#threadspinner

Welcome to Threadspinner FLAME, the medieval-themed playtest of Threadspinner, the Souls-inspired afterlife exploration RPG! In this episode, our players share the characters they've created: a paladin of love and creation, a wizard seeking primordial power, and an executed traitor whose chains compel supplication!

Cover art by @boocanan

Undertow Update #1: Refresh

The podcast formerly known as Eidolon Playtest is now Drawn from the Undertow!

Threadspinner GLOW premieres June 8!

🎶 0 - The Fugitive's First Dance by @maxknightley

🪲 Threadspinner GLOW 🪲

Lexi as The Master Thief: Stan Stickley, aka Denny Deciduous, aka Benny Bonsai, aka Lenny Leafless

Molly as The Mixologist: Heiress, Discarded Queen of the Golden Haven

Mike as The Fae: Velnias

GM: Luke

Editor: Mike

In the walls of the Threadspinner's Guild exists an entire miniature world unto itself, a vast civilization of insects and other small creatures that have been touched by the magic of Thread. A part-time bartender with royal blood, a lord of thieves, and a sentient fungus explore this secret kingdom. Their quest is easily overlooked, easily forgotten, but will carry consequences that will reverberate throughout the entire Wake.

Threadspinner GLOW is the third campaign of Threadspinner Playtest, and takes inspiration from the Hollow Knight series. GLOW will run for approximately 20-25 episodes, released once every three weeks.

Threadspinner SPARK premieres June 1!

🎶 17 - If It's Not Your Lucky Day, At Least It's Always Someone Else's by @maxknightley 🎶

⚡️ Threadspinner SPARK ⚡️ Crystal as The Dream Interpreter: Reverie, the Waking Dreamer @aviancrystal Morgan as The Blade Magician: Love the Uncut @girlnextvore Zoe as The Divinity: Magnolia Kane GM: Luke Editor: Luke

In the heart of The Wake stands Mother-of-All, the capital city governed by the Threadspinners. Peoples of all places and ages populate its crowded streets; turn down this alley and you will find yourself in a lost city of legend, while that thoroughfare will take you to a district built with technology not yet invented in your time. A young film starlet, her bodyguard, and a disgraced Threadspinner seeking to write her biography dive deep into the city's endless layers of secrets and subterfuge.

Threadspinner SPARK is the second campaign of Threadspinner Playtest, and takes inspiration from Bloodborne and Lies of P. SPARK will run for approximately 20-25 episodes, released once every three weeks.

Threadspinner FLAME premieres May 25!

🎶 13 - Death Beyond Death by @maxknightley 🎶

🔥 Threadspinner FLAME 🔥 Iris as The Hero: Syr Violete, Knight of the Coiled Vine Maxie as The Executed: Thistle, the Bastard Daughter Tyberius as The Conjurer: Xalatan, Sage of Wind and Shadow GM: Luke Editor: Iris

To tame the endless chaos of the Wake, the Threadspinner's Guild recruits three undead adventurers to explore the spirits of long-dead kingdoms: a paladin of love and creation, a wizard seeking primordial power, and an executed traitor whose chains compel supplication.

Threadspinner FLAME is the first campaign of Threadspinner Playtest, and takes inspiration primarily from Elden Ring and the Dark Souls franchise. FLAME will run for approximately 20-25 episodes, released once every three weeks.

The second Design Session for THREADSPINNER is available now!

One of our big ideas in trying to capture the vibe of FromSoft RPGs in a tabletop setting is to incorporate map-making mechanics, to look at games like The Quiet Year or Microscope and tie them directly into more conventional RPG gameplay, so that you are creating a world as you explore it, in order to reproduce that feeling of cautiously feeling out a big, mysterious world full of tantalizing stray threads of a larger story.

This is a very different mode of gameplay than anything we did in EIDOLON, so it makes sense for us to start here and make sure we can build out a strong foundation into these mechanics, so that once we start developing the more familiar facets of the game, we understand how they integrate into these newer concepts.

The first Design Session for THREADSPINNER is available now!

Having completed their work on EIDOLON: Become Your Best Self, the game design luminaries at Reveal Your Master Plan have begun work on their next Drawn From The Undertow game: THREADSPINNER!

The third Design Session for THREADSPINNER is available now!

Last time, we laid out some solid groundwork for how our exploration and map-making mechanics can work. But we need to provide more definition for what you actually do during this part of the game. What are the goals you're pursuing? Why are you exploring, beyond whatever intrinsic fun it might have?