Love to use real-world settings with Zombie World. Last time: Disneyland. The game's fast, fun, and hits the key tropes. Super easy to drop the characters into whatever their zombie-apocalypse dream scenario is. Interested to see what @magpiegames.bsky.social does with these.

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

Regret to inform you that the rapture did happen and no one made the cut. So we’re all stuck here together until the next one. And probably the next one after that.

A new classic of "let's do it in one session" games

Actual Play Players Wanted: Plus One seeks to create play groups representing diverse voices with different lived experiences. BIPOC, Queer, & voices from the global south are highly encouraged to reach out about opportunities to join our streaming team. All streams pay something. 3/5

The chances of someone playing your ttrpg are proportional to the amount of extra content available for it that they'll never be able to play.

White Mountain Rescue is a ttrpg where the players are a Search & Rescue team working in the White Mountain National Forest. As the game progresses, the characters become aware that something supernatural and malicious is afoot in the wilderness. picaroon-jack.itch.io/white-mounta...

Make your margins bigger. Evergreen advice for every layout of everything ever.

This year's Wassailing annual is shaping up to be our most twisted, which is saying a lot after Black Mold's blood sacrifices and parlour games. Notes from contributors' outlines include the line: "Display a body prominently in the Manor so everyone can see Santa’s failure."

I picked up a few of the Monster Pamphlets based on the wild ideas and gorgeous art of Rumored Blades … and frankly, they're maybe even better.

80s kids will understand this is just how things used to be

Hot take: Clown in a Cornfield is YA folk horror

This is probably more about “guns being considered a tool” than “not having tools other than guns”, but the heart of it feels on point.

I found this Mastodon 🧵 very illuminating:

If you're into movies like this, I have a curated playlist for you here: B Movie Bonanza boxd.it/Gug06

The final go-to-print version of Beetle Knight is up on itch for free! This is the full version of the game with 20 species to play, piles of emblems, special items, and backgrounds, and foes! Everything you need to get started! brookletgames.itch.io/beetle-knigh...

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

The next 6 months feel like we're going to see a Carved from Brindlewood explosion. It's a great time to check out some CfB games and get involved!

With the big fat release of The Between imminent, the absolutely lurid Arkham Herald on its way, and Planet Raygun on the horizon … @gauntletrpg.bsky.social is about to pop off. Oh, and Pizza Time! too. (Color art by @carlydraws.bsky.social, spot art by @tessfowler.bsky.social)

I'm increasingly doing this thing while writing where I will unconsciously type a word that (vaguely) sounds like the word I'm thinking. Just now: "suspicion" instead of "submission". Do other people do this?

When I heard the new issue of S&K was getting split into two issues, I assumed that meant it’d be spread out over a couple months … But it actually meant the first pdf was just too big. So now you get two massive drops at the same time.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

Me: Start game Video game: NO YOU SIT THERE AND PRESS NO BUTTONS FOR 20 MINUTES. DON'T YOU DARE PRESS SHIT UNTIL YOU SEE AN ICON OF IT ON THE SCREEN. WAIT ARE YOU TRYING TO PRESS SOMETHING WE DIDN'T TELL YOU TO PRESS? OHHH THERE'S ANOTHER 20 MINUTE CUTSCENE IN YOUR FUTURE, PAL. YOU MADE US DO THIS.

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

The secret is to only make a game if you can combine two pieces of media into one thing.

OH MY GOD. We're just a month away from another round of the #hauntalong and you haven't watched any of last year's picks yet?

Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.

There goes the “AI is good for brainstorming” faction.

I just think it's the coolest thing ever to have some of Plus One's games available at the Bodega! (buy them out so we can send more)

Great explanation. Also? A lot of guides are way more than needed for most projects. The core stuff I'd recommend to document: - Color palette (w/ notes on % of use) - Fonts (w/ basic styles and pairings) - Logos (and other repeated visual markers) - General aesthetic philosophy

2025 has radicalized me so much that I will instant block you if you try to tell me that song is about anything other than werewolves in London. Just not enough time in this life for that shit.

:: points to sign :: News reporters have indexed so hard on horse-race commentary that they no longer know how to report the news.

It's okay for us to just enjoy a song about werewolves, especially werewolves in London, without litigating it for deeper themes and purpose! Repost only if you agree.

It's tempting to suppose that the Chinese menu and Trader Vic's indicate Warren Zevon was commenting on cultural appropriation. But a deeper lyrical analysis suggests these details are simply incidental to the song's London setting – and its omnipresent echoes of British imperialism.

Attention artists! I need some original illustrations for some upcoming games (please see my thread). If you want to throw your hat in the ring, please reply in the thread with a link to your portfolio. And if you see this, please repost or tag in someone you think might be a good fit!

ARKHAM HERALD We already have art for this, but we'll need a few more pieces to round things out. This has the potential to be a longer partnership—we intend to support this game for some time. A group zoom call with myself and our layout artists will be required, to get everyone on the same page.

We’re taking a big swing from a design perspective on Pizza Time! Tattoo, sticker artists who can play with that demented line between kiddie and NOT FOR KIDS would be at home in this project.

I am intensely skeptical that anyone ever did data analysis to determine if AI uses dashes at a higher rate than human writers (especially professionals).

That little bit at the bottom is solid gold.

50+ Trophy & Brindlewood ttrpg creators got live access to: - Over a dozen workshops covering end-to-end ttrpg production…writing, art, layout, mechanics, audio, pitching, and more - Small-group mentorship with award-winning creators - Playtests of games & scenarios All community run! All free!

So … you’re saying Frankenstein actually IS the monster.

Before you make your next #TTRPG, check out my free font Polymath, which lets you create a bunch of different dice types in an accessible way: hedgemazepress.itch.io/polymath-dic...

… a museum honoring immigrants who were sent by the US government to detention camps despite being law-abiding citizens.

TTRPG creator and illustrator @oxsago.bsky.social presented at the Sprigs & Kindling Writing Retreat today on illustrating for TTRPGs, and you can check out his presentation (plus bonus content!) here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS3P...

🌘 Waning: Skeletons in spacesuits 🌒 Waxing: Interplanetary bops

Everytime you think you’ve triangulated what it’s about, Zevon throws some detail at you that throws your entire concept out the window. He knows it’s just about werewolves in London, and he’s having a fab time shutting down your attempts to interpret it as something more.

Learned something new today: It *is* like riding donkeys on the beach. Haha. That werewolf really had the zeitgeist pinned down.