Sex & the Pastel City (this is super cool tho)

A few weeks ago, my friend Habib just released his new Electric Bastionland pamphlet adventure! The adventure is back corporate hell pointcrawl set in an office building. It's free/pwyw! the-occultant.itch.io/welcome-to-h...

The heatwave has made me combative and catty. Here's a rant. elmc.at/cultures-not...

10 days until Dawn of the Orcs launches on Backerkit's Ennies Emporium! This is a special crowdfunding celebrating Ennie-nominated roleplaying games! If you want to unleash your inner Saruman, Victor Frankenstein, Abathur or Fabius Bile, check it out! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

Seven Part Pact is coming to kickstarter July 2026 ! it's a massive ambitious TTRPG about magic, masculinity, and power. here's what brennan lee mulligan has to say about it

There were a whopping 80 blog posts for the latest Random Blogwagon! I round them all up into a rollable table here: #osr #ttrpg #blogwagon

This post was written for both the Randomness and Sex bandwagons, and it's somehow concluded that System Matters. (Kinda NSFW) #osr #ttrpg #blog

Seems like I am posting more thoughts on #BaselineDrift personable.blog/wargame-with...

This week in the bathtub, the lights go out in Blackout! Will this crew ever figure out why the power is out, or will they be slaughtered by an ineffable horror? Find out! idlecartulary.com/2026/06/22/b...

Wrote a post about my experiences playing @evlynmoreau.bsky.social 's Orbital Megastructure.

The Dose Makes The Poison zine is available at the mighty @iglootree.bsky.social now: iglootree.com/products/the...

For @prismaticwasteland.com's Random Blogwagon I decided to use Shadowdark's random tables to draft an adventure. I avoided using any other resources except for my noggin and came up with a pretty decent little adventure. This is my biggest post in terms of time, effort, and words. Pretty happy.

Crunch-focused folk want new supplements, to give them more subsystems they can theorycraft on but never use. Storygames folk want new systems, to give them more genres they will turn into girlfailure yuri comedies. OSR folk want new adventures, to give them more rooms they will never dare enter.

after months of planning and weeks of running, #BaselineDrift is over and I am starting to collect my thoughts on live text roleplay games yakamo.blot.im/baseline-dri...

This was a good post! It got me thinking, and then got me typing, and now my blog has a new post about Activation Energy, using chemistry as an analogy for play, and musing about how we can be intentional about getting games to the table. Enjoy! seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...

Meet me at the Minneapolis Institute for Mind Control if you want to get your ass hypnotized.

I wrote this back in January when I read some grousing against random results in TTRPGs. Then I did what should be standard practice when engaging with online discourse: I waited 5 months (now) to post my very short response. A defense of surprise eggs! #ttrpg #osr

Doing a two-for-one, writing a Randomness blog bandwagon post about playing #BaselineDrift personable.blog/oracular-ran...

Great episode! Had to DM Chris to ask if he was subtweeting me on his podcast.

Planning a #baselinedrift tarot deck, HOWEVER there's no way I'll manage to do it alone. So if you're an artist of any kind, consider joining this server so that we can do a cool collab ✨ discord.gg/b2ZwTHN3S

To be fair, you maybe shouldn't put three people with access to their tarot decks in one room. Soon we'll just be making decisions based on divine intervention #baselinedrift

A snapshot from the Vox Omnia Rex leadership channel in #baselinedrift: we're all doing tarot readings of our characters' love lives. Amelia got Wheel of Fortune reversed.

I've written a new essay about my experience opening my copy of City of Six Moons, designed by @amabel.bsky.social, and the emotions it inspired in me. It's a strange and beautiful game, which more than earned the reaction it provoked from me. Enjoy! seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...

I'm running a play-by-post LARP writing game thing. It's called Misery In Cathigan, and is about living in a fictional village called Misery in rural Scotland, and interfacing with a world that is slowly turning into a horror scenario. Join via the Discord in the poast. amby.navy/misery-in-ca...

Thought I'd have a fun time in #BaselineDrift with a character gimmick doing tarot readings. The part I didn't expect was that every draw so far has been incredibly accurate and topical. Pictured: my draw to see how the assault on the top floors would go

lol, Bio-Drones & Cryo-Clones creature art is too spicy for RPG Trader?

@meatcastlegameware.com Forb is buzz. War is woody. #baselinedrift

"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Japanese meal!?"

The "Print at Home" and "Print at Work" variants made me laugh

In the middle of my obsession with Baseline Drift, I pulled myself together and finally released the Mothership module I did for the TripTech2 Jam last year. A heist of a pharmaceutical company to steal back Dr. Richilieu's Recipe: personable.itch.io/richilieus-r...

Big News: Pilgrimage of the Sun Guard is officially back in print thanks to a publishing partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social! Cover art by @tonytranrpg.bsky.social plusoneexp.com/collections/...

The Typhoon Sinlaku relief bundle is wrapping up soon, so grab it while you still can! Lots of great games in there, and a worthy cause. Help folks rebuild, and get some cool RPGs. Play those games with your friends, and talk about the climate crisis. itch.io/b/3670/typho...

google search is broken? fear not! rootring now has a search engine that lets you look for posts and contents from blogs on rootring search.rootr.ing

Game design is really just creating a bunch of annoying coworkers for the characters. www.bastionland.com/2026/05/pres...

2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards winners will be premiering at 8:00PM EST tonight! Hope some of you will be watching and can make it! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bBS...

Liz once again proving that she's one of the funniest bloggers around while giving a good historical overview of "samurais" in brand-name DnD

Someone at a convention once said to a friend who was working the booth with me that he liked my work but he wasn't going to buy anything because "Chris is successful enough and doesn't need my money". Anyway I'm no longer a full time game designer because I didn't make enough money to live.

A quick read on what amounts to a something like Ocaam's razor for game system design. If a rule is added, then it better provide a richer experience within the desired play space than if it weren't present. Always ask, "what is the benefit of adding this rule to the game?" And play test often! :]

Had a great time talking to Chris for this (cat incidents aside) and about one of my favorite authors in the scene to boot.

this is what free costs. taken. vol. IV of since you arrived. a single page that tells you everything your browser silently disclosed the moment you arrived. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: The Sisters of Mercy Dead Can Dance Castle Rat DOOL Chelsea Wolfe Spiritual Front Abu Nein Flight Attendant Wucan A.A. Williams

This is all true, agreed.

Considering if this is my sign to get on Kagi

things have been too nice lately. working on an rpg opinion that can Kill

Bluesky's back? Wonderful! Did you all know I released a supplement to NULL_SPACE? What's that, you didn't because I suck at marketing and barely posted about it? Well, NULL_SPACE Supplement #1: Violence is here. I wrote a piece about it: binarystar.games/posts/origin...

Playing with fire by blogging about game design and the role of rules personable.blog/designing-ga...

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.