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.

if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus

Every book I’ve ever written for Delta Green (hell, MOST things anyone has written for DG) is available at Humble Bundle. Check it out if you’re missing something from your collection, need the whole library cheap, or want to support a good cause! www.humblebundle.com/books/delta-...

I recently ran an early version of a scenario related to DELTA GREEN: FALLING TOWERS. "Falling Towers" is a campaign about the dissolution of a deadly NYC cult in the years just after 9/11. "Reliquary" is about...complications. Join us and listen to part 1. www.delta-green.com/dc-drop-reli...

This week on The Coffin Club: a one shot of Red Markets' 2e beta with special guest @hebanongames.bsky.social ! and folks, the dice are especially mean tonight thanks to the Invisible Hand of the Market rolling and remembering that probability doesn't owe you shit. thecoffin.club/2025/03/07/r...

A DELTA GREEN HUMBLE BUNDLE is coming March 20. It will have EVERYTHING. Its purpose is 2-fold: -To raise a warchest so Arcdream can side-step these stupid fucking tariffs and not charge more. -To raise money (again) for Direct Relief Ukraine, because Fuck Trump and Putin. Join the conspiracy.

Find madness and evil in "God's Light," available now for Delta Green. Written by Caleb Stokes and Shane Ivey. It can be played on its own or as the capstone to four scenarios set before that grim conclusion of "God's Teeth." We considered releasing a companion... shop.arcdream.com/collections/...

We sat down with @hebanongames.bsky.social to talk about the Red Markets 2nd Edition Beta, lessons learned from designing an Ennie nominated RPG, the Horrors (economic, zombie, and otherwise) and much more. relatablerolls.com/episodes/cal...

Oh damn! Red Markets made it on Metafilter! www.metafilter.com/207574/Red-M... I hope the post exposes people to 2nd edition so they can give it a try. But I've read mefi for years -- I'm so flattered just to be on the feed. That's great!

I don't know the way forward in the US right now, but I'm certain no solution is possible until we stop tsk-tsking people for alarmism whenever they describe reality. The opposite of optimism (the "Mueller will fix this!" shit that got us here) is not pessimism -- it's REALISM.

Somebody just left a 3-star review…for my Red Markets beta playtest: a free product, literally advertised as unfinished for the purposes of feedback and revisions. No feedback was offered in the review. Just 3 stars w/o context, solely to tank the algo. The entitlement of gamers knows no limit.

I've posted my latest scenario - WOLVES - over on delta-green.ghost.io. The 60+ page full operation is available to backers now: www.delta-green.com/wolves/ It's about hunting nazi Viking bikers in rural Washington, and the text can tie-in to any Labyrinth campaign.

If anyone wants an award-winning game designer on their podcast/stream, I'm happy to talk horror, political game design, actual plays, freelancing, or anything else related to TTRPGs. Also happy to grab a character and play something for a couple of hours. Let me plug the RM Beta, and I'm yours.