#KadenPlayed 22 Alone with Your Ghost a  #SoloTTRPG by @babblegumsam.bsky.social Relive your memories, find out how they connect, and exorcise who it is that haunts you. babblegumsam.itch.io/alone-with-your-ghost

Found a great quote online "humans only understand themselves through stories, and stories need to be told to others to be understood"

Just got back from the United Kingdom, happy I could see the cherry blossoms in London and pass some Chinese New Year/Ramadan festive cookies to Kellynn, as well as @babblegumsam.bsky.social and @pixelgrotto.bsky.social! Truly happy to meet and reconnect with my TTRPG family everywhere in the world.

They announced my stretch goal for Blades '68! Let's get to $390,000 so I can write about The Inaugural Crowfoot Wargaming Convention of '68 (which split of from the Charterhall Conference On Historical and Strategic Wargames that started two years before). www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Sometimes acting with true love really hurts Sometimes it means going to war and getting bloodied But with true love, eventually it all makes sense once you can see true love for what it simply is

It's been a couple years since Reach of the Roach God was published, and I'm still thinking about how it pulled off stat blocks without stats. It's a load-bearing piece of tech that's criminally underused. www.explorersdesign.com/designing-lo...

The most important thing I've learnt in the past 28 years in my life is that it's never about what you can accomplish but about the bonds you cultivate and nurture with yourself and others Winning is a losing game, but love is always the winning move

In other news, I've unironically converted to Catholicism after much research, reflection, prayer, and contemplation Nothing's more Catholic than fully being Catholic while being the sort of Catholic the Catholics would spend heaps of money trying to execute for heresy

I'll never regret my increasingly conscious decision to embrace myself as the sick fuck I really am

My main rule of thumb for doing stuff and living my life is to ask myself the question: "Would this get me executed for heresy and witchcraft by the Catholic Inquisition in the 16th century?"

Gotta love how a lot of the intellectual, academic, creative, critical artists-writers-designers-philosophers in my circles are at their core massive and exuberant shitposters

Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!

„This city never changes, this city never stays the same.” Peter Eijk’s A Visit to San Sibilia is a journaling game about chronicling your visit to the city of San Sibilia; a city not found on any maps and a city which always appears differently to every visitor. Get yours @ peregrinecoast.press

There’s a new episode of The Brain Trust Podcast, season finale! We discuss the quantum mystery popularized by Brindlewood Bay (spoiler: I love it) & live-design a stoner/slacker investigation game! Maybe we’ll deliver that game, got a few in the queue for this year Braintrust.rocks

Just a few days left to get 16 games for just 10 bucks.

Hello. It's my final week as a full time game designer, and as if to underline why I can't do this anymore, I currently can't afford to cover my bills at the end of the month. All of my work on itch is on sale. Tell your friends, buy something, thank you very much. itch.io/s/179351/jan...

New! Monster Truckers: Long Haul Into The Worstlands www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/

This is the new thing I am excited about. I got too tired to be invited on RTFM and so I made my own book club podcast. But it's not just me trying to say smart things about games. It's a two part show, with the second part being me engaging with audience feedback and comments!

In addition to @breathingstories.bsky.social's seminal Autobiographical TTRPG 'Logan: The TTRPG', are there any other explicitly autobiographical games that anyone can recommend? Feel free to suggest your own! This is for an academic research paper I'm working on

We also have a Showcase Zero 2025 bundle live now on itch.io/b/3476/showc.... Get 8 incredible games from @kobanya.bsky.social @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social @andrewgillis.bsky.social @cutestpatoot.itch.io @yanahn.bsky.social and me at over 50% off!

If you haven't checked it out yet, there's a bundle going on until the end of the month for games made by Playtest Zero community members, including two of mine!

We're looking for GenCon 2026 GMs! We won't be going ourselves, on account of the *fucking everything* right now. But if you're going, and fancy getting paid money to run multi-table games, please fill out this freelancer form. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Infinite Revolution: Overdrive designer, @gwencie.bsky.social, is the first subject to enter a new gauntlet, er-- recurring series: The Rascal 7. Seven extremely serious, hard-nosed inquiries meant to drill down to the core of a game. This time: mecha, magical girls, and the guts of dead designs.

This is part of how I'm planning to get more coverage of new games on the site and let designers talk about their work in a format I hope readers will find entertaining.

Been reflecting on my design process as a whole Found out it's nothing to do with analysis, knowledge, or my own ability Instead, before a game is made, I start feeling the physical sensations of the game experience itself within my body. When I'm deep into a project it's like entering a dream 1/

2025 was a really difficult year for me in almost every aspect, but in an emotionally and mentally drained 'fugue' state I managed to create NOT ONLY a GM-less transgenre detective/investigation RPG BUT ALSO a JoJo-style strategy duelling game using the same system It's all playtest ready!

Me, @ehronlime.bsky.social, and @aaronmfking.bsky.social have stepped from the shadows to make the Council of Aarons public. We pass judgement on 3 Harvests, and evaluate the course of 2025--at least in tabletop games.

