I get to play in a game of Fae's Anatomy tonight with twitch.tv/analog_amber! We're streaming for @projecthopeorg.bsky.social @ 6pm CST. We're close to the goal; here's hoping my silly melodramatic medical mystery takes us over the top. Stop by and support a good cause!

It's so easy. You pay for a subscription. We infest your ears with @hebanongames.bsky.social running a Delta Green game about Y'golonac and Gla'aki as written by @adamscottglancy.bsky.social. Win/win/win/impalement/win. www.delta-green.com/dc-dro/

Newest episode of my alpha playtest for RED MARKETS 2nd Edition is out at patreon.com/hgod. Feedback for the open beta is due DEC 31 2025! I'll begin revisions immediately next year, using the year's worth of playtest notes. The more the merrier!

There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys

“No matter how long you soldier, fear always swells as combat nears. There is always the dread that the numbers will catch up.” —Glen Cook, "The Black Company" It begins: THE BLACK COMPANY RPG playtest launches today. Enlist now. theblackcompanyrpg.com

I'm running the official Discord for the game! Guess that makes me the Company "memelist" or "moderator" or whatever. I don't know the rank's name, actually; the last guy melted after a flying carpet dropped magic acid on him. Wait, am I an officer now? I wasn't properly onboarded....

Psst. #TheBlackCompanyRPG ... the playtest opens December 1. Sign up to be alerted: forms.gle/MbrHP53tSCeQ... Share and like!

anyway we wrapped up our campaign of @hebanongames.bsky.social 's Red Markets 2E last night with might be the most desperate encounter I've ever had in a TTRPG.

The Happy Jacks Indie #ttrpg Designer of the Month for November is Ross Payton! @rosspayton.bsky.social is an Ennie award-winning podcaster and writer creating titles, supplements, and more on his storefronts and Patreon. Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com... Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/RPPR

I wish someone could write a book about how cover ups organized between The New York Times, Epstein, and every foreign intelligence agency with a checkbook led us to the genocidal fascism running the US today. But NYT seems pretty good at keeping real journos outside. Guess we’ll never know!

I'm not sure new leadership in the Democratic Party is enough. I can't game out how the DNC survives as anything besides a political theater project. In name, the taint now runs deep and shameful. In tactics, any innovation is considered heretical and stamped out (see the latest surrender).

Test: if I call the Democrats managed opposition, will I get the usual "nu-uh" replies today? What POSSIBLE benefit is there to caving this deep into the longest shutdown ever, when a majority of the country rightfully blames the GOP, and a blue wave election just gave you a mandate to fight?

Null Project tried out Red Markets 2e with me. Check out the Halloween one-shot: youtu.be/RDyjWalInaE?...

The Dead Letter Bureau is featuring the first chapter of Performance, my #RedMarkets novel. It’s performed by the fantastic Fae Kells and based on one of the worst jobs I ever had! Give it a listen, just in time for Halloween! dead-letter-bureau.captivate.fm/episode/red-...

every single time I run @hebanongames.bsky.social 's Red Markets and the players run out of Will so they start a pointless and stupid argument to force Self Control checks on each other and blow off steam I sit back and watch with awe. especially if they crit-succeed so they feel better actually.

There are few uncomplicated joys in life. My favorite is glowing 5-star review of my work. A close second is a seething 1-star screed by a right-winger. The rush I get from fascist disapproval is tempered only by the need to wade through what passes for prose amongst those illiterate buffoons.

Sometimes I am not as subtle as I think I am when I try to guide players to a particular place when I am running a RPG. @hebanongames.bsky.social is not having any of it in this Fall of Delta Green session.

Editing Grace Under Pressure by Jeff Barber and John Scott Tynes. Playlist cycles over to water-level music-from-videogames. Vapor-thulhu. Now I want to run this in an aquarium, with the PA playing DK Aquatic Ambience as we all imagine getting eaten by Deep Ones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVOz...

Anyone run Outgunned yet? Thinking about giving it a shot and wondering if anyone had tips.

Red Markets.

I’m writing Red Markets 2e. A big part of the setting’s near future tech is “Ubiq Specs.” I worried how something based on the laughable Google Glass would translate to the new edition, as it was so silly as to be almost completely forgotten. Then Zuck reinvents the same failed prototype, but AI.

Panel from GenCon on the state of Red Markets 2e. Give it a listen, and try out the beta if you haven’t yet.

And now for some rare good news: @darkerhue.bsky.social joins us at Arc Dream as Production Director. #DeltaGreen #TheBlackCompany #ArcDream

Big news for Arc Dream! We are incredibly proud to have stolen @darkerhue.bsky.social from an amazing career with the US govt's most prominent science & defense contractors to help make games about, um, the horrors of the US govt and its science & defense contractors. arcdream.com/home/2025/08...

I’ve had a half-dozen people apologize to me after, of their own volition, reading or describing news in conversation. No push back, balk, or contradiction: still apologized for doomerism, pessimism, despair, and “bad vibes” (Deep breath) REALISM IS NOT PESSIMISM! OPTIMISM HAS NO INTRINSIC VALUE!

Getting to meet the legend himself, Mike Pondsmith, also felt like a lifetime achievement unlocked. As was having dinner with the game designers and podcasters who got me serious about writing games in the first place, @hebanongames.bsky.social and @rosspayton.bsky.social.

Hurtling down the highway. I look over to the passing lane. Driver is building his Magic deck, binders of cards splayed on the dashboard and the passenger acting as his hands. #gencon2025 (If we die on the way, I blame Commander tournaments)

The @hplhs.bsky.social created an entire album of audio props for God's Teeth! As a humble AP podcaster, it was surreal to hear my work performed by someone besides me, not to mention a performance with such professional voice acting and production. Fantastic work! store.hplhs.org/products/aud...

I’ll be at GenCon this year, running around and doing panels. Send me a DM if you need me for a podcast, a signing, or to chat about gaming business.

Delta Green: Reliquary—The Club. "She shares Bonds with every Agent in this room. Now she’s turning a peculiarly unnatural shade of mauve in the extremities, faintly glowing, pulsing, spreading. Something worse than shock is setting in." www.delta-green.com/reliquary-th...

I co-sign this screed. I’m proud to be part of it.

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

I finally had time to watch that parade. Did we switch to drones for efficacy, or just cuz these guys can’t march for shit? Is a sense of rhythm woke now? Were the regimental drummers too busy shooting protestors? My HS band director would have had us doing PT for that pisspoor show. Sloppy!

We're going back to our roots! We originally formed the podcast to playtest #RedMarkets 1st edition by @hebanongames.bsky.social -- and now we're playtesting RM 2nd edition! And what better way than by *also* returning to our biggest ever campaign - The 10k Lakes!

The DNC Abundance Initiative thesis (Neoliberalism? What's that?) is that policy must be entirely reoriented towards economic prosperity before the housing and healthcare crisis can be fixed, but regulation is getting in the way. How? We no longer enforce laws in this country! What regulations?!

I would like to throw in my bid for the upcoming $20mil in podcast contracts being offered by the DNC. I will waive my typical fees for a good cause and bring in a hit show for only $500K. That’s friend pricing. Continue your refusal to Google how much a podcast costs to make. It’s fake news.

big ups to @hebanongames.bsky.social for creating a game that allows me to describe difficult, anomalous, and/or politically fucked things as "red markets ass [noun]"

I'm running Delta Green and Red Markets second edition this month for my Patreon and you can play in these games! Details on the games here www.patreon.com/posts/online...

just got done playing a TTRPG called "Fae's Anatomy," which is a melodramatic medical drama where you play supernatural doctors diagnosing fantastical diseases, and it was honestly amazing. we only let our patient die three times! 😊

Playtester: "I'm disappointed." Me: "I'm sorry to hear that. What expectation let you down? What could be done differently? Any critique helps, so long as it's specific." Playtester: [no reply whatsoever] If you ever wonder why people release games w/o playtesting them, feedback like this is why.

"The New Age is upon us. Those who are ready for it will survive and prevail, and find a new level of inner peace and satisfaction. Those who aren't ready will not." Join us and hear @hebanongames.bsky.social's run of A NEW AGE at Delta Green: Dead Channels. It costs far less than your soul.

For once, I got a chance to play Delta Green! If you care to listen, give 9mm Retirement Radio a try. I'm a guest Agent in the next two episodes, and they were kind enough to interview me after we finished playing. Check it out here: pnc.st/s/9mm-retire...

Moderating fan communities for games you work on is like when Augustus had a servant follow as he passed through adoring Rome, whispering "remember thyself mortal." Only there's 20+ guys at any moment, they live in your pocket, and they loudly fight over exactly HOW you ain't shit.

I ran a Delta Green game once where a body-swapping alien swam in chemical run off while hijacking the body of a senator. It was a dark satirical comedy. I never tried to publish it because it was too ridiculous. The HHS secretary is now swimming in poo creek to own the libs.

Yesterday, Quinns Quest Season 2 opened with a lovely review of Delta Green and Impossible Landscapes. I've been a fan of @itsquinns.bsky.social for years and knew the review was coming, but it was still a shock to hear my name mentioned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx_y...

If you want to catch me at GenCon this year, here's where you can find me: www.patreon.com/posts/red-ma...

Moved into a new place. Old residents hooked up a fancy WiFi enabled thermostat, despite wiring it to an HVAC unit manufactured 25 years before the device’s invention. Broke after 3 days, bricking heating and cooling for the entire home.

My name's Michael and I've had the honor to do art for @hebanongames.bsky.social for #redmarkets and BPB Games for Savage Tokusatsu! I'm also the guy who wrote and illustrated the Mind Mind!

"Seek the lighthouse upon the heights. What light of warning it now shines I cannot say. The keeper of the lighthouse sways not in the tides of waking lies and hate.” DELTA GREEN: RELIQUARY is an experimental scenario of dreams and the Fate. Join us. Hear us. www.delta-green.com/dc-drop-reli...

Just a reminder.