DARKNESS
It’s the reason for the season! The darkest day & the return of the sun! Best wishes for the next year!
2024-12-21 19:54:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean Äaberg posts
THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 128 - LOW DRAMA
I’m going to launch the Dungeon Degenerates Role Playing Game this year - tentatively called Low Drama. I’ve been thinking a lot about what the point of role playing is, what makes it fun, how ...
2024-12-20 18:24:45 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 127 - CULTURE WARHAMMER
I have been watching tons of videos of interviews with the old Games Workshop crew about the start of Warhammer & other GW projects. I’m deliberately trying to push my youtube algorithm away ...
2024-12-18 18:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostKURBIS KREEP
John Jack did a fantastic paint job on the DUNGEON DEGENERATES Kurbis Kreep! (Now available as a download on my Patreon at Degenerate level). It’s cool to see a character I drew then sculpted by ...
2024-12-18 13:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 126 - PAY ATTENTION
In the attention economy, what do you pay attention to? I am asked frequently which news media to trust. My answer is that even the trustworthy ones have an agenda that clouds some percent of their...
2024-12-16 19:28:27 +0000 UTC View PostMATT FOX
I was heavily influenced by Matt Fox’s art. I love how rigid & nightmarish his characters look, like they’re on meth, also the colors are great & there’s this churning feeling in the ...
2024-12-14 22:54:05 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 125 - DO IT YOURSELF
A big theme in my life is, don’t wait until someone says that the moment is right. Do it yourself to get the ball rolling. This applies to all areas of life. We live in such a cowed, permission-b...
2024-12-14 01:36:52 +0000 UTC View PostTAROT GOBLINKO
It’s cool to get picked! Powells Books picked the Tarot Goblinko - you should pick it too, it’s really a fantastic book, even if I am partial, it’s really good! You should get it!
2024-12-13 23:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostRATS IN THE RATHAUS
I just finished my first Short Story (now I have to edit it!). It was fun & even though I outlined the whole thing & wrote out beats, it expanded & took me places I was not aware of! 2024-12-12 21:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 124 - FORM
Katie was talking about this new band Haute & Freddy that I turned her on to, they are really good but only have two songs! These songs were released as singles but I misremembered it as being ...
2024-12-11 18:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostDUNGEON DEGENERATES LORE 9 - THE BLACK TREE
The Rotting Swamps were not always such a soggy, damned place. The land was once a healthy, dynamic continuation of the great forest, “the Wald der Verwirrung” that would eventually be known as...
2024-12-10 16:51:33 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 135 - TEENAGE RAMPAGE
I can remember when I first started getting into Punk & I didn’t know anybody yet, how alone I felt. I’d go take BART to San Francisco & wander around, go record shopping, get coffee, g...
2024-12-09 19:11:29 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 134 - BOOMERS & DOOMERS
It’s easy to blame, easy to try to pin something on someone, something, find the silver bullet for some problem. A lot of people look at the Baby Boomers as being the primary cause of our society...
2024-12-06 18:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 133 - TIME
I gained a very different view of time & history when I read Larry Gonick’s Cartoon Guide to History. History seemed like a bunch of unconnected scenes up until that point. This was probably ...
2024-12-04 17:58:28 +0000 UTC View PostDUNGEON DEGENERATES LORE 8 - THE NECROMANCER
One of the most notable practitioners of magic was known only as “the Necromancer”. The Necromancer appeared in the Witch Wood & gathered a darkness that coated the area. The Necromancer co...
2024-12-03 17:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 132 - SELLING ART
Once I figured out that I could sell what I wanted to do, this unlocked my ability to generate as much work as possible. The main thing that prevented the usual dilution of content & quality th...
2024-12-01 18:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostNONE MORE BLACK 2024
All my books are 25% off right now - each one is a transformational trip that will inspire you - I love the format in general & my goal has always been to give it all in these things! So Gittum...
2024-12-01 12:50:40 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER - 131 - SPAWNING
My old friend Danny Shoup sent me a picture of a dead salmon in Oakland’s Lake Merritt. For those of you who don’t know, Lake Merritt is an artificial lake in the center of central Oakland. It ...
2024-11-29 18:44:00 +0000 UTC View PostLOW DRAMA
Another thing I'm working on, there are a lot of things in the cue before, but I start thinking about new projects way out.
2024-11-28 18:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostRATS IN THE RATHAUS
I'm almost done with my first short story - then i have to do a lot of cutting! Also, I'm thankful for all of you! Thanks for helping me to do what I do.
2024-11-28 17:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 130 - POTENTIAL
This morning’s meditation on the Calm app was about writing a love letter. I wrote one in my head to Katie but I decided to write another one to America this morning. I love America the same way ...
2024-11-26 17:42:10 +0000 UTC View PostDUNGEON DEGENERATES LORE 7 - LORD SCROTT
Lord Scrott was a royal man that lived in a lonely tower in the foothills. He was very tall, he had to have things specially made to accommodate his extraordinary size. He wore sorcerer’s robes, ...
2024-11-26 17:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostNONE MORE BLACK 2024
The annual GOBLINKO WINTER SALE is on!!! Use the code NONE MORE BLACK 2024 to get 25% off everything at GOBLINKO,COM! The sale lasts until Monday the 2nd at midnight PST!
2024-11-26 14:04:55 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 129 - SNAP OUT OF IT!
I’ve always had a problem with consensus reality, mostly because consensus reality has been shunted off to the old mass media & then parroted by the people. I like people’s actual views &am...
2024-11-24 18:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 128 - WHY ART?
I have thought a lot about why anyone would want to be an artist. For me, it wasn’t so much a desire as a compulsion. I remember talking to my mom about it when I was young & her looking dism...
2024-11-22 17:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostCRYPTS OF THE CONTRARIAN CADAVERS
I'm also working on putting together the 4th Choose or Lose book by Erick Bouchard.
2024-11-21 18:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostDIE WÜRST 8
I'm currently working on Die Würst 8! This is a relaunch, with new designs & me just making it better than before!
2024-11-21 17:38:25 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 127 - REALITY
I used to consider myself a leftist, not a Democrat, but a left anarchist. During the 2000 election, I got swept up in the “George W. Bush is Hitler” mentality, including the whole, “I’ll m...
2024-11-20 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostDUNGEON DEGENERATES LORE 6
The uncovered mysteries of the Celestials lead to a magical arms race. Witches, Wizards, Warlocks, Sorcerers, Shamans, Alchemists & Necromancers all used as much & any of the new informatio...
2024-11-19 17:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostTHE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 126 - LEGACY
We watched the Mike Tyson against Jake Paul spectacle the other night. Hopefully most of you have seen the growth journey that Tyson has been on since he reemerged a decade ago or so. It’s amazin...
2024-11-17 19:12:21 +0000 UTC View Post