Hard agree. It is one of the most approachable systems that bends towards a satisfying narritve.

Musk: see, we gotta da problem witta da grok Musk: it no maka stories no good Musk: so we need hira a writer to fix them King: grok can't write? Musk: yeah da writing machine i make Musk: it good atta da racism Musk: but da writing? not so much

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Tell us 5 classes you took at university (UK here so all 5 are on a theme): Theatre criticism Australian film, TV & theatre Ecologies of performance Boundaries of performance Contemporary theatremaking

Them: The letter R is the funniest letter to add to words Me: I'm becoming the Jorker

For the first time, I didn't decide to completely change the newsletter format for the new year! buttondown.com/FoggyOutline...

New newsletter arriving soon! My Dad tries to stump me with what roleplaying game I'd run for Grimmy and Annie Mac, plus the state of Foggy Outline's various projects a month into 2026 buttondown.com/foggyoutline

Contrast this with Shirley Jackson: “The actual act of taking pen to paper…occurred on snatched time, in common spaces. Jackson’s children recall her writing in the middle of baking, perched on a kitchen stool or wedged at a folding table in the dining room.” Which takes the greater discipline?

Tomorrow is my 35th birthday, help me celebrate by overpaying for any of my games on itch. If you could overpay by £350, that would be appreciated and I'd give you a high five.

Feeling bad about my writing this week. Rational Matt knows why, and how to cope, but emotional Matt needs to sulk for a bit.

Kodansha announced they released all 26 episodes of Mushishi Season 1 to watch for free on their Youtube Channel (Availability limited to English Speaking Countries) English Sub www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvsA... English Dub www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXpg...

More on this in this month's newsletter, out on Friday buttondown.com/foggyoutline

Which blogs and podcasts do people try to guest on when they're running an audio drama kickstarter?

Apologies to the mods. Chapter 10 of Camera Obscura – my actual play of Outliers by Samantha Leigh – is out. The IRB's off our backs for now, but money is getting too tight to mention. www.foggyoutline.com/cameraobscura

I'm still in the market for TTRPG adventures and scenarios that would make good delves, landmarks, and adversaries for Heart!

Hey babe, what's your sign

*refreshes all your Resistances as you scroll past*

Curtain up! Use Your Words Act I is now playing in your podcast app. If there was ever a time for some purple prose, it's when setting the scene for a game and a story all about words.

I'm watching Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey again and I just realised I started the year by repainting my living room in the Starstruck dome colours

I can confirm, now that I've done it, that this takes 20-30 minutes. And the Amnesty guidance helpfully points out some cynical traps (and plain bad survey design) that could otherwise see the government misinterpreting your views.

Please point me to any TTRPG scenario zines (zine-arios?) that I could easily drop into a Heart: The City Beneath campaign. I've got Yanahn's Enter the Whalefall and David Lombardo's Not a Place of Honor, and I'm looking for more like that.

YOU FUCKED UP. You left the genetastic scramblomatic on all night and it spat out a thousand buck-toothed gremblings with mayhem on their minds. No one else is coming to fix this. It's time to own your lab boo-boo. WHAT IS A ROLEPLAYING GAME? Remember playing pretend with friends? LABUBU WORLD is

Bibliocalypse is a silly party game in a lot of ways, but our actual play of it also has more character death and some of the most intense content warnings of any production we've done on Merely Roleplayers.

Chris makes really cool games! Go check them out! ✨

The definition of Lo-fi has expanded to nonsensical proportions, now encompassing all music and indeed all background sound! This is bibliopocalyptic indeed. Tomorrow on Merely Roleplayers, the fight to save music begins. Music by Alexander Pankhurst, a human. He didn't actually use AI.

What's up?? No one knows – the False Librarian's Bibliocalypse has nonsensed the very concept of elevation. This cannot stand! This Tuesday on Merely Roleplayers, the Rogue Linguists enter the Forbidden Library to denonsensify elevation and cancel the Bibliocalypse.

The Ko-fi comes out of hibernation next week. New Camera Obscura writer's commentary. New unabridged interview with me (questions by Dad, editing by Mum). One-off donations and monthly subscriptions both unlock the lot. ko-fi.com/foggyoutline

I NEED A MIRACLE got a lovely write-up on Evo Terra's THE END (the directory of audio drama series that are complete and ready to binge)! www.theend.fyi/shows/i-need... And well. Season 1 is complete. But there are more desires straining to be heard.

If you live in the UK you should yell at the government here.

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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Ok, I could *really* do with a vague idea of how many people might be interested in this event, otherwise finding a suitable venue is a nonsense. I've set up a temporary event page here: ti.to/tabletop-unc... If you're conceptually interested, please click through and register your interest!

Fellow friends of audio drama! This is an awesome initiative aimed at encouraging people to consider financially supporting their favourite audio stories and storytellers. There are some all-time greats in this lineup and, frankly, getting their work this cheap is a damn good deal. Spread the word!

Hill House, not sane,

I set the I NEED A MIRACLE cover art as the desktop background on my day job laptop, and, as a transparent 'ask me about my podcast' ploy, I have to say: it's working 🎨 Dionysis Livanis

I create a podcast actual play, Merely Roleplayers. I collect RPG books and zines, mainly to have options to play on the show. I'm a player in a D&D home game, and GM a twice-monthly Heart home game with some online and some in-person sessions.

Well, I just ran to the store, aaaaand I haven't been gone long.

Well? ARE the skulls fucking in the nose?

I like this. A thematic "end with a bang" kind of play! By the way, I wrote about Beast a while back. It's a game I quite enjoyed and wish I could get it to the table more often: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/hunter-vs-...

As an editor, one of the things I'm looking out for, and that you're paying me to save you from, is when you're still starting sentences with "This white paper explores..." on page 10 of a 50-page paper

Not only is conceding an official part chess rules, it even includes specific ways to do it. The act of tipping over the king acts as what Dr. Boss might call a ritual that reduces ambiguity. Both players understand what it means, they get that it ends the game, and the match ends in clarity.

This brings to mind the other weekend's game of Beast, where, skilfully snookered by the hunters and with no way to win, I chose to attack, dying to a trap but killing a hunter on the way out, instead of staying hidden until they could catch and kill me on their turn.

A character in my WIP can't unclench one fist, and I just realised a horrible consequence of that, which I can use to set up an emotional moment AND set off a crisis for the rest of the cast to scramble around solving

Hey folks, it's my birthday today! I'd love it if you'd consider checking out mine and @georgiacooked.bsky.social's Zinetopia project, The Deepest Dark! It's a game where you die in a cave! More seriously, it's a game about self-actualisation, platonic love, and the wonder of the world

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

Get me off the hook and fill me with ale, because I'm flagon

Who am I seeing at In The Dark on Monday?

I've finished the year-long game of Outliers I've been writing up - penultimate chapter out this month, final chapter Feb, full story on foggyoutline.com/serials, writer's commentary (ie all the dice rolls and other mechanics) on Ko-fi And I'm already getting excited about playing Tower of Art next