New episode of Design Doc before 2025 is a wrap! We talk about New Year's resolutions and why they're pretty great, actually—one Skill, one Mastery, and three Experiences to round out every year. Thank you everyone for listening! We will see you in 2026. pod.link/1298080097/e...

A horror game i can never play.

The most excruciatingly painful lyric game / LARP of 2025

I do think the key for things like Home Alone, Muppet Christmas Carol, etc. is that the actors fully commit to the bit I feel like similar films made now lean too heavily into doing it ironically

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

This game is really fucking good and you should play it!

Luna is hype! Get on this.

A roleplaying game where you have to close every one of your 200 open browser tabs one by one, gradually giving up parts of yourself until you are reborn as an egg.

I like petting my cat when he is staring out the window twitching his tail at birds. He purrs but also is angry. I say, “you are a hunter and also a baby. This is your cross to bear.”

PSA: Itch is running its Winter Sale, so go make your favorite creators' (and yours!) holiday season happier! 💞 I have all my games at 30% off (or all in a bundle for an insane 61% off) I even made this high-budget, hand-crafted promo visual for you itch.io/s/174877/win...

HOMELESSNESS IS NOT A DRUG PROBLEM IT'S A HOUSING PROBLEM I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop. PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!! People need homes they can afford!

'I can't believe they turned Star Trek into a teen drama, it's gotten so far from what made it good, wah wah wah' Meanwhile Star Trek in 1993:

Can you believe this cat came from the trash? (I mean from this pic yeah kind of)

indie ttrpg twitter was wild. You used to be able to post things like "I wish there was a Baywatch Nights ttrpg" and then a week later there would be a Baywatch Nights game jam

I can think of no version of D&D I want to play as much as this, whatever it turns out to be.

If you missed Griot Anthology at Pax Unplugged, dont worry! We are working with @plusoneexp.bsky.social @sidequestbooks.bsky.social and @ipr.bsky.social to make physical copies available soon!

I’ve still never played D&D and I’m working on designing an OSR-style game based on vibes only and I’ve never been so excited to release something.

MUD GHOST ESTATE REDUX is 50% funded and we have announced the stretch goals! ✨ More illustrations would be added to the game at £3000 and @ginkgogoes.bsky.social would be joining the project at £4500! 👻 www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

Wanna get some of my art as prints for the holidays? Visit my inprnt store! www.inprnt.com/profile/sony...

I bought Walter a fountain and he doesn’t drink from it but does stare into it for hours like a scrying pool.

Oh hey, we put up the dozen Core Playbooks, if you want to check them out. I'll talk about them a tiny bit in the thread below. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

There’s always an anonymous hero in the Buy Nothing group who heals the vibes when things get tense and our local one is Butt_faced_miscreant.

sisko is such a good dad

It was a really good PAX! I’m thinking a lot about what it means to persist in games from year to year, the waves we’ve managed to ride, and the people who are rooting for us to succeed. I’m excited to make new things in 2026 and be proud of them!

PAX U was a SMASHING success!! Always a pleasure to share a booth with @turtlebun.com and @gamefiend.bsky.social

Five Fires, my love letter TTRPG to 80s/90s hip-hop, is launching in February. Join us! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

It's that time again! That's right, it's time for Solo But Not Alone, our annual fundraiser bundle for @takethis.org! If you have written a singleplayer-capable TTRPG that hasn't been in the bundle before, come join us for the bundle event of the year. forms.gle/atnazSa6TzL6...

Thanks to Philly for an awesome #PAXUnplugged ✨️ shoutout to our fantastic friends/booth-mates at @turtlebun.com and @moreblueberries.bsky.social for the amazing vibes all weekend! @gamefiend.bsky.social @hanbandit.bsky.social

Yessss! Come try your hand at necromancy in Come From Your Grave #GriotAnthology Thanks @hanbandit.bsky.social for the feature!

This one is great! It's a "cozy doomsday" game.

From our @turtlebun.com friends with us in Booth #3850!

I wanted to highlight some of the weirder offerings we have at #paxunplugged! I’ll start with Public Guest 5. It’s our solo TTRPG about living beneath an artificial menacing planet. You roll 2 dice once every real-world day until your world explodes. Until it does, you live your life well.

Bluesky for me after muting the tag m*djourney 😌

Mud Ghost Estate Redux has now got 93 followers on Kickstarter! 👻 Can I get 7 more before the launch? 👉👈 Please share with your friends! ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

S asked me this morning “if you get bitten by an artist, is that how you get to be an artist?” and honestly it’s as good a reason as any right?!

Random things: shoutouts to @ndpdesign.com for designing a Community Radio cover that stops people in their tracks and literally draws them across the aisle. Shout out to @aaronradney.bsky.social for cover art on the Griot Anthology that did the same exact thing.

Listen! My sibling who I adore more than anything in the world has made us D20 and homosexual Gameboy earrings to sell at PAX. Their first sale will put them over the moon, so stop by booth 3850 if this is your jam!

If you see me at PAX, you can get a game, but equally as important you can tell me to respect the owl and not let my Duolingo streak break.

Realis is coming sooner than you think! Sign up to be notified at launch when the print edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's TTRPG goes live in 2026, and start bracing yourself for all the additional art, player options, and GM resources being added to the game: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

My mom sent me this video saying it reminded her of me when I was little. So I made it into a video that we send each other now if we are fighting and need to just call a truce. Feel free to pass it on and use it. 🩷

Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS! ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Drawing apps should a have a "move last 20 strokes to the correct layer because I was distracted and drew them on the wrong one sorry" button

With PAXU this weekend, I once again come to you with a desperate plea: Just go to whatever pizza place is nearest to you. You do not need to go to Cheesesteak Vegas. You do not need to wait in line outside at Angelos. Any pizza place will serve you a perfectly serviceable cheesesteak. I beg you.

After ten years making indie TTRPGs I’ve learned that you don’t have to make *good* games to succeed. It is enough to make *okay* games with humility and regularly scheduled Kickstarter updates.

Walter, who is not an outdoor cat, has been carrying around an emotional support turkey feather and no one knows where he got it from.

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

Ordering a Plus One game for a special occasion? Let the @plusoneexp.bsky.social warehouse team know because we love making you nerds feel special (even if we’re not really that great at gift wrapping or using sealing wax).

This is the vibe I’m trying to bring to situations

If you’re looking into novellas during awards season, I humbly put forth my own, from @neonhemlock.bsky.social? Gay archeologists, academic footnotes, alt history shenanigans, giant robots, hot superheroes, and hard-to-cook samosas are all plot points! www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...