Vintage Cube 🏆🏆🏆 I am pretty sure that I have trophied the last four times I drafted this archetype. My pack one, pick one was Malevolent Rumble, with a successful gambit to wheel Wasteland, and I just forced green from there. Force of Vigor and Haywire Mite as a sideboard package.

Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!

HOW’S NEXT WEEK is a solo journaling anti-game you play when your #TTRPG sessions get cancelled. 🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week

Excited to see Going For Broke in someone's top five list for games of the year, alongside some excellent company.

Last cube season, Boros aggro was my pick for easiest trophy in the vintage cube. But this season, in both the regular vintage cube and the No Holds Barred version, it's been Gruul land destruction/recursion. The lane is always open and it can crater most decks that aren't already winning by turn 3.

After numerous scrapped paint scheme ideas, I've finally committed to one I feel really excited about for my Drukhari army! Here's my test model - going for "scavenger pirates, far from home, flying through a world of dust and rust."

Turn one: Stomping Ground Turn two: Strip Mine, Badgermole Cub, animate the Strip Mine Turn three: Bestow a Springheart Nantuko on Strip Mine, play a fetch, begin copying Strip Mine 😎 My opponent reanimated Etali on turn two and hit Ouroboroid, so it didn't matter, but this was still so fun.

*firing up my first draft in the No Holds Barred Vintage Cube* Okay! Let's see if I can manage to put together something broken. *assembles Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation, Time Vault + Key, an infinite mana combo, and a lean little Tinker package.*

Hey #YEG friends! Are you involved in indie TTRPGs? Do you love running and designing and playing #TTRPG games? We've got a meetup for local indie TTRPG folks at @pemetawe.bsky.social on December 27 at 1:00 PM :D Be there or be too cool for this XD

US customers can now pick up the new boxed set version of The Quiet Year. Check out my webstore for more info! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com

Happy Every Five Minutes Day to all who celebrate.

Fear. Progress. Evolution. Disaster. Disaster. Disaster. Enjoy our live play of The Quiet Year, where we will have live artist and endlessly talented Art Director @naladraws.com to draw our world as it unravels. @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social @edwardspence.bsky.social @drakoniques.itch.io

Every time I read one of the emails from my MLA, I'm super impressed. She sends a detailed breakdown of what she does and doesn't like about Carney's proposed budget, the factors she's weighing in deciding how to vote, ends on a genuine ask for constituent feedback, then drops a classy post script.

Apocalypse World has had a bigger impact on my life than any other roleplaying game. It's just a phenomenal game, designed by phenomenal people. You should pick up a copy of the new edition!

Is there a good descriptor for the type of story—which I mostly encounter in chamber horror and time loop thrillers—where the protagonists interfacing with and attempting to circumvent The Rules is the focus of the story? I'm thinking especially of Talk to Me, It's What's Inside, Russian Doll, etc.

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Ok, @lumpley.bsky.social & I have been very up-front over the years on our sales data & etc, so here's a thing, & thanks Will, for bringing it up. Starting a career in #ttrpgs means making games. it means writing in a goggle doc or notebook, trying mechanics with a friend, finding 3 folks to play.

Ending cube season with an easy trophy playing this very broken Grixis wheels deck. 🏆✨ Orcish Bowmasters, Hullbreacher, and Sheoldred to pair with my two wheels. Psychic Frog to bin Echo. Mox Sapphire and Ancestral Recall (both of which were, bizarrely, passed to me). Discard, removal, quality.

Some drafts, you need to bounce around a bit before you find your lane. Other drafts, you accidentally put together Breach-LED-Brain Freeze plus power in your opening seven picks.

This orzhov pile felt like it had absolutely no business winning a trophy! But it turns out Phelia blinking Staff of the Storyteller is enough to carry a draft. 🐕✨

"The time for a softer, gentler Apocalypse World was gone." Apocalypse World: Burned Over represents the complicated ways that both the Bakers and reality have changed since the original RPG's release.

We played „Going for broke“ by @lackingceremony.bsky.social at a recent con and had an absolute blast. Our sitcom cast had a run in with the mob. Before we knew it, one of the thugs was living with us 💕 #ttrpg #indiettrpg

"i hate losing to trash" my opponent types in chat, before conceding to my 3-0, 6-0 Boros aggro deck that was efficient, redundant, synergistic without compromising card quality, with a tight curve that anchored on powerful two-drops, that beat them by playing to the board without overcommitting.

Lemurs! Lemurs! Listen up! It's here! Our Kickstarter for Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake is live! Go check it out at www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud... ! Join us as we make rad queer art with our tiny lemur paws!

This deck did not feel like it was supposed to trophy a vintage cube elimination draft. (I'm sitting at 68 QPs right now, making this my most winningest season ever.)

