Ox Sago
@oxsago.bsky.social
Writing and illustration. Butter Princess, Pick Me, Trophy Dark, The Wassailing of Claus Manor and more!
https://oldworldmaps.itch.io/
https://oldworldmaps.itch.io/
I have a new plan for anniversary gifts. The traditional year 1 = paper, year 2 = cotton. Rubbish.
Tin? Who needs tin? Surely you don't need tin until your 50th year together.
Therefore, I propose we make a cultural switch to anniversary gifts coinciding with the periodic table of elements.
Tin? Who needs tin? Surely you don't need tin until your 50th year together.
Therefore, I propose we make a cultural switch to anniversary gifts coinciding with the periodic table of elements.
May 12, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I have a new plan for anniversary gifts. The traditional year 1 = paper, year 2 = cotton. Rubbish.
Tin? Who needs tin? Surely you don't need tin until your 50th year together.
Therefore, I propose we make a cultural switch to anniversary gifts coinciding with the periodic table of elements.
Tin? Who needs tin? Surely you don't need tin until your 50th year together.
Therefore, I propose we make a cultural switch to anniversary gifts coinciding with the periodic table of elements.
Y'all have seven hours to get in on this game. I was one of the playtesters. Best modern creepy horror game I have ever played. It makes everything about your childhood come back to haunt you.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG
From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!
www.kickstarter.com
April 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Y'all have seven hours to get in on this game. I was one of the playtesters. Best modern creepy horror game I have ever played. It makes everything about your childhood come back to haunt you.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
The school librarian wants photos of teachers reading. The typical photo is us holding up our book while standing in the library.
I can't resist a chance to ham it up.
Here's the teacher-reading-horror compilation.
I can't resist a chance to ham it up.
Here's the teacher-reading-horror compilation.
April 3, 2026 at 3:02 AM
The school librarian wants photos of teachers reading. The typical photo is us holding up our book while standing in the library.
I can't resist a chance to ham it up.
Here's the teacher-reading-horror compilation.
I can't resist a chance to ham it up.
Here's the teacher-reading-horror compilation.
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So what do you get in this?
I'll speak a little bit to the Incursion I wrote, a 3-Set Gold adventure called "The Soirée at Machadio Manor".
(In-progress art by Brian Sago, shared with permission)
1/x
I'll speak a little bit to the Incursion I wrote, a 3-Set Gold adventure called "The Soirée at Machadio Manor".
(In-progress art by Brian Sago, shared with permission)
1/x
March 30, 2026 at 6:59 PM
So what do you get in this?
I'll speak a little bit to the Incursion I wrote, a 3-Set Gold adventure called "The Soirée at Machadio Manor".
(In-progress art by Brian Sago, shared with permission)
1/x
I'll speak a little bit to the Incursion I wrote, a 3-Set Gold adventure called "The Soirée at Machadio Manor".
(In-progress art by Brian Sago, shared with permission)
1/x
Two hours left to snag a copy of Ruin: An Anthology, featuring a whole lot of art by me. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...
Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy
A collection of 20 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.
www.kickstarter.com
April 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Two hours left to snag a copy of Ruin: An Anthology, featuring a whole lot of art by me. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...
Y'all have just a little time left. Better get hopping!
A little sneak peek at some art in progress by @oxsago.bsky.social for @signalstation.bsky.social's Trophy Gold incursion for our TTRPG anthology! Only 3.5 days left in the kickstarter! we're super close to $13,000 CAD!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...
March 30, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Y'all have just a little time left. Better get hopping!
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This week in a celebration of our fair state, we played Butter Princess by @oxsago.bsky.social! Hubristic, deeply flawed attendees at the Minnesota State Fair conspired and squabbled to steal the 90-pound butter bust portrait of the fair’s pageant queen, Princess Kay of the Milky Way. Huge fun!
February 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
This week in a celebration of our fair state, we played Butter Princess by @oxsago.bsky.social! Hubristic, deeply flawed attendees at the Minnesota State Fair conspired and squabbled to steal the 90-pound butter bust portrait of the fair’s pageant queen, Princess Kay of the Milky Way. Huge fun!
I'm supposed to remind you that there's just 8 hours left to back Pick Me on Kickstarter.
Also, there's a new creepy dressup doll character, because it's not Christmas without creepy dolls oozing goo.
Also, there's a new creepy dressup doll character, because it's not Christmas without creepy dolls oozing goo.
December 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I'm supposed to remind you that there's just 8 hours left to back Pick Me on Kickstarter.
Also, there's a new creepy dressup doll character, because it's not Christmas without creepy dolls oozing goo.
Also, there's a new creepy dressup doll character, because it's not Christmas without creepy dolls oozing goo.
36 hours left in the Pick Me TTRPG campaign. Packing assembly line is all in order.
December 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
36 hours left in the Pick Me TTRPG campaign. Packing assembly line is all in order.
Pick Me now has Li’l Helmouth, a gummy vampire, as a playable character.
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Pick Me now has Li’l Helmouth, a gummy vampire, as a playable character.
Santa's elves are pleased to announce: www.kickstarter.com/projects/but...
Pick Me TTRPG
Love-starved Christmas toys are delivered to a home where a child plays favorites.
www.kickstarter.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Santa's elves are pleased to announce: www.kickstarter.com/projects/but...
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Do you have a ttrpg that in your opinion is so under celebrated that you have appointed yourself head of the PR committee for that game? Where on at least one occasion someone mistakenly assumed you must have worked on it but really you're just unwell about it?
What's that game to you?
What's that game to you?
September 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Do you have a ttrpg that in your opinion is so under celebrated that you have appointed yourself head of the PR committee for that game? Where on at least one occasion someone mistakenly assumed you must have worked on it but really you're just unwell about it?
What's that game to you?
What's that game to you?
Nice article about the origin of the game. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...
State Fair Inspires Butter Princess Role-Playing Game
For some, the Minnesota State Fair is a surreal and bewildering experience. Author Brian Sago made a 90-pound block of butter heist game about it.
mspmag.com
August 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Nice article about the origin of the game. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...
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Hey folks - it’s hard to ask for help when we’re all going through hard times, but here we are. My mother is facing some massive challenges and needs support.
If my creative work has inspired you in any way, please consider sharing or supporting however you can. Thank you! 💛
If my creative work has inspired you in any way, please consider sharing or supporting however you can. Thank you! 💛
Donate to Support Kalika Through Her Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis, organized by Gabriel Robinson
Kalika Robinson is a mother, grandmother, and sister (known to he… Gabriel Robinson needs your support for Support Kalika Through Her Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
gofund.me
May 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hey folks - it’s hard to ask for help when we’re all going through hard times, but here we are. My mother is facing some massive challenges and needs support.
If my creative work has inspired you in any way, please consider sharing or supporting however you can. Thank you! 💛
If my creative work has inspired you in any way, please consider sharing or supporting however you can. Thank you! 💛
Reposted by Ox Sago
So pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Gothic Nature Journal. It's a special issue on decolonization, and it's fabulous, important, and timely!
It's open access and available here for downloading.
gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
It's open access and available here for downloading.
gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
Issue V
Full Journal Download Please use the hyperlinked contents page in the full journal download to navigate your way around Issue V. Contents Foreword, Elizabeth Parker and Harriet Stilley Introduction…
gothicnaturejournal.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Gothic Nature Journal. It's a special issue on decolonization, and it's fabulous, important, and timely!
It's open access and available here for downloading.
gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
It's open access and available here for downloading.
gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
Reposted by Ox Sago
Treat yourself to a @signalstation.bsky.social game in celebration of his birthday!!! :D :D :D signalstation.itch.io
Michael Van Vleet
signalstation.itch.io
April 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Treat yourself to a @signalstation.bsky.social game in celebration of his birthday!!! :D :D :D signalstation.itch.io
Everything Mike designs is golden. Get into this tourist trap while the getting is good!
Tourist Hole
The quick-play RPG of fateful roadtrips.
⛍ What if all tourist traps were as weird as promised?
🕳️ What if they all connected to a soul-devouring entity underground?
🗺️ What if you could explore them anytime, anywhere?
I'M MAKING THAT GAME.
🧵
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...
The quick-play RPG of fateful roadtrips.
⛍ What if all tourist traps were as weird as promised?
🕳️ What if they all connected to a soul-devouring entity underground?
🗺️ What if you could explore them anytime, anywhere?
I'M MAKING THAT GAME.
🧵
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...
Tourist Hole
The quick-play RPG of fateful roadtrips.
www.kickstarter.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Everything Mike designs is golden. Get into this tourist trap while the getting is good!
I had the precious opportunity to work on interior illustrations for @rrookstudio.bsky.social 's "Dark Designs in Verdigris".
Brought back many childhood memories reading the original Oz books in the library.
Here's one of my images.
Birmingham ink and Blackwing pencil on Rives BFK paper.
Brought back many childhood memories reading the original Oz books in the library.
Here's one of my images.
Birmingham ink and Blackwing pencil on Rives BFK paper.
January 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I had the precious opportunity to work on interior illustrations for @rrookstudio.bsky.social 's "Dark Designs in Verdigris".
Brought back many childhood memories reading the original Oz books in the library.
Here's one of my images.
Birmingham ink and Blackwing pencil on Rives BFK paper.
Brought back many childhood memories reading the original Oz books in the library.
Here's one of my images.
Birmingham ink and Blackwing pencil on Rives BFK paper.
It was a treat to be involved in illustrating this. Brought back childhood memories of checking out L. Frank Baum's books from the elementary school library. John R. Neill's illustrations certainly made an impression.
I’ll have Itch updated later today (and some discounts for previous purchasers), but the post apocalyptic game of fallen Oz is live on DriveThruRPG.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Dark Designs in Verdigris - R. Rook Games | DriveThruRPG
It found the Wizard and brought him here, found Dorothy and brought her along, too. You did not plan for Oz to take you, but then there were cyclones, angry mobs, gunfire, storms at sea, holes in the ...
www.drivethrurpg.com
January 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It was a treat to be involved in illustrating this. Brought back childhood memories of checking out L. Frank Baum's books from the elementary school library. John R. Neill's illustrations certainly made an impression.
It was a delight to come up with these, reminiscing on childhood memories of Baum’s books and the small school library where I encountered them.
While I didn't want the book to be a literal travelogue, I liked the idea of it alluding to one.
@oxsago.bsky.social (collaborator for Butter Princess and The Wassailing) shot off a series of watercolored doodles that achieve that incredibly, capturing the twisted whimsy of Oz.
@oxsago.bsky.social (collaborator for Butter Princess and The Wassailing) shot off a series of watercolored doodles that achieve that incredibly, capturing the twisted whimsy of Oz.
January 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It was a delight to come up with these, reminiscing on childhood memories of Baum’s books and the small school library where I encountered them.
Grab this and play it. When the final game comes out, race to buy it. I'm super excited about every scrap I have read and played.
STEP RIGHT UP, my RPG set in a traveling carnival in 1930s Dust Bowl Oklahoma, enters its playtest era.
By this I mean: there's enough stuff written to try a few sessions of the game (if you know how to play The Between), but this is a working document.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
By this I mean: there's enough stuff written to try a few sessions of the game (if you know how to play The Between), but this is a working document.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 15, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Grab this and play it. When the final game comes out, race to buy it. I'm super excited about every scrap I have read and played.
Working on drawings for my next game. 40 chalk pastel drawings in one month.
December 15, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Working on drawings for my next game. 40 chalk pastel drawings in one month.
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The Wassailing is 40% off for one more day. 1 more! That's all!
What if the Haunting of Bly Manor got dropped into Downton Abbey and then got dropped into the North Pole of Christmas movies?
Play to find out in our ENNIE award-winning game.
clearkeep.itch.io/thewassailing
What if the Haunting of Bly Manor got dropped into Downton Abbey and then got dropped into the North Pole of Christmas movies?
Play to find out in our ENNIE award-winning game.
clearkeep.itch.io/thewassailing
The Wassailing of Claus Manor by Clear Keep
A Roleplaying Game of Horrific Holiday Spirit
clearkeep.itch.io
November 29, 2024 at 6:01 PM
The Wassailing is 40% off for one more day. 1 more! That's all!
What if the Haunting of Bly Manor got dropped into Downton Abbey and then got dropped into the North Pole of Christmas movies?
Play to find out in our ENNIE award-winning game.
clearkeep.itch.io/thewassailing
What if the Haunting of Bly Manor got dropped into Downton Abbey and then got dropped into the North Pole of Christmas movies?
Play to find out in our ENNIE award-winning game.
clearkeep.itch.io/thewassailing
I have a mind like a steel trap.
My memories know how to chew through their legs to escape.
My memories know how to chew through their legs to escape.
November 27, 2024 at 12:02 AM
I have a mind like a steel trap.
My memories know how to chew through their legs to escape.
My memories know how to chew through their legs to escape.
Wouldn't want that rot to just wither on the vine. Get it while it's gross and moldy.
You'll regret it, but in the best possible way.
You'll regret it, but in the best possible way.
The Black Mold has officially expanded into Claus Manor. 😱
The new zine extends the original award-winning game with something like 40 pages of new content by a decorated stable of ttrpg luminaries.
plusoneexp.com/products/bla...
The new zine extends the original award-winning game with something like 40 pages of new content by a decorated stable of ttrpg luminaries.
plusoneexp.com/products/bla...
The Black Mold Of Claus Manor By Mike Martens
Something dark is growing at Claus Manor... A new winter arrives, and the old winter remains.The ENNIE Award-winning TTRPG The Wassailing of Claus Manor returns with a decadent and macabre collection ...
plusoneexp.com
November 8, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Wouldn't want that rot to just wither on the vine. Get it while it's gross and moldy.
You'll regret it, but in the best possible way.
You'll regret it, but in the best possible way.