Not only do we have @kierongillen.bsky.social, but our other stretch goal authors for this anthology are @thebadspot.bsky.social, @lincodega.com, and @lackingceremony.bsky.social!! This TTRPG cast is stacked :) Get notified when the kickstarter goes live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

Coming soon on Kickstarter Rulebook cover: Peter Mullen Mission booklet cover: Jacob Fleming

As always, there's no time like the present to wear a crown of ancient bones, disappear into a mysterious fog, and become a reason the old forest north of town is considered haunted.

Today we launched a brand-new podcast! The Lands Remaining Podcast tracks the development of The Lands Remaining TTRPG. The first episode is straightforward enough: What is The Lands Remaining? Listen below or wherever you get podcasts. Please re-post! www.gauntlet-rpg.com/the-lands-re...

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

🐙🌊🏄‍♂️ This is amazing! 🤩

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

I just finished listening to @aavoigt.bsky.social’s massive overview of the indie TTRPG scene. Definitely worth checking out, and be sure to stick around until the very end for a sweet story by @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social. youtu.be/dm0dnjbQzD4

December was a LOT, but I still managed to put the finishing touches on the PT-BR translation for one of my favourite games ever, the Codex Gold version of Trophy Gold! It's out now on my Ko-Fi, free of charge, and it includes printer-friendly versions of the rulebook and all the character sheets.

A lot of you know the games I've made, but there are surely many who don't. I wrote one in 2001 called The Pool that I almost never talk about, but I'm very proud of it. I'll tell you about it now, for giggles. It's a "rules lite" game. It's a GM game. It is universal, generic, or non-setting. 1/5

lol I cannot tell you how many times I've heard this. I feel fairly confident that I executed the best iteration of the World of Darkness Storyteller System. Feels good.

From the publisher that brings you Sprigs & Kindling (that's me!), in collaboration with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social comes a new anthology of one shot incursions for Trophy! Sign up to be notified of launch 😄 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Speaking of TLR, we have a logo now! Courtesy of @jesseross.com

Sure, you know about Vancian Magic, but what about Jackian Magic? (Someone please finish this design.) www.explorersdesign.com/jackian-magic/

wanna stay up late and watch some TV? www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

This anthology is chock full of incredible designers. Go sign up to back it and get yourself a bunch of fresh Trophy incursions!

Hi! I'm Hodag RPG. I'm a 4x Ennie Winning Illustrator and Gamesmaker, originally from Wisconsin. Anti AI. I do Black & White Interior illustrations for OSR and NSR projects! I love Star Wars, DC Comics and Pokémon alot. I hate bullies, bigots and jabronis. Trad Games🤝 Progressive Everything Else

Fomoria Quickstart is crawling out of the earth now, free to download! Includes core rules, an intro adventure and 8 pregen characters ready to be consumed by the Darkness. An epic folk horror TTRPG created by Tania Herrero, laid out and published by @nohr.se tania-herrero.itch.io/fomoria-quic...

The pre-order campaign for the Songbirds reprint is still going. I'll be making a blog post about more details, but if like dungeon crawler games, eldritch fantasy, body horror, and weird magic systems, Songbirds is the game for you. It's set in a sci-fantasy world where the god of Death sleeps~

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!

great piece by isi baehr-breen on his old boss rep ilhan omar - "Why Ilhan Omar Makes the Right Lose Its Mind" www.thenation.com/article/poli...

There's only a few days 'til xmas, so if you're panic shopping, maybe consider The Wassailing of Claus Manor and all its attendant expansion zines for your loved ones? And if someone's been REALLY good, maybe they deserve the deluxe family deck. MAYBE. plusoneexp.com/collections/...

They found the Lost City of Ys! Or at least something that may have inspired the ancestral memory of a sunken city in Celtic cultures. This is very relevant to some world-building I'm doing! www.404media.co/scientists-d...

#TTRPG persons: you have until Christmas Day to get hold of our beloved and acclaimed TEETH zines of 18th century horror, lost pigs, and ballgowns, at a bold 50% off! It's the incredibly toothsome TEETHAZINE Bundle: itch.io/s/167336/tee...

If you’re into retro video games, this looks like it’ll be super neat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtOV...

It’s here! I got to plant some dangerous trees in @clearkeep.bsky.social’s world of Wassailing!

I love the minimal approach here with chess pawns especially. It's easy and I agree that the impact of putting a fully painted mini down after mostly fighting green pawns is powerful visual design.

If you are a fan of the BlueSky OSR feed Yochai created, that I now manage, please consider donating for its upkeep costs! The service we use has created this convenient page where you can donate directly to paying for the feed’s hosting. blueskyfeedcreator.com/p/save.vs.to...

Jesse contributed an article about Shut the Box to Tumulus Issue 03 "Kick open the door." Limited copies are available as back issues: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/tumul... Here's a list of what else is inside that issue: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/kick-open-...

This may be the most excited I’ve been about an upcoming issue of @exeunt.press’s TUMULUS! I had to double check that I had already renewed my subscription for another year. Luckily I had, so bring on the fairy ring! 🧚🍄 www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/tumulus-06

Today I learned there are people unaware of my greatest contribution to the OSR: random character generators! It was 2012 and we finally had the technology to spit out new characters our most cherished of systems. save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/blog/random-... character.totalpartykill.ca/basic/

I’m converting something from a 3d6 system to a d20 system. Which should I do? A. Leave target numbers as-is. If it took a 15+ to succeed with 3d6, it takes a 15+ on a d20. B. Change target numbers to match the original odds. If it took a 15+ to succeed with 3d6, it takes an 18+ on a d20.

For the UK crowd: my new zine, Booklet of Bounties, is now on Kickstarter. Weird fugitives, random tables & writing prompts to create bounty-hunting scenarios for your fantasy RPGs! Words by me, art by @toadlett.bsky.social and @hodagrpg.bsky.social! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

Go back @gonzohistory.bsky.social's latest zine and get your players out there hunting bounties! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common "I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

Would you like a #AW3rd moniker for the season? Reply with 1 bit of apocalyptica & I’ll give you one! Because we hit $170k & I’m feeling festive about it. At $180k, all backers get the “Creator’s Guide to PBTA” pdf for free. 13 days to go! #ttrpg #pbta www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

and here is a cover reveal for our next volume releasing in January 2026 themed around Endings and Beginnings, with art by the amazing @rapidpunches.itch.io :D

#TTRPG 🎲 Advent Calendar, Day 5: "Trophy Loom" by Jesse Ross ( @jesseross.com ) Essentially a system-neutral dark fantasy setting generator, this book is roll tables turned into poetry. Not just useful for Trophies Dark & Gold, but there's something in here that'll tantalize any gaming table!

Shout out to @melsonian-arts-council.itch.io who sold me this book at Dragonmeet. I’ve wanted a copy for ages. Crown of Salt by @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social. They did all writing, layout and art! That’s what it’s all about.

I've mentioned, a couple of times, that I was writing a Trophy Dark incursion called Light. Well, now it's out there, ready for you to wander through a terrible magical desert while trying to save a sorcerer who can make your dreams come true. byemberandash.itch.io/light-for-tr...

If you're a fan of Trophy Dark/Trophy Gold, just a quick heads up that a bunch of Trophy writers are compiling new incursions for a Kickstarter for next year. I'll no doubt talk about it more as the date approaches, but if you wanna set a reminder for yourself: ruinanthology.com

Just a steady stream of gorgeous work from Munkao. I'm so excited for see what happens when all of this comes together -- we're in for a treat!

It's not everyday you get to add @lincodega.com to a design team... But it's always a good day when you do. ttrpg.link/speedofsad

Boris Woloszyn does my favorite miniature sculpts. I recently bought a bunch of the Litchmyre Dungeon ones he did (basically reimaginings of all the HeroQuest minis) and they’re so, so full of character and detail.

If you ever want to see where your roleplaying and character portrayal blindspots are as a GM, there's nothing like designing a cast of 20+ NPCs to see how often you go back to the same well. And yes, my home group did kick off our new campaign of Urban Shadows last night. Thank you for asking.

Hey Slugblaster fans! I'm helping make SCRAM CAT MAGAZINE, a Slugblaster fan zine! Got art, trippy fan fiction, or a small supplement you want to share with other fans of the Slugblaster TTRPG? We're taking pitches until December 31st! Find out more and pitch here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Morning post: the prelaunch page for my next project, the Booklet of Bounties, is now live. Sign up now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...