ICYMI: Issue 20 is out now! Featuring reviews of Molly House, The Old King’s Crown, Deep Regrets, Fighting Fantasy Adventures and more! Go to senetmagazine.com to order a copy or subscribe. #boardgamesarebeautiful

“the story of the #crossbronxexpressway is a lens through which we can better understand our modern world.” pre-orders charging means the game ships soon. i recorded a podcast called endnotes to hold folk over while they wait for it to arrive. @gmtgames.bsky.social [ link below]

I could not be happier to finally have a Gamefound landing page to call my own! Check out Queen of Spies, co-designed with @djackthompson.bsky.social and published by @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social, with art/graphics from Meeple Foundry. gamefound.com/en/projects/...

🚨 The John Company & Molly House Reprint Kickstarter campaign launches October 21st, 2025. www.kickstarter.com/projects/124... /🧵

Molly House will have a little spot at Essen this year 🎉 If you can spare a thumb on BGG, we just got it listed on their preview page. Help our heavy queer party game climb the ranks! boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/...

You want Molly House

If you’re at all interested in the thematic potential of board games (and I mean that in the literary sense, not like theme on a amusement park ride), pick up Molly House on this run if you can. It’s an affecting work that touches on desire, community, jealousy, and survival.

Today we're announcing a small change in plans on our fall schedule. I'm still busy with the second edition of An Infamous Traffic and Hell Raisers is making great progress, but higher demand than anticipated and the vagaries of Trump's stupid trade policies means we need to get reprinting!

🚨 The John Company & Molly House Reprint Kickstarter campaign launches October 21st, 2025. www.kickstarter.com/projects/124... /🧵

I love when people lean into it and play a really fiery, strategic game of MH. but I also love when players invest in building the community, often to their own detriment, or have such a wildly good time they throw caution to the wind, gluttonously devouring all the joy they can before they all die.

this is absolutely electric. here's some first thoughts about jay's inclusion of Molly House in this manifesto (I was nodding along while reading and honoured to see it mentioned!) and how we sort of stumbled into this approach.

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

I've always wondered if the discussion around these games reflects the quality of the work or the fact that I happened to write lot about them. It's really a core insecurity I have the games that I've worked on. Would they speak without this critical framing (the designer diaries, etc)? 🧵

I'm overjoyed by this Molly House review from @mattthr.bsky.social in the latest @senetmagazine.bsky.social! It's a wonderful thing when a reviewer gets it, and Matt definitely gets it. Thank you. @colewehrle.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games

I'm so grateful to Charlie for writing up this session report. One of the downsides of running an event like this is that it's hard to get a sense of how it's all going in the moment. Well, if you want to know, give this a read.

At the beginning of August I attended Gen Con, as I usually do. This year was different. This year, I participated in an adapted megagame of John Company: Second Edition alongside 50 other people. It was insane. It was brilliant. My thoughts on the event: playerelimination.com/2025/08/25/a...

First game of John Company 2nd Edition by @wehrlegig.games and I feel like my brain must've grown a little bit. Or it shrunk a lot.

this was perfect time, as I'm working on a story about board games in the classroom (for educational purposes, that is). If you're a teacher and you use board games for didactic purposes, I'd love to hear from you! just drop a reply here and I'll reach out.

@colewehrle.bsky.social and I put together a puppet show at GenCon this year and it's one of my favorite creative pursuits I've done in a long while. Come and be charmed by cardboard 2D puppets youtu.be/h4gyN3yS2Vc?...

@miasmacorp.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games -- everyone was so highly complementary of the game and how well the theme was handled, and I already have 4 different people wanting to try it next week. Thank you for such a wonderful game about queer community.

Having an intense discussion of Ahoy with my new colleague. #gencon

What a Gen Con! Molly House + John Company are sold out in the US right now, so this year was wild and wonderful. We saw lots of folks and old friends, ran a 50 person John Company journaling TTRPG megagame, and i even played a synthesizer for an Oath puppet show. 10/10 @leder.games

Over #gencon2025 we've been playing a very special Oath chronicle. I've been taking notes throughout and, at the end of each game, have been playing the role of the court chronicler. Tonight (6pm, room 135), at the Chancellor's behest, we will present our true and accurate historie to all assembled.