My friends! The Apocalypse World 3rd Ed kickstarter ends on Friday night. We launched with a Q&A on Reddit and I think we'd like to wrap up with a Q&A here. Ask me anything! Ask @megueyb.bsky.social anything too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Colour me surprised though, when I found out Homi K Bhabha, Postcolonial Foundational Scholar, had a son and his son was the first evil ex in Scott Pilgrim

Got tired of postcolonialism a long time ago Postcol scholar Homi Bhabha in 'The Location of Culture' writes in the opening that postcol is about 'going beyond' In this sense, once a good understanding of colonial structures and effects had been developed in my lived experience... 1/

what is a game mechanic? maybe it's like the unified choreography of muscles, fibres, tendons, joints, bones, flesh, veins, and other body parts that twist, contract, and pull to drive and compose the hand and what is the hand but a tool of your intention and imagination?

Coming up to a year of working in play therapy The experience integrates nicely with intuitions I picked up over my game design journey: mainly the practice of creating 'systems of provocation, facilitation, and action' to choreograph feelings, experiences, and memories into language and play 1/

Been spending the better part of 2025 reflecting on what I've experienced over the past 5 years in regards to TTRPG design, art, faith, theology, critical theory, and general day to day things Now it feels like everything discursive outside of the 'making' and 'play' process is kind of pointless 1/

Roguelike Megadungeon is now available in print through my itch page, and is on sale for the holidays! Its supplement, the Roguelike Megadungeon Campaign Workbook is also available is print and digitally with all purchases! #OSR #TTRPG #CyberMonday proton31.itch.io/roguelike-me...

Part of a TTRPG mini-convention tomorrow, alongside @iglootree.bsky.social , @shop.peregrinecoast.press @laurieoc.bsky.social @babblegumsam.bsky.social and we’ll be doing a talk too (at 12:30pm) all at Westminster Uni, Harrow www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brent-bien...

Stellar Remnants 2 is the long-awaited adventure zine for stoner metal scifi Necronautilus! guest contributors @goblinmixtape.bsky.social @babblegumsam.bsky.social @gontijo.bsky.social @knightramen.bsky.social @jeremywgage.bsky.social @ehronlime.bsky.social illustrated by @chaoclypse.bsky.social

Calling all sickos: Some incredible new things are up at worldchamp.io/store today including Necronautilus expansion STELLAR REMNANTS 2, the spacefaring INSTANT STARSHIP by @dngnclub.itch.io , and new serial killer tees drawn by Dark Wizard Berserker! read on for more or just go buy right now.

I’m working on a thing: tell me about your favorite solo TTRPG, the more obscure the better. I’m going to have an opportunity to write about more TTRPG stuff in the future and I would like to do some specific solo RPG writeups

Got a new zine rack display from Joann's, which is going out of business (thanks @oddsandents.bsky.social for the hot tip) Games by @exeunt.press , @feralcharlie.bsky.social , @floodeddungeon.bsky.social , and @binarystar.games are seen (not sure if the other two game designers are on bsky)

I am nothing if not predictable.

Had a brief stint recently where I sincerely dabbled/flirted with fine arts, mainly as a way to develop my practice and figure stuff out Did a few exhibitions, didn't really feel it But I came out of that era with a new, nuanced, more compassionate approach to thinking, doing, and making 1/

🚨Hello any 3D Animation folks out there!🚨 A young person I'm working with is asking for some help with the following question: What are some best practices for demonstrating weight in 3D animation with a regular rigged model (e.g. moving a bone on the head) RT for Eyes!

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

HAWTHORN is what happens when some extremely talented developers from Bethesda, Naughty Dog, & BioWare get together to make their dream game: a mix of Skyrim, Stardew Valley, & the Redwall series. A successful Kickstarter will help make this dream a reality; please pitch in if you have the means!

Benj is doing amazing stuff in the Oddlike space: @goobernuts.itch.io Munkao's art is stunning, also making waves in Oddlike: @munkao.bsky.social Brandon's art is sick and expressive: @chaoclypse.bsky.social

I'll do Tony one better: reply with your favorite game, and I'll recommend a similar game by an Asian designer

Now that Wandering Blades is live our team wants to take some time this month to feature all the the amazing #RPGSEA & AAPI, SWANA & beyond creators we work with in the #TTRPG space. If you have an Asian creator you love, respect and admire tag them below! We want to shout them out all month long!

It's LUMEN's 4th birthday! I'm celebrating the system that put me on the map, and that still captures my attention today. Check out this thread for a reminiscent blog, shoutouts to favorite LUMEN games, and videos. Happy birthday LUMEN! gilarpgs.itch.io/lumen

Ant Man and the Wasp... Grossly underloved MCU movie that plays like a big budget episode of an animated series (like Avengers EMH) Personal stakes, small scale, and great performances from all

Looking for work! My skills: Event Management/Planning Community Engagement/Management Personal/Executive Assistant TTRPG Design/Writing Human Resources Grant Management LI: www.linkedin.com/in/basil-w-886191202