Fable makes an incredibly good point. My gender and skin color goes a long way to keeping problematic players in check.

Some guy on Reddit doesn't believe that I've run RPGs for 150+ strangers and never had a problem. I'll tell you my secrets: 1) Don't run D&D. Problem players love D&D. I can't explain it, but it's true. 2) Run games at the queer meetup. Gay people are nicer that straight people, it's just a fact.

WE ALREADY RAISED OVER $150. IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN 24 HOURS. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO.

I just released a new game! Have you ever wanted to solve mysteries like Harriet the Spy or Nancy Drew? Kid Detectives is about kids solving mysteries in the sleepy town of Ida Falls. Meanwhile, a deeper conspiracy lurks. The adults are up to No Good and it's up to you to uncover their secrets!

My biggest TTRPG pet peeve is when people can't distinguish their experience of a system with the text of the system. I don't care if your cookies are delicious, it's a goddamn brownie recipe. Don't get mad at me for pointing out that you're not reading the recipe

Just for the record, I've never played Neopets and I know nothing about it. Apparently it's kinda like D&D 5e?

False. I resolve combat scene with paintball guns and romance scenes with actual kissing.

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Post a GIF of your favorite video game.

Maybe it's the 12am talking, but this is the funniest shit I've ever seen.

Just called both my senators, it took five minutes. Do it. 5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...

It was me. I'm the friend. I have no regrets.

Um akshually, Morg Borg has procedures, not mechanics. (For the love of god, this is a joke. I know I have to write this bit, because somewhere out there is an OSR dork who's going to agree with me.)

Fuck ICE.

Just added Egress Station, my Slugblaster hack about rock n rolling teenagers who fight the man on an intergalactic space station.

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We've moved past "defund ICE", we're fully into "prosecute ICE" now.

This story also a terrible look for Steve Jackson Games. Either SJGs signed a deal with Jay without understanding the contract obligations (stupid but okay) or they understand the obligations but decided they could lawyer the artists into submission (outright evil and it exactly what happened).

Reading it costs one dollar! If you are broke DM me and I will venmo you one dollar.

Honor your agreements—pay your freelancers. If you’re in a tight spot financially, or other parties cause money problems so that you’re suddenly low on funds, that’s unfortunately completely irrelevant. The freelancers don’t need to care about that. Pay them.

Long but important. I just started running demos of Yazeba's at a monthly game night, I'm going to find something else to run now. I'm sad about it but there it is.

If system doesn't matter, why different systems? Checkmate atheists

Newsom aspires to be the JD Vance of the Left. Newsom is the villain of a Disney Channel movie that nobody watched. Newsom is what you get when you put chalk and store-brand skim milk in a blender and hit the "don't quite blend" setting.

Newsom is white bread with a bad haircut. Newsom is an opinion poll in a suite. Newsom is a politician generated by ChatGPT. All my homies hate Newsom.

Real Californians hate Newsom.

Honestly I don't even care if you play a bunch of different games. Just acknowledge that different genres of TTRPGs exist! I don't like horror movies but I'm not over here saying, "Movies where the main characters die aren't real movies."

If I had to pick one meme to summarize all of TTRPG discourse it would be this one.

OSR is when you have a massive white beard and complain about how new games have incentives. NSR is when you have a massive white beard and complain about how new games have incentives, but with leftie politics.

Some people believe you have to play the most up to date edition. Meanwhile there's a basement full of grognards who are still playing the original three booklet D&D set that came in a wooden box.

I can't read this, but Google Translate tells me that they're translating @lumpley.bsky.social's PbtA design series into Ukrainian and that's awesome.

Side note, this is why I find the "well you can certainly try" GM utterance so damn annoying. All it tells me is that the target number is high. I don't care about big numbers, I care about big consequences!

Today's Esoteric RPG Take: Narrative difficulty is more interesting than mathematically difficulty. A greater consequence is more fun than a higher target number. It's the difference between "You can try, but the target number is 20" and "You can try, but if you fail everyone you know will die."

Today's Mildest Take: TTRPG discourse would be a thousand times better if people played more games. And not just "D&D and Pathfinder" or "Monster of the Week and Thirsty Sword Lesbians". I mean more types of games, with different play styles. A lot of people sound like the Boss Baby meme.

Game mechanics communicate what the game is about. You don't have to listen, but the message is still there. Gold for XP games are about looting. You can play a murder mystery in B/X. That just means you're ignoring the designers intent. Which is fine! It's your game, do what you want.

I cut the page in half. Now I have two pages and twice as much anxiety. (I'm kidding, this is great advice.)

Today's moment of genius: I put a short cut to my work in progress doc on the home screen of my phone. Instead of browsing Reddit for five minutes I can add a line of setting info.

I couldn’t find the exact “no AI” logo I wanted so I made my own. Free to use, no attribution or anything. SVG and Affinity doc in the comments.

Text books are TTRPGs and college is a larp.

Rock Paper Scissors World Championships It's the rock paper scissors world championship finals. The PCs are the finalists. You're also in interlocking love triangles. The only game mechanic is rock paper scissors. If you lose you can rethrow but only if you make out with another player, irl.

As an RPG nerd and blues lover, this whole analogy is *chef's kiss*. Into the Odd is Fantastic Negrito. Shadowdark is Blues Traveler. Carin is Keb Mo. DCC is the all-star band from the end of Blues Brothers 2000.

I only watch Studio Ghibli films in machete order.

Foreshadowing my TTRPG wrapped: 62 sessions, 21 different players, 16 different games!

The chaotic middle aged white men urge to start a podcast. In reality, I just want another excuse to talk about RPGs with my friends.

Ten RPG adventures I'm really excited to run in 2026: - The reign of the end - Hard dead - Suffer the balding one - Under stress - Fleas on a sleeping dog - Torch the Lede - Megacorp Death camp - Doom of the ancients - Toll Bridge of the damned - Lost keeper

I legitimately think some people don't know the difference. It's like the rules of Monopoly, everyone thinks they're playing it right.

Today's hot take: Plagiarism is bad. Shocking I know.

Big bill from the auto mechanic, shares are appreciated!

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