In the medieval ages people in Rome forgot what The Colosseum was used for. They thought it was a temple. Half of it had fallen down and people were living in the other half. The catacombs below the the structure were abandoned and collapsing. Yes, this is an OSR adventure.

Tension is a better than surprise in RPGs and I will die on this hill.

Stonetop is the kind of game that makes me dream of an in person gaming group. I want to get together with friends, take turns masking dinner, and play Stonetop for years.

In the mesoamerican city of Chavín de Huantar, priests used hidden pipes to roar at visitors walking through the temple. A priest sat in a secret chamber behind a fierce stone statue and acted as their god's voice. Anyway, that's a freebie for your next OSR game.

Entrance to the caves Dungeon master laughs darkly Rocks fall, party dies #haikudungeonjam

This one is for a wilderness hex crawl: A single leaf falls THUNK THUNK arrows hit the trees Bandits in the woods! #haikudungeonjam

Ocean of treasure Golden snake swims in the depth Is it worth the risk?

Kid Detectives. I wrote it. It's a fundraiser for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

Some guy on reddit: "This game sucks, I didn't have fun! Also, I didn't use any of the game's core mechanics." Sigh. Can you imagine if people played any other game like this? "Poker sucks! We never dealt out the card, it was so boring."

Finished This Princess Kills Monsters and I'm desperate to know if @ryherman.bsky.social is aware of Perils & Princesses by @outridercreative.bsky.social. The venn diagram of these two works is nearly a circle.

I'm procrastinating my day job SO . . . One like = one niche indie RPG I think more people should know about.

I got 2000s indie kid. Which considering that I have print copies of Poisin'd, Inspectres, Shab-Al-Hiri Roach and Dogs in the Vineyard seems like a pretty accurate description. The survey is completely unhinged tho.

That scene at the end of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where Jay and Silent Bob travel around the country beating up people who wrote mean things about them on the internet, except it's the Bakers telling people that their PbtA opinions are wrong.

But how will I know if I'm winning in my collaborative storytelling game?

Explaining how to play TTRPGs that don't have initiate systems always feels like I'm explaining how to have a conversation to someone who has never talked to another human before. "How do you determine who goes first?" Um, you just take turns? Sometimes I go first, sometimes you do? Like adults?

Game pitch, from Science Fiance and myself: Apollo 47 with arguing. You are scientists in a fictional field of research, at a contentious conference panel. Get a stack of random scientific journals and quote random sections at each other, using them to prove your point. Play until exhausted.

ME TOO

Or, revolutionary idea, play games and make games. Call them whatever you want. Ignore the idiots who get into taxonomic slapfights and live a happier life.

You can pry my bullet points from my cold dead fingers.

This is such a boring way to approach story telling. If "number go up" is the only way you can convince of difficulty then you have a shit imagination.

The type of dice rolled is frequently the least important part of game design. People get really hung up on which dice a game uses and that's usually not a meaningful question.

RuneQuest 3rd Edition. Also the first RPG I've ever played! I'm in the very small minority that didn't start with the Big One.

We doing OSR stories? Last session I rolled for a random encounter and got, "Four lost Yodin sheep." No Yodin nearby, so the players slaughtered one for food. Next random encounter? "Six Yodin tribesmen." We're about to find out how that ends.

I did this recently and stumbled across The Elusive Shift, all about the conceptual origins of RPGs.

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.

Oh right I mostly talk about role playing games. This is a really good one. rowanrookanddecard.com/product/eat-...

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.