Last year, this was my favorite part of Gen Con and this year it got bigger and better in every way, transforming what was a black box production to a massive piece of theater. I don't know how or when it's going to happen, but we'll do our best to put together some documentation on how to run this.

We're at Gen Con and having just a real nice time celebrating Ahoy Expansions. Cole's running Oath New Foundation sessions and I'm hopping around with Molly House and Hell Raisers. If you catch us, say hey!

Congrats to all the Orc Stomp 5K runners at Gen Con this morning!

it's #gencon week. @colewehrle.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games and i will be at it again. this time we're doing the mega game version of the john company rpg the company archives. if you're around Friday evening come check it out. www.gencon.com/events/277585

First sighting of Molly House in the wild! (At @excelsiorbristol.bsky.social)

Come for the beautiful posters and a wonderful shelf of games in the background, and stay for an excellent tutorial on how to play The Old King's Crown! Thanks @hoponboard.bsky.social for making this video (they also made a cracking tutorial of @wehrlegig.games Molly House too).

Thank you Luis! @aguaspoints.bsky.social

We're on NPR's best games of 2025! Love seeing Molly House and some great indie projects alongside Death Stranding and Donkey Kong. @miasmacorp.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social

very excited for round two of this. last year truly surpassed my expectations. this year we'll be seeing the scope of what the system can handle. if you'll be at #gencon this year come see how it all comes together.

The Horizons Fellowship is a pretty great accelerator program for new tabletop industry folks, and they are still accepting applicants for their next cohort! Go learn more about it if you think you would be a good fit to get access to some amazing additional resources: www.gama.org/Horizons

We're at it again! @colewehrle.bsky.social @nbsp1618.bsky.social and I are running the absolutely wild John Company RPG during Gen Con. This time, we'll play The Company Archives as a 25+ player mega game with an 8 ft board and model ships?! It'll be something ➡️ www.gencon.com/events/277585

Last call for nominations of the Summit Award and Bobby Nunes Memorial Award! Make your opinion heard. Now is a chance to recognize historical games that may veer from what we typically see. sdhist.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?...

In the course of testing, one of the playtesters asked, “I just reject the idea of human sacrifice. What happens if I’ve already decided to refuse?” Exploring the concept of "fragility" in tabletop game design, and why it matters: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/fragile-de... #boardgames #ttrpg 🎲✂️

if you made the board game Molly House set in the present day it would have to be called Poly House. because of the changes in our society

Lovely Molly House solo gameplay video from @purplemooseplays.bsky.social Thanks for putting this together! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzh1...

God, Pax Pamir by @wehrlegig.games is so good. Every time it's so good. It just never gets old.

Episode 13 is a special one: a chat with Cole Wehrle! Available now on the Romp feed: bit.ly/LGRompPod

Apologies for the (@) @miasmacorp.bsky.social but I am absolutely loving the Molly House game. In some ways the Solo mode feels 'cozy' but also serves as a great RPG/History lesson about the tragedy of humans living their lives.

This was maybe my favorite moment from the con. Learning, playing, and processing with Arwen made for a truly cathartic and meaningful experience. Thank you @miasmacorp.bsky.social for making this very special game! ✨

Princess Seraphina visiting the Molly House booth! s/o Greta Goodbottom 💃

Molly House at Origins! Having a ball already 🎉

mocked up a combat turn in a hypothetical digital version of my current hyperfixation #ArcsBoardGame by @leder.games @colewehrle.bsky.social @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing these incredible Molly House player aids!!

I've posted a fully designed and formatted version of @stoutpanda.bsky.social's excellent #MollyHouse player aids and diagrams over on @boardgamegeek.com. (Game originally published by @wehrlegig.games.) Thanks to Jason for the original guide documents!

I'm not sure when it got posted, but I'm so happy that my GDC talk from a couple years ago about historical games is finally publicly viewable over at the GDC vault. gdcvault.com/play/1029322...

I spent the last 2 days on Capitol Hill with @gamaofficial.bsky.social and @ttgda.bsky.social, asking for tariff relief. Sixteen of us collectively had dozens of meetings and drop-bys with Congressional staff. We heard over & over that it makes a difference to hear from their constituents. 1/ 🧵

📢 We are officially sold out of John Company in the US! Molly House will likely sell out in the US next month too. THANK YOU 😊 We have enough JoCo and MH at our EU warehouse to continue international orders for now. We will hopefully plan reprints during our next crowdfunding campaign.