsky
YouTube video by David Perell
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Fight through the tower to face a wizard, if you don't get chopped to pieces first. #ttrpg #onepage
One Page Monday #8: Ironbound
Fight through the dungeon to face a wizard, if you don't get chopped to pieces first
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Made something for the Bookmark Jam and a Kal-Arath supplement. Then it’s off to a dungeon with my kobold princess(?) in a barrel! #rpg #ttrpg #solo
One Page Monday #6: Princess with a Cursed Sword, TTRPG Bookmark Jam, and The Lost Archipelago
Can a kobold in a barrel find her purpose? Also a bookmark to carry words and a Kal-Arath supplement
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Made something for the #bookmarkJam this year. The Words You Carry is a bookmark where you save words or short phrases from the books you've read and use them as an oracle for future games. PWYW. davechua.itch.io/the-words-yo... #bookmark #rpg #words #books
The Words You Carry by Chaos Drake Press
Save the words from books you read to create an oracle for future games
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A 100% off 11 games sale from Pandion Games. Reminds me that I need to do my writeup of Whisper in the Walls. #ttrpg #sale #solo
Holiday Thank You Sale by Pandion Games
A sale by Pandion Games, 100% off 11 games
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In the far future, there is only war... and trying to keep two factions from destroying the planet you've just conquered. Can Kurgan of the Ghost Bears be nice and keep the peace? A solo playthrough of Grant Howitt's Nice Marines. jayottersong.substack.com/p/one-page-m... #ttrpg #rpg #solo
One Page Monday #5: Nice Marines
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war... and bureaucracy.
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A web implementation of Eleventh Beast. eleventh-beast-web-implementation.onrender.com Makes me want to try it again. My playthrough of the game for Spooky Season jayottersong.substack.com/p/solo-spook... #ttrpg #solo #medieval #spookyseason
Solo Spooky Season #9: Eleventh Beast
Here we go hunting the Black Banshee of Southwark
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