At @qgcon.bsky.social for like one whole hour this weekend and managed to catch this amazingly titled @lackingceremony.bsky.social talk which unlike her I am 100% certain also applies to boardgames (and 45% sure for digital experiences)

Answering a few quick emails on my laptop at the airport, where they are blasting The Chemical Brothers very loud for some reason, and it's hard to not feel like a very cool hacker under these conditions. I am resisting the urge to whisper "I'm in" in every single second right now.

I need help finding a word. I'm trying to say: the kind of editing or polishing that results in an end product that is *perhaps* more technically proficient, broadly palatable, or aligned with commonly practiced standards... but which strips the thing of its resonance, unique spark, or janky charm.

I'm a guest at @kamcon.bsky.social this weekend! My highlights so far: -winning Taskmaster (partially on the back of my "best worst gift" - I showed up with a lovingly plated tuna jello salad) -having someone exclaim "This is everything I hoped for & more!" during character creation in Dream Askew.

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

wrote a new design diary (free for everyone to access) about @lackingceremony.bsky.social 's developmental editing for Seven-Part Pact and the process of implementing it — both creatively and philosophically! www.patreon.com/posts/137648...

Fellow game designers/etc! Can you help me with a quick silly video for a Taskmaster style competition I need to do? All I need is for you to film a landscape-oriented selfie video where you say the following: "Hi! I'm [Full Name], [designer] of [game or games]. I'm here to say: Welcome to KamCon!"

Fellow game designers/etc! Can you help me with a quick silly video for a Taskmaster style competition I need to do? All I need is for you to film a landscape-oriented selfie video where you say the following: "Hi! I'm [Full Name], [designer] of [game or games]. I'm here to say: Welcome to KamCon!"

@lackingceremony.bsky.social's Monsterhearts is getting its own video game courtesy of Canadian design studio, Ludic Lemur. How are they going to adapt the angsty, social dynamics of the RPG into a digital format? Cards!

Unboxing the new Quiet Year! This is a hand-stamped box that's the perfect size to hold the how to play booklet, cards, skull tokens, and little wooden dice.

Turn one, on the play: Blackcleave Cliffs, Black Lotus, Chain of Smog targeting myself, discarding Atraxa and Oliphant, Exhume the Atraxa, draw into Mox Jet and Reanimate, bring back the Oliphant, pass with thirteen power on board and Entomb + Death ready for turn two. This felt glorious.

You hear Don't Stop Believing (Glee) playing in the distance. It's a warning.

My experience doing vintage cube elimination drafts on MTGO this season is that Boros aggro will consistently net you a 2-1 or 3-0 record, with or without power. If you have any combination of Forth, Phlage, Otharri, Bombardiers, Gut, Pyrogoyf, Ajani, or Skullclamp, you will just steamroll people.

Ran a game of The Quiet Year by @lackingceremony.bsky.social with some brilliant people and had an incredible 4 hour experience of hope, heartbreak and laughs along the way. Gotta love the feeling when people tell you “this was my favorite RPG experience ever!”

quicksand? sure, listen—when I was a kid I was told about yeerks. you know yeerks? space slugs, they slide in your ear, take over your brain. you’re locked in your own body. terrifying. and then I grew up. and there’s no yeerks. but get this: you’re still locked in your own body

Talk of the Table! Elliot and Brian sit down with @lackingceremony.bsky.social , designer of beloved games like The Quiet Year and Monsterhearts, to discuss the many full circle moments of her career, why trigger warnings are actually for the sickos, and how she continues to learn from her designs.

Tune in TOMORROW for our interview with @lackingceremony.bsky.social, designer of beloved games like The Quiet Year and Monsterhearts. We discuss the many full circle moments of her career, why trigger warnings are actually for the sickos, and how she continues to learn from her designs.

I'm playing *Going for Broke* this evening, session two! I love this game so much. Here's session one if folks wanna see. Designed by probably my favorite #TTRPG designer, Avery Alder @lackingceremony.bsky.social youtu.be/tUuiY4EmOMU

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries - hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf - art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

A few nights ago, I finished the second season of Mo, a comedy about family, place, and hustle by Palestinian-Houstonite comedian/writer Mo Amer. It's really clever, and heartfelt, and manages to thread the needle of being a playful show that touches on hard stories. I recommend it!

Friend of mine had an approach to being a player which was "Pull the lever, drink the potion." Find the thing that needs doing and do it.

For a group to play Monsterhearts, the players have to accept that the Turn Someone On move will as likely as not make their characters feel attraction to more than one gender. It requires Bi-in.

Been watching more stand-up over the past few years, and something I've noticed pretty consistently: cis comedians can write genuinely funny jokes that mock trans people, but only when those jokes are grounded in actual insights that have been gained through proximity, curiosity, and receptivity.

Canadians! My new sitcom roleplaying game, Going For Broke, is small enough that I can ship it to you as oversized lettermail! That means it only costs a couple bucks to send you this fast-paced, beginner-friendly game for 4-8 players. Check it out! buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb