Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

The downside to D&D4E being so hugely influential in the indie RPG sphere in spite of Hasbro's best efforts to kill is that we've now got a whole new species of fantasy heartbreaker where the problem isn't a failure of imagination, but the fact that the author can't do technical writing for shit.

A genuine pleasure to have this chat, it's a great format @plusoneexp.bsky.social have going and Michael is a very thoughtful designer, someone to keep your eye on!

Gonna spend most of day doing last minute prep for PAXU and shouting about Hinterlight, BUT in the middle of all that I'll be sitting down w/@fortofnovelty.bsky.social & @zohebmashiur.bsky.social as they interrogate each other's #TTRPG work on Now You've Zine It! twitch.tv/tonyplusone

We return from the dead to say that Season 3 is Apocalypse World: Burned Over by @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social, and will be dropping very soon. Please enjoy the teaser. We specifically request this.

Free biriyani on New York buses under Zohran Bhai

A lot of hands went into this laser-cut sculpture of the U'duasha map from Sumirror by @desperateattune.bsky.social and I am very happy to have it on my wall now

I played one of my favourite characters, Augustus 'Gullu' Ashcroft-Chokroborty, a fan of lasers and taking his daily walk.

jane goodall releasing a video of her listing the people she dislikes and ending with a vague message of hope is so iconic. truly someone i aspire to model myself after

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Reading the British home minister claim that being named Jihad is weird and unusual for a Muslim really tells you that the diaspora has no business being the interlocutors for 'their' communities in the West

My debut game is out now with @plusoneexp.bsky.social! Midnight in a Perfect World is about 4 survivors of a revolution gathering for dinner. You count down to midnight, the anniversary of the revolution. You reflect on your lives, and the ghosts of those you lost. plusoneexp.com/products/mid...

My debut game is out now with @plusoneexp.bsky.social! Midnight in a Perfect World is about 4 survivors of a revolution gathering for dinner. You count down to midnight, the anniversary of the revolution. You reflect on your lives, and the ghosts of those you lost. plusoneexp.com/products/mid...

Friends! My debut game is coming out. Midnight in a Perfect World is a roleplaying game about a dinner party on the anniversary of a revolution. Count down to midnight and dine with ghosts. You can get it alongside Twilight Country by @fortofnovelty.bsky.social on plusoneexp.com/pages/rpg-zi...

End of week update! We have hit 18% on our #GoFundMe to leave a nightmare apartment situation and get set up away from DC. Hitting 50% gets us so much closer to getting our pets to a place where they can be safe as well as ourselves. #mutualaid #pleaseshare gofund.me/9e6be72cf

My game of post-revolutionary dinner and sadness is coming out in Plus One Exp's Zine Club!

At a specific point in this oneshot, a rat says, "Fuck capitalism", which is a message and a messenger we can all endorse.

New blog series: analyzing roleplaying game conversations. This involves a naked philosopher and a woman trying to do her best for her son. klowspeaking.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/t...

A rare opportunity to listen to me GM my way through a podventure

Almost a year after the July revolt in Bangladesh. This is what a revolution looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXa...

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

It is necessary and important to understand that we do not blame this on Trump. We do not blame this on Republicans. We do not blame this on your billionaires and your white supremacists. We do not blame this on your armies and whichever state voted for what. We blame this on America and Americans.

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

I would say @friede.bsky.social knows me far too well: Behold Brian Gleichman's 2009(!) 5-part blogpost series on the issues with GNS, the Forge, and their reception in RPG circles: whitehall-paraindustries.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-...

Very happy with the Roll20 landing page for the upcoming campaign.

I have decided to fire up my old Worpress account and start doing writing on TTRPGs. I have written on 'Gathering Storm' by @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social klowspeaking.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/p...

The Plain Language Summary is wack as a concept in academic publishing. If the abstract can be written as a plain language summary, the text of the summary should be the abstract. If the abstract cannot be written as a PLS without compromise, then nobody who needs a PLS can read the article anyway.

When you play The Winter Letters you and a loved one roleplay as two people estranged by circumstance. You have three months of letters with which to set things right. The title page folds into an origami envelope. You can purchase The Winter Letters here: klowspeaking.itch.io/the-winter-l...

Poor man! Season 3 dropping soon.

Everybody finds in it a sentence that pleases them. Season 3 coming soon.

It's teaser time for season 3.

My request for tabletop roleplaying game designers (myself included) is to put the date of your game release in the actual book. I struggle to find this whenever I want to cite a small itch.io game in a paper.

We finished season 2! Onto the next???

This Thursday we're releasing the grand finale of the second season of @desperateattune.bsky.social It feels incredible to finish a project of 1.5 years like this. I'm not the person who started playing as Bidrohi in that campaign. A lot has happened.

TIME TO TOPPLE EMPIRE www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ycg5u...

New year, new episode! The crew makes a daring raid on Majesty Bank in an attempt to reclaim their land deeds and stolen artefacts desperateattune.podbean.com/e/house-of-e...

2025’s #GenerationAnalog will be July 15-16, online, free, open to public, with the theme PUNK Abstracts due: March 31, 2025 (750 words) Acceptance by: May 1, 2025 (Past acceptance rate: 30-50%)

Love a good duet session. Seasonal events like this can be hard to coordinate when you're a struggling Actual Play done very much as a side-hobby, but we want to make sure we do one each Christmas going forward. I'm glad that we could make it happen, even if it's just the two of us!

Our South Asian-inspired actual play is nearing the end of its second season, and we're getting ready to build a new nation. Along the way, we invent the chicken nugget. I am so immensely proud of Desperate Attune. There isn't an actual play out there like it, tackling these themes of identity.

1936, Harry Clarke invented the coolest guy ever.

My Dinner with Saeeda is now up. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. Wait, that's a different Wallace Shawn movie. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-2r3ww...

In the spirit of continuing introductions, I also write poetry. This is 'We Own Your Grandfather's Skull'.

Hi, I'm a Bangladeshi TTRPG creator and player. I'm co-creator of @desperateattune.bsky.social and have played Bidrohi, Freya and Miraz. As part of DA I wrote Sunmirror: Reflecting U'duasha with my friends Soumithri and Prince. desperate-attune.itch.io/sunmirror-re...

Hey all! This is Zoheb to let you know that Salty and I will be at Dragonmeet in London on the 30th. We'll be lurking around, looking forward to saying hi if you're there!