Reading through this post and the posts linked in it and the posts linked in those posts is so much fun and inspired a lot of thought in me, I really recommend!

TTRPGs in teaching English to young learners.

Love the old school feel. Even better than OG Battletech with its coloured standees.

Check out @fallenconstellation.itch.io post for mechanics that deal with resistance to name level PCs attempting to set up strongholds in these so called wildernesses.

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

I often feel that "default D&D" is American Frontier dynamics with Renaissance technology in a medieval theme-park sauce.

Would you look at that. Another dungeon & colonialism blogpost as a response to mine and Habeeb's blogpost. This one is from my friend @harbowoputra.bsky.social! "Embracing Colonialist Dungeons" diceless.substack.com/p/embracing-...

Very excited to see this kind of work. I am planning to include aspects of this in Mausantara and its Cairn conversions. Easier with Cairn and the invasion of the Dutch. As a white person living in Indonesia, I'm not so sure about the establishment of the Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic empires though.

The colonial plantation is a TTRPG dungeon. I approve of this greatly!

Quote reposting so I can read this tomorrow morning. Share it to help me remember. Because all of Nova's reviews deserve to be read. Keep her in mind for the Bloggie nominations.

And here is a link to Fae's @lntpblk.bsky.social quickstart.

Southeast Asian TTRPG content. Check it out.

Firefly Characters and what kind of person is running them in their Traveller Game:

Perfect stock art for #Mausritter.

I love painting tiny inside joke nose art on silly little miniatures and I will not stop any time soon. #quar #miniaturepainting

Do I know anyone who’s good at making aesthetic and mostly automated character sheets/character keepers on Google Sheets?

Public domain > AI

It will take generations for trans rights to recover from the US and UK hate mongering. And not only in these two countries.

"A great RPG for people interested in the kind of interplanetary spacecraft warfare it’s aiming for. It has complex systems, you’re managing hard decisions at crew, ship and command levels, you’re trying to liaise with other captains, and you’re doing it all in the depths of uninhabitable space."

If you’re going to refer to me as a terrorist and an enemy of the state simply because I’m trans, then I feel I’ll need to step up my game.

I'd like to make Ironsworn: Starforged available as epub. This likely involves converting the content to a format that can be digested as epub, since I'm not smart enough to do that in the 1st place. Seems like a thing I might contract out? Anyone know of someone who does this for indie publishers?

This looks absolutely beautiful.

This piece is UK focused but there’s a similar dearth of third spaces in the US that don’t expect you buy something just for the pleasure of entering and socializing Libraries fill some of this need but can’t meet all of it

This is the stuff right here!

Hey have y'all reacted your dragons?

I'm book marking this one. I've got a lot of the big picture going for Mausantara but often draw a blank when I'm trying to nail down the details.

I’m planning a column about women and games next year. I want to discuss how stories about women are told/received in games, and how does womens’ criticism exist- where/what is it? If you are a woman game writer/dev/critic and would like to share your thoughts, dm or email [email protected] !

Went to the FLGS to paint up our starter gangs for Cyberpunk: Combat Zone. Our first time painting minis. Naeema made excellent colour choices while Umar had fun priming his gang. Had fun and the kids liked the owner.

More coloured art by Munkao.

The rules hack we need. "if the player characters want to take up the role of villain, then the referee gets to be the heroes. In the supplement, you will find brief (roughly two pages) rules for unrest among the common folk and the consequences of conquest."

come over to the patreon to see more of the dark nusantara-maoist xianxia world we're building www.patreon.com/makapatag

december spot art request: bored vampire on a luxurious sofa

The Kickstarter for the BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol. 3, is now live, raising funds for a collection of monsters from the OSE Classic and BX monster selections. www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #ttrpg #osr #ose #hexcrawl #dnd

How exciting! I'll miss this by a few weeks but it bodes well for the future of the hobby in Indonesia. A new TTRPG convention [LFG Session 1] to be held in Jakarta on January 24. Six tables is great. Check the thread for deatials about the games on each table.

Twenty years ago. Just pushing thirty.

Cute woodland denizens.

I think it's time for 10 cool things about DANGER CLOSE, my tactical military skirmish ttrpg! Rules available for freeee on itch: dicegoblingames.itch.io/danger-close...

Hello! I'm looking for an editor, layout designer, and illustrators to help bring my urban fantasy world build rpg, to life for Zine Month 2026. All work pre-crowd funding will be paid with additional work contingent on funding. Feel free to reach out directly if you have any questions Forms below

I held back on sharing the arrival of The Perfect Wife until this arrived. It's a hand drawn sketch by @zedecksiew.bsky.social of one of the characters who bears an excellent resemblance to one of my neighbours, and honorary grandfather to my kids. He passed away about eight years ago.

what's up gamers, I'm back with ten more tangible tips for editing your tabletop RPG manuscript: samsorensen.blot.im/ten-more-tan...

Super interesting thread

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.

The broccoli preacher #surreal #bestiary #ttrpg #drawing #sketching

The process from start to finish. Very pleasing result, especially for a first attempt.

It's been a hot minute since I've touched D&D, but I saw this and remembered one of the recurring bits my friends and I would always do: unionizing the kobolds. No matter what group of players, if we encountered stereotypical "kobolds in mines getting exploited" bit we would derail immediately.

Critique Navidad! What do you get when you hire a university to write the most comprehensive history of a civilisation to support a module, and illustrate it better than most children’s history books? You get Carved in Stone, a module about living among the picts! idlecartulary.com/2025/12/13/c...

"Well, I'm back" he said. Over the last three months, I've keyed every hex in the bounds of the Shire, including rumors, nested random encounters, and five embedded mini-dungeons. I've collated them into a document, linked on the blog:

TTRPGS are gradually gaining traction in Indonesia despite the huge barrier that language poses to entry. It's essentially closed to everyone except the well educated and reasonably well off. I'm hoping to change that with some translations of minimalist #NSR RPGs over the next few years.

Kuntilanak is known as pontianak in Malaysia. So this is what my daughter was pretending to be.