I wrote a little about criticism today. idlecartulary.com/2025/09/25/w...

What on earth brain it's 11:59 on the countdown clock and you're rewriting basic moves? ARE YOU TRYING TO FUCK WITH ME, BRAIN? I WILL DENY YOU CAFFEINE DO NOT TEST ME www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

@rollinggloryjam.bsky.social's upcoming heavy metal action roguelite Grim Trials is in the Top 40 Finalists of SEA Game Awards!💀🌸 Vote for Grim Trials NOW for the Audience Choice Award: mdec.my/levelupkl/se... #indiegames #gamedev #levelupkl

Alien: Earth finale is so underwhelming. The series had an awesome run. Then the last two episodes happened.

New Review! Orphans, the newest Tuesday Night Games Pamphlet. Numerous thoughts within. www.valerialoves.com/orphans-stuc...

If you're on LinkedIn, here's the opt-out for LinkedIn's AI bullshit using your content. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Finally wrote my Appendix N blogpost. I know I'm late to the party, but writing this was fun and it energized me. So here you go, the media that inspires my Tabletop RPG works and sessions. afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/my-personal-...

yum yum yum little lunchbreak blogpost lukegearing.blot.im/contacts-and...

A review of one of the earliest official 5e adventures (but one you’ve never heard of) which also explores the 5e play culture of the time and whether you can “fix” an adventure with lots of fun aspects without subverting the intended play culture #dnd #rpg #osr

Criterion Closet but instead of movies, it's Tabletop RPG

I wrote about the disease & parasitic infection, the under-discussed save or die effect which lurks not just in dungeons & the bites of monsters, but in cities, aboard ships, in the food adventurers eat, the water they drink, & the very air they breathe:

CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS FINALLY DROPPING FROM @plusoneexp.bsky.social AND @stillfleet.bsky.social ! www.rascal.news/picaro-early...

They just released the first trailer for Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu. I think this is the first time that I don't get excited for a Star Wars movie as a Star Wars fan.

I believe @ndpdesign.com's World Wide Wrestling is the best PbtA game and it should be celebrated more, because it's right up there with Apocalypse World 2e and Masks: A New Generation. A marvel of PbtA design and a lot of fun to play!

This week, brilliant Bastionland creator Chris McDowall & Comedy Central veteran Jeremy Bent talk improvisation & art on D&D Outloud! youtu.be/pyxt_y9oV5I

Thank you to everyone for support Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. We have just reached $100,000 and with 2 days left, Please give us a boost and support by Repost the bundle!! itch.io/b/2979/play-...

We are incredibly pleased to reach $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!! Thank you for the support!! Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

I'm incredibly ecstatic that we reached $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!! Thank you for the support!! Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

I watched the latest Alien: Earth episode and I think that's my least favorite episode of the series. I'm loving the series, but Episode 7 feels really off in terms of direction.

We're just about 4 days left before the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle sale ends, and about $8,000USD away from hitting $100k USD. Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

My players did a speedrun of two Myths in Mythic Bastionland, in the first session of a campaign. It's safe to say Elden Ring's influence, including speedrunning, is strong in this campaign 😂

Tonight was session 1 of our new long-term Mythic Bastionland campaign, with @isaacisafraid.bsky.social as GM. We were: Gormac the Gallows Knight; Remote the Meter Knight; and Vithri the Leaf Knight. And we shanked a tinkerer on the road in cold blood, and by doing so gained Glory. 1/

Gorillaz say FREE PALESTINE

I appreciate this sounds like my retirement/obituary but NOT TODAY HATERS. www.bastionland.com/2025/09/buil...

Today my new adventure Orestruck is officially released! Return to the Tannic Forest to confront monstrosities, both magical and mundane. Itch weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck DrivethruRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... @spacepenguinink.bsky.social spacepenguin.ink/collections/...

JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as “the “most authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

We're delighted to announce that our upcoming heavy metal roguelike Grim Trials by @rollinggloryjam.bsky.social is one of the TOP 40 FINALISTS in SEA Game Awards!🌸🏆 The Afterlife awaits, play the demo NOW: neondoctrine.games/GrimTrialsDemo #indiegames #gamedev #roguelite #indiedev

Andor changed my life. That it is so prescient of the times today and what we should be fighting for is everything. Free Palestine. youtu.be/Q4cVBVSS9fc?...

Horrible Knight is a 3rd party adventure @gendershrug.bsky.social & @robbiaburns.bsky.social for MotO games & Mythic Bastionland by @bastionland.bsky.social We have been dying to partner w/Reilly for a while. Pairing them up with Robbi for art is killing I can't wait to reveal the design tech 3/3

Running an Electric Bastionland campaign for four players, with Prison of the Worm Queen as the first adventure. Three sessions in, still no rolls (other than luck)! I'm actually surprised and proud of them! They're really playing it smart and careful.

Andor deserves so much more for being so relevant to what's currently happening throughout the world with the concerning rise of conservatism, authoritarianism, fascism, and other -isms that are corrupting more and more people.

We're going to ring the bell this Sunday, September 14th, for the World Wide Wrestling reprint + hardcover campaign! We're close, but can we get to 250 followers by then? Please share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

My favorite PbtA game is getting a reprint + hardcover? 👀

I honestly don't understand the thought process behind some Indonesians who are angry because of the death of some right wing racist. He was a racist, why would you even care about him when he he hated us who he deemed as different?

A rather telling sign of the times. Matt from Mongoose explains a tweak to the "rescue a billionaire" sample adventure in their upcoming near-future RPG. #games #rpg #gooddog

Did you know that those folks who rate the games in their itchio library are considered incredibly, powerfully attractive?

FEAST www.bastionland.com/2025/09/myth...

Depends on my mood whether I'm feeling more Horror or less Horror

FKR stands for Franklin Kriegsspiel Roosevelt

It's my birthday! If you haven't checked out the OSR Tabletop RPG adventure that my partner and I made, you should! It's Pay What You Want. It would mean a lot to me. Link below!

Birthday presents! The Mythic Bastionland one arrived last week but my partner told me not to open it and save it for my birthday (even though I bought it myself lol). The rest is from her. I honestly didn't expect Pirate Borg! The cinephile stuff is so cute 🥺

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From the forbidden magic of resurrection in My Lovely Series to the ultraviolent boomer shooter Devilated, the Hungry Ghost Festival by @SEAGamethetic will surely satiate your hunger for the macabre... 👻 store.steampowered.com/curator/4502... #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #horrorgames

We've released episode 2 of The Smiling Fox, an unofficial Mythic Bastionland podcast. This episode is all about prep. Available wherever you get your podcasts, and also right here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=veBt...

This is probably why some folks are being tripped up by @jdragsky.bsky.social 's Expressionist Games Manifesto: it's hard to believe that a smart game designer is arguing for Bad Game Design! She's clearly gone round the bend; the Manifesto sucks; people who like that Manifesto are sycophants! 2/

"This game's rules is frustrating to players" not as a failure state, but as a fecund site of intentional design / artistic possibility. I do think people have a hard time with this. It goes against orthodox, deeply held assumptions that friction between rules and players is Bad Design. 1/

Since today's discourse is on how "not everyone grew up with Nintendo", I'll reshare this: medium.com/@felipepepe/... And reinforce that this is systemic - a consequence of US hegemony. It's NOT a personal attack on American journos, youtubers & gamers, but rather a reminder of our differences.

Wanted to join on the bandwagon of folks writing their Appendix N for their blogposts but it's almost midnight here and work got me stressed out. I guess I'll do it sometime this week :(

If anyone is looking for a Tabletop RPG blogpost to read today, this is the one

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...