*whispers* Actually, there's a superhero game that's even more granular and complex than the ones you're discussing. I just can't discuss it on your site.

Really excited to be teaching my course "Music and the Politics of Cool," which asks students to unpack the cultural implications required to name some as "cool" Here's the syllabus! cvarun7.wixsite.com/website/post...

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

What a lovely, kind idea.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

If you had told me there was a version of Alice in Chains' "Them Bones" in the style of @fishboneband.bsky.social, I'd have thought it was a bit from Anthony "TenSecondSongs" Vincent or some AI nonsense. But it's real and from 2020. Listen! youtu.be/o4gdl7lB1Ik?...

For the holiday weekend, a short one for the #CharacterCreationChallenge. forum.rpg.net/index.php?th...

Oh my god, I just learned that @tinstargames.bsky.social has died. Many of us knew Steve: his drive to create TTRPGs like Relics, his activism and scathing criticism of bad actors, his many game reviews. The Aussie gaming community and the hobby at large has lost another prolific talent. 💔

Keeping up with Scratchpad’s 100AC system, here’s Caryatid, the first member of my Amalgam team, done up in Spectaculars for the 2026 #CharacterCreationChallenge. forum.rpg.net/index.php?th...

A short film set in Lorwyn-Shadowmoor starring puppets debuts very soon with Dark Crystal vibes

Announcing the official Arisia Discord: a permanent, year-round place to meet, chat and connect to your fellow Arisians. The Arisia Discord is governed by Arisia's Code of Conduct. We want to make this a safe and welcoming space for all. Join the Discord by following this link: buff.ly/SS31fZT

Starting the 2026 #CharacterCreationChallenge with this one from Dusk City Outlaws. forum.rpg.net/index.php?th...

NYC TTRPG Book Club returns! a week from today at @boshis.place, we're reading John Harper's legendary BLADES IN THE DARK! it's our first meeting in the new year—come discuss with us!

One more time, before the year's out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJWb...

𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘 𝐆𝐎𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 I like white whales and I cannot lie You other sailors can't deny When a fish rolls in as a pale and eerie sight Spermacetti is your right You get sprung Wanna throw stuff well Til you know that the whale's in hell Oh, Moby I wanna stop goonin' And get harpoonin' My whalers tried to w

I didn't post about it at the time, but last weekend, I made a two-day trip to New York to see the new version of "Chess" as a birthday present for Rachel. Dined at the Lambs Club before, had cheesecake at Junior's afterward.

Make a Bond movie casual: The Man with the Golden Grahams

Compilations that shaped your musical taste — go!

I RELEASED A NEW TTRPG!! it's very silly & full of jewish shitposting!! your attributes are "GREAT", "MIRACLE", "HAPPENED", and "THERE!", your progress clock is candles on a menorah, and these are the kind of tables i put in there. if we do $613 in sales before Jan 1 i'll do a trifold print run!

"There's Sunfire, there's Maggot, there's Moira MacTaggart; Happy Christmas, dear Charles, I'll make sure it's your last!" — A Fairytale of Genosha.

The #ttrpg games I ran and played in 2025: Played: D&D 5, Daggerheart, assorted parlor larps, Invisible Sun, Shadowrun: Anarchy, Timewatch, Outgunned: Adventure, The Quiet Year (this coming Sunday) Ran: Blades in the Dark, MAZES, Under Hollow Hills

"What chance have you got against a packet of crisps?" — The Jam, "Eatin' Ruffles"

But I can see you Your bronze helm shining in the sun And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong After the boys of Sumer have gone

willow ptarmigan. Thank you for spreading the bird word, @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social

are you jewish and do you think you can gather 2-5 players for TTRPG playtest that must take place in the next 48 hours? if so, send me a DM!

Played Blades in the Dark on 2025-12-13 rpggeek.com/rpg/26952 #rpggplay via @rpggeek.com

Chag Semeach, y’all! Behold the KRAKENORAH!

What Mind's Eye Theatre and the Commander format have in common is the aim to use an intricate competitive system to elicit a semi-collaborative social experience. This doesn't quite reduce to "EDH is the larp form of Magic: the Gathering" but you can see the road there.

The Jengabus is coming And everybody's jumping Their motion shakes the table And makes the tower unstable We need a different approach To playing games on this coach Avoid egregious wobble By maybe trying Dobble

Back, but not for long: The Roll Big or Go Home RPG mega bundle is 57 digital titles from some of your favorite TTRPG publishers, including Green Ronin! Valued over $1227, you'll pay what you want to get it all! Hurry, this bundle has just 2 days left! www.humblebundle.com/books/roll-b...

I'm gonna tell you a little secret about copyediting. Shhhh. A solid 25 percent of copyediting is helping writers not to get kvetched at by people who like to kvetch at writers over picayune shit. Now, that might seem to be giving in to the enemy, but trust me: Writers like it. (Most of them.)

EYE WILL BE GIVING A TALK @ ARISIA THAT UR NOT GOING 2 WANT 2 MISS (THO ITS THE SAME TALK EYE GAVE 2 THE BOSTON TECH POETICS SO MAYBS U ALREADY HAVENT MISSED IT)

Circa 2020. Inspired by @tmbg.bsky.social and @alliebrosh.bsky.social; art by @mossdogmusic.bsky.social.

Reminder! Corporate meeting tonight to decide if the Arisia convention take a one-year break in 2027. Meeting is tonight at 7pm. Anyone who has attended at least one Arisia convention will be able to attend and comment. For more information on how to attend, visit  buff.ly/4aMUB4l.

He told them to put the whiskey in the jar

imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin

I'm the king of kings I'm not the king of kings but I'm the wreckage of a king but really I'm not actually a king but I am... Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs wrinkles its lip at you. See my works, ye mighty, and despair!

Only 6 weeks until Arisia, how are you getting ready?

if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you

right, it's done. I've turned off all paid tiers on our website (bar the $10,000 a month Immortal one) & every feature, review & interview on there is now free to read (at least until I kill the site) that's over 150 articles covering everything from Warhammer to Wanderhome, Paranoia to Pendragon

reposting this for the daylight crowd since I posted it during 3am insomnia doomscrolling

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

ANNOUNCEMENT: THREE SAILS STUDIOS TO PUBLISH 'CITY OF ESPERS - A STREET-LEVEL PSYCHICS TTRPG', THE NEW GAME BY NATHAN BLADE (@theneoncaster.bsky.social) Press Release: www.threesailsstudios.com/blog/cityofe... (PLEASE REPOST) 🧵

Star Trekkin' vs. Doctorin' the Tardis

It blows you up, U 2-3-5. It may not be a wise decision. Neutrons pushed to overdrive, And then some extra, just for fission. …

Nathan Rabin is one of my favorite pop-culture writers, and right now he needs our help.

Should the Arisia convention take a one-year break in 2027? Arisia Corp members will vote to decide at the 12/9 Corp meeting (7pm, Zoom) what the con will do in 2027. Anyone who has attended at least one Arisia con will be able to attend and comment. For more info visit  buff.ly/4aMUB4l.