Are you ready TO ROCK?? Malibus and I are tuning up to run Against the Gloom and Psychic Trash Detectives at PAX Unplugged today, 3pm in room 106, the Games on Demand room. You demand games? Malibus demands your attendance! @scryptidgames.bsky.social

Me and Farfalle are looking for graphic designers, illustrators, and layout artists for future TTRPG game projects. If you or someone you know does this kind of work, please drop contact info or portfolio in the comments!

Watching a Lyft driver approach your pickup spot is a little like a reverse Tron. Lightcycle Pac-man, if you will. Nom nom nom 6 minutes nom

The noise that hybrid and electric cars make when in reverse or full electric mode is the choral synth from Blue Monday. Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.

Walks outside for air in Maryland: Is… is this soup?

Forged in the Dark games are some of my most best absolute favorite to play. Happy to back this! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Starting today, you can pick up New Year, New You: a Speculative Anthology of Reinvention for $0.99! books2read.com/newyearnewyo... Read stories by @matociquala.bsky.social @darylwriterguy.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @apottern.bsky.social and more! Check it out!

At my book club and someone said a story we read had nods to Frankenstein and Alice in Wonderland in it. And then I thought “oooh, what about Frankenstein in Wonderland” and then I realized that from the golem’s perspective, he’s always in Wonderland.

This will hit small manufacturers and budding designers hardest of all. Steve Jackson isn’t a small name in this space. A price hike for them is a death knell for a smaller press.

Rest in roses, legend www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

I love me some “-punk” games. But good-got-dang not everything needs to be -punk. I wrote a game that was about actual punks flying pirate ships around a sentient void, but I’m not out here calling my game piratepunk, shippunk, musicpunk, sentientvoidpunk, or trombonepunk.

Funny story: I met Josh and Chris at GameFace Con in Baltimore. The con had been open for 10 minutes. Their games were laid out nicely. They were friendly without being overbearing. Their games were good. I was impressed! Then, to celebrate, [name redacted] spilled a beer across their entire table.

Check out the game my small press is publishing! Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I’m at GAMA Expo, in a panel about social media, and I’m the only one missing the presentation because I’m posting to social media… IS NO ONE LISTENING TO THIS GUY?? 😂

To save a missing child, two exes must reunite in their cryptid-obsessed hometown to investigate an unsolved mystery from their childhood. ❤️‍🔥Sapphic yearning ✨Genre-bending fun 👻Spooky small town mystery vibes 👽X-Files if Mulder and Scully were the monsters all along… #cupit #Q #A #LGBT #HOR #RM

We are sad to announce that we have been told by Wizards that they will no longer support us with either funding or invites to Organized Play events. Without this support - especially the invites - it is impossible for us to continue, and there will be no more VML seasons going forward.

On a writing retreat and a bunch of them are in the next room doing one of these intense dance workout routines led by some (I assume) wizard named Gandalf. I am in the kitchen cooking dinner, yelling out LOTR quotes to the beat.

Do you like GAMES? What about BEER? This SATURDAY SATURDAY SATYRDAY we are vending ALL DAY at the Holiday Tabletop Market at Peabody Heights Brewery in Baltimore, MD! Come get some prezzos for the game or beer lover in your life!

Super stoked that people asked me to sign their copies of Against the Gloom while I was running demos at the @igdn.bsky.social booth at PAXUp (19A - Hall D) yesterday.

Want to help out some cats in need? Scryptid Games is donating 25% of all pre-order game sales through Tuesday at 11:59pm ET to The Feline Rescue Association! scryptidgames.com/products/gol...

*New Year, New You*, a spec-fic anthology full of stories by some of my favorite writers (including my wife), is getting attention…

I've got more bookmail for you! Really looking forward to these. bookjockeyalex.com/2024/09/19/b...

Golden Good Girls is ending soon on Kickstarter!! A TTRPG about "unadoptable" senior shelter animals living their best lives together that mashes up heartfelt sitcom nostalgia with goofy, snoot-booping hijinx! Check it out now and throw us a bone! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nat...

Want to collab? Let’s build a fantasy town floating in the void… I still have two spots open on the Against the Gloom Kickstarter at the level where we create an anchora together based on a song you pick. We have less than 48 hours left! Let’s rock! www.kickstarter.com/projects/scr...

Boardgame Bechdel Test update Original Bechdel Test: do 2 women in a movie talk to each other, not about a man? Boardgame Bechdel Test: Are 2 non-men sitting together on your shelf? I posted this a couple years ago and am curious, has your shelf gotten more Bechdel-y? Send shelfies! Mine below

TBH I prefer stories where the daylight saves itself.

I would like to play an ent named Robert the Spruce.

Your job could literally involve singing songs like "Raining Blood" and "Angel Of Death" and your teen daughter would still think you're cringe. Via Dad Patrol

So, the Scryptid Games team will be demoing my upcoming TTRPG, Against the Gloom, at Metatopia 2023! Aaaaaand I won’t be able to be there. I’m feeling a lot of things about it, so any encouragement y’all can offer is welcome!

Don’t be fooled by the pasta I bought I’ll spill I’ll spill penne in the pot Put it on and heat it now it’s really hot No splatter on the stove I know to keep the flame onnn

what a truly cursed day in US higher ed

Matt Mercer’s first album is still really